ScaleApp Podcasts with Prof Dan Isenberg
ScaleApp is chock full of content and interviews with successful scalers that will help you grow your company better. DO NOT LISTEN IF YOU ARE A STARTUP: ScaleApp is for growing ventures, not starting them. (But if you are a startup with serious growth aspirations, ScaleApp IS for you).
Episodes
25 episodes
Episode #24 - Metis Construction Ohio - Breaking $30 million with Resilience, Trust, and Systems - CEO/Founder, Julie Brandle
I believe that one of the biggest challenges in going from a few millions to a few tens of millions is building systems and processes that enable scaling. We have seen this challenge in the majority of the ScaleApp Podcast discussions, G...
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Episode #23 - Giscad of Trinidad & Tobago - A rapidly growing Caribbean venture.
BackgroundIn this episode, I welcome our first Trinidad & Tobago venture to ScaleApp Podcasts: Giscad, co-founded by Desmond Dougall and Sudesh Botha. What began 22 years ago as two engineers suddenly out of work has grown int...
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Episode #22 - Positron AI - Attacking NVIDIA's Market - CEO Mitesh Agrawal
Do we need to re-define "Chutzpah" = "Positron?" Mitesh Agrawal, CEO and co-founder of Positron AI, is leading one of the most audacious ventures in the tech world today: building silicon to compete directly with NVIDIA. Backed by over $70 mill...
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Episode #21 - Ketryx! - Accelerating Regulatory Compliance for Pharmas and Device Makers - CEO/co-founder, Erez Kaminski
Background / IntroductionWhat is the biggest bottleneck keeping the stream of drugs and devices from getting to market? R&D? Capital? Maybe, but managing regulatory compliance is right up there. Safely speeding time to ...
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Episode #20 - FactoredAI 70% YOY Growth and Leading the AI Revolution - CEO/Founder Israel Niezen
Background / IntroFactoredAI was incubated in 2019 by Israel Niezen out of Andrew Ng’s AI Fund with $2.5 mio “we didn’t really need,” and today has over 300 of the top 1% of talent in LATAM solving complex data problems by buildin...
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Episode #19 - Mrs. Dunster's Scales its Home Style Baked Goods - Co-CEOs Rosalyn and Blair Hyslop (Scalerator Alums!)
IntroductionRosalyn and Blair Hyslop met as teenagers Atlantic Canada in Junior Achievement and from the start dreamed of running a business together. That dream became reality when they acquired Mrs. Dunster’s, a beloved regional...
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Episode #18 - Zencity - Scaling Up a SaaS Platform for Cities to Address Citizen Needs (profitably!) - Eyal Feder-Levy CEO/co-Founder
Background - Eyal Feder-Levy, CEO and co-founder of Zencity, joins me on the ScaleApp Podcasts to discuss the journey from his community-building nonprofit work in Tel Aviv to building the largest provider of community engagement softwar...
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Episode #17 - Sourcemap - Is Sourcemap the Future Google of the Manufacturing World? (I think so) Leonardo Bonanni CEO/Founder
BackgroundLeo Bonanni is an architect-turned-entrepreneur who founded Sourcemap, a pioneering supply chain mapping platform, based on his research at the MIT Media Lab. Originally a tool for understanding the social and environm...
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Episode #16 - Beewise - Saving Our Food Supply - A High Tech Solution to Bee Colony Collapse - Saar Safra, CEO/Founder of Beewise
Background / IntroductionSaar Safra, serial entrepreneur and CEO/co-founder of Beewise, joins Prof. Dan Isenberg to share the extraordinary mission of his sixth startup: saving the bees to secure global food supplies. With backing...
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Episode #15 - TNL Mediagene (TNMG) - $45 mio rev Asian Media Tech Group Scaling Fast
Meet Joey Chung, Taiwanese entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of TNL Mediagene (NASDAQ:TNMG).TNMG is a media content and technology group spanning SE Asia and Japan in Chinese, English and other languages (TNMG IS NOT IN CHINA!) as a...
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EPISODE #14 - Sgt. Clean ACEs It (ACE=Amazing Customer Experience) - Breaking $15 million revenues
I have always been skeptical of conflating entrepreneurship with innovation or technology and Sgt. Clean (YES, a rapidly expanding car wash chain in Ohio) is a great example. How many tech startups you know have more than $10 million in r...
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Episode #13 - Sunbit - How Sunbit Creates Massive Value for all its Stakeholders - Arad Levertov and Tal Riesenfeld
Episode 13 taped on Friday the 13th! How lucky can you get?There is so much I find exciting about Sunbit - talking with co-founders Arad Levertov and Tal Riesenfeld is like a huge smorgasboard of interesting topics.Just a few word...
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Episode #12 - Home Surplus - Beyond $30 mio and Just Getting Started - Joe Schwartz, CEO/Founder
Home Surplus, founded by Joe Schwartz who thought he was a PE guy and found himself as CEO and is building a national chain of specialist cabinet suppliers. What's the deal? Floor and Decor took an aisle out of Home Depot and turned it into a 2...
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Episode #11 - Epignosis - The Global Leader in Online Corporate Training Platforms (and the weird way it got started)
Meet Thanos Papagelis and Dimitris Tsingos, co-founders of Epignosis, the global leader in online corporate training. $50 million ARR, 55% and above margins, 50% and above annual growth, profitable since 2010, bootstrapped without VC. ...
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Episode #10 - MavenAGI - Revolutionizing Customer Support - Jonathan Corbin & Sami Shalabi
Jonathan Corbin, Eugene Mann, and Sami Shalabi have put together decades of combined experience in senior positions at Hubspot, Google, Adobe, Stripe, IBM - need I say more - to COMPLETELY revolutionize how companies engage with customers. I wi...
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Episode #9 - Trio Mobil (Turkey) - Scaling by Making Work (Much) (Much) Safer
Imagine a company, about 7 years old, with 250 employees around the world, revenues in the "eight figures" (that means between $10-99 million), two thousand customers globally. With high 2-digit annual growth. The company uses AI en...
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Episode #8 - Amazon and Ikea Love Wify - Post-purchase service for big-brand sales in India
Vikram Sharma and Deepanshu Goel founded Wify in 2020 to solve a big e-commerce and in-store pain point facing the Ikeas and Amazons of the 1 billion plus population - Not used to self-assembling and self-installing furniture and appliances at ...
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Episode #7 - Run:ai Acquired for "$700 million" by Nvidia - Interview with co-founder Omri Geller
Run:ai was founded in 2018 to provide the software "operating system" for development of AI and large language models (LLMs). But the real story of run:ai is not the acquisition price (unconfirmed) of $700 million nor its raise of $130 mi...
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Episode #6 - Ridge Security - When Product-Market Fit Kicks In - Co-founder Nick Mo
Ridge Security is a pioneer in the new field of "penetration testing," using AI to generate offensive security for increasingly large enterprise customers. Founded in 2020 by Nick Mo and Lydia Zhang, Ridge is already generating "millions" in re...
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Episode #5 - Guesty - Revolutionizing Short Term Rentals Globally - >$100 mm ARR
Founded in 2013 by twins Amiad and Koby Soto, Guesty graduated from Y Combinator and set out to revolutionize the emerging short term rental industry. Starting out as a service to automate management, Amiad and Koby had to pivot from service to...
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Episode #4 - UENI - Kick the Freemium Habit to Unleash Growth - Anh Pham Vu and Christine Telyan
UENI is more than a web-site builder - UENI is a strategic partner to small businesses wanting to grow bigger. Ten years after founding and $30 million raised, UENI is fast becoming a major player in helping SMEs increase their business activit...
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Episode #3 - Caresyntax - Becoming the AI Nexus of the Operating Room
Born out of a search fund, Bjoern von Siemens and Dennis Kogan set out over 12 years ago to dramatically improve surgical outcomes by becoming a platform for "complex coordination" (see Peter Thiel) in operating rooms around the globe. Although...
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Episode #2 - Yodeck - Bootstrapping $20 million ARR! Co-founders, Vangelis Mihalopoulas & Dimitris Tsingos
Vangelis Mihalopoulas and Dimitris Tsingos, two engineers in Athens now in their 40s, founded Yodeck to do a digital signage project for a customer in Greece who wanted to easily send information to numerous digital signs (think schools, govern...
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Episode #1 - Mitch Zlotnick, CEO/Founder Audimute - The Magic of Sound - Getting Past $5 million by Firing Amazon!!
Mitch Zlotnick founded Audimute to provide delightful sound experiences to famous drummers, restaurant-goers, churches, conference centers. With 35 or so employees in their Cleveland facility, Audimute makes and sells acoustics systems around t...
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Launching ScaleApp® podcasts!!! Lessons on how to grow your company.
Ready to unlock the secrets of successful entrepreneurship? Tune into the first episode of the ScaleApp podcast series with Dan Isenberg, where you'll gain invaluable insights from a veteran with nearly four decades of experience in growing bus...
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