Lizzie Horvitz is the Founder of Finch, a platform that incentivizes and educates consumers to make better decisions based on the climate & sustainability impact of their purchases. Lizzie has a decade of sustainability experience in both the non-profit and corporate sectors. She is also very passionate about finding solutions to complex problems around climate change and plastic pollution. In 2017, Lizzie started a blog to share her research and help people make more sustainable choices....

Larry Talley and his co-founder, Scott Orlinsky, launched Everyware in Florida, in 2015. Larry has 20 years of experience developing new businesses, turning around companies, growing revenue, leading sales teams, increasing market share, and growing the bottom line. Being abandoned by his mother at a very young age, Larry learned to live on his own and faced extreme challenges head-on. After high school, he decided to join the Navy where he found his passion in computer programming. All of...

Chaitenya Razdan is the Founder and CEO of Care+Wear, which aims to bridge function and fashion in order to provide a more human healthcare experience. Chaitenya’s journey in the healthcare business began as a response to creating an alternative for a dear friend who was advised to cover and protect their PICC Line with a tube sock. Since then, Chaitenya and his team at Care+Wear have launched and evolved that product, a washable, antimicrobial, breathable, and machine-washable PICC Line...

Derrick Morton is CEO of Seattle-based FlowPlay. He's been an entrepreneur, leader and innovator in the digital entertainment industry for more than 20 years. At the helm of FlowPlay for the last decade, he has established the company as the creator of the industry’s most powerful immersive gaming platform, and driven product innovation to build an engaging multiplayer social casino that captures the attention of 75 million users worldwide. He has identified new opportunities and untapped...

Matthew and his twin brother Thomas Carcone are co-owners of Gordon James Real Estate Services, which has been in the residential and commercial property management business for 9 years. Thomas started the Gordon James Realty with a former business partner until Matthew came on board later on. Both of them were very entrepreneurial at a very young age. At 14 years old, they were already mowing lawns and doing landscaping services for people within their neighborhood, which taught them great...

Meghan Tarmey is the Founder of The Caddy Group, which is formerly known as The Caddy Girls. During college, she was bartending when she was invited to become a caddy at the local golf course. This turned into an aha moment for Meghan and she decided to continue and grow this business and make it profitable. Her stint with Shark Tank was also a tremendous help that resulted in the early success of The Caddy Group. With all the tons of experience in the golfing industry and from her other side...

Yegor Sak is the Founder of Windscribe, which is a privacy company that offers VPN service for everyone. Yegor was born in Belarus but is currently based in Canada. As he was growing up, Yegor developed a passion for programming and creating websites. As a teenager, he did several projects that earned him some money through online ads. These side projects continued until he decided to start a software development firm, which eventually led to Windscribe. Today, they have almost 40 million...

Panos Siozos is the CEO and Co-Founder of LearnWorlds. Panos has a PhD in Educational Technology from the Computer Science Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a BSc from the same department. He has extensive work experience as a computer science educator and as a software engineer and IT manager. He has also taken part as a researcher in many EU-funded research projects. Some of his research interests include Computer Assisted Assessment, On-line Educational...

Samuel Bertram is Co-Founder at OnePointOne, which is revolutionizing vertical farming by building the most technologically advanced cultivation platform on the planet through innovations in automation, AI, and plant science. Samuel is an entrepreneur with a background in robotics and a passion for health and human wellness. After coming to the United States to play tennis, both Samuel and his brother John cofounded OnePointOne, Inc with the desire to nourish the 1.1 billion people that began...

Jonathan Rosenfeld is the Founder and Owner of Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC. As the founder and managing attorney at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers, Jonathan’s practice focuses on the representation of the most vulnerable members of society in severe personal injury, medical malpractice, and nursing home negligence matters. Since his days as a clerk in law school, Jonathan has always been involved in different aspects of personal injury law and he has never looked back. In addition to his busy law...

Bartley Wilson is the Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Virtual Pictures Corporation. He is a serial entrepreneur, sales rainmaker, and UX/UI developer of the world's first 360° SaaS platform for commercial and residential real estate. In the early 90s, Bart had a serious motorcycle accident that took him out of the Air Force but eventually led him to discover his passion for computer and graphics. He started doing virtual tour services in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and eventually founded his...

Scott Selzer is the Founder and CEO of StruXure Outdoor, Inc. formerly Arcadia Building Products. As a school teacher with a part-time remodeling company, Scott specialized in building decks and pergolas, refinishing basements and tackling other home improvements projects for his clients. When his students encouraged him to follow his dream to become a full-time entrepreneur, Scott started Adjustable Patio Covers, a company focused on improving outdoor spaces.   This Episode is Sponsored...

Thomas Douglas joined the JMARK team in 1997 upon the completion of enlistment to the U.S. Navy, where he won an achievement medal for his design of a financial reporting database. Starting off as a level one engineer at JMARK, he worked his way up the ranks before purchasing the company in 2001. At the time, JMARK’s business model was structured in a way which had an unpredictable revenue stream, so Tom formulated a levelized billing method which would provide a predictable revenue stream...

Steven Kinder is the Founder of Loftwall, Co-Founder of GoodWork, and Owner of 1808. He is a design entrepreneur who has always had an infatuation with spaces. He’s focused on the design of new flexible, dynamic environments for people to bring big ideas and be better together. Not intimidated by the potential of a blank slate, Steve wants to create space where people can shape their own experience. As an industrial designer, he has designed award winning furniture, products and event...

Rob Hannah is the CEO and Managing Partner of Chicago Yacht Works. In 2011, Rob redirected his business experience to the marine industry after assuming control of Chicago Yacht Yard, a full-service marine service and storage facility located on the river in downtown Chicago. In a short time, this business has been transformed into an industry leader with significant gains in both service and storage as well as adding both brokerage and new boat sales to their business lines. They now boast...

Phil Ogilby is the Founder and CEO of STACK Construction Technologies. In 1984, Phil started his first construction contracting company in Dayton, OH doing residential and later commercial work. He witnessed firsthand the challenges of managing people, equipment, materials, and especially an ever-changing bid schedule. In 1995, Phil's 14-year-old son, Justin Ogilby, wrote the code for Buildware Pro estimating software, making it easy to measure plans using a digitizer or measure on screen...

Paul Shapiro is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Better Meat Co. In addition to being the CEO of the company, Paul is also the author of the national bestseller, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, and the host of the Business For Good Podcast. He is a four-time TEDx speaker, he has twenty years of experience as a nonprofit executive and has published more than a hundred articles on food sustainability, from daily newspapers to academic journals....

Dan Rogers is the CEO and Founder of Point to Point Transportation. In the 90s, Dan was working in the restaurant industry as a Burrito Roller. Eventually, he decided to work as a Salesperson for a Moving company for 6 years. In 2002, he bought the moving company from its owner and it became Point to Point Transportation. From being an ordinary moving company, Dan shifted Point to Point towards Corporate events, which proved to be a great success for the company. However, in 2020, the COVID19...

John Simpson is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Patra. An innovator and entrepreneur, John founded Patra in 2005 and has grown the company to more than 3,200 employees worldwide. In 2017, Patra landed in the top third of Inc Magazine’s fastest growing companies. John understands the importance of efficient internal systems to support the complicated needs of a service organization. As an entrepreneur, he knows that it’s vital for a business leader to have total trust in any partner....

Felicite Moorman is the CoFounder of STRATIS, a RealPage Company, and SaaS Platform for large-scale Internet of Things installations. STRATIS was named a top ten “Best Company in America” by Entrepreneur Magazine and ranked in the top twenty percent of Inc Magazine’s “Fastest Growing Companies” three consecutive years prior to acquisition. Felicite was simultaneous CEO of BuLogics, which designed, built, and certified hardware, software, and ecosystems for the Internet of Things. This...

Paul Moore is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital. After graduating with an engineering degree and then an MBA from Ohio State, Paul entered the management development track at Ford Motor Company in Detroit. After five years, he departed to start a staffing company with a partner. They scaled and sold the company to a publicly traded firm five years later. After a brief “retirement” in his early 30s, Paul began investing in real estate in 2000 to protect and grow his own...

Stephen Somers, from Ireland, runs a company called Marketplace Superheroes. Stephen and his business partner Robert, is on a mission to help ambitious individuals build their own business selling simple branded products globally on Amazon. Stephen started his career by selling products in Amazon for several years, while Robert is also an online entrepreneur collaborating with other companies. They met and started working with each other until they created the highly successful Marketplace...

Greg Skloot is currently the CEO & Co-Founder of Crystal, the app that tells you anyone's personality. Greg is the co-author of Predicting Personality, a book published by Wiley in 2019 about using AI to understand people and win more business. He has also published two e-books: Getting Organized, a manual for growing a student organization at a university, and Startups This Episode is Sponsored By: Inkl.com, an innovative Australian startup, is an app where you get unlocked access to...

Nick Sarillo is the CEO of one of the top ten busiest independent pizza companies in per-store sales in the U.S. In an industry in which the average annual turnover rate is more than 150 percent, Nick’s Pizza & Pub boasts less than a 25 percent employee turnover rate. He is a leading expert in leadership, organizational culture, employee engagement, and executive development. He also serves as a mentor and coach to entrepreneur's, CEO's, and leaders from technology startups to the health...

Lindsey McCoy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Plaine Products. She is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the sustainable consumer goods industry. Her skills include Nonprofit Organizations, Sales, Management, Leadership, and Strategic Planning. Coming from a nonprofit background, Lindsey has made a career out of finding solutions. With a dream to have less plastic waste in the world, she and her sister, Alison, founded Plaine Products.   This...