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Scale Like a CEO

Performance Accelerated Learning

Join host Justin Reinert as he sits down with founders who’ve navigated the jump from do-it-all entrepreneur to strategic CEO. Each episode uncovers the key milestones, hard-won insights, and practical tactics you need to build a high-performing leadership team, overcome decision fatigue, and scale your business with confidence. Tune in weekly for quick, actionable conversations designed to accelerate your path to CEO mastery.

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19:42

From Strategy to Execution: Insights from Render...

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2025/12/16

Want a real playbook for scaling without hiding behind a 90-day plan? We sit down with Stephen Rose, CEO of Render Networks, to unpack how he makes faster decisions without sacrificing rigor—grounding every move in customer conversations, employee insight, and hard data. From the brutal economics of fiber and utility builds to the messy reality of changing a go-to-market thesis, Stephen shows what it takes to steer a scale-up through real constraints. We dig into the two levers that matter m...

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21:35

Leading Through Crisis: Empathy, Pivots, and The...

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2025/12/15

What does it take to pivot a public company under real pressure and come out cleaner, simpler, and stronger? We sit down with Matt Edelman, CEO of Super League, to unpack the strategy and humanity behind a turnaround that moved the business from live esports events to scalable digital engagement while restoring investor confidence and partner trust. Matt traces the journey from Marvel’s early entertainment studio to a front-row seat in the gaming economy. He explains why Gen Z now spends mor...

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17:32

Scale Like a CEO: Transitioning to SaaS & Building...

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2025/12/12

Most decks drain attention; the best stories drive decisions. We sit down with Dean Curtis, CEO of Ingage, to unpack how a services agency transformed into a focused SaaS company by turning sales content into interactive, data-driven experiences that prospects actually remember. Dean shares the messy middle of building go-to-market while the product was still taking shape, the moment they chose a single vertical in home services, and the downstream effects of that decision on retention, reven...

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23:44

From Founder to CEO: Leading with Soul & Scaling a...

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2025/12/11

What if a software company could scale and still feel deeply human? We sit down with Ricardo Velazquez, founder of Alternova, to unpack how a 90-person team navigated a pandemic pivot, built patient-first products in digital health, and held onto its principles when the market turned. Ricardo explains the journey from services-only growth to a smarter model: partnering with distribution-first operators to co-create products, combining deep compliance expertise with real go-to-market power. W...

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21:09

Scale Like a CEO | Adrian Moise - Founder & CEO of...

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2025/12/10

What if scaling faster wasn’t about adding more process but changing how you lead? We sit down with Adrian Moise, founder and CEO of Equilibrium, to unpack a simple operating system—AAA: Alignment, Autonomy, Accountability—that helps teams move quickly without losing the plot. Adrian shows how clarity of outcomes, room to execute, and clear ownership combine to create the conditions where leaders grow and customers feel the difference. We dig into hiring beyond pedigree and why “sponges” who...

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16:37

How AI is Saving Hospitals Millions in the Operating...

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2025/12/09

What if the operating room, the most complex and costly part of the hospital, finally became transparent? We sit down with Robert Brown, co-founder, president, and CTO of Omnimed, to unpack how AI can turn surgical chaos into clarity—without getting in the way of care. Robert explains how unbiased, real-time data reveals where cases slip, where turnover stalls, and where teams can safely move faster, giving surgeons, executives, and risk officers a shared source of truth. We dig into the par...

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15:54

How MedTech CEO Justin Ramsaran Scales Teams &...

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2025/12/08

What if the skill that built your product is the very thing holding your company back from scaling? We sit down with medtech founder and CEO Justin Ramsaran to unpack the real transition from hands-on builder to culture shaper, and why learning to let go—without losing touch—is the leadership unlock most of us avoid. Justin traces his path from biomedical engineering and FAA software to global product leadership and founding RGP and Health Mosaic. He shares how he delegated the parts he love...

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20:15

How to Scale & Pivot Your Business: The 5 Ps...

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2025/12/05

Growth doesn’t stall because ideas run out. It stalls when leaders can’t pivot fast enough. We sat down with Dr. Georgette Zinaty—Chief of Staff for Myant and founder of Women Helping Empower Women—to map a clearer path from promising idea to durable scale. She breaks down the Five Ps framework—People, Purpose, Profit, Planet, and the often-missed Pivot—and shows how “stragility,” the strategic ability to be agile, turns shocks into momentum. Across candid stories from transportation and med...

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19:54

Letting Go & Leading with Gil Allouche | Scale Like a...

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2025/12/04

What if the fastest way to scale isn’t doing more, but doing less yourself? We sit down with Gil Allouche, founder and CEO of metadata.io, to unpack how he turned a hacked-together experiment engine into a platform that automates B2B performance marketing end to end—audiences, creative, execution, and optimization to pipeline—so leaders can spend time on strategy and message instead of chasing broken UTM tags. Gil takes us inside the hardest leadership pivot: moving from hands-on founder to ...

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16:49

Scaling to 280 Employees in 2 Years: Immigration,...

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2025/12/03

Visa backlogs stretching into decades. Policy shifts that raise the stakes for employers and talent. A founder who turned his own immigration journey into a blueprint for scaling a 280-person services company built on empathy and execution. In this candid conversation with EB1A Experts CEO Ragu Saram, we peel back how extraordinary ability categories like EB1A and O1A are becoming lifelines for high-achieving professionals, especially those from India and China facing chronic delays. Ragu sha...

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16:33

Scale Like a CEO: David Duguan on Building Teams,...

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2025/12/02

Customer support often feels like a cost center, but what if it’s actually the engine that powers your growth? We sit down with Voxify founder and CEO David Duguan to explore how deliberate customer conversations by phone and text shape better marketing, tighter sales cycles, and smarter products. David shares the moment he realized he had to move from lone problem solver to systems builder—and how a simple metaphor, “rearranging the furniture in your team’s mind,” changed the way he communic...

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19:49

Scale Like a CEO: Eric Sheinkop on Building Trust,...

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2025/12/01

Fake reviews waste time and money, and everyone knows it. We sat down with Eric Scheinkop, founder of the Desire Company, to unpack how expert-led, real-world product reviews can restore trust for shoppers and deliver clarity for retailers—while building a company that scales without losing its soul. Eric shares the origin story behind putting veterinarians, doctors, pro athletes, and even astronauts in front of products, and why a simple seal of authenticity gives customers the confidence th...

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18:36

From 9 to 90 Employees (and Back): A Founder's...

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2025/11/28

What happens after the rocket ship stalls? We sit down with David Abbey, CEO and founder of Penny AI, to unpack the ride from pandemic-fueled hypergrowth to a bruising market reset—and the rebuild that followed. David shares how the team pivoted from an enterprise-focused AI CRM to Endlss, a polished influencer and affiliate marketing platform designed for founder-led D2C brands that need leverage, not overhead. Together we dig into why influencer marketing is now marketing for small brands,...

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22:01

Scaling Leadership and AI in Retail: Interview with...

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2025/11/26

What if your market research told you a product was winning in a country where it isn’t even sold? Trevor Sumner has seen that kind of failure up close—and built a company to fix it. As CEO of Igenie, Trevor explains how tapping billions of real digital signals—Google searches, social posts, transcribed TikToks, ratings, reviews, and product launches—creates sharper, faster consumer insights than traditional surveys ever could. We unpack how this AI-driven approach helps brands like Unilever,...

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28:46

Why Psychological Safety Can't Be Rushed: AI,...

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2025/11/24

What if the real blocker to AI impact isn’t the model, but the space between your people? We sit down with Nicole Radziwill, CTO and Chief AI Officer of Team X AI, to unpack why organizations are sprinting toward a breaking point—and how a return to discipline can restore momentum without sacrificing speed. Nicole explains why technical debt is a strategic tool when paired with a plan, and how the obsession with shipping “now” quietly trades durability for theater. The result is familiar: str...

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20:18

From Founder to CEO: Scaling Teams & The Future of...

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2025/11/21

Stuck in founder mode and drowning in decisions? Justin sits down with Mike Roberts, founder of Creating Coding Careers, to trace the moment he stopped being the default problem-solver and started building a leadership engine. Mike shares how a bold re-org, strict guardrails, and an outside consultant turned constant firefighting into a cadence of rocks, quarterly priorities, and clear roles—freeing him to drive revenue and partnerships while leaders grew their own judgment. We dig into the ...

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20:17

Scaling Leadership in the AI Era with Omer Jamal |...

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2025/11/19

Every minute you wait to call a new lead, your odds drop. We unpack how a 60-second follow-up window becomes a growth engine when paired with AI voice agents and an automated media buyer that can even run TV ads for local businesses. With Atlas founder Omer Jamal, we explore the playbook that helps small teams act like big ones without adding headcount: tight pods, clear ownership, and a writing-first culture that turns scattered effort into repeatable results. We get tactical about the foun...

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19:56

From Attorney to Media Entrepreneur: Building a...

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2025/11/17

Tired of watching your town’s news vanish into rumor threads and paywalled dead ends? We sat down with Michael Shapiro, founder and CEO of Tap Into, to explore how a revenue-first franchise model is rebuilding local journalism while giving small businesses a powerful digital voice. What started with a personal wake-up call became a network nearing 100 sites across New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida—each delivering free, objective reporting and a daily newsletter that neighbors ac...

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21:44

Nicolas Genest: Training Business-First Technologists...

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2025/11/14

What if the real edge in tech isn’t code, but care? We sit down with Codebox founder and longtime CTO Nicholas Genest to unpack the “big reset” that AI triggered across engineering teams and hiring—and why the winners now pair sharp business instincts with humble, adaptive execution. Nicholas traces his journey from leading teams at The RealReal and ModCloth to building Codebox, an academy and solutions company that trains business‑first technologists. He explains why so many organizations f...

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16:49

From Google Engineer to $4.3M ARR: Building Mexico's...

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2025/11/12

What if your CRM started where your customers actually are—inside WhatsApp and social DMs? We sit down with Robbie Peña Castro, founder and CEO of Lead Sales, to unpack how a chat-native platform scaled to 3,000+ companies across 20 countries and reached $4.3M ARR by turning conversation chaos into predictable revenue. Robbie shares why email feels too slow for modern buying moments, how SMS breaks collaboration, and why centralizing WhatsApp threads under an official company channel unlocks ...

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