One question on every industry leader's mind is “How do I stand out?” At least it should be if you are looking to remain a market leader or even a fast-follower. This is especially true in the competitive Beauty Industry, where competitors range form multinational corporations to Indi-brands and startups. How do you continue to stand out and not just be another best practice brand? Dermalogica CEO, Aurelian Lis, has figured that out—and joins us for this episode of The Reboot Chronicles...

If you are thinking about starting a company or have an idea for a product, chances are that it has come from a pain point you want to solve. Startups worldwide are doing this with the hopes of growing and even the big-dog titans are doing this with hopes of disrupting the disruptive disruptors. But what does that process look like for a leader of a private company? What pains come with making the transition to a public company? What does the scaling process even look like? Remitly CEO,...

Tech leaders have been in an AI marketing hype-cycle, while many of their employees have been dealing with a growing fear of lay-offs, and for good reason. Companies like Intel, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Dell, and Amazon have let go of thousands of employees collectively, due to the hiring craze that occurred during the pandemic. With all those people hitting the job market and plenty of other job searchers out there, how can you best prepare for the job hunt. Liz Ryan, joins this episode...

Amazon revolutionized the retail market with its online shopping and shipping, a revolution that caused companies to change drastically or go bankrupt. Even Walmart had to reboot itself to battle the e-commerce giant. Another industry that Amazon took a huge swing at, tied to its original founding purpose, was books, and then with its Kindle and e-books in 2007. Already on its heels, COVID-19 took a swing at retail when people weren’t allowed to visit stores to support the already struggling...

With cybercrime damages estimated to cost the world $15-20 trillion by 2028—none of us are safe from its impact. The Godfather of Israeli Cybersecurity, Shlomo Kramer - CEO of Cato Networks, joins us for this episode of The Reboot Chronicles to unpack why the next generation of cyber security will be SASE technology. Shlomo was a seed investor and board member of industry giant Palo Alto Networks, writing their first investment check. He co-founded both Check Point and Imperva, taking both...

Education is the cornerstone of every great nation, and it is through great education that world-class innovators and leaders arise to make changes where change is needed. Easier said than done but when done correctly, through a team of forward-thinking individuals who believe “there are no such things as unrealistic dreams” you can deliver a level of education that will shape generations. That is exactly what today’s guest on The Reboot Chronicles is passionate about—believing in the impact...

AI is one of the hottest topics in the tech world, with investors pouring billions of dollars into thousands of projects and companies—and no signs of slowing down. It’s predicted that the AI sector will receive another trillion-dollar boost over the next few years. What if there was a platform that would allow you to clone yourself, to broaden your reach, or interact with someone else’s clone to learn from? Would you do it if you could make money from it? While that might sound like the...

Hyper-scaling in a highly competitive sector is not for the faint of heart. You need a team that is hitting on all cylinders—while adding new engines to increase horsepower and capabilities along the way. In the tech-world, you need to competitively unseat and outpace the other business-as-usual systems integrators—and help your clients build out next-generation systems that will allow them to transform their businesses too. After 17 straight quarters of growth, Persistent Systems, is one...

Many CEO's parachute in to reboot companies, but today’s guest has had to do it dozens of times. Founded by his father in a Red Barn in Waterloo Wisconsin, John Burke, President and CEO of Trek Bicycle, has been rebooting the company since he started working there as a teenager. A remarkably fun leader and author of three books, John has grown the company into the largest manufacturers of bicycles in the U.S. Now a $2 Billion global company with thousands of employees selling through a...

With Amazon and online shopping exploding in popularity, with new habits formed and accelerated during the pandemic, brick-and-mortar stores are at yet another turning point to regain relevancy. It is now a common sight to drive around towns in North America to see malls and outlet centers slowly hollowing out, becoming something else, or a place for mall walkers to get some steps in.   One company rebooting the outlet mall experience in a big way is Tanger, a leading operator of upscale...

With Apple going all in on AI to boost its next round of hardware and services with Apple Intelligence, data is needed now more than ever—massive data. More data than one company can provide, if they hope to make AI services quickly and efficiently do what’s asked, without getting bogged-down. Another California company attacking AI plumbing problems is Teradata, one of the largest cloud analytics platforms with a focus on harmonizing data. Starting as a hardware company, making things like...

We have reported about how India is becoming a global leader across industry sectors and interviewed dozens of top CEO’s who have been leading the charge. From Zoho, Cisco, and Juniper Networks to TTEC, H&R Block, Mphasis and many others, many CEO’s are shifting billions of dollars of investments from a dependence on China and Taiwan toward India. Another global leader driving this massive transformation is The Mahindra group, a $21 Billion Multinational Federation of Companies which...

Power tools are a staple of any garage whether you are a blue-collar worker, a hobbyist, or someone who has just bought a picture frame that needs hanging. Approximately 55 percent of Americans have at least five power tools in their possession, with a large portion of those people buying those tools during COVID-19, when we saw a spike in indoor and outdoor DIY home renovations. Many companies like, DeWalt and Milwaukee, experienced that big spike—as did STIHL, one of the world’s largest...

Instant shipping is the new norm that continues to fuel America’s Amazon era shopping addictions. Approximately 350 billion packages shipped last year—projected to hit 500 billion worldwide by 2028.  And in this brave new tech. enabled shopping revolution, consumers have moved beyond asking ‘what day’ will my package arrive to expecting real-time tracking with exact arrival times and proof of delivery. With FedEx and UPS enabling these trends, we took a look under the hood to see how UPS...

Cybersecurity is a mess that will continue to impact all of us in the hyper-connected world we live in—and is estimated to cost the global economy $20Trillion by 2026. Whether it is fighting against government sponsored terrorist groups, gig-economy ransomware artists, teenagers holed up in their basements or AI drones, combatting cybersecurity is vital for anyone in charge of digital information. Fighting is the key word of this global war. The Honorable Eric Rosenbach, knows how to fight...

You can’t Reboot your business or your life with the old playbooks that got you to where you are today—you must redesign your approach to what’s coming next. Even though they were founded in the 40’s, Cannon Design is not your mothers design firm. One of the best examples of the ‘Build, Buy, Borrow’ growth-acceleration examples we’ve discovered outside of tech., they’ve grown into a diverse services and software platform through creative partnerships and acquisitions, across the globe....

A serial entrepreneur and go-to-market pro, Andrew Amann has developed a bunch of patents and startups, with some successful exits along the way. A Nuclear Submarine Engineer turned CEO, he runs one of the fastest growing product design and engineering studios, building dozens of companies and hundreds of products, used by millions of people that have created over$ 1B in revenue. Listen in as we unpack how startups can better de-risk themselves and get help. From partnering with hubs like...

The world's largest private equity firm acquired a majority stake in Mphasis—a $1.6 Billion multinational technology services company with 37,500 employees working with large enterprise clients around the globe. The deal was Blackstone’s largest tech. investment and biggest acquisition in India. With a long rough history, being owned by the likes of EDS and HP, Blackstone saved Mphasis by making it independent and agile once again. Since the deal Mphasis has been on a tear, securing some of...

Personal reboots are the hardest, especially if you have been knocked down and kicked out of the industry and ecosystem of people that got you there. On this Episode of the Reboot Chronicles Actor, Producer, Director, and Author Kevin Sorbo openly shares his remarkable comeback story. Long before Marvel movies were everywhere, Kevin was known to millions around the world as Hercules. The hit series Hercules was beloved in 176 countries, surpassing even Baywatch as the most watched TV show on...

Most all companies are going through some form of tech. reboot. From the 20-person start-up to organizations with 100,000 people—some who have been around for over 100 years. Though there is much to learn from big and small reboots, the business in question has roots back to the 1800’s when it was a small NYC accounting office. Today KPMG is one of the world's top professional services firms, serving 80% of the Fortune Global 500 with a broad spectrum of Audit, Tax, Advisory and Innovation...

Legendary entrepreneur Joel Hyatt has built extremely disruptive ventures that have democratized services across legal, technology, and media sectors. He did it with legal services for ‘the rest of us’ when he co-founded Hyatt Legal in the 70’s —busting the ban on lawyer ads—and also shook up the industry by adding legal as an employee benefit, which is now part of MetLife. After winning an antitrust case which broke up a big media stronghold, he and Al Gore started Current TV pioneering...

The personal care and beauty market is projected to be a $750B by 2032—and women and celebrities want a piece of it. Celebrities and the beauty industry have been ubiquitously tied together through generations. In recent years however, celebrities aren’t only endorsing or becoming the face of the brand—they’re now working on their own beauty brands. Christie Brinkley, the international superstar and seemingly ageless beauty, served as a brand ambassador after being introduced to SBLA Beauty...

When trying to grow a food chain it can easily lose its character and freshness as everything becomes about speed and profits. And, when you are a chain that was built on the back of amazingly fresh food and unique in-store customer experiences, how do you grow and expand to 2000 locations? From humble beginnings in 1977, and being named to “America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies” in 2005, to now having over 400 locations and headed to 2000, Potbelly Sandwiches has been growing with...

Ever wonder how some companies seize serendipitous moments—with the likes of Adam Sandler and Walker Hayes—while others pass on the opportunistic gifts that could have moved their brand needle? On the heels of a deal to be the official bar and grill of the NFL, an Undercover Boss series coming soon, and 200 new concepts in their test kitchens—Dine Brands is on a role. The $8 Billion restaurant group, that owns Applebee’s, IHOP and Fuzzy’s, has 3500 restaurants and 125,000 people who are...