The BreakLine Arena

Join us in the BreakLine Arena to celebrate Black History Month with BreakLine alum, Dedric Landrum.Dedric recently joined Gusto as a Senior Manager Business Technology & Product Owner. He shares a powerful story coming from humble beginnings to this seat of influence at one of the fastest growing tech companies in the world. Following Dedric’s advice, we will continue to share stories from our Apex community all year because “our heritages, including the black community’s, is worth celebrating year round.” BreakLine Education would like to honor the contributions, visions, and leadership of our entire Black community (alumni, partners, and BreakLine team).So pop your airpods in, and join us in the BreakLine Arena for a little motivation and inspiration. Happy Black History Month to all!

Join us in the BreakLine Arena for a conversation with Othman Laraki, CEO and Co-Founder of Color.Othman and his team are building Color to support durable and equitable public health across entire populations. Color’s technology and clinical services are the backbone of large-scale population health programs for over 200 institutions worldwide, with data and services spanning hereditary cancers, heart disease, infectious disease testing (including COVID-19), and community-based vaccination programs. Previously, Othman served as a VP of Product Management at Twitter and was an early Product Management pioneer at Google. He shared his stunning career in the tech industry, how diversity is the key to disrupting an industry for the better, and how his personal experience growing up in Morocco, emigrating to the US, and helping to build top tech companies led him to found Color.If you like what you hear, please like, rate, or review our show! We'd love to hear your thoughts. If you're interested in joining our community, please visit www.breakline.org.

Join us in the BreakLine Arena for a conversation with Annette Reavis, the Chief People Officer at Envoy. She shares highlights from her prolific career. As an early employee at Facebook, she talked about helping to scale the company from 4,000 to 40,000 employees. Later, she joined Root Insurance, and worked with the team to take the company public. Today, she and the Envoy team are imagining the future of work and the places and spaces where we will do our best building and innovating. Join us to hear more!

Join us in the BreakLine Arena for an authentic conversation with Sue Bostrom and Sue Barsamian.Sue Bostrom is the former EVP and CMO at Cisco Systems. She also serves on the board of directors at ServiceNow, Nutanix, and Anaplan, Druva, GitLab, Outreach, and Samsara. Sue Barsamian served as Chief Sales and Marketing officer at HPE Software for 10 years, and now is a Board Director at Five9, Box, NortonLifelock, Gainsight, Xactly, Onfido and formerly Segment, and Auth0. Both their rich industry experience and senses of humor make for a compelling conversation that ranges from the keys to their successes, to their overcoming imposter syndrome. If you've liked what you've heard, please like, rate, or review our show! We'd love to hear your thoughts. If you're interested in joining our community, please visit breakline.org.

Join us in the BreakLine Arena for a conversation with Amit Bendov, CEO and Co-Founder of Gong.io. In this episode, Amit highlights the importance of starting companies with a solution to a tangible problem, discusses leading from a place of humility, and inspires with a candid discussion of how dreams evolve over a lifetime. Amit Bendov has been in leadership at hyper-growth enterprise software startups for 20 plus years. Before co-founding and leading at Gong.io, he was CEO at SiSense, and CMO at Panaya. If you've liked what you've heard, please like, rate, or review our show! We'd love to hear your thoughts. If you're interested in joining our community, please visit breakline.org.

Join us in the BreakLine Arena for a stunning conversation with Saeju Jeong, co-founder and CEO of Noom.Saeju was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 and raised $540M in May 2021, but it wasn’t an easy path to success. This month, 17 years ago, he arrived in the United States with nothing but an intense desire to help people, after losing his father, a well-respected and well-loved doctor in South Korea.  Saeju shares with us his journey as an entrepreneur: from college drop out, to rock music distributor, to new immigrant in the United States. He pitched his vision over 800 times to venture capitalists and investors over four years and received zero dollars. Saeju dives deep into the support he’s received from those who believed in him, love from his family, and building the necessary muscles to go from feeling unqualified to empowered.  On the other end of this road was a revolutionary company dedicated to helping others build healthier lives.If you like what you've heard, please like, subscribe, or rate the BreakLine Arena! We would love to hear from you. Reach out to questions@break-line.com with thoughts, feedback, or recommendations. To learn more about joining our community at BreakLine, please visit us at breakline.org

Join us in the BreakLine Arena for a compelling conversation with Nicole Camarillo. She is the Co-Founder, and Chief Talent and Operations Officer at Rebellion Defense. In this episode, she highlights the pressing need for engineers of diverse backgrounds to join her at the nexus of technology and defense.Nicole Camarillo is a licensed attorney and accomplished strategist who has led several cultural and management reforms across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. She has spent her career at the nexus of national security and technology, where she has honed her skill for hacking through bureaucratic legal and policy obstacles to drive progressive initiatives. Most recently, Nicole served as the chief strategist for U.S. Army Cyber Command, where she drove major reform to empower technical talent and rapidly deliver critical technology within the military. Nicole has a BA from Stanford University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.If you like what you've heard please like, subscribe, or rate The BreakLine Arena! We would love to hear from you! Reach out to questions@break-line.com with thoughts, feedback, or recommendations. To learn more about joining our community at BreakLine, please visit us at breakline.org.

Join us in The BreakLine Arena for a conversation with Bruce Feiler, best-selling author and TED speaker. In this episode, Bruce dives into his fascinating life trajectory and story, and shares the inspiration he derives from studying how people navigate life's transitions. Bruce Feiler is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers; the presenter of two prime-time series on PBS; and the inspiration for the drama series COUNCIL OF DADS on NBC. Bruce’s two TED Talks have been viewed more than two million times. His new book, LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS: Mastering Change At Any Age, describes his journey across America, collecting hundreds of life stories, exploring how we can navigate life's growing number of transitions to live with more meaning, purpose, and joy.If you like what you've heard, please like, subscribe, or rate the BreakLine Arena. We would also love to hear from you! Reach out to questions@break-line.com with thoughts, feedback, or recommendations. To learn more about joining our community at BreakLine, please visit us at breakline.org

Join us in The BreakLine Arena for a conversation with George Mathew, Managing Partner at Insight Partners.George Mathew joined Insight Partners and is focused on venture stage investments in AI, ML, Analytics, and Data companies as they are establishing product/market Fit.In this episode, George shares his advice on overcoming and ultimately growing from professional adversity as well as how his diverse set of experiences prepared him to serve as a Managing Director.He brings 20+ years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. Prior to Kespry, George was President & COO of Alteryx where he scaled the company through it’s IPO (AYX). Previously he held senior leadership positions at SAP and salesforce.com. He has driven company strategy, led product management and development, and built sales and marketing teams. George holds a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from Cornell University and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar.If you like what you've heard please like, subscribe, or rate The BreakLine Arena on your preferred streaming platform! We would also love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or recommendations on the content we are creating. Feel free to reach out to us at questions@break-line.com.To learn more about BreakLine Education visit us at breakline.org.

Join us in The BreakLine Arena for an insightful conversation with Guy Guy, tech entrepreneur, innovator, and angel investor.Guy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Side, the only real estate brokerage that exclusively partners with top producing agents to create, grow, and power their businesses. Prior to Side, he founded 3 successful companies, including Kingmaker, Biz, and Kognitive. Guy is an advisor to companies like Vidyard, a YCombinator top 100 company. He also served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Matrix Partners, one of the best venture capital tech funds in the world. Today, Guy is dedicated to transforming the best real estate agents into market-leading businesses. He believes that the future of real estate is local, boutique, specialized, and agent-owned.If you like what you've heard please like, subscribe, or rate The BreakLine Arena on your preferred streaming platform! We would also love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or recommendations on the content we are creating. Feel free to reach out to us at questions@break-line.com.To learn more about BreakLine Education visit us at breakline.org.