S1 Ep163: Scott Manson on Building a Game Changing Music Business with Scooter Braun
The close friendship between Scott Manson and Scooter Braun goes all the way back to their late teens. In 2012, Scott left his job as a lawyer at a major corporate law firm in Los Angeles and finally joined Scooter's company SB Projects, where today he is the COO. While Manson’s achievements include finding Internet sensation Psy and leading the company’s expansion beyond the realm of music he ...
48m Nov 04, 2020
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S1 Ep162: Neil deGrasse Tyson On The Meaning of Smart
One of America's best-known scientists, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has spent much of his career sharing his knowledge with others. He has an incredible talent for explaining complex concepts in a clear and accessible manner.Tyson fell in love with New York City's Hayden Planetarium the first time he visited it as a child. Amazingly enough later in life he ended up becoming its Director....
56m Oct 28, 2020
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S1 Ep161: Super Agent Steve Herz On Why Anything Is Possible
Steve Herz is President of The Montag Group, a sports and entertainment talent and marketing consultancy. He is also a career advisor to CEOs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and young professionals. Prior to joining TMG, Steve was the President and Founding Partner of IF Management, an industry leader whose broadcasting division became one of the largest in the space, representing over 200 television ...
56m Oct 21, 2020
56m
S1 Ep160: The Today Show's Al Roker on his own Entrepreneurial Success
Al Roker is an institution. As the weatherman on NBC’s TODAY Show and co-anchor of the 3rd Hour of TODAY, Al has enjoyed the undivided attention of the nation – over 30 million viewers per week – every weekday morning as America prepares for school and work. What many people don't know is that Al has also built one of the most successful production companies in the world with Al Roker Entertain...
44m Oct 14, 2020
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S1 Ep159: Matt Higgins From Poverty to CEO of RSE Ventures
Matt Higgins grew up in poverty while having to take care of his ailing mother. He dropped out of high school, obtained an equivalency diploma and enrolled at Queens College. He started out as a reporter and attended law school at night, while he worked for Mayor Giuliani. Today, he is recognized as one of the savviest business leaders in the venture space as the CEO and co-founder of RSE Ventu...
1hr 7m Oct 07, 2020
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S1 Ep158: Thirty Five Ventures Rich Kleiman on Building Businesses With NBA Star Kevin Durant
Rich Kleiman formed a special bond with NBA superstar Kevin Durant. Together, they formed Thirty Five Ventures, an umbrella company for their business interests across sports, tech, culture and philanthropy. Rich and Kevin have been immensely successful with a diverse investment portfolio, including companies such as Postmates, Acorns, Overtime, Coinbase, and so much more Rich shares his incred...
54m Sep 30, 2020
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S1 Ep157: Rebecca Minkoff and Birchbox's Kate Beauchamp Are Empowering Female Entrepreneurs
Designer Rebecca Minkoff and Kate Beauchamp, the founder of Birchbox, the leading beauty and grooming subscription box with over 2.5 million customers, are working together to support the emerging Female Founder Collective. Minkoff founded the FFC with the mission to enable and empower female owned and led businesses to positively impact communities, both socially and economically. Together, Mi...
30m Sep 23, 2020
30m
S1 Ep156: NBA Star CJ McCollum on his Entrepreneurial Leap Into the Wine Business
CJ McCollum is a bonafide NBA star. He inked a four-year, $106.6 million contract extension with The Portland Trailblazers in 2016. This summer from inside the NBA's Bubble in Orlando he led his team to the playoffs. But basketball wasn't the only thing CJ was busy with this summer. Earlier this year, he launched his own wine brand, McCollum Heritage 91. CJ shares how he is handling both basket...
30m Sep 16, 2020
30m
S1 Ep155: Atlanta Falcons Owner and Home Depot Founder, Arthur Blank, on Building "Good" Companies
Arthur M. Blank believes that for good companies, purpose and profit can-and should-go hand in hand. Arthur found incredible success by doing just that with his company Home Depot. The rest is history. Blank stepped down as co-chairman of Home Depot in 2001 and the next year he bought the NFL's Atlanta Falcons for $545 million. Today, the team is worth an estimated $2.8 billion and recently pla...
44m Sep 09, 2020
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S1 Ep154: Former NBA Star Baron Davis on Building Businesses Off the Court
Baron Davis started preparing for life after the NBA when he was just in high school. Once in the NBA, he quickly became one of the key original investors in Vitaminwater and helped launch Thrive Market. Davis is an entrepreneur, investor and two-time NBA All-Star and record-holder. As powerful point guard, Davis won national acclaim for executing in crucial, high-pressure moments, when his tea...
50m Aug 26, 2020
50m
S1 Ep153: How Monique Brandon Is Fixing California's Affordable Housing Crisis
Monique Brandon is working together with legendary venture capitalist Steven Dietz to tackle California's affordable housing crisis. Her company United Dwelling facilitates the conversion of underutilized garages or backyards into attractive housing at an affordable price while also providing homeowners with extra income. She believes that the key to making this possible is to optimize operatio...
52m Aug 19, 2020
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S1 Ep152: Foursquare and Dodgeball Founder Dennis Crowley On Finding Success In Tech
Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of Foursquare, the technology company that powers location experiences for more than 1 billion people around the world. Previously, he founded Dodgeball, one of the first location-based mobile social services (acquired by Google in 2005) and help to build early location-based games PacManhattan (2004) and ConQwest (2004). Dennis is also the founder and Chairman ...
47m Aug 12, 2020
47m
S1 Ep151: The American Dream: Patron Spirits and Paul Mitchell Founder John Paul Dejoria
John Paul DeJoria is an American entrepreneur, a billionaire and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair products and The Patrón Spirits Company. He sold Patron two years ago to spirits company Bacardi for a reported 5.1 billion dollars. Not bad for a guy who was homeless two different times in his life and not bad for guy who started out with a series of job...
59m Aug 05, 2020
59m
S1 Ep150: Jillian Michaels On Overcoming Her Own Struggles to Achieve Success
Today, we know Jillian Michaels as a super successful personal trainer, entrepreneur, author, and of course TV star for her appearances on NBC's The Biggest Loser. What many people don't know though is that this super successful woman had to overcome many of her own challenges in life to then be able to help others. A fascinating look into the back story of one of the wellness industries bright...
46m Jul 29, 2020
46m
S1 Ep149: Allbirds Founder Tim Brown On Building A Billion Dollar Business Around Comfortable, Stylish, and Sustainable Footwear
A native of New Zealand, Tim Brown was always well versed in the magical qualities of merino wool. He was always inherently curious. That's why while he was playing professional soccer he began asking himself why such a remarkable, sustainable resource was virtually absent in the footwear industry. And with that spirit of wonder, Tim's Allbirds journey began. It was a journey that officially la...
52m Jul 22, 2020
52m
S1 Ep48: KIND Founder Daniel Lubetzky On Building A Billion Dollar Business Around Kindness
Daniel Lubetzky, founder and Executive Chairman of KIND, is on a mission to make the world a little kinder one snack and act at a time. He started KIND in 2004 and created a new healthy snacking category. Daniel was always inspired by his father who left an indelible mark on him to do good in the world. He has been committed to using his business as a vehicle for social change. Its KIND Movemen...
54m Jul 15, 2020
54m
S1 Ep147: Well+Good Founder Alexia Brue On The State Of The Wellness Industry
In 2009 Alexia Brue launched what has become wellness digital media power house, Well + Good. Alexia started Well + Good after identifying a need for information and resources on the emerging trends in nutrition, fitness, beauty, and overall wellness lifestyle. Without raising any outside capital she bootstrapped the launch and growth of Well+Good eventually growing the company to reach over 20...
47m Jul 08, 2020
47m
S1 Ep146: StubHub Founder Jeff Fluhr On How Sporting Events & Concerts Will Return
While at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Fluhr entered the annual business plan competition with the idea of creating a trusted marketplace to buy and sell tickets for sporting events and concerts. Fluhr dropped out of school and co-founded StubHub in March 2000. By 2007, StubHub had over 400 employees, more than $600 million of gross merchandise volume and partnerships with many professi...
51m Jul 01, 2020
51m
S1 Ep145: Warby Parker Founder Neil Blumenthal On Doubling Down On Retail Post Covid
Robert Tuchman talks with Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, a transformative lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear at a revolutionary price, while leading the way for socially conscious businesses. Prior to launching Warby Parker in 2010, Neil served as director of VisionSpring, a nonprofit social enterprise that trains low-income women to start their own businesses...
53m Jun 24, 2020
53m
S1 Ep144: Sweetgreen Founder & CEO Nicolas Jammet On How Restaurants Return
Robert Tuchman sits down with Sweetgreen Founder and CEO Nicolas Jammet to discuss how the restaurant chain is facing the challenges of Covid. Nicolas also discusses the incredible growth of the company as America's leading healthy fast casual chain as well as Sweetgreen's focus on maintaining its authenticity and transparency as it expands.
42m Jun 17, 2020
42m
S1 Ep143: Betty Liu Is An Award Winning Journalist Who Also Built A Super Successful Media Company
Many people know Betty Liu as an award-winning business journalist. She anchored the Bloomberg Television “Daybreak Asia” program for many years and she also co-created and anchored “In the Loop” for 8 years. But many people don't realize that Betty is also a successful entrepreneur who started a company called Radiate. Radiate developed and distributed content of empowering leaders offering ex...
1hr 4m Jun 10, 2020
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S1 Ep142: Bleacher Report CEO Howard Mittman Is One Reason BR is Thriving Even Without Sports
Howard Mittman is the CEO of Bleacher Report the premiere digital destination for millennial and Gen Z sports fans. While many sports media companies have been hurting without live sports, Bleacher Report has been able to not only survive but thrive. In May, the broadcaster topped more than 1 billion video views for the third consecutive month across its social media channels. Mittman has helpe...
45m Jun 03, 2020
45m
S1 Ep141: Suri Kasirer on Building The Number One Lobbying Firm In New York City
Suri Kasirer is a born New Yorker and advocate. She founded Kasirer in 1997 out of a studio apartment on the Upper West Side—and a lifelong commitment to championing people, progress and policy in the city. Suri and her team have established an unparalleled record of success in New York City a place that some might say can be difficult to get things done.
41m May 27, 2020
41m
S1 Ep140: Shutterstock Founder and Tech Billionaire Jon Oringer On Helping Creatives Get Paid
Jon Oringer is a billionaire businessman, best known as the founder of Shutterstock, a stock photography content and editing tools provider. But Jon actually started over ten companies before Shutterstock. In 2003, Shutterstock was born out of Jon's own need for affordable marketing content as an entrepreneur. Today Shutterstock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The company now...
40m May 20, 2020
40m
S1 Ep138: Mall of America and Fourpost creator Mark Ghemerzian On How Retail Has Changed Forever
Retail is changing fast and COVID-19 will change the landscape further. Traditional big box stores and malls are shrinking or closing, while Amazon grows. But not everyone is running scared. Mark Ghemezerian's mega malls and businesses are moving away from traditional retail stores and into more experiential offerings like food, entertainment and unique experiences. And now Mark has taken it on...
45m May 13, 2020
45m
S1 Ep138: StockX Founder Josh Luber on How He Turned Sneakers Into His Own Billion Dollar Business
Josh Luber founded StockX with fellow entrepreneur and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert after they both literally came up with the same idea separately. Amazingly enough they found each other and they decided to go at it together building StockX into a billion dollar "Stock Market" for sneakers. Josh shows us how following your passion while never giving up can eventually lead to incredibl...
55m May 06, 2020
55m
S1 Ep137: Iron Chef Winner Marc Forgione on Owning a Restaurant During a Crisis
Marc Forgione is a Celebrity Chef, Iron Chef, and a man who launched a restaurant in downtown New York City six months prior to the Great Financial Crisis. Marc never wavered and eventually his restaurant thrived. Today he is navigating an even more difficult time for restaurants during the world's current pandemic. It's an awful time for restaurant owners and so many small businesses in our co...
34m Apr 29, 2020
34m
S1 Ep136: Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt On Succeeding Even During Crisis
James Daunt is the CEO of Barnes & Noble, who was brought in to lead the company last August to help with what was already a challenging situation for the bookseller even before the Coronavirus pandemic hit. Prior to coming on board at Barnes & Noble, Daunt had turned around Waterstones one of the largest bookselling chains in all of Europe. Today, he faces incredible challenges but like any gr...
41m Apr 22, 2020
41m
S1 Ep135: Stoney Clover Lane's Kendall Glazer On Starting Her Business As A High School Student
Stoney Clover Lane was founded by sisters Kendall and Libby Glazer from their Rochester, New York bedroom when they were just 17 and 15 respectively. Ten years later their candy-colored classics and personalized patches have become well-known for bringing some much-needed personality to the highly uniform category of travel accessories has reimagined everyday organization through their line of ...
45m Apr 15, 2020
45m
S1 Ep134: Splice's Steve Martocci On Changing The Game For Musicians
Steve Martocci is the founder of music tech platform Splice. Martocci first started in the tech business by co-founding the group-messaging service GroupMe, which sold to Skype in August 2011 for $85 million, when he was just 27. In 2013 he co-founded Splice, a technology platform for music creators that streamlines the process of creating and sharing music. Then in 2014 he co-founded Blade, a ...
45m Apr 08, 2020
45m
S1 Ep133: Vista Jets Thomas Flohr on Building a Business During a Global Crisis
The Swiss financier, Thomas Flohr, started his private jet charter company in 2004, just a few years after 9/11 sent aircraft sales spiraling. It wasn’t the last time world events or market downturns would affect Flohr’s business. The 2008 financial crisis came with plenty of challenges, but as Flohr told me he managed to turn those obstacles into fuel for Vista Jet. And today in these times of...
34m Apr 01, 2020
34m
S1 Ep132: Walt Disney Companies Debra O'Connell on Building a Great Culture
If you ask around at any business with a truly great company culture, you might hear a few reasons as to why its like that. We noticed it right away while visiting WABC TV in New York City this past Winter. President, Debra O’Connell says it’s all about building the right team, and getting them rowing in the same direction. But after interviewing her we suspect that attitude itself--the lack of...
56m Mar 25, 2020
56m
S1 Ep131: Inspirato's Brent Handler on Spotting Consumer Trends
In 2002, Brent and his brother Brad launched Exclusive Resorts, and quickly became pioneers in the destination club industry. Then, in 2011 the Handler brothers launched Inspirato, a luxury travel club with an impressive roster of exclusive experiences and bespoke travel itineraries. Now Inspirato offers a ground-breaking subscription model, which lets members pay a flat monthly rate for unlimi...
48m Mar 18, 2020
48m
S1 Ep130: Pawn Stars Creator and TV Tycoon Brent Montgomery on Being A 10 Year Overnight Success
They say every “overnight success” takes 10 years, and that’s something reality TV tycoon Brent Montgomery knows all too well. In 2014, Brent sold an 80% stake of his production group Leftfield Entertainment for $360 million—the most lucrative nonfiction television deal ever made in North America. But if you rewind ten years, you’d find Brent producing wedding videos in New York City. He was wo...
1hr 1m Mar 11, 2020
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S1 Ep129: Hollywood Heavyweights Michele Ganeless, Alysia Reiner, and David Alan Basche on the Business of Making a Movie
A movie is a piece of entertainment. But a movie is also a business. There are budgets, payroll, marketing—you name it. Michelle Ganeless, the former President of Comedy Central, Alysia Reiner, an actress famous for her role on Orange is the New Black, and her husband, the accomplished actor David Alan Basche talk about how making their movie, EGG, was very much like building a business.
45m Mar 04, 2020
45m
S1 Ep128: Baked by Melissa's, Melissa Ben-Ishay, on Why Getting Fired Changed Her Life
Melissa Ben-Ishay is the founder of Baked by Melissa. When she was let go from her job, she had no idea what to do. But her brother suggested she start baking. Melissa wasn’t sure if her love for baking as a real business opportunity or just a distraction. But he encouraged her to nurture her creative instincts, and boy did it pay off. Those little colorful cupcakes ended up in the hands of som...
47m Feb 26, 2020
47m
S1 Ep127: BaubleBars Daniella Yacobovsky on How to Fail Your Way to Success
Daniella Yacobovsky the co founder of BaubleBar the go-to online retailer for on-trend jewelry seemed to understand early on that failures she had in her business were just part of the necessary process needed to eventually find success. She built BaubleBar into a major fashion accessories business by failing her way to success. Figuring out the right answers by making the wrong decisions. Even...
49m Feb 19, 2020
49m
S1 Ep126: Celebrity Chef and Restauranteur Scott Conant on Finding True Happiness In Business
Scott Conant's career in the culinary space has spanned over 30 years, he really has achieved just about everything someone could in one industry. HIs accomplishments have included multiple award winning restaurants, of course Scarpetta and Alto, best selling books, James Beard Awards, Scott even has a regular role on the Food Network show Chopped. But most telling might be the rabid following ...
54m Feb 12, 2020
54m
S1 Ep125: Celebrity Chef Leah Cohen on Being a Successful Woman in a Male Dominated Industry
Leah Cohen started in the restaurant business way before the #metoo movement. Many people might know her from her wildly successful New York City restaurant Pig and Cow. Or her brand new restaurant Piggyback. Others possibly know her from her appearance on Season 5 of Top Chef. But most don't realize her success didn't happen overnight. She put in a lot of years working for a variety of chefs a...
46m Feb 05, 2020
46m
S1 Ep124: StyleSeat's Melody McCloskey on Overcoming the Fears of Starting a Billion Dollar Business
Melody Mcloskey founded StyleSeat - the premiere marketplace for beauty and barbering services. It has generated more than $6.5 billion in revenue and powered more than 120 million appointments in 16,000-plus cities across the U.S. But Melody actually sat on this idea for two years. She was passionate about it, but she was afraid of taking the leap. She had so many personal doubts, fears and in...
48m Jan 29, 2020
48m
S1 Ep123: Montage Hotel Founder Alan Fuerstman's Rise From Doorman to Industry Legend
Alan Fuerstman started his career in the hotel industry as a doorman at a Marriott in New Jersey. He then came up with an idea for a new type of hotel. It would be an ultra-luxury property that allowed people to be causal. He called it Montage, and built it in Laguna Beach California. And he was right. It set the standard for a new type of luxury property, and is now one of the most well-known ...
40m Jan 22, 2020
40m
S1 Ep122: MIndy Scheier On Pioneering The Fashion Industry's Adaptable Clothing Market
There are over one billion people globally living with disabilities, but up until a few years ago no one in the fashion industry was making clothes for them. That was until Mindy Scheier started Runway of Dreams, a nonprofit that partnered with Tommy Hilfiger to create an adaptable clothing line. More recently, Mindy launched Gamut, a business that helps people with disabilities to find work in...
52m Jan 15, 2020
52m
S1 Ep121: Marc Merrill On Rising Above Business Disasters To Achieve Unprecedented Success
Marc Merrill is the Co-Founder of Riot Games. Riot created League of Legends, one of the most popular video games of all time. League of Legends World Championship rivals the Super Bowl viewership — with close to 100 million last year. The company even brought in $1.5 billion in revenue this past year. But when Marc started the company, there were times they barely had funds left to pay employe...
1hr 7m Jan 08, 2020
1hr 7m
S1 Ep120: Danny Meyer On How Customer Experience Has Always Been HIs Secret Sauce
There is a reason we choose to pay $5 for a cup of coffee. The customers aren't paying for the coffee, they are paying for the experience of being at Starbucks. Danny Meyer the famed restauranteur was doing this before the term "experience economy" was even coined back in the 1990's. He opened his first restaurant in New York City called Union Square Cafe back in 1985 and one thing he has alway...
45m Jan 01, 2020
45m
S1 Ep119: Alexa Von Toble On Trying To Start A Business In The Middle of The Great Recession
Starting a business at any time can be scary but how about dropping out of school to start a business during the greatest recession in the history of the world? To make a move like that can be downright frightening. Alexa Von Toble literally left Harvard Business School before graduating to pursue her mission to educate everyday Americans on how to manage their own finances.
45m Dec 25, 2019
45m
S1 Ep118: Jarrod Moses On Overcoming Age Discrimination To Find Success
Jarrod Moses went from being a college intern at Grey Advertising to becoming its youngest president ever. He was a 30-year-old boss of a major publicly traded company, and regularly faced age discrimination because of it. But it didn’t stop him. He went on to found the United Entertainment Group—a joint venture with Hollywood powerhouse Untied Talent Agency, that would produce branded entertai...
52m Dec 18, 2019
52m
S1 Ep117: General Assembly Founder Jake Schwartz On Overcoming Struggles to Find Success
Jake Schwartz started a company called General Assembly that just sold to the big human resource company Adecco Group for a reported 413 million dollars. After graduating from Yale and thinking he learned all he needed to to succeed in business, Schwartz got smacked in the face with reality. He realized education and the way people were learning was changing. GA started with relevant classes th...
50m Dec 11, 2019
50m
S1 Ep116: Fanduel's Lesley Eccles on Finding the True Meaning of Success 
Lesley Eccles is the co-founder and former head of marketing of FanDuel, the billion-dollar fantasy sports company. But despite the company’s success, Lesley and Nigel didn’t get to enjoy the spoils. Their relationship with their investors fell apart, and they left the business in 2017 having made almost no money on the deal and retaining no interest in the business.
52m Dec 04, 2019
52m
S1 Ep115: Randi Zuckerberg Is On A Mission To Even The Playing Field In The Tech Industry
Randi Zuckerberg was one of the first employees at Facebook. She contributed on many fronts in those early days of Facebook, and was responsible for creating the Facebook Live tool that today is used by billions of people. But something nagged at her. She would often look around while on meetings and realize she was the only woman there. And she felt called to fix that—not just in Silicon Valle...
44m Nov 27, 2019
44m
S1 Ep114: The Co-Founder of Skinnygirl Margarita On Going From Selling Mortgages to Selling Booze
How do you deal with the feeling of not being able to make a difference in a changing industry? David Kanbar is a serial entrepreneur who started a mortgage business which he later sold because  he realized he could never make a difference in a business that had become commoditized. He changed industries and eventually founded the brand Skinnygirl Margarita with Bethenny Frankel. Now Kanbar is ...
28m Nov 20, 2019
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