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Behind Company Lines
By Hosts Julian Torres and Mike Townsend, sponsored by Otter LabsBusiness
Behind Company Lines episodes
- Emily Wang, CEO of Bento
Emily is the founder & CEO of Bento, a software platform for customer onboarding. Bento's guides are embedded natively into SaaS applications to create Getting Started pages and activation flows.
Prior to founding Bento, Emily was the Head of Product at atSpoke (acquired by Okta) and a Growth Product Manager at Intercom. Emily has her MBA and Bachelor's degrees from Harvard and lives in San Francisco.
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33 min - Will Rush, CEO & Founder of Stack
Will is the CEO & Founder of Stack, the first cryptocurrency app authorized for under-18-year-olds in the United States. The startup is backed by Madrona Ventures (early investors in Amazon, Redfin, Apptio, and Rover, among others) and The Venture Collective (early investors in BlockFi and Axiom). It has been featured on Yahoo Finance, Nasdaq, MSN, Business Insider, Tech Crunch, Geekwire, and BuiltIn, among others.
Will has spent 12 years in FinTech working with Sofi, Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade, E*Trade, Copper Banking, and others. He built Stack to blend the most speculative but also exciting financial asset class (crypto) with financial education. Stack creates a safe place for teenagers to approach crypto and web3, while their parents sit in the passenger seat.
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28 min - Simon Jones, CEO & Co-Founder of Voltz Labs
Simon Jones, CEO & Co-Founder of Voltz Labs, believes in a transparent, equitable, and community-driven future, where technology provides equal economic opportunities to all. Simon has been involved in three financial technology startups - twice as a founder and once as an early employee. Simon completed his Executive Education at Stanford.
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32 min - Gabe Frank , CEO of Arcade.xyz
Gabe Frank is CEO of Arcade.xyz, the most sophisticated DeFi NFT lending infrastructure. A third-generation pawnbroker, Gabe helped run the family business of 9 storefronts under the name Benny’s Pawn, founded in 1947 and eventually acquired in 2016. Through this real-world experience, Gabe learned the importance of collateralized loans against physical assets and developed and ran an online sub-prime loan portfolio.
An early NFT enthusiast and DeFi advocate, Gabe brings expertise from consumer and traditional financial markets to Arcade.xyz, having previously supported BitGo growing their digital asset custody (AUC) to over $1B and assisted BitGo Prime in building an institutional lending book to over $150m. Later, Gabe joined Curv, where he introduced the first-of-its-kind institutional Metamask product built for DeFi hedge funds and fintechs.
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26 min - Kalpesh Kapadia, Founder & CEO of Deserve
Kalpesh Kapadia’s career spans 25+ years in the US and Asia, primarily in technology and finance. He came to the US over 20 years ago as a young student and struggled to establish his credit profile. In 2013, Kalpesh co-founded Deserve, a cloud-based, API-centric software platform that enables a delightful digital/mobile cardholder experience for consumers, and modern card program management for partners, with a full suite of rewards, reporting, analytics and customer service.
Prior to co-founding Deserve he was one of the top analysts/investors in Wall Street’s tech sector. In 2004 he was ranked the #1 analyst in the US across all sectors by the venerable Wall Street Journal. In 2005 he founded Equanum Capital and successfully managed it through 2012.
He earned an MBA from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University where he serves on the alumni board and as a proud member of W.L. Mellon Society. He also holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His personal and charitable interests focus on empowerment through higher education. Kalpesh is a member/supporter of organizations such as Cato Institute, Santa Fe Institute and American Himalayan Foundation.
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35 min - Arup Roy-Burman, MD, Founder & CEO of Elemeno Health
Arup Roy-Burman MD, Founder & CEO of Elemeno Health, a mobile-friendly just-in-time training and support solution for frontline healthcare teams. Elemeno has built a “playbook in your pocket” for nurses, which empowers them to enhance patient care and execute their day-to-day tasks more efficiently. The “playbook” includes easily digestible content that can be customized by individual hospital departments. Its use has been associated with increased nurse satisfaction and a decrease in turnover by up to 50%. Improved consistency of care has resulted in decreased medical errors and hospital-acquired conditions by up to 75%.
Arup has 25 years of experience in caring for the critically ill and keenly appreciates the importance of frontline teams (nurses, doctors, and ancillary staff) to patient outcomes. He is an Associate Professor at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, where he has served as ICU Medical Director, and Director of Transport & Access. Arup is also a past Director of the Transdisciplinary Immersion in Global Health Research and Education (TIGRE) program in Honduras (70,000+ patient-visits), and has served on the Board of Directors of 501(c)3 Global Healing. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley (BA), UCSF (MD), and Stanford (Pediatric Residency).
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32 min - Greg Edwards, CEO of CryptoStopper
Greg has been a technology entrepreneur since 1998. Before Greg founded CryptoStopper, he started Axis Backup, a backup and disaster recovery company for the insurance industry. He saw firsthand the rapid increase in the damage cyber criminals were doing with debilitating malware resulting in high financial loss to vulnerable companies.
Between 2012 and 2015, one in five of Axis Backup’s clients was hit by cybercrime. Greg realized effective cyber security could save businesses from costly downtime and compromised systems. In 2015, Axis Backup was acquired by J2 Global, freeing Greg to create CryptoStopper and focus exclusively on cybersecurity.
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31 min - Alfred "Chip" Kahn IV, Founder & CEO of Boomtown
As Founder & CEO, Alfred Kahn leads commercial activities at Boomtown, including strategy, marketing, and corporate development. After graduating from Colorado State University, he began his journey as a serial entrepreneur and has founded several companies over the years. Alfred founded Boomtown because he is an operator that understands the power software has to disrupt an industry.
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28 min - Parthi Loganathan, Founder & CEO of Letterdrop
Parthi is the Founder and CEO of Letterdrop, a Y-Combinator backed company that helps over 50 B2B marketing teams produce 32% more content, faster, with the same headcount. Their content ops platform that streamlines and automates all the work that goes into content marketing.
Parthi was previously a Product Manager on Google Search. He loves helping technical founders step outside their comfort zone and go from just building (a mistake he has made before) to focusing on sales and marketing.
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32 min - Richard Miles, CEO of CLOSEM
Serial entrepreneur with several successful exits, seasoned Fortune 500 executive, and non-profit leader. Richard is the author of the "Official US Software Channel Sales Guidebook" and has been a featured speaker at COMDEX, CES, the Art of Product Launches, and many other events. He ran a consulting firm for 14 years and advised startups and multinationals, including Hitachi, IBM, Computer Associates, and many others.
He has served as the Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Tanzania, was CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the San Francisco Bay Area, and is currently CEO of CLOSEM, a SaaS company he co-founded with Laura Betterly. CLOSEM automates the process of sales followup. CLOSEM is now becoming a suite of applications for small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to increase sales, and they have just released LINKEM, with more coming out soon.
He has interesting things to share about sales, direct marketing, software startups, and sub-saharan African farming, as well as an avid wildlife and landscape photographer.
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