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Guy, Dan, and Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi, discuss the bull vs. bear case for stocks (3:30), geopolitical unrest in Russia (23:00), Tesla's third downgrade in a week (29:00), and earnings season right around the corner (32:00). The co-hosts interview Bastiaan Janmaat, Managing Director at Linse Capital, and talk about his background at Goldman Sachs (38:00), DataFox (42:45), how Linse Capital came about (47:30), his outlook on the economy (50:00), what he's looking for in companies (53:30), the electric vehicle space (57:00), how he helps his portfolio companies grow (59:00) and AI (1:04:30). About the Show: On The Tape is a weekly podcast with CNBC Fast Money's Guy Adami, Dan Nathan and Danny Moses. They're offering takes on the biggest market-moving headlines of the week, trade ideas, in-depth analysis, tips and advice. Each episode, they are joined by prominent Wall Street participants to help viewers make smarter investment decisions. Bear market, bull market, recession, inflation or deflation… we're here to help guide your portfolio into the green. Risk Reversal brings you years of experience from former Wall Street insiders trading stocks to experts in the commodity market. Check out our show notes here Learn more about Ro body: ro.co/tape See what adding futures can do for you at cmegroup.com/onthetape. Shoot us an email at OnTheTape@riskreversal.com with any feedback, suggestions, or questions for us to answer on the pod and follow us @OnTheTapePod. We're on social: Follow Dan Nathan @RiskReversal on Twitter Follow @GuyAdami on Twitter Follow Danny Moses @DMoses34 on Twitter Follow Liz Young @LizYoungStrat on Twitter Follow us on Instagram @RiskReversalMedia Subscribe to our YouTube page
Today we have a guest who is an expert from both the traditional financial services world and the crypto world, which has equipped him with the ability to bridge the two worlds and build onramps into the crypteconomy.Tom Jessop, who heads Fidelity Digital Assets, is an expert in market structure, capital markets, and crypto.There are few who have seen as much as him when it comes to the evolution of market structure.He's an OG FinTech investor, investing into FinTech before it even had that moniker.He has a knack for finding trends before they are big. He did it with FinTech – and more recently he's been on the forefront of another major trend: crypto.He's the President of Fidelity Digital Assets, where he's responsible for helping one of the world's largest asset managers build out a full-service enterprise-grade platform for digital assets.Fidelity has long been a pioneer amongst financial institutions in crypto. They started R&D efforts on crypto in 2014, started mining bitcoin in 2015, and tested their first wallet and storage solution with employees in 2016.With over $11 trillion in client assets under administration and over 2.4 million trades processed per day, Fidelity's participation in the cryptoeconomy is critical to onramp large financial institutions and wealth managers into the space. Tom leads a team that is in large part responsible for making this happen.He was previously the Head of Corporate Business Development at Fidelity, where he was responsible for identifying and executing strategic opportunities.Tom joined Fidelity from Chain, a leading provider of enterprise blockchain solutions to global financial institutions.Tom previously had an illustrious career at Goldman Sachs, which culminated with a role as Global Head of Technology Business Development, where he was responsible for investing in and partnering with early-stage tech companies across blockchain, AI, and cybersecurity. Tom was also a founding member and senior leader at Goldman's Principal Strategic Investments team, investing in the likes of Circle Financial, Kensho, Digital Reasoning, and DataFox.Tom and I had a fascinating conversation about how we can take experiences from the evolution in traditional market structure and apply those learnings to crypto market structure and DeFi.Tom is such a smart, thoughtful, savvy investor and company builder. And he's an even better person who treats everyone incredibly well.Thanks Tom for coming on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.
In the middle of the American Heartland and headquarters, Northwest Arkansas has enjoyed national attention from Entrepreneur.com as an unexpected hub for tech startups, from DataFox as one of the best places to found a startup outside of Silicon Valley, and from FastCompany.com as a top place for minority-owned businesses. To kick off Season 2, we are joined by Jeanette Balleza Collins, Entrepreneurial Development Director of the Northwest Arkansas Council, as she shares with us some of her favorite organizations and initiatives that are helping to facilitate meaningful connections for entrepreneurs in the Heartland. Special thanks to the Northwest Arkansas Council and Startup NWA for sponsoring the Ecosystem Builders Series. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/endeavornorthamerica/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/endeavornorthamerica/support
Our guest Eric Martin has a background in software sales having worked for Swiftype (acquired by Elastic), DataFox (acquired by Oracle), and now at fast-growing cyber-security startup Vanta where he was the first sales employee. Eric has also been an entrepreneur having brought products to market in underwater hardware and fantasy sports markets. Eric and I talk about: 2:20 His story growing up in Stockton 3:06 Studying in California & Saudi Arabia 5:18 Early entrepreneurial journey 6:51 Takeaways on building startups 9:22 Advice to entrepreneurs 11:22 Eric's journey into software sales -- Swiftype and DataFox 15:26 Software sales basics 18:49 How Eric landed his gig at Vanta? 19:58 Vanta 21:58 How Vanta saves time and $ for companies selling software to enterprise? 23:26 Who should get a SOC 2 certification in enterprise SAAS? 24:48 Takeaways for companies undergoing a SOC 2 certification 26:52 Building a sales team at Vanta -- how CRM (Salesforce, Hubspot etc) and thinking about an outbound engine is key from the start? 30:42 San Joaquin Soccer Alliance 33:24 Eric's daily habit or ritual taught by his dad that has changed his life
My name is Corey Kupfer and I've been working in the business of negotiations for more than 30 years, both as a successful entrepreneur and as an attorney. My goal is to help you strategize, plan for, find, and complete deals that will help your company grow rapidly. This is called “inorganic growth”, and it differs from the traditional, often slower, organic growth you're probably familiar with. What You Will Learn: Learn why Gannett elected to acquire search marketing software maker WordStream for $150 million, and what benefits Gannett expects to receive from the deal. I also review IBM's 2018 acquisition of Red Hat for $33 billion, in an effort to expand and grow their open source capacity and cloud dominance. I examine Oracle's acquisition of DataFox for an undisclosed value, with the intention of increasing their capacity for Artificial Intelligence to analyze business data. I also look at Twilio's $2 billion acquisition of SendGrid to expand their cloud platform as an all-in platform for business growth. Learn about Adobe's $4.75 billion acquisition of Marketo, to improve the function of their cloud-based solutions suite; as well as Cisco's $2.35 billion acquisition of two-factor authentication specialists Duo Security. I discuss AT&T's purchase of AlienVault with undisclosed financial terms, with an effort to boost their own internal systems security, as well as Siemens' $700 million acquisition of low-code platform maker Mendix. Learn why DocuSign acquired SpringCM for $220 million as an effort to modernize its processes, and hear about the Salesforce acquisition of Israeli cloud and AI marketing platform Datorama at an undisclosed purchase price. I discuss the potential motivations behind the above-listed acquisitions, as well as key tech sector partnerships of 2018 and why they stand out. For example, learn why Walmart and Microsoft are partnering for the purpose of being more competitive in e-commerce, and why Apple and Google are partnering despite their ongoing competitive interests. Resources: Website: www.fuelingdeals.com
My name is Corey Kupfer and I’ve been working in the business of negotiations for more than 30 years, both as a successful entrepreneur and as an attorney. My goal is to help you strategize, plan for, find, and complete deals that will help your company grow rapidly. This is called “inorganic growth”, and it differs from the traditional, often slower, organic growth you’re probably familiar with.What You Will Learn:Learn why Gannett elected to acquire search marketing software maker WordStream for $150 million, and what benefits Gannett expects to receive from the deal. I also review IBM’s 2018 acquisition of Red Hat for $33 billion, in an effort to expand and grow their open source capacity and cloud dominance.I examine Oracle’s acquisition of DataFox for an undisclosed value, with the intention of increasing their capacity for Artificial Intelligence to analyze business data. I also look at Twilio’s $2 billion acquisition of SendGrid to expand their cloud platform as an all-in platform for business growth.Learn about Adobe’s $4.75 billion acquisition of Marketo, to improve the function of their cloud-based solutions suite; as well as Cisco’s $2.35 billion acquisition of two-factor authentication specialists Duo Security.I discuss AT&T’s purchase of AlienVault with undisclosed financial terms, with an effort to boost their own internal systems security, as well as Siemens’ $700 million acquisition of low-code platform maker Mendix.Learn why DocuSign acquired SpringCM for $220 million as an effort to modernize its processes, and hear about the Salesforce acquisition of Israeli cloud and AI marketing platform Datorama at an undisclosed purchase price.I discuss the potential motivations behind the above-listed acquisitions, as well as key tech sector partnerships of 2018 and why they stand out. For example, learn why Walmart and Microsoft are partnering for the purpose of being more competitive in e-commerce, and why Apple and Google are partnering despite their ongoing competitive interests.Resources:Website: www.fuelingdeals.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship
Bastiaan Janmaat is the co-founder and CEO of DataFox, an artificial intelligence and prospecting platform. DataFox helps sales and marketing teams prospect smarter and have thoughtful, personalized conversations at exactly the right time. DataFox's algorithms structure information on millions of businesses and deliver reliable data and machine-learned suggestions where and when they're needed.The Show NotesDatafoxGoldman SachsGoogle VenturesSlackCalendlyaText for Mac High Output Management by Andy GroveBastiaan on TwitterOmer on TwitterEnjoyed this episode?Subscribe to the podcastLeave a rating and reviewFollow Omer on TwitterNeed help with your SaaS?Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support.Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue.Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.
The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship
Bastiaan Janmaat is the co-founder and CEO of DataFox, an artificial intelligence and prospecting platform. DataFox helps sales and marketing teams prospect smarter and have thoughtful, personalized conversations at exactly the right time. DataFox's algorithms structure information on millions of businesses and deliver reliable data and machine-learned suggestions where and when they're needed. The Show Notes Datafox Goldman Sachs Google Ventures Slack Calendly aText for Mac High Output Management by Andy Grove Bastiaan on Twitter Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.
This week we speak with Bastiaan Janmaat (CEO and co-Founder of DataFox) about the current and future applications of artificial intelligence in the CRM. No matter what business you're in, there's a high likelihood that managing relationships with customers, wholesalers, suppliers, or affiliates is important to your daily operations. Artificial intelligence is currently being employed to help with automating data entry, automating email and phone reminders, and even prompting salespeople with the right phone scripts in real time. In addition to covering "what's being done now" - spend the end of the interview asking Bastiaan about his predictions of the most likely AI-for-CRM capabilities that will become commonplace in the next 5 years. For more AI executive interviews, and insights into current and future AI trends that are shaking up industries, visit: www.TechEmergence.com
In this podcast, I had the chance to talk with the CEO and co-Founder of DataFox, Bastiaan Janmaat.
Season Two of Ambition Today is happy to welcome Niv Dror, head of social media for Product Hunt. Niv boasts an impressive resume in both startups and finance, stemming from his education at UC Santa Barbara. After moving to Silicon Valley at a very young age, Niv had surprisingly little involvement in the tech world. It surrounded him entirely and thus he never noticed it, as water to a fish. However, after auditing a few hedge funds and VC funds as a CPA, he knew where his skills truly belonged. His taste of the tech community flourished very quickly, landing non-engineering jobs at DataFox, Meerkat, and Product Hunt. He aspired to add value without asking anything in return, and was rewarded with the experience and skills to climb the ranks at multiple organizations, currently aiding the curation of the world's most cutting-edge technology on Product Hunt. Kevin and Niv explore what's behind this drive, the man he gives credit to involuntarily kickstarting his success, and much more: Growing up in Israel and moving to the U.S. at a young age. Pursuing a finance degree and applying it to the startup world. Getting exposure to the tech industry by auditing a successful VC. Building an engaging community around a product. What changes we can see in social in 2017. The war of pronunciation for “gif”. We why all love gifs and how Twitter is the perfect platform. Where Product Hunt is heading. Ambition Today Question of the Day™: "Should people optimize for learning or for earning?" Quote Of The Episode: "Community is everything. Without the community, Product Hunt wouldn't work." Links from this episode: Niv Dror on Twitter Product Hunt Niv's Tattoo in TIME Magazine Kevin's Product Hunt Live Chat Founder Institute New York Audible Toptal ========== This episode of Ambition Today is supported by: + Founder Institute New York: goo.gl/RGezjW + Toptal: goo.gl/OObfM9 + Audible: goo.gl/Urjq6k ========== Visit Ambition Today on the Web: www.siskar.co/ambitiontoday Follow Kevin Siskar on Twitter: twitter.com/TheSiskar Follow Kevin Siskar on Instagram: instagram.com/thesiskar Follow Kevin Siskar on Facebook: facebook.com/kevin.siskar Add Kevin Siskar on Snapchat: snapchat.com/add/krsiskar Kevin Siskar brings you ambitious entrepreneurs inspired by Tim Ferriss, How I Built This, Residual Income, Entrepreneur on Fire, NPR, HBR, TED Radio Hour, the StartUp podcast, Pat Flynn, Tony Robbins, The Uncertain Hour, Bigger Pockets, Art of Charm, Dave Ramsey, Planet Money, Jocko Podcast, EntreLeadership, Zigler, APM Marketplace, Mixergy, Seth Godin, GaryVee, James Altucher, Monocle 24, How to Start a Startup, and The $100 MBA Show with Omar Zenhom, and Casey Neistat. Be sure to listen and subscribe to Ambition Today in the iTunes Store for iOS (apple.co/1NRRPzL), on Google Play Music (goo.gl/LmmciJ), or on Stitcher for Android (bit.ly/1Rn01dy).
The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Leo Polovets is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Susa Ventures, one of the west coast's most exciting new seed funds. They have investments in the likes of previous guests RobinHood, Flexport, Andela, LendUp, and Qadium, just to name a few from their stellar portfolio. As for Leo, Prior to Susa, Leo was one of the first engineers at LinkedIn in 2003, then worked on payment fraud detection at Google, then designed and built the data cleaning and deduping engines at Factual. He is an angel investor in over a dozen companies, including DataFox, Boomtrain, Lumoid, and Momentum Machines. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Leo made the transition from the world of operations with LinkedIn to co-founding Susa Ventures? 2.) How does Leo evaluate the supposed success that comes from investing with a contrarian mindset? This that the only way? Is investing merely a game of access without picking? 3.) If one is to follow the crowd, there is often a high price? What is Leo's approach to valuation sensitivity? At what stage does price become unreasonable? How does Leo instill a sense of disciple and rigor in maintaining this mindset? 4.) How does Leo react to founders who raise large sums of capital on slowly increasing caps? How central should dilution be to the mindset of founders when raising? 5.) Why does Leo think there is very little valuable to be gained from enaging in technical due diligence at seed? What else does need to be examined pre-investment? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Leo’s Fave Book: Traction: A Startup Guide To Getting Customers Leo’s Fave Blog: Mattermark Daily, 25IQ Leo’s Most Recent Investment: TalentIQ As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Leo on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Foundersuite makes the leading CRM for raising startup capital. Since March of 2016, Foundersuite customers have raised over $130M in seed and venture capital. Foundersuite’s CRM sits on a database of over 50,000 investors, which will help you quickly populate your fundraising funnel including a beautiful and easy-to-use investor update tool, and the recently launched a new portal that helps investors and accelerators track their portfolio companies on a single dashboard. For a whopping 40% off a Monthly or Annual subscription use the code “20MinuteVC” at checkout. Greenhouse Software designs tools that help companies hire great people and ultimately build better businesses. Greenhouse works with over 1,500 of the world’s most innovative companies such as Airbnb, Slack, Snap Inc. and Lyft. A wrong hire is not only costly for a company but can also turn an employee into an unhappy one. With Greenhouse’s Applicant Tracking System, companies can make well-informed decisions and hire qualified candidates who are empowered to do the best work of their careers. Anybody who has a company that’s scaling quickly but has trouble hiring and retaining the right people. Visit www.greenhouse.io today to discover how your company can grow.
Jake Gibson is the co-founder & former COO of NerdWallet, a website that gives consumers and small businesses clarity around all of life’s financial decisions. Since departing in 2014, Jake has become an active angel investor in companies like Earnest, The Hustle, Captain401, DataFox, InDinero, Meadow, and many more. He is currently an EIR at 500 Startups, lending his knowledge and experience with the 500 fintech fund. In this episode, we learn about how the financial crisis led to the creation of NerdWallet and why he and co-founder Tim Chen opted to bootstrap instead of raising traditional VC funding to start their business. Compare the best Credit Cards, Car Insurance, CD Rates, Savings Accounts, and more at NerdWallet. Follow Jake on Twitter @iamjakestream. Jake’s Favorite Book: Seveneaves Jake’s Credit Card Protip: Chase Sapphire Reserve _____ Executive producer & host: Joe Mahavuthivanij Edited by: Joe Mahavuthivanij Theme music by: Music for Makers Logo design: Debra Lin
The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Howard Lindzon is the Managing Partner @ Social Leverage, where he has made investments in the likes of Angellist, Datafox, previous guest Robinhood, Rent.com (acq by eBay for $415m) and many more incredible companies. Howard is also the Founder of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors, named one of the ten most innovative companies on the web. He is also an author with multiple published titles that can be found here. If that was not enough, he also continues to manage the hedge fund he started in 1998. A man of many hats for sure! In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Howard made his way into the world of hedge funds, tech and now VC with Social Leverage? 2.) Why is trend following a good thing to do when starting investing? How can you trend follow and still invest with conviction? 3.) Why Howard believes people need to lose money to learn about the market and ecosystem What have been his learnings from missing Twitter and Zynga? 4.) Who Howard believes that fundraising is an art and not everyone can be taught it? What are the core elements that lead to a successful fundraise? 5.) What was Howard's biggest lesson from investing alongside Fred Wilson and Brad Feld? How did that alter his approach to price and ownership? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Howard’s Fave Book: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Howard’s Fave Blog or Newsletter: Fred Wilson, Abnormal Returns, Josh Brown: The Reformed Broker Howard’s Most Recent Investment: Civic As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Howard on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Angelloop is the leading post funding management platform for private market investors and their portfolio companies. They help investors manage and track their portfolio companies on the cloud while providing them with access to their investments performance data. Angelloop helps founders of startups track their performance, manage their cap table and keep their investors in the loop. Investors get free access while their portfolio companies pay only $49/Month. Use or share the promo-code 20MinVC to get your portfolio companies online with a two month trial. This episode was brought to you by DesignCrowd, the online marketplace for custom graphic, logo and web design that helps startups, entrepreneurs, web developers and agencies outsource design projects to designers from around the world.
In this episode of The SaaS Revolution Show, Alex Theuma picks the brains of Bastiaan Janmaat, Co-Founder and CEO of DataFox, to get insights and advice on Sales for your SaaS startup.
There are over 100 billion business emails sent every day. Now that’s some stiff competition. Your only chance to stand out is to stop focusing on volume and start focusing on data-driven quality. Data is the key ingredient to drive your prospecting effectiveness through the roof. In this episode, Bastiaan Janmaat, CEO of DataFox, shares a data-driven prospecting strategy that yielded results in 30 days.
Jake Gibson is a prolific angel investor in SF whose investments include the likes of Datafox, Meadow, the new on demand delivery service for marijuana and TripleByte, the amazing recruitment platform for engineers co-founded by YC’s own Harj Taggar. Prior to his transition into investing Jake co-founded NerdWallet, a startup focused on offering price-comparison tools for financial products where he is to this day an advisor and if that was not enough he is also a mentor with our good friends, 500 startups. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Jake made his way into entrepreneurship and made the transition into the world of investing? 2 2.) Why did Jake decide not to take external money when growing Nerd Wallet? What does Jake think are the pros and cons of bootstrapping? 3.) What was it that attracted Jake to the world of investing? In the opening days, how did Jake operate as an angel? What was Jake’s deal sourcing like? 4.) Why has Jake decided to have a sector diverse approach when it comes to investing? Does Jake think investor specialization can be beneficial? 5.) Looking back at your time investing, has there been a pareto’s principle happening? Has 20% of the work produced 80% of the results? If so, what 20% was that and how do you plan to further increase this segment? 6.) How does Jake aim to differentiate himself from the mass of other angels? How important do Jake believe angel personal branding is? Has differentiation been the hardest aspect of the investing experience for Jake? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Jake’s Fave Book: Leaving Microsoft To Change The World Jake’s Fave News Source: Twitter Jake’s Most Recent Investment: Meadow As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com and see Jake's latest tweets here: www.twitter.com/iamjakestream