Founders with Pek

Sheel Mohnot is a Co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures - a $75 million seed-stage five-focused venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building transformative FinTech companies globally.

He helps design, build, and improve human ecosystems through technology and disrupt financial institutions to enable them to act more efficiently.

Sheel has been exclusively investing in fintech companies for the past 6 years and has 2 successful FinTech companies. Sheel also co-founded the podcast "The Pitch,"- which has 100k weekly listeners, and a food company called Thistle.

Steve P. Young is the Founder of AppMasters, a mobile growth hacking agency that helps companies increase downloads, monetize and skyrocket retentions.

He started making apps in 2011 and hit Top 8 under educational games. In 2013, Steve started a podcast to interview successful app creators such as Shazam, Tapbots, and more.

Today, Steve has served over 3000 apps with clients, including GoPro, Red Bull, McAfee, Nextdoor, and several more. His unique approach to app marketing has also allowed his clients to become the #1 trending keyword in the App Store, hitting the top charts in their categories.

Cameron Avery is an experienced CEO with global channel management experience and extensive industry expertise in B2B IT software and services. Born and raised in Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia.

Cameron currently leads Elastic Digital, a well-recognized creative agency for channel marketing and management for big tech companies. Elastic Digital aim is to gain a competitive advantage to help solve their most complex challenges.

Zen Lennon is the founder at ClosedWon, a sales meeting automation platform that books meetings for sales, development representatives, or salespeople. She was raised in Hawaii and moved to San Francisco to study at the University of San Francisco.

In 2007, Zen was recruited by Yelp and became the best salesperson, closing over a million dollars in sales. Today, Zen delivers verified leads that convert to warm conversations via email, Linkedin, and Twitter engagements with her product, ClosedWon- the fastest sales meeting platform in 2021. She also has a YouTube channel called “The ClosedWon Sales Show By Zen Lenon.”

Justin Jackson is the co-founder of podcast hosting company, Transistor.FM. Justin writes and podcasts about bootstrapping, product marketing, mindful technology, podcasting and learning to code. With such a diverse range of interests, he had lots of info to share about entrepreneurship on this episode of the podcast.

Dana Todd is an internet pioneer and has been in roles such as the co-founder of a top digital marketing agency, founding board member of a global search marketing trade organization, patent holder and now the founder and CEO of a marketplace platform for disrupting the global garment supply chain, Balodana.

Balodana is the first and only marketplace made exclusively by women to measure fashions from around the world.

In this episode Pek chats to Christelle Rohaut who is the Codi CEO and co-founder. Codi is a home office-sharing company that lets users lend rooms in their homes for others to work from. They discuss how the pandemic interrupted the business, as well as how it has now launched in San Francisco and is planning on launching in more cities soon.

Ian Cohen’s specialty is privacy and FinTech. He is the CEO of Lokker and a leader in financial technology businesses. He serves on the board and is an advisor to multiple FinTech companies. Prior to Lokker, Ian was the General Manager and Chief Product Officer at Experian Consumer Services, as well as the Chief Executive Officer at Credit.com.

Ashutosh Priyadarshy is the CEO, Co-Founder of YC Company, and the app called "Sunsama"- an invite-only daily task planner for elite professionals.

Going back to his background, Ashutosh was born in India. His parents then brought him to Pennsylvania, USA, where he spent most of his childhood. For college, Ashutosh studied at the University of Virginia. After 10 days of graduation, he began working at a start-up called LumoBack.

Ashutosh found inspiration and started working on his own product for 6 years, constantly failing, launching, and working.

Today, his product, Sunsama has over 1000 founders and executives with almost $3 million worth of sales.

Reuben Resendez is the President of Ad Here. He is a Silicon Valley professional who focuses on building systems and introducing cutting-edge marketing initiatives to increase enrollments in the education space.

His journey was not always all sunshine and rainbows. Reuben’s story is a true story of troubles, survival, and perseverance. He came to a point where he only had $500 in his pocket and was at his lowest living off food stamps, had mortgage problems, and a newborn child coming into his life. Reuben turned his life to a total 360 when he realized that he did not want his child to suffer the way he did.

Today, Reuben receives awards from Silicon Valley. He is on the Board of Directors of the Silicon Valley Capital Club, the moderator of the Silicon Valley Chapter of EEO, and an integral part of the Latin community.

He has over a decade of experience in Internet Marketing, Technology, and Marketing in the digital space with an average of $1.5 million a month of sales in Ad Here.