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Harvard Professor: You're Not Ready To Scale Your Business - Mark Roberge

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Guests: Mark Roberge, Harvard Professor

Mark Roberge started out writing code. He studied at MIT, found entrepreneurship at 23, and ran a string of startups, a number of which failed. The last one was HubSpot, where he was the fourth employee and founding CRO, and he took it through IPO. He has taught sales at Harvard Business School for the last 11 years. He is also a deacon at his church, a daily meditator, and a man who reads every spiritual doctrine he can get his hands on.

Topics: Welcome to the Show: Meet Mark Roberge, Harvard Professor and Former HubSpot CRO

The Psychopath Expert: How Trump's Manipulating You

234 views · 3d ago · 59:06

Geraint Anderson thinks he might be a psychopath. So he got himself tested. He fell into the City by accident, while he was selling trinkets on beaches and smoking weed. He turned up to the interview in a £6 Oxfam suit, and the interview involved four bottles of champagne and a strip club. Nine years later the former intern was running the second-highest ranked team in London.

Topics: The Making of a City Manipulator: Spreadsheets, Cocaine, and Madonna Concerts · The Knife to the Throat: Fearlessness, Going Limp, and Psychopathic Traits · The Bloody Nose Disaster: Losing 1.2 Million Quid on Cocaine and Scottish Power · The Art of Stealing Thunder: Brown Nosing, Self-Deprecation, and Taking Credit · From Beach Bum to Banker: The Two Year Plan That Became Ten · Silicon Valley Psychopaths: AI, Sam Altman, and the Race to Destroy Humanity

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Tonia Buxton on Food, Fame and Building a Life You Love | Backed by Funding Circle

829 views · 1w ago · 21:49

Tonia Buxton didn’t know it was impossible. That’s how she did it. She was a primary school teacher in Tottenham with an idea for a TV show nobody was making: food and travel, just Greece and Cyprus. She posted VHS showreels to almost 200 production companies and ran out of companies in London. A company in Birmingham finally said yes. My Greek Kitchen and My Cypriot Kitchen went on to air on Discovery Channel in 37 countries.