The Scott Show
A podcast about tech, media and money. Hosted by Scott Kitun, featuring a rotating cast of internet personalities, founders, investors and media friends.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 441
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Catalytic Wants to Give the Worst Parts of Your Job to Robots So You Can Be More Human
How do we ditch the dull parts of our day jobs? According to Sean Chou and Catalytic — and numerous sci-fi authors — it’s by giving the boring tasks that make us feel like robots to actual robots — o…
00:37:37 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
Disruption Joe talks Voice of Blockchain
Joe Hernandez aka Disruption Joe joins the podcast in-studio at WGN to talk about the latest trends in Chicago tech and diving into all things blockchain. His belief in Chicago's ability to become a …
00:26:36 |
Fri 27 Sep 2019
Groundbreaker: Meet the Company Cleaning Up the Back Offices of Real Estate
Take a look at a property that is for sale and of course, you’ll see its best attributes on display. It’s pristine and uncluttered, shiny and inviting.
Glimpse behind-the-scenes of most real estate …
00:25:23 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
How Relish Works is Adding Zest to a 122-year-old Company
If there’s one industry that’s both very old and highly innovative, it’s food. We’ve been eating since before we could talk in more than grunts — but what we want to eat, and how and where we acquire…
00:43:12 |
Wed 25 Sep 2019
A VC Makes the Case For Working and Investing in Tech Beyond Silicon Valley
When you’ve already worked at Google for over a decade, co-founded a successful startup, used your talents to help a non-profit, and earned degrees from Stanford University and Harvard Business Schoo…
00:51:59 |
Tue 24 Sep 2019
Would You Pay to Be Very Cold for Three Minutes? CryoBar Thinks So for Efficient Therapy
If you’ve lived through a Chicago winter, the idea of paying someone to let you stand in a machine that gets cold enough to give you frostbite seems dubious at best. But CryoBar owner Sara Latham is …
00:47:01 |
Fri 20 Sep 2019
From clients to talent, People + People Conference is all about growth
Strategic growth requires a People+People™ plan. Simply put, you can’t have one without the other. As sales grow, so does your need for a talented workforce. Here’s the bottom line: It takes the same…
00:55:02 |
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Starry is the New Internet Service Provider on the Block and They’re Making It Easier (and Cheaper) For You to Get Connected
Chet Kanojia’s entrepreneurial ventures often have a theme of pushing back against the “big guy” — and for good reason. As a kid growing up in Bhopal, India, he was profoundly affected by the Union C…
00:40:28 |
Wed 18 Sep 2019
How Netflix turned a humble beginning into one of the most disruptive companies of the past hundred years
The origin story of one of the most influential businesses to emerge in the last 20 years is now available for your reading pleasure — Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph has written a new memoir, “That…
00:54:19 |
Tue 17 Sep 2019
This On-The-Go Smoothie Bowl is Designed to Spark Joy
Be honest: are you a regular deskfast eater — grabbing breakfast while you’re settling in at the office? Jon Agay noticed this trend while doing market research for what would become joyböl, a “ready…
00:33:25 |
Mon 16 Sep 2019
How to Bring Sales Into the 21st Century
While other aspects of business, like marketing, product and UX, have been revamped and revolutionized multiple times in just the last 10 years, the technology many businesses give to their sales tea…
00:48:34 |
Thu 12 Sep 2019
This Company Is Trying to Reduce Healthcare Costs by Figuring Out Drug Discounts
A SaaS platform developed by pharmaceutical industry veterans, Kalderos combines that background knowledge with artificial intelligence and data to calculate when and where discounts should be applie…
00:33:53 |
Tue 10 Sep 2019
Why Empathy and Having Fun Are the Secrets to Marketing (and Business) Success
This probably comes as no surprise, but around here, we believe that business talk doesn’t always have to be serious. It’s possible to be scaling huge companies, laser-focused on your mission while b…
00:44:12 |
Thu 05 Sep 2019
Egen Solutions CEO on Tech Outsourcing: ‘From Day One, Our Engineers Sit Next To Their Engineers’
Technology outsourcing firms might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about where the next major tech innovation might come from. But increasingly, firms like Egen Solutions are…
00:34:52 |
Tue 03 Sep 2019
How To Win Your Sales War and Crush Your Sales Targets
Finding great sales talent is notoriously tough. Interviews are a poor predictor of future performance, and without the proper on-the-job support and training, even a seasoned sales pro can flounder …
00:33:38 |
Fri 30 Aug 2019
The Ferrari of Email Services Will Make You Go Faster — for $30/Month
What the car did for transport, Superhuman does for email. But while pioneers like Henry Ford intentionally made cars available to the mass market, Superhuman has a very specific target audience. The…
00:56:48 |
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Here’s Why it’s Time to Fix the Way We Support Working Parents — And How to Do it
Aside from founders telling you that their company is their baby, families don’t often figure into the mythology of the tech startup. One simple reason is that many of the people who are focusing on …
00:35:05 |
Wed 28 Aug 2019
This Company Is Making It Easier To Own and Profit From Farmland
FarmTogether estimates that farmland is a more than $2.5 trillion market in the U.S. alone, and as high as $9 trillion worldwide, which makes it larger than real estate and gold. But after a little d…
00:37:28 |
Tue 27 Aug 2019
This App Will Give You Real-Time Access to a Live Translator When You Travel
“Uber for ‘x’” is the most overused, maddening phrase in startup land. It’s hype-marketing shorthand for just about every business idea that leverages the sharing economy. That’s why co-founders Keit…
00:21:56 |
Fri 23 Aug 2019
This Company is Creating the Future of Online Shopping
As the founder and CTO of ThreeKit, the Vancouver native spent almost 15 years creating visual effects technology that was used in the Harry Potter, Star Wars and Marvel franchises, among others. But…
00:45:22 |
Wed 21 Aug 2019
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