Liftoff with Keith Newman: For Founders looking for a new growth playbook and further inspiration.

Mike Cassidy, aka Rocket (Thruster) Man -  has been CEO and Co-Founder of 5 high tech companies and is currently the head of Apollo Fusion, a high performance maker of satellite thrusters. This is his project following his role as Project Leader for Google's Project Loon. He’s also sold another co (Xfire) to MTV and Direct Hit to Ask Jeeves. If that’s not wild enough he attended the Berklee School of Music, Harvard and MIT. Quite a roll! I hope you enjoy this Look Back as much as I did. All systems go! Now strap it on and hit play! 

Gary Shapiro and CES! The two are seemingly inseparable as he’s been running the amazing trade show every January forever but underneath that linkage Gary is equally navigating innovation and fair trade. Technology and Sustainability and a host of geopolitical stuff. In short he’s seeking balance in a world out of whack and sharing it with the powerful industries he represents as CEO of CTA.In this episode of The Look Back find out why Gary is more excited about this year’s CES than ever > share this share with friends and see you in Las Vegas in January. 

In this new series, Founder Fables, we talk with Martin Mao, the co-founder and CEO of cloud monitoring firm @Chronosphere. Here we talk with startups who have interesting business that deserves watching as well as interesting thoughts on building a successful venture during this unique time. Martin started the the business at the start of Covid and following engineering roles with @Uber, @AWS, @Microsoft and @Google (nice pedigree as one might say). In this Episode we dive into his view of big co experience and then rolling to a startup along with the challenges of raising funding and driving a startup in challenging economic times, competing with giants and leading a co from the engineering side of the house.

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.