The Shawn Jenkins Podcast

Welcome to The Shawn Jenkins Podcast. In this episode, we talked to Mitchell Davis (LinkedIn). Mitchell is someone I’ve always admired. Mitchell and his team at his first company, BookSurge, created the world's first integrated publishing services and manufacturing system for print-on-demand books.

Mitchell sold his company to Amazon in 2005, and then he went on to work for them in a senior management position for several years and...

Welcome to The Shawn Jenkins Podcast. In this episode, we talked to Jonathan Yantis. Jonathan is cofounder and CEO of QuicksortRx. QuicksortRx is a pharmaceutical spend analytics platform that helps hospitals and health systems identify savings by evaluating their purchasing trends and market price changes in real time, automatically identifying action steps to lower the cost of buying medicines. It's a real game changer.

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In this episode of The Shawn Jenkins Podcast, we talked to Annie Erstling. Annie is Chief Strategy Officer at Forcura, a Jacksonville-based high growth technology company, focused on simplifying healthcare communication. Annie leads, strategic growth, including partnerships, product innovation, marketing, and strategic planning. She has experienced launching new brands, new products, and companies across the healthcare and technolo...

In this episode, we talk to Jim O'Neill. Jim is the cofounder and chief technology officer of SaaSWorks. His company is focused on helping subscription and software-as-a-service companies improve their net revenue retention by providing data-driven expert assisted insights and recommendations.

Prior to SaaSWorks, Jim was a founding team member of HubSpot, where he held the CTO, CIO, and chief people officer positions over different...

In this episode, we talked to Tyson Weihs (@tysonweihs). Tyson is the cofounder and CEO of ForeFlight, the market leading provider of critically acclaimed integrated flight application software for aviati...

In this episode of The Shawn Jenkins Podcast, we talked to Steve Swanson. Steve co-founded Automated Trading Desk, a company that pioneered high-frequency trading and disrupted Wall Street. After 12 years of growing the company, he was named president and CEO and increased ATD's market share to 7% of US daily equity trading volume. In 2007 ATD was sold to Citi Group for $680 million and Steve became global co-head of electronic tra...

In this episode, we have a fascinating conversation with Raheel (“Raz”) Zia , cofounder of Aldrich Capital Partners. Raz has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master's in Advanced Computing from London University.

He cofounded and was t...

Welcome to the Shawn Jenkins Podcast, a podcast on how to build and grow software and cloud companies. As I was building my software company, I craved behind-the-scenes, real-world examples of how founders and leaders built their companies. I wanted to hear how they made decisions, overcame obstacles, survived difficult times, and went on to sustained growth.

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How fast is fast enough when growing your B2B SaaS company? Can you maintain a work-life balance while bootstrapping? Funding vs control—what’s your top priority?

Shawn talks to David Vroblesky, co-founder of the lawn care management software company Crew Control

Is it possible to use customer contracts to provide funding for your startup? What happens when your steady growth rate explodes due to a global pandemic? We tackle these questions and more in the very first episode of The Shawn Jenkins Podcast.

Brandon Welch and Dylan Turner, co-founders of the amazing cloud-based telemedicine company Doxy.me, joined us in Char...