What Fuels You
Shauna Swerland, CEO of Fuel Talent, launches the What Fuels You podcast, where she sits down with influential, interesting and successful leaders to learn from them. She digs into the stories and choices that made them who they are today, with the goal of sharing the inspiration, perseverance and stories of resilience that are normally only shared within an inner circle. You'll walk away feeling fueled by each episode as Shauna uncovers things like personal hardships and failures, what it’s like to become an entrepreneur and tips on building a successful career.
Episodes
Ellie Fields is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ridge AI, delivering AI-native, embedded analytics for SaaS businesses.
Previously she was the Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Salesloft, where she led development for a sales workflow platform that put AI and action in a tight loop to drive results.
Ellie spent 12 years at Tableau Software, where she led product strategy and engineering for mobile apps, collaboration, search...
Jacob Colker is Co-Founder and Managing Director of the AI House, based at Pier 70 in Seattle, where he focuses on turning cutting-edge AI research into real-world companies.
He specializes in the zero-to-one phase where ideas become teams, products, and businesses. Over his career, Jacob has personally raised or helped his teams raise more than $500 million in capital, and helped create over $2 billion in startup valuation, partn...
Tushar Garg is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flyhomes, a next-generation residential real estate financial solutions company that empowers agents and loan officers with exclusive buy-before-you-sell solutions, enabling buyers to move before they sell with less stress and more certainty.
He has led Flyhomes through multiple funding rounds to Series D, evolved the company from a D2C model to a B2B2C platform, and expanded into innovativ...
Prem Kumar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Humanly, a Bellevue-based hiring technology company built to fix something he saw up close: two people interviewing for the exact same job with the exact same panel getting treated completely differently.
Before Humanly, Prem spent about a decade at Microsoft and led product and design at TinyPulse. Humanly went through Y Combinator and has raised roughly $52 million to date—most recen...
Francois Ajenstat is the Founder and CEO of Golden Analytics, an AI-native business intelligence platform.
He launched the company from stealth in April 2026 after nearly three decades building other people's analytics products. He was CPO at Tableau from the early startup days through its IPO and Salesforce acquisition, then CPO at Amplitude. Now he's founder and CEO of Golden Analytics.
Mike Kropp is the Founder and CEO of Iridius, a Seattle-based company building compliance-ready AI infrastructure for highly regulated industries like pharma and biotech.
A technology executive with over 25 years of leading engineering teams at Microsoft and AWS, Mike has played a crucial role in developing innovative products and expanding their global business adoption.
Mike uses a collaborative, working backward approach to del...
Kavian Mojabe is the Founder and CEO of MediScan AI, the AI back office for independent medical evaluators. These are the licensed physicians whose opinions decide the outcome of workers' compensation, personal injury, and disability cases.
MediScan's best-in-class record review engine does in minutes what used to take weeks, helping physicians optimize chart reviews to help patients faster and more effectively.
Before MediSc...
Ian Wong is the Co-Founder and CEO of Summation, where he's building AI analysts for finance and operations teams. Ian previously co-founded Opendoor and served as CTO, and before that was the first data scientist at Square.
His career has centered on one question: How can technologists use data and AI to create meaningful change in the real world?
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Victoria Thain Gioia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Perelel, the first OBGYN-founded vitamin company offering doctor-formulated, research-backed supplements designed to meet the unique needs of women at every stage of their hormonal journey.
Before founding Perelel, Victoria worked in investment banking and private equity, then moved into finance and operating roles at The Honest Company, Olive and June, and Carbon38.
In 2018, while...
Greg Davidson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lalo, a modern baby and toddler brand built around the idea that new parents deserve better: better design, better guidance, and products that actually grow with their kids.
Greg's path to founding a baby brand is not what you'd expect. He came up through a series of fast-growing startups in sales and go-to-market roles at Elastic, Krossover, WayUp, and Artsy before co-founding Lalo ...
Ross Goodhart is Co-CEO and a Founder of Jupiter—the new standard in dandruff care,
delivering clean, elevated, and seriously effective dandruff care products. He was born and
raised in Hawaii, and received his B.B.A from the University of Michigan School of Business in
2002, with an emphasis in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurship.
From 2002 to 2015, Ross worked in investment banking at Peter J. Solomon Compa...
Jennifer Worthington is the Co-Founder and President of Two Dice, a new live experience company she's building with George Kliavkoff, with whom she shares a belief in the power of live experiences to create connection and lasting memories.
She started her career at Jerry Bruckheimer Films, where she rose to senior vice president at age 23, working on some of the biggest films of that era: Armageddon, The Rock, Black Hawk Dow...
Ardie Sameti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scala. Ardie is part of a new generation of Northwest leaders rethinking how AI can solve one of the biggest challenges in enterprise operations—the ability to act on customer data in real time.
Scala is building an AI platform that unifies enterprise data and turns it into actionable intelligence, helping leaders see what's happening across their operations, respond faster, and empow...
Amanda Schutzbank and Deborah Benton are Co-Founders and General Partners at Willow Growth Partners. Willow is an emerging growth fund providing early capital to entrepreneurs building next-generation, values-led consumer brands.
They typically lead the first institutional round for companies generating $1-5 million in revenue, applying a disciplined approach to valuation, capitalization, and scaling for long-term success.
Evan Zhao is the Co-founder and CEO of Pacagen, using biotechnology to revolutionize consumer products. Before Pacagen, he served as Chief Science Officer at ODDITY, and previously built and sold Revela.
He earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, and completed work as a Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard.
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Aaron Finn is the CEO of SingleFile. He has spent over 25 years building and leading technology companies across consumer, internet, digital advertising, healthcare, and legal and compliance infrastructure.
Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at classmates.com, where he worked on customer acquisition analytics and scaling consumer platforms. He later co-founded AdReady, an automated advertising company, and led it...
Brent Beardall is the President and CEO of WaFd Bank, the largest bank headquartered in Washington state with more than $27 billion in assets and 200 offices located in nine Western states. He has spent over two decades at WaFd, rising through Finance and Operations before becoming CEO in 2017.
Known for his candid leadership style and public advocacy for community banking, Brent has led WaFd through significant economi...
Court Lorenzini is the founder and CEO of multiple successful technology startups including DocuSign, Point.com, Primus BioVision and MetaBrite Inc. His latest venture, FounderNexus, aims to triple the success rate of venture-backed startups, and his work with the Lorenzini Family Foundation is aggressively investing in building a stronger and more equitable society. Additionally, Mr. Lorenzini serves on th...
Ari Roisman is an entrepreneur, CEO, and executive coach who helps ambitious founders push through barriers and build meaningful lives beyond success. Over the past decade, he's founded and led companies that have defined new categories from instant video messaging with Glide to wearable tech with Wristcam, which partnered with Apple and landed on Time's 100 best inventions list.
He's been recognized by MIT Technology Review as on...
Raina Kumra is the Founder of Spicewell, a "Food is Medicine" startup focused on bringing everyday Ayurveda to the American diet, closing nutrient gaps, and planetary health.
Raina is also an advisor to Google X and CEO of Juggernaut, a transformation bureau that focuses on placing capital and storytelling for an organization's next leap. Previously, she worked in the Obama administration and served as Head of Digital for Wieden +...
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