Guy Kawasaki is the Chief Evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. He is a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley). Guy is widely known around the world for his books and speeches on entrepreneurship, and his early work at Apple alongside Steve Jobs. 

Keith Teare is Executive Chairman of ADV and a serial entrepreneur, who has built two $1 billion dollar companies, raised billion dollars in VC fund, and was in the founding team of TechCrunch.  Born in the UK, he learned how to code at early age, and later started his first tech company to pay for his passion - political activism.  We covered many subjects from class-conscious UK to blockchain, bootstrapped companies, VC trends, and Keith’s childhood and

Javier Mendez is the founder and head coach of American Kickboxing Academy, the leading Mixed Martial Arts teams/schools in the world.  Throughout his spectacular career he has won world championships himself, and raised numerous world champions in both Kickboxing and MMA.  His students include Cormier, Velasquez, Nurmagomedov, Rockhold, and others.  In this interview we spoke about Javier's life and career, genesis of MMA, qualities required to become a champion, and his famous students. 

Tom Kalinske is Chairman of Doodles, one of the many Ed-Tech ventures he has been involved in.  Throughout his fascinating career, Tom has built several multi-million dollar Ed-Tech companies, changed the video gaming industry as the CEO of SEGA America, revived Barbie doll and created He-Man & The Masters of the Universe as the CEO of Mattel.

Heidi Ridley is CEO of Rosenberg Equity, one of the premiere quantitative investment management firms with $22 billion in assets under management.   Her life story is fascinating: she was born in Iran; her family lost everything during the Iranian Revolution, had to leave the country to an start everything from scratch in the US.

In this episode, I sit down with PJ Pereira, the co-founder and a Creative Chairman, of Pereira O’Dell, one of the leading advertising firms. Over its relatively short history, Pereira Odell won every major industry award, including countless Cannes Lions and Emmy Award. Advertising, Martial Arts, African Mythology, childhood in Brazil, business, family, commercials, guns, violence, creativity, writing – these are just a few subjects we talked about. I will let you listen for yourself.

Michael Hoffmann is a Co-Founder & President of one of the best known placement agency firm - Probitas Partners. Since inception in 2001, Probitas Partners has raised over $68 Billion for both, established and emerging investment managers.   Michael's knowledge of the alternative asset management space, in particular private equity and real estate, makes his view on the today's trends especially valuable. Visit www.TheAccentPodcast.com Soundtrack: bensound-memories

Thomas Weisel is the founder of Montgomery Securities, an iconic boutique investment bank that was sold to a predecessor of today's Bank of America.  Upon exiting Montgomery Securities, he started another investment bank, Thomas Weisel Partners, which was later sold to Stifel Financial, where Thomas currently is a Co-Chairman.