The Entrepreneur Insight

My guest today is Shama Hyder, CEO of Zen Media, a global marketing and digital PR company.

In addition to that she wrote many books about social media and marketing.

She has won many awards and was honored at both the White House and The United Nations as one of the top 100 young entrepreneurs in the country.

In this episode Shama and I are talking about her role in the firm and in engineering virality for other companies. Another big part of her business life is her personal brand which she mainly promotes on LinkedIn telling her story authentically and transparently.

If you listened to the episode please give me your opinion on it on LinkedIn.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.

My guest today is Jon Cook who is the CEO of VMLY&R.

The company has close to 7,000 employees and has principal offices around the world.

During this episode Jon and I are talking about how business, culture and work you put out have to be kept in balance and how personalization will blend entertaining and shopping in the future.

If you listened to the episode please give me your opinion on it on LinkedIn.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.

My guest today is John Eades, CEO of LearnLoft, a leadership development company.

John is also the author of “Building the Best” and the host of the Follow My Lead Podcast.

After failing to lead his first company, he now helps other people in positions of leadership.

In this episode we talk about his career path and which kind of mentors you should have and how he finds them.

If you listened to the episode please give me your opinion on it on LinkedIn.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.

My guest today is David Cohen, founder of multiple companies in the area of computer science.

His current business Techstars is mainly investing and providing mentorship for 2000 early stage tech companies that have created over $20B in market cap.

In this episode David and I talk about his best investments like Uber, Twilio and DigitalOcean and how he is driven by his vision of the future.

If you listened to the episode please give me your opinion on it on LinkedIn.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.

My guest today is Melikshah Ünver who is the founder and CEO of Taledo, connecting talented digital professionals with market leading companies utilized to grow their teams efficiently.

Melikshah is well known in the Berlin start-up scene and comes originally from southern Germany where he studied business administration.

Back in the day he started with selling fountain pens on Ebay.

After helping other companies to grow, he wanted to found a company himself with a group of people including his two younger brothers.

During this episode we talk about his story and the difficulties he and his team are facing.

If you listened to the episode please give me your opinion on it on LinkedIn.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.

My guest today is Frida Polli, neuroscientist and CEO of Pymetrics.

The company sells algorithms helping companies and job seekers to find the best match.

In this episode Frida tells us about her outsider position as a single parent in her late 30s when she started her business.

We also talk about how COVID-19 had an impact on her business because the reliance on digital tools increased. This includes the need of data and AI.

AI being a topic she feels like many people have a misunderstanding of.

If you listened to the episode please give me your opinion on it on LinkedIn.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.

My guest today is Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of data.world as well as author of the book “The Entrepreneur’s Essentials” and investor at Hurt Family Investors.

Data.world is a public benefit corporation and certified B corporation focused on building the modern catalog for data analysis.

During this episode Brett and I talk about him starting to program at a young age and the consequences of COVID-19 for their business and customers. Customers are for example Walmart and Home Depot.

If you listened to the episode please give me your opinion on it on LinkedIn.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.

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My guest today is Julian Teicke, an entrepreneur who founded the Wefox Group.

Wefox is a leading insurance tech firm from Berlin and Julian has achieved a great deal of success as a young businessman. In this episode, Julian and I talk about how he began his entrepreneurial journey when he was 16 years old by forming a music label that cost him a lot of money and failed.

We also talk about his views on what it means to be a great CEO and the skills that are needed to succeed.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.

My guest today is Brian Wong he is the Founder of Kiip a mobile consumer engagement platform that advertises in “moments” in 10,000 apps, and the author of the book The Cheat Code.

The company was backed by over $40M in capital from Verizon Ventures, American Express Ventures, and others.

During this episode, Brian and I dive into his story of graduating high school at the age of 14 and university at 18. We also touch on how he came about starting his own company after a short time in Silicon Valley and how he is main skill is to make even most mundane of things interesting and exciting.

Today after selling his company, Brian is working on his next start-up “Himself” and focusing on his physical and mental health.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.

My guest today is Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures.

Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet.

He has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago, Zalando, Audibene, and Home24 among many others.

In this episode, we talked about all things business and entrepreneurship by navigating what Florian had learned throughout his career as an entrepreneur and investor.

Connect with Thomas Reck:

- Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-reck/

- Visit Homepage Insight Consulting: https://www.insights.consulting/main

About Thomas Reck:

Thomas Reck is Founder & CEO of Insight Consulting GmbH and an expert when it comes to CEO personal branding. Together with his team, he builds personal brands for CEO's so that they benefit from the advantages of our connected world. Furthermore, he is podcast host of the format "The Entrepreneur Insight" by providing insights into the daily life and history of the world's most successful CEOs.