Founder Vision with Clearview

Miles Ceralde understands the power of design. As the Head of Product Design at SetSail (https://www.setsail.co/), he is building a team to support their AI-driven Revenue Execution Platform - and building it his way. Join Brett Kistler on Founder Vision with Clearview to hear how Miles uses design principles to structure team expectations, and how you can "design delight" into everything from mundane meetings to cocktail parties. (By the way, when is the last time you reticulated your splines?) Miles has some great insight into what it takes to build a winning product from a user experience standpoint - hint: build the airplane round the users, don't ask them to change planes in midair.

Caleb Avery from Tilled has been on every side of the fundraising arena. He's successfully bootstrapped a business from the ground up to >100 salespeople, he's been an investor for 22 different startups, and now he and the team at Tilled have successfully raised over 13 million dollars in funding to support their PayFac-as-a-Service product. He joins Brett Kistler on the show to discuss the perspective he's gained about the benefits and potential pitfalls of VC funding, lessons learned in listening to the data and ensuring your project has true market fit, scaling up while maintaining team cohesion, and more.

Tamas Cser from Functionize has never been afraid of change. That kind of boldness and optimism is crucial for entrepreneurship. He joins Brett Kistler on the podcast to talk about his journey from a professional violinist in Budapest to the founder of a successful tech startup in San Francisco. Along the way, he shares how his familial history inspired him to cultivate intrinsic skills rather than extrinsic gains, how he tries to incorporate an abundance mindset into his company culture, and more. Tamas has learned to trust that if you do your best, everything will probably work out, and that philosophy has empowered him to take risks and chase his passions across the world.

functionize.com

How do you go from zero to contemplating serving two and a half million users in a few short years? Aaron Enten from Insight Optics has some ideas, and he joins Brett Kistler on the show to share. Here's a hint: it's all about teamwork. Aaron believes that a leader's job is to find people who know more than he does, bring them on, and then get out of their way as fast as possible. Tune in to hear about how leadership looks at Insight Optics, including the hard parts: recognizing your own shortcomings and weaknesses, trusting your advisors even when they're telling you things you may not enjoy hearing, and incorporating ideas and vision from the bottom-up as well as top-down. With this culture of leadership and teamwork, Insight Optics has a developed a fascinating technology that is leading the way in preventing preventable diseases by decentralizing medicine and getting quality diagnostic imaging into expert hands - even if those experts happen to be on the other side of the world.

Insight Optics: io.care

Tea could be considered humanity's first international currency, and its complex entrenchment with politics, culture, and colonization reflects that history. Elyse Petersen and her team at Tealet are bringing modern technology into an ancient trade with a mind for disrupting the darker sides of the market by linking family farms with international buyers and tracing every leaf from field to cup. Elyse joins Brett on the podcast to discuss how contemporary blockchain technology can help promote transparency and equity in the tea trade, and shares some personal lessons she's learned about balancing confidence with humility on a quest for success.

In today's rapidly-moving world, it's common to quickly form engineering teams who are used to working with a variety of technologies and processes. In the race to develop, deploy, and move on to the next project, it can be difficult to identify where our teams are struggling, why they're burning out, and how we can improve our processes. That's where Pablo Ferrari and his team at ProcessLabs.ai come in. Pablo joins Brett to discuss how ProcessLabs is using data-driven metrics to help engineering teams succeed and optimize both product quality and engineer satisfaction. He also shares how he applies the same principles that drive ProcessLabs in his personal life to accomplish his own goals.

If there's one thing we know about business, it's that timing is everything. Marshall Mosher and his team at Vestigo got to experience that firsthand as they took their adventure-based team building platform virtual - just in time for a global pandemic to send teams across the world into the virtual workspace. He joins Brett Kistler to share the extraordinary coincidence of technological advancements and timely innovation that allowed Vestigo to charge boldly forward into their latest adventure.

Vestigo - vestigo.co

Singularity University - su.org

Is three a crowd? Most startups are begun by a single founder, one person who is trying to bring his or her vision to fruition. In the case of uDroppy, that responsibility and opportunity was shared by three co-founders: Carlo Bellati, Luca Borreani, and Nicolo Manica. Carlo joins Brett Kistler on Founder Vision to share his unique perspective on the challenges and benefits of founding a company as a team of friends.

https://www.udroppy.com/

Founding a startup is no easy task, and it's common to be plagued with worries and self-doubt during the process. Albert Santalo from 8base knows this better than most, and he joins Brett Kistler to share lessons he's learned about the faith it takes to drive a startup through to maturity, the importance of defining a successful exit point as a founder, the role of ego in startup decision making, and more.

https://www.8base.com/

The journey from initial idea to viable product is rarely straightforward. In the case of Nod, Joel Robbie and his team found that out the hard way: after their initial product didn't quite fit what users were looking for, they had to go back to the drawing board, throw out all their initial code, and rebuild from the ground up in three months. How do you keep your team motivated and engaged through such disheartening times? Joel shares these lessons and more in his interview with Brett Kistler.

www.noddocs.com