The Thread Podcast

Henry Shi, Co founder of Super, joins the show to talk about

• Building a savings super app focussed on the everyday American, and Super's approach to customer segmentation.
• Henry and Hussein's approach …

David Booth, CEO of On Deck, joins the show to talk about:

• How On Deck helps founders get leverage on their time and lean into community to build exceptional companies, as well as how On Deck differs …

Jacob Jaber, Chairman and Co founder of Philz Coffee joins the show to talk about:

• The founder's story behind building one of the industry's most successful specialty coffee brands.
• Creating a culture …

Justin rounds out the week with a quick recap from the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and talks about

• The future of fan engagement and personalization in sports.
• The evolution of the athlete, pl…

Ben Emmrich, CEO and Co founder of Tusk joins the show to talk about:

• Disrupting FedEx and UPS with a better way to ship.
• The process Ben went through to sell and establish Tusk's first network partner…

Jesse Lipson, CEO and Co founder of Levitate and ShareFile, joins the show to talk about

• Bootstrapping his SaaS company, ShareFile, to a $93M acquisition by Citrix.
• What the acquisition process looked …

Stephanie Bowker, Co Founder and CMO of Ourspace, joins the show to talk about

• The "people puzzle problem", and the biggest challenge individual contributors face as they transition to managers of peo…

Bryant Chou, Co founder and CTO of Webflow, joins the show to talk about

• Bryant, Sergie and Vlad's journey to building a unicorn, and the three signals that gave Bryant conviction they were on to some…

Bryan Tublin, Owner and Co Founder of Kitava, joins the show to talk about

• Taking the leap to leave a stable tech job to start a restaurant.
• How Bryan validated the concept for his restaurant by bringi…

Howard Lerman, CEO and Co founder of Roam and Yext joins the show to talk about

• Building Yext, pivoting after $20M in ARR, and replacing the Yellow Pages
• Whether or not remote work is here to stay, the…

Rajat Suri, CEO and Co founder of Presto and previous Co founder of Lyft joins the show to talk about:

• The customer insight that led to starting Zimride (aka Lyft)
• "Fork in the road" moments that have …

Roger Obando, CTO at Loyalsnap and Co founder of Baker Technologies (acquired by TILT Holdings), joins the show to talk about

• The evolution of the cannabis space, customer segmentation in weed, and th…

Bill Clerico, Founder and Managing Partner at Convective Capital, and Co founder and CEO of WePay, joins the show to talk about

• Building companies in a recession and Bill's model for evaluating invest…

Brian Wang, founder and executive coach at Dashing Leadership joins the show to talk about:

• The similarities and differences of starting a venture backed startup and a coaching and services business.
• H…

Cam Doody, Co founder and GP of the Brickyard, joins the show to talk about:

• Cam's first successful venture, Bellhop, and how he scaled one of the fastest growing companies in the moving industry. 
• Bri…

AJ Forsythe and Jordan Barnes, Co founders of Coop, join the show to talk about

• Building the world's largest decentralized food network.
• The future of AgTech and putting automated agriculture systems o…

Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, CEO and Co founder of Polymath Robotics, joins the show to talk about

• The importance of timing when tackling an emerging category.
• How Polymath thinks about customer segmentation…

Troy Vosseller, Co founder of the Gener8tor accelerator and Co founder of Sconnie Nation joins the show to talk about

• Troy's experience founding a startup accelerator, and the similarities and differe…

• How Filmhub approached the BD and enterprise sales process to secure distrubtion deals with incredible partners like Ama…