Bryan Franklin has coached 8 different executive teams from startup to over a billion dollars, including LinkedIn and Quantcast. He's also coached for Apple, Microsoft, Cisco and others.

His Philosophy:  Hyper-growth is the natural state of a company.  If you're not experiencing it there is something artificial you are putting into the mix that's preventing it from happening. 

Check out Bryan's book The Last Safe investment www.safeplan.org.  (Great message for a DS company's field)

And his website: www.bryanfranklin.com 

We cover: 

-How marketing is becoming more of a science than an art.

-Working with those who need to evolve

-Shepherding change through an organization

-Optimizing your effort to where it's most needed

-What does being data-driven really mean?  

-Executives must be willing to be proven wrong

-The changing nature of what it takes to be an executive

-Stories from within hyper-growth companies.

and much more.