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For more than 20 years, Reza Satchu has been both a serial founder and a leading educator in entrepreneurship. He has built multiple high-profile companies and mentored hundreds of students and founders through the realities of starting and scaling ventures. Now, in this new video podcast from Harvard Business School Foundry, Reza breaks down what it truly takes to be a founder.Reza interviews the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, showing the motivation and principles of the human behind the brand and their hero's journey. He dissects their underlying mindset, how they developed their judgment and committed to it — and thereby achieved the freedom they sought to make an impact. From childhood influences, to present day challenges and future impact.
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- 6 days ago1h 0m
Working With Elon Musk: How Jon McNeill Built Six Startups and Helped Scale Tesla
What does it take to be a founder? Jon McNeill had already built and sold six companies when he joined Tesla. Then working for Elon Musk forced him to rethink what he knew about building a business. As president of global sales at Tesla and later COO of Lyft, he helped lead two companies through extraordinary growth. Today, he puts those principles to work at his venture studio DVx, launching businesses from the ground up. This is The Founder Mindset with Reza Satchu. -- Harvard Business School Foundry is a venture-building platform for high-potential founders. Harvard frameworks, live faculty sessions, and a path to compete for $100,000 in non-dilutive fundings. Accepting HBS Foundry Bootcamp applications now. An 8-week, virtual bootcamp to take your idea to a funding-ready pitch. Apply here: https://hbsfoundry.org/apply-now
- 2 weeks ago1h 4m
The Founder Is the Prize: Pitching Delta CEO Ed Bastian
What does it take to be a founder? Ed Bastian helped steer Delta Air Lines through bankruptcy and build it into America's most profitable airline, with 100,000 employees and more than 200 million customers a year. Now, five founders get one shot to show him what they're building, and a chance to change the course of their companies. This is The Founder Mindset with Reza Satchu. -- Harvard Business School Foundry is a venture-building platform for high-potential founders. Harvard frameworks, live faculty sessions, and a path to compete for $100,000 in non-dilutive fundings. Accepting HBS Foundry Bootcamp applications now. An 8-week, virtual bootcamp to take your idea to a funding-ready pitch. Apply here: https://hbsfoundry.org/apply-now
- 3 weeks ago32 min
Featuring the HBR IdeaCast: HBS Legend Nitin Nohria on the Biggest Surprises CEOs Face
Becoming CEO may be the ultimate career goal for many executives. But the job itself can be radically different from what aspiring leaders expect. Nitin Nohria has spent more than three decades studying CEOs and working with them in Harvard Business School’s workshops for new chief executives. In his new book, The CEO: The Role, the Reality, the Responsibility, he explores the realities of the job—and the surprises that even highly experienced executives encounter once they reach the top. In this episode of the HBR IdeaCast Nohria shares with host Alison Beard why CEOs quickly discover that they can't actually run the company themselves, and why CEOs are particularly vulnerable to being insulated from reality: information tends to become increasingly “sugarcoated” as it travels up the organization. Plus, the importance of humility, building the right senior team, and managing the CEO's most precious—and finite—resource: time. Listen to more episodes of the HBR IdeaCast in your favorite podcast app, or head to: https://hbr.org/2018/01/podcast-ideacast
- Oct 7, 202654 min
Not Born a Founder: How Brian Halligan Built HubSpot
What does it take to be a founder? Brian Halligan co-founded HubSpot and pioneered inbound marketing. Today, the company generates more than $3 billion in annual revenue. But before starting HubSpot, he was a sales executive who didn't have the confidence to become a founder. He wasn't born one. He learned how. This is The Founder Mindset, with Reza Satchu. -- Harvard Business School Foundry is a venture-building platform for high-potential founders. Harvard frameworks, live faculty sessions, and a path to compete for $100,000 in non-dilutive fundings. Accepting HBS Foundry Bootcamp applications now. An 8-week, virtual bootcamp to take your idea to a funding-ready pitch. Apply here: https://hbsfoundry.org/apply-now
- Sep 23, 202650 min
Proven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on Control and Betting on Yourself
What does it take to be a founder? Mark Pincus doesn't believe in the lightning bolt: the one brilliant idea that changes everything. He built Zynga, the social gaming giant behind FarmVille and Words With Friends, and sold it for $12.7 billion. Before that, he'd already built three companies: one sold, one went public, and one failed. He turned it all into a framework: Proven, Better, New. And a habit most founders resist: assume your idea is wrong, and test it faster than anyone else. This is The Founder Mindset with Reza Satchu. -- Foundry is Harvard Business School’s new AI-native platform that gives high-potential founders everywhere the tools, expertise, and guidance to build ventures that succeed. Accepting HBS Foundry Bootcamp applications now. An 8-week, virtual bootcamp to take your idea to a funding-ready pitch. Apply here: https://hbsfoundry.org/apply-now *Open to founders based in the U.S. for now. Top participants are invited to Foundry Catalyst with the opportunity to later compete for up to $100K in funding. All podcast episodes and more info can also be found on Harvard Business School’s official site: https://www.hbs.edu/foundry
- Sep 16, 20261h 1m
Featuring "The Parlor Room Presents: Hello AI": Linda Hill on Leading Through AI-Driven Change
In this episode of The Parlor Room Presents: Hello AI, host and Harvard Business School Online Creative Director Chris Linnane speaks with HBS Professor Linda Hill about why AI adoption depends on more than technology. Drawing on her research, Hill explains why leaders must rethink the way work gets done, teams collaborate, and organizations build the trust and capabilities to use AI effectively—and why the most successful companies treat AI as an opportunity to redesign work, not just automate it. RESOURCES Learn more from Hill in her course Leading in the Digital World, which is part of HBS Online's Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) (https://hbs.me/mspr4ae6) and the Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy (https://hbs.me/3zvv82de) Catch up on the previous Parlor Room episode, Linda Hill on Leading Change and the Paradoxes of Management (https://hbs.me/37npcw6v) Check out Hill's book mentioned in this episode (https://collectivegeniusbook.com/) Related HBS Online Blog Posts: 5 Digital Leadership Skills That Can Help Advance Your Career (https://hbs.me/2taudjfy) 3 Tips to Help You Lead in the Digital World (https://hbs.me/2p82pchk) AI-Powered Business Process Automation: When to Automate vs. Augment (https://hbs.me/yck8kd52)
- Sep 9, 202647 min
Building What Outlasts Us: Demond Martin on Inclusive Capitalism
What does it take to be a founder? Demond Martin never took the obvious path. In 2022, he bet that a company could do what philanthropy alone couldn’t: close the health gap for communities like the one he came from. His company, WellWithAll, provides daily wellness products, from supplements to beverages, and gives away twenty percent of its profits, with a goal of raising $300 million for community health programs over the next decade. -- Foundry is Harvard Business School’s new AI-native platform that gives high-potential founders everywhere the tools, expertise, and guidance to build ventures that succeed. Accepting HBS Foundry Bootcamp applications now. An 8-week, virtual bootcamp to take your idea to a funding-ready pitch. Apply here: https://hbsfoundry.org/apply-now *Open to founders based in the U.S. for now. Top participants are invited to Foundry Catalyst with the opportunity to later compete for up to $100K in funding. All podcast episodes and more info can also be found on Harvard Business School’s official site: https://www.hbs.edu/foundry
- Sep 2, 202628 min
Featuring “Cold Call”: BrandBastion Mixes AI and Human Judgment to Build Trust at Scale
Today, we’re sharing an episode from Cold Call, the chart-topping management podcast from our colleagues at Harvard Business School. Hosted by HBS Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Brian Kenny, Cold Call explores the real-world business case studies taught at HBS, with the professors who wrote them and often the executives and innovators who lived them. From the history of Hershey to today's biggest AI case studies, Cold Call breaks down the decisions, tradeoffs, and leadership lessons behind some of the most fascinating organizations. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from HBS assistant professor Julian De Freitas and BrandBastion co-founders, the case protagonists. Together, they discuss the AI-powered platform they built to help brands manage social media comment sections at scale, respond quickly to customers, and protect their reputation. This conversation is especially compelling given the guests’ thoughtful consideration of when brands should step in and respond to customers online, and how organizations can make the case for investing in moderation. To listen to more episodes, follow Cold Call on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts.
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For more than 20 years, Reza Satchu has been both a serial founder and a leading educator in entrepreneurship. He has built multiple high-profile companies and mentored hundreds of students and founders through the realities of starting and scaling ventures. Now, in this new video podcast from Harvard Business School Foundry, Reza breaks down what it truly takes to be a founder.Reza interviews the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, showing the motivation and principles of the human behind the brand and their hero's journey. He dissects their underlying mindset, how they developed their judgment and committed to it — and thereby achieved the freedom they sought to make an impact. From childhood influences, to present day challenges and future impact.
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