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Office Hours with Spencer Rascoff

Spencer Rascoff is a New York Times bestselling author who co-founded four tech companies, invested in over 50, and was CEO of Zillow for a decade. His first start-up, Hotwire, sold to Expedia for $685 million, and his second start-up, Zillow, is now a real estate colossus, worth around $10 billion dollars. Now, he’s cofounded dot.LA, a media company covering the cutting-edge LA tech scene. Hear Spencer speak with CEOs, start-up founders, venture capitalists, and prominent thought leaders about how to manage, how to lead, and how to win in business.

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How DEI Initiatives and Access to Capital Benefit L.A.’s Startup Ecosystem, with Calvin Selth of AnnenbergTech from 2022-02-11T08:01:56

Spencer speaks with Calvin Selth, program manager for Listen

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JibJab CEO Paul Hanges On How His Entertainment Studio has Attained Longevity on the Internet from 2022-01-28T08:01:07

Paul Hanges, CEO of JibJab speaks with Office Hours host Spencer Rascoff about how the L.A.-based digital entertainment studio has attained success beyond its vir...

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This LA-based "Storyteaching" Company Wants to Put Culture at the Heart of Content Creation in the EdTech Space from 2022-01-14T08:02

Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Encantos talks with Spencer about how the EdTech start-up uses "storyteaching" to help kids learn 21st-century skills. With diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) ...

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Multiple Start-up Founder Russ Glass the CEO of Headspace Health on the Growth of Telehealth Industry During the Pandemic from 2021-12-30T13:00

Russ Glass, CEO of Headspace Health, a digital mental health and wellbeing platform, speaks with Spencer about his involvement overseeing the surge in the Telehealth market after the merger of H...

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Allison Ellsworth co-founder of Poppi on Creating a Healthy Soda Alternative While Building a Brand from 2021-12-17T13:55

Allison Ellsworth and her husband Stephen, formerly employed in the oil and gas industry, quit their jobs to bet on themselves and and started a health-based soda alternative. Their concept, a p...

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An In-Depth Conversation on Venture Investing & Startup Dynamics with Dana Settle, co-founder Greycroft from 2021-12-03T14:30

This conversation explores the L.A. tech scene and venture investing featuring two of the industry's leading voices. Spencer Rascoff and Dana Settle discuss Pacaso and Greycroft while sharing th...

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The Future of Mobile Gaming, A Conversation with Josh Yguado, co-founder of Jam City from 2021-11-19T14:30

In this fireside chat with dot.LA and Pacaso co-founder...

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Why Legendary Real Estate Coach Tom Ferry Says A Legacy is Better Built than Inherited from 2021-04-01T13:57:16

My friend, serial entrepreneur and legendary real estate coach, Tom Ferry, shares his career trajectory from sales to coaching phenom, the single biggest pitfall for work performance and his tak...

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ChowNow’s Software Empowers Restaurants To Digitize Their Businesses from 2021-03-25T16:43:26

Chris Webb rejected attending college in favor of diving into a finance career at eighteen years old. Now, he’s the CEO and co-founder of ChowNow, Listen

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Immigrant Grit And Parents’ Experience Inspired Co-founders To Create Service Titan from 2021-03-18T13:30

Shoeboxes full of invoices and receipts ignited the idea of Service Titan for Ara Mahdessian, the company’s CEO and cofounder. An Armenian immigrant from Iran, Ara came to the U.S. with his fami...

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Visionary Keith Richman Of Boosted Commerce On Acquiring Ecommerce Companies from 2021-03-11T11:30

Before PayPal, there was Bill Point, a company cofounded in the late 90s by Keith Richman, now cofounder of Boosted Commerce, which buys top-rated companies on Amazon and other e-commerce ecosys...

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Co-Founder Of Brex, FinTech Unicorn, On Second-Time Founder Status, Hypergrowth And Leaving SF for L.A. from 2021-03-04T11:30

As a self-taught teenage computer programmer in Brazil, Henrique Dubugras launched his first company, Pagar.me at age 16. After he sold it, Henrique was accepted an...

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Pacaso Aims To Make Second Home Ownership Possible For Millions from 2021-02-25T22:06:38

Birds were the first dwellers Austin Allison, CEO and co-founder of Pacaso, served with his boyhood bird-house business. Now, with Pacaso, the serial entrepreneur aims to democratize second home...

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Health-Ade Kombucha Was Born Of A Surprise Pivot from 2021-02-18T11:30

If there’s one thing to be learned from CEO and co-founder of Health-Ade, Daina Trout, it’s to pay attention to the opportunity in front of you and be prepared to pivot. Hear how Health-Ade Komb...

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How The E-Commerce Sneaker Company GOAT Achieved GOAT Status from 2021-02-11T11:45:15

Hear from GOAT cofounder and CEO Eddy Lu about big, public and most importantly, resolved founder fights, insight on when to know it’s time to pivot or quit, how ...

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dot.LA Celebrates First Anniversary Covering Los Angeles Tech And Start-Up Scene from 2021-02-04T11:30

The burgeoning Los Angeles start-up and tech scene led to the founding of dot.LA one year ago. Today, we hear from its CEO and Spencer’s cofounder, Sam Adams, on ...

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Mattel CEO On Leveraging the Power of Brands -- Barbie and More from 2021-01-21T11:30

Ynon Kreiz served on the board of Mattel before stepping in as CEO in 2018. Hear about how Mattel is leverage its massive brand portfolio across multiple platforms, from toys to films, how Matte...

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For Beauty Counter Founder, Gregg Renfrew, It’s Not Just Makeup, It’s A Movement from 2021-01-07T11:30

A free-flowing conversation packed with entrepreneurial lessons with serial entrepreneur, Beauty Counter founder, Gregg Renfrew. Hear what to look for in an investor, ideas about scali...

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Cameo’s Custom-Crafted Celebrity Videos Is The New Autograph from 2020-12-17T11:30

Cameo’s highly-anticipated 2017 launch tanked. Its only talent was furious. But the startup persisted, and through grit has grown massively. Hear Steven Galanis, founde...

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Bill Gurley Drops Knowledge: Startups, Venture Capital And Scaling from 2020-12-03T11:30

Bill Gurley, Legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist, is a general partner at Benchmark and famously known for investing early in trailblazing companies including Uber, GrubHub, my company, ...

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The Chainsmokers Grow Into Venture Capitalists from 2020-11-12T11:30

Huge musical success is not enough for the electronic musical group, The Chainsmokers, made of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart. As part of their hunger to grow and learn, they've started their VC fir...

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Lessons Learned During Zulily’s Rocketship Rise from 2020-10-29T10:30

How tough is it to infuse a retail website with entirely new products every day? Very. Nonetheless, that’s what Zulily, an ecommerce site that sells unique retail...

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Turnaround Expert, Brad Stewart, On The Next Steps At Fair from 2020-10-15T10:30

It’s not easy to turn around a company. But some executives seek out that challenge. An experienced turnaround expert, Brad Stewart is the relatively new CEO of Fair, an app to lease used, affor...

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How Outer Aims to Disrupt the Outdoor Furniture Industry from 2020-10-01T10:30

Years of work experience, largely solving business problems for his family, gave Jiake Liu a fundamental understanding of how to run a successful business. It als...

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Online Retailer, Behold, Uses AI To Craft Bespoke Outfits from 2020-09-17T10:30

Too many fashion options is a pain point Terry Boyle, cofounder and CEO of Behold, aims to solve with his newly launched retail platform. Hear how Terry, who’s be...

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All Voices Allows Employees To Share Feedback Anonymously from 2020-09-03T12:30

Inspired in the midst of the MeToo awakening, Claire Schmidt founded All Voices. It’s a platform that allows employees to anonymously share feedback with company ...

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GoodRx Makes Unpredictable Prescription Drug Prices More Affordable from 2020-08-20T10:30

On a mission to improve healthcare for every American, by offering steeply discounted prescription drugs, Doug Hirsch, cofounder and CEO of GoodRx, speaks with Sp...

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Age Of Learning Supplements Kids’ Remote Education from 2020-08-06T10:30

Sunil Gunderia, Chief Strategy Officer of Age of Learning, says two-thirds of America’s fourth graders are not proficient in english language arts or math despite the $700 billion spent on K-12 ...

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Why Buy Costly Outdoor Gear When Arrive Outdoors Lets You Rent It? from 2020-07-23T15:01

Stripped of their outdoor gear before their move to Los Angeles, Rachelle Snyder and her husband, Ross Richmond, arrived, surrounded by tantalizing outdoor advent...

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How Is It That Tech Markets Are Booming While the Economy Reels? from 2020-07-09T07:30

With so many people out of work, how is it the stock market is soaring? To make sense of it all, listen to Spencer as he speaks with John Scuorzo and Zaheed Kajan...

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The Messy Business Of Disrupting A Legacy Business from 2020-06-25T07:30

No matter how challenging, if given the choice, Jason Kilar, founder of Hulu and current CEO of WarnerMedia, would willingly disrupt the way television and film was distributed, all over again. ...

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Can L.A. Tech Learn Inclusion Lessons From The Entertainment Industry? from 2020-06-11T15:49:06

During the past decade, the Hollywood entertainment industry has worked towards more inclusivity in their ranks and storytelling. Can Los Angeles Tech employ thos...

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Enormous Rockets Made By Printers from 2020-05-28T07:30

Led by Tim Ellis, Relativity Space is radically upending the aerospace industry by manufacturing rockets using 3D printers. Hear Spencer and Tim dig into Relativity’s engineering feats, its visi...

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Why L.A. Is Now A Tech Capital – A Conversation With Brian Lee from 2020-05-14T07:30

Los Angeles has come a long way in the 20 years that Brian Lee has built up startups. Brian co-founded LegalZoom in 2001, ShoeDazzle with Kim Kardashian in 2008, ...

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The Pain And Promise of Crisis from 2020-04-30T10:30

Managing through crisis is difficult, but great leaders and great companies are created during challenging times. Spencer grappled with crises at two companies he cofounded, Hotwire and Zillow. ...

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Rear Admiral Michael Wettlaufer from 2018-11-15T08:30

Earlier this year, Spencer had an opportunity through the Navy’s Distinguished Visitors Program to visit the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier. During his time aboard the ship, Spencer me...

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Nick Huzar: Co-founder and CEO of OfferUp from 2018-10-25T07:30

Nick Huzar is co-founder and CEO of OfferUp, the largest mobile marketplace in the U.S. The company has reinvented the model for local, peer-to-peer commerce, and its engagement metrics are incr...

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Russell Wilson: Quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks and Entrepreneur from 2018-09-25T07:30

In this episode, Russell Wilson joins Spencer at Zillow Group’s Seattle headquarters for a live recording in front of employees. Russell is the starting quarterback for the Seahawks, leading the...

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Van Jones, CNN host and nonprofit founder from 2018-08-30T08:00

Van Jones hosts his own show on CNN, and he’s the founder of The Dream Corps, an accelerator that supports economic and environmental innovation. Its #YesWeCode initiative aims to help 100,000 youn...

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Stewart Butterfield, Co-founder and CEO of Slack from 2018-08-09T08:00

Stewart Butterfield is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Slack, a collaboration hub beloved by more than eight million daily active users. In this episode, Spencer joins Stewart at Slac...

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From the Vault: John MacFarlane, Founder and Former CEO, Sonos from 2018-07-13T08:00

John MacFarlane served as CEO of Sonos from 2002 to 2017 and was instrumental in building the company’s loyal customer base. Just last week, Sonos filed to go public in a $100 million initial publi...

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Adena Friedman, President and CEO of Nasdaq from 2018-07-05T08:00

Adena Friedman is president and chief executive officer of Nasdaq, which operates the second-largest stock exchange in the world by market cap. Named one of Forbes’ most powerful women, Adena built...

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Emily Chang: Author, “Brotopia” & Host/Executive Producer, Bloomberg Technology from 2018-06-21T07:00

Emily Chang is a best-selling author and host and executive producer of Bloomberg Technology. Earlier this year, she made waves with her book “Brotopia,” an expose on how sexism became pervasive in...

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From The Vault: Brad Tilden, CEO of Alaska Airlines from 2018-05-31T08:00

Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden is in the midst of his "what's next" agenda following the company's successful acquisition of Virgin America. Acquisitions, no matter how well executed, are almost a...

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Stuart Miller, Executive Chairman, Lennar Corporation from 2018-05-24T07:05

What will the home of the future look like? Imagine built-in Wi-Fi, voice-activated digital assistants and other technological innovations that will render older homes obsolete before long. Earlier...

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From the Vault: Robert Carlock: Emmy Winner & Co-Creator of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” from 2018-05-17T07:02

Comedy writer and producer Robert Carlock's spectacular career includes writing and producing credits on iconic shows such as "Saturday Night Live," "Friends" and "30 Rock." Most recently he co-cre...

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Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber from 2018-05-15T07:01

Dara Khosrowshahi is CEO of Uber, a company that’s become a household name for transportation. Uber’s dominance hasn’t come without controversy, however. Uber’s reputation as an innovator has often...

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From the Vault: Eric Holder: Former U.S. Attorney General from 2018-05-03T07:00

We revisit our conversation with Eric Holder. Eric knows a thing or two about introspection. In his current role, companies tap the former U.S. Attorney General to ask difficult questions and help ...

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Cindy Whitehead, CEO and founder, The Pink Ceiling from 2018-04-26T07:00

It’s no wonder Fortune Magazine called Cindy a “tireless force of nature.” She’s the entrepreneur behind the first-ever FDA approved drug to treat decreased libido in women, and she’s built two bus...

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Arianna Huffington: Founder, Thrive Global & Co-Founder, The Huffington Post from 2018-04-11T07:00

Arianna Huffington needs little introduction. The author of 15 books, including best-sellers Thrive and The Sleep Revolution, Arianna has been named to Time Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential ...

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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: Founder & Chairman of theBoardlist from 2018-03-15T07:00

Sukhinder is a serial entrepreneur and longtime technology executive who had stints at both Google and Amazon. In 2015, she founded theBoardlist, a talent marketplace for leaders to find highly qua...

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Satya Nadella: CEO of Microsoft from 2018-03-01T10:00

Companies that transform our lives with one innovation (like Microsoft Windows) often find it difficult to repeat the same feat because everything - from product to revenue to culture - is built on...

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Eric Holder: Former U.S. Attorney General from 2017-11-09T01:30

Eric Holder knows a thing or two about introspection. In his current role, companies tap the former U.S. Attorney General to ask difficult questions and help businesses improve everything from dive...

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Bill Gurley: Venture Capitalist and General Partner at Benchmark from 2017-06-30T00:30

The companies within Bill Gurley's investment portfolio have some clear similarities: great user-generated content, a reliance on the network effect and a "power to the people" mentality, meaning t...

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Joel Spolsky: CEO of Stack Overflow from 2017-06-16T00:30

As a founding member of several successful companies (Fog Creek, Trello) in the software development space, you could say that Joel Spolsky knows a bit about developers. On his popular online forum...

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John MacFarlane: Co-founder of Sonos from 2017-06-02T00:30

When John MacFarlane and his co-founders started Sonos in 2002, they knew nothing about audio or hardware. They simply had an inspiring mission: Fill every home with music. And they knew that the f...

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Robert Carlock: Emmy Winner & Co-Creator of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” from 2017-05-18T00:30

Comedy writer and producer Robert Carlock's spectacular career includes writing and producing credits on iconic shows such as "Saturday Night Live," "Friends" and "30 Rock." Most recently he co-cre...

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Sheryl Sandberg: COO of Facebook from 2017-05-11T00:30

Dubbed Silicon Valley's "oddest couple" by The New York Times, together Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg have driven Facebook's astronomical growth and supported one another along the way. The k...

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General David Petraeus from 2017-04-20T00:30

With a storied career that includes leading coalition forces and counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus definitely knows a thing or two about leadership...

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Brad Tilden: CEO of Alaska Airlines from 2017-04-06T00:30

Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden is in the midst of his "what's next" agenda following the company's successful acquisition of Virgin America. Acquisitions, no matter how well executed, are almost a...

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Kevin Demoff: COO of the Los Angeles Rams from 2017-03-23T21:29:54

With managing a relocation, a mammoth real estate development and significant leadership changes on the coaching staff, L.A. Rams COO Kevin Demoff has a had a tumultuous couple of years. So how doe...

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Brandon Beck: CEO of Riot Games from 2017-03-09T01:30

Gaming is big business - a fact that perhaps no one knows better than Brandon Beck, co-founder and CEO of Riot Games. Riot's League of Legends is an eSports juggernaut and ushered in a new era of c...

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Jared Grusd: CEO of The Huffington Post from 2017-02-14T01:30

Nearly a year and a half ago, The Huffington Post's legendary founder Arianna Huffington recruited Jared Grusd from his role as head of strategy at Spotify to lead Huff Post as she transitioned to ...

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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker from 2016-12-16T01:30

During her 27 years in the private sector, Secretary Penny Pritzker started five companies, led dozens of businesses and served on the boards of big corporations like Hyatt Hotels, LaSalle National...

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Christa Quarles: CEO of OpenTable from 2016-11-16T01:30

About this episode's guest: CEO of OpenTable, which was founded nearly 20 years ago Previously CFO of Playdom, which was acquired by Disney in 2010 Left "armchair quarterbacking" on Wall Street for...

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Aaron Levie: CEO of Box from 2016-10-20T00:30

About this episode's guest: Founded Box at age 20 with three friends from high school. Prolific user of social media, with 678,000+ followers. Known for wearing bright-colored sneakers. Topics cove...

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Sallie Krawcheck: CEO of Ellevest from 2016-09-07T00:30

With her longstanding Wall Street career (Citigroup, Merrill Lynch) and unique perspective as a woman in a predominantly male industry, Sallie Krawcheck is tackling a question that has mystified in...

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Scott Svenson: CEO of MOD Pizza from 2016-08-09T00:30

Scott Svenson believes in second chances. The serial entrepreneur's latest venture, MOD Pizza, embraces what he calls "enlightened capitalism." Yes, the company aims for profitability, but not at t...

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Michael Corbat: CEO of Citigroup from 2016-07-19T00:30

Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat believes that physical office space plays an important role in shaping a company's culture. In fact, you won't find the corner offices traditionally associated with the...

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Dick Costolo: Entrepreneur and Former CEO of Twitter from 2016-06-21T06:44:04

Listen. Decide. Communicate. These three steps form Dick Costolo's model for open communication and honesty in the workplace. It's a lesson he instilled as CEO of Twitter and one that he carries wi...

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