Rising Tide Startups

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Mads Friis.  Mads is the founder of the Growth Island is a podcast on health, performance, business and life's bigger mysteries, covering more than 70 episodes with global experts. One of his biggest passions is building health-related impact ventures and during the past years, he has co-built 3 successful startups with KRING. With his background in management consulting experience from Deloitte and his own experience from startups, Mads started actively training startups and worked with +150 global teams. Playing sports at a high level and discovering many studies on personal growth and performance led Mads into a continuous research journey. He found that many resources focus 80% on the problems and only 20% on the solutions. Now he is on the mission to flip this statistic around to help more people.

Learn more at growthisland.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Abby Sims, founder of Idestini.com .  Abby Sims lives in Arkansas. Her business, Idestini, builds affordable, custom software platforms for small to medium businesses. She's been a full-stack software developer since 2000, and launched her business in 2014.

Learn more at idestini.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Emily Chang, CEO McCann Worldgroup, China.  Emily previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Starbucks, China, and the Chief Commercial Officer for InterContinental Hotels group, Greater China. Earlier in her career, she led Retail Marketing for Apple in Asia-Pacific and began her career with eleven years at Procter & Gamble. She is an action-oriented visionary known for cross-cultural team engagement, innovative brand building, and authentic people leadership. Emily has spoken at select conferences and events, including Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Summit, C2 in Montréal, and has delivered three TEDx talks. With her husband of twenty years, twelve-year-old daughter, rescue mutt named Holly Berry, and pygmy hedgehog named Scarlett Jellybean, she has shared her spare room with sixteen young people, five dogs, one turtle, one guinea pig, and 129 snails.

To learn more about Emily, please visit www.social-legacy.com.

Get Emily's Book - "The Spare Room" -  Amazon

Our special guest today is Victoria Bennion.  Victoria is the founder of the Victoria Bennion Podcast Booking Agency where she works with top entrepreneurs, coaches and authors to build their brands and grow their businesses through leveraging podcast interviews.

Learn more at victoriabennion.com

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Angie Brown.  Angie is a proud Portlander with an MBA who co-founded Bavard AI with her brother a year ago.

Learn more at bavard.ai

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Gordian Braun, founder of OneTool.co.  Gordi is a bilingual, analytical, and highly creative leader experienced in entrepreneurship & innovation. He possesses a strong passion for product marketing, performance marketing, product management & development, and business development.

Learn more at onetool.co

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Steven Cardinale.

Business has always fascinated Steven. Having to make decisions under uncertainty with limited data has peaked his curiosity. Being involved in entrepreneurial ventures, startups, large Fortune 500 product development teams and C-Suite strategy sessions has given Steven the perspective to combine different thought processes to move ideas forward.

Studying Economics at UCLA to earning an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, to working with some of the largest organizations around, such as Eli Lily, Janus Funds, IBM, PwC, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, to founding, operating, and successfully navigating the M&A exit process for his own SaaS company has given Steven insights from every angle of the success & innovation spectrum.

Learn more at synapticalchemy.com

Steven's book link - Amazon

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups Podcast is Benny Nachman, founder of jassby.com.  Benny is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in building a global bank with over 30 licenses all over the world.Managing hundreds of employees, thousands of merchants with over $6bn in volume and $120m in revenues.

Learn more at jassby.com

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Matt Gillis.  Matt is the CEO of Clean.io, a service designed to fight back against malvertising and loss of ecommerce revenue.  Matt has 20+ years of mobile, media, and technology expertise with a history of building and operating companies from startup to scaled global market leader delivering $1B+ in annual revenues. He possesses a strong ability to create relationships, lead people and construct high performing teams regardless of geographic location through tremendous change with a track record of exceptional results.

Having walked a few miles over the last 20 years as a publisher and a tools/solutions provider in the media and content ecosystem, he has often been a regular speaker at industry events around the world including Mobile World Congress, Advertising Week, MobileBeat, Digital East, and more.

Learn more at clean.io

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is David Friedman.  David is an award-winning CEO, entrepreneur, author, and renowned public speaker. In 2011, he published his first book, Fundamentally Different, which is based on the insights he learned and taught throughout his leadership career, and in 2018 he published his second book, Culture by Design, the definitive “how to” manual for building a high-performance culture. His current company, High Performing Culture, has helped hundreds of companies throughout North America to implement his culture operating system, CultureWise™.

Learn more at Culturewise.com

David's Book - Culturewise.com/culture-by-design-book