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Chip’s entrepreneurial and apparel career began on the West Coast in 1979 as Founder & CEO of Westbeach Snowboarding Ltd. After selling Westbeach in 1997, he founded lululemon athletica inc. in 2018, creating an entirely new category of technical apparel now called “athleisure” - a $400 billion global industry. Lululemon went public in 2007, and has a current market cap of approximately $41 billion. Chip Wilson is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, devoted husband and dedicated father to fi...

Starting her career as an Oakland Raiderette, professional NFL Cheerleader, Anjelah Johnson pursued her dream of acting and became an internet sensation with over 100 million views of her viral video, “Nail Salon” which led to many stand-up, television, and film opportunities. Anjelah signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records to release a full album titled, “Gold Plated Dreams”, which She’s toured twice selling out both times. In June 2009 Anjelah recorded her first one-hour special for C...

Jason Turbow is the bestselling author of four books. His most recent, Still Alright, released in June, is a collaborative autobiography of Kenny Loggins. His other three are They Bled Blue about the LA Dodgers; Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic about the Oakland A’s; and The Baseball Codes He has written for publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated and Wired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlie O'Donnell is one of only a dozen individuals to be named to Business Insider's 100 Most Influential People in NY Tech 5x or more. He has been an active member of the NYC startup community for nearly 20 years, with a reputation of being the most accessible early stage investor in New York. Charlies fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, has made over 70 investments since it was founded, making it one of the most active funds investing in pre-seed and seed rounds in the city. Notable First Rou...

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Jay Chandrasekhar is still annoyed after directing 9 movies and 150 episodes of major television shows about how Rotten Tomatoes did unnecessary harm to his first major movie “Super Troopers” and so he and his team made Vouch Valut, an app that is taking on the popular website to instead spread positivity and actually give us context for who is making what recommendation. He shares fun stories from his career with Broken Lizard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Smart Passive Income founder Pat Flynn and Matt Gartland talk about what is on the horizon for people to make passive income online. According to Pat, sifting through the right information, learning to delegate, and working with experts is the key to achieving success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zero to billion lessons from Alex Bean learning while growing Divvy, the company he co-founded and selling it for $2.6B Lessons from Mckay Dunn from his time at $30B Portfolio Advisors, LLC. Why and how the two of them have started Tandem Ventures today and other lessons for building teams and selecting investments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jess and Hermann talk about his new book “True Profit” and growing his business from zero to $522 Million a year. Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy firm with more than 2,000 employees in 27 countries focused on delivering measurable revenue and profit growth for their clients. They do this by optimizing their pricing, sales, and marketing strategies better and more sustainably than anyone else. You can get a copy of Hermann’s book at amazon.com/True-Profit-Company-Broke-Turning/dp/30307670...

James Lawler talks to Jess about his recruitment tactics at the CIA, including building trust, finding a common ground, looking for redeeming features in people and using it to build relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Sacks worked 30 years in the fashion industry and created a brand that was being sold in over 30 countries generating £30 million a year in revenue before being acquired. His furniture business racked up millions of pounds of debt and he had no idea how to dig his way out. Wanting to save others from experiencing what he went through he founded Funding Nav that helps business owners who have more ambition than cash. To date they have provided funding in excess of £100 million for hund...

Jess talks with Ameeth Sankaran, CEO of Religion of Sports. Religion of Sports is an award-winning media company founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Gotham Chopra with the goal of thoughtful, elevated stories that uncover why sports matter, and distill the spirituality, science and humanity that unite elite performers and people of all kinds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh talks to Jess about the importance of mid Western values such as humility, about growing $5 billion in 5 years as a combination of vision, problem and purpose and also about how important culture in the workplace is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Healthcare innovator Renee Dua reflects on how being very honest has served her well, the importance of reading people, lessons learned, having patients always at the center, and what software and technology can do in the healthcare industry. In healthcare, outcomes and building a trustworthy product are important but overlooked and effort is always a must. Since 2014, Dr. Dua has served as the Chief Medical Officer of Heal – building the entire clinical team and leading numerous innovations i...

Doron and Jess discuss where the future is pushing us: a mixture of so many technologies, materials and the need for passionate and talented like-minded people that love working on this project. Doron also mentions how important it is to pay attention to the goal and not lose focus on the target. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Karl Alomar shares lessons learned, fixing mistakes and growing an amazing internal culture as well as advice for entrepreneurs today, considering his journey and experience at Digital Ocean and M13.

John Montgomery of Bridgeway sat down with Dan Cooper and Jess Larsen to discuss how he builds character within his investment firm. Their discussion is an illuminating look at this often overlooked part of investing.

Join us in this interview with BlackRock’s Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer of ETF and Index Investment Samara Cohen, where we discuss the start of her career, the ETF market, the challenges she saw as a woman in the investing world and more.

Jess Larsen had the opportunity to sit down and take with Hollywood action star Danny Glover. He reflects on his career and his meaningful work outside of Hollywood. From the education space, all the way to helping his local Oakland community, Danny keeps going. And we wanted to know what still motivates him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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