Ever wanted to benefit monetarily from watching your favorite sports teams and players? Sport BLX is pioneering a way for you to do that by investing in the teams and players themselves. Sport BLX CEO Joe De Perio joins the show to talk to Scott about how their platform lets you share in the profits of the athlete or team, how it's equitable for all parties and creating generational wealth.

Jamie Hodari, co-founder and CEO of Industrious, joins the show to talk with Scott about the rapid change in office space and why momentum was already turning towards increased remote work pre-COVID. Industrious provides premium flexible workspaces with a unique model that allows month-to-month terms and fully furnished, customizable spaces for your company needs.

There's been a reckoning coming for the tech incubator space, and the pandemic has only accelerated that. Without the ability to host events or provide workspace, the value for founders to join these programs has declined. Workbox CEO John Wallace shares how they are providing more than a coworking space with services geared to help connect founders with other founders, investors and industry experts to put their best foot forward.

As a young founder it's easy to overlook how important HR, payroll benefits, compliance etc are what really make you standout to hire - and keep- top tier talent in your company. Paylocity CEO Steve Beauchamp joins the show to talk about how the company serves these needs for companies and the journey and moving from a small startup with a modest $6 million raise in 2014 to a publicly traded company today.

Brian Barnes, CEO of M1 Finance, joins the show to talk about his journey into building M1 to solve a problem he was having himself - managing his investments. M1 essentially combines a lot of the aspects of managing your personal finances or your money into "personal finance super app" that lets you invest, borrow and store your funds in a separate checking account.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are no longer a small trend or fad, but increasingly accepted currency growing into the mainstream. Beaxy takes the next step in the legitimization process: a platform for retail investors to quickly and easily trade cryptocurrencies.  Bay Abbott joins the show to talk with Scott about how Beaxy works to ease the crypto barrier-to-entry, appealing to general consumers and making trading available to everyone. "We wanted to take all of the complicated parts of trading and make it easy," said Abbott.

2020, everything is indoors, which means we are constantly online even more than before (if that's possible) and shop online now more than ever. BlackCart lets you pick out clothes from your favorite stores, get it shipped to try on at home for free, and only pay for what you keep. Chief Business officer and friend of the show Jason Komosa hops on to share what BlackCart is faring in the 2020 and practicing wellness is proving its worth in the pandemic world.

With our lives so dramatically increased remote and online due to the pandemic, cyber security has never been more tested. Our friend Darren Guccione from Keeper Security joins the show to tell Scott how they have seen huge spikes in cyber attacks, including ransomware and phishing attacks since we've all moved indoors.

Marie Trzupek Lynch knows job placement - or just getting a job in general - is tougher than it it should be for employers and prospective employees. The pandemic has only further put a spotlight on glaring holes in the job market - namely: there isn't much of one. As the founding President and CEO of Skills for Chicagoland's Future and previously lead Chicago Career Tech, Marie has made aligning the underemployed and unemployed with jobs that fit their skill level. She joins the show to talk about working with the state and city governments, the overwhelming disparity between job openings and job applicants, what companies can do to better fill their openings and the critical importance of education for the jobs of the future.