Secrets of the Middle Market

By Puget Sound Business Journal

Each episode we talk with a business leader from a Puget Sound region middle market company, offering insights on leadership, growth, strategy, cultivating talent and more.... more

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The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.

Secrets of the Middle Market episodes:

November 23, 2022 Former Athira CEO Leen Kawas tells her story
An investigation into Leen Kawas' doctoral work led to her resignation last year as Athira's CEO. She didn't waste time finding her next adventure.
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49min
January 19, 2022 How UW research spawned a fast-growing Seattle startup
OctoML, which is backed by Madrona and Tiger Global, raised $113 million in 2021.
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16min
January 11, 2022 Kimberly Boler and Leafly are aiming for new heights
Kimberly Boler, Leafly's general counsel, is helping to guide the digital cannabis marketplace ahead of its upcoming IPO.
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18min
December 23, 2021 In Syndio, Carol Grant finds work that aligns with her values
Grant, a former Zillow and Microsoft executive, has found her new home at the growing pay equity software startup Syndio as vice president of marketing.
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17min
December 21, 2021 DreamBox's Jessie Woolley-Wilson is putting edtech on the map
For DreamBox Learning, which recently sold a majority interest in the company to Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., promoting meaningful work can attract top talent.
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23min
November 22, 2021 DevHub CEO Mark Michael stresses the human connection
In acquiring Brickwork Software in May, DevHub tried to create a personal connection that is often missing in tech, according to DevHub CEO Mark Michael.
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37min
November 11, 2021 Dorothy Li is going back to her roots as CTO of Convoy (podcast)
In this podcast episode, the Business Journal sits down with Dorothy Li, who took over the CTO role at Convoy in June.
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15min
October 29, 2021 Rick Morgan sits down with ExtraHop CTO Jesse Rothstein
Earlier this year, Seattle-based cybersecurity firm ExtraHop made headlines when the company was acquired by Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners for $900 million.
Despite the deal, which closed in July, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Jesse Rothstein told the Business Journal ExtraHop is still considering an IPO.
ExtraHop offers network detection and response (NDR), which allows clients to police their networks for bad actors. Its customers include the Home Depot and Ulta Beauty. Rothstein and fellow co-founder Raja Mukerji, ExtraHop's chief customer officer, were both architects at F5 Networks before founding ExtraHop. In 2016, Rothstein relinquished his CEO role to Arif Kareem and stepped into his current CTO role.
The Business Journal sat down with Rothstein to talk about the company's future, the cybersecurity landscape and the power of bedtime stories.
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18min
January 12, 2021 Sari Davidson, Booginhead
Sari and Tony about how people are more likely to spend more on their kids and even their pets than themselves during times when budgets are tight, how Booginhead has rapidly gotten a new e-commerce and social media strategy up and running over the past ten months –– and what to do with a whole bunch of left over fabric in China during a pandemic.
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28min
January 11, 2021 Karl Moehring, Washington Shoe Company
Tony talks with Karl Moehring, the CEO of Washington Shoe Company, about what employees have needed during the pandemic, how the company managed to produce such strong sales results at such a difficult time and what it’s like to work with Amazon as a selling partner.
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31min

FAQs about Secrets of the Middle Market:

How many episodes does Secrets of the Middle Market have?

The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.