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Spencer Rascoff is on the podcast this week.  He’s an extremely talented entrepreneur who spent the majority of his career creating two big companies.  The first was Hotwire, the first is Hotwire, which he started at the young age of 24.  The second one was Zillow, the place where you go to find a home and figure out how much your neighbor’s home is worth.  Spencer led Zillow thro...

This week, Scott Galloway, a man who has made it his life work to cut through the noise and speak the truth about business.  He’s the founder of several companies including L2 and Red Envelope, and a marketing professor at NYU.  In this conversation, Scott talks about the lowest moments in his career, including being broke at age 39.  He also shares his thoughts about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, which often means, writing ...

This week we have one of the best known entrepreneurs in America, Kevin Ryan. Kevin has founded several successful companies, including Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, Zola, and MongoDB. He also built DoubleClick into a multi-billion dollar enterprise that was later acquired by Google. If you have any inkling of starting your own business, you wanna listen closely to Kevin, because in this conversation, we discuss everything from ho...

He once took on broadcast television networks and now he’s taking on the big guys who deliver the internet.  Chet Kanojia is a four-time entrepreneur who’s just started his latest venture, Starry, which promises to deliver broadband to your home wirelessly.  Chet’s previous venture, Aereo, battled the network giants before the Supreme Court over his promise to deliver television content on demand for free....

It’s the story of two young women entrepreneurs that have created one of the most buzzed about startups in New York City.  Jordan Kier and Alexandra Friedman, the founders of Lola, a subscription service for feminine hygiene products.  Not only did these two Dartmouth grads see an opportunity for a tampon delivery service, they saw a need to give women a better product as well.  This long awai...

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and one of the best CEO coaches around, Scott Kurnit joins us on Radiate. He’s founder of retail site Keep.com, but he’s most well-known for founding About.com, one of the very few web 1.0 companies that is still around today. In fact, About.com is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary. In this discussion Scott shares his experience going from the corporate world into the start-up world after he turn...

Hall of Fame golfer and entrepreneur, The Shark himself, Greg Norman joins us on Radiate this week.  For golf fans everywhere, Norman is a legend.  Before there was Tiger, before there was Jordan, there was Greg, who was the number one golfer in the world for 331 consecutive weeks with 90 tournament wins under his belt.  But many may not realize he’s also one of the most successful retired ath...

Legendary Value Investor and GAMCO CEO Mario Gabelli joins us on Radiate this week to talk about his lifetime of experience on Wall Street.  His investment firm has just under $40 billion in assets under management and when he talks, Wall Street listens.  Now while we’ve recently featured a lot of entrepreneurs on our show, we wanted to make sure we brought something different for the thousands of college ...

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This week we've got Steve Schwarzman, founder and CEO of Blackstone, and one of the country's wealthiest people. He's a philanthropist, a Wall Street deal maker, and owns a variety of companies through his private equity firm including; the Waldorf Astoria Hotels, theme parks like Lego Land and Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, and Crocs.

But Steve wasn't born into money, he had to work his way up from t...

We are excited to bring you Tom Patterson, and learn how he went from being a laid off medical device salesman to CEO of one the hottest men’s apparel companies, Tommy John. Tom founded the men’s undershirt company after he lost his job, giving him the push to pursue his entrepreneurial dream. Using his deft sales skills, Tom soon got his products on the store shelves at Niemen Marcus and now his comfy clothes for men are sold at u...

Farnoosh Torabi, friend, personal finance expert, and fellow podcaster joins the show this week to discuss her path to developing her own brand. She’s an author of several books including “When She Makes More“, and the host of a brand new prime time television show, “Follow The Leader”, that’s all about entrepreneurs. She’s hard-working, smart and you are going to learn a lot from as she tells...

Radiate After Dark, a special dinner conversation in frontofalive audience with Showtime Chairman Matt Blank, hostedatthe New York restaurant Zuma. In this episode,Matttalks about his rise at Showtime, home to some of the mostpopularshows on cable television including Billions, Homeland, Weeds and many others. In front of a groupofpeers in media and technology, Matt talks about how techischanging the media world, the best career ad...

On this week’s Radiate episode, the commish speaks! The former commissioner of the National Basketball Association, David Stern talks about his thirty-year career at the helm of one of the world’s largest sports leagues. A much sough-after CEO adviser, mentor, confidante, Stern takes us through some of the biggest moments in his career, including the day when Magic Johnson told the NBA he was HIV-positive. He has a management style...

We are so honored for this week’s distinguished guest, Mohamed el-Erian, whose list of accolades could go on for days.  He’s currently the Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz, chairs President Obama’s Global Development Council, a BloombergView columnist, and the New York Times best-selling author of ‘The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse.’  He previously worked for the International Moneta...

We’re back! After a brief hiatus, we’re starting again with a whole new lineup of great Radiate guests to talk about their amazing careers. Season 2 kicks off with someone I’ve wanted to meet for a while: Jon Steinberg, the former president and COO of Buzzfeed and founder of a new media startup, Cheddar TV. Jon joined Buzzfeed as just the 15th employee and was instrumental in turning it into one of the most popular media destinatio...

Thank you so much for joining us during the first season of Radiate.  We’ve had so much fun producing it and we’re gearing up for an even better second season featuring more big name guests that have enjoyed an immense amount of success.  Before we dive into new guests, we wanted to present you a special best-of episode from the first season with some our favorite pieces of advice and stories, along with s...

One of the early pioneers of the venture capital and private equity industries, Alan Patricof, is on Radiate this week. Alan founded Apax Partners in the late 1970s and has been involved in backing several major companies like America Online, Office Depot, Apple Computer and he also founded New York Magazine.

In this conversation, he shares the ups and downs of an entrepreneur's life, the one big investment he passed on, and wh...

The man famous for guaranteeing the way you look, George Zimmer, former CEO of 'Men's Wearhouse,' opens up on this episode of Radiate. He started the company 40 years ago with his college roommate, and grew it to over two and a half billion dollars in sales. Now we’ve talked to plenty of people about their challenges, mistakes, failures. George went through a traumatic experience when he was fired by his board over a di...

This week we have one of the best known entrepreneurs in America, Kevin Ryan. Kevin has founded several successful companies, including Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, Zola, and MongoDB. He also built DoubleClick into a multi-billion dollar enterprise that was later acquired by Google. If you have any inkling of starting your own business, you wanna listen closely to Kevin, because in this conversation, we discuss everything from ho...