Behind Company Lines

Behind Company Lines

By Hosts Julian Torres and Mike Townsend, sponsored by Otter LabsBusiness
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Behind Company Lines episodes

  • Pierre Hebrard, CEO of Pricemoov

    Pierre Hebrard, the co-founder of Pricemoov, is on a mission to make better pricing decisions more accessible for businesses worldwide. Through the development of their user-friendly SaaS platform for intelligent pricing, he has led Pricemoov's growth, global expansion, and team evolution as CEO.

    Before Pricemoov, Pierre served as Managing Director at Jumia Kenya and COO at Jumia Nigeria, scaling operations and building strong teams. His background also includes international finance experience at Morgan Stanley and Société Générale.

    In addition, Pierre is a University Lecturer on price management at HEC Paris, sharing his knowledge with aspiring professionals. He is committed to helping businesses embrace innovative pricing solutions for unparalleled success.


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    38 min
  • Iulian Circo, Co-founder of Hyfe

    Iulian Circo is a serial entrepreneur and recovering humanitarian operating at the frontiers of technology and impact. His latest venture (Hyfe) is the world’s most sophisticated acoustic AI, used daily by researchers, medical professionals as well as thousands of regular people all over the world.

    Over the years, Iulian has been part of action-packed operations in some of the world’s most challenging environments. These included dozens of humanitarian missions as well as things like supporting transition during peace-keeping operations in East Timor or DR Congo, leading the operations of a UN agency in Somalia, or turning around country operations for large global organizations in places such as Eswatini/ Swaziland or Mozambique.  

    He has founded and taken to scale global social enterprises and impact businesses in health and fintech among others. 


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  • Erik Kostelnik, Founder & CEO of Postal

    Erik Kostelnik, is the Founder and CEO of Postal, the leading all-in-one Offline Engagement Platform. Erik is an award-winning entrepreneur and sales leader that has founded and scaled multiple technology companies that have led to hyper-revenue growth, major capital investments, and 3 favorable exits.


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    43 min
  • Edward Fernandez, President & CEO of 1031 Crowdfunding

    Edward Fernandez, president and CEO of 1031 Crowdfunding, has over 20 years of experience and is personally responsible for raising $800 million of equity from individuals and institutional investors through private and public real estate offerings.  Headquartered in Irvine, California, 1031 Crowdfunding is a leading real estate investing platform for 1031 exchanges and alternative investment vehicles focused on tax deferral. Ed can speak to real estate-specific topics such as 1031 exchanges, 721 UPREITs, and other investment methods. He can also provide general guidance to business owners on entrepreneurship, self-belief, perseverance, and success, as he is a self-made American who built a successful real estate business from the ground up just a few years ago.


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    44 min
  • Sean Bennett, CTO & co-founder of Stronghold

    Sean Bennett is the co-founder of Stronghold, a leading financial infrastructure company that provides fast, secure, and accessible financial services through a simple API. Stronghold, recently named a Forbes Fintech 50 company, makes payments quicker and easier while maintaining regulatory compliance and interoperability between payment systems. Sean is a renowned technology expert in the digital currency space, having designed and executed some of the first distributed cross-border transactions of sovereign currencies. 

    In 2013, Sean started building stablecoin technology on Ripple to streamline the remittances process after experiencing its obstacles firsthand. Passionate about the power of digital currencies, he left medical school in 2014 to found Coinex Gateway. Coinex Gateway empowered consumers to move fiat currency via the Ripple and Stellar networks - in doing so, Sean helped build Ripple and Stellar’s first stablecoins (USD, AUD, and NZD). Sean continued innovating on the Stellar network by designing a remittance gateway that could solve the issues millions face when sending money home to their families. There, he met Tammy Camp (who was leading growth efforts at Stellar). They decided to found Stronghold to develop payments and financial infrastructure for all.

    Sean holds a Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences from the University of Otago and a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Massey University.


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  • Vinay Patankar, Co-founder & CEO of Process Street

    Vinay Patankar is the CEO of Process Street, a modern process management platform for employee onboarding, workflow automation, checklists, the team’s handbook, and more. He was the youngest Cisco engineer in Australia at age 16 and has a background in IT, finance, and software recruitment. He also founded an affiliate marketing company with teams in 3 countries (USA, Philippines, and India), that generated $1 million in revenue in less than 3 years.


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  • Ben Weiss, CEO & co-founder of CoinFlip

    Ben Weiss co-founded CoinFlip in 2015 and served as the Chief Operating Officer before being appointed as Chief Executive Officer in April 2021. Since its inception, Ben has led the company’s strategy and helped CoinFlip surpass $1B in transaction volume. In addition to running a burgeoning startup, Ben spends his time working with governing bodies toward cryptocurrency regulation. Regarded as a thought leader in the space, he is regularly interviewed by major news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN Business, and Moneywise, and has given several keynote speeches about the future of cryptocurrency.

     Ben graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in Economics. Compelled by cryptocurrency’s lack of accessibility, he sought to create a cash-to-crypto ATM service. Since then, CoinFlip has expanded to n nearly 4,000 ATMs across the country and Canada, maintaining a strong record of regulatory compliance to ensure the safety and security of its customers. The company will keep that central focus, as well as map out new opportunities internationally and across its product lines.

    Under his leadership, CoinFlip placed 60th on the 2021 Inc. 5000 list as the top-ranked cryptocurrency company, was named the 2021 and 2022 #1 fastest-growing company in Chicago by Crain's, and was awarded the 2021 and 2022 Stevie ® Awards for Customer Service. 


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  • Jake Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of Anderson Optimization

    Jake Anderson is a co-founder and the CEO of Anderson Optimization. Prior to founding AO, he earned his BSB in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management with a minor in Information System Management from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

    Prior to founding Anderson Optimization, Jake began his career in Fortune 500 corporate finance where he led a variety of cross-functional project teams and focused on strategy and business operations.

    Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with friends and family, traveling, and following sports. 


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  • Dan Mallin, CEO & Founder of Lucy

    Dan Mallin, CEO & Founder of Lucy, a one-stop AI-powered knowledge platform for all the data an organization owns and licenses. Dan is a force in technology-based entrepreneurship, creating transformative tools that serve the needs of Fortune 1000 and the agencies that serve them. He has repeatedly broken new ground in the digital marketing services space. He has grown and sold four businesses and built forward-thinking tech platforms that are still in use day-to-day by some of the world’s largest brands, agencies, and media firms. 




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  • Bhavin Asher, CTO of GRUBBRR

    Bhavin Asher is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of GRUBBRR®, a self-ordering technologies company focused on automating commerce with its award-winning line of hardware and software solutions.

    A combination of technologist, entrepreneur, consultant, and an all-around problem solver, Bhavin is passionate about democratizing technology for all businesses. He founded GRUBBRR with the mission of changing the way commerce is transacted by automating both the consumer and business experience through artificial intelligence and machine learning.


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    35 min

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