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PayFac as a Service: Why Attach Rate Beats Basis Points, with Caleb Avery (Tilled)

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"Frictionful" Payments and Why Your Money Should Slow Down Sometimes (with Michelle Beyo, Finavator)

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3X, Then 3X Again: How AI Broke the Job Application (and How Willo Is Fixing It)

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Go-to-Network is Eating Go-to-Market, with The Swarm's Olivier Roth

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The Voice Layer for Emerging Markets: Aethex AI's Co-founder and CTO Ayooluwa Odemuyiwa

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The Scarcity of Being Human: Catherine Blackmore, Oracle's Group VP of Customer Programs and Employee Success on CS in the Age of Agents

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Your Next Role Won't Be Posted, It'll Be Whispered — Andy Mowat

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You Can't Read the Label from Inside the Bottle

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From Cisco to IBM: How Professional Services Became the Most Important Role in Enterprise Tech w/ Sanjay Pal, WW VP of Software Professional Services at IBM

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From 265 Million Users to Enterprise Gold Standard: How Canva Scales GTM Without Losing Its Soul

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The 10 AM Revolution: How AI is Transforming the Marketer's Day w/ Allison Skidmore, Chief Customer Officer at Optimizely

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Retention Isn’t Dead. It’s Just Getting Smarter. Brent Krempges, Chief Customer Officer at Gainsight

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AI Didn’t Kill Premium Media. It Made It More Valuable. Elizabeth Herbst-Brady, CRO of Condé Nast

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Value Isn’t a Feature: Neal McCoy on Customer Success, AI, and the Post-Sale Moment That Matters

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Growing Up with RevOps: 13 Years Inside Integrate with Jared Myatt, RevOps at Integrate

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Equity Is a Revenue Lever: Benjamin Roach on RevOps in the Incentives Economy

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From PLG to Enterprise: Tyler Will on Building Modern GTM at Intercom

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AI Is a Mirror, Not a Miracle: John Queally, Head of RevOps at Clari, on the Future of RevOps

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Building B2B at B2C Scale: Max Mozes on RevOps, Data Strategy, and the Walmart for Business GTM Motion

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Navigating RevOps in Healthcare with Chantel Hirschel, Head of RevOps at Sana

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Building sales strategies in sports and entertainment with Larry Peters, CRO of World of Dance

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Breaking Barriers in Supply Chain: Kara Brown on GTM, AI, and The Revenue Engine

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The Future of Sales: AI and Human Connection with Karan Singh, SVP of GTM Operations & Strategy @ LaunchDarkly

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Rebranding the Bridge: The Thread Podcast Launch

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Building AI That Actually Works — Jessica Collier on Spot, Evernote, and the Future of Workplace Incident Management

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Selling phones out of a van to IPO with Brett Beveridge, Founder and CEO of T-ROC

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Oversharing, Privacy, and the Future of Messaging w/ Tessa Brown, CEO of Germ Network

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Building an audience, creating a movement w/ Jared Robin, Co-Founder of RevGenius

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Pitching Gary Vee a cooking show + the future of AI search with Chris Andrew, Co Founder and CEO of Scrunch AI

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Patient Zero. Tatiana Fofanova, CEO of Koda Health on dogfooding her own product when her life depended on it.

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No BS venture pitches & the art of the pivot with Conor McCarter, Founder of Prequel

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Creating a voice & venture for those unable to speak with Dr. Maheen Mausoof Adamson, CEO of Soof Solutions

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Protecting our kids online with Megs Shah, CEO and Founder of Parasol Cooperative

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Creating Life at Home & a Founder's Journey in Infertility with Dr. Jennifer Hintzsche, Ph.D, CEO of PherDal

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Establishing "go-to-market" credibility + AI in sales w/ Daniel Saks, Co founder and CEO of Landbase

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Building a Pet Care empire with 10x Ironman and 3x founder, Alex Douzet, CEO of Pumpkin

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A better way to pay employees + the Art of Focus w/ Nico Simko, CEO and Co-founder of Clair

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Going from 0 to 1 internationally, w/ Tim Fung, CEO and Co founder of Airtasker

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From Sesame Street to Startup with Dr. Lewis Bernstein, former Executive Producer of Sesame Street and Founder of 3G

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Elections need an upgrade. How we get there w/ Tad Milbourn, Founder of RankedVote

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The most successful asset class of the last 40 years w/ Jon Staenberg, Founder of Agate Hound Fund

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The business of golf + building the largest golf community w/ Travis Schoen, Founder of NW Golf Guys

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A better alternative to big coffee + building the world's most beautiful (and smart) coffee machine with Sahand Dilmaghani, Founder of Terra Kaffe

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Finding joy in what you're building + building a Unicorn (Spendesk) and balancing transparency with confidence w/ Jordane Giuly, CEO and Founder of Defacto

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Should you launch a free product? + solving for the "accidental IT manager" w/ Martin Pannier, CEO of Primo

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Raising $10M from Founders Fund + what to look for in co founders with Parker Gilbert, CEO of Numeric

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From Kickstarter to the Queen of Scotch w/ Carin Luna-Ostaseski, Founder of SIA Scotch Whisky

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The "Mamba" of brand marketing and the future of MarTech with Adam Katz, CEO of Sightly

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Lessons learned from 300 pitch meetings w/ Andrew Firestone, CEO of Mermaid Chart

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From the kitchen to the boardroom w/ Matt Wadiak, Co founder of Blue Apron and CleanUp

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Eliminating food waste, odors, and fruit flies with Harry Tannenbaum, Co founder of Mill

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From paycheck to purpose with Joel Pollick, CEO and Cofounder of Percent Pledge

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King of the rental thrones, David Sauers, Co founder of Royal Restrooms

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Losing $100M and rebuilding the right way w/ author and entrepreneur, David Meltzer

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How secure are these AI apps? w/ Tito Sestito, CEO and Founder of HiddenLayer

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The future of Art + Museums 2.0 with Tom McLeod, Founder of Arkive

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Being Remarkable with Guy Kawasaki

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Disrupting the MBA w/ Ariel Renous Co founder and CEO of Augment

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The Business Inside the Game w/ Entrepreneur & NBA All-Star, Baron Davis

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How Gen Z invests their $ with Eve Halimi and Anam Lakhani, Co founders of Alinea

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Selling Samooha to Snowflake + the advantages of a second time founder with Kamakshi, Sivaramakrishnan, CEO of Samooha

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Helping investors draw the line + raising a Series A from Bain Capital with Albert Gozzi, CEO and Co founder of Aleph

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Managing chaos and selling Jeli to PagerDuty with Nora Jones, CEO and Co founder of Jeli

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Eye of the Tiger and going for the title a second time with Tracy Young, CEO and Co founder of TigerEye

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Bionics, man with/vs. the machine, and the human technology stack with Anna Believantseva, COO and Co founder of Esper Bionics

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A pet owner & wallet's best friend. Disrupting pet insurance with Hedda Båverud Olsson, CEO and Co founder of Lassie

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Patients first & raising $10M from Google Ventures to innovate in women's health with Rachel Blank, CEO and Co founder of Allara Health

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Raising $9.5M from Insight Partners to disrupt "GovTech" with Mike Weiland, Co founder and CEO of Govly

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The future of "home automation" with Navneet Dalal, CEO and Co-founder of Matic, bringing AI & cutting edge robotics into your homes starting with the world's most advanced floor cleaner

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It's for the kids!! ClassDojo CEO and Co founder, Sam Chaudhary on the problems and potential in early stage education.

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Going from 0 to 1 in Health Care with Siva Namasivayam, CEO of Cohere Health

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"Death tech", the business behind death, and building an "honor based" mindset with Mallory Greene, Co founder and CEO of Eirene Cremations

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The assumptions and excuses founders make from in-office culture, hiring the right C-Suite, and building from Cyprus with Tony Jamous, CEO of Oyster

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When is "too early" to ship product, and game changing SEO tactics with Farzad Rashidi, Co founder of Respona

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Flying high, flying low, and eliminating hiring bias with Daniel Yanisse, Co founder and CEO of Checkr

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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, CEO of Xero on the importance of tailwinds, and "macro" and "micro" startup environments

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Take your time. Take your control. And a "bottoms up" approach to investing with Arjun Sethi, Founder of Tribe Capital

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The superpowers that AI will give employees with Job van der Voort, CEO of Remote

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Super Bowl champ, JuJu Smith-Schuster and CEO of World Champion Fantasy, Mike Vela on future of eGaming and fantasy sports

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How Gusto used "Word of Mouth" to grow to more than 300K customers with Josh Reeves, CEO and Co founder of Gusto

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Building a Unicorn in security with Christina Cacioppo, CEO and Co Founder of Vanta

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"Earned insights" and scaling Loom to +21M users with Joe Thomas, CEO and Co founder of Loom

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Disco's first customer! Founding and selling Shipt to Target for $550M, re-imagining home rentals with Landing, and the future of real-estate with Bill Smith, Founder and CEO of Landing

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A Superhuman approach to PM fit, virality, and emails that don't suck with Rahul Vohra, Co founder and CEO of Superhuman

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More than words! Max Lytvyn, Co founder of Grammarly on building one of the 20 most valuable startups in the US

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NBA Champion Shane Battier on the pivot from the front court to the front office

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Cleaning up "cloud waste" in the midst of the cloud wars with Kaveh Khorram, CEO of Usage.ai

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A safer way to release software and the 0 to 1 story behind LaunchDarkly with Edith Harbaugh, Co founder of LaunchDarkly

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CEO Succession draft with my co founder and brother, Jeremy Vandehey

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Crossing the second chasm and doing big BD deals with Kurt Davis, author of "Navigate the Lighthouse"

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Hiring and building with AI, life before and after raising $40M, and the startup scene in Chicago with Scott Kacyn, Co founder and CTO of Hunt Club

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Launching Harry's and Hims brands, Direct WITH Consumers, and building an emotional connection with a spatula with Suze Dowling, Co founder of Pattern Brands

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Life of the Solopreneur with Terry Rice, host of "Launch Your Business" on Entrepreneur

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Founding WeWork, the WeWork Culture OS, and building a better community for our elders with Miguel McKelvey, Co founder of WeWork

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What VCs ACTUALLY mean with Ann Miura-Ko, Founding Partner at Floodgate

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Founding NerdWallet, when to hire your replacement, and the future of FinTech with Jake Gibson, Co founder of NerdWallet and Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures

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The "dos and don'ts" of selling your company with Chris Buttenham, CEO and Co founder of Obie (acquired by Seismic)

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It takes a village!! Raising little humans and childcare in a global pandemic with Gretchen Salyer, CEO of June Care

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How Generative AI will transform engineering and the ethics behind it with Lauren Peate, CEO and Founder of Multitudes

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Swimming with the Sharks, battling the sun, and fighting mosquitos with Nichole Powell, CEO and Founder of Kinfield