Introducing Our Next Three Guests

Hey, it’s Jesse. Thanks for tuning into Season 3 of Breakthrough Builders!

In case you didn’t notice, we’ve made a few changes to the experience of the show - you’ve probably taken note of some new intro and outro music. That’s just one of the many cool things that’s happened because of our partnership with StudioPod Media in San Francisco. They’ve joined up with the team here at Breakthrough Builders to do editing, production, and music. Thanks to TJ, Julian, Katie, and Deanna for partnering up with me and Todd to make the show happen.

So, we’re now 5 episodes into our 8-episode Season 3. Before we round the bend into the final lap of Season 3 conversations, I wanted to take a minute to tell you about and hype up our next 3 Guests!

Our guest on May 26 will be Jeetu Patel, who runs the Security and Collaboration businesses at Cisco. He’s got an incredible story about emigrating to the US from India, remaining at one company for 17 years, then going on to product and strategy leadership roles at EMC, Box, and Cisco. He’s a great leader and an even better human being, he’s accomplished, he’s humble, he’s reflective, and he’s got an incredibly human story to tell.

We’re off the week of the Memorial Day Holiday in the US. Then, on June 9th, you’ll hear my conversation with Lakshmi Shenoy, the CEO of Embarc Collective, a Tampa-Florida based organization founded in 2018 at the nexus of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Lakshmi moved to Tampa from Chicago, where she led strategy at innovation incubator 1871, after meeting and being persuaded by the vision of Jeff Vinink for the future growth of Tampa. Lakshmi talked to me about how she brings together creative energy from her days at Leo Burnett, brand acumen from her time at P&G, Time, and Prophet Brand Strategy, and the startup gusto she honed working with the community at 1871. And she explained how exciting it is to be a CEO and an entrepreneur for and with entrepreneurs in a region that’s experiencing the early waves of transformative growth.

And, for our last episode of Season 3, on June 16th, I talk to Alex Hood, the Chief Product Officer at team-based work management platform Asana. We haven’t recorded that conversation yet but Alex is someone I’ve known for a while and you can trust me that it’ll be a great one. Alex has been a product person his entire career - at Nasdaq, Intuit, TubeMogul, and now Asana - and if there’s anybody who can tell the story of what it’s like to build and thrive in a career in product management, it’s Alex.

Keep sharing your input on the show, your reactions to the episodes, and of course, any suggestions for Guests you want to hear on the show! Contact us through our website, over at breakthrough-builders.com, that’s breakthrough-hyphen-builders-dot-com.

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