Entrepreneurs Exposed

Connie Steele is a future of work expert, and the author of Building the Business of You: A System to Align Passion and Growth Potential Through Your Own Career Mash-Up, the first book to help professionals and entrepreneurs navigate the new world of work while aligning personal purpose and professional advancement. Did you know that 64% of millenials have a side hustle? That # is a whopping 70% for Genz'ers. We explore what this means for the future of work as well as other great topics including the current state of the job market; how employers should be thinking about building alignment; how employees rank what's really meaningful to them in life and in their careers, and much more. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caitlin MacGregor, is the CEO and co-founder of Plum. After building two businesses, she founded Plum to help organizations fully leverage the human potential within their workforces. Plum(.IO) equips business leaders with the talent data needed to match employees’ talent to roles where they’ll thrive. In this EP, we discuss psychometric hiring, and why companies hiring for skills are getting talent acquisition totally wrong; why the talent shortage is a total myth; best practices around remote, in-person and hybrid; and so much more. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coach Dana Cavalea spent 13 years with the New York Yankees as a performance coach, helping lead the team to a World Series Championship in 2009. He has now taken his craft outside the world of sports, coaching Founders, CEO's, Venture Capitalists, and other high performers. In this EP, we chat about Dana's experience working with Yankee greats such as Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and others; the unique culture and lessons learned from the '09 Yankees; lessons and tips from Dana's book 'Habits of a champion team', and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cameron Herold is a lifelong entrepreneur, and the head of the COO Alliance, the largest global network for the second in command. He is also responsible for helping engineer 1-800 Got Junk's spectacular growth alongside Brian Scudamore. In this EP, we talk about his recent NOMAD lifestyle, and why he decided to sell basically everything he owned; the concept of a 'Vivid vision' and how to put it into practice; the importance of carving out time to think; Elon Musk's recent acquisition of Twitter; the traits of an entrepreneur and the connection to bipolar disorder, and much more. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Peek is the Co-founder and CEO at Delphia, a membership-based investment collective where people pool their data to gain access to exclusive investment strategies. After selling his previous startup to Shopify, he purchased a Toronto-based research lab with the mission of helping people derive benefit from their data. He went on to steer the lab’s novel predictive methods toward the forecasting of capital markets, partnering with some of the top minds in quantitative investing along the way to form Delphia and help people turn their data into capital. In this EP we discuss the origins of Delphia; Andrew's passion for predicting the future; the idea of investing with one's data; Delphia's impressive track record of raising near $80 million in venture funding; and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sheret Ross is the co-CEO of Car Data, a company that provides an easy and cost-effective way to reimburse employees for using their personal vehicle for work.He also co-founded, Spruce Grove Capital, the search fund he used to source and ultimately acquire the company he's now running. In this EP, we discuss the process of launching a search fund and finding Car Data; the mechanics of search funds vs. venture capital, private and growth equity; we also chat about Sheret's experience hiring talent and working remote, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Zavorotny is the cofounder, and COO of Nutrisense - a company on a mission to personalize nutrition by leveraging CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring) and Machine Learning. In this one, we discuss the early days and origin story of Nutri sense; customer acquisition/ channel marketing, and influencer-driven growth; raising capital and how to make the "No's" feel less important; recruiting talent and what separates a great person from a good person; and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Packham is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of ContentCal that was acquired by Adobe, in late 2021.During his ContentCal journey, he raised over £10m for the company, built the business to 3,000+ customers globally, and grew top line 150% year over year. In this episode, we discuss Alex's experience raising capital from angels vs. VC's; what he's learned about creating the right pitch deck; the sale to Adobe; the importance of mindset and energy, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christian Owens is the CEO & founder of Paddle, a payments infrastructure for SaaS business. Prior to Paddle, Christian created his first software business from his bedroom at the age of 14. Having grown the business to $1m in revenue he decided to quit school at 16 to focus on building startups full time. In 2016, Christian was named one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” and a Thiel Fellow by the Thiel Foundation. In early 2022, Paddle raised a Series D which turned the company into one of a very few UK-based unicorns. In this EP, we talk all about Christian's decision to drop out of school; how a looming recession could impact Paddle and SAAS more broadly; the origins of Paddle, and a great war story that came with registering the URL, and much more. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Fiedler is the co-founder and former CEO of record-of-the-month club Vinyl Me, Please (VMP). Since launching VMP in 2013, Matt successfully took the business from a passion project to a globally recognized brand in more than 40 countries around the world. During his tenure as CEO, VMP was named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list, and was twice listed to the Inc. 5000. While he remains Chairman of VMP, Matt also serves as an advisor to several early stage companies. In this EP, we talk about the early days of VMP, its impressive growth trajectory, leadership lessons learned through COVID, the process of letting go as CEO, Matt's favourite records he can't live without, and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices