Intro To 7:47 Conversations Podcast

Nis Frome is the co-founder of Alpha, the product management platform that powers thousands of experiments for the world’s leading brands. He is the editor of Product Management Insider and the co-producer of This is Product Management, a podcast with 1M+ downloads. His articles have been published in Forbes, The Next Web, and UX Magazine.In this conversation, we take a look back to his high school job in a pizza shop. While the position was under appreciated by many, the lessons learned in this pivotal time have affected his leadership style to this day.Check out what is Nis is up to at: nisfro.me and alphahq.com

Henry Schuck is the CEO and Co-Founder of DiscoverOrg and CEO of ZoomInfo. Under Henry’s leadership, DiscoverOrg has delivered unprecedented growth and innovation – landing on the Inc. 5000 list over the past 8 years and earning multiple awards as the top sales and marketing intelligence tool in the industry. Leading a talented team, he is focused on constantly enhancing DiscoverOrg’s proven ability to accelerate pipeline and revenue growth for its customers.Henry is a cum laude graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was selected in 2013 as the Honors College Alumni of the Year. He also holds a juris doctorate degree cum laude from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and has studied comparative law at Oxford University.Check out what Henry is up to at: https://discoverorg.com/ and https://www.zoominfo.com/

Pat Swisher founded Swisher Hygiene in 1983. In 1994, he went on to become Forbes Up and Coming Entrepreneur, as well as becoming a top Semi-Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, and given The Distinguished Alumni Award Appalachian State. In 1995 he was awarded Top Entrepreneur by Success Magazine. As the CEO of Swisher Hygiene, he was voted as one of the Top 100 Franchises in the world by Entrepreneur Magazine for 5 consecutive years. He is now the CEO and founder of Enviro-Master Services, which has acquired ownership of Swisher Hygiene. He graduated with a BS from Appalachian State.Check Enviro-Master out at: https://www.enviro-master.info/

Ronn Torossian is the founder and CEO of 5W Public Relations, one of the 10 largest independently-owned PR firms in the United States. With over 20 years of experience crafting and executing powerful narratives, Torossian is one of America’s most prolific and well-respected Public Relations professionals.Since founding 5WPR in 2003, he has overseen the company’s dynamic growth, expanding the company to more than 175 professionals in the company’s headquarters in the iconic Helmsley Building in Manhattan. With clients spanning the corporate, technology, and consumer sectors, in addition to a robust crisis, digital marketing and public affairs offerings, 5WPR is regularly recognized as an industry leader and has been named “PR Agency of the Year” by the American Business Awards on multiple occasions.Throughout his career, Torossian has worked with some of the world’s most visible companies, brands and organizations. His roster of client experience includes work forL’Oréal, Unilever, Walgreens, SAP NS2, Sparkli

Steven has a BS in Computer Science from Fordham University and a JD from the Pace University School of Law. As the Chief Operating Officer, he is the driving force behind day to day operations, strategic implementation, and execution at The Credit Pros. Also acting as an EOS Integrator, he ensures that solutions are reached for the tough issues through productive meetings, impactful off-sites, consistent vision, clear processes, and a healthy team. He holds Leadership accountable, and provides a steadying force for TCP staff in light of a fast-moving, complex, and interconnected business. Steven ensures clarity by over-communicating the strategic plan, mission, core values, and BHAG. He loves discussing the topic of leadership, is always interested in learning more, and believes, as Peter Drucker did, that “culture eats strategy for breakfast." To Steven, professional success can only really be measured by the development of a team and their ability to successfully overcome progressively greater challen

As a 25-year veteran of the payments industry, Ralph, CEO and board member of BlueSnap, has led BlueSnap to be a payments leader in Global eCommerce. Ralph has spent his career creating products for retailers, processors and financial institutions, while growing both public and private companies.BlueSnap is a global payments company that looks at eCommerce a little differently. They are payment experts, veteran developers, technologists, and business professionals who are globally minded, customer focused, and constantly driven to find a better way.Check them out at: home.bluesnap.com

Working with Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Acer, Amazon, Cisco, McKinsey, HTC, Google, AT&T, Sony, and Symantec, Selina has served as the digital partner for several of the most illustrious brands in the world.In 2009, after 15+ years in the industry working both the client and agency side, Selina founded Rational Interaction, a full-service integrated digital agency with a strategic mindset at its core. In founding Rational, Selina actualized a dream she had since childhood: to own and build an award-winning agency. Rational was built on two guiding principles: helping its clients’ businesses grow and doing so with strategic insight and creative excellence.As founding principal and chief creative officer, Selina has helped transform Rational into one of the fastest-growing, most successful integrated marketing services companies in the Pacific Northwest. Since launching in 2009, Rational has grown from a two-person startup into a multi-discipline integrated agency with over 100 team members.

A glance at his resume and you may think to Movement’s CEO, Casey Crawford, greatness lies in achievements like NFL Super Bowl champion, founder and CEO of a multibillion dollar mortgage company, and becoming a sought-after media guest whose appearances span CNBC’s Squawk Box, Bloomberg and Fox News with print features in The Wall Street Journal and TIME Magazine.There's no doubt the 2015 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year is ambitious. But what truly drives him is not a championship ring or reaching the top of the corporate ladder. It’s meeting others’ needs.As a child, Casey watched his father and grandfather use entrepreneurship as outreach. Whether the need was material, employment, friendship or a good example, he saw how business could be used to meet it.Following his football days during a stint in real estate, Casey became alarmed by glaring inadequacies within the lending industry. The greed and corruption among leadership, the lack of value and care toward employees, and the inattentiveness

Jeremy Burton is the Co-Founder, CTO & Chief Data Scientist at Wonolo. He is a 9x serial entrepreneur, previously being on the Founding team of Symbian and Co-Founder of Intuwave, both of which have been sold to Nokia.Wonolo (Work. Now. Locally) is an on-demand staffing platform for businesses to fill their immediate hourly or daily job needs. Wonolo allows companies to manage unpredictability by providing a fast, efficient, flexible way to bring in talent when required.Wonolo is funded by Sequoia, Bain Capital, PivotNorth, Crunchfund, Foundry Group Angels Syndicate and Base10.

"Hello, my name is Erwin van der Vlist. I am a passionate entrepreneur and co-founder of Speakap.Speakap is a digital platform that enables organizations to reach, engage and connect all employees - regardless of their physical location within the business.Our solution is used by more than 350 organizations around the globe - including some of the biggest names in retail and hospitality (Nike, IKEA, G-Star, Kimpton and McDonald’s) - but we still remain proud of and committed to creating a tool that benefits, supports and is enjoyed by its core users on the store floor, in the kitchen, in the ward, on the road, or on the production line.Here is a quick summary of the advantages of using Speakap:✔️ Engaged employees provide better customer experiences, statistically take less sick days, stay with the same employer for longer and are able to solve problems more efficiently.✔️ Communicating via a platform is clear, in contrast to a combination of e-mail, bulletin boards, newsletters, messaging apps and intra

"Jeff Burgess’ career has spanned over 38 years in various segments of the computer industry. He founded Burgess Computer Decisions, Inc., (BCD) in 1999, as an IT reseller, building HP servers for Fortune 500 companies. In early 2008, a chance meeting sparked Burgess to begin transitioning the company to the video surveillance storage market as BCDVideo.Now the industry leader in purpose-build video surveillance recording systems, BCDVideo has over 50,000 systems recording video surveillance in 52 countries, either as their own branded products or privately-labeled for some of the biggest names in the security industry. BCDVideo’s recording devices have been installed worldwide by the industry’s largest security integrators at airports, multi-government embassies, correctional facilities, universities, hospitals, casinos, stadiums, cruise lines, and retail chains. Many of the world’s most recognizable brands rely on BCDVideo recording devices to protect their environment.BCDVideo was on the Inc. 5000 lis

"John Laramie is the Founder and CEO of Project X (fka ADstruc), the fastest growing OOH specialist in the United States. He graduated from Loyola University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Concentration in Marketing. John, a two-time entrepreneur, is an active member of the New York Tech Community and enjoys playing ping pong and tennis. John was also featured in Business Week's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2011 and Silicon Alley's 2011 and 2010 Top 100 People in NYC Tech.In 2007, John started his own consulting agency, the JFL Group, where he helped develop the brand behind Naked Ping Pong, the group that is now known as SPiN New York (www.spinyc.com), a 13,000-square-foot table tennis social club. Previously, John worked at The Beanstalk Group, the world’s leading brand licensing agency. In his 4 years with the company, he carried out strategic licensing programs that generated over $400 million a year in retail sales on behalf of Ford Motor Company, NBC Universal,

"I help commercial operators change the trajectory of their careers.The average tenure of a commercial executive at a growth company has fallen below 18 months, with some estimates pegged at 16 months. That volatility jeopardizes growth, erodes shareholder value, and creates upheaval and risk for the operators building and running high growth businesses. It is a dangerous time to be a commercial operator.Revenue Collective is an exclusive membership for growth operators dedicated to providing support, assistance, education, and career growth to our Members. We come together to ensure CROs, CMOs, COOs, and CCOs perform better in their roles, earn the title and compensation they desire, and achieve their professional goals. We are a global organization with official chapters in New York, London, Denver, Toronto, Boston, and Amsterdam and more chapters coming online in the next few months and years.For the past 15 years, I have helped companies scale from just north of $0 in revenue to just shy of $300M. Du

Robyn Hatcher shines a light on the power of COMMUNICATION to transform relationships, status and your bottom line. Robyn uses her decades of TV and screenwriting experience to help you craft complicated messages into simplified engaging content. Techniques culled from her extensive acting experience, help you deliver your message with impact and power. Robyn’s training as a certified Neural Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner gives her a unique, combination of creative tools and scientific research to help maximize your influence and sky-rocket your success. You will get tangible, easy to implement mindset and communication formulas to improve engagement, performance and confidence.

Kamine founded KDC Ag to serve as a food and agricultural-focused arm of his family’s investment shop, Kamine Development Corporation. His goal? Create and invest in profitable infrastructure that will reduce food waste in the U.S. KDC Ag’s proprietary technology can convert 160 tons of unwanted fresh food into animal feed and organic fertilizers. Some of the biggest names across investing and agriculture are on board: Howard W. Buffett and former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman are among Kamine’s advisors.

Thomas Sparico is a career entrepreneur, inventor and and executive having built, led and advised several companies across a number of industries.His career has been driven by a passion for innovation and a desire to engineer the success of concepts and companies. He is the Founder of the Brand New Matter companies (Brand New Matter, Inc. and BNM Ventures). Brand New Matter provides strategic advisory and capital to early stage companies.Mr. Sparico began his career at the intellectual property think tank, Walker Digital, where he became a named inventor on over 100 US patents. While at Walker Digital, he was also part of the founding team that built and launched priceline.com. After priceline, he went on to launch several other business with a concentration in travel, lifestyle and technology including Internet Travel Enterprises and Marquee Concierge. He led the acquisition and turn around of Hickory Travel (now Hickory Global Partners). Mr. Sparico led BNM Ventures investments in Leaflink, Bizly, VenueBook

Rob Emrich is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Gimbal Inc.Gimbal Inc. is a marketing technology that unites the physical and digital worlds. The company counts over 10,000 end customers, from global giants like Ford, Citibank, Walgreens to small neighborhood businesses. Gimbal has received over $90 million in investment from institutions like Qualcomm, AEG, Zebra Technologies, and SK Group. The company was recognized for its remarkable growth #66 on the Inc 500 and #34 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.Before Gimbal, Rob started five other ventures and has a lifetime record of 4 wins and 1 loss. Rob has been featured in the The New York Times Bestselling book The Lean Entrepreneur & 21 Questions for 21 Millionaires. He has been recognized by the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and ‘Forty under 40′ (at age 25). He is an active member in the Young Presidents’ Organization and a member of the Digital Advisory Committee at The Alliance for Audited Media.Rob has done more community serv

Dan’s passion for closing deals and building businesses has led to growing teams on three continents, #61 on the INC500 as VP Sales at Brafton, and taken several companies from zero to multi-million dollar revenue. Dan currently leads Mindracer’s sales consulting practice, providing the go-to-market strategy for SaaS, Consulting and Agency businesses. Clients include SPARK Neuro, Bodhala, New Haircut, and Salience. Mindracer has helped clients win business with enterprise brands such as State Farm, Blackrock, Mastercard and more.

Peter Hurley is the premier headshot photographer in New York City. He teaches his technique at his Headshot Intensive Workshops and online at Headshot Crew—his educational website dedicated to cultivating the largest network of portrait photographers in the world.He is the author of the book The Headshot: Secrets to creating Amazing Headshot Portraits and has released several critically acclaimed tutorials with Fstoppers, Creative Live, and Kelby One.

Radek started as an analyst, became a sales person and then worked for 8 years as a portfolio manager. Radek has unique first-hand knowledge of how things work in the industry. Radek’s direct experience with the pain of Corporate Access both on the sell side and buy side as well as a desire to fix a problem that affected him directly for so many years is what spurred the idea behind WeConvene.