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Today I'm joined by Jason Li, CTO at Laurel.Jason previously served as CTO at Ironclad, where he spent nearly a decade building contracting software, and also held engineering leadership roles at SalesforceIQ and Grovo.Laurel is a Series C AI-powered time intelligence platform for professional services firms, automatically capturing how professionals spend their time and transforming that data into actionable insights that improve efficiency and profitability.In this episode, we discuss:• Why most firms still struggle to measure real AI ROI • The hidden inefficiencies in how professional services firms track time • What it actually takes to build reliable AI systems inside complex legacy environments • The biggest mistakes organisations make when adopting AI tools • How engineering teams are evolving in an AI-first worldIf you're building, buying, or deploying AI inside large organisations, this episode is packed with practical insight.

WARNING: Today's episode includes sensitive content involving the story of a young girl who tragically lost her life to suicide. These themes may be difficult or triggering for some listeners. If you are still in the midst of your healing journey or find these topics challenging, we lovingly encourage you to revisit one of our past episodes and come back to this conversation when you feel ready. Your well-being is always the priority.

Coming soon: "Diddy Declassified: US Intel & the Zio Influence in Hip Hop ft SLANK" patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Sub to the PPM Patreon before we begin mapping the Diddler sex trafficking nexus. The full versions of the final 2 Bohemian GrOVO installments available exclusively over there. **Note: Spotify only gives so much space for liner notes, so I'm not going to bother trying to condense the entire index down & squeeze it within 4k characters. Head on over to the Patreon to view the EP notes in their entirety** Here's the monstrous 3rd panel in this Bohemian GrOVO triptych... We've mapped the Drake & Busters sex trafficking nexus, we've covered the XXXTentacion clipping, and now it's time for our forensic recreation of that supremely uncanny, peak pandemic (psychically speaking) mass casualty event, namely Travis Scott's AstroWorld mega ritual in Houston, TX, where Drake & Travis cavorted about on a Satanic set dressed stage dedicated to Mammon while upwards of 10 people (and possibly more, if various firsthand accounts are to be believed) died by crushing, ODing, & possibly syringe pricking in the gatecrashed scrum of ragers before them. Thanks again to Rap Game Edward Bernays for riding shotgun on this mammoth series & bringing his encyclopedic hip hop lore knowledge & deadpan wit to the proceedings. Give him a follow at @edward__bernays on Twitter. Tracks: | Travis Scott ft MIA - "Franchise" | | Michael Jackson & Friends - "What More Can I Give" | | Travis Scott ft Drake - "Sicko Mode" | | Drake ft 21 Savage - "Knife Talk" |

Subscribe to the PPM Patreon to access the entire near 3 hr run time of this Bohemian GrOVO concluding argument: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping To rest our Bohemian GrOVO case, we open by discussing the AstroWorld blowback & public campaign that thwarted Travis Scott's planned Pyramids of Giza concert/ritual (and the attendant Grateful Dead comparison); we then unpack the Drizzler's LLCs' real estate proximity to the Playboy offices in LA (namely that they share the very same office complex), covering the Drake fan who won a modeling contract by tossing her bra on stage & the OVO-Playboy apparel capsule, both possible indications that Playboy is serving a Jean-Luc Brunel esque role for the Drizzler ring; we talk Drake's connection to Israeli diamond tycoon & slaver Lev L e v ie v, who finances settlements in the Occupied Territories; we finally explicate the Hollywood Babylon medical concierge service that links Diddy, Drake, Kanye, & Canadian MKontroller Harley Pasternak; we dig into the Drizzler's biz ties to Iraqi Dutch cannabis, prostitution, & Cosplay Cuties kingpin Sabah Nissan, not to mention Drake's performances at his sons' bar mitzvahs and the obligatory afterparties; we discuss the downfall of Drizzler booster & propagandist DJ Academics & the lawsuit he's facing alleging that he drugged & gangraped his then-gf, even filming the sordid incident on his surveillance cameras & blackmailing her w/ the footage in Diddler fashion; we map another Diddler - Drizzler mutual relationship, namely sus C I A fanboy & Tim Ballard-esque sex trafficking NGO founder Ash ton Kutch er; and we end w/ the breaking news of another Drake contact, this time rap & R&B producer The-Dream, also getting hit w/ a sex trafficking lawsuit, which had just come across the wire at the time of recording. Tracks: | Drake - "Houstatlantavegas" | | Grateful Dead - "Deal" Gizah '78 | | Ghostmane - "Elixir" | | Spirit Hz - "Promis" | (Final track "Promis" by great friend of the show Micah... Yall should definitely check out Spirit Hz on Soundcloud & Instagram, their noided nügaze cybergrunge is basically PPM in the musical medium)

Sub to the PPM Patreon to access all of GrOVO (IV) plus the imminent, exclusive solo EP that rests our Drizzler-as-sex-trafficker argument: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Bringing our forensic investigation into the overtly Satanic mass ritual vibes at the AstroWorld fest mass casualty event in Houston to a close, RGEB & I discuss: Interdimensional being materializing in the portal during the "Mr Bodycatcher, slaughter gang soul catcher" lyrics in Knife Talk; a baptism reference; a Kappa Alpha frat reference in said track... We talk the Sicko Mode performance on Nov 5th; Kanye's allegation that "crept thru the light switch" is a subliminal aimed at Ye for max psychic damage, seemingly implying the Drizzler cheated w/ Kim K when they were still together; a comet striking an XXXTentacion lookalike in the music, which almost perfectly mirrors a scene in a film where Kardashian is struck by an asteroid in its choreography, granting further credence to Ye's theory; "my dog would prob do it for a Louis belt" possibly hinting at Drizzy putting out the X hit; the ARG, reality shifting promo of the fest; "out like a light"... RGEB becoming main character for a day on Twitter bc of his Astro thread & the Chapo callout, who passed over the corporate greed critiques in their coverage & just dunked on his purported esoteric conspiracy gullibility; the possibility some private cyberwarfare outfit like Team J o r g e or a US equivalent might have been enlisted to combat AstroWorld conspiracy theories online w/ bots; if an OP, likely US intel pulling the strings; Drake as soul-eater, devouring X's vibe & donning his occulted rap persona like a mask (see: Travis collabs) to peel off his support & buttress his unassailable popularity; the wild pre-prepared disaster & tragedy response protocols, including the order for concert personnel to refer to any dead bodies as "SMURFS", which evokes the Fae, Little People, Leprechauns, Djinn, you-name-it...; not to mention rhyming w/ the Astro merch shirts of lil blue figures passing thru a portal; Pied Piper folkloric valences in the AstroWorld cover art & the "Stargazing" lyrics; the AstroWorld theme park pre-history;... Getting back to our rap esotericism close reading of some of the numerology flowing through the AstroWorld ritualized subtext... We talk K y l i e Cosmetics x Nightmare on Elm Street Halloween Collection promo, which dropped exactly one month prior to the fest, and which is basically just naked Kylie getting smothered w/ fake blood in a darkly lit room... Which Klonny realized is highly evocative of the Thelemic deity known as Babalon, goddess of sex magick & the female sexual impulse; we talk Scarlet Women; Jack Parsons & L. Ron Hubbard's Babalon Working in the Mojave; Scarlet Woman Marjorie Cameron; etc. And we drive home how Kylie's commercial is leaning into these Crowleyian allusions by way of the blood moon behind her, which evokes MoonChildren... From there, we're talking the belief-beggaring Satanic numerology of the fest's dates, namely it falling on the same day as Kris Jenner's 66th BDay (Travis's ex-bb-mama-in-law); the fact that Travis's Bday is on Walpurgisnacht, the pagan holiday filled w/ effigy burning & witches on broomstick legends... And the fact that Apr. 30th (Scott's Bday) is also the date of the founding of the Church of Satan; the beyond-coincidental fact that AstroWorld fell on a day exactly 666 months & 6 days after the Church of Satan formed; and finally, per Ed, there being exactly 66 months & 6 days b/w Scott & Drake's Bdays; RGEB's personal Mandela Effect, where he was cursed by time warlocks & sent into an alt dimension wherein Travis Scott's Bday was moved forward a year (lol); but jokes aside, Ed's belief that Scott's actual Bday was quickly scrubbed from the internet to hide the Satanic significance post-Astro; & much more... Tracks: | Travis (Ft Young Thug & MIA) - "FRANCHISE" | | Ghostmane - "John Dee" | | Ghostmane - "Euronymus" |

Sub to the PPM Premium Feed to access this 3 & 1/2 hr AstroWorld monstrosity & its index in their totality. "Bohemian GrOVO (IV)" will also be an exclusive, so get in here, dood!!! patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping In this penultimate Bohemian GrOVO ep, we finally embark upon the climactic auditory panel in this parapolitical & rap esotericism triptych, namely our forensic recreation of the uncanniness surrounding the AstroWorld mass ritual. Talking AstroWorld as Mass Ritual: a tip of the hat to SK Bain's landmark schizo book; the numerological significance of the date on which AstroWorld fest in Houston fell (11/05/21 & the early morning of 11/06 -> 11s evoking 9/11 & Crowley; a couple 5s—evoking death & thresholds—in both the date & the digit sum of 2021); NukSantiago's firsthand account of seeing a sea of dead bodies on the floor & his characterization of the event as an "Illuminati ritual" & "demonic"; 11/06 — 6's Satanic significance; chaos in the crowd & vid of medic's resuscitating ppl as Travis & Drake cont playing; an ICU nurse & Nuk attesting to dragging dead bodies out; the meta & ARG quality of the AstroWorld advertising, which freakily foreshadowed the fact the fest would become a major cultural moment & source of conspiracy theorizing; Weekly World News & Nat'l Enquirer vibes in promo materials; the metatextual quality is deepened by the full page tabloid ads in the Houston Chronicle; Travis -> Bat Boy; "injecting the city" (glowing in pandemic context); "when the end arrives, it's really the beginning"; "See You On the Other Side" preempting mass casualty; Travis's song "Escape Plan" creepily mirroring ppl's exp of escaping the crush of bodies; Travis's "Franchise" music vid evoking Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain"; Qabalistic Sephirot significance of the 3rd iteration of AstroWorld; an occulted close reading of the stage design; a portal w/ rings symbolizing Circles of Hell; the mtns evoking Twin Peaks & vaguely resembling the Bohemian Grove altar; OVO - Bohemian Grove Minervan Owl symmetries; a brief history of the club; its Romantic poetry & literal Bohemian origins; morphing into elite boys club bacchanal; past participants like Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, OSS founder, Bob Weir (Courtney Love connex), & more recently Clarence Thomas visiting w/ Nazi artifact collecting oligarch Harlan Crowe; the story regarding Drizzy's shell corp LLC "Silence Policy", which likely served some sex traffick purpose, evoking initiatic & secret societies' code of silence; "Weaving Spiders Come Here Not"; "Cremation of Care" play & effigy burning; what are the chances Drizzy has visited Bohemian Grove?; the hyping of AstroWorld as this legendary fest & Travis encouraging ragers to gatecrash; the refusal of the sponsors & streamers ( A p p l e & L I v e N a t I o n, iirc) to stop the proceedings & help the dying; a capitalist sacrifice to Mammon, where profit motive outweighed safety; stories of security guards pricked w/ fent needles dropping after the event (later retracted), perhaps serving as a distraction...; Travis - "No Bystanders" & the Bystander effect; Utopian & Dystopian subtext; Travis's shirt w/ stick figures falling through a portal—an xtra dimension to the ritual sacrificial altar dressing; the "Franchise" vid evoking mass MK w/ its stampede of sheep (sheeple) & possibly hinting at the crowd crush; the Hand of Fatima / Hamsa imagery in the poster; Right Hand & Left Hand Path of magic; a Ouija Board planchette visual allusion; an academic paper on Satanic imagery & symbolism at Travis Scott's AstroWorld published by an Indonesian Uni, which Klonny cites for the Hieronymus Bosch allusion contained in the Travis mouth fest entrance, which evokes "Christ in Lambo", itself a representation of the Gate of Hell; & so much more.... Tracks:  | Travis Scott ft MIA - "Franchise" | | Michael Jackson & Friends - "What More Can I Give" | | Travis Scott ft Drake - "Sicko Mode" | | Drake ft 21 Savage - "Knife Talk" |

Sub to the PPM Premium Feed to access "Bohemian GrOVO (Pt. III): AstroWorld as Mass Ritual", dropping imminently: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping In this ep, we discuss: Rap Game Ed's anecdote re rumors in Stockholm that Drake apparently groomed Swedish high schoolers w/ handbags; Drake potentially gangstalking RBEG; Drake's mysterious drug arrest / catch & release in Sweden, v curious when compared to A$AP Rocky; "your own personal BAKA"... Drake's backstabbing cribbing of XXXTentacion's flow while the teen rapper was locked up & facing life, part of a larger pattern of the Drizzler exploiting SoundCloud rappers, plagiarizing flows or stealing hits for remixes, and then signing them & purposely tanking their careers; a "Look at Me" & "KMT" comparison; Drake reaching out to X's manager about collabing & never following up; X's increasingly brazen shit-talking about Drake on Insta Live; the infamous "If anyone kills me, it was ChampagnePapi, I'm snitching rn" IG story; the unexplained Migos / randos jumping X, which got worked into the DISScalation; XXX's toying w/ Satanic & occult imagery, his Yggdrasil & Ankh tats, & his business ties to two incredibly sus porn stars—Adam-22 of the No Jumper pod aka Adam Grandmaison (of a New Hampshire connected Dem powerbroker fam whose Pa was pardoned by Clinton) & Bruno Dickemz, producer of Satanic BDSM porn, whom X lived w/ for a minute in S FL; X's clipping in FL, where a couple hitmen pulled up on his whip, robbed him, & then merced him while his uncle (who was also in the car) fled the scene; Drake's lyrical allusions hinting that he put out a contract for the hit & the fact that the defense attorney for one of the killers attempted to call him to testify & Driz didn't show... Klonny's farsighted prediction that Drake & Bobbi Althoff would be christened Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell 2024, a joke I made earlier this year lol; RGEB calling Drake "Rap Game Jeff Epstein" for a good 3 yrs... We talk Drake's Israeli cinema interlocks by way of "Euphoria" & producer/writer Ron Leshem; Klonny's investigation into the possibility that Ron Leshem & B l a c k Cube + C a r b y n e connected tech exec Lital Leshem are either blood relatives or connected by way of the I O F's intel corps; Ron Leshem's sus Israeli news, M o s s a d & Zio military hagiographizing, & pedo-lite propaganda media career;... We then juxtapose the XXXTentacion unsolved murder w/ the Kurt Cobain "suiciding" & John Potash's "Drugs as a Weapon Against Us" chapter that makes a compelling argument that Courtney Love was traumatized & hypnotized by the CIA as a toddler & into adolescence, molded into a likely MKULTRA-ed child prostitute groomed for politically motivated infiltrations of left-leaning & MLM bands & music scenes... Including her biological Dad's mgmt of the Grateful Dead & his graduate work as a counselor, Courtney's Mom's family gold mining stock holdings, Hank Harrison's claims that his daughter reported having been sexually abused by her step-father & psychiatrist while just a toddler, Courtney's downward spiral into child prostitution w/ a SF madame & her upper crust military bureaucracy clientele like Dep Sec of DoD David Packard; her Yakuza connections; her trip to Dublin & Liverpool w/ CIA employee Steven O'Leary while still a minor, smuggling & dropping acid & infiltrating the UK scene as a groupie for various groups; and the legendary "El Duce" interview from the "Kurt & Courtney" doc, where women can be heard screaming in the background & Duce alleges that Courtney offered him $50k to whack Kurt (filmed days before his unexplained death). Full notes on the Patreon. Thanks again to RGEB (@edward__bernays on Twitter) for lending his encyclopedic rap game lore & top shelf wit to this Drake Epstein sex trafficking deep dive. Tracks: | Metro Boomin - "BBL Drizzy" | | Depeche Mode - "Personal Jesus" | | X-Drake - "KMT & Look At Me" Mashup | | ILOVEMAKONNEN - "Tuesday" | | XXXTentacion - "SAD!" |

Sub to the PPM Patreon to access the entire 2 hr runtime of Bohemian GrOVO Pt. II! Pt III will be dropping exclusively on the Patreon, as well—don't miss out: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping It's go time, strap in. Klonny Gosch & Rap Game Edward Bernays are suited back up, locked & loaded, Drizzler down our sights, ready to die for another "Bohemian GrOVO" installment, #2 of 3. In this ep, we discuss: Rap Game Ed's secondhand anecdote re rumors in Stockholm that Drake apparently groomed Swedish high schoolers w/ handbags; Drake potentially gangstalking RBEG; Drake's mysterious drug arrest / catch & release in Sweden a couple yrs ago, v curious when compared to A$AP Rocky; "your own personal BAKA"... Drake's backstabbing cribbing of XXXTentacion's flow while the teen rapper was locked up & facing life, part of a larger pattern of the Drizzler exploiting up & coming SoundCloud rappers, plagiarizing their flows or stealing their hits for remixes, and then signing them & purposely tanking their careers; a "Look at Me" & "KMT" comparison; Drake reaching out to X's manager about collabing & then never following up; XXXTentacion's increasingly brazen shit-talking about Drake on Insta Live; the infamous "If anyone kills me, it was ChampagnePapi, I'm snitching rn" IG story; the unexplained Migos / randos jumping X, which got worked into the DISScalation; XXXTentacion's toying w/ Satanic & occult imagery, his Yggdrasil & Ankh tats, & his business ties to two incredibly sus porn stars—Adam-22 of the No Jumper pod aka Adam Grandmaison (of a New Hampshire Democratic Party powerbroker fam whose Pa was pardoned by Clinton) & Bruno Dickemz, producer of Satanic BDSM porn, whom X lived w/ for a minute in S FL; X's clipping in FL, where a couple hitmen pulled up on his whip, robbed him, & then merced him while his uncle (who was also in the car) fled the scene; Drake's lyrical allusions hinting that he put out a contract for the hit & the fact that the defense attorney for one of the killers attempted to call him to testify & Driz didn't show... Klonny's farsighted prediction that Drake & Bobbi Althoff would be christened Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell 2024, a joke I made earlier this year lol; RGEB calling Drake "Rap Game Jeff Epstein" for a good 3 yrs; oh, not to mention another solid Drake - Epstein interlock, namely his stumping for the Clinton Foundation & legendary gaffe tweet "I got a party with Bill Clinton on Thursday"... We talk Drake's Israeli cinema interlocks by way of "Euphoria" & producer/writer Ron Leshem; Klonny's investigation into the possibility that Ron Leshem & B l a c k Cube + C a r b y n e connected tech exec Lital Leshem are either blood relatives or connected by way of the I O F's intel corps; Ron Leshem's sus Israeli news, M o s s a d & Zio military hagiographizing, & pedo-lite propaganda media career;... We then juxtapose the XXXTentacion unsolved murder w/ the Kurt Cobain "suiciding" & John Potash's "Drugs as a Weapon Against Us" chapter that makes a compelling argument that Courtney Love was traumatized & hypnotized by the CIA as a toddler & into adolescence, molded into a likely MKULTRA-ed child prostitute groomed for politically motivated infiltrations of left-leaning & MLM bands & music scenes... VISIT THE PATREON FOR THE FULL VERSION & THE COMPLETE LINER NOTES. Tracks: | Metro Boomin - "BBL Drizzy" | | Depeche Mode - "Personal Jesus" | | X-Drake - "KMT & Look At Me" Mashup | | ILOVEMAKONNEN - "Tuesday" | | XXXTentacion - "SAD!" | Clips: | Drake & Bobbi Althoff flirting in bed | | "Kurt & Courtney" El Duce Interview | | "It's Always Sunny" Frank Reynolds DOES NOT Diddle Kids |

SUB TO THE PATREON BEFORE "BOHEMIAN GROVO (PT. II)" DROPS EXCLUSIVELY ON THE PREMIUM FEED... YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT! patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Pt I of the PPM forensic examination of the K Dot v Drake beef escalation (DISScalation); Kendrick's pedo sex trafficking allegations (subliminal & explicit) against Aubrey Graham in "Euphoria", "Meet the Grahams", & "Not Like Us"; Drizzy's long history of tryna rizz up (Drizz Up lol) underage starlets in Hollywood Babylon & worldwide; the Baka Not Nice sex trafficking & assault case andevidence indicating that Baka's accuser was likely pressured or incentivized into dropping the matter & leaving the country; the Drake & Daddy Dennis Graham sexual exploitation tag team; the corporatization of the OVO traffick; Drake's sexual-impropriety-in-the-sus-music-industry pedigree via his Dad's career drumming for Jerry Lee Lewis, who married his underage adoptive cousin; the T Swift amnesia phenomenon & implications as it pertains to Drake's ability to enrapture audiences, possibly the most popular male pop artist globally; Swift's bottling of that intoxicating Beatlemania tincture; MKULTRA in the music industry; Crazy Days & Nights blind items re Drake sending his underlings to scour HS for victims; Drake & Busters (Bust-a-Nut's), aka his creepy repeat afterparties in the slightly more grown-up Chuck E. Cheese's & the 17 yr old Insta influencer sighted at one of them (not to mention followed by Dennis online); Drake & Millie Bobby Brown's text-uationship; the spine-tingling vid of Drake sniffing a teen's neck Dark Biden style & then making out w/ her after she revealed she's A-Minor onstage in CO; the Young Dabo stream where teen influencer Aya Tanjali inadvertently let slip that she either signed an NDA w/ Drake or else is suing him (likely bc he __ed her); the swirling rumours of Drake inviting HS aged girls to his parties (sourced from TikToks & even personal accounts); the Kanye connex via sus high society medical concierge service provider Dr. Farzam, who prescribed the Ozempic & Zolpidem pictured on the "MtG" cover & who was present at Pasternak's house when Ye was arrested; K Dot's lyrical barbs—"Certified lover boy? Certified Pedophiles" and the Weinstein comparison, which reminds Klonny of his sus reading of the Drake team's foreknowledge of Harvey's imminent downfall & Drake's savvy media manipulation of his decision to turn down a potential role in a Weinstein Co film, which was spun as evidence of Drake's feminism (laughable in retrospect when compared w/ the reams of evidence of grooming & likely sex blackmail we're compiling); the symbolic symmetries b/w Drake's OVO label imprint & Bohemian Grove, the hedonistic secret society up in the Redwoods in Cali that has counted some of the wealthiest & most powerful capitalist & political elite among its number; the "Atlanta" Drake party ep, which is highly interesting when reexamined in light of the cresting divulgences of Drake misbehavior; a comparison of the bussing in of models to "True Detective" Season 2 and the Bohemian Grove/ Eyes Wide Shut-esque sex lodge; the "Euphoria" connection, which will take us to Israel, I O F's Intel Corps, and potentially into the v heart of the M o s s a d i s t Epstein network itself; the shooting of Drake's security guard outside "The Embassy" recently; Rob Ford; a ticker tape of NDAs; the parapolitical research & multimedia aspects of Kendrick Lamar's "Meet the Grahams" cover; Klonny's contention the Maybach gloves are a double entendre evoking OJ Simpson (and possibly setting the stage for subliminals hinting at Drake's hand in XXXTentacion's death, for which Rap Game presents a compelling case)... Full notes on the Patreon. Huge thanks to Rap Game Edward Bernays for joining for this mammoth deep dive. Make sure to give him a follow on Twitter at @Edward__Bernays ... Tracks: | Metro Boomin - "BBL Drizzy" | | Kendrick Lamar - "Meet the Grahams" | | Kendrick Lamar - "Not Like Us" |

Nick Narodny is the Founder and CEO at Aalto, a real estate marketplace that lets people buy and sell homes online. Nick previously co-founded Grovo, a microlearning company for real estate agents that was acquired by Cornerstone on Demand. Real Estate runs in the family for Nick, after being raised and inspired by his real estate agent mother and father. Aalto combines modern technology with a centralized team of licensed agents. Buyers and sellers use digital tools to lead most of the process themselves. Aalto agents provide on-demand support, review offers, and handle closing. This online model aims to provide a consistent, high quality experience while costing less to operate, so buyers and sellers save money with low fees and rebates.(1:55) - Aalto, buy a home online(3:38) - Nick & Aalto's origin story(8:42) - Aalto vs. traditional broker(17:02) - Feature: Housing Trust Silicon Valley (site)(18:13) - NAR Lawsuit & it's ramifications for the industry(30:38) - Predictions for buyer & seller commissions in 2024(35:43) - Collaboration Superpower: Winston Churchill

Jeff Fernandez is dedicated to building businesses that help people. He is the CEO and co-founder of Dandi, the analytics platform for advancing DEI. Launched in stealth mode in 2018, Dandi's customers today include Oscar Health, Braze, Care/Of, Teachable, Rhino, and Blue Shield of California.As an advisor, Jeff works with socially-conscious companies including Sealed. He is a seed investor in Hone and a limited partner at Combine, a design-led venture capital firm.Prior to Dandi, Jeff led Grovo, the enterprise learning company that he co-founded in 2010. Built with a mission to remake employee training, Grovo was used in 190 countries around the world and named by Fortune the second-best workplace in the US. Grovo was acquired in 2018 by Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD).Originally from Dumont, NJ, Jeff graduated with the highest honors from Harvard, where he wrote his thesis on maximizing human performance. Jeff has spoken at events including TEDx, SXSW, Internet Week, and ASU+GSV, and has contributed to Inc., Fast Company, Forbes, and more. Jeff lives in New Jersey with his wife Cori and their two kids Remi and Rafael.Connect with Behind Company Lines and HireOtter Website Facebook Twitter LinkedIn:Behind Company LinesHireOtter Instagram Buzzsprout

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Today, we catch up with Elicia Banks-Gabriel. For over 12 years, Elicia has been a creator of joy! She started her career creating joy at agencies like Anomaly in account and digital strategy roles for clients like Capital One, Coca-Cola, Campbell's Soup, Converse, Lexus, New York Cosmos, Sephora, Vimeo and more. Then, she shifted to creating joy for employees at global holding companies like Havas and Publicis. Responsible for the full employee experience, she created a partnership with micro-learning platform Grovo to support new managers, led an inter-agency mobility program sending employees to a new city in the world for a month, and shifted a globally distributed agency to an Objectives & Key Results (OKR) framework to quantify their efforts and drive cross-team collaboration. She's thrown some pretty fun parties along the way too. Now, Elicia's on a mission to create joy for One & All as their VP of Talent and Culture. She's a go-giver, obsessive learner, listener and absorber of all things people and culture, based in Highland Park, Los Angeles. For more info about James Kinney and Six Figure Jobs, check out our website: https://www.getasixfigurejob.com/

Key highlights: -Mural is a platform and product for knowledge workers to lead with their best work, as opposed to job titles. Believe everything will be on the cloud and one link away. Able to showcase select work for selected people. Could also be used to update certain people on regular basis like advisors and past collaborators. Three components in picking and working on new projects: does it have a sustainable business model is it something that I enjoy doing does it move the world forward for a group of people that I care about Advice while working on projects: What were the outcomes did you drive? What did you actually learn and are the skills transferable? What mini networks did you create and have because of your portfolio career lifestyle? You are building something incredibly proprietary -- a web of trust across projects that you have created. Quotes: -“I have been on a journey to discover my purpose” -“You are building your network when you don’t even realize it” -“Your narrative becomes non-traditional and you need to deliberate about how you tell your story” Resources: -Mural -Ajay's Mural - a portfolio of his best work and direct link -Personal website -LinkedIn March 2018 published work - "how to build your "portfolio" as a product manager" -Recent blog post titled "Any Given Monday"

Summer Solomonsen is CLO at Grovo, Sandler's new Microlearning partner. Grovo and Sandler have partnered to deliver the world-famous Sandler Selling System in Grovo's proven Microlearning format. Sandler will also be offering Grovo's massive Microlearning collections for leadership, management, modern compliance, and professional skills as part of our online offerings. In this episode, Summer joins Mike Montague, VP of Online Learning at Sandler to talk about the best practices for Microlearning, online learning, and continuous reinforcement that drives training results. Learn the attitudes, behaviors, and techniques of today's top workforce development organizations.  The initial co-created Sandler and Grovo Microlearning sales enablement content will be available to customers as a premium content offering beginning this fall. The Sandler-Grovo Microlearning lessons will be exclusively available via select Sandler Training and Grovo distribution channels. Enroll yourself in the Grovo Microlearning Collections or other Sandler courses: https://shop.sandler.com/category/online-courses  View sample Microlearning courses in our free Sandler E-Learning Library: https://www.sandler.com/sell The How to Succeed Podcast is a public and free podcast from Sandler Training, the worldwide leader in sales, management, and customer service training for individuals all the way up to Fortune 500 companies with over 250 locations around the globe.

Summer Solomonsen is CLO at Grovo, Sandler's new Microlearning partner. Grovo and Sandler have partnered to deliver the world-famous Sandler Selling System in Grovo's proven Microlearning format. Sandler will also be offering Grovo's massive Microlearning collections for leadership, management, modern compliance, and professional skills as part of our online offerings. In this episode, Summer joins Mike Montague, VP of Online Learning at Sandler to talk about the best practices for Microlearning, online learning, and continuous reinforcement that drives training results. Learn the attitudes, behaviors, and techniques of today's top workforce development organizations.  The initial co-created Sandler and Grovo Microlearning sales enablement content will be available to customers as a premium content offering beginning this fall. The Sandler-Grovo Microlearning lessons will be exclusively available via select Sandler Training and Grovo distribution channels. Enroll yourself in the Grovo Microlearning Collections or other Sandler courses: https://shop.sandler.com/category/online-courses  View sample Microlearning courses in our free Sandler E-Learning Library: https://www.sandler.com/sell The How to Succeed Podcast is a public and free podcast from Sandler Training, the worldwide leader in sales, management, and customer service training for individuals all the way up to Fortune 500 companies with over 250 locations around the globe.

Summer Solomonsen is CLO at Grovo, Sandler's new Microlearning partner. Grovo and Sandler have partnered to deliver the world-famous Sandler Selling System in Grovo's proven Microlearning format. Sandler will also be offering Grovo's massive Microlearning collections for leadership, management, modern compliance, and professional skills as part of our online offerings. In this episode, Summer joins Mike Montague, VP of Online Learning at Sandler to talk about the best practices for Microlearning, online learning, and continuous reinforcement that drives training results. Learn the attitudes, behaviors, and techniques of today's top workforce development organizations.  The initial co-created Sandler and Grovo Microlearning sales enablement content will be available to customers as a premium content offering beginning this fall. The Sandler-Grovo Microlearning lessons will be exclusively available via select Sandler Training and Grovo distribution channels. Enroll yourself in the Grovo Microlearning Collections or other Sandler courses: https://shop.sandler.com/category/online-courses  View sample Microlearning courses in our free Sandler E-Learning Library: https://www.sandler.com/sell The How to Succeed Podcast is a public and free podcast from Sandler Training, the worldwide leader in sales, management, and customer service training for individuals all the way up to Fortune 500 companies with over 250 locations around the globe.

Greg Sands is the Founder & Managing Partner @ Costanoa Ventures, one of the leading early stage enterprise funds on the West Coast with their latest $175m fund, raised earlier this year. At Costanoa, Greg has made investments in the likes of Intacct (acquired by Sage for $800m), Quizlet, DemandBase and previous guest, Grovo, just to name a few. Prior to founding Costanoa, Greg was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill, where he was an early investor in the likes of Feedburner, AllBusiness, and Return Path. Before Sutter Hill, Greg was on the other side of the table as the first hire at Netscape after its founding engineering team. As Netscape’s 1st Product Manager, Greg wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and created the SuiteSpot Business Unit, which he grew from zero to $150m in revenue. He also served as Manager of Business Development at Cisco where he architected a global channel management plan. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: How did Greg make his way into the world of SaaS as the first non-engineering hire at Netscape and then make his way into the world of SaaS investing, subsequently?   Why does Greg completely disagree with the hailed notion of, “The Rule of 40”? Why does Greg believe it has achieved such status and recognition in market today? Where are the large nuances? If not the rule of 40, what metrics and benchmarks should early stage SaaS founders be focussing on? If we disregard “The Rule of 40”, how does that impact the emphasis that should be placed on profitability? Tom Tunguz stated on the show, ““growth is the largest determinant of value at IPO, not profitability”. What are Greg’s thoughts on this? In that scaling process, Greg has said to me before, “the first hire in every function should be a Swiss army knife hire and most people go wrong”. What does Greg mean when he says a Swiss Army Knife, how does that change in marketing vs sales? Where do most people go wrong within this? How does Greg define the different phases of product market fit? Why does Greg advocate that all founders approach product market fit with a “crawl, walk, run” approach? What examples does Greg have where this has worked and what specifically about this allowed it to work so well? 60 Second SaaStr Logos or expansion? Pros and cons of usage based pricing? What does Greg know now that he wishes he had known in the beginning? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Greg Sands

In this episode of 5to9, we talk to Thomas Samph, the co-founder of Nextt, the world's first accelerator for ideas. They help people go from back of the napkin to minimum viable product in 8 weeks. We discussed the how and why behind Nextt, the difference between hobbies, side projects, and small businesses, coming up with ideas by starting a problem journal, and how constraints make you more creative and productive. Show notes: - Tom's background - His experience at Grovo and Everwise - Why he is passionate about education - How he started Nextt - Nextt got over 100 applications in their first cohort - How he uses experiments to make ideas come to life - His favorite projects in Nextt - One of Nextt's projects (Bloom Credit) got into 500 startups - Advice for people who want to start side projects - Get super clear on the problem that you want to solve - Start a problem journal - The difference between hobby, side project and a business - How constraints can make you more productive and creative - How to measure progress - What Thomas is obsessed with right now Links mentioned: http://nex.tt https://www.grovo.com/ https://www.geteverwise.com/ http://www.bloomcred.it/

In this episode of the Next Generation Catalyst Podcast, we interview the CEO of Grovo, Jeff Fernandez. We discuss best practices for learning at work, trends in learning and workplace education, and how to overcome the "Digital Skills gap."

Jeff Fernandez is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Grovo, the enterprise learning solution that allows you to educate and empower your employees. At Grovo, Jeff oversees sales, investor relations, and the building of Grovo’s award-winning culture. Prior to founding Grovo in 2010, Jeff served as product manager at Clickable (acquired by Syncapse). From 2006 until 2009, he led business development and sales for Doostang (acquired by Universum Global), an online career networking community. Jeff is also a bit of a rockstar off the field getting the highest honours from Harvard penning his thesis on human performance and then playing semi pro football for the New York Rebels in 2008. I would also like to say a massive thank you to Greg Sands @ Costanoa Venture Capital for the intro to Jeff today. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: How Jeff came to found Grovo? What was the a-ha moment for him? Jeff is renowned to ‘lead from the heart’. What are the advantages of this as a CEO? How does this affect the company, the culture? What are the inherent challenges? Question from Greg Sands: Jeff likes to ‘work the sales floor’, how does that work? What does Jeff actually do? What have been Jeff’s observations having seen the sales floor up close? How does Jeff look to structure the compensation for his sales team? How does this vary with time and stage? What does Jeff mean when he says ‘sometimes you have to go slow to go fast’? How does that play out in his management style? 60 Second SaaStr Jeff’s biggest productivity tips? Biggest challenge for Jeff in being CEO @ Grovo? What does Jeff know now that he wishes he had known at the beginning?   If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Jeff Fernandez

Ajay Rajani is the Founder of The Inevitable Collective, an investment vehicle that helps build and invest in companies that push the world forward. Ajay has been a part of Grovo as a product manager, the founding CMO of Inventure, and is now launching new experiments including: Nextt, the first accelerator for ideas & The Inevitable Collective, a new investment vehicle that’s investing in companies with products that are primarily aimed at developing markets. Ajay joins us to share his story, how he got into startups, what he looks for when investing, how to get product/market fit, and much more!

This week we were in the studio with Mateo Askaripour to discuss "The Monday Sales Meeting: Purpose, Power, Possibilities." Mateo currently leads Sales Development at Grovo and is responsible for the growth and development of both outbound and inbound lead generation efforts, reps, and success. Mateo definitely knows a thing or two about The Monday Sales Meeting and walks listeners through a structured chat about why to do it, when to do it, and how to do it. We cover a lot of ground in this edition with Mateo giving any SaaS founder an easy to understand playbook for how to execute solid Monday sales meetings. He gives listeners some great tricks around how to encourage participation, individual rep development, and overall ways to make The Monday Sales Meeting fun. We also cover many serious topics like the metrics that need to be tracked, how to think about the development and growth of your own Monday sales meeting, and finally how to empower your salespeople to better understand their own verbal and non-verbal tonality through this meeting. Give a listen and we hope you enjoy another edition of the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast!

This week we were in the studio with Mateo Askaripour to discuss "The Monday Sales Meeting: Purpose, Power, Possibilities." Mateo currently leads Sales Development at Grovo and is responsible for the growth and development of both outbound and inbound lead generation efforts, reps, and success. Mateo definitely knows a thing or two about The Monday Sales Meeting and walks listeners through a structured chat about why to do it, when to do it, and how to do it. We cover a lot of ground in this edition with Mateo giving any SaaS founder an easy to understand playbook for how to execute solid Monday sales meetings. He gives listeners some great tricks around how to encourage participation, individual rep development, and overall ways to make The Monday Sales Meeting fun. We also cover many serious topics like the metrics that need to be tracked, how to think about the development and growth of your own Monday sales meeting, and finally how to empower your salespeople to better understand their own verbal and non-verbal tonality through this meeting. Give a listen and we hope you enjoy another edition of the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast!

In this week's episode, we welcome Stephanie Palmeri of SoftTech VC. Dave and Steph discuss SoftTech's growth as a microVC, how crowded the competitive landscape really is for seed-stage founders, and the case for having a west coast investor on your cap table. At SoftTech, Steph has led investments in Poshmark, True & Co, Clever, Handshake, Grovo, Panorama Education, Lantern, and ClassDojo. She is currently on the board of Chariot, Educents, Envoy, Fatherly, and Spoon University. She also led the firm's investment in Niche, which was acquired by Twitter. One of SoftTechVC's most notable investments to date is Fitbit, which went public in June of 2015 with a valuation of about $4.1 billion. SoftTech's founder Jeff Clavier has also been a guest on Venture Studio- you can find his episode on our iTunes or SoundCloud pages.

In this interview with Yitzchok Willroth, aka CodeRabbi, we discuss how he has applied Talmudic Maxims to improve Software Engineering practices at Grovo. We cover how in teaching others we can develop ourselves, the benefits of pair programming, how you can get product and engineering teams to work closely together and important metrics to focus engineering teams.

Jeff shares the four critical reflection points he's experienced as CEO and how Grovo hires senior executives.