GROWTH PODCAST
Building Revenue Engines with Jeff Davis
Please welcome our special guest, Jeff Davis, who is an old business school friend and has spent his career at the intersection of Sales and Marketing. In this hour-long episode we discuss the challenges for getting the departments to work together to drive revenue growth and discuss podcasts as a distribution channel for communicating complex information between highly leveraged and busy individuals.
Product-Led Growth with Chris Fong
Please welcome our special guest, Chris Fong, a product growth expert who’s built massive-following facebook pages, Instagram accounts, websites for DuPont, and B2B eCommerce for $1B steel companies. In this episode we talk about new AI tools and other methodologies for growing your attention on the internet.
Business Growth & Investing with Murtuza Kutub
Please welcome our special guest Murtuza Kutub who was an early employee at Fab and left to build Docker before Docker.
He’s a smart chap who currently works with founders to build software products and is one of our high-growth ecosystem partners. He reached out wanting to interview us on our perspective of product-market fit, how we view investing across venture capital, private equity, and public company funding environments. We discuss a novel approach to high-growth company building, our backgrounds, and our diligence process for the companies we work with.
If you’re a business owner and want to be on Murtuza’s podcast, please reach out, he’s interviewing a few fine folks in the space to help understand the fundamental needs of people building businesses the right way.
State of Internet Media with Justin Ruiss
Please welcome our special guest, Justin Ruiss, who is the SVP Media at BWG Strategy. He creates 350 forums per year at the intersection of audio, video, gaming, eCommerce, marketing, and advertising where senior executives and other industry practitioners provide intelligence on internet media. To say he's knowledgeable in the space is an understatement.
In this 50-minute episode we cover the opportunities and threats across the landscape of media that operators and executives are contending with at the consumer level, the startup level, and up to the big tech level. We cover video, retail media (read: ads for eCommerce), console and social gaming, and eventually get into emerging trends that impact the entire 5.4 billion internet user base.
PROME vs ChatGPT with Timothy Busbice
Please welcome our special guest, Timothy Busbice, the godfather of Biologic Intelligence and co-founder of PROME. In this hour-long episode we discuss the differences between PROME (Biologic Intelligence) and ChatGPT (Large Language Models) as they are different approaches to Artificial General Intelligence with different use cases and limitations.
We describe why Biologic Intelligence works well in real-world environments and why LLMs may be better suited for virtual environments turning one kind of pixels into other kinds of pixels. We discuss emerging use cases for AGI in the real-world, which includes fighting fires in the forest and in California suburbs where fires run rampant and insurance is hard to come by.
We end the episode with an interesting epiphany about where this could all head.
Accelerating Revenue Globally with Ken Stearns
Please welcome our special guest, Ken Stearns, who had a storied career running global sales teams of up to 500,000 people across the Asia-Pacific region.
In this insight-packed interview, we discuss how financial incentives interact with human behavior to accelerate revenue for individuals, their families, and the company overall. We dissect the emerging value creation lever of human capital and specify the cutting-edge tactics that key operators use to create win-win-wins for communities, businesses, and entire economies.
Listen in to learn more about Ken and his insights after interviewing over 300 people over the last year about what drives their behavior.
The Humanist Interview
In this hour-long interview, Ken Sterns, the creator of the Humanist podcast, interviews Sean Everett about the philosphical underpinnings of growth and what we can all do to stay on the right track. The warm discussion begins with high-level background and moves into probing "jar questions" he's used with 350 individuals around the world to unpack the core motivations of human behavior. Nuggets of wisdom are provided from both sides throughout this wide-ranging conversation covering incentive design, directing human behavior on social media for good, and the next Steve Jobs and iPhone-scale product.
Mentality of Media featuring Jeff Ringgenberg
In this special guest episode, a product management friend and colleague we've known for decades chat about the intersection of mental health and media. As social became the watercooler of the world, we've been exposed to new realities that can be difficult to integrate into our collective consciousness. But the ones who figure out how to judo it to create value for the world will win and win big.
Humane Wearables featuring Antoine RJ Wright
It’s not everyday you know someone who has been studying the intricacies of wearable design, both in physical form factor but also in the impact on human cognition. This episode’s special guest, Antoine RJ Wright, has become an expert in the design process of making products more humane and also spends quite a bit of professional time working in the public governmental sector in a similar software design capacity.
Strategy of Disintermediation
We break down a few different strategies for achieving growth for your business. Some relates to positioning, while other principles relate to maximizing not just conversion rates but traffic at the top of the funnel.