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The War Room
Each episode our guest, a founder of or exec in a successful company, will talk about a big oh-shit moment they've experienced running their company and the play-by-play of how they recovered from it. Hosted by Ohad Samet, CEO of TrueML https://trueml.co/ the makers of TrueAccord, Retain, and more.
Episodes
15 episodes
"We lost that contract in the last yard" with Joe Jordan
Joe talks about oh-shit moments from the life of an early stage founder and what he learned from his days as a wrestler that helps him deal with the emotional toll of hard times.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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20:58
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"We told the team: we have 6 months of runway" with Immad Akhund
Immad Akhund is a serial entrepreneur (though he doesn't like this moniker, something we discuss in this episode) and has experienced many oh-shit moments. We talk about perseverance, running out of money, honesty with your team, and whether ru...
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20:49
"I was going to close the company down. Then we signed CoinBase" With Trisha Kothari
Trish Kothari is CEO of Unit21. Here she discusses the early days of her company, becoming an Enterprise Account Executive on her own, and finding the dreamers that will give you a chance.
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22:45
"Shortly after starting the company my husband was diagnosed with aggressive cancer" Sara Mauskopf, Winnie
Sara Mauskopf, CEO of Winnie, joins us to talk about stepping back as a co-founder, building a company for the long haul, authenticity... and some strategic procrastination -- all in the service of building your company while living your life a...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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19:41
The War Room - Season 2 Intro!
Two years later, I'm finally able to get back to a new season of The War Room! Subscribe and tune in.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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0:57
The end of Season 1!
This experiment has been fun - I'm wrapping up season 1 while trying to figure out the logistics of recording this podcast while running a growth stage company!Check us out at https://www.trueaccord.com, BTW
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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0:41
"He sat me down and told me: 'I think you need to leave'" with Jake Gibson
Jake Gibson is a father, a Founding Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures, and a startup veteran. In 2013, however, he was a struggling founder of NerdWallet and expectant father who was facing a major fork in the road -- his ambitions, his own p...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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27:43
"By that afternoon, 15% of our clients called in to cancel their contract" with Eli Portnoy
Eli Portnoy is SVP at Medallia after it acquired his company. Sense 360. Sense 360 was working with restaurants and doing great, and then COVID-19 happened. This is the story of how they found out the world has changed, how they reacted, and ev...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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18:12
"We got some cell signal and my phone blew up. We had been hard-down for 90 minutes." with Bill Clerico
Bill Clerico founded, headed, and sold WePay to JP Morgan. After wrapping up 12 eventful years with a successful exit, he joins us to talk about executive and talent management, dealing with turnover, managing crisis, and relying on your co-fou...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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21:37
"He told me: what are you doing here? Go home. No one's going to talk to you." with Oded Zehavi
Oded Zehavi, CEO of Mesh Payments, talks about the week when everything stopped for COVID-19, fight or flight responses, leaning on your network and building the plane on his way off a cliff.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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20:52
"And he said: 'I don't know how to tell you this, but they've put their pencils down'" with Matthew Goldman
Matthew Goldman is the CEO of Vertical Finance. His previous company, Wallaby Financial, was acquired by Bankrate in 2014. Just months before that, negotiating the purchase and way beyond the point of no return, Matthew got a phone call... and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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18:50
"And then Google acquired them" with Shamir Karkal
18 months into building their product, with almost 200K users in their waiting list, the team at Simple, the OG neobank, was a month out from finally launching. Everyone wrote them off, but they were ready. Then, they got an unexpected phone ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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25:14
"I spent 82 minutes talking about everything we messed up. In the other 8 I raised $2M" with Matt Harris
You may know Matt Harris (no, not that one, the other one) and Bloom Credit, the fast-growing credit infrastructure company he co-founded. Bloom is on a tear with its latest product iteration, but things were not always so rosy and fast-moving....
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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28:03
"With a month of runway, I did the one thing I resisted all along" with Yahya Mokhtarzada
Truebill is a fast-growing consumer finance startup that just announced a major round of financing. A few years ago, though, it was on the brink of going out of business with a month of runway left. Then co-founder and then-CEO Yahya Mokhtarzad...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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23:06