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Inspired with Alexa von Tobel

Inspired Capital

Inspired with Alexa von Tobel dives headfirst into conversations with the most ambitious people on the planet. Host Alexa von Tobel, Founder and Managing Partner of Inspired Capital, gets under the hood of guests’ ambitions, from pivotal childhood moments to the critical advice that shaped their life paths. What does it take to be a true visionary, one who stares down monumental challenges with grit and resilience? Learn directly from those builders and problem-solvers whose determination is shaping

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32:46

How to Build an Evidence-Based Business with George...

Inspired with Alexa von Tobel ·

2023/02/15

In 2012, George Fraser teamed up with his lifelong friend, Taylor Brown, to build Fivetran. Their initial vision was completely different from what Fivetran is today: a fully managed automated data integration provider, valued at over $5 billion. But the two listened to customer conversations and realized that they could build a viable business around a singular pain point. Fivetran now serves thousands of customers and hundreds of leading brands across the globe. George shares how his PhD in

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32:13

Why Execution is More Powerful Than Ideas with Allon...

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2023/02/08

Allon Bloch is no stranger to starting companies, but when he launched K Health, he was new to healthcare. Before K Health, he was the CEO of website publishing platform Wix and car retailer Vroom. But his father's health struggles inspired him to turn his focus to delivering high quality medicine at scale. He co-founded K Health in 2016 and has scaled the platform into the #1 downloaded app in the medical category, covering over 6 million people. Allon explains how K Health leveraged AI early on to

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32:16

How to Be the Customer with Anthony Casalena of...

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2023/02/01

Nearly twenty years ago, Anthony Casalena was a student at the University of Maryland who wanted to build himself a website. Finding no easy platform in the market, he created his own. Today, Squarespace is an all-in-one website building and ecommerce platform used by more than 4.2 million people. Anthony worked as a team of one for the first few years, but now has over 1,800 employees and took Squarespace public in 2021. Anthony shares how he got his idea off the ground with a $30,000 investment in

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34:26

How to Deliver Real Value with Ara Mahdessian of...

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2022/12/21

Growing up, Ara saw firsthand how hard his father worked as a contractor running a trade business. When he met Vahe Kuzoyan, a fellow Armenian immigrant whose family worked in the trades, they saw an opportunity to help their own families work more efficiently and grow their businesses. Over time, word spread and they decided to go all in on building ServiceTitan. With a valuation over $9B, ServiceTitan helps thousands of customers in the trillion dollar trade industry. Ara shares how his dad

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33:22

How to Operate with Velocity with Waseem Daher of Pilot

Inspired with Alexa von Tobel ·

2022/12/14

Co-founder dynamics can be notoriously challenging. But Waseem Daher and his co-founders, Jeff Arnold and Jessica McKellar, are now building their third business together. Their most recent company is Pilot, which they started in 2016 to solve a pain point they experienced as founders: how time-consuming it can be to manage company finances. Pilot is now the largest startup and SMB bookkeeper in the United States, serving over 1,900 clients. Waseem shares why speed is the most critical advantage for

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33:14

How to Build a Vertical Product with Andrew Bialecki...

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2022/12/07

What if brands were empowered to deliver personalized experiences online, just as well as they could do in a store? That's the idea that underpins Klaviyo, the leading customer and marketing automation platform. Andrew Bialecki cofounded Klaviyo in 2012 and now serves over 100,000 brands, helping them generate $28 billion in revenue for its customers in 2021 alone. Andrew shares why he bootstrapped the business until profitability, how early partnerships can be a key to efficient customer

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34:45

Flashback Episode: How Constraints Create Opportunity...

Inspired with Alexa von Tobel ·

2022/11/30

After business school, David Velez moved to Latin America to become a venture capitalist. But after finding a dearth of startups to invest in, he founded one of his own. Since then, Nubank has grown into the largest independent digital bank in the world. The Brazil-based company has over 39 million users and a valuation north of $25 billion. David shares how Nubank built a waitlist of over a million people in just 18 months, why the company's first product was a purple credit card, and how waking up

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37:25

Flashback Episode: How to Build Your Executive Team...

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2022/11/23

In 2013, a team of academics at UC Berkeley was working to solve massive data challenges that were impacting the tech companies in their backyard. Fast-forward and that team now represents the co-founders of Databricks, a data and AI company used by more than 5,000 organizations worldwide. In 2016, Ali Ghodsi stepped into the CEO seat and the company is now valued at $28 billion. Ali shares why he prioritizes building leaders over making decisions, how he sees the future of AI, and how he navigates

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32:00

How Naivete Can be a Strength with Sean Duffy of...

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2022/11/16

Just a year into medical school at Harvard, Sean Duffy decided to pursue a new route toward healthcare delivery. In 2011, he started Omada Health to explore how design and technology could make a difference in healthcare. Today, Omada Health is a virtual-first care provider that blends clinical protocols with behavior science to help people with chronic conditions achieve long term improvements. The company now serves over 700,000 members and has facilitated over 13 million messages between members

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34:31

How to Persevere with Saeju Jeong of Noom

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2022/11/02

Today, millions of users know Noom as the most-installed weight loss app of 2020. But it took countless pivots and many years for the consumer-led digital health company to turn its mission—of helping people live healthier, happier lives—into a product users are obsessed with. Saeju's intense desire to help people dates back to childhood in South Korea, growing up in a family of doctors. He started working on what would become Noom in 2007, but it took nearly a decade for the company to hit its

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34:32

How to Build a 100-Year Company with Harley Finkelstein

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2022/10/26

Harley Finkelstein first encountered Shopify as a user. Back in 2006, while in law school, he was one of the first merchants to use the platform. He joined the company in 2010 and now serves as President, helping to scale Shopify to millions of daily active users across 175 countries driving $444B in global economic activity. Today, Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform to start, run, and grow a business—and is second only to Amazon as the largest online retailer in the US. Harley shares why

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33:51

Why Friction is Underestimated with Sebastian...

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2022/10/19

It has been nearly two decades since Sebastian Siemiatkowski started Klarna, based on the simple idea of enabling customers to pay how they'd like. Today, Klarna is a fintech giant on a mission to revolutionize the retail banking industry. Headquartered in Sweden, Klarna is now a fully licensed bank operating across 45 markets. The company has scaled to over 150 million active consumers and over 450,000 merchant partners. Sebastian shares why he thinks of Klarna as a digital assistant that saves

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33:46

How to Define a Flexible CEO Role with Max Rhodes of...

Inspired with Alexa von Tobel ·

2022/10/05

How do retailers find brands to feature in their stores? For years, trade shows were the default option. Until Faire entered the scene. Max Rhodes started Faire in 2017 as an online marketplace where retailers discover their next bestsellers from independent brands across the globe. Today, the company supports over half a million retailers in 15,000 cities and connects them to over 70,000 brands around the world--earning the company a $12B valuation. Max shares what it felt like when he realized

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30:28

How to Keep Growing with Noah Kerner of Acorns

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2022/09/28

Amidst a fintech boom over the past decade, Acorns has continued to scale dramatically. The app which allows consumers to save and invest has grown to serve over 11 million customers and has helped its users invest over $15 billion to date. Noah's path into the CEO seat was an unusual one: he's a 4x entrepreneur and former DJ for Jennifer Lopez. But growing up in New York City gave him a life and career purpose to help level the playing field. Noah shares how he thinks of Acorns as a financial

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32:14

How Impatience Fuels Innovation with Anne Wojcicki of...

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2022/09/21

Three years after the first human genome was sequenced, Anne Wojcicki cofounded 23andMe. After a decade on Wall Street investing in healthcare, Anne started a new career chapter as a founder working to empower people with direct access to genetic information. Fast-forward and 23andMe has become the only personal genetic test with FDA authorization to deliver health information directly to consumers. To date, over 12 million people have taken a 23andMe DNA test kit. Anne shares why she adopted a

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34:09

How to Test Your Assumptions with Eynat Guez of...

Inspired with Alexa von Tobel ·

2022/09/14

As an expert in global payroll and global workforce management, it was only a matter of time before Eynat took the leap to close the industry's technology gap. In 2016, she started a revolution in global payroll management when she co-founded Papaya Global. As the pandemic accelerated the growth of global teams, Papaya has scaled to work with over 700 companies, managing over $3B in total payroll. Eynat shares how customer discovery sessions impacted Papaya's product roadmap, why she believes in

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32:29

How to Make Better Decisions Remotely with Sid...

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2022/09/07

In 2012, as a Ruby programmer, Sid Sijbrandij encountered GitLab, an open source technology that sparked his interest. Soon after, he decided to build a company on top of GitLab and has since scaled the DevOps platform to an estimated 30 million+ registered users from startups to global enterprises alike. A decade after the first GitLab code was written, the company went public at a valuation of $11B. Sid shares how their pricing model is based on end user, the value of starting a CEO shadow

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29:07

How to Create Engaging Content with Emmett Shear of...

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2022/08/31

In 2007, Emmett co-founded a live streaming service called Justin.tv along with his childhood friend and neighbor, Justin. That first entrepreneurial spark grew into Twitch, an interactive livestreaming service that spans gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more. Today, at any given moment, more than 2.5 million people globally are engaging with Twitch. While Twitch was acquired by Amazon in 2014 for nearly $1 billion, Emmett has stayed on as CEO and continued to scale. Emmett shares why the

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28:52

How to Get Honest Feedback with Brian Long of Attentive

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2022/08/24

When repeat founder Brian Long set out to build a text communication platform for businesses, he soon realized that the first version of his product didn't have the market pull he was looking for. After a pivot, Brian found himself building Attentive, the comprehensive mobile messaging platform for brands. Six years in, Attentive has become a major player in the e-commerce space and counts thousands of major brands as customers, from CB2 to Michaels. On average, Attentive drives 20% of total online

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33:02

How to Make Speed a Feature with Dan Lewis of Convoy

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2022/08/17

Throughout his career, Dan worked at tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. In 2015, he set out to build a tech giant of his own: Convoy. Convoy is a digital trucking network that is transforming the trillion-dollar global trucking industry. Dan went from interviewing truckers on the side of the road to building a business that works with over 300,000 trucks across the country. Dan shares how the rise of mobile technology was an accelerant to his business, how he used YouTube to learn the

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