The Reboot Chronicles with Dean DeBiase

The Reboot Chronicles with Dean DeBiase

The Reboot Chronicles Show with Dean DeBiase, highlights the world’s top leaders & CEO’s through engaging peer-to-peer conversations that audiences love, available wherever you get podcasts, with thousands of listeners, watchers, readers, and fans. - - About Host: Named “Growth Guru” by Inc., Dean DeBiase is a WSJ best-selling author, Forbes Contributor, speaker, Kellogg/Northwestern faculty member—and award-winning serial CEO who has led dozens of companies across diverse sectors, creating hundreds of products, thousands of jobs, and billions of dollars in revenue, capital, and value.

Episodes

March 12, 2025 48 mins

In this Special Extended Edition of The Reboot Chronicles Ted Leonsis joins us with untold stories you will only hear here.

Ted is founder, chairman, and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, one of the largest integrated sports and entertainment companies that has the most diverse partnership groups in all of sports. The billion-dollar group includes eight teams, like the NHL’s Capitals, the NBA’s Wizards, and the WNBA’s My...

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This week’s Reboot Chronicles Show is our second episode coming to you from #ZohoDay25, Zoho’s annual Analyst gathering in Austin Texas. With top global business and financial analysts and CxOs from the world’s top corporations, this invite-only conference, with top speakers from around the world, debuts the hottest technology, AI trends, what people want, and what’s coming next.

One conference speaker is IFFCO CIO Jaroslaw Pietras...

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This week’s Reboot Chronicles Show is coming to you from #ZohoDay25, Zoho’s annual Analyst gathering in Austin Texas. With top global business and financial analysts and CxO’s from the world’s top corporations, this invite-only conference debuts the hottest technology, AI trends, what people want, and what’s coming next.

Most companies are frantically rebooting their growth plans to meet the realities of fierce AI enabled competitio...

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As we head into the second half of the decade chock-full of massive change and innovation, The Reboot Chronicles wanted to know how higher education will reboot itself to not just meet our global challenges—but lead the way. While AI has broken the rules of growth and innovation, supercharging most business sectors whether they wanted it or not, most of our institutions are not riding the wave or even keeping up—except for a few.


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There is a good chance that a cyberattack is happening while you are reading this or watching a Reboot Chronicles show episode. From phishing email attacks and ransomware threats to malware penetrating old security systems – bad actors are constantly looking for the next way to break through cybersecurity systems. These attacks can impact any of us personally, from identity theft to financial ruin – and they are costing corporation...

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Last week’s Reboot Chronicles episode helped people and companies determine where to invest—especially since President Trump announced approximately $1 trillion in AI and infrastructure investments in the U.S. On this episode we look ahead to where CEO’s need to invest to better prepare for the challenging demands and technology opportunities they will face in the second half of this decade. Rob Wolcott, founder of Clareo, the Kel...

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With President Trump sworn into office again, over ½ trillion-dollars of AI infrastructure deals announced with Stargate and DAMAC, and markets up—business leaders and consumers are looking for the best guidance on where to invest in next.

A top FOX Business portfolio manager/panelist and previous Bloomberg Television anchor, Adam Johnson unpacks it all on this episode of The Reboot Chronicles. A sought after investment guru, Adam ...

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On The Reboot Chronicles Show we predominantly talk to organizations that have undergone or are currently going through a reboot to learn how leaders are adapting to an ever-changing world. Our audience learns best from leaders who take zoomed-out approaches to rebooting, and share the trends and disruptions they are seeing across sectors—with game plans they are formulating toward the future.


Josh Bersin, started several compani...

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Here at the Reboot Chronicles, we have had the pleasure of talking with many disruptive brands shaking up the big dogs of industry. One that has had several disruptors globally has been Fintech with companies like Brex, Affirm (previous episodes) and many others changing how people can interact with their money. Today's guest Rodrigo Teijeiro is a disruptor on a mission to democratize financial services with his RecargaPay mobile a...

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What combines a Nickelodeon Theme Park, Coco Melon-based attractions, an aquarium, hundreds of world-class retailers, including a Rent-The-Runway outlet, and what could be the largest indoor waterpark ever? If you are thinking major amusement park, like Six Flags or Disney World, future guests on the show—it may be a surprise to hear we are talking about a mall. THE MALL. 
The Mall Of America is the largest shopping and entertainm...

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The pet market is expected to be a half-a-trillion-dollar sector by 2030 with an ever-growing landscape of competitive growth opportunities serving consumers and their pets. PetSafeBrands CEO  RobCandelino joins this episode of The Reboot Chronicles to share his personal journey and how he is rebooting his company and the industry.

PetSafe’s portfolio includes leading brands with hundreds of patents—like Invisible Fence, Sport Dog...

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One question on every industry leader's mind is “How do I stand out?” At least it should be if you are looking to remain a market leader or even a fast-follower. This is especially true in the competitive Beauty Industry, where competitors range form multinational corporations to Indi-brands and startups. How do you continue to stand out and not just be another best practice brand? Dermalogica CEO, Aurelian Lis, has figured that ou...

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If you are thinking about starting a company or have an idea for a product, chances are that it has come from a pain point you want to solve. Startups worldwide are doing this with the hopes of growing and even the big-dog titans are doing this with hopes of disrupting the disruptive disruptors.


But what does that process look like for a leader of a private company? What pains come with making the transition to a public company? W...

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Tech leaders have been in an AI marketing hype-cycle, while many of their employees have been dealing with a growing fear of lay-offs, and for good reason. Companies like Intel, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Dell, and Amazon have let go of thousands of employees collectively, due to the hiring craze that occurred during the pandemic. With all those people hitting the job market and plenty of other job searchers out there, how can you b...

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Amazon revolutionized the retail market with its online shopping and shipping, a revolution that caused companies to change drastically or go bankrupt. Even Walmart had to reboot itself to battle the e-commerce giant. Another industry that Amazon took a huge swing at, tied to its original founding purpose, was books, and then with its Kindle and e-books in 2007. Already on its heels, COVID-19 took a swing at retail when people wer...

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With cybercrime damages estimated to cost the world $15-20 trillion by 2028—none of us are safe from its impact. The Godfather of Israeli Cybersecurity, Shlomo Kramer - CEO of Cato Networks, joins us for this episode of The Reboot Chronicles to unpack why the next generation of cyber security will be SASE technology. Shlomo was a seed investor and board member of industry giant Palo Alto Networks, writing their first investment ch...

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Education is the cornerstone of every great nation, and it is through great education that world-class innovators and leaders arise to make changes where change is needed. Easier said than done but when done correctly, through a team of forward-thinking individuals who believe “there are no such things as unrealistic dreams” you can deliver a level of education that will shape generations. That is exactly what today’s guest on The...

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AI is one of the hottest topics in the tech world, with investors pouring billions of dollars into thousands of projects and companies—and no signs of slowing down. It’s predicted that the AI sector will receive another trillion-dollar boost over the next few years.

What if there was a platform that would allow you to clone yourself, to broaden your reach, or interact with someone else’s clone to learn from? Would you do it if yo...

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Hyper-scaling in a highly competitive sector is not for the faint of heart. You need a team that is hitting on all cylinders—while adding new engines to increase horsepower and capabilities along the way. In the tech-world, you need to competitively unseat and outpace the other business-as-usual systems integrators—and help your clients build out next-generation systems that will allow them to transform their businesses too. Afte...

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Many CEO's parachute in to reboot companies, but today’s guest has had to do it dozens of times. Founded by his father in a Red Barn in Waterloo Wisconsin, John Burke, President and CEO of Trek Bicycle, has been rebooting the company since he started working there as a teenager. A remarkably fun leader and author of three books, John has grown the company into the largest manufacturers of bicycles in the U.S.

Now a $2 Billion ...

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