My Biggest Lesson

Hosts Adam and Chris chat with Liz Giorgi, an Emmy-Award Winner and Founder/CEO of soona, a revolutionary virtual photoshoot platform providing the fastest and most affordable way to create professional content online. Range Ventures were early investors of soona, making this an extra special episode and lesson.

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Lisa Neal-Graves is a recognized senior technical executive and legal thought leader with more than 25 years of experience. Before her work in government, Lisa was the head of the Cloud Strategic Product Group for Zayo Group, where she led the integration of multiple corporate acquisitions to build a global cloud business. Lisa has led companies through IPOs and major M&A transactions and throughout her career, she has led new product introductions and deployment as well as corporate-wide technology strategic planning. On this episode, Lisa shares how a trip to China help shape her biggest lesson.

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On this episode, Josh Abdulla is the Head of Global Services for LiveRamp, Josh is responsible for leading the sales strategy, product development and services delivery functions supporting the LiveRamp Global Services business. Before joining LiveRamp, Josh held a number of leadership roles at Salesforce.Com -- most recently as Vice President and Global Head of Salesforce Marketing Cloud Services. On this episode, Josh shares stories of key moments that led to his biggest lesson including a near death car accident in his own home.

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Rachel Romer Carlson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Guild Education, a company unlocking opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling. Guild works with leading Fortune 1000 employers such as The Walt Disney Company, Walmart, Discover, Chipotle, Target and Macy’s to transform their education and upskilling programs through Guild's technology platform, payments system and learning marketplace. Prior to founding Guild, Rachel was the Founder and CEO of Student Blueprint and worked for the 2008 Obama campaign before serving in the Obama White House. Rachel speaks openly with Chris and Adam about why she choose the Colorado ecosystem and how how her biggest lesson of being a better manager has impacted her career in various ways.

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On this episode, hosts Adam and Chris speak with Ed Hallen, who is the co-founder of Klaviyo, a leading customer data and marketing automation platform. Klaviyo has raised over $670M in funding, and reached coveted unicorn status in 2020. Ed is also the co-founder of Team Engine, a text-first HR and Operations platform for industrial SMB's. Prior to Klaviyo and Team Engine, Ed held roles at Applied Predictive Technologies, Google and Accel-KKR, and received his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Katrina Benjamin currently is the CPO at Apartment List where she oversees Product Management, Design, Research and Analytics. Prior to Apartment List, Katrina spent 8 years at Upwork leading Operations, Marketing and Product teams. She was most recently VP of Product and GM of Talent Marketplace. She started her career in Operations and Strategy at Oportun Financial, a financial technology start-up. She is a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Katrina lives in Colorado with her husband and three young children.

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On this episode, hosts Adam and Chris speak with Mark Frank, the CEO and co-founder of SonderMind, whose focus is to democratize behavioral healthcare for both patients and practitioners by matching patients with highly qualified providers. Prior to founding SonderMind in 2015, Mark founded three other successful ventures, including Next Oncology, TermScout and SafeImageMD. Mark shares examples on why staying present along his career journey has lead to his biggest lesson plus his unique 12+ year perspective on Colorado's tech ecosystem is something you'll want to hear!

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Elle Navarro Bruno is the Managing Director of the Techstars & Western Union Accelerator. Elle has been a founder and startup operator for 19 years. In 2004 she started her first company, an eBay ancillary marketplace, and since then she has been involved in building three venture-backed startups, including Trunk Club. Her expertise is in consumer tech, specifically revenue and growth. Elle has been an angel investor and advisor since 2015, with a focus on investing in female founded companies, and was an EIR in the 2020 Techstars & Western Union program. In this episode, Elle shares her perspective with (hosts) Adam and Chris, on the differences between the Chicago's and Denver's start-up cultures plus a few examples how her biggest lesson has impacted her life and impressive career. 

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Loren Bendele has spent his career building, leading, and advising disruptor tech companies. He’s now the CEO of Arryved, an innovative fintech company going above and beyond standard point of sale systems. In this episode, hosts Adam and Chris learn how investing in people has made an impact in Loren's life and career and why Loren finds the Colorado's ecosystem so appealing

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Host Adam and Chris chat with Allison Lowrie who is a seasoned marketing leader that has spent the last 20 years growing consumer brands like Volkswagen, Celebrity Cruises, Cars.com, HomeAdvisor and Angie’s List. Allison helped take Angi Homeservices public while increasing revenue from $200M to $1.4B. She currently leads the marketing organization at Vacasa which is expected to make its public debut in 2021. 

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