In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Prateek Chakravarty, CEO of Zinier - a no-code customizable software service for field service organizations. We discuss how he wanted to be a sportsman growing up, specifically a cricketer similar to our last guest! Prateek grew up in India, and has traveled throughout Europe which gave him new perspectives and fueled his entrepreneurial spirit. Ultimately, he hopes to leave a positive impact on the world that aligns with his passions.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Abhijeet Vijayvergiya, Co-founder and CEO of Nektar - a B2B sales productivity startup based in Singapore that helps SaaS companies manage information across multiple channels. We discuss how he enjoy playing cricket growing up and actually wanted to be a cricketer. Fast forward to today, and Nektar has raised a total of $8.1M in seed funding and are on their way to reaching Unicorn status!

To learn more about Nektar.ai, visit https://nektar.ai/

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Jonathan Aizen, Founder and CEO of Amitree. Folio by Amitree helps professionals transform their email into a much more efficient workflow by creating folders for projects, tasks, etc. We discuss the importance of surrounding yourself with the people who motivate you the most, especially through the tough times. He also shares the value of emotional intelligence and how listening to others is helpful. Looking into the future, Amitree is hoping to continue helping people buy back some time to allow them to focus on their true passions.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Alex Canter, CEO of Nextbite - a service that helps restaurants grow their businesses through online food delivery concepts. We discuss how growing up working at Canter's Deli fueled his entrepreneurial spirit and grew his love of interacting with customers. He also shares how COVID was a devastating time for Nextbite, but hearing that they helped some restaurants stay in business was extremely rewarding. Fast forward to today, and Nextbite has partnered with IHOP. Ultimately, Alex hopes to make a big impact with Nextbite and hopes to continue fostering an ecosystem of talented employees.

To learn more about Nextbite, visit https://www.nextbite.io/

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Jonathan, Co-founder and CEO of Mindee - an API photo documenting service that helps software editors and companies build document processing automation features. We discuss how taking a year off school to work in manual labor helped him find his passion for technology. He also shares the challenges of breaking away from his father’s company to go back to school and how it pushed him to do well. Fast forward to today, and he has made it his mission to start bridging the gap between technology and practicality.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Andy Eastes, Co-founder and CEO of SkuVault - a service that helps businesses manage and track inventory at scale. We discuss the importance of having a creative outlet outside of work. He shares his hobby of woodworking and how it helps him disconnect from work. Today, SkuVault has made it part of their mission to reach out to customers about their opinions before releasing new features.

To learn more about SkuVault, visit https://www.skuvault.com/

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Christian Lanng, Co-founder and CEO of Tradeshift, a company that has reached the elusive Unicorn status ($1B+ valuation). We talk about the early days and how the founding team had to make some hard decisions around electrical resources. Specifically deciding whether to turn on the space heaters or to charge their laptops, given turning on both would blow the fuse box (hard decisions when outside it is -20 degrees). That and the story of how they came up with the name Tradeshift as a result of an editorial deadline for a Wired Magazine article (and the pun they were afraid people would mistake Tradeshift for).

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Michael Bamberger, Founder and CEO of Tetra Insights - a technology for researchers and enterprise companies who do user experience research. We discuss how financial success shouldn’t be the ultimate goal and how failure is part of the journey. He also shares the importance of creating a work-life balance. Fast forward to today, and Tetra Insights is growing faster than ever and is hoping to grow their market team.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Tyler Yamasaki, CEO of Parting Pro - technology in the death care space that allows families to arrange and select services without having to go to a funeral home. We discuss how his grandmother’s passing led him down the path to starting Parting Pro, which today has a team of 25 employees. He also shares some of the sacrifices that come with a startup and the importance of having a strong support system. Fast forward today, and he has made it his mission to make such a challenging process as easy as possible.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Mark Bakker, VP of Marketing at TIMIA Capital. TIMIA Capital provides loans to software companies for no equity stake in the business. This allows companies to retain ownership and control to help grow their business. We discuss how getting laid off after a mountain biking accident gave him time to reflect on what he truly wanted. He also shares how to get past the idea of perfection and focus on the bigger picture. Looking into the future, TIMIA Capital is hoping to provide capital to more software companies as well as expanding their revenue models.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Justin Beals, Co-Founder and CEO of Strike Graph - a service that helps businesses acquire and retain the trust assets they need to drive revenue. We discuss his theater background and the striking similarities between producing a play and creating a startup company. He also shares how he wanted to create a company where people felt supported and celebrated which led him down the path to starting his own company, and eventually Strike Graph. Looking into the future, Strike Graph is hoping to continue building trust assets to help their customers.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Sam Jacobs, founder and CEO of Pavilion (formally known as Revenue Collective) - a paid membership community for high growth leaders and their teams. Pavilion provides community powered products and services to help people unlock and achieve their professional potential through training, mentoring, etc. We discuss how going through a series of getting let go helped him explore his potential. The legacy he hopes to leave behind is that helping others is the path to personal success. Fast forward to today, and Pavilion has 7,800 members and is hoping to continue fostering a community of people that support each other.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Jim O’Brien, CEO of Agrograph - the credit score of agriculture to help bankers and crop insurers gain a better understanding of their credit worthiness. We discuss his experience working at several startups and how failure drove him to create a successful company. He also shares how his family has motivated him through the difficult times. Fast forward to today, and Agrograph has clients from around the world and is working on scaling their services globally.

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In this week's episode, Chris sits down with Tom, CEO and Co-Founder of SourceDay - an automated communication system between buyers and sellers that helps companies ensure they have accurate supply chain data. We discuss his problem-solving mentality as a kid, and how watching his father work for several entrepreneurs inspired him to start his own company. Fast forward to today, and he has made it a mission to find candidates that share his passion of creating positive change in the world and also have experience working at an early stage startup.

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In this week's episode, Chris sits down with Mark, CoFounder and CEO of Verdigris Technologies - an energy intelligent AI, focusing on providing electrical data cloud as a SaaS service. We discuss how an inflated electricity bill led him down the path to starting Verdigris, which today has a team of 50 employees. Looking into the future, the company is hoping that Verdigris AI becomes the standard when it comes to managing and controlling buildings.

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In this week's episode, we discuss how a timely surf trip triggered a passion for the environment and building a company with purpose. Kathleen shares the social impact she'd like to leave on the world through Ecomedes and the idea of sustainable buildings.

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In Episode 7, Chris sits down with Gaurav, CEO of Involve, as he shares his humble beginnings growing up in a small town in India. Fast forward to today, and he is on startup #2 with Involve after exiting his previous business with his current cofounder. After pivoting the business, Involve closed a $16M Series A in August of 2021. The customer retention solution is on a rapid growth trajectory and doing big things ins 2022.

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In this episode, Chris sits down with Luca, CEO of Jurny - an all in one management solution for short-term rental owners and boutique hotels. We discuss his entrepreneurial spirit as a teen growing up in a small town in Italy and how a lot of his peers doubted him. Fast forward to today, and he's made it a mission to finding candidates that mirror his experiences growing up which has propelled a unique, diverse company culture.

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In Episode 5, Chris sits down with Olga Mack of Parley Pro. Olga is a TedX speaker, best selling author, and an authority on smart contracts and crypto before it became mainstream. Listen to Olga's story as she explains how emigrating to the United States with her family at a young age jumpstarted her passion for making the law more digestible to the everyday lay person. And how she became CEO of Parley Pro, as someone who was not a founder.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Regina Ye, Co-founder and CEO of Topsort (her second startup at age 24!) - an advertising platform offering API’s and infrastructure for marketplaces and retailers to gain similar profit to Amazon ads. Growing up, she wanted to become a K-pop star or a waitress, but then was inspired to start her own business after doing a class project. We discuss how she worked on her first startup for a year straight out of college and how it helped her learn when to take a step back. She ended up starting Topsort a few years after. The legacy she hopes to leave is very simple - to make people smile.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Maxim Melamedov, CEO & Co-founder of Zesty - a cloud optimization platform that enables customers to benefit from a more efficient cloud environment. Growing up in the Soviet Union, it wasn’t normal to be an entrepreneur. However, his dad was an entrepreneur which inspired him. We discuss how an extreme loss shifted his perspective and helped him realize the human element present in those professional relationships. Ultimately, he wants his family to be happy and wants to continue expanding Zesty.

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In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Sri Ganesan, CEO and Co-founder of Rocketlane - an all-in-one platform allowing all project collaboration to happen in a shared workspace. We discuss how he sold his previous startup, Freshworks and how that experience led him down the path to starting Rocketlane. He also shares his goal of composing Bollywood film music after working on his startup. Ultimately, he hopes to inspire others to follow their entrepreneurial spirit.

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In Episode 4, Chris sits down with Andrea Breanna - former CTO of HuffPost and current CEO of RebelMouse on the topic of culture. Find out how she scales her team now after going against her gut in the early days, and why making compromises for growth can come at a very steep cost.

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Chris sits down with Danny He to talk about his Lego collection, growing up under the expectations of Asian parents and his passion for building a morally ethical company. Soapbox offers an all-encompassing out-of-the-box solution for anyone selling anything online. From small e-commerce startups to large consumer brands, Soapbox provides end-to-end order and fulfillment solutions that are cost-effective and provide transparency.

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In this week's episode Chris talks to Saujin Yi, who leads a female founding team of former MIT grads. Find out how she built a roster of over 500 micro-consultants before realizing the core problem of how to manage them all effectively - sparking the genesis of Liquid, an all-in-one solution to onboard, manage, and pay your team of freelancers, contractors, and vendors.

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In our very first episode Chris Sheng sits down with Michael Marmo of Curbwaste to talk about Saas for waste management, Mike's professional baseball career, and living his formative years in a small Italian town.

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