Brandon Stover On Life

Infamously known for making CEO’s cry, Jerry Colonna is a wildly successful entrepreneur, tech investor, and highly sought after executive coach to leaders such Gimlet Media co founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, Former CEO of Etsy Chad dickerson, and CEO of Twililo Jeff Dawson. He is the CEO, and co-founder, of Reboot.io, which is committed to the notion that better humans make better leaders. For nearly 20 years, he has used the knowledge gained as an investor, an executive, and a board member for more than 100 organizations to help entrepreneurs and others to lead with humanity, resilience, and equanimity. His newest book Reboot: Leadership and The Art of Growing Up is one of Inc’s Top 20 Business Books for 2020, and has been critically acclaimed by authors such as Seth Godin, Adam Grant, Angela Duckworth, And Parker Palmer.

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Chip Overstreet has an extraordinary executive career being the CEO of 3 startups, raised over $40 million in venture capital, and has a combined 25 years of experience in the high tech B2B software sector as a marketing and business development executive with an expertise in B2B eCommerce, marketing, business development and helping early-stage companies grow. This growth driven exec has no plans of slowing down as he has now become the President and CEO of the #1 fastest growing spice company in the world recognized by the Inc. 5000 List. Spokane-based, Spiceology, has gone from a Startup Weekend-winning idea in 2012 to a $5.5 million-a-year rocketship inside the spice industry.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Forbes 30 under 30 serial education technology entrepreneur Jordan Levy. Jordan believes we should get out from behind the textbook and expose students to new circumstances, with real stakeholders, real challenges, real collaboration, and of course real outcomes. His weapon of choice was to start not one but two highly successful EdTech companies that help higher-ed programs bridge the skills gap for their students through experiential learning. His company, Capsource, helps educators match with companies and design projects based on narrow academic requirements.  

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Questions Asked:

• After graduating with a Accounting and Finance degree you quickly realized that your time spent in college did not prepare you for the real world and did clue you into what you should expect. Tell me about that feeling you had when first graduating college?
• Now during your Entrepreneurship 312 class in college you and 2 other buddies started Real Time Cases, as a way to innovate the case methodology invented by Harvard Business School over 100 years ago.  What was it like to create an Edtech startup while in college?
• In 2017, you transitioned to starting Capsource. Why go off and start a new company?
• Why are you so passionate about connecting students with these real world learning experiences in organizations?
• With Capsource you are combining case theory with consulting theory because while cases are a great way to learn they don't anchor to the current world and hard to transfer insights. How does Capsource combine cases with consulting?
• What are the benefits to each of the parties? The students, the businesses, and the colleges?
• By dealing with real experiences, students start learning applicable business skills that companies are looking for which help the vetting process for hireable talent. In fact you have even found employee through your own programs. How has this been beneficial for companies?
• How do you approach businesses and identify the problems they need solved in order to create these real world learning experiences?
• What other lessons have you learned about that you would pass on to early stage Edtech Founders?
• What has been the value for you to go through edtech startup accelerators?
• What books or resources have been fundamental for your understanding of combining the case theory and consulting theory models together?
• What do you think the value of college is for helping students to identify who they really are and what there passions are, not what their parents or society has told them to be?
• You went to college and became a serial entrepreneur. How did education serve you as an entrepreneur? If you could go back in time, would you still go to college or start out as an entrepreneur?
• You had a rich Jewish upbringing and in 2017 you took an educational trip to Israel which opened your eyes to producing real impact. What values from Jewish tradition have shaped your thinking as an entrepreneur?
• Working in edtech you must have a high value in learning and have said that people should stay curious, ask more questions, and relentlessly keep learning. How do you approach learning in your life now?
• Your companies have focused heavily on connecting students to real challenges with real outcomes. What responsibility does colleges have for preparing students for real challenges not just in businesses, but also challenges at a global scale?
• How could we facilitate these global challenge experiential learning experiences?
• What do you think the role of education will be in the ever evolving workforce of the future?
• How we can push the world to Evolve.

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Michael B. Horn. Michael is a serial founder, education strategy consultant, multiple time best selling author, and much sought after speaker on the future of education and believes we can create education that is more student-centered, helps them build their passions, and fulfill their human potential. What started as a co-authorship of the award-winning book "Disrupting Class" with one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Clayton Christensen, has led this disruptive thinker over a decade long journey to become a leading authority on the future of education, disruptive innovation, and expert on the global EdTech revolution.

You will learn:

• Michael's experiences and the Jobs to be done for him when he was going to Yale and Harvard.How his dad and upbringing influenced his jobs to be done.
• Why Michael took the opportunity to co author a book with Clay Christensen.
• The impact Michael wants to have for every student around the nation.
• What the 5 Jobs To Be done are when choosing college.
• Where the most potential for entrepreneurs to disrupt higher education is.
• Where entrepreneurs have a competitive advantage and where they will fail in higher education.
• How to balance the desires of the students with what they may need to be successful after college.
• What the value of an accredited degree is to employers.
• How we could sidestep past it entirely by working with them to create skills needed after college.
• Why in order to disrupt k-12 education that we should focus on higher ed.
• What higher ed's responsibility is to make a more beneficial option for students is.
• Why free college wont work.
• What business models higher education should adopt.
• How Michael has integrated life long learning in his life.
• What Michael hopes college will look like for his 2 daughters.
• How he is cultivating their education now while he raises them.
• How education has the ability to promise, to help people build their passion, fulfill a human potential, and live a lifetime of productive struggle and happiness.
• How higher education can help students tackle the grand challenges of the world.
• How we can push the world to Evolve.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Manuela Seve, a founder, entrepreneur, triathlete, musician and art lover who is revolutionizing the arts, whilst honoring the profoundly human aspects of collecting. What started as a t shirt competition at an art fair in Brazil has democratized and modernized the art acquisition process through the first crowdsourced art & design platform with over 9,000 artists from around the world. This purpose driven art platform is working across 3 continents, has sold over 1,100 pieces of art in the past 2 years, is the world's biggest inventory free art gallery, and has a clientele from the 6 billion dollar hospitality industry such as Zola, Gilt, and Hilton.

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This bonus episode features Geena Matuson, an arts technologist, educator, author and speaker. As a multimedia storyteller, she work across print, digital, video and social to tell stories. Today we dive into the story she tells herself about being an artist and an entrepreneur.

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is founder, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and teacher Ethan Waldman. Ethan is a leading voice in the tiny house movement and with a  combined social community following of over 78.1 thousand people, it’s not hard to see why he is widely recommended by tiny house experts as a go-to source for planning a successful tiny house. Finding himself in his late 20’s, working in 9-5 in corporate america, unfulfilled by life, he craved a more flexible lifestyle where he was not chained to a cubicle desk all day. After taking a month long sabbatical from work, going on over 800+ mile bicycle tour across multiple states, and couch surfing, tent pitching, and crashing in a few tiny homes along the way, he made a decision to embrace the tiny house lifestyle, quit his job, and built his own tiny house on wheels. In this episode he shares how you a tiny home helped him reach financial freedom, how her built a community and business, and what the future of housing in the world looks like.

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Larissa Rocha, employee #1 and Chief Community Officer at the fastest growing B2B company in Silicon Valley’s history. Going from beta to unicorn status in 6 months, Brex has raised a total of $382.1M in funding and been backed by the juggernaut co-founders of PayPal (Max Levchin and Peter Thiel), Y Combinator, Ribbit Capital, and many more. She was deeply involved in the early iterations of the company, working on everything from recruiting an international workforce to developing sales strategies, helping customers along their journey to financial modeling. In this episode she shares her experience as Brex's first employee, how Brex hired and grew a team of top talent, and the values of a linchpin employee.

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is best selling author, Jordan Gross. Jordan is a serial founder, 2 time author, leadership coach, entrepreneur, and speaker who has been sharing stories of hundreds of incredible people from around the world including founders, former NFL players, highly sought after speakers, coaches, and authors, and even 90 year old grandmothers describing moments of true euphoria and how they live their lives on cloud nine. He is the best-selling author of a book called Getting COMFY: Your Morning Guide to Daily Happiness,  a TEDx Speaker, and has founded multiple companies and organizations including Cloud Nine Living. In this episode he shares his story of corporate refugee turned trailblazer for positive change, how to realize and take action on the life you want to live, and how to become the person who lives with no regret.

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This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is Founder of HireClub, Ketan Anjaria. Ketan is an immigrant, designer, developer, & serial founder who has paved the way to success through facing his own hardship and focusing on the power of community. What started out as job-posting group on Facebook with 25 friends is now a thriving community of over 29,000 people and a full-fledged business called HireClub which grew to $10K MRR in 150 days after launching its subscription service and now has 20% month-over-month growth and $30,000 in monthly revenue. In this episode how focusing on community first led to HireClub's success, the struggles he had with depression as a founder, and what the future of the job market looks like.

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