Smart Venture Podcast

051 Domenic Perri is a Partner at Vertex Ventures US where he invests in early stage enterprise startups. Prior to Vertex, he worked on M&A and business development at companies like Tesla and Dropbox. When he started his career, he worked closely with Robert Herjavec, the "nice shark" from ABC’s Shark Tank.  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

050 Iris Choi is a Partner at Floodgate, where she sits on board of portfolio companies, makes investments and helps them build strategic corporate relationships and financings. Floodgate’s portfolio includes Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, and many others. Prior to Venture she was a VP at Goldman Sachs where she directly worked with CEOs of top companies like Disney, SanDisk and Yahoo!  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

049 Shellye Archambeau is one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs. She serves as a board member at Verizon, Nordstrom, Roper Technologies and Okta. She was the former CEO of MetricStream, where she turned a struggling Silicon Valley startup to a global leading compliance software company. Prior to becoming the CEO she was an executive at IBM and CMO at two other public companies. She is the author of Unapologetically Ambitious.  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

048 Shellye Archambeau is one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs. She serves as a board member at Verizon, Nordstrom, Roper Technologies and Okta. She was the former CEO of MetricStream, where she turned a struggling Silicon Valley startup to a global leading compliance software company. Prior to becoming the CEO she was an executive at IBM and CMO at two other public companies. She is the author of Unapologetically Ambitious.  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

047 Lucinda Newcomb is the Chief Product Officer at WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers. She leads the WW member experience across all digital channels. Prior to WW she was a VP at Walmart and Sephora, where she led product management for all of online shopping and was responsible for the entire portfolio of omni-channel digital experiences across product management and design.  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

046 Lucinda Newcomb is the Chief Product Officer at WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers. She leads the WW member experience across all digital channels. Prior to WW she was a VP at Walmart and Sephora, where she led product management for all of online shopping and was responsible for the entire portfolio of omni-channel digital experiences across product management and design.  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

045 Monty Moran is the former co-CEO at Chipotle Mexican Grill. He took a Denver-based burrito company to Fortune 500 status. To build a successful culture, Monty spent most of his time having one-on-one conversations with more than 20,000 employees at Chipotle. The result was a culture of empowerment where each person was rewarded (and promoted) for how effective they were in making the people around them better. Prior to joining Chipotle, Monty was the head of litigation and then managing partner and CEO at the Denver-based law firm Messner and Reeves, LLC, which he led for ten years. Monty is currently working on an up and coming documentary series that’s about to be released on PBS stations nationally called CONNECTED: A Search for Unity.  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.  

044 Monty Moran is the former co-CEO at Chipotle Mexican Grill. He took a Denver-based burrito company to Fortune 500 status. To build a successful culture, Monty spent most of his time having one-on-one conversations with more than 20,000 employees at Chipotle. The result was a culture of empowerment where each person was rewarded (and promoted) for how effective they were in making the people around them better. Prior to joining Chipotle, Monty was the head of litigation and then managing partner and CEO at the Denver-based law firm Messner and Reeves, LLC, which he led for ten years. Monty is currently working on an up and coming documentary series that’s about to be released on PBS stations nationally called CONNECTED: A Search for Unity.  https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.  

043 Michael Hyatt built and sold 2 very successful software companies. He is an investor on the hit podcast "The Pitch" and host of the new "Business Unplanned" podcast. He sits on the Board of Advisors of Georgian Partners, one of Canada’s leading venture capital firms. He is a recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Award and a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.

042 Michael Hyatt built and sold 2 very successful software companies. He is an investor on the hit podcast "The Pitch" and host of the new "Business Unplanned" podcast. He sits on the Board of Advisors of Georgian Partners, one of Canada’s leading venture capital firms. He is a recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Award and a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. https://www.SmartVenturePod.com IG/Twitter/FB @GraceGongGG LinkedIn:@GraceGong YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube Join the SVP fam with your host Grace Gong. In each episode, we are going to have conversations with some of the top investors, super star founders, as well as well known tech executives in the silicon valley. We will have a coffee chat with them to learn their ways of thinking and actionable tips on how to build or invest in a successful company.