Startup Grind

A Fireside Chat with John Collison, President and Co-founder of Stripe, who talks about Riding Out the Headwinds: The Case for Optimism. Interviewed by Ashlee Vance, Reporter from Bloomberg Businessweek.

Two successful startup founders Holly Liu and Adora Cheung come together to discuss their journey from founders to funders with insightful learnings highlighting the common pitfalls they assume we all fall into as entrepreneurs.

Joe Gebbia, Co-founder and CPO of Airbnb is being interviewed by Alfred Lin, Partner at Sequoia Capital on innovating with intention.

Alan Colmenares (Startup Grind Bogota) interviews Freddy Vega, the CEO and co-founder of the eLearning startup, Platzi.

Three years ago, Arlan Hamilton sat in the balcony as an attendee at Startup Grind. Today, as one of the event's headlining speakers, she engaged in a very raw and authentic dialogue with Bloomberg's Emily Chang about breaking barriers in venture capital, personal security, and twitter feuds.

Guy Kawasaki, the chief evangelist of Canva, sat down with Jules Lund (Founder of Tribe) at the Startup Grind APAC Conference in Melbourne Dec 2018 for a fireside chat that covered everything from working with Steve Jobs, Evangelising companies from Apple to Canva, and his thoughts on why entrepreneurs should be scared.

Welcome to the Startup Grind podcast! We're back after a short break. This time from Hong Kong with the one and only Gary Vaynerchuk. We're talking about all things entrepreneurship, social media, China and self-awareness.  If you don't know Gary, here is a short intro: Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of VaynerMedia, a full-service digital agency servicing Fortune 500 clients across the company’s 4 locations. Gary appears with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am on Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” out now! (Click Here to Learn More!) Gary rose to prominence in the late 90’s after establishing one of the first ecommerce wine sites, WineLibrary helping his father grow the family business from 4 to 60MM in sales. Gary is also one of the most sought after public speakers alive today. He is a venture capitalist, 4-time New York Times bestselling author, and an early investor in companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo and Uber. Gary has been named to bothCrain’s and Fortune’s 40 Under 40 lists. Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world. He is also the host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show online. Gary recently launched his podcast, The Gary Vaynerchuk Audio Experience. Enjoy the episode and let us know what you think! You can also reach out to us on Instagram (DM) @startup or Twitter @StartupGrind. If you're a founder looking to meet other amazing entrepreneurs, check out our Global Conference and globally community! #keepgrinding

Today we have a great interview between our founder Derek Andersen and the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products, Nir Eyal. Nir’s book was also recently named one of Inc. Magazine’s “Top 10 Marketing Books of 2014” and “one of the best business books of the year” by Goodreads. Nir has founded two tech companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. He writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.

Nir is also an advisor to several Bay Area startups, venture capitalists, and incubators. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir is a contributing writer for Forbes, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. Nir attended The Stanford Graduate School of Business and Emory University. 

 

Lets listen into Nir interviewed at Startup Grind San Francisco, earlier this Summer. 

 

This podcast is brought to you by HBX ­ Harvard Business School’s digital learning initiative. Introducing “Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen,” an engaging and interactive online learning experience from Harvard Business School’s HBX. Learn to create winning strategies to position your organization for long­term success by applying proven disruption and innovation theories from world renowned strategist Clay Christensen. Disruptive Strategy encourages active learning and peer collaboration, and requires a commitment of approximately thirty hours over six weeks. Applications are being accepted for upcoming cohorts in August and October. To learn more, visit disruptivestrategy.org

Hey there and welcome to Monday’s episode the Startup Grind Podcast. Today we have a conversation with the CEO & Co-founder of Deliveroo, William Shu from our first regional conference, Startup Grind Europe in June of this year. Will is really on a mission to transform the way the world thinks about takeaway food. He founded Deliveroo in August 2013 after becoming fed up with London's poor quality and slow food delivery options. Prior to starting the company, he worked in banking at Morgan Stanley, ESO Capital and SAC Capita. Deliveroo is now in over 50 cities across the world and has attracted $200m worth of investment from some of the world's leading investors, including Index Ventures, Accel and DST Global. Let’s listen into Wiliam Shu on-stage at Startup Grind Europe in June of this year.

Today we are featuring a truly inspiring presentation from the founder of charity: water, Scott Harrison closing out our first big conference in London, Startup Grind Europe in June of this year. Scott’s journey to founding charity: water is remarkable. He spent spent almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, Africa as a volunteer photojournalist. Returning home to New York City two years later, he founded the non-profit organization charity: water in 2006. Turning his full attention to the global water crisis and the one billion people without clean water to drink, he created public installations and innovative online fundraising platforms to spread international awareness of the issue. In six years, with the help of more than 400,000 donors worldwide, charity: water has raised over $93 million and funded over 8,000 water projects in 21 countries. When completed, those projects will provide over 3.2 million people with clean, safe drinking water. Scott was recently recognized in Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40 list, and the Forbes Magazine Impact 30 list. He is currently a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He lives in New York City with his wife, Viktoria.

 

Lets listen  into Scott harrison presenting on stage across from westminster abbey in the heart of london earlier this year. 

 

This podcast is brought to you by HBX ­ Harvard Business School’s digital learning initiative. Introducing “Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen,” an engaging and interactive online learning experience from Harvard Business School’s HBX. Learn to create winning strategies to position your organization for long­term success by applying proven disruption and innovation theories from world renowned strategist Clay Christensen. Disruptive Strategy encourages active learning and peer collaboration, and requires a commitment of approximately thirty hours over six weeks. Applications are being accepted for upcoming cohorts in August and October. To learn more, visit disruptivestrategy.org