The Look Back: Host Keith Newman talks the Founder Journey with top Entrepreneurs and Influencers

Laura McCann is the Founder, CEO and Chief Mood Builder of Adoratherapy, a vertical brand disrupting the aromatherapy category. The former actress and artist turned master brand builder and multi-channel marketer, shares her personal journey that has led her to many exciting (and successful pivots) that provide useful instruction to entrepreneurs across many industries. Please listen and share! 

Max founded PeopleConnect in 2000 to help early-stage co's find top talent across technology, biotech, cleantech, apps, services, medical devices, and consumer products. PeopleConnect provides traditional contingency searches. Other ongoing projects I’m involved in that also support the startup community:

The Founder of Ancestry joins The Look Back for a review of one of the coolest Co’s that came out of Internet 1.0 - and lived to tell about - but it was quite a story! Come learn the genealogy while also learning about Paul’s NewCo Soar AI, a venture studio where he’s incubating some 15 AI companies to uplift humanity at work and in life. As a bonus he shares many invaluable Founder/Startup insights. Give a listen and track your success from this point on!

We recently welcomed Aytekin Tank, the Founder and CEO of Jotform, from his home base of Turkey, to The Look Back with Host Keith Newman. For those not aware of the amazing backstory, Jotform is one of the great SaaS app success stories, having recently crossed the 25M users plateau - and more than 600 employees - and what's as impressive (almost) is he has done it all with No Funding (VC or Debt). He has some great Founder lessons for Super Founders in SaaS, Software and almost any bootstrapper looking to blitzscale! Give a listen and share with a few friends! 

Back in the day #GameStop CEO Gary Kusin opened one of the first software only stores in a brick and mortar world. He brought his deep understanding of marketing and retailing with a slim background in software and took the plunge. Hundreds of millions in sales, hundreds of stores and hundreds of stories followed. We chat up everything from the good and bad at the helm of what would become the icon for a meme stock era along with his stories running an innovative cosmetics co and a turnaround of the iconic Kinko's brand only to sell to Fedex. Gary has also written a fantastic new book: "Always Learning" - some great stories along with lessons from a savvy business leader. #Babbages #GameStop #Kinkos #LauraMercier 

Welcome back to the podcast @Tiffani Bova - My first encore guest! Tiffani, a former exec at @Gartner and @Salesforce, who has met with seemingly every top CMO/CEO in the Fortune 500, has just dropped a new book “The Experience Mindset” (changing the way you think about growth) and I found it so kool and insightful I had to bring her on the program to discuss the ideas of working to break down silos, making it easier for employees to have success and taking a bigger view of Go To Market. 

A chat that every co can find value. Please enjoy and let me know what you think. 

Introducing our new series, The Look Forward. Have a listen to hear what's next for the podcast.

-Keith

The Fox in the Hen House > I just finished a great chat with former Apple and Cisco executive Keith Fox. Keith walks us thru his journey from the growth daze at both Co's and how that led him to a late career in philanthropy and mentorship. Great lessons shared and special attention to his new project https://www.civiltalk.com/ - wow, love to see this get some support!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/keith-fox/id1560219589?i=1000609583610

The Look Back welcomes Mitch Kapor -- Founder of Lotus Development and CEO of the groundbreaking spreadsheet 1-2-3. Kapor converted his early software success into building the Kapor Center and Kapor Capital. Now, he is an advisor and investor to 150+ under-represented founders and rocking his mission of creating an Inclusive & Equitable Technology Sector. And while a successful venture fund isn't as easy as 1-2-3... Mitch, his wife, and team have built an impressive organization HQd in Oakland, California.