Tech Therapy

Finding the right business idea within your domain and finding the right co-founder is extremely difficult. Not only that, but then navigating that co-founder relationship, creating work-life balance, and learning to communicate with understanding, empathy, and self-awareness is often just as much an internal journey as the startup itself.

CEO/Founder of StackHawk and company growth expert, Joni Klippert, speaks with Dave in this episode about her journey of becoming a CEO of her own company. She talks about the amazing people that have helped her get to where she is today, her family background of entrepreneurs, her love and ambition for research and learning, and how she has been learning to navigate her business and personal relationships along the way.

More about Joni Klippert at:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joniklippert/
Twitter: joniklippert
Website: https://www.stackhawk.com/ 

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/ 

Two of the hardest challenges as CEOs and leaders- overcoming imposter syndrome and being able to create an empowering and high-quality company culture.
 
Daniel Pupius, Founder of Range, former head of engineering at Medium, and Staff Software Engineer at Google, gives his insights on how to create and lead an effective and empowered team. He explains that good management and everything in business starts with finding and analyzing needs. Dave and Daniel also discuss topics like the necessity of having intent, creating workplace inclusivity, solving the issues that come with scaling a company and remote work, the importance of empathy, and Daniel's ideas about reevaluating the way companies are managed.

Courtesy of Daniel and Range, using exclusive code "techtherapy" you have access to a Range three-month free subscription! Sign up now at: https://www.range.co/

More about Daniel Pupius at:
LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/danpupius
Twitter: dpup
Website: pupius.co.uk/blog  (Personal Site)
endoflow.com  (Experiments)
https://www.range.co/ (Company)

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

Larry Chu is one of the most accomplished tech M&A lawyers in Silicon Valley, where he has advised on over 200 transactions with a total value of over $125B.  Along the way, Larry has cultivated one of the best technology networks of anyone I know.  In this episode, he reveals how painfully shy he was as a child, but decided early in his career to be a good listener, and used that skill to develop lasting and valuable business relationships.

Listen to Larry's stories about panicking on a large conference call while at Davis Polk, getting grilled by a legendary Sequoia Capital investor, and working with entrepreneurs like Ryan Smith at Qualtrics, Greg Duffy at Dropcam, Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman at LastMinute.com, and Trevor Healy.  We also discuss Larry's angel investing career during which he recommends Jason Calacanis' book Angel.

Currently head of the West Coast Technology M&A practice at Goodwin Proctor, Larry has worked on some of the most notable deals, including (deep breath) Zoox’s $1.3B sale to Amazon, Qualtrics’ $8B sale to SAP, The Climate Corp's $1.1B sale to Monsanto, Nest's $3.2B sale to Google, Maker Studios' $500M sale to Disney, and Oculus'​ $2B sale to Facebook, Dropcam's $555M sale to Nest, and Lynda.com's $1.5B sale to LinkedIn. His list of clients includes such investment firms such as Silver Lake, Accel, a16z and Kleiner Perkins.

More about Larry Chu at:
LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/lawrencechuattorney
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: lawchu2

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

Covid-19 has been the cause for millions of employees to begin working remotely under circumstances most of us have never experienced before. Anthony is an expert at efficiently working remotely and his company has been doing it for years before it was a common practice. In this episode, Dave and Anthony, also discuss Anthony's time creating companies- SignalWire and FreeSWITCH. He just launched SignalWire's most recent service, SignalWire Work. SignalWork is a virtual office space that is more efficient, customizable, controllable, and looks to improve the way we broadcast, conference, work remotely, and more. This software is a place to come to work, not just enter meetings.

More about Anthony Minessale at:
LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/anthonyminessale
Email: [email protected]
Websites:
freeswitch.org  (Company Website)
cluecon.com  (Company Website)
signalwire.com   (Company Website)
Twitter: @SignalWire @freeswitch

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

 

Edward Lerner has been part of the gaming industry for decades. He wrote the game that Electronic Arts based its IPO on in 1987. He is currently the CEO of Hearo.live. In this episode, Dave and Ned, not only talk about Ned's experience in the gaming industry but also about the effect creating a startup can have on the stability of your life, your marriage, your lifestyle, and your personal growth.

More about Edward Lerner at:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedlerner/
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://hearo.live/
Twitter: nedlern

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

Bebe Chueh is an experienced Co-Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the legal services industry. She is skilled in Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Legal Writing, Corporate Law, and Intellectual Property.

In this episode, Dave and Bebe talk through her journey moving from Shanghai to the United States, her experiences growing up and as a college student, her entrepreneurial journey, and the financial planning software for high growth companies that she's currently working on.

More about Bebe Chueh at:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bebe-chueh-6968a216
Email: [email protected]
Website: attorneyfee.com

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

John Richards is an entrepreneur, educator, mentor, and angel investor. He has a publisher background in the Yellow Pages industry, was an entrepreneurship professor at Brigham Young University, and is now the Founder/CEO of Startup Ignition.

In this episode, Dave & John discuss the differences and similarities between Silicon Valley and Silicon Slopes. As well as each region's pros, cons, and everything in between relating to business and entrepreneurship.

More about John Richards at:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnrichards
Twitter: johnrichards_ut
Company Website: startupignition.com

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Company Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

This is part two of last week's episode. Last week, Sung Hu and Dave discussed the negative side effects caused by the rapid accumulation of wealth. In this episode, Sung Hu and Dave dive deeper into this topic on a more personal level. They discuss how their personal backgrounds, parental relationships, and childhoods affected how they view wealth and their careers.
 
More about Sung Hu Kim at:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunghukim/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunghu?lang=en

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

Although the title of this podcast episode is definitely a first world problem, the negative side effects caused by the rapid accumulation of wealth are very real and especially prevalent here in San Francisco. In this episode, Sung Hu and Dave dive into topics like imposter syndrome, tech culture, early retirement, socioeconomic issues, and the relativity of wealth and the unhappiness it can potentially cause.

Sung Hu Kim has a very unique perspective of the tech world because of when and where he entered the industry. He began his professional career working for Google in 2006 and later Twitter in 2010. He now works as the Director of Product Management & Product Marketing at Affirm Inc.

More about Sung Hu Kim at:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunghukim/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunghu?lang=en

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

Chase Little is SVP, Technology Banking at Bridge Bank, and oversees the Rocky Mountain Region from Denver, CO. He has worked 13 years in venture banking covering a variety of innovation sectors, markets, company life stages from pre-revenue to public companies.

More about Chase Little at:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaselittle/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChaseLittle

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/