Liftoff with Keith Newman

Great Look Back podcast interview with Founding Member of the legendary music group N.W.A (Straight Outta Compton): Arabian Prince. We cover off on the early days in musicland and his passion for tech and land on an exciting discussion around @MdDAO.com where he is CEO and is trying to bring health and wellness to the #metaverse. He’s also exploring yet another NewCo for optimizing #EV’s - check this site out too: Drivyn.com for Ev's and who want more out of their experience! So kool.

Regis is a legend in the world of tech marketing and had a unique role of building a hugely successful business and wrote the book on high tech marketing. (The Regis Touch and Marketing is Everything were just two of the groundbreak tech marketing books he authored).Regis was coach and consultant at the PR/Marketing firm that bore his name and was coach and mentor to visionaries like Andy Grove and Steve Jobs, who he advised as they all took aim at expanding the use of chips, mips and computers. He is a legend and I’m a huge fan.Listen to this episode of The Look Back and you will understand why! And feel free to share this episode with your tech marketing friends.

Todd is on a mission to train the next wave of tech workers and not just the developer/coding gigs (aka "geek" jobs) but HR, marketing and all of the other roles with an increasing tech focus. All of this effort to fuel the next level of growth in the IT industry as well as the growth of his leading non profit trade association, CompTIA, which he has been the CEO of for the last 17 years.Find out all about Todd and his vision and plans and much more here on the latest edition of The Look Back.

Jillian Manus is managing partner at Structure Capital, an early stage VC firm that focuses on Zero Waste Economy. Jillian has had an amazing journey and is an amazing fireball of energy and purpose. She has a podcast herself called The Pitch. She and I go back to when our kids shared a baseball field together and then discovered a similar passion for media, tech, and supporting the startup ecosystem where our paths crossed again @Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. Bottom line: She has many great passions and insights and I’m glad she could join The Look Back and share some. Please have a listen.

From Super Tech Profit Investor to Author, anti-hate Advocate and Web Prophet with a focus on saving democracy, capitalism, innovation. All that and some soulful sounds #Moonalice #ZuckedPlease listen to this! I rarely beg and plead but this Look Back is beyond interesting, its a critical wide eyed look at our current surveillance economy that both challenges our current startup ecosystem but moreover threatens democracy and capitalism. We take a close look at what we’re doing and supporting - and NOT doing and NOT supporting. Shine a light into some of the dark - but first listen to this pod.

I had questions: Web3 vs Web 1 and 2. How can we make it more equitable this time around? How does the Metaverse evolve and grow? Will Facebook get it right? Is it anarchy - Where will NFT's, Blockchain and Bitcoin fit in? Thankfully, my old friend had answers. He's just become CMO of an exciting Web3 tools company and has his hands in much more. Please give a listen and follow up as we continue to share insights on technology and leadership stories!Follow him on Twitter: @jowyang

Fantastic conversation with Brad Smith, the former CEO of Intuit who recently took on the role of President of Marshall University. Hey, all he had to do was follow and surpass the success of Intuit Founder Scott Cook, Coach - Startup Whisperer Bill Campbell and a few others - and he did! Such an inspiring conversation and passionate leader. You can see why he has had so much success and why you can bet Marshall is going to be a University to watch. Give a listen > you won’t regret it.

Such a great time catching up with Mike Bell, CEO of Miso Robotics. We met when he was slinging software in the B2C consumer space (Encore Software) and then he transitioned his business management and leadership strength into a few enterprise tech companies but now Mike is running Miso - what an amazing new play in robotics - revolutionizing Restaurant/QSR space. Great chat, give a listen and pick up some great insights into leadership and a hot new market segment.

Dan is the CEO of Chegg and has become a huge advocate for reform of the education system and promoting school to be more affordable and relevant and inclusive in today’s tech-driven economy. His passion behind this cause in infectious. Crazy to think a few short decades ago we toiled in the world of ‘special interest publishing’ at the likes of Ziff-Davis but that turned into a treasure trove of learnings, contacts and more and led to even great heights for Dan as he went to run CNET, Yahoo and other businesses before turning to Chegg. I caught up with him a few weeks ago - he was in NY thinking about Springsteen and weekends @the shore, and I was transfixed on the pending Warriors playoff game. It was a blast to catch up. Give a listen here….

The Look Back catches up @Heini Z. - who I worked with in the security software market while he was still living in his hometown of Denmark -  only to later find him pop up as Founder and CEO of Vivino living in the California Bay Area. Vivino is a great success story and the #1 wine review site but he's also a passionate promoter of entrepreneurship and advocate of new founders - see his podcast here: https://youtube.com/c/rawstartup and check out https://www.vivino.com/US/en  Great conversation - and we weren't even drinking!