entrepreneurship — PODCAST — Breakthrough Builders

Meditation and Methods

Atif Rafiq on how he drove customer and career innovation as an entrepreneur and executive at companies from Amazon to McDonald’s, and how he’s evolved his game as a leader to blend efficiency and empathy.

Season 5Jesse PurewalJuly 14, 2022fortune 500, leadership, business authors, digital transformation, mcdonalds, advice for ceos, empathy, customer experience, amazon, entrepreneurship

The Cult of We

Journalist and author Maureen Farrell on the story-behind-the-story of the ascent and decline of WeWork, why she chose it as the topic for her first book, anecdotes and advice from her writing journey, and more.

Season 5Jesse PurewalMarch 30, 2022wework, business journalism, wall street journal, marketing, startups, corporate greed, real estate, new york times, venture capital, adam neumann, entrepreneurship

Values and Vulnerability

Rebecca Minkoff on brand building, entrepreneurship, personal resilience, and the importance of embracing vulnerability to achieve personal growth.

Season 5Jesse PurewalMarch 2, 2022fashion industry, brand building, personal growth, superwomen podcast, rebecca minkoff, apparel, handbags, embracing vulnerability, core values, female founder collective, personal resilience, entrepreneurship

Faith in the Future

LivePerson Founder & CEO Rob LoCascio discusses the beautiful journey of entrepreneurship, the impermanence of failure, and the breakthrough innovations driving a new age of conversational commerce.

Season 5Jesse PurewalNovember 17, 2021rob locascio, conversational commerce, empathy at scale, artificial intelligence, technology, customer journeys, over the wall, advice for ceos, new york, chatbots, liveperson, customer experience, entrepreneurship

Changing Tastes For Good

Prime Roots CEO & Co-Founder Kim Le on her company’s mission to change the hearts, minds, and refrigerator share of every omnivore and flexitarian on the planet.

Season 4Jesse PurewalSeptember 14, 2021flexitarian, food industry, building a brand, plant-based diet, kim le, prime roots, advice for ceos, climate change, eating healthy, entrepreneurship

Serving a Community

Kim Malek, CEO and Co-Founder of Salt & Straw, shares her journey of quitting a successful corporate career to open an artisanal ice cream shop designed around community.

Season 1Jesse PurewalDecember 6, 2020portland, startup branding, mission driven business, danny meyer, salt and straw, women entrepreneurs, ice cream, starbucks, social entrepreneurship, storytelling, community, resilience, female entrepreneurs, artisan ice cream, entrepreneurship

Learning to Infinity

Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering at Shopify, talks to Jesse about the doors he has opened in his career and life by viewing learning as an “infinite game.”

Amplifying Human Agency

Charlie Sutton, Head of Design at Facebook App, expounds on the power of design to give everyone a voice and to help us achieve peak human agency.

Educating the World

Geetha Murali, CEO of Room to Read, discusses the importance of building skills and relationships in the quest to educate 40 million children.

Building with Purpose

Robert Chatwani, Chief Marketing Officer of Atlassian, reflects on building with purpose, technology as a force for positive change, and the future of marketing.