My Biggest Lesson

On this episode, Chris and Adam speak with Erik Mitisek, who is the Founder and CEO of the first open data platform for commercial insurance, Highwing. Erik has over two decades of experience leading ventures in the public, private, non-profit, and education spaces. Also a Colorado native, Erik shares his unique perspective on the growth in the Colorado tech ecosystem as well as his biggest lesson.

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Jaclyn Hester is a Partner at Foundry Group, a venture firm that invests in tech companies and early stage venture funds. She helped launch Foundry's partner fund strategy in 2016 and works closely with Foundry's portfolio while also leading new fund investments. Prior to Foundry, Jaclyn was a practicing attorney, advising startups and private equity firms as well as M&A transactions. She also worked closely with her husband and his family on their SaaS startup, Fare Harbor which was acquired by Booking.com. On this episode, Jaclyn's biggest lesson speaks to exactly why Adam and Chris believe the Colorado tech ecosystem is so special and unique.

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Adam and Chris speak with Devin Tivona, a Colorado native and CO graduate who now is the Head of Travel at Coupa Software. Devon was the founder and CEO of Pana, a travel software company that went through Techstars Boulder in 2015 and subsequently raised over $15 million on its way to being successfully acquired by Coupa earlier this year. On this episode Devon shares tips for founders on how radical candor can build this type of "safe" environment and why company work culture has been so important to him, which you'll hear about in his biggest lesson.

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Hosts Chris and Adam speak with Jenn Knight - Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of AgentSync. Jenn leads the product and engineering teams as they develop a frictionless, modern solution to some of the biggest pain points associated with insurance producer management – broker onboarding, contracting, and compliance management. Jenn and her co-founder and husband, Niji Sabharwal, believe that using technology to solve back-office bottlenecks will empower scaled innovation across the massive, fragmented insurance industry. As one of the industry’s leading Salesforce developers, Jenn has helped solve back-office problems for leading technology companies including LinkedIn, Stripe, and Dropbox. 

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Hosts Chris and Adam speak with Sean Roberts the COO at Orchard who is responsible for overseeing the company’s activities pertaining to real estate, risk management, data science, business intelligence and more. Sean began his career at Goldman Sachs and was an investor at TPG, a leading global private equity firm. On this episode Sean shares his fresh perspective on the environment for start-ups and investors in Colorado plus a few examples of his biggest lesson.

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Nicole Glaros is currently the Chief Investment Strategy Officer at Techstars, where she helped grow the portfolio from 10 companies to over 2,500 and from $300K to over $750M under management. On this episode, hosts Adam and Chris speak with Nicole as she shares how her persistence manifested a role with Techstars, what her thoughts are on how to manage risk as an investor and how her Biggest Lesson has shaped her career

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In a very special episode, Adam and Chris speak with Eric Roza, the CEO of CrossFit who also serves on the boards of Crestone Capital, Endeavor, Sondermind, Spark Grills and as an advisor to Range Ventures.  He started his career at Bain & Company and worked for a number of technology companies in product, marketing, strategy, and general management. Eric led the team that built Datalogix to its sale to Oracle for over a billion dollars. Hear how Eric uses his intuition to help guide him through his biggest lesson.

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On this episode we hear from Danielle Wilkie, who has spent her 20+ year career following technology that transforms a variety of complex industries. Hosts, Adam and Chris find out what lead Danielle to her current role as Central Division President for Compass - a tech-enabled real estate brokerage firm. Danielle has been part of several successful startup exits including HomeAdvisor (f/k/a ServiceMagic sold to IAC in 2004), NetQuote (sold to Bankrate in 2010) and Craftsy (sold to NBCUniversal in 2018). She shares how she learned her biggest lesson and what she did to implement her biggest lesson into everyday life.

Podcasts Danielle is listening to:

The Knowledge Project

Ten Percent Happier

Freakonomics

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Books Danielle recommends:

15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman & Kaley Klemp

Who? The A Method for Hiring, Geoff Smart and Randy Street

Crucial Conversations, Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

Radical Candor, Kim Scott

Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss

Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier

Start with Why, Simon Sinek

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On this episode, hosts, Adam and Chris speak with Harsh Patel. A serial entrepreneur, who most recently led Galvanize as CEO, to a successful acquisition by Stride in 2020. Harsh shares his story on how he shifted from being a med student, to a tech founder. You'll hear deep insights on how being honest and direct impacted Harsh's time at Galvanize which ultimately taught him his biggest lessons he learned along his journey.

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Welcome to My Biggest Lesson, the podcast that brings you the key learnings from the most influential founders, executives and investors in the Colorado tech community.

Hosts, Adam and Chris speak with Josh Scott, who serves as a board member for several high-growth technology companies. Previously, Josh was a board member for and then President of Guild Education and co-founded Craftsy, which was acquired by NBCUniversal in 2017. In this episode you’ll learn about what Josh is focused on currently and what makes a great ecosystem for a successful brand. Listen to hear some of Josh's biggest lessons on how to play your own game in your business and life.

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