Innovation and Leadership with Jess Larsen

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GraystokeMedia.com interviews of exciting people and uncommonly high achievers including Billionaires, Pro Athletes, Fortune 500 CEOs, Hollywood Actors like Danny Glover, New York Times Bestselling Authors, Tech Founders, Four-star Generals, World Class Musicians, Special Ops, VCs, Olympic Athletes, Non-Profit Leaders, Inventors and many more.

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In this episode, we welcome Nicole Jensen, an expert in digital marketing with years of experience at Avalaunch Media. Nicole shares her insights on project management, creative services, social media/PR, and web development. She also talks about her passion for ...

Innovation and Leadership with Jess Larsen episodes:

01.26.2023 Rapid Growth Secrets From A Marketing Insider \| Nicole Jensen In this episode, we welcome Nicole Jensen, an expert in digital marketing with years of experience at Avalaunch Media. Nicole shares her insights on project management, creative services, social media/PR, and web development. She also talks about her passion for ...
01.26.2023 Innovative Strategies for Business Growth with Operating Partner at Saturn Five Trevor Boehm Saturn Five is a company that helps entrepreneurs launch new businesses from scratch and also helps to purchase existing successful businesses to help them grow even stronger over time. They define their success by the value they generate, the betterment ...
01.23.2023 Delta Force Command Sergeant Major on beating PTSD In this episode, we welcome Tom Satterly, a highly decorated combat veteran who served in the Army for 25 years, including 20 years in the elite Tier One unit, Delta Force. He fought in and was portrayed in the Oscar ...
01.13.2023 How did he grow $1B+ in assets under management? Aura Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies that have the potential to define their industry. The firm was founded in 2009 by Eric Chan and Calvin Ng during the Global Financial Crisis, starting out as ...
01.11.2023 How This Fintech Company Grew To Over 100,000 Customers With Chipper CEO And Founder, Tony Aguilar Tony shares with Jess how his personal experience allowed him to found Chipper as a way to provide transparency, help those who applied for student loans take action and make progress. They also discuss the importance of iteration and finding ...
01.04.2023 Growing 1800% in the first year, culture fit and putting ransom on good ideas with co-founder and COO of Dingus and Zazzy, Becca Kay Dingus and Zazzy is an unlimited marketing subscription that clients subscribe to, month-to-month and contract-free, for less than the cost of a full-time employee. Becca shares with Jess how the business grew 1800% in the first year and also how ...
12.27.2022 Classified Special Mission Unit Operator Ret. Kyle Lamb with fellow Operator Al Buford In this episode, Retired Tier One Special Operations veteran Kyle Lamb is interviewed by Jess and Special Co-Host, Al Buford, who is also a retired Tier One Operator. They talk about leadership, business, charities and life in Special Operations. Check ...
12.26.2022 What’s really going on with today's orphan crisis - Lindsay Hadley (Guest host Dan Cooper) The word “orphan” probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. Social Impact Consultant Lindsay Hadley addresses how this misconception has turned well-intentioned charity into part of the problem. Everyone has an instinctual need for belonging. Perhaps that’s why “the ...
12.23.2022 Character lessons from Billionaire Founder of Costco Jim Senegal with Dan Cooper, CEO of ROC Investments ROC Investments CEO Dan Cooper reflects on his recent conversation with Jim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.22.2022 3D printed rocket engines and other innovations at Lockheed Martin Venture Capital Chris shares lessons learned during 17 years in venture capital, how partnering with portfolio companies accelerated innovation and how he looks at 1500 deals a year and chooses the top 15. Chris and Jess also discuss 3D printed rocket engines, ...
12.22.2022 Building world's largest robots, NASA & entrepreneurship: Mel Torrie Founder & CEO of ASI Mel Torrie Founder & CEO of Automated Solutions (ASI) began his career at NASA, but if that's not impressive enough he went on to found ASI which has built $200 million worth of robots that drive millions of miles a ...
12.16.2022 World's most accurate cancer identification using AI - AI Med Global Founder & CEO Navid Alipour Navid Alipour is Co-founder and managing partner at Analytics Ventures, a global venture studio providing end to end infrastructure to ideate, plan, form, launch, fund and validate brand new ventures in Artificial Intelligence. To learn more about Analytics Ventures go ...
12.15.2022 Smash Virtual Studios & EMC2 Hotel Chicago: Scott Greenberg (co-hosted with Shane Snow) Shane Snow joins Jess Larsen and gives the backstory history of his film technology company ShowRunner and how it started his relationship with Scott Greenberg. Scott talks about his hotels and how he includes entertainment to innovate and provide an ...
12.13.2022 What is this Andreessen Horowitz backed CEO doing differently? Neighbor's Joseph Woodbury Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.13.2022 How Synapse grew to 15m users & processing $67 Billion/yr Sankaet is the CEO of Synapse, a fin tech company that reached a $1 billion valuation last year. In this episode he and Jess discuss appetite for risk and tech in its renaissance, product market fit, the importance of becoming ...
12.10.2022 Investing in 22 Unicorns & building 2 businesses over $500M: Gaurav Garg, Wing VC Founding Partner Gaurav has built 2 companies from 0 to $500 million and invested as an early stage venture capitalist in 20 businesses that went public for over a billion each and 2 others who were acquired privately for over a billion ...
12.09.2022 CEO of $7B Alcor Fund gives advice on growing internationally George shares his experience managing a Fund from Chicago that has a portfolio of companies across multiple continents ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Software, Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Engineering Services, Investment Banking, and HR Solutions. Learn more about your ad ...
12.08.2022 Zero to Billion lessons with Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta After originally co-founding and growing to $100m in annual recurring revenue, Kaz has now rejoined Treasure Data as CEO, together with Hironobu Yoshikawa (Chairman) and Dan Weirich (COO/CFO). On the journey to scale the company to $1b ARR, as a ...
12.07.2022 “Hook Points”, billions of views & $1 Billion+ for clients: Brendan Kane Brendan authored the best selling books One Million Followers: How I Built a Massive Social Audience in 30 Days and Hook Point: How to Stand out in a 3-Second World He most recently developed The Hook Point Guide to Going ...
12.05.2022 How Lululemon's Founder invented a $400 billion industry: Chip Wilson Chip’s entrepreneurial and apparel career began on the West Coast in 1979 as Founder & CEO of Westbeach Snowboarding Ltd. After selling Westbeach in 1997, he founded lululemon athletica inc. in 2018, creating an entirely new category of technical apparel ...
12.02.2022 6 Netflix & Hulu Comedy Specials, Movies & Music with Anjelah Johnson Starting her career as an Oakland Raiderette, professional NFL Cheerleader, Anjelah Johnson pursued her dream of acting and became an internet sensation with over 100 million views of her viral video, “Nail Salon” which led to many stand-up, television, and ...
12.02.2022 Kenny Loggins, The LA Dodgers, Oakland A's & Jason Turbow Jason Turbow is the bestselling author of four books. His most recent, Still Alright, released in June, is a collaborative autobiography of Kenny Loggins. His other three are They Bled Blue about the LA Dodgers; Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic about the ...
12.01.2022 The most accessible early stage VC investor in New York Charlie O'Donnell is one of only a dozen individuals to be named to Business Insider's 100 Most Influential People in NY Tech 5x or more. He has been an active member of the NYC startup community for nearly 20 years, ...
11.30.2022 From Paralyzed to Hall Of Fame Speaker, Music, Space & more. Dan Clark shares with Jess the difference between success and significance, how having a midlife crisis at 23 impacted on creating a legacy and living a life with significance and he reflects on the importance of scheduling "me time" and ...
11.30.2022 Super Troopers, Dukes of Hazzard & his new "Revenge App" Jay Chandrasekhar is still annoyed after directing 9 movies and 150 episodes of major television shows about how Rotten Tomatoes did unnecessary harm to his first major movie “Super Troopers” and so he and his team made Vouch Valut, an ...
11.23.2022 Taking online education to the next level with SPI founder Pat Flynn and Matt Gartland Smart Passive Income founder Pat Flynn and Matt Gartland talk about what is on the horizon for people to make passive income online. According to Pat, sifting through the right information, learning to delegate, and working with experts is the ...
11.17.2022 Selling Divvy for $2.6B and founding Tandem Ventures with Alex Bean and Mckay Dunn Zero to billion lessons from Alex Bean learning while growing Divvy, the company he co-founded and selling it for $2.6B Lessons from Mckay Dunn from his time at $30B Portfolio Advisors, LLC. Why and how the two of them have ...
11.16.2022 Growing Simon-Kucher to $522 Million a Year and New Book "True Profit" with Hermann Simon Jess and Hermann talk about his new book “True Profit” and growing his business from zero to $522 Million a year. Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy firm with more than 2,000 employees in 27 countries focused on delivering measurable revenue ...
11.15.2022 Lessons from recruiting for the CIA with James Lawler James Lawler talks to Jess about his recruitment tactics at the CIA, including building trust, finding a common ground, looking for redeeming features in people and using it to build relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.08.2022 Growing a $60 million/yr fashion company and other companies with Stephen Sacks Stephen Sacks worked 30 years in the fashion industry and created a brand that was being sold in over 30 countries generating £30 million a year in revenue before being acquired. His furniture business racked up millions of pounds of ...
11.07.2022 Partnering with Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, Gotham Chopra and raising $66M with Ameeth Sankaran Jess talks with Ameeth Sankaran, CEO of Religion of Sports. Religion of Sports is an award-winning media company founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Gotham Chopra with the goal of thoughtful, elevated stories that uncover why sports matter, and ...
11.01.2022 Growing $5B in 5 years learning from failures and successes with Coalition's Co-founder & CEO, Joshua Motta Josh talks to Jess about the importance of mid Western values such as humility, about growing $5 billion in 5 years as a combination of vision, problem and purpose and also about how important culture in the workplace is. Learn ...
10.18.2022 The healthcare app you never knew you needed with Dr. Renee Dua Healthcare innovator Renee Dua reflects on how being very honest has served her well, the importance of reading people, lessons learned, having patients always at the center, and what software and technology can do in the healthcare industry. In healthcare, ...
10.11.2022 Real life flying cars in Florida? We ask Doron Merdinger, CEO of Doroni Aerospace. Doron and Jess discuss where the future is pushing us: a mixture of so many technologies, materials and the need for passionate and talented like-minded people that love working on this project. Doron also mentions how important it is to ...
10.06.2022 $15 billion peak valuation at Digital Ocean and lessons for the rest of us with M13 Managing Partner Karl Alomar Karl Alomar shares lessons learned, fixing mistakes and growing an amazing internal culture as well as advice for entrepreneurs today, considering his journey and experience at Digital Ocean and M13. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.05.2022 Gives away 50% of the Company's profits and has for 30 years John Montgomery of Bridgeway sat down with Dan Cooper and Jess Larsen to discuss how he builds character within his investment firm. Their discussion is an illuminating look at this often overlooked part of investing. Learn more about your ad ...
09.29.2022 Samara Cohen on investing at BlackRock Join us in this interview with BlackRock’s Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer of ETF and Index Investment Samara Cohen, where we discuss the start of her career, the ETF market, the challenges she saw as a woman in the investing ...
09.27.2022 Danny Glover is still at it, what motivates him to keep going? Jess Larsen had the opportunity to sit down and take with Hollywood action star Danny Glover. He reflects on his career and his meaningful work outside of Hollywood. From the education space, all the way to helping his local Oakland ...
09.16.2022 Royal Caribbean's Chief Product Innovation Officer Jay Schneider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.13.2022 Growing Simon-Kucher to $522 Million a Year and New Book "True Profit" with Hermann Simon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.06.2022 34 Years as a CIA Case Officer Douglas London, The Recruiter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.01.2022 Driving More than $2 Billion in Value Creation with Matt Hulett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.31.2022 Stanford University's Gordian Knot Center Director Joe Felter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.25.2022 Special Mission Unit, Business and Giving Back with Kyle Lamb and Co Host Al Buford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.23.2022 Super Troopers Movie Star Co-Founds and Launches "Revenge App" to Give Power of Reviews (Vouch Vault) Jay Chandrasekhar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.19.2022 National Security Innovation & Growing a business after 32 yrs in the Military with BMNT CEO, Pete Newell Retired Army Colonel and former director of the Army's Rapid Equipping Force, Pete is a nationally recognized innovation expert and CEO of BMNT. He shares with Jess his process in credibility marketing, mapping out problems, and doing the kind of ...
08.16.2022 The Future of How Movies are Finding Funding with Slated CEO Tim Wesley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.11.2022 Financing A-List Actors to Indie Films with Slated CEO Tim Wesley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.09.2022 Leading Close to $2 billion in Revenue with 6700 Employees Tony Bates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.04.2022 Empathy in Action: How to Deliver Great Customer Experiences at Scale with Tony Bates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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