The following interview was between Omar Tawakol of Voicea and Sean Jacobsohn and Fay Hazaveh of Norwest Venture Partners. They spoke about the development of the AI space and where they see great opportunities emerging. Read on to find out…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Thomas Kurian (President of Oracle product development), at his office in Redwood Shores. I knew Thomas well from when I ran the Oracle Data Cloud under his and Steve Miranda’s organization after Oracle acquired…
Clara Shih is a pioneer in the social media industry and the founder and CEO of Hearsay the leading advisor-client engagement solution for the financial services industry. Clara has been named one of Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs,” Fast Company’s…
Team meetings a drag? Here are three easy to follow ways to make them better. I've spent the last few years exploring productivity across many leading companies. While out talking with various people, a surprising theme became clear: most people don’t…
Jeff Green is founder and CEO of The Trade Desk, Inc., a demand-side platform that powers the media campaigns of the world’s most advanced buyers in digital advertising. In 2015, Ernst & Young named Jeff and co-founder Dave Pickles Entrepreneurs…
Auren Hoffman is an entrepreneur, angel investor, author, and current CEO of SafeGraph, which graphs datasets together to solve humanity's biggest secrets. Previously he was founder and CEO of LiveRamp an identity resolution provider offering data onboarding. I had the…
Ask an employee of any company - large or small - what their biggest time sink is, and they will tell you how many meetings they have. In the US alone, there are billions of meetings a year. Yet more…
In 2006, Tod Sacerdoti started BrightRoll, which became the digital ad industry’s largest programmatic video advertising platform. Omar had lunch with Tod to discuss his keys to productivity and how he used that to grow BrightRoll which was ultimately acquired…
When you meet a productive leader you always know it, even if you don’t recognize what makes them productive. It turns out that successful people share a few basic productivity building blocks. I have had the privilege of spending time…
