How We Solve

This episode features Kevan Lee. He leads the marketing team at Oyster, where he sets the strategy, vision, and direction for how they build the brand, drive awareness, create demand, and position the product. Oyster is a mission-driven B2B SaaS platform for Distributed HR, purpose-built to close the global talent gap. Prior to joining Oyster, Kevan led the marketing teams at Polly and at Buffer. His work at Buffer, where he spearheaded their growth from $5 million to $20 million dollars in annual revenue. He’s an experienced marketer with the figures to back it up, and he’s using that experience to solve challenging problems such as the one we are tackling today. 

What happens when people who love sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences come together? Conversations turned podcast! For this episode, the founders of How We Solve, a  podcast meant to help e-commerce and SaaS businesses talk about how this platform came together where we’re headed next, and what can we expect from them. The group talks shares how a simple goal of learning from industry experts and finding tried-and-tested solutions that will solve your business problems has become a regular show. Join GQ Fu, David Henzel, Sean Li, and host Sam Waines as they talk about their journey to the 100th episode of How We Solve.

This episode is featuring Greg Ashton, CEO of GROW, the most popular direct-to-consumer community in the US. Through this community, he serves the new era of retail founders and marketers, through in-person events, online hangouts, masterclasses, and a 17k member newsletter.

This episode is featuring Tab Pierce, the founder of multiple businesses, Tab moves an entrepreneur’s vision to reality through systematic mentorship. When his business faltered, his mindset did too, and he fell into a deep depression. Everyone he turned to for advice told him to “Shut your doors and walk away”. Over the next three years, he dedicated his time and strength to save the business and improve his personal decisions, allowing him to rebuild and strengthen his business and regain control of his mindset. Out of necessity, he developed what is called the Opportunity Pipeline, the systematic approach that allowed him to turn Caliber around quicker. Currently, he teaches people how to take their vision to something measurable. Through his personal coaching community, the “Refiners” and his book “UPSURGE: Wreckage to Triumph, Rebuilding Your Personal and Business Life”, he brings all of his experiences from overcoming his personal obstacles to help other entrepreneurs build the business and life that they see for themselves.

This episode is featuring Mike McCarron, the Vice President of Customer Success at Gladly. He helps teams free their customer service reps from the constraints of delivering compelling service. Helping build the brand's greatest strategic advantage.

This episode is featuring Nikhil Paul, the founder of We R Human. He helps tech leadership teams gain clarity through workshops and coaching programs. His goal is to guide high-growth teams and companies to strengthen their focus, culture, and execution.

This episode is featuring Alan Chen, a Certified Public Accountant and one of the founding partners of FreeCashFlow.io. It’s the leading accounting and consulting agency based out of Los Angeles, California focused on helping one niche only, — those in the e-commerce space. The agency offers services related to business tax planning, sales tax filing and threshold strategies, cloud-based bookkeeping, and smart cash flow allocations to help businesses keep more of the profits made.

This episode features Dr. Temple Grandin who is well known to many for her trailblazing work as a spokesperson for people with autism and her lifelong work with animal behavior. She has been with Colorado State University (CSU) for over 25 years and has been referred to as the "most famous person working at CSU" by her peers. Her life’s work has been to understand her own autistic mind, and to share that knowledge with the world, aiding in the treatment of individuals with the same condition. British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer, Oliver Sacks referred to Dr. Grandin’s work as: “unprecedented because there had never before been an inside narrative of autism.”

Justin Dorfman is Reblaze's Open Source Program Manager. He is also a bipolar who takes his time, sharing his experience on how he dealt with his mental health problems and succeed in his career. Professionally he is responsible for fostering the adoption of their project Curiefense in the cloud-native space. He also led similar initiatives for Gitcoin, Sticker Mule, & MaxCDN. Justin has contributed to Bootstrap, Font Awesome, jQuery, Nginx, GNU Bash, and many more. He also serves on the Selection Committee for Mozilla's Open Source Support (MOSS) program, as well as the Open Source Collective's board of directors. In 2017, he co-founded SustainOSS, which hosts events and podcasts for Open Source Software Sustainers.

Aparna Khurjekar is the Senior Vice President of Verizon Business Markets. She’s responsible for the company’s mid-market wireless and wireline offerings and Fios B2B. She works with a team of 3000+ sales professionals guiding their customers through their digitally transformed journeys with innovative managed solutions for total communications, connectivity, and collaboration. As businesses across all segments and industries anticipate a post-pandemic comeback, they are helping them adopt 5G and making sure small and medium and potential to create new opportunities and build new efficiencies.