Giants & Crowns

Donald Desantis is the co-founder and SVP of Product Design at VTS, --- the world's leading asset management and leasing platform built to provide real-time portfolio analytics to the top landlords and brokerage firms around the world. Before co-founding VTS, Donald was the cofounder of 7Hill Studio, Team Lead at Redfin, and a User Experience Designer at AppStoreHQ. https://www.vts.com/ — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

Johnathan Wasserstrum is the CEO and co-founder Sqaurefoot. SquareFoot is the marketplace that connects businesses with their ideal space. By re-engineering the leasing process --- from initial search all the way through touring and lease negotiations, SquareFoot is fast becoming the go-to destination for commercial real estate leasing. Before co-founding Squarefoot, Johnathan was an RE200 mentor at Metaprop NYC and a fellow at the Startup Leadership program. https://www.squarefoot.com/ — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

Rafe Offer is the CEO & Co-Founder of Sofar Sounds, a company reimagining live events through curated, secret performances in intimate settings in more than 350 cities around the world. Rafe brings 15+ years in global brand marketing at Disney, Coca-Cola and as a consultant for Microsoft, Diageo and a few UK based startups before founding Sofar. It was a joy talking with Rafe about they've built and are building at Sofar. Something special indeed! www.sofarsounds.com — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

Shu Chowdhury is the founder & CEO of SALIDO, a restaurant operating system that manages every aspect of a restaurant business. Prior to Salido Shu’s career spanned finance and software engineering. www.salido.com — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process. — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride.

Tom Harari is the CEO & Co-Founder of Cleanly. Cleanly's mission is to reduce the time and stress associated with dirty laundry, saving people 8+ hours every month. Once an order is placed, Cleanly sends out a Valet to pickup and deliver your laundry or dry-cleaning, at the time requested, with a branded Cleanly laundry & garment bag. Tom shares the story around how Cleanly got started, what it’s taken to get it to scale, and he shares his thoughts about building team and product in the on demand economy. www.cleanly.com — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process. — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special th

Doug Jacob and Michael Lastoria are co-founders of JWALK a creative agency based out of the NYC. Michael, is also the co-founder of &pizza and trail blazing, rapidly growing fast casual pizza restaurant based out of DC. Both Doug & Michael share years of experience as colleagues and entrepreneurs. We spend our time expanding on their philosophies, and how they think about starting and growing their respective businesses. www.jwalkny.com www.andpizza.com — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process. — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye

Radha Agrawal is CEO & Co-Founder of Daybreaker, an early morning dance movement in 18 cities around the world and growing. Radha is also early stage investor, author, and co-founder of THINX. www.daybreaker.com — Sponsors — www.claralabs.com www.breather.com www.taskbullet.com?aff=tbgiantsandcrowns — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process. — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride.

Adam Tishman is Co-founder of Helix, an innovative direct-to-consumer sleep brand aiming to change the way people sleep by bringing customization to the sleep category through individually personalized, custom-made product for you, based on how you sleep. Since launching in August of 2015, Helix has sold tens of thousands of mattresses, has over 150 million hours slept on our beds, and was identified as Internet Retailers "#1 Fastest Growing eCommerce Company" in 2016. www.helixsleep.com — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com?aff=tbgiantsandcrowns www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process. — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isab

Dan Teran is the CEO and co-founder of Managed by Q, the platform for office management. Founded in 2014 with a vision for building the operating system for the built world, Q now powers office operations for thousands of top companies nationwide, ranging from fast growing start ups to the Fortune 500. Managed by Q has been recognized as a standard bearer of good jobs in the on-demand economy. The hallmark of Q’s business is its commitment to creating good jobs, and using technology to not only increase efficiencies, but economically empower communities. Dan has spoken about this business strategy at MIT Sloan, NYU, and Parsons School of Design, and has been recognized by the White House, Department of Labor, and others as a leading voice in the national conversation around the future of work www.managedbyq.com — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus,

JB Osborne is a partner at Red Antler. Fiercely committed to differentiation and success, Red Antler builds brands for start ups that are changing how the world works. Before becoming a partner at Red Antler, JB was an account supervisor at advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi and the US director of marketing agency Consortium. www.redantler.com — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com?aff=tbgiantsandcrowns www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process. — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride.

John Saroff is CEO of Chartbeat, the leading content intelligence platform used by more than 50,000 of the world's top media properties in over 60 countries. Chartbeat believes that meaningful stories matter wherever they live, and that in an increasingly mobile, social world, Chartbeat is the only analytics solution newsrooms rely on to understand consumer attention and make the most of their quality content on site and offsite. Saroff has worked on the cutting-edge of media and technology for 17+ years, setting the daily operations and business development agendas of companies as diverse as Google, NBC-Universal and vente-privee. www.chartbeat.com — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com?aff=tbgiantsandcrowns www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandc

Eric Kinariwala is the CEO and Founder of Capsule, a full-scale pharmacy and technology platform that is fundamentally rebuilding the healthcare experience. Prior to founding Capsule, Eric invested in global healthcare, technology, and retail companies as part of the investment teams at Bain Capital and Perry Capital. Eric is also an investor in and advisor to early stage businesses and entrepreneurs including Harry’s, Aviate, Funding Circle, and Maple. www.capsulecares.com — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons

Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin are co-founders of Ovenly, a two-woman-owned bakery based in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood. We explore their beginnings, their energized rise, and talk building with purpose. www.oven.ly www.instagram.com/ovenly — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com?aff=tbgiantsandcrowns www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

Eric Friedman is Head of Expa Labs, an early stage accelerator program for companies to get the right start, help they need, and time to build. Prior to Expa, Eric was Global Senior Director of Sales and Revenue Operations at Foursquare. He joined as Foursquare first got started, focussed on growing the merchant community, and was responsible for the first scalable revenue, first sales teams, and the ad tech product Pinpoint. Eric has combined his entrepreneurial interests and experience in product management, finance, marketing, and account management in his work. Eric has a BBA from George Washington University. www.expa.com — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com?aff=tbgiantsandcrowns www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram

Dan Reich is CEO & Co-Founder of Troops. Dan has started and been involved with companies that have collectively raised over $100M in venture capital and have exited for close to $1B in M&A, including companies like Buddy Media, Spinback and Lotame. As a result, he has extensive experience in startups, technology, business operations, financing, management, and scaling large teams. In this episode we dive into recruiting his team, the processes they’ve built out to scale, his take on product. www.troops.ai — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their le

Cindy Wu is the CEO & Co-Founder of Experiment, a platform for funding scientific discoveries. Cindy co-founded experiment right after school. We talk about her journey to launch, her time at Y-combinator, and discuss how she built her team, thinks about product, and her views on growth. www.experiment.com — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — www.breather.com www.claralabs.com www.taskbullet.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns/ The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

Mariya Nurislamova is the co-founder and CEO of Scentbird. Scentbird is a rapidly growing subscription for luxury fragrances. Each month members get a 30-day supply of a perfume of their choice (D&G, Gucci, Guerlain, etc). Prior to Scentbird, Mariya started a number of companies in and servicing the startup space. www.scentbird.com — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — Breather www.breather.com Clara Labs www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com Join the newsletter: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns/ The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

Adam Eskin is the founder and CEO of Dig Inn a chain of restaurants serving seasonal American food, mostly vegetables from local farmers and partners. Prior to Dig Inn, Eskin worked in finance at Merrill Lynch and Wexford Capital. www.diginn.com — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride. — Sponsors — Breather www.breather.com Clara Labs www.claralabs.com Taskbullet www.taskbullet.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com https://www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns/ The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process.

Shan-Lyn Ma is the CEO and Co-founder of Zola.com. Zola.com is the all-in-one wedding registry that is transforming how couples and guests share, buy, and ship wedding gifts. Before founding Zola, Shan-Lyn was a senior product marketing manager at Yahoo! After that, Shan-Lyn became the senior director of product management for Gilt Groupe and eventually became the Founder of Gilt Taste. After moving on from Gilt Groupe, she became the Chief Product Officer at Chloe and Isabel Inc. www.zola.com — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process. — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Loui

Naomi Hirabayashi and Marah Lidey are the co-founders and co-CEOs of Shine. Shine is reinventing wellbeing for millennials through technology. Before co-founding Shine, both Naomi and Marah led teams at DoSomething.org. Naomi was the Chief Marketing Officer and Marah was the Director of Mobile Product and Messaging. www.shinetext.com — Sponsors — www.taskbullet.com www.breather.com www.claralabs.com — Giants & Crowns — www.giantsandcrowns.com www.instagram.com/giantsandcrowns The Giants & Crowns Podcast is an interview driven series focused on unearthing stories from industry/cultural leaders while unpacking their learned lessons involving people, product, and process. — Credits — This episode of Giants & Crowns is hosted and produced by Nsi Obotetukudo. Editing by Duncan Gerow, Joe Fuller, and Nsi Obotetukudo. Special thanks to Isabelle Thenor-Louis, Joan De Jesus, Sunny Ou, Hannah Anokye, & Kiera McBride.