PROCO360 | Best Podcast for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

Changing Life Trajectories

“Changing the trajectory of someone’s life is the most contagiously happy thing you can imagine doing.”

Helen Young Hayes, Founder & CEO, ActivateWork

A Test for Lung Cancer Probability

“When you empower physicians with those test results you really are playing a pivotal role in the treatment going forward.”

Scott Hutton, CEO, Biodesix

Consumers Carry Guilt About Trash

“Consumers have the hardest job here – they are carrying the guilt of what to do with the package...”  

Ian Jacobson, Eco Products 

From Player to Leader - in a Few Days

“...and those are the times when you go all in... what’s portrayed in the media, in TV shows – that's REAL.”  

John Nellen, Founder & CEO, Todyl 

 

 

The Shadowy Side of AI

“People are willing to ignore security policies in order to gain the productivity benefits (of AI).”  

Steven Walchek, CEO & Co-founder, Liminal 

Using Balloons to Beat Satellites

“Owning the stratospheric data layer is where the majority of our revenue will live.”  

Andrew Antonio, Co-founder & CEO, Urban Sky 

 

Flattening the Climate Change Curve

“Our goal is to flatten the methane curve, and we can actually achieve it.”

- Craig Rieker, Co-founder & CTO

I had no idea how exciting this episode would become while I was preparing for it. LongPath is the story of a company that emerged from Nobel Prize winning technology developed at NIST and University of Colorado.  You may have never cared about what a “frequency comb” is, and you WILL after listening to how this now little, soon to be big company enabled by a $195 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy, can have a massive impact on climate change.  Listen now – and you’ll be able to tell your friends, “I’ve been watching them since this all started!”

"DIALED IN" with BOA, LIVE

“We wanted to change the company from a closure system to a high-performance fit system to change the way athletes perform – and prove it scientifically.”

Shawn Neville, CEO, BOA

Most guests on ProCO360 cut me some slack.  Not Shawn Neville of BOA, and not even in front of a live audience at BOA’s world headquarters.  From the start Shawn showed how determined he is that the world recognize that BOA technology is NOT to replace shoelaces, or even to be a better closure system.  It’s a “PERFORMANCE FIT SYSTEM,” period. 

If you really want to be intrigued, listen to why BOA is choosing to not maximize profits. Several in attendance at this LIVE event were discussing BOA’s strategy around this afterwards – add your comments about this!

"Like a Fist Bump for Your Soul"

“Give someone who wants to work hard a chance and they will give you everything they’ve got.”

Jamie Repenning, CEO, R&R Head Labs

Cheaper Than New, Better Than eBay

“The default for most manufacturers and retailers before we came along was to destroy returns.”

Kristin Langenfeld, Co-founder and CEO, GoodBuy Gear

My expectations were completely wrong entering this episode with Kristin Langenfeld.  I’d expected she would tell me the story of a woman who started selling her own used baby gear, then slowly expanded the activity into a basement enterprise, and so on until it was a real company.  Nope.  And she’s out to dominate a market sector with those whom I’d have expected were unlikely partners.