Today’s guest is Jessica Rolph, cofounder and CEO of Lovevery, a subscription brand that sells early-childhood development play kits and solutions. To date, Jessica has raised over $132 million for Lovevery from top-tier investors, including, TCG, Google Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Lovevery has 350,000+ active …

Today’s guest is Brian Lee, a rock-star serial entrepreneur. Brian has cofounded several companies worth over a billion dollars each, such as Legalzoom with Robert Shapiro, The Honest Company with Jessica Alba, ShoeDazzle with Kim Kardashian and Arena Club with baseball legend Derek Jeter. Brian is also the cofounder and managing partner of BAM Ven…

Today’s guest is Magnus Grimeland, founder and CEO of Antler, one of the world’s largest day zero investor. Antler’s pre-seed strategy canvasses 27 countries, more than 1000+ portfolio companies, 8,000+ founders, and over 100,000 annual applications. Magnus previously co-founded Zalora, Southeast Asia’s largest fashion e-commerce company. It was la…

Today’s guest is Emily Hikade, founder and CEO of the luxury sleepwear brand Petite Plume. Emily launched Petite Plume in 2015 and it has been profitable since its first year. The company has also doubled its revenue every year since launch, and it has reached almost $100 million in revenue. Petite Plume pajamas are coveted by the Royal Family, Gwy…

Today's guest is Emmanuel Straschnov, founder and co-CEO of Bubble, a platform that empowers users to create powerful web apps without writing code. To date, Emmanuel has raised over $106 million for the company from the likes of Insight Partners, SignalFire, and Box Group, to name a few. In this episode, we dive into: How Emmanuel started Bubble w…

Today’s guest is Larry Gadea, founder and CEO of Envoy. Envoy is a workplace platform that helps companies welcome visitors, keep employees safe, book desks and conference rooms, and manage deliveries in over 16,000 locations around the globe. To date, Larry has raised over $170 million for Envoy from a16z, Menlo Ventures, Brookfield Growth, Marc B…

Today's guest is Daniel Goleman, one of the world’s leading experts on the science of emotion. Daniel is the author of Emotional Intelligence, a blockbuster book that sold more than 5 million copies in about 40 languages. Apart from his writing on emotional intelligence, Daniel has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, trans…

Today’s guest is Liz Elting, cofounder and former CEO of TransPerfect, the world’s largest language solutions company, with over $1.1 billion in revenue and offices in more than 100 cities worldwide. In 2018, Liz left TransPerfect after being there for 26 years and now she’s running Elizabeth Elting Foundation , which advances economic social and p…

Today’s guest is Isabelle Freidheim, founder and managing partner of Athena Capital, a technology fund that focuses on bringing high-performing, mission-driven companies to the market. Isabelle is the youngest female chairman of a publicly traded company in the U.S. Under her leadership, Athena has raised more than $1.2 billion. Before founding Ath…

Today’s guest is Doug Conant, an internationally respected business leader. Doug served as the President of Nabisco from 1999-2001, served a decade as President and CEO of The Campbell Soup Company and then spent three years as Chairman of Avon Products. In 2011 he founded ConantLeadership, a consulting company focused on championing leadership tha…

Today’s guest is Hristo Borisov, cofounder and CEO at Payhawk, a financial system that combines credit cards, payments, expenses, and cash into one integrated experience. Hristo has raised over $236 million with Payhawk from Lightspeed Ventures, Greenoaks, QED investors, and many more. Today, Payhawk is valued at US$1 billion, making it the first B…

Today’s guest is Hap Klopp, founder and former CEO of The North Face, one of the world's biggest apparel companies. Hap was CEO of The North Face for 20 years. During that time The North Face was honored with many awards for being the best managed company in its industry, including being lauded by Business Week Magazine for providing one of the hig…

Today's guest is Gary Klein, a cognitive psychologist and one of the world’s leading experts on human decision making. He has spent the last 50 years studying how and why people make the decisions they do. He is the author of six books, including the popular Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights; Sources of Power: How Peopl…

Today’s guest is Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman, the startup that has rebuilt the inbox from the ground up creating the fastest email experience ever made. To date, Rahul has raised over $108 million from some of the best in the business including a16z, IVP, First Round, Tiger Global Management and from celebrities such as Ashton Kutche…

Today’s guest is Yoni Assia, cofounder and CEO of eToro, the world’s largest social investment network. Yoni has raised over $412 million with eToro from ION group, SoftBank, Velvet Sea Ventures, Spark Capital and many more. Prior to founding eToro, Yoni was the cofounder of CDRIDE, an on-ride video technology company that was acquired by Kodak in …

Today’s guest is Bill George, one of the world’s best-known experts on leadership. Bill was the chairman and CEO of the world’s largest medical technology company Medtronic, which grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion in market cap, under Bill’s leadership. After working 13 years at Medtronic, he then became a professor at Harvard Business School, …

Today’s guest is Jason Fried, one of the pioneers in software as a service (SaaS). Jason is the Co-Founder and CEO at 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY. He’s also the author of the hugely bestselling book “Rework”. In this episode, Jason talks about his journey through building 37Signals, scaling a company without external funding and the numbe…

Today’s guest is Luca Ferrari, cofounder and CEO of Bending Spoons, one of the world's largest mobile app developers. The company’s apps are currently being used by more than 100 million people every month, with over 500 million app downloads to date. Its apps include popular video editing tool Splice, AI based photo editor Remini and the prominent…

Today’s guest is Hubert Palan, who is the founder and CEO of Productboard, a product management system that enables teams to get the right products to market faster. Since 2015, Productboard has raised over $262 million from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Index to name a few. Today, ProductBoard is valued at US$1.725 billion, making it the second Czech …

Today’s guest is John Kim, who is the co-founder and CEO of Sendbird, the number 1 in app chat API. Sendbird latest funding round priced the company at $1.05 billion and to date, John has raised over $220 million with Sendbird from ICONIQ, Tiger Global, SoftBank and many more. Prior to founding Sendbird, John was the founder of Paprika Lab, a socia…

Today’s guest is BJ Fogg, one of the world’s most renowned experts in forming new habits. BJ is a behavior scientist who founded and directs the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University. On today's episode, BJ shares his breakthrough method that will help you design your habits and make them stick. Whether you want to de-stress, or be more produc…

Today’s guest is Michael Gronager, who is the co-founder and CEO of Chainalysis, a blockchain data platform. Chainalysis latest funding round priced the company at a reported $8.6 billion in May 2022 and to date, Michael has raised over $537 million for the company from the likes of Accel, Addition, Benchmark, GIC and more. Prior to founding Chaina…

Today’s guest is Ivan Misner, who is the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization. Ivan is also known as the “Godfather of Networking” and is considered one of the top networking experts in the world. Ivan is also a New York Times best-selling author who has written 27 books. Among his many aw…

Today’s guest is Sam Zaid, who is CEO and cofounder of Getaround, the world’s first connected carsharing marketplace. It operates in more than 1000 cities across the United States and Europe. To date, Sam has raised over $600 million for Getaround from some of the best including Softbank, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Partners, and General Catalyst to n…

Today’s guest is Kim Scott, who is the author of the revolutionary New York Times bestsellers Radical Candor and Just Work. She co-founded two companies that help organizations put the ideas in her books into practice. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. Kim previously held leadership roles at Apple and Goo…

Phil Libin is on the podcast this week. Phil is a software engineer turned serial entrepreneur. He immigrated to the United States as a child from the Soviet Union and went on to build the popular note-taking app Evernote. The company grew to have more than 150 million users and a $1 billion valuation while Phil served as CEO, a position he stepped…

Joining us on Luminate this week is Felix Ohswald. Felix is the Co-Founder and CEO of GoStudent, Europe’s first Edtech unicorn. GoStudent is a company that provides tailored, high quality video-based tuition for students of all school levels and for all school subjects. To date, Felix has raised over $600 million with GoStudent from some of the bes…

Today, I’m excited to be here with Jim McKelvey, he’s the co-founder of Square along with Jack Dorsey. Square is a payment processing company that lets anyone accept credit cards. Square went public in 2015 and the company is worth over $100 billion! In December 2021, Square changed its name to Block. In 2009, Jim designed a card reader, which, in …

Paul English is on the podcast this week. Paul is a serial entrepreneur, since high school he has founded 8 companies and 4 philanthropies ranging from gaming to fintech to GetHuman, a site that helps users access human customer support. Paul is best known for disrupting the travel industry with online travel search engine Kayak, which he sold to P…

Today’s guest is Dr. Robert Cialdini. Dr. Cialdini is one of the most renowned psychologists in the world. He is known as the “Godfather of Influence”, because he is the creator of the science of persuasion. He is New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Influence, which has sold over five million copies. Warren Buffett and Cha…

Today’s guest is Chris Voss, who is the founder of the Black Swan Group and the author of the mega bestseller "Never Split the Difference". Chris was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI. He has been on the front lines of some of the most high-stakes hostage negotiations of the last 20 years. In today’s episode of Luminate, mast…

Joining us on Luminate this week is the incredible Vaira Vike Freiberga. She became the first female President of Latvia in 1999 and served a second term in 2003. President Vaira is also known as the “Baltic Iron Lady”. She was a hugely popular and successful President, and at one point her approval ratings were as high as 85%. President Vaira was …

Joining us on Luminate this week is Alan Patricof, one of the early pioneers of the venture capital and private equity industries. In 1977, Alan founded APAX Partners, one of the largest private equity firms in the world and in 2006 he also co-founded Greycroft, which is a venture capital firm focusing on investment in the internet and mobile marke…

Joining us on Luminate this week is Evan Goldberg, who’s the Founder and Executive Vice President of NetSuite. Evan founded NetSuite in 1998. It’s a cloud computing company that provides software and services to manage business finances, operations, customer relations, and much more. In 2016, Evan sold the company to Oracle for $9.3 billion. In our…

Joining us on Luminate this week is Brian Smith. Brian is the founder of UGG boots, a brand that started from humble beginnings and went on to become a multibillion-dollar global icon. Graduating in 1978 as a Chartered Accountant in Australia, Brian came to California looking for the next big opportunity to bring back to Australia. While studying a…

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by a living legend Joe Foster, founder of Reebok. Joe founded Reebok in 1958 with his late brother Jeff, following their family heritage back to 1895. Joe’s Grandfather, also Joseph W Foster, pioneered the spiked running shoe and famously made shoes of some of the world’s best athletes of the early 20th century.…

Serge Haroche is on Luminate this week. Serge Haroche is a professor at the Collège de France and holds the Chair of Quantum Physics. In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”. Starting in the 1980s, Haroche has designed ingenio…

Our guest today is Mika Hakkinen, a.k.a. the Flying Finn. He's a two time Formula 1 world champion and one of the most popular drivers of all-time. And Mika Hakkinen was perhaps the only racer who could challenge Michael Schumacher to his possible limits. Back in 1995 at the Australian Grand Prix, Mika Hakkinen nearly died in a terrible accident, b…

We are so honored for this week’s distinguished guest, Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and the world’s most renowned and successful mediator in international conflicts. In 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leading role in bringing independence to Namibia, Serbia’s withdrawal from Kosovo, and autonomy for Aceh in Indone…