21st Century Entrepreneurship

Denis O'Shea launched Mobile Mentor in New Zealand in 2004. Since then, the company has assisted over 1 million individuals in being more secure and productive with their laptops, tablets, smartphones, and apps. As a worldwide leader in the endpoint environment, the company was named Microsoft’s 2021 Global Partner of the year for Modern Endpoint Management. When it comes to consumers, business development, execution, quality assurance and recommendations for businesses, I also spoke with company CEO Daniel McCarthy, sales manager for New Zealand Jared Pedersen, Craing Guice (President, Managed Services) and VP of products and innovation Shane Sloan.

Listen to Warren Hatch, the CEO of New York-based Good Judgment Inc., which specializes on superforecasting, in the most recent episode of 21st Century Entrepreneurship. In 2011, the US intelligence community's equivalent to DARPA - IARPA - launched a competition to find cutting-edge methods for forecasting geopolitical events. Four years and over 1 million forecasts later – with Philip Tetlock and Barbara Mellers at the University of Pennsylvania leading – GJP emerged as the winner and outperformed intelligence analysts. Good Judgment Inc is now commercializing this winning approach to harness research by the crowd, and their clients benefit from that externally-validated forecasting methodology.

Sam N. Adams and Spencer Rascoff started dot.LA in 2020, which focuses on covering the tech scene in Southern California and organizing local events. It was almost a year after Spencer stepped down as CEO of Zillow Group that he shifted his attention to Los Angeles's technology and startup industry. I spoke with Sam about their business journey, as well as other topics related to the epidemic's context, LA as a location for startups, and ethics they champion in journalism. During the interview, Sam was full of anecdotes, such as Michael Bloomberg's story he learnt about while working for the Bloomberg company. The tale is about how telling the truth is important even if you're losing money, according to Michael.

Chad Peterson had a rocky youth, but it inspired him to achieve great things. Today, Chad is a business broker who specializes in selling businesses. He works with both sellers and buyers to ensure the best outcome for the client.In this episode, he discusses why now may be the best time ever to sell your business and how his company can help you through the process.

The Great Resignation is still on the rise, stellar work relationships should be at the forefront of every leader’s mind right now. We’ve figured out why people are leaving, and now it’s time to figure out how to encourage and develop those who have stayed. As a large business owner in the hospitality industry that has survived the pandemic, Matt Rolfe discusses how leaders can maintain success beyond this point. 

Jackie and Cheri are very good friends and coworkers. The fact that they support each other every day with their work is amazing in itself, but what's more impressive is the amount of power and positive energy they share between them. In our podcast episode, they freely discussed their difficulties and triumphs as individuals, as well as the benefits of having one another in their lives and specific conversations they've had over the years.Jackie and Cheri have co-written a book, "Conversations Worth Having, Second Edition: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement." They teach how to increase interactions, encourage positive change, and significantly improve the results of talks for people, teams, businesses, and communities by using only two simple activities at home or at work, a few of the techniques that can assist you in growing your creativity, productivity, involvement, and potential.

Slater Victoroff is the Founder and CTO of Indico, an enterprise AI solution for unstructured content that emphasizes document understanding. His company recently announced a $22 million Series B raise. Slater spoke enthusiastically about his company's progress and the award-winning AI system, as well as how he had grown it. He was recently named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.

Kim is a professor at the University of Michigan and author of Positively Energizing Leadership book. He is one of the most downloaded scholars in the organizational sciences. Camerons' research shows a direct relationship between positively energizing leadership and high-performance cultures. If you want to know how people can be positively energized at work, tune in to the episode!

In this episode of the podcast, I talk with author and digital innovation expert Eric Redmond about one of my favourite topics - the technologies that are changing our world. We discuss deep tech, a term used to describe technologies like AI, blockchain and the Internet-of-Things.  Eric also revealed the secrets to becoming a best-selling author.

Lance Tanaka is a global leader in the field of leadership and communication, who has been able to elevate countless individuals from different industries around the world. He uses his extensive knowledge about human behaviour as well as strategy development for success on both an individual level or company-wide scale with Dream & Achieve® (DNA). The elite-level coaching service from Lance is a proven life-changing process that provides executives with personalized attention and guidance to help them reach their full potential. Top 10 investment banks, Top 10 automotive manufacturers, pharmaceutical giants (and many more) all benefit from this unique strategy.