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
You’ve Probably Never Heard of This Superfood (but It Could Be the Next Big Thing)
The way to the heart may indeed be through the stomach (metaphorically speaking), but a food entrepreneur’s path to success is less easily discernible. Emily Griffith, CEO of Lil Bucks, offers fruit …
00:35:03 |
Thu 15 Aug 2019
How to Use Influencers Without Feeling Like You’re Throwing Your Money Away
For anyone over the age of 17, contemplating not just the functions of these platforms but how people are actually using them — and how that fits in with your business — is enough to put (more) gray …
00:48:48 |
Tue 13 Aug 2019
How Kid Play Company Pearachute 10xed Active Monthly Users
Anyone with children will appreciate exactly why Pearachute is doing the opposite of its namesake and taking off — especially in the middle of summer, when you’ve exhausted your imagination and walle…
00:34:42 |
Thu 08 Aug 2019
This Company Made $255 Million From Helping You Figure out What’s for Dinner
Home Chef was founded in 2013 by Patrick Vihtelic, who was inspired to bring homemade meals to as many people as possible thanks to memories of the fresh food he grew up eating on his family’s farm. …
00:38:46 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
Meet The Investors Swinging Big In The Midwest
If you buy into the mainstream narrative around the U.S. tech industry, California and New York are the two gleaming lights on either end of a dark and empty tunnel that runs between the coasts. That…
00:44:04 |
Thu 01 Aug 2019
How Car-Shopping Company Shift Is Disrupting the Awful Business of Buying a Car
There are more than a few reasons why buying a car –– especially a used one –– is about as appealing as getting a root canal, being stuck on a packed airplane taxiing on a runway or using a porta-joh…
00:43:04 |
Wed 31 Jul 2019
How a New Salon is Nailing the Manicure Experience for Professional Women
Kim Marsh, COO of ezza nails, sits down with Scott Kitun at WGN Radio. Kim and her co-founder Ale Breuer are both products of Teach for America and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.…
00:35:02 |
Tue 30 Jul 2019
4 Tips for Being a Better Leader From the Legendary Former Cisco Boss
Listen to John Chambers, former Cisco CEO and current leader of JC2 Ventures, talk with Scott about his career, book and new venture on WGN. John has been innovating tech since the ‘80s. He spent 25-…
00:43:35 |
Sun 28 Jul 2019
Meet The Company Introducing Institutions To The Wild West Of Cryptocurrency
Edward Woodford, CEO of Seed CX, sits down with Scott at WGN Radio. At a time when cryptocurrency is rising in popularity, while also coming under scrutiny for its unregulated elements, Edward and hi…
00:43:31 |
Thu 25 Jul 2019
This Crypto Company Wants To Reward You For Listening To Music
Dan Novaes sits down with Scott at WGN Radio. Dan’s company Current Media aims to upend how media consumption is monetized. In short, Current takes ad dollars and passes some of the value on to consu…
00:38:55 |
Tue 23 Jul 2019
This Recruiting Company Uses Data To Send Emails People Actually Want To Read
If there’s one thing that drives tech workers completely nuts, it’s those awful, automated recruitment emails. So many of these recruiting emails go unread, unanswered and unloved. As a long-time tec…
00:30:10 |
Thu 18 Jul 2019
This Leading AI Chicago Startup Turns Raw Data into Meaningful Stories for Business Intelligence
Chicago wasn’t built in a day, as the saying nearly goes, reminding us that everything worth doing takes time, patience and unwavering hard work. Stuart Frankel learned that lesson over nearly a deca…
00:44:39 |
Tue 16 Jul 2019
Craft Whiskey in the Mail? There’s a Subscription Box For That
Craft whiskey used to be the exclusive domain of snobs. That was the perception, at least. Think of a person who nerds out on craft whiskey and you might fall asleep at the very thought of a lecture …
00:46:41 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
You’ll Never Guess What Lou Malnati’s Grandson Is up to (Hint: It’s NOT Pizza, But Starts With a ‘P’)
Will Malnati is, indeed, from that Malnati family. His great-grandfather Adolpho ‘Rudy’ Malnati, Sr. was a deep dish pioneer at Pizzeria Uno, and his grandfather Lou opened his eponymous restaurant i…
00:51:27 |
Thu 11 Jul 2019
This Marketplace Offers Custom-Made Women’s Clothing To Help You Find the Perfect Fit
Balodana CEO Dana Todd joined Scott Kitun in the WGN Studio to discuss her entrepreneurial journey and how it led her to lead a fashion startup. Dismayed with the availability of fashionable options …
00:38:06 |
Wed 10 Jul 2019
How Victor Ciardelli Went From ‘Broke and in a Bad Spot’ to CEO of a Mortgage Giant
Victor Ciardelli, Founder and CEO of Guaranteed Rate, sits down with Scott Kitun.
00:44:06 |
Tue 09 Jul 2019
Spotivity Helps Find After School Programs for Teenagers in Chicago
Montana Butsch is what Malcolm Gladwell would call a “connector” –– someone who’s a natural hub between people of different worlds and affects change by bringing his network together. He’s putting ne…
00:58:18 |
Tue 09 Jul 2019
Hatch CEO: ‘It's Okay to Make Mistakes. Don't Make Them Twice.’
CEO Jake Kiser joined Technori CEO Scott Kitun in the WGN Studio to talk about how building trust and loyalty has led to Hatch’s success. Hatch Loyalty offers a software solution for retailers to cus…
00:28:53 |
Tue 02 Jul 2019
Eventually You Could Get 5G From Your Neighbor and Cut Big Telecom Out
Amir Haleem, CEO of Helium sits down with Scott Kitun at WGN Radio. Building the world’s first peer-to-peer wireless network takes more than just brilliant engineering. It takes the confidence to kno…
00:58:33 |
Mon 01 Jul 2019
How To Harness Data for Business Growth
Data collection used to be the kind of thing you’d only hear specialists discuss in a technical meeting. These days, it’s so mainstream — even your parents know a little about it.
The question facin…
00:39:50 |
Fri 28 Jun 2019
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