PreVetted Podcast

Kyle Disher is the founder of RevDojo, the training, hiring, and technology platform serving hundreds of car dealerships directly and touching over 10,000 companies through white-label partnerships. He started selling cars in high school, became Salesperson of the Year, and spent the early dot com era running one of the most successful internet departments in the country.In this episode, Kyle breaks down what separates top-performi...

Muhammad Atif, CTO and President of PureLogics, has spent nearly two decades building over 1,200 products across 30 countries. In this episode, he breaks down what it actually takes to deliver quality software at scale and why most companies get it wrong.From ISO certification and CMMI Level 2 processes to Agile sprint discipline and PMO audits, Muhammad shares how PureLogics keeps quality consistent across 500+ engineers. He and F...

Jim Fruchterman is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur who took a sharp left turn into social impact and never looked back. In this episode, Jim shares how he started seven for profit companies in twelve years, why investors vetoed his idea to build technology for blind people, and how that pushback led him to create nonprofit tech companies that have now defined his life’s work.

Jim explains what it means to run a “tech business ins...

David Asarnow is an entrepreneur and growth strategist focused on helping businesses build predictable revenue. He explains how he improves results by tightening positioning, clarifying the offer, fixing funnel breakdowns, and strengthening sales follow up so leads do not get wasted. David shares why he prefers to under promise and over deliver, and how many teams confuse activity with progress when the message is unclear and nurtu...

Ohad Shaked, co founder and CEO of ThinkUp, explains how his early IoT startup spent months chasing the right vertical and customer, and how that frustration led him to build a digital accelerator for first time founders. ThinkUp focuses on the pre revenue phase and guides founders step by step through customer research, interviews, assumption testing, market and competitor analysis, value proposition, go to market strategy, pitch ...

Kim Hansen is CEO and co founder of Cake Equity, a platform that helps startups manage ownership for founders, employees, investors, and advisors with clarity and less legal and spreadsheet chaos. Kim shares the personal pain that sparked Cake, signing complex shareholder contracts he did not fully understand, and later watching employees miss out on ownership because equity felt too hard, expensive, and poorly timed to implement.

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Adam Spector is a four time founder, CEO of Chore, early stage investor, and podcast host who believes execution beats strategy and focus compounds. In this conversation, Adam explains why founders lose momentum when they get buried in back office work and why delegating non core tasks is one of the fastest ways to buy back time, freedom, and clarity.

Adam breaks down the idea behind Chore: startups should not waste energy running H...

Steve Tcherchian, CEO of XYPRO, explains how XYPRO protects mission critical systems that move money, run payments, settle trades, and support national infrastructure on HPE NonStop. He shares that most customers do not complain about hackers first. They complain about complexity: too many tools, dashboards, audits, and reports that create work without reducing risk. Steve breaks down common misconceptions, including “compliance eq...

Eryn Anitavi is an autistic speaker, strategist, and author who helps leaders and neurodivergent visionaries build tactical systems that turn chaos into clarity. She is the founder of Sapphire Partners and the creator of the Clarity Matrix framework, a structured approach to aligning vision, priorities, and execution in both life and business.In this episode, Eryn shares how her autism discovery in 2023 reshaped her understanding o...

Philip Samuelraj is the Founder and CEO of Techjays. He argues that the real opportunity is workflow reimagination, not simple automation: agentic AI can handle repetitive work while humans move upstream into review, approval, audit, and higher level problem solving.

Philip and Federico compare this shift to past disruptions like Excel replacing manual ledgers and ATMs changing banking roles. Philip says the biggest risk is people t...

Chanda Coston is a business coach and strategist who helps women, especially 40 plus “third quarter entrepreneurs,” turn long held ideas into real businesses through clarity, strategy, and consistent execution. She explains why the third quarter matters: after the career and family phase, many people feel urgency to pursue work that finally feels meaningful, and they bring the maturity to move fast.

Chanda shares the personal turnin...

Jimi Gibson is VP of Brand Communications at Thrive Agency and a longtime marketing strategist with more than 25 years helping brands cut through noise with clear messaging. In this episode of the Pre Vetted Podcast, Jimi explains why the biggest shift in marketing right now is not just new tools, but a new discovery path: buyers are moving from keyword searches to conversational AI questions, and many businesses are becoming invis...

Karthik Krishnamurthy is the CEO and Founder of Ascendion, an AI-native engineering company operating across 12 countries, including teams in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. Before starting Ascendion, he spent nearly two decades at Cognizant in senior leadership roles across digital, analytics, and AI. He is also the author of "AI Arbitrage Is The Next Frontier."In this episode, Karthik explains what it actually means to build an AI-...

Dr. Alex Roher, MD is a board certified anesthesiologist who reinvented his career after falling out of love with anesthesia and built SD Botox into a fast growing aesthetics business. He shares how he started in 2012 with only one procedure, renting a room from an esthetician, then learned business by doing it. He explains the turning point when he acquired a struggling practice that became his Pacific Beach location, and how the ...

Khurram Hussain: Khurram Hussain is the founder and CEO of IRVINEi and Mojo Solutions and Services, and he is building OVAL, an edge AI home hub that brings compute, computer vision, and voice AI directly onto the device. In this conversation, Khurram explains why the future shifts from cloud to edge, with edge enabling lower cost, faster response, and stronger privacy because sensitive data can stay local instead of being monetize...

David Dubinsky leads the Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco, a true community benefit organization open seven days a week, from early morning to late evening. He explains how Pomeroy serves multiple groups in one shared space: around 225 adults with developmental disabilities who come daily for classes, community, and work support; about 85 children, many with autism, who arrive after school for extra lea...

Travis Pomposello shares the biggest lesson from his career across MTV, Nickelodeon, The Late Show with David Letterman, Discovery, and as a co-founder of Epix: a great career now depends on noticing change early and being willing to pivot with it, not resist it. He explains why the old “company person” path is no longer the default, and why managing your career today means staying flexible, taking smart risks, and keeping a growth...

Stewart Gandolf explains how Healthcare Success helps healthcare organizations grow through integrated marketing across digital, brand, patient experience, referrals, and PR. He shares why he started the agency in 2006 as a “hobby” after years consulting with small practices, and how early bets on content, blogging, and SEO helped them build the business. Stewart contrasts the past, when many doctors resisted marketing, with today’...

Suze Yalof Schwartz is the Founder and CEO of Unplug, a secular meditation studio in Los Angeles and a global meditation app built for busy people who feel stressed, anxious, distracted, overwhelmed, or unable to sleep. In this conversation, Suze shares how a simple three minute breathing exercise taught by her mother in law changed her life and sparked her 2012 quest to make meditation easy and practical for modern skeptics. She r...