PODCAST · business
The Eccentric CEO
by Aman Y. Agarwal
CEOs talk candidly about their business and reveal insights you won't find anywhere else. Join a niche audience of C-suite executives, investors, and entrepreneurs from around the planet.
Episodes
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Eliminating the "boring business stuff" for game developers — Will Bohn
The most important ingredient of a globally successful game is, obviously, a great game. But after the long gruelling journey of building a great game, what developers often find is another mountain of work ahead — the marketing, distribution, localization, monetization, compliance, etc — i.e.…
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Age of AI: The landscape of AI agents in 2025 (and one platform to build them all) — Eduardo Gonzalez
Eduardo is the founder and CEO of Xpress AI, a platform to build any kind of AI agent you could want. But in 2025, at the peak of AI hype, what is exactly an "AI agent"? We discuss the whole landscape, starting from the highest level down to the weeds, and make it an highly educational,...
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Offering Banking Services to Foreigners in Japan — Raul Allikivi
Japan's banking landscape is infamously opaque and unwelcoming towards foreigners. My guest Raul decided to do something about it... and then one day, out of nowhere, sh!t hit the fan — the partner bank pulled out of the deal, leaving chaos behind. Listen in as we discuss the whole story, a one…
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Selling to Japanese customers as a foreign entrepreneur; lessons learned — Igor Voroshilov
Most foreign entrepreneurs in Japan focus on other foreigners as their customer base (for a variety of reasons that we'll talk about), but Igor is an exception. His first B2C startup was promising, but got smacked by the Covid pandemic. The B2B company he eventually pivoted to, "Supasaito," has...
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Fixing America's Math Grades with Video Games — Dr. AnnMaria De Mars
Today's guest is a tough, tough badass — in the realest definition of the word. She was the first American to win the Judo world championship (1984) — which involved coming out on top over her Japanese, Korean, and Eastern European counterparts, who trained full-time as professional athletes —...
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Time Travel Through Japan's Business Landscape: 1980s to 2020s — with Terrie Lloyd
I seem to have a weird fascination with Japan. But not in a "weird" way of course. (I've been around weebs and realized I'm not one of them.) I find Japan especially interesting from a business person's perspective. They were the biggest success story after WW2 — not only the second biggest…
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The Next Revolution in Fast Food and Drive Thrus — Steve Bigari
There's a fast-food "apocalypse" going on. The average fast-food franchise owner 20 years ago made more money with fewer locations than they do today. How did this happen, how can operators avoid the "culling," and how is this landscape changing with new technologies? That's the focus of this...
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Owning the World's Best Restaurants as a Billionaire Hobby — Lars Seier
You've heard of Michelin star restaurants, and you may even have eaten at some of them. And today, you'll meet a person who owns two of the BEST among them – as a hobby. Lars Seier Christensen is a Danish billionaire, who was the Founder and CEO of Saxo Bank. But while he's most well known as an...
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Secrets of Running a World-Class, Profitable Bar — Yangdup Lama
What makes a bar succeed, and what makes it fail? How do you build a WORLD-CLASS bar, and how do you run it profitably? I don’t drink alcohol (honest!), but I’ve always been fascinated with the business and culture of drinking (especially watching friends get drunk, but we digress). Yangdup Lama…
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The Delicate Craft of Managing ＞$500M of Other People’s Money — Chad Willardson
Managing other people’s money is a delicate position — a lot of things can go wrong. Do you ever think about the people who actually MANAGE the taxes you pay to your government? Do you know how to choose the right financial advisor, and how to tell if they’re legit or not? As an entrepreneur, I...
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The Mysterious, Shifting Landscape of Non-Fiction Book Publishing — Tucker Max
Today’s episode will forever change how you look at a “book.” For example, did you know that pretty much all bestseller lists are scams? Book publishing is a fascinating industry, with a rapidly changing value landscape, and is also very opaque — the business is pretty mysterious in its ways. How...
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The Challenges of Building Medical Software for Hospitals — Anna-Maria Henell
Building new tech for the medical industry is hard — there's a LOT of regulation due to safety issues, especially when the tech directly influences treatment/surgery or diagnosis. And then, beyond regulations, just selling that tech to hospitals and departments, and teaching (+ convincing)…
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Inside the Business of Managing Fashion Models — Briauna Mariah
The world of high-fashion and modeling may be glamorous, but it is still a business. How do models and their agents really make money, how is that changing, and what is it really like to make a living as a model? My guest Briauna Mariah is the Founder of "We Speak," a new-age modeling agency in…
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Building Aircraft that Disrupt the Economics of Air Freight — Aleksey Matyushev
Today, we're talking with Aleksey Matyushev, the CEO and Founder of Natilus, a company building unmanned cargo aircraft that intend to revolutionize the business of air freight, by making air shipping costs 50% cheaper than the Boeings, Airbuses and Cessnas of the world. So in this episode, we’ll...
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The Complete Business of Building a Grocery Brand — Kyle Oglesby
Pick up a jar of jam in your kitchen — can you guess all the people involved in its supply chain, and who makes how much money? Today we'll grant you "X-ray vision" into the business and supply chain of grocery brands. Kyle Oglesby is the owner of a barbecue sauce company called Daddy Sam's, and...
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Everything about Self-Driving "Motorcycles" — Ain McKendrick
You've heard a lot about self-driving cars and electric vehicles. They're cool, about to change the world, yada yada yada. Today, I bring to you the MOST thorough and transparent discussion anywhere online about the business side of this industry. Everything from the development, manufacturing…
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The Business of Social Documentary Filmmaking — Jennifer Huang
What makes a "successful" social documentary film? How do these filmmakers measure their "impact," how do they get funded, and what is it really like to be in the middle of this journey? Today we talk about the "business" side of making independent social documentary films. Jennifer Huang…
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Investing in Japan's Special Real Estate Market - Ziv Nakajima-Magen
Today we do a DEEP dive into Japan's real estate investment landscape. We discuss what makes it unique, and look at both the buyer's and seller's sides. My guest is Ziv Nakajima-Magen, the cofounder of Nippon Tradings International - a firm that has helped broker international property deals in...
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Opening the U.S. Stock Market to Middle Eastern Investors - Abdelazim El Toukhy
Investing in the American stock market isn’t simple or straightforward for international investors, and there’s a big barrier to entry if you’re not very rich. Abdelazim El Toukhy is the Founder and CEO of Ticr, a Robinhood-style trading platform for people in the Middle East / North Africa...
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"Social Network" for Real Estate Maintenance - David Albrecht
Real Estate has to be maintained regularly just to keep it from losing value, and it costs the industry a lot of money every year. Surprisingly, most of this real estate maintenance is never recorded anywhere. Today you'll learn about the business of real estate maintenance, and how technology…
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Education in the Japanese "Casino" Industry - Rob Okada
How is the Japanese casino industry different from the rest of the world? How do casinos make money, and how does it affect the way they hire and train their most important employees - the dealers? Today, you get a glimpse behind the curtain. Rob is the founder of IRGI, an innovative education +...
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SaaS for Scaling Business Operations - Alicia Butler Pierre
Surprisingly many small businesses actually have MORE customers than they can handle. Alicia Butler Pierre's 15-year-old company, Equilibria Inc, is now building a SaaS tool that helps these businesses scale their internal operations. Having solved scaling challenges in all sorts of companies,...
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Introduction - by Aman Y. Agarwal
Welcome to the show! In this sub 5-minute intro, I cover an extremely short but shocking story about Michelin 3-star restaurants and fast food joints. After that I share what you can expect from this podcast. And in the end I leave you with some catchy music.
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CEOs talk candidly about their business and reveal insights you won't find anywhere else. Join a niche audience of C-suite executives, investors, and entrepreneurs from around the planet.
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Aman Y. Agarwal
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CEOs talk candidly about their business and reveal insights you won't find anywhere else. Join a niche audience of C-suite executives, investors, and entrepreneurs from around the planet.
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