Mission Daily

From Startup to Acquisition with Joe Chura, CEO of Dealer Inspire

Confronting The Challenges of Indirect Tax with Andy Hovancik, CEO of Sovos

Albert Chou and Henry Schuck discuss how Henry made the quick switch from law school to creating his own award-winning tech company, the rewards of working hard to meet your goals, and the importance of listening to the business.

On this special, mid-week episode of the show, Chad Grills, CEO of Mission, sits down with Kamal Ravikant. Kamal has done it all; trekked through the Himalayas, walked across Spain, served our country in the US Army Infantry, written several bestsellers... and today, he is a partner at Evolve.VC, a seed and A round investment firm.

Joel Peterson serves as Chairman of the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and the Chairman of the Board at JetBlue Airways. On this episode of Mission Daily, Joel talks about how he spots potential in people, what the future of business looks like, why it’s important to always be innovating, and much more.

On this episode of Mission Daily, Chad and Brent Lang sit down to discuss how Vocera is unifying care teams, information, and priorities around the patient through proper communication and workflow in order to better care for their patients.

Michelle Zatlyn, COO of Cloudflare, founded Cloudflare in 2009 and has since grown the company from start-up to multi-billion-dollar public company in just 10 years. On today’s episode, Michelle shares that very origin story, and dives into the importance — really, the necessity — of building a better Internet.

Chad is joined by Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of Hashicorp, where he has spent a large amount of his time building the culture of the company as he knows his job is as much about building a great product as it is about building a great team. Armon also discusses the differences between being a coder and the CTO, ways to keep up with the ever-changing, fast-paced world of IT, and how to find time for personal growth.

Today, Chad sits down with Jay Fulcher, CEO and chairman of Zenefits which offers cloud based software as a service for companies to better manage their human resources. Having learned the ropes of leadership by being a serial entrepreneur and CEO, Jay was brought on to lead Zenefits in 2017 where he instituted a new business model and leadership team. Today, Zenefits has become one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history and has created a value of 4.5 billion dollars in six years. 

Today, Chad is joined by Kelly Leonard, Executive Director of Insights & Applied Improvisation at Second City Works. Kelly originally started off as a production assistant (aka dishwasher) in 1988 and worked his way up to Director of Sales and then assistant to the Executive Producer of the show. Since starting with Second City, Kelly has produced work with talents such as Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Keegan Michael Key, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, and many others. 

Today, Chad is joined by John Arrow, CEO of Mutual Mobile, an agency that designs and develops breakthrough digital applications for the Fortune 1000. Through starting Mutual Mobile, John has emerged as one of the most promising young CEOs in the past decade, being named to Forbes list of Top 30 CEOs Under 30. Mutual Mobile was also named by Forbes as one of America's most promising companies in 2011 and has produced award-winning apps for Google, Audi, Cisco, and many more.

Ian is joined by Nate Boyer, ex-NFL player and Army Green Beret. After 9/11, Nate enlisted in the Army and joined the Green Berets. But between deployments, Nate was ready for his next challenge so he decided to pursue a career in football, a sport he’d never played before. Through grit, determination and by tapping into the work he’d done in the military, Nate walked onto the Texas Longhorns team in 2010, becoming a long snapper on the roster in 2011 and later signing with the Seattle Seahawks.

Today, Ian is joined by Chris Hsu, a West Point graduate, an Army veteran, and now CEO of Zibo, a digital financial services platform that provides individual landlords banking, insurance and payment services. Prior to founding Zibo and post-military, Chris held roles as Executive Vice President for Hewlett Packard and a Senior Vice President at HP. He also served as a top executive in private equity for six years, during which he advised entrepreneurs and led turnaround efforts for companies.

Chad is joined by Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP NS2, who was 20 years old when he worked as a high school janitor but decided to turn the page and join the Air Force. He served in the military for 20 years, and since retiring, Mark has become an active spokesperson on veteran’s issues, discussing the importance of believing in yourself and building confidence. 

Today, Chad is joined by Alex MacCaw, founder and CEO of Clearbit, a marketing data engine that combines public and private data sources to allow companies to truly understand their customers and sales interactions. On this episode of Mission Daily, Alex shares details about his path to founding Clearbit, his philosophy of building a fun culture within the company, and why starting a company is the best way to self actualize.