Guests

Troy Carter is an American music manager and entrepreneur who founded Atom Factory, a talent management and media company. He co-founded Q&A Media in 2019 and is Managing Partner at Cross Culture Ventures. A Philadelphia native, Carter has managed artists including Lady Gaga over his 20-year career.

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Don Vultaggio is the co-founder and chairman of AriZona Beverage Company, maker of the iconic AriZona Iced Tea. A Brooklyn native, he started in beverage distribution before launching the company in 1992 with the famous 99-cent tallboy can that remains unchanged today.

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Guy Raz is the creator and host of NPR's How I Built This, and founder of Built-It Productions and Tinkercast Media. A former NPR Berlin bureau chief and Pentagon correspondent, he has earned a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard and an Edward R. Murrow Award for his investigative journalism.

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Ben Chestnut is the co-founder and former CEO of Mailchimp, the Atlanta-based email marketing platform he built with Dan Kurzius in 2001. He grew the bootstrapped startup to $1B ARR before Intuit acquired it for $12 billion in 2021.

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Franchesca Thompson is Founder and CEO of Thrive 12, an educational resource company supporting teachers and marginalized students. A former Gwinnett County educator, she earned her M.A.T. in Business Education from the University of Georgia and hosts the Everything But The Lesson Plan podcast.

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Iyin Akinlabi-Oladimeji is the founder of Luji's Chocolate, a premium chocolate brand that brings cocoa production back to West Africa. Based in Lewes, Delaware, the company makes chocolate entirely in Nigeria using ethically sourced cocoa.

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Victor Hugo Hernandez created ErgoFlex Desk, an AI-powered smart ergonomic desk. A Cal Poly Humboldt art graduate, he founded the Humboldt Arts Project before building his ergonomic innovation.

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Amy Errett is the Founder and CEO of Madison Reed, a San Francisco beauty brand disrupting the $15 billion hair color industry with non-toxic formulas. She spent three decades in venture capital and led investment advisory firm Spectrum Group before launching the company in 2013.

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Daniel Humm (born September 21, 1976) is a Swiss chef and owner of Daniel Humm Hospitality, the New York-based hospitality group behind Eleven Madison Park, Clemente Bar, and Eleven Madison Home. He was appointed a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for food education in September 2024.

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Jason McGowan is the co-founder and CEO of Crumbl, the Utah-based cookie chain that launched in Logan in 2017 and grew to over 1,000 locations in eight years. A self-taught technologist from Alberta, he worked on FamilyLink and Ancestry before applying A/B testing to the cookie recipe.

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Sawyer Hemsley is the co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Crumbl, the Utah cookie chain that launched in Logan in 2017. A Communication Studies and Marketing graduate from Utah State University, he led the brand's creative vision and weekly rotating flavor program.

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Lindsey Gallas is the Co-Founder of Math Medic, a company providing free, student-centered lesson plans and curriculum for high school math teachers. A former high school math teacher from Grand Rapids, Michigan, she co-founded Stats Medic in 2015 with Luke Wilcox.

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