Podcast interviews with top startup CEOs!
Stacy Edgar explains how Venteur’s solutions help companies provide flexible individual healthcare plans for employees.
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Bebe Kim of Basis explains how their financial platform connects financial and operational data to help startups get a complete picture of their businesses.
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Don Muir of Arc discusses how Arc has used technology to provide banking to startups, adding savings, checking, cash management, and brokerage services.
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David Pezeshki talks about 409A valuations and how Initio makes the process easier by offering customized valuations with optimized, defensible outcomes.
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Routable focuses on helping businesses scale their payment solutions, and Omri Mor, Co-founder and CEO, explains how the company developed its platform for sending B2B payments worldwide.
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Leon Mueller, co-founder and CEO of Bloom, talks about Bloom’s self-directed therapy app that provides mental health assistance to people in need.
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Co-founder of Coefficient, Navneet Loiwal, discusses how Coefficient connects Google sheets with source systems to automatically sync data with a single click and easily monitor changes with Slack and email alerts.
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Manik Suri, founder and CEO, explains how Therma helps prevent refrigeration issues by providing 24/7 equipment monitoring for companies that use refrigeration.
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Tracking and paying state sales tax is a complicated issue for businesses, but startup company Anrok streamlines and simplifies the process.
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Alex Kracov, CEO and Founder of Dock, explains how Dock helps businesses collaborate by hosting all the information that two organization share.
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Tim Menard, CEO and Founder of LYT, joins Scott Orn to discuss LYT’s connected vehicle and machine learning technologies that optimize traffic flow.
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Ann Jaskiw, CEO of Tactic, joins Scott Orn to talk about how Tactic’s cryptocurrency accounting platform helps businesses track crypto transactions.
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Sarah Jacobson, co-founder of FairStreet, discusses how FairStreet helps insurance brokers enroll older adults in the right Medicare health insurance plans.
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Adam Markowitz, CEO and Founder of Drata, discusses how Drata can streamline data audits and help companies protect their data.
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Harris Stolzenberg, co-founder and CEO of Flok, discusses how Flok streamlines and simplifies event planning in order to bring remote teams together.
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Rose Punkunus, Founder and CEO of Sudozi, discusses how the company streamlines workflows by digitizing offline data and worksheets to help monitor vendor spending and budgets, improving budget insights and decisions.
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Blake Oliver from Earmark discusses the Earmark app which empowers CPAs to earn Continuing Professional Education credit easily from their smartphone.
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David Greenbaum of OnPlan discusses OnPlan’s product which combines spreadsheets, native business intelligence and a multidimensional database.
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Natalie Paterson discusses Ingarden, and talks about the advantages of cultivating microgreens in your home and how Ingarden’s technology can help grow food for families.
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CoreWeave provides companies with compute products on an enterprise scale, supporting intensive workloads.
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Sona Akmakjian talks about the challenges businesses face with state tax returns, and how the tax compliance software, Avalara, can help.
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Lauren Dai of Cocoon explains how the company started, Cocoon’s mission, and how Cocoon helps employers more effectively manage employee leave time.
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Jason McKinney, co-founder and CEO of Truffle Shuffle, discusses how the company began and shares some of the programs and successes.
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Tom Nguyen discusses the creation and development of Café, a software solution that allows employees to easily and quickly schedule time in and out of the office.
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Shensi Ding, Merge API’s co-founder, explains how her team’s needs led to a startup with product-driven growth.
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Roger Philipp of UWorld stops by to talk about how taking the UWorld Roger CPA Review courses can help future-proof your accounting career.
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Nate Willaims, Founder of Union Labs, joins Scott Orn on the Founders & Friends podcast to chat about how his company is solving real problems.
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Thejo Kote, Founder of Airbase, a cloud-based business spend management software company, chats on the importance of, and the strategy behind controlling spend, and so much more.
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Sandra Miller joins us to talk about Runway, a technology innovation hub bringing together entrepreneurs, startups, VCs, mentors, Fortune 500 Corporations, and industry experts.
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Casey Woo stops by to share more on Operators Guild and how they created an organization that brings together like-minded professionals.
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Evan Meagher Evan Meagher, VP of Finance at Logikcull, a powerful DIY Legal platform, talks about having a remote workforce, 2021 business predictions, bitcoin, and more.
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Taylor Matthews of Farther, talks about how his modern judgement-free wealth management company.
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Gina Gutierrez Forbes 30 under 30, brand builder, storyteller, chaser of big feelings, and founder of Dipsea Stories.
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Mang-Git Ng of Anvil stops by to talk about his company’s mission of helping companies and governments transition from paper-based forms to PDF-based processes and online workflows.
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Andrew Farah talks about co-founding Density, a software and sensor platform that helps keep people safe.
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Mark Loranger talks about founding Braavo, a leader in on-demand funding for mobile apps and games.
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Tarin Calmeyer shares how she founded Remote Team Wellness which has become the world’s first live virtual corporate wellness solution designed to bring health and balance to companies and their employees through group sessions.
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Ian White is the Founder & CEO of ChartHop, an Org Chart Tool & more that brings transparency to your organization.
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Matt Van Itallie on Sema Software’s platform that powers technical due diligence for executives and provides tools to find and fix technical debt.
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Jordan Smyth stops by to discuss Gleamin, a beauty company that helps women look their best while empowering them.
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Matt Martin shares how Clockwise optimizes your calendar for thinking time via smart meeting re-scheduling.
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Parker Conrad joins the Founders and Friends podcast to talk about Rippling’s all in one payroll, benefits, and employee management system.
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Nick Ducoff of Edmit - helping families make smarter financial decisions about college, with advice about college savings, the true cost of college, and return on investment.
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Brian Balfour of Reforge - the growth career development company - talks about product led growth.
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Mike Whitmire traces his journey from accountant at a high growth startup to the founder of Floqast, which has raised over $90 million in VC funding, has 150 employees, and hundreds of paying clients.
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The founder of Biome, Collin Cavote, joins Kruze Consulting’s podcast to discuss how bioengineering and careful indoor plants can positively improve air quality, worker safety, and productivity.
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Lea Dessi-Olive, experienced outsourced CFO to over 20 funded startups, discusses how she is helping her clients manage through the COVID crisis.
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Safety, security, and facilities management robots in the time of COVID, with Travis Deyle, CEO of Cobalt Robotics.
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Jeff Lee talks about how Origin pivoted its 3D Manufacturing business to help produce swabs for Covid-19 testing.
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Michael Wang, founder and CEO of Inspiren, and Rohit Prakash, founder and CEO of Coast App, talk about how their companies are making a difference helping healthcare and frontline workers during the COVID crisis.
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Kelly Nyland, a multi-time startup founder, discusses how eCommerce has evolved, and where she thinks it is going in the age of text messaging.
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John Popeo of the Gallatin Group talks with Scott Orn of Kruze Consulting about how financial regulations are impacting the growth of the Fintech startup market.
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Kati Radziwon, founder and CEO of iFlipd, talks to Scott Orn about the journey of growing her startup from a textbook rental company to a video game rental business to a FinTech play helping college students pay for college.
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Aman Mann, Procurify Founder and CEO, dives into how strategically managing a team’s spend can drive purpose, mastery, and autonomy inside organizations.
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Chelsea Shukov, the founder of Sugar Paper, talks about focusing on quality and distribution to build a successful, offline consumer business.
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Brad Gakenheimer of Roast Umber Coffee Company explains what it takes to start a coffee company.
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Robbie Mitchell, Heads of Operations of Frame.ai, discusses his founder journey - and much more.
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Paul Lappas of Intermix comes by to explain how his company gives developers and data scientists a single dashboard to monitor mission-critical data.
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Brian Mullen of InfluxData comes by to discuss the Company’s Open Source Time Series Database for Metrics & Events.
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Michael Chapp of Utomic talks about the entrepreneurial journey and his Company’s iPhone protection hardware.
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Haje Kamps is a Hardware VC at Bolt VC but in this podcast, Haje gets back to his journalist roots by interviewing me (Scott Orn)!
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Ben Raffi of Growlabs discusses the company’s B2B Lead Generation & Sales Automation solution.
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Matt Gunnin of Esports One explains the Esports phenomenon and how his company’s computer vision powered audience experience makes it that much more enjoyable for viewing
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Kevin Busque of Guideline 401k drops by to talk Startup 401ks and how he came to realize the 401k system could be improved dramatically.
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HubHaus CEO, Shruti Merchant, joins Scott Orn on the Founders and Friends Podcast to talk about how she is pioneering long-term home sharing.
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Lee Firestone, CEO of OpenReel, joins Scott Orn to discuss how OpenReel makes creating videos easy for businesses through remote capture technology.
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Ben Munoz, of Nadine West, joins Scott Orn on the Founders and Friends Podcast to discuss his entrepreneurial journey to a profitable commerce business.
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CEO of online service Embroker, Matt Miller, joins the Founders and Friends Podcast to discuss his companies’ efforts to automate insurance for startups.
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Josh Lowy from Hugo joins Scott Orn to discuss the software which makes documenting meeting insights easy and sharing with your team even easier.
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Zack Blum joins the Founders and Friends Podcast to discuss Fleetsmith’s new Cloud Based Mac Management Software and coming up with the idea while at Wikia.
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CEO and Founder Raphael Crawford-Marks joins the Founders & Friends Podcast to talk about Bonusly, a next generation employee recognition service.
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Devon Tivona of Pana discusses how Pana combines mobile app technology and virtual travel assistants to make travel easy
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Sarah Schaaf of Headnote retraces her journey from Google Lawyer to legal industry startup founder
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Jeron Paul, CEO of Capshare, joins Scott Orn on the Founder & Friends Pod to talk about Cap Table Management for Startups and the software Capshare provides.
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James Schramko of SuperFastBusiness discusses building productive habits both personally and professionally
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Founder & CEO of Bill.com, Rene Lacerte, discusses the leading online business payment provider - one of Kruze Consulting’’s favorite software tools!
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Peggy Chang, Co-Founder & CEO of Activity Hero, explains how she came up with the idea of building a one-stop shop website to find and book kids camps and classes
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Mark Macleod, Founder of SurePath, talks about the metrics a startup needs to raise money, how much money to raise and the difference in fundraising approaches.
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Premier payroll system Gusto’s CEO, Josh Reeves, joins Scott Orn on the Founders and Friends Podcast to share his vision and people first values.
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Ed Aten of Merchar shares his experiences building the leading ecommerce site for all things music merchandise
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Sonja Hoel Perkins shares her passion for two women centric organization she has founded, Project Glimmer and Broadway Angels
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Steve Walker, Founder of Cobaltix, coaches us through how startups can outsource their IT systems
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John Pettus is the Founder & CEO of Fiskkit, which is developing a better way to discuss the news
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Co-Founder and CEO of UrbanSitter, Lynn Perkins, joins Scott Orn to talk about how mobile service UrbanSitter makes finding a babysitter easy.
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Jen O’Neal and Jeff Manheimer founded Tripping.com to make finding a vacation home anywhere in the world easy
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Hear from David Barrett, Founder & CEO of Expensify, speaking on the podcast about Expensify - the world’s best expense management software.
Read moreAmazing startup CEOs share their journey with Scott Orn of Kruze Consulting. From the joys and challenges of building a billion-dollar public company to the tribulations of raising millions of dollars of venture capital. Some of the most listened to startup CEO podcasts include:
