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Executive House is a business media platform for executives and aspiring business leaders. We go beyond boardrooms and balance sheets to showcase the human stories that define leadership, resilience, and innovation. Some of our featured shows include: The CEO Series, The CEO Roundtable, The Tech Series, EverydayCEOs, Techbytes & Executive Report. Hosted by Will Salvi, The CEO Series is an Emmy award-winning original content series. Each episode profiles a business leader and their respective business. The series provides a humanizing look into the CEO’s personal story, mindset and insights of their business and industry.
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- 6 days ago1h 37m
Thrive Market CEO Nick Green on What the U.S. Lets Into Your Food
In this episode of The CEO Series, Will sits down with Nick Green, co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market. Nick talks about growing up in the Midwest in a house with no junk food, his mom's Mexican-American roots, and how her push on health and education shaped his path. He also looks back on starting Ivy Insiders, a test prep company, at Harvard and selling it a few years after graduating. He walks through meeting his co-founder with a "Groupon for healthy food" idea, getting turned down by more than 100 VCs, and how health wellness bloggers and influencers ended up writing the early checks. He also covers the Costco-style membership model, banning more than 1,000 ingredients, building the Thrive Market brand, navigating tariffs, and what grocery shopping looks like when AI fills most of your cart. He shares his views on MAHA and RFK Jr., the gap between EU and U.S. food standards, the decade-long push to let SNAP be used online, and why profit is necessary but isn't the purpose of a business.
- Oct 8, 20261h 29m
PE Guy Creator Johnny Hilbrant Partridge on Turning a Viral Character Into a Career
In this episode of The CEO Series, Will sits down with Johnny Hillbrant Partridge, the creator behind PE Guy. Johnny talks about growing up in Winnetka, studying business at the University of Denver, and taking classes at Second City and UCB. He also looks back on working at The Ellen DeGeneres Show and teaching at SoulCycle before content became his full-time job. He walks through the "guy you get stuck talking to at a wedding" video that started PE Guy, why he gave the character a career in private equity, and how he crowdsources intel from his DMs to write videos. He also covers running the business with no staff, his $5,000 first brand deal, the thousands of personalized videos he's made, and how brand deals work. He shares his views on private equity, the wealth gap, and satire's role in American capitalism, and answers audience questions.
- Oct 2, 20261h 16m
LossDog Co-Founder & CEO Tom Sosnoff: "Every CEO Is Replaceable"
In this episode of The CEO Series, Will sits down with Lossdog co-founder and CEO Tom Sosnoff. Tom talks about starting on Wall Street in 1980, moving to Chicago to trade on the CBOE floor, and meeting Scott Sheridan, his business partner of nearly 40 years. He walks through building and selling thinkorswim and tastytrade, including the three-way trade with the Ricketts family that closed the thinkorswim deal. He also covers the $3 million investment that turned Zero Hash around, what he's building now at Lossdog, and why he and Scott gave $50 million to their employees after their exits. He shares his views on CEO pay, the wealth gap, and American capitalism, and gets into his trading philosophy, the biggest mistake people make in the stock market, and why he'd rather follow people who are always wrong.
- Sep 17, 20261h 31m
Spin Master Co-Founder Ronnen Harary on Paw Patrol, Bakugan, and Betting on Yourself Young
In this episode of The CEO Series, Will sits down with Spin Master co-founder and chairman Ronnen Harary. Ronnen walks through the early days of the company, including Earth Buddy, Devil Sticks, and Air Hogs. He also gets into the boom and bust of Bakugan, when sales went from $450 million to a billion and back again. He points to hubris as the real cause and explains how that period led directly to Paw Patrol. He tells the full story of Paw Patrol's inception. He talks about writing his book, No Experience Necessary, and opens up about his dysgraphia, growing up with emotional neglect, and the gifts that came with both. He also covers why he prefers running a public company to a private one, the decision to step down as co-CEO in 2021, the sabbatical that took him from Cape Town to Nairobi, what tariffs did to the toy industry last year, and why physical toys are growing rather than shrinking in an AI world. He closes on the perception of wealth and business leaders, why he finds the billionaire framing distasteful, his views on monopolies and free markets, voting with your wallet, and the simplest way to get equity in anything.
- Sep 8, 20261h 33m
Chess.com CEO Erik Allebest on the Netflix documentary, the cheating scandal and 10M daily users
In this episode of The CEO Series, Will sits down with Chess.com CEO Erik Allebest. Erik walks through the early days of Chess.com and the two chess businesses he ran before it. He talks about the company's slow, steady growth for over a decade, the surge that came with COVID and Queen's Gambit, and the playbook they built afterward for getting chess into the cultural conversation. He also covers the second spike in 2023, driven by the Hans Niemann lawsuit, short form video, and chess taking off in schools. He talks about his role as CEO, why he still does it after 20 years, and his view on capitalism, the negative perception of CEOs, and how he tries to make that change inside his own company first. He also gets into the cheating controversy involving Hans Niemann and Magnus Carlsen, the report Chess.com published, and how he feels he was portrayed in the Netflix documentary.
- Sep 1, 20261h 31m
How this investment banker became CEO of a Whiskey brand at 33 | WhistlePig CEO Alex Roberts
In this episode of The CEO Series, Will travels to Vermont to sit down with Alex Roberts, CEO of WhistlePig Whiskey, at the WhistlePig farm. Alex explains how he went from working as a 24-year-old investment banking analyst on a potential sale of WhistlePig to being offered the CFO job himself. He talks about entering the company with no operating experience, dealing with imposter syndrome and the blunt feedback from his CEO that forced him to rethink how he was adding value. Eight years later, Alex became CEO. He walks through the transition from CFO to CEO, why he restructured the company within his first weeks in the role and what he has learned about making difficult decisions, building an executive team and more. Alex also breaks down how WhistlePig grew roughly 5x during his time with the company, what it actually takes to grow a premium whiskey brand and why bartenders have played such an important role in WhistlePig's strategy. They get into declining alcohol consumption, Gen Z, marijuana, affordability, AI eliminating jobs, tariffs and why Alex believes being a private company gives WhistlePig an advantage. After the conversation, Will tours the farm and distillery and meets the pigs and Highland cows.
- Aug 20, 20261h 33m
Mid-Day Squares Co-Founder Jake Karls on How They Built a $38 Million Brand by Being Themselves
In this episode of The CEO Series, William Salvi sits down with Jake Karls, co-founder and Chief Rainmaker of Mid-Day Squares. Jake walks through the early version of the business which was three people making 50 to 100 bars a day in a condo kitchen and hand delivering samples with a Polaroid and a handwritten note. He explains how they raised money and built their own manufacturer. Jake talks about why he doesn't believe he is a good manager, his burnout, pitching to Wall Street in shorts and a buttoned down shirt and why after 8 years he still does therapy with his co-founders. He also gets into what it actually takes to get a CPG product into stores, from showing up to trade shows and road shows to using storytelling and social media to drive sales.
- Aug 6, 20261h 25m
HexClad CEO Danny Winer on building a billion-dollar brand after 50
In this episode of The CEO Series, William Salvi sits down with Danny Winer, co-founder and CEO of HexClad. Danny traces his path from studying theater and film at NYU and moving to Los Angeles with $2,000 and three suitcases, to a car accident at 28 that broke his back, shattered his right leg, and left him six figures in debt with no ability to work. He rebuilt by selling cookware at trade shows, then lost his first company, Juicepresso, in September 2016 at age 50. What became HexClad started in the basement hallway of a trade show in Guangzhou, where Danny spotted hexagons lasered onto a Korean barbecue plate and found the rare thing nobody finds at those shows: the actual inventor, holding a book of 13 patents. They talk about the handshake deal that gave an unknown American company US exclusivity, why every investor turned him down for refusing to sell into retail, the emptied retirement accounts and rolling stack of credit cards, and the single Costco test store that saved the company when it was months from going out of business. They also get into celebrity partnerships. Gordon Ramsay found HexClad by following them on Instagram, and Danny explains what his business manager meant by "you're going to get more than you bargained for," why Gordon is on weekly calls looking at numbers rather than just filming ads, and what happens when he does not like a product. Plus becoming the official cookware of the New York Yankees, the F1 work, and how a conversation with Jimmy Iovine turned a martini shaker into a collaboration with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
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About The CEO Series
Executive House is a business media platform for executives and aspiring business leaders. We go beyond boardrooms and balance sheets to showcase the human stories that define leadership, resilience, and innovation. Some of our featured shows include: The CEO Series, The CEO Roundtable, The Tech Series, EverydayCEOs, Techbytes & Executive Report. Hosted by Will Salvi, The CEO Series is an Emmy award-winning original content series. Each episode profiles a business leader and their respective business. The series provides a humanizing look into the CEO’s personal story, mindset and insights of their business and industry.
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