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Dan Rosensweig is an American businessman and the CEO of Chegg, an education technology company based in Santa Clara, California. He was born on October 3, 1962, in New York City.

Rosensweig began his career in the technology industry as an executive at Ziff-Davis Publishing, where he rose to the position of President of ZDNet. He later served as Chief Operating Officer at Yahoo! from 2002 to 2006, overseeing the company's global operations.

In 2010, Rosensweig became the CEO of Chegg, an online education platform that provides textbook rentals, homework help, online tutoring, and other educational services to students. Under his leadership, Chegg has expanded its services and grown its customer base, going public in 2013 and becoming a publicly-traded company on the NYSE.

In addition to his work at Chegg, Rosensweig serves on the boards of several other technology companies, including Adobe Systems and Rent the Runway. He has also been involved in various philanthropic and social causes, serving on the board of directors for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and as a member of the board of trustees for the Harlem Children's Zone.

Jon is the founder and Chairman/CEO of RadicalMedia, one of the world's leading producers of premium content across all media platforms. Jon has over 175 film and television credits to his name, and over the course of his career has won virtually every award in the industry, including the Academy Award, the Grammy, Cannes Palm d’Or, Emmys, Lions, D&ADs, and more. At the same time he has innovated in every medium in which he has worked – film, documentaries, television, advertising, and Broadway. Jon has consistently demonstrated the ability to anticipate ‘where the puck is going’, and to create compelling content around that vision. 

Krystle is the CEO and Co-founder of BentoBox, a marketing and commerce software platform for the restaurant industry that she sold to Fiserv in 2021 in a 9-figure exit. Krystle is a first-generation Iranian with decades of experience as a designer, and both elements have played key roles in her early professional success. 

In our conversation, we discussed a range of topics including: 

Robert is a serial entrepreneur and investor in the technology and oil and gas sectors.

He founded TeamSupport in 2008 and led the company to be one of the strongest players in the multi-billion dollar customer support technology market. Focusing on the B2B segment of the market, TeamSupport has customers spanning the globe and operations in both the United States and Cape Town, South Africa.

Two years after completing a private equity translation with New York City based Level Equity, Robert stepped away from the day to day operations of the company and transitioned into an oversight on the company’s board.

Prior to TeamSupport, Robert and a partner consolidated oil and gas production leases in East Texas to create a strong regional oil producer. That company was sold to a Canadian public entity and Robert served on their board for a number of years.

Directly out of Colgate University, Robert was thrust into the CEO role of a small and floundering software company called Sundance Digital. Over the next 10 years, Robert and a team he cultivated built Sundance into one of the dominant software providers to the global television market. In 2006 he led a transaction to sell the company to Avid Technology (NASDAQ:AVID).

Robert currently sits on the board of Blossom Street Ventures, a Dallas based venture capital firm and also serves as a Trustee for Colgate University.

In this episode my partner Andy Greenfield and I (Wills Hapworth) had the opportunity to interview Ram Parimi. Ram was a co-founder of a technology company in the Events space called SocialTables that was acquired by Cvent, and has since been a serial sales, revenue and go-to-market leader at numerous technology companies including Blend, Google Cloud, EventBrite and now the construction technology company Kojo. He has also been a key advisor to numerous early-stage technology companies.

This interview was a classic example of “It’s The People” as we get to do a deep dive into what makes Ram tick and what has made him successful over time. We discussed a variety of things including:

In this episode my partner Andy Greenfield and I (Wills Hapworth) had the opportunity to interview Mike Tucci.

Mike is a builder and operator at his core, who has served in senior executive roles at many of the most successful retail brands on the planet, including: Coach, Gap, Macy’s, Old Navy, Rag and Bone, and Todd Snyder.

He has also been a key advisor and/or board member to companies including allbirds, The Fresh Market, and others.

Today, Mike is applying his experience as a builder/operator to advising and investing in companies through his growth investment firm, Rebel Capital, LLC

Hugh Davis is a serial entreprenuer. He helped start and grow Greenfield Online -- the world's first online market research company. Davis then went on to become the co-founder and co-CEO of Critical Mix, which is a leading provider of online survey and digital data. Crtical Mix was acquired by Dynata in 2019. Hugh is also an ironman triathlete and has demonstrated how this endurance has translated into an exceptionally successful business career. 

We had the opportunity to interview Jason Sherman,  the CEO of TapRm. From Harvard Law, to Davis Polk, to AB InBev, to starting his company, Jason shares with us his experience and insights from building a fast-growing technology company in the old school beer industry. Listen Here

We had the opportunity to interview Doug Carlson, who has advised some of the most sophisticated capital allocators in the world in his 25-year career at Cambridge Associates. Doug shares with us the importance of being obsessed with what you work on, staying the course in both bull AND bear markets, and how success can be destabilizing.

This week we had the opportunity to interview Matthew Glick, who is the CEO of Gipper, a dominant graphics creation and branding platform for sub-professional sports, making all programs & athletes look professional.