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Send us a textIn Conversation With is a travel podcast where we speak with travel industry movers and shakers that are transforming business travel. Get insights into the company they represent and learn about how they are capitalizing on the future of travel.In this episode we speak with Tye Radcliff, Chief Customer Success Officer at AccelyaTye Radcliffe is Accelya's Chief Customer Success Officer, dedicated to ensuring airlines have the tools and support they need to succeed in modern retailing. A recognized leader in airline distribution and retailing, he brings deep industry expertise from leadership roles at United Airlines, Orbitz.com, and Travelport. Tye has played a pivotal role in shaping industry standards as a founding member of IATA's NDC Taskforce. He chaired the steering group for several years and served as Chairman of the IATA Passenger Standards Conference from 2017 to 2021, driving innovation in passenger retailing. Tye is passionate about helping airlines navigate the complexities of retailing transformation and enhancing their commercial success. Your host: Ann CederhallYou can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, iHeart, Pandora, Spotify, Alexa or your favorite podcast player.This podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360. Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!Support the show
If you've ever had to say goodbye to a beloved pet, this conversation will speak to your soul.We're joined by Gale Wilkinson—animal communicator, dog rescuer, and now author of a powerful new book that chronicles her journey through losing her beloved dog Samson, discovering her spiritual gifts, and using that pain to help others heal.Her new book, Samson's Story: A Tale of Pet Loss Grief, Love, Hope, and Magic, isn't just a guide through grief—it's a lifeline. Robyn can attest to that because she used it after she lost her own beloved dog, Eddie. Every page is infused with wisdom, vulnerability, and the reminder that love never dies—it just changes form. Samson is still guiding her... and possibly helping her find him again in this lifetime.We're talking about pet grief, animal communication, reincarnation, and what it really means to stay connected to our furry family—even after they cross over. Plus: synchronicities that will blow your mind, and Gale's mission to rescue dogs in need through her nonprofit, Gale Loves Dogs.Get ready to cry, laugh, and believe in a little bit of magic.In this episode:The signs that led Gale to Samson (including some mind-blowing name synchronicities!).Why pet grief can hit even harder than human loss — and why that's valid.How Gale unlocked her intuitive giftsWhat animal communication really is — and how you can stay connected to your pet, even after they've crossed overHow Gale's book can help you navigate pet griefGale's powerful mission to rescue dogs through her nonprofitRESOURCES FROM GALE WILKINSONGale's Book: Visit petlossgrief.info to purchase Samson's Story: A Tale of Pet Loss Grief, Love, Hope and Magic Visit Galelovesdogs.com to find out more about fostering, adopting or supporting the work that Gale and her team are doing.TED Talk - Pet loss grief; The Pain Explained by Sarah Hoggan MORE ABOUT GALE WILKINSONGale's professional background is in finance, strategy, and marketing. She has worked at Nielsen in new product consulting and Orbitz in strategy and data. More recently, she started two venture capital firms - IrishAngels and VITALIZE Venture Capital - where she has helped hundreds of people invest in early stage startups. She holds degrees from Notre Dame (undergrad) and Chicago Booth (business school). Make sure you're FOLLOWING Seeking Center, The Podcast, so you never miss an episode of life changing conversations, aha moments, and some deep soul wisdom. Visit theseekingcenter.com for more from Robyn + Karen, plus mega inspo -- and the best wellness + spiritual practitioners, products and experiences on the planet! You can also follow Seeking Center on Instagram @theseekingcenter.
In this episode Patrick and Shelli talk with Firasat Hussain, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at SnapCare. Firasat shares his 25-year journey through various technology leadership roles at companies like Ticketmaster, Orbitz, and RR Donnelley, emphasizing the significance of thoughtful leadership and iterative innovation. He describes his transition to SnapCare, where he is leading the integration of new AI tools and modern tech stacks to transform healthcare staffing. The discussion delves into Firasat's leadership philosophies, the importance of trust and influence over demands, and his commitment to growth and learning, both personally and professionally.(00:00) Welcome to Firasat Hussain, CPTO at SnapCare(01:23) From Accounting to Technology: Firasat's Early Career(04:32) Transition to Healthcare Tech: Joining SnapCare(05:26) The Role of Technology in Healthcare Staffing(07:11) Personal Insights: Leadership and Growth(12:03) The Importance of Travel and Broader Perspectives(14:41) SnapCare's Mission and Operations(20:13) Balancing Leadership in Work and Family Life(24:18) The Power of Trust and Kindness Over Demands(27:07) Building Trust Through Honest Conversations(30:05) The Importance of Active Listening(32:23) Establishing Priorities and Reducing Cognitive Overload(37:59) Reflecting on Personal and Professional Growth(41:50) Final ThoughtsFirasat Hussain is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at SnapCare, a technology-driven healthcare staffing firm. His 25+ year career has spanned varied industries and organizations at a range of stages, from established global tech firms to promising startups. He was Chief Technology Officer at arrivia, VP of Software Engineering at Ticketmaster, and VP of Enterprise Architecture at RR Donnelley. He spent 10 years growing and leading at Orbitz Worldwide, with six years as Director of Hotel Product Development. He launched his early career at Cysive and Oracle.If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to Innovation and the Digital Enterprise in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.Podcast episode production by Dante32.
Airline retailing with ATPCO CEO Alex Zoghlin, IATA's New Distribution Capability, Offers & Orders, and the Elevate industry conference. In the news, AI transformation of the airline industry, cyber criminals stealing United FA login credentials, shark skin riblets on Delta 767s, first flight of a prototype hydrogen-powered helicopter, China's tailless 6th generation fighter jet, and a fatal helicopter crash in the Hudson River. Guest Alex Zoghlin is the CEO of ATPCO, a neutral industry partner that provides airline management tools, pricing data, and solutions that support airline retailing. Owned by the airlines, ATPCO blends data and systems with technology to create value for hundreds of commercial airlines around the world. The company turned 60 this year. IATA describes Airline retailing as a customer-centric approach in the airline industry that focuses on enhancing the shopping experience across various channels. It is enabled by the New Distribution Capability (NDC), which allows airlines to offer more personalized services and products directly to consumers. This modern retailing model emphasizes frictionless, intuitive, and personalized shopping experiences for travelers. The transition to this model provides airlines with opportunities to innovate their distribution strategies and create additional value. Alex explains how ATPCO provides value to airlines. We talk about continuous pricing and dynamically generated fares as well as some of the factors airlines use in their pricing strategies. He describes how airlines can have fixed price points for different offerings, then turn specific offerings on or off depending on the circumstances. We look at curated ticket pricing that can create the specific travel experience the customer wants - extra baggage, type of seat, lounge access, etc. With this capability, airlines could potentially compete for the flyer's travel business. ATPCO's Elevate 2025 airline industry conference was held April 7-10, 2025, in Chicago. Alex says the conference theme this year was data and AI: How airlines can use the wealth of available data and some AI tools to make win-win offerings for both the airlines and the consumers. In our conversation with Alex, we consider several other airline industry topics such as the 2050 industry carbon reduction goals and the current tariff situation in the United States. Alex is a long-time airline/travel industry veteran. He co-founded Orbitz, sold a distribution startup to Travelport, and worked as a VP at Hyatt for 6 years. Alex has several aviation-related pursuits: He's a pilot and a flight simmer, he has a Part 107 drone license, and he participates in launching large amateur rockets, specifically the LDRS (Large, Dangerous Rocket Ships), an annual gathering of rocket enthusiasts organized by the Tripoli Rocketry Association. Aviation News How AI is Transforming the Airline Industry The Promise of Travel in the age of AI, a 32-page Skift & McKinsey report (2023), claims that AI could generate an estimated US$45bn in potential value for the airline industry globally through operational efficiencies, revenue optimization, and customer service improvements. AI is already impacting the airlines through organizational changes, predictive maintenance from aircraft health monitoring, AI-powered virtual assistants and chatbots, personalized in-flight entertainment options, and voice-cloning technology to provide a multilingual IFE system. In the future, look for flight path optimization for increased fuel efficiency, refined dynamic pricing models, and even autonomous aircraft. Cyber Criminals Are Going After The Paychecks Of United Airlines Flight Attendants Using Fake Websites That Look Legit Criminals are using website spoofing to steal the login credentials of United FAs. In addition to paychecks, Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) are at risk.
Alex and Cruz are back with a deep dive into the latest gaming buzz and 90s nostalgia! We're breaking down the potential Nintendo Switch 2 reveal, including its rumored specs and how it might impact the retro gaming market. Plus, Cruz is launching his own retro store, "Cruz'n Retro"! Join us as we discuss: Nintendo Switch 2 Rumors: 4K, 120Hz, and magnetic Joy-Cons! The impact of the Switch 2 on retro gaming prices. Cruz's new retro store: Cruz'n Retro! Epic 90s "This or That" debates: Surge vs. Orbitz, Lunchables vs. Kid Cuisine, and more! A nostalgic review of classic 90s commercials: Dragon Flyz, Power Wheels, Mighty Max, and more! Get ready for a blast from the past with our 90s trivia and commercial reviews. Don't forget to use code NJPod at Throwback Buys for 15% off your retro finds! Email us your thoughts and comments: nostalgiajunkiesct@gmail.com STORE: https://nostalgiajunkies.printify.me/products Follow us on our Socials: INSTAGRAM: @nostagiajunkiespodcast TIKTOK: @nostalgiajunkiespodcast YOUTUBE: @nostalgiajunkiespodcast Subscribe and Review! Check out ThrowbackBuys.com and use code: NJPOD for 15% off your next order! #NintendoSwitch2 #RetroGaming #90sCommercials #Nostalgia #Podcast #CruzNRetro #90sKids
Steve Hafner, co-founder and CEO of Kayak, joins Tim and Troy Green for a conversation packed with insights, humility, and humor. From building Kayak into a billion-dollar brand to navigating existential threats like 9/11 and COVID, Steve shares his remarkable entrepreneurial journey. He reflects on lessons from a global upbringing, founding Orbitz, creating a revolutionary travel search engine, and leading with integrity. The episode dives into AI's potential to disrupt travel, work-life balance as a CEO and father of five, and what true success really looks like. This one's a masterclass in business, resilience, and perspective. SPONSORS: ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (https://elevenlabs.io) for supporting this episode and powering Tim's voice. ALS Investment Fund: Thanks to ALS Investment Fund (https://www.alsinvestmentfund.com) for supporting this episode. SOCIAL: Website: https://tgnlu.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/nlutimgreen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NLUpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nlupod/ AUDIO ONLY: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fhcANt7CSnYvgBlgxpVVa Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nothing-left-unsaid/id1734094890 PERSONAL: Tackle ALS: https://www.tackleals.com Tim Green Books: https://authortimgreen.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Schubes and Nathan take the stage in Vancouver once again, this time to cover some chapters of The Lost Hero where drama is brewing! In classic fashion, we end the show with a rap battle, this time improvised! Topics include: Northern Washington, Smirnoff Ice, Baja Blast, Riz, Orbitz, game recognize game, Hill Tam, visual eyy-ds, department store shopping, opossums, DW, Chicago's metro system, retellings of myths, being remembered, Sum by David Eagleman, Willis Reed, negotiation, blood fountains, Comedy Central Roasts, swole bros, Mortal Kombat, diamond mining commentary, Bonesaw, 4DX, dishwashing logistics, graveyards, Nandor, Katie Ledecky, The Beatles, shopping husbands, Canada Geese, and more! Watch the video version of this episode: youtu.be/xlfxdjzam94 TNO on TOUR: www.thenewestolympian.comlive Thanks to our sponsor, Fabric by Gerber Life! Get started at www.meetfabric.com/newestolympian — Find The Newest Olympian Online — • Website: www.thenewestolympian.com • Patreon: www.thenewestolympian.com/patreon • Twitter: www.twitter.com/newestolympian • Instagram: www.instagram.com/newestolympian • Facebook: www.facebook.com/newestolympian • Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/thenewestolympian • Merch: www.thenewestolympian.com/merch — Production — • Creator, Host, Producer, Social Media, Web Design: Mike Schubert • Editor: Sherry Guo • Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle • Art: Jessica E. Boyd — About The Show — Has the Percy Jackson series been slept on by society? Join Mike Schubert as he reads through the books for the first time with the help of longtime PJO fans to cover the plot, take stabs at what happens next, and nerd out over Greek mythology. Whether you're looking for an excuse to finally read these books, or want to re-read an old favorite with a digital book club, grab your blue chocolate chip cookies and listen along. New episodes release on Mondays wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Paul English is a perpetual founder. Since high school, he's started 3 philanthropies and 8 companies—ranging from e-commerce, to gaming, to GetHuman, a site that helps users access human customer support. His best-known venture is probably KAYAK, a travel website launched in 2004 over two gin-and-tonics with co-founder Steve Hafner. Using a simple interface, KAYAK specialized in search; and it made partners out of potential rivals like Orbitz and Expedia by charging them a fee to send users to their sites. Eventually KAYAK became one of the most-searched "K" words on Google, and in 2012, it sold to Priceline for $1.8 billion. A few years later, Paul started yet another company, Lola.com—and says he plans to launch many more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
It's time for the ultimate 1990s crossover - X-Men and Star Trek, united at last! We discuss our experience reading 1998's Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman, as per the request of our Patron Fred. For once, we actually want more romance between two characters and just want there to be some stakes in a story, but I guess that's hard when you're working with popular intellectual property. Paris & Chris swap personalities, we remember Orbitz, and Paris Does Math About It™. We hope you enjoy the episode, Fred, and thank you so much for supporting the show! Remember that if you, too, would like to have us read and review a book of your choice on the show, you can gain that power by joining our Patreon at the appropriate tier.
Today we're sharing another insightful presentation from our most recent Innovative Executives League Summit, where Leon Chism, the Vice President of Engineering at Evolve, delivered a powerful lesson on collecting critical metrics for organization-wide success. As an experienced technologist and executive, Leon leads teams in unparalleled growth and innovation. In this presentation, Leon dives into how the collection of metrics examining speed and quality paired with human-driven evaluation and consistent reporting are the keys to success. In this episode, Leon first dives into DORA metrics and the significance of collecting and reporting those figures of speed and quality. He overviews the additional customization of the data he collects; in one example, he looks closely at aging reports to determine where processes are sticking and gains a live perspective on getting those tasks unstuck by allocating more resources. As the last place to observe metrics, Leon offers a compelling outlook on examining team balance and individual metrics. ("You want to measure the process and not the people.") In further support of optimizing processes and not people, Leon shares his perspective on leaderboards, comparison, and other human-oriented metric frameworks of note. In the final segment, Leon answers audience questions ranging from setting WIP limits (never too low), developer satisfaction, and key aspects of the communication around metrics to create a shared understanding and identify the value beyond the data. (02:16) – DORA metrics(07:39) – Aging Report(10:15) – Balance and individual metrics(12:22) – Metrics in the boardroom(13:35) – SPACE Framework(15:45) – Manual metric collection(17:19) – Developer satisfaction(18:48) – Gaming the metrics(20:26) – WIP limits(21:45) – Shared metrics and collaboration(26:00) – Hardware, software, firmware(27:05) – Communicating the metrics(28:26) – Value beyond the dataLeon Chism is the Vice President of Engineering at Evolve. As an experienced technologist and executive, he has led innovation and technology at Jellyvision, DialogTech, Rewards Network, Analyte Health, PowerReviews, and ORBITZ. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign.If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to Innovation and the Digital Enterprise in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in
Crack open a bottle of Orbitz, maniacs, because April is 90s Month yet again! We're starting with 1998's Disturbing Behavior, starring James Marsden and Katie Holmes. Tune in to this totally razor episode where we discuss the flick and other topics such as the invented slang for this movie, David Duchovny's mnemonic devices, and Coal Chamber music videos. Drop that Caramello and check out our Patreon! This month we're covering the 90s on the bonus episode as well, where we go back for another round of the Back In The Day Blitz, discussing 90s sitcoms and the decade's works of Kevin Smith. For as little as $2 a month you can get in on the action as well with bonus episodes, Discord privileges, livestreams, exclusive merchandise and more! Want more high school horrors? Check out our previous episodes on The Blob (episode 29), Christine (episode 37), Prom Night (episode 38), The Majorettes (episode 55), Society (episode 77), The New Kids (episode 87), Cutting Class (episode 89), Evilspeak (episode 246) and The Faculty (episode 284).
This bonus episode brought to you today was recorded live at the Mumbrella Retail Marketing Summit in Sydney and features one of the great speakers there, who knows more than most about our evolving relationship we have with our pets. Jon Wild is Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Pet Circle. Started in 2011, the company opened its ecommerce doors three years later and now lists 13,500 SKUs: the largest offering of online pet products in Australia. In this chat, Jon shares all the tips around successful content creation, how to get the stickiest customers and the unique way millennials and zoomers parent their furbabies.Links from the episode:Pet CircleEmarsys (sponsored)Tik Tok (sponsored)Questions answered:How does Pet Circle go above and beyond for its customers?How do you know where to focus with content creation?What business and customer data is critical to you for making marketing investment decisions? About your host: Nathan Bush from Add To CartNathan Bush is a director, strategist and advisor. He has led eCommerce for businesses with revenue $100m+ and has been recognised as one of Australia's Top 50 People in eCommerce four years in a row. You can contact Nathan on LinkedIn, Twitter or via email.About your co-host: Jon Wild from Pet CircleJon Wild is the Chief Growth & Marketing Officer for Pet Circle, where he leads the performance, creative, merchandising, category management and supplier marketing teams. His current focus is reshaping the retail experience for the next generation of pet owners to achieve unparalleled growth. With more than two decades of expertise in marketing and advertising, he has navigated various industries and worked with international companies, ranging from established corporates to innovative startups, including Groupon, Unilever, Mattel, British Telecom, O2, Telstra, and Orbitz.You can contact Jon on LinkedInPlease contact us if you: Want to come on board as an Add To Cart sponsor Are interested in joining Add To Cart as a co-host Have any feedback or suggestions on how to make Add To Cart betterEmail hello@addtocart.com.au We look forward to hearing from you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lords: * Ryan * Alexander Topics: * Getting so agitated that you cook dinner * What's an acquired taste that's worth acquiring? What's one that's not worth the effort? What's the point of even "acquiring" a taste for anything when there are probably infinite options you don't have to teach yourself to enjoy? * Texturally enhanced alternative beverage * Bagme Bloma * https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bagme_Bloma Microtopics: * How the science gets done. * Measuring the height of a flagpole by measuring its shadow. * Using calculus to find the surface area of a potato. * Measuring and re-measuring until you get the result you want. * Confronting your professor about their involvement in Frog Fractions 2. * Country and Western music fused with synth heavy prog rock. * Using the gun to parallel park. * That time Ryan died while recording Topic Lords. * Getting so agitated that you do some differential equations. * New guy just dropped: guy who whenever he thinks about death he has to make a sandwich. * The first step towards rejecting a task: assessing the task. * Today is a good day to fill your Prius with snakes. * The Raccoon Prius story. * Hilarious mothers. * The inside of a Prius: nothing but corners. * Officer, it's not what you think. No, not that either. * Putting the AC on so the python in the back seat gets sluggish. * Getting a fork and spoon and twirling up snakes like spaghetti. * A taste worth busting your ass for. * An oral history of tricking alcohol post your tongue. * An entire generation that has never had to work to enjoy things because there are so many things that are easy to enjoy. * Twelve year olds from Alabama calling you a cuck. * New ideas that you haven't been thinking of even without looking at your phone. * Hiking: it's just hard walking. * Getting so agitated that you developed a taste for hiking. * The guy in the Fred Meyer buying Reese's cups while wearing a tuxedo. * The Men's Wearhome. * The Men's Wearhouse employee who is not allowed to tell you that they don't have anything for fat people so he brings out less and less flattering outfits until you take the hint. * Orbitz. (The soft drink from 1996.) * A proto-boba. * Drinking a random test tube from a bioengineering lab. * What if everyone had a number floating above their heads that represented the number of times they had to drink Orbitz before they developed a taste for Orbitz and now that Orbitz is out of production everyone's number stays the same forever * Big Dick's Energy. * Flavor-blasted slushies. * The sense-horror of drinking an Orbitz. * Shelf-stable tapioca pearls. * A free-to-play game for your tongue. * Texturally subdued beverages. * Decaf Red Bull. * The hypothetical beverage enthusiast who wants a decaf Red Bull. * How to make Orbitz in your toilet. * How many Orbitz you have to drink to reach Nirvana. * eBay sellers insisting that you don't drink the thirty year old novelty beverage they're selling you. * Thinking a poem is a Middle Earth thing but it's actually a regular Earth thing. * Poetry that is alliterative rather than rhyming. * Making art by fucking around with a new medium. * Music in a foreign language. * What Simlish sounds like in different languages. * A quest to discover why they started dotting the letter Y. * Expecting scrolls in 3 to 5 days.
Unlock the secrets to a customer journey that will set your sales apart from the competition, as Paul Butterfield of Revenue Flywheel Group reveals the synergy of marketing and sales. Journey with us through Paul's rich history in sales, from his encyclopedia-selling days to spearheading enablement on a global scale. Discover how the right methodology can transform your understanding of the customer and why aligning sales stages with the customer's buying process isn't just a nice-to-have, it's a necessity for success. Embrace the "Three I's" of personal growth—integrity, intelligence, and intensity—and learn how to sift through the noise to find sales strategies that truly elevate your game. Paul and I dissect the common pitfalls that hinder sales teams, such as ineffective prospect qualification and the misalignment between marketing and sales. By implementing structured approaches like Rev-ops assessments and SWOT analyses, we illuminate the path to improving sales effectiveness and setting realistic growth expectations. The conversation crescendos as we discuss the art of balancing efficiency with a customer-focused approach, offering practical tips to streamline account planning and CRM documentation. Paul imparts wisdom on developing a sales process that mirrors the customer's journey, a strategy that not only speeds up sales but deepens customer relationships. As we welcome Paul into the Sales Lead Dog pack, you're invited to explore the innovative solutions at Revenue Flywheel Group, promising to propel your sales team's efficiency and effectiveness to new heights. Paul Butterfield has designed, built and led high impact revenue enablement strategies and teams for Vonage, G.E., NICE InContact, and Instructure. He's coached Go-to-Market leaders from Expedia, ABB. Aspen Media, Orbitz, and Red Wing Shoes in change management and sales methodology adoption. Prior to his career as a revenue enablement leader he led channel and direct sales organizations for world-class companies including Intuit, Microsoft, and Hewlett Packard. Paul was the Executive Board President of the Revenue Enablement Society from 2022-2024. He produces and hosts the podcast “Stories From the Trenches” and is a regular keynote speaker on revenue enablement strategies and sales methodologies. Links: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulrbutterfield/ Company: https://www.revenueflywheelgroup.com Get this episode and all other episodes of Sales Lead Dog at https://www.empellorcrm.com/salesleaddog
This week Adam speaks with Brian Pontarelli, the CEO and founder of Inversoft inc, the parent company to softwares FusionAuth, a leading customer identity and access management platform & Cleanspeak, a platform to filter offensive and inappropriate content. Prior to launching FusionAuth, Brian studied computer engineering at CU Boulder, was an employee at tech companies such as Orbitz and was co-chairman of Denver and Boulder Startup Weeks along with Adam. On this episode, Brian talks about his recent success with FusionAuth, his time building a company in Colorado's thriving tech community, plus a lesson on fostering a positive and enthusiastic company culture.Listen now on: Amazon Music (Alexa) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts or wherever you get podcasts!Check out more about what we're up to at Range.vc Connect with hosts Adam and Chris and the Range VC team on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/range-ventures/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Today we're speaking with Blagica Bottigliero of Zlato and Bottles Nation. Connect with her: Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Blagica X: http://www.twitter.com/@Blagica Threads: https://www.threads.net/@blagica Blagica Bottigliero, is an Emmy-winning digital marketing expert with over 25 years of experience in the industry, beginning with her early work of helping Maytag transition online. Her career has been defined by leading digital transformations across various sectors. Currently, as the Founder and Principal of Zlato, she specializes in providing strategic digital and affiliate marketing guidance. She engages deeply with client teams, offering not only training but also hands-on execution support. In this role, she integrates herself into the team, applying her expertise to drive success in digital communications strategies and affiliate marketing initiatives. She served as the Director of Affiliate Marketing at JEB Commerce. There, she implemented a comprehensive strategy that merged Public Relations, Digital Marketing, Content Creation, and Commerce. This role was pivotal in reshaping the agency's approach and offerings, demonstrating her ability to drive innovative and effective marketing solutions. As Head of Marketing & Partnerships at Bottles Nation, she led a significant digital transformation, managing over 1,000 virtual events and generating $1M in revenue within a year. Her global expertise was further expanded at ModSquad and Motorola Mobility, where she managed international teams and navigated complex global communication challenges. Additionally, her tenure at Orbitz contributed significantly to their online marketing strategies, enhancing her experience in the travel and e-commerce sectors. At Edelman Digital, she played a key role in integrating digital marketing with traditional PR, establishing new industry standards. This experience sharpened her ability to merge cutting-edge digital strategies with traditional marketing practices. Her broad experience, spanning from startups to multinational corporations, enables her to skillfully manage complex marketing environments. As a seasoned keynote speaker, she's shared insights at forums like TEDx, SxSW, and AllWeb. Passionate about continuous learning, she actively explores new trends, such as AI, to stay at the forefront of marketing innovation. She welcomes and embraces change, constantly seeking to shape the digital narrative of brands. She is an avid volunteer in her community. She is also an advocate for green technologies and electric vehicles. A born and bred metro-Detroiter, she has the pulse and grit of the Midwest , mixed in with international experience and knowledge. [00:00:00] Resurgence of affiliate marketing. [00:04:18] Planning for the new year. [00:07:01] Affiliate marketing origins and evolution. [00:10:18] The rise of affiliate marketing. [00:13:50] Affiliate marketing and BuzzFeed. [00:14:47] Privacy concerns and affiliate marketing. [00:18:15] The evolution of influencers. [00:22:07] Influencer concerns on affiliate marketing. [00:22:47] Patience in affiliate marketing. [00:28:02] Different affiliate marketing networks. [00:28:13] Affiliate marketing networks. [00:33:22] Pressure and Expectations in Influencer Marketing. [00:35:52] Scaling in digital marketing. [00:40:43] Mistrust in influencer partnerships. [00:42:42] Influencer marketing trends. [00:47:27] Influencers exploring affiliate marketing. [00:50:22] Balancing motherhood and career. [00:53:58] Women in the digital technology space. [00:58:10] Teaching the importance of self-care. [01:00:53] Balancing work and motherhood. [01:04:01] Parenthood and motherhood challenges. [01:08:28] Looking forward in my career. Want to join WIIM's Membership? Check out our website http://www.iamwiim.com/join Don't forget to follow us on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/iamwiim --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wiim/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wiim/support
Ever been captivated by the thrill of startups? Ever pondered how some companies catapult to success while others crash and burn? Meet Sean Jacobsohn, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners and former enterprise SaaS executive. Sean's an expert in the venture capital space, and he's not afraid of failure. In fact, he's the curator of a failure museum!Sean's unique perspective on failure is an inspiration for innovation and creativity. He shares his journey transitioning from business development to venture capital investing– an intriguing story that encapsulates his formidable years as a super organizer, the exhilaration of his venture capitalist career, and his current role curating the failure museum. Diving into Sean's insights, we unearth how the failure of products such as Orbitz can be a springboard for success.But there's more to Sean than his profession. A hardcore sports enthusiast, Sean shares how his hobby of collecting sports memorabilia helped him pay his way through college and honed his selling skills. The importance of relationship building, fostering long-term connections, and how sporting events can be a platform for this, play a big part in Sean's narrative. His love for sports segwayed into his career path and he passionately talks about his days of selling baseball cards, interning at the MLB and presenting to HBS students. Sean's story is not just about turning passion into profession, but also highlights how failures like Coca-Cola's New Coke can be powerful learning experiences. Spend some time with us and Sean, and you'll walk away with a newfound respect for failure and the wisdom it imparts.Producer: Anand Shah & Sandeep ParikhTechnical Director & Sound Designer: Sandeep ParikhExecutive Producers: Sandeep Parikh & Anand ShahEditor: Sean Meagher#innovation #technology #b2b #growth #venturecapital #vc #saas #saasmarketing #marketoutlook #abm #demandgeneration #demandgen #gotomarket #gotomarketstrategy #harvard #stanford #businessschool #sales #physics #pivot #cmo #chiefmarketingofficer #martech #b2b #b2bmarketing #ai #consultant #consulting #innovation #technology #innovatorsmindset #innovators #innovator #product #revenue #revenuegrowth #management #managementconsulting #founder #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #data #analytics #dataanalytics #growth #growthmindset #growthhacking #salestechniques #salestips #enterprise #enterprisesolutions #enterprisesoftware #business #bschools #bschoolscholarship #siliconvalley #company #companies #smartgrowth #efficiency #money #sustainability #sustainablegrowth #process #processimprovement #customerexperience #value #valuecreation #funny #podcast #comedy #desi #indian #community
Jan Schroder is a travel writer and editor for close to 25 years and shares how she began her career. Jan provides advice for people who want to be successful travel writers and also reveals some useful travel tips. For many years, Jan was the managing editor of a travel magazine and a freelance travel writer for well-known outlets including Fodor's, Orbitz, Global Traveler and International Living. Today she focuses on writing and producing the monthly digital publication The Travel 100, which is part of The 100 Companies based in Atlanta.Jan explores some of the most challenging parts of being a travel writer and shares some trends she is seeing in travel today.Also on Speaking of Travel, grab your comfy sweaters and get ready to plan your ultimate getaway to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. Mark Collins, Partnerships Manager for RomanticAsheville.com, the most popular online travel guide to the mountains and foothills surrounding Asheville and Western North Carolina, gives us the lowdown on the best ways to boost your energy and mood when the temps are cooler and sunshine is scarce. So stay tuned!Thanks for listening to Speaking of Travel! Visit speakingoftravel.net for travel tips, travel stories, and ways you can become a more savvy traveler.
The number of direct flights between China and the United States will be further increased next month as a result of positive steps made by both sides to promote an orderly recovery of international passenger travel.The US Department of Transportation said on Friday that Chinese airlines could make 35 roundtrip flights to the US a week, up from 24, starting Nov 9.The number will be equal to the number China will allow for US airlines. In total, Chinese and US carriers will be allowed to operate 70 weekly round-trip flights from Nov 9.Seven Chinese airlines will operate the flights: Air China, Beijing Capital, China Eastern, China Southern, Hainan, Sichuan and Xiamen airlines, according to an order amendment released by the US Department of Transportation on Friday.According to the amendment, the goal is to improve the environment for airline companies from China and the US to maintain "a competitive balance and fair and equal opportunity".The US will continue ongoing and productive dialogue with the Civil Aviation Administration of China to facilitate a gradual, broader reopening of the air service market between both countries, the document said.Also on Friday, Liang Nan, director of the transport department of the CAAC, said, "The administration will continue to encourage and support Chinese and foreign airlines to resume international passenger flights, improving the international route network and supporting people movements between China and foreign countries to ensure stable foreign trade and investment."The new winter and spring civil aviation season in China started on Sunday and will end on March 30. During the season, China's international flights are expected to return to 70 percent of the volume seen in 2019, Liang said.She said that 13,004 international flights involving 65 countries are planned every week during the season, but the number between China and the US has not yet been released.Due to the pandemic, international flights to and from China were greatly reduced. In March 2020, China introduced the "circuit breaker" policy — suspending flights operated by an airline for two weeks if five or more passengers tested positive for COVID-19 upon landing in China, or for four weeks if 10 or more passengers tested positive.Only a very small number of international passenger flights continued to operate during the pandemic. Data from the CAAC showed that in August 2021, the number of flights to and from China was about 2.15 percent of the volume recorded in 2019.The number of international flights has risen gradually since January, after China optimized its response measures to COVID-19 and promoted the resumption of cross-border air travel.From Oct 16 to 22, a total of 7,750 international passenger flights operated, about 51 percent of the volume before the pandemic. Those flights involved 61 countries, according to the administration.Although the international civil aviation market has recovered well, China-US air service is far from fully resumed.In 2019, more than 300 round trips were operated every week between China and the US, according to Lin Zhijie, a civil aviation industry analyst.After the increase next month, the number of China-US flights will be about 25 percent compared with the volume in 2019, he said.The volume of flights affects prices. According to Orbitz, a global travel planning website, the cheapest price ticket from Shanghai to San Francisco in November is about $620.The lowest ticket price for the end of this month is around $890, as of Sunday morning."Restricted by the number of flights, the ticket price between China and the US is still high, with about 10,000 yuan ($1,366) for a one-way ticket. The operation of more flights from 48 to 70 per week can help lower ticket prices," Lin said.There are two key factors in promoting the recovery of passenger travel between China and the US — an increase in the number of flights and visa issuances, according to Lin."It still takes quite long, about two to four months, to get a visa. As the number of flights has gradually recovered, the visa problem has become a bottleneck that needs to be solved," he said."At present, the resumption of flights between China and the US has released positive signals, and it can indeed alleviate the problem of insufficient flight capacity and high fares, but the recovery in the future is still uncertain," Lin said.Reporter: Luo Wangshu
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AI #26: Fine Tuning Time, published by Zvi on August 25, 2023 on LessWrong. GPT-3.5 fine tuning is here. GPT-4 fine tuning is only a few months away. It is about to get a lot easier to get a powerful system that does what you want it to do, and knows what you want it to know, especially for the purposes of a business or a website. As an experiment, I am putting in bold the sections I think are worth highlighting, as unusually important or interesting versions of the thing than in a typical week. Table of Contents Introduction. Table of Contents. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Claude-2 versus GPT-4. Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility. No opinions, no agents. Fact Check: Misleading. AI fact checker makes people more confused not less. GPT-4 Real This Time. Fine tune GPT-3.5, soon GPT-4. Ask it if it's sure. Fun With Image Generation. MidJourney inpainting ho. And oh no AI porn. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Adversarial examples starting to emerge. They Took Our Jobs. New York Times joins copyright lawsuits against OpenAI. Introducing. Palisade Research will study potentially dangerous AI affordances. In Other AI News. Who is adapting fastest to AI? An attempt to measure that. Quiet Speculations. Jack Clark asks questions about what the future will bring. The Quest for Sane Regulation. FTC asks OpenAI a different sort of question. The Week in Audio. It's win win. No One Would Be So Stupid As To. Make an AI conscious? Oh, come on. Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult. Evidence for IDA? People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone. Polling numbers are very clear. The Lighter Side. Only half there. Language Models Offer Mundane Utility Which model is better, Claude-2 or GPT-4? Rowan Cheung makes the case that Claude 2 is superior. You get the 100k context window, ability to upload multiple files, data through early 2023 (versus late 2021) and faster processing time, all for free. In exchange, you give up plug-ins and it is worse at math. What Rowan does not mention is that GPT-4 has the edge in raw intelligence and general capability, and also the ability to set system instructions is helpful. He implies he isn't even paying the $20/month for GPT-4, which strikes me as insane. My verdict in practice is that by default I will use Claude-2. If I care about response quality I will use both and compare. When Claude-2 is clearly falling on its face, I'll go to GPT-4. On reflection, 'use both' is most often the correct strategy. He also looks at the plugins. There are so many plugins, at least 867 of them. Which are worth using? He recommends Zapier for automating through trigger actions, ChatWithPDF (I use Claude 2 for this), Wolfram Alpha for real-time data and math, VoxScript for YouTube video transcripts and web browsing, WebPilot which seems duplicative, Website Performance although I'm not sure why you'd use an AI for that, ScholarAI for searching papers, Shownotes to summarize podcasts (why?), ChatSpot for marketing and sales data and Expedia for vacation planning. I just booked a trip, and went on two others recently, and it didn't occur to me to use the Expedia plug-in rather than, among other websites, Expedia (my go-to plan is Orbitz for flights and Google Maps for hotels). Next time I should remember to try it. Study claims that salience of God increases acceptance of AI decisions. I would wait for the replication on this one. If it is true, it points out that there will be various ways for AIs to tip the scales towards us accepting their decisions, or potentially for humans to coordinate to turn against AI, that don't have much to do with any relevant considerations. Humans are rather buggy code. Matt Shumer recommends a GPT-4 system message. Use it to you help make engineering decisions in unfamiliar territory: You are an e...
Episode Notes A new report said JetBlue Airways is planning to raise airfares on routes flown by Spirit Airlines by as much as 40% if the two carriers' proposed merger is approved, reports Edward Russell, editor of Skift publication Airline Weekly. JetBlue would increase fares between 24% and 40%, according to a report by legal news service Law360. The report cited documents released as part of a lawsuit brought by travelers looking to block the JetBlue-Spirit deal. The travelers suing JetBlue argued that the proposed merger would reduce competition for consumers. Russell notes their lawsuit is separate from the U.S. Department of Justice's suit to stop the merger. JetBlue said in a statement that, without context, the information gave a “completely inaccurate picture of the facts” and that the proposed merger would result in low fares and better service. Russell adds that while airfares rose substantially last year, the average domestic airfare has dropped below pre-Covid levels. Next, travelers flying Qantas to the U.S. have historically arrived in Los Angeles to connect to other cities across the country. But the Australian carrier is looking to serve U.S. and Asian cities with a new plane order, reports Russell. Russell writes the airline has ordered 24 new long-range planes for both the U.S. and Asia that will see it add more nonstop flights to both regions. That means Qantas' future will see more flying to Chicago and Seattle than Los Angeles. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said on Thursday the new aircraft will enable the carrier to have more direct flights into the U.S. Finally, American Airlines has filed a federal lawsuit against hidden city flight platform Skiplagged, reports Executive Editor Dennis Schaal. Schaal writes that American alleges that Skiplagged sells flights without authorization and misleads flyers with deceptive offers, among other practices. Skiplagged is famous for offering hidden city flights, where passengers seeking a bargain ditch the rest of their journey at a layover. Schaal notes that airlines prohibit hidden city ticketing because of operational hassles and lost revenue. American is the latest major travel brand to sue Skiplagged, following Orbitz, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines. Skiplagged founder Aktarer Zaman told Skift he is fighting to protect consumer rights to find favorable airfares.
Pre-pod Patreon-only: Wouldn't it be great if it was Indy 500 instead of Indy 5? Who's in Extraction? Chris "The Dentist" Hemsworth. This week, Steven messes up the opening of the show for once. This episode contains: We're just loving life this episode. I don't know what it is about being 40. It sucks, is what it is. Ben burns the bottoms of his feet off at a water park. Steven drove down and back from Disneyland to surprise his family. For real. Shout out to the Yub Nub Podcast and Tim Barnes! We got to have him back on. Mickey's Toontown has a new ride?!?! Sweet! Can we just throw money away to fix our problems? Or do we have to do hard work? Ben saw the musical Once at the SLORep. It was incredible! Happy birthday to Ben's wife! We're curious why you listen to this podcast! Let us know at sciencefactionpodcast@gmail.com This Week in Space: Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. "The nearby universe" is one of our favorite phrases ever. "The epoch of reionization" would be a killer prog-metal album. Is the formation of life a consequence of the universe going to high entropy? Entropy is very misunderstood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA Cosmic web strands make Ben think of Orbitz: https://www.tastingtable.com/1185720/what-were-the-floating-balls-in-90s-soda-orbitz-made-from/ 90s kids! What's up! Remember the Orbitz flavor Pineapple Banana Cherry Coconut? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230629173611.htm I'm angry about the internet and I'm gonna talk about it: Reddit API changes are imminent. Here's what's happening to your favorite apps. Ben misses how great Reddit was. RIP Apollo. Some apps are surviving the Reddit-ocalypse. Shout out to Narwhal 2! Why do we need 3rd party apps for Reddit? Lack of features, mostly. Will Lemmy replace Reddit? "I replaced social media with micro-journaling for a year" by Struthless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFvdHfhVIsQ When's the last time you searched for content on the web, instead of having it presented? If you write down small problems, most of them will not matter in 10 days. Do y'all have things that nag in your craw? Do they bug you after ten days? Ben's been writing a diary in the notes app, and he talks about intentionality. Kids should use Breath of the Wild rules to pick who gets which sword in a play fight. Should you listen to Ben about quitting social media? Does he even use social media? If you're concerned about where your attention is going, you have choice. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/reddit-api-changes-are-imminent-heres-whats-happening-to-your-favorite-apps/ Science Fiction: We're talking a lot about our upcoming Patreon-only High School playlists. How great is Limp Bizkit's Mission Impossible theme? Take A Look Around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3UHMV3jrZk Steven finally saw Across the Spiderverse! We do a full spoiler-filled review. How cool is it that the first half hour of Across the Spiderverse is the Gwen Stacy movie? Even without a lot of hip hop in Across the Spiderverse, the music is still amazing. Donald Glover's love of Spider Man was a big inspiration for Miles Morales. Steven and Ben saw Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny together. Spoilers ahead! The Temple of Doom was a silly film, which works for kids despite the rest of the film. Ben anticipated a different film from the trailer of Dial of Destiny. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has mostly incredible CGI.
Alex celebrates making it to the final episode of the season by giving Brandon a gift, a vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Michelangelo towel. The two then issue a challenge for someone to find a sealed bottle of Orbitz for Alex to drink. Alex declares he would leave teaching for his dream job in baseball. Next the Nostalgia Junkies review a series of commercials ranging from fruit snacks, to cereal, to even milk? As the Alex and Brandon watch commercials from the past they share memories of watching and eating in their formative years. The Nostalgia Junkies even see some familiar faces in their commercial review. Finally, Alex and Brandon finish the season with their 90's trivia battle, and Alex admits to having not seen one of the most iconic movies of the turn of the century. Email us your thoughts and comments: nostalgiajunkiesct@gmail.com Follow us on Social Media: INSTAGRAM: @nostagiajunkiespodcast TIKTOK: @nostalgiajunkiespodcast YOUTUBE: @nostalgiajunkiespodcast Subscribe and Review!
The Monologue: Drug use of Manny Ellis to be discussed in trial The Interview: Jon Root talks about the LIV-PGA merger The Interview: Tommy Piggot (RNC Rapid Response Director) on embracing ballot harvesting and early voting. LongForm: Sister Elizabeth said she was censored by Orbitz chat when she said “God bless you.” And she opens up about being a nun in 2024. Quick Hit: Mark Levin's epic takedown of Trump indictmentSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As an AI language model, I don't have personal experiences or preferences like humans do. However, I can certainly provide you with information about popular beverages from the 1990s that many people enjoyed. Here are a few notable ones:Surge: Surge was a citrus-flavored soda introduced by The Coca-Cola Company in the 1990s. It gained popularity among teenagers and young adults due to its high caffeine content and bold taste.Crystal Pepsi: Crystal Pepsi was a clear cola beverage introduced by PepsiCo in the early 1990s. It was essentially a caffeine-free version of Pepsi with a unique transparent appearance. While it garnered attention and curiosity, its popularity declined, and it was eventually discontinued.Orbitz: Orbitz was a fruit-flavored beverage introduced by The Clearly Food & Beverage Company in 1997. It was distinctive for its suspended edible colored balls, which created a visually intriguing drink. Despite its novelty, Orbitz had a relatively short lifespan on the market.Snapple: Snapple is a brand of flavored tea and juice drinks that gained popularity in the 1990s. Known for its wide range of flavors and quirky marketing campaigns, Snapple became a popular choice for those seeking refreshing and non-carbonated beverages.Jolt Cola: Jolt Cola was an energy drink that gained popularity in the 1990s. It was known for its high caffeine content, offering a more potent jolt of energy compared to traditional colas. Jolt Cola became popular among students and gamers seeking an extra boost.Hi-C Ecto Cooler: Hi-C Ecto Cooler was a green citrus-flavored drink introduced in 1987 but gained widespread popularity in the 1990s due to its tie-in with the "Ghostbusters" franchise. It featured characters from the movie on its packaging and became a nostalgic favorite for many.Surgeon General's Warning: Surgeon General's Warning was a non-alcoholic drink that mimicked the look of a cigarette pack. It was a novelty beverage and not widely consumed, but it garnered attention for its unconventional packaging.These are just a few examples of popular beverages from the 1990s. Each had its own unique appeal and left an impression on those who enjoyed them during that time ★ Support this podcast ★
In this Leadership Spark, Jeffrey Katz, founder and CEO of Journera, shares about how his leadership style evolved from command and control to being more open and emotionally engaged with his employees. He explains the importance of having a clear strategy and building a great team with honesty, integrity, and communication skills. Jeffrey reflects on the lessons he learned from tragedy and the value of having experience to gain wisdom. He also mentions his transformation as a leader and how he brought his new approach to Orbitz. _____________________ Get ad-free listening, early access to new episodes, and bonus episodes with the subscription version of the show The Great Leadership with Jacob Morgan Plus. It's only available on Apple Podcasts for $4.99/month or $49.99/year--less than a cup of coffee!
In what is possibly one of the most interesting and entertaining interviews we've recorded in a while, Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger talk with SEO legend Martin MacDonald about the development and release of the industry's first AI-supported SEO Auditing tool, Serpere.AI - https://serpere.ai/. Martin has been a practicing SEO since the dawn of the commercial Internet and has worked with some of the largest websites in the commercial sphere, including TicketMaster, Expedia, and Orbitz. Founder of MOGmedia, Martin has shared his findings and SEO data with the SEO community as a trusted source for over a decade.Today we talk about AI's advancements in the tech sector, discuss the intricacies of conducting a large-scale website audit, and cover how AI has made Serpere much faster and more accurate and how its use of AI radically simplifies the reporting and explanation process. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/webcology/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Computing has totally changed how people buy and experience travel. That process seemed to start with sites that made it easy to book travel, but as with most things we experience in our modern lives, it actually began far sooner and moved down-market as generations of computing led to more consumer options for desktops, the internet, and the convergence of these technologies. Systems like SABRE did the original work to re-think travel - to take logic and rules out of the heads of booking and travel agents and put them into a digital medium. In so doing, they paved the way for future generations of technology and to this day retain a valuation of over $2 billion. SABRE is short for Semi-Automated Business Research Environment. It's used to manage over a third of global travel, to the tune of over a quarter trillion US dollars a year. It's used by travel agencies and travel services to reserve car rentals, flights, hotel rooms, and tours. Since Sabre was released services like Amadeus and Travelport were created to give the world a Global Distribution System, or GDS. Passenger air travel began when airlines ferrying passengers cropped up in 1914 but the big companies began in the 1920s, with KLM in 1919, Finnair in 1923, Delta in 1925, American Airlines and Ryan Air in 1926, Pan American in 1927, and the list goes on. They grew quickly and by 1926 the Air Commerce Act led to a new department in the government called Air Commerce, which evolved into the FAA, or Federal Aviation Administration in the US. And each country, given the possible dangers these aircraft posed as they got bigger and loaded with more and more fuel, also had their own such departments. The aviation industry blossomed in the roaring 20s as people traveled and found romance and vacation. At the time, most airlines were somewhat regional and people found travel agents to help them along their journey to book travel, lodgings, and often food. The travel agent naturally took over air travel much as they'd handled sea travel before. But there were dangers in traveling in those years between the two World Wars. Nazis rising to power in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, communist cleansings in Russia and China. Yet, a trip to the Great Pyramid of Giza could now be a week instead of months. Following World War II, there was a fracture in the world between Eastern and Western powers, or those who aligned with the former British empire and those who aligned with the former Russian empire, now known as the Soviet Union. Travel within the West exploded as those areas were usually safe and often happy to accept the US dollar. Commercial air travel boomed not just for the wealthy, but for all. People had their own phones now, and could look up a phone number in a phone book and call a travel agent. The travel agents then spent hours trying to build the right travel package. That meant time on the phone with hotels and time on the phone with airlines. Airlines like American head. To hire larger and larger call centers of humans to help find flights. We didn't just read about Paris, we wanted to go. Wars had connected the world and now people wanted to visit the places they'd previously just seen in art books or read about in history books. But those call centers grew. A company like American Airlines couldn't handle all of its ticketing needs and the story goes that the CEO was sitting beside a seller from IBM when they came up with the idea of a computerized reservation system. And so SABRE was born in the 1950s, when American Airlines agreed to develop a real-time computing platform. Here, we see people calling in and pressing buttons to run commands on computers. The tones weren't that different than a punch card, really. The system worked well enough for American that they decided to sell access to other firms. The computers used were based loosely after the IBM mainframes used in the SAGE missile air defense system. Here we see the commercial impacts of the AN/FSQ-7 the US government hired IBM to build as IBM added the transistorized options to the IBM 704 mainframe in 1955. That gave IBM the interactive computing technology that evolved into the 7000 series mainframes. Now that IBM had the interactive technology, and a thorough study had been done to evaluate the costs and impacts of a new reservation system, American and IBM signed a contract to build the system in 1957. They went live to test reservation booking shortly thereafter. But it turns out there was a much bigger opportunity here. See, American and other airlines had paper processes to track how many people were on a flight and quickly find open seats for passengers, but it could take an hour or three to book tickets. This was fairly common before software ate the world. Everything from standing in line at the bank, booking dinner at a restaurant, reserving a rental car, booking hotel rooms, and the list goes on. There were a lot of manual processes in the world - people weren't just going to punch holes in a card to program their own flight and wait for some drum storage to tell them if there was an available seat. That was the plan American initially had in 1952 with the Magnetronic Reservisor. That never worked out. American had grown to one of the largest airlines and knew the perils and costs of developing software and hardware like this. Their system cost $40 million in 1950s money to build with IBM. They also knew that as other airlines grew to accommodate more people flying around the world, that the more flights, the longer that hour or three took. So they should of course sell the solution they built to other airlines. Thus, parlaying the SAGE name, famous as a Cold War shield against the nuclear winter, Sabre Corporation began. It was fairly simple at first, with a pair of IBM 7090 mainframes that could take over 80,000 calls a day in 1960. Some travel agents weren't fans of the new system, but those who embraced it found they could get more done in less time. Sabre sold reservation systems to airlines and soon expanded to become the largest data-processor in the world. Far better than the Reservisor would have been and now able to help bring the whole world into the age of jet airplane travel. That exploded to thousands of flights an hour in the 1960s and even turned over all booking to the computer. The system got busy and over the years IBM upgraded the computers to the S/360. They also began to lease systems to travel agencies in the 1970s after Max Hopper joined the company and began the plan to open up the platform as TWA had done with their PARS system. Then they went international, opened service bureaus in other cities (given that we once had to pay for a toll charge to call a number). And by the 1980s Sabre was how the travel agents booked flights. The 1980s brought easysabjre, so people could use their own computers to book flights and by then - and through to the modern era, a little over a third of all reservations are made on Sabre. By the mid-1980s, United had their own system called Apollo, Delta had one called Datas, and other airlines had their own as well. But SABRE could be made to be airline neutral. IBM had been involved with many American competitors, developing Deltamatic for Delta, PANAMAC for Pan Am, and other systems. But SABRE could be hooked to thee new online services for a whole new way to connect systems. One of these was CompuServe in 1980, then Prodigy's GEnie and AOL as we turned the corner into the 1990s. Then they started a site called Travelocity in 1996 which was later sold to Expedia. In the meantime, they got serious competition, which eventually led to a slew of acquisitions to remain compeititve. The competition included Amadeus, Galileo International, and Worldspan on provider in the Travelport GDS. The first of them originated from United Airlines, and by 1987 was joined by Aer Lingus, Air Portugal, Alitalia, British Airways, KLM, Olympic, Sabena, and Swissair to create Galileo, which was then merged with the Apollo reservation system. The technology was acquired through a company called Videcom International, which initially started developing reservation software in 1972, shortly after the Apollo and Datas services went online. They focused on travel agents and branched out into reservation systems of all sorts in the 1980s. As other systems arose they provided an aggregation to them by connecting to Amadeus, Galileo, and Worldspan. Amadeus was created in 1987 to be a neutral GDS after the issues with Sabre directing reservations to American Airlines. That was through a consortium of Air France, Iberia, Lufthansa, and SAS. They acquired the assets of the bankrupt System One and they eventually added other travel options including hotels, cars rentals, travel insurance, and other amenities. They went public in 1999 just before Sabre did and then were also taken private just before Sabre was. Worldspan was created in 1990 and the result of merging or interconnecting the systems of Delta, Northwest Airlines, and TWA, which was then acquired by Travelport in 2007. By then, SABRE had their own programming languages. While the original Sabre languages were written in assembly, they wrote their own language on top of C and C++ called SabreTalk and later transitioned to standard REST endpoints. They also weren't a part of American any longer. There were too many problems with manipulating how flights were displayed to benefit American Airlines and they had to make a clean cut. Especially after Congress got involved in the 1980s and outlawed that type of bias for screen placement. Now that they were a standalone company, Sabre went public then was taken private by private equity firms in 2007, and relisted on NASDAQ in 2014. Meanwhile, travel aggregators had figured out they could hook into the GDS systems and sell discount airfare without a percentage going to travel agents. Now that the GDS systems weren't a part of the airlines, they were able to put downward pressure on prices. Hotwire, which used Sabre and a couple of other systems, and TripAdvisor, which booked travel through Sabre and Amadeus, were created in 2000 and Microsoft launched Expedia in 1996, which had done well enough to get spun off into its own public company by 2000. Travelocity operated inside Sabre until sold, and so the airlines put together a site of their own that they called Orbitz, which in 2001 was the biggest e-commerce site to have ever launched. And out of the bursting of the dot com bubble came online travel bookings. Kayak came in 2004 Sabre later sold Travelocity to Expedia, which uses Sabre to book travel. That allowed Sabre to focus on providing the back end travel technology. They now do over $4 billion in revenue in their industry. American Express had handled travel for decades but also added flights and hotels to their site, integrating with Sabre and Amadeus as well. Here, we see a classic paradigm in play. First the airlines moved their travel bookings from paper filing systems to isolated computer systems - what we'd call mainframes today. The airlines then rethink the paradigm and aggregate other information into a single system, or a system intermixed with other data. In short, they enriched the data. Then we expose those as APIs to further remove human labor and put systems on assembly lines. Sites hook into those and the GDS systems, as with many aggregators, get spun off into their own companies. The aggregated information then benefits consumers (in this case travelers) with more options and cheaper fares. This helps counteract the centralization of the market where airlines acquire other airlines but in some way also cheapen the experience. Gone are the days when a travel agent guides us through our budgets and helps us build a killer itinerary. But in a way that just makes travel much more adventurous.
Fruitopia, Arch Deluxe, CremeSavers, EZ Squirt Ketchup, Butterfinger BBs, McPizza, Orbitz, Dunkaroos and MUCH MORE. In this episode, we're talking all food and beverage items that have been long gone but not forgotten. If you're lucky, you may still see some of these items around today (i.e. Surge, Flintstones Vitamins, Clearly Canadian, and Tang). Enjoy!
The VITALIZE Podcast presents: Off Topic, a special series where we dig into a variety of topics, trends, and current events in the startup ecosystem. In this inaugural episode of Off Topic, Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Gale Wilkinson (@galeforceVC) and Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki).Gale is the Founder and Managing Partner at VITALIZE, a seed-stage venture fund and angel community investing in The Work Revolution. Previously, Gale founded IrishAngels, one of the largest angel groups in the world. She has led $65M+ in early-stage deals across 80+ startups. Her experience prior to VC includes founding two failed startups, consulting for new product launches with Nielsen, and strategy with Orbitz. Gale received a BBA with honors from Notre Dame and an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She was a founding Board member of the C200 Scholars Network, and she is currently a founding Board member of Chicago Blend, an organization focused on increasing diversity in VC and startups.Andrew Gazdecki is the Founder and CEO of Acquire (previously MicroAcquire), a founder-friendly startup acquisition marketplace. Acquire aims to consolidate the fragmented acquisition market by giving founders and entrepreneurs a single convenient marketplace to meet, coordinate, and close acquisitions. They provide free and instant access to trusted and vetted buyers with total anonymity and are on a mission to turn founder journeys into success stories and foster the next generation of entrepreneurs. They have more than 100,000 registered buyers, more than 2,000 companies listed for sale, and has facilitated more than 500 deals with a combined value of more than $200 million. Andrew has been an entrepreneur for longer than he can remember. He likes to build stuff, mostly companies, and try to tell a story that goes beyond what the company does to how it's changing markets. Prior to founding MicroAcquire, he started two companies, Bizness Apps and Altcoin.io, both acquired. He's been featured in NYT, Forbes, WSJ, Inc.com, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as prominent industry blogs such as Mashable, TechCrunch and VentureBeat.Connect with Andrew Gazdecki:Website: Acquire (previously MicroAcquire)LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/agazdecki/Twitter: @agazdeckiConnect with Gale Wilkinson:Website: VITALIZE Venture Capital LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/galevc/Twitter: @galeforceVCVITALIZE Newsletter: Re:VITALIZEVITALIZE Angel Investing Community: VITALIZE AngelsShow Notes: Andrew's pitch to Elon Musk to get the @acquire Twitter handle for his company's re-brand Gale and Andrew's thoughts on Elon's takeover of Twitter How Andrew stays positive and motivational on Twitter ChatGPT, AI as the next tech frontier, and the challenge of differentiating generative content The danger of deep fakes The opportunities they see for the future of AI Acquire's potential Valuation & acquisition trends and predictions in VC Their take on the FTX collapse Trends Gale, Andrew, and Justin are excited about in 2023 More about the show:The Vitalize Podcast, a show by Vitalize Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed 400+ member angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work.Hosted by Justin Gordon, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. The Future of Work series takes a look at the founders and investors shaping the new world of work, including insights from our team here at Vitalize Venture Capital. More about us:Vitalize Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.The Vitalize Team:Gale - https://twitter.com/galeforceVCCaroline - https://twitter.com/carolinecasson_Justin - https://twitter.com/justingordon212Vitalize Angels, our angel investing community open to everyone:https://vitalize.vc/vitalizeangels/
In this episode, Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks again with Gale Wilkinson (@galeforceVC), Founder and Managing Partner at VITALIZE, a seed-stage venture fund and angel community investing in The Work Revolution. In this round with Gale, we dig into how she conducts initial founder calls for VITALIZE.Previously, Gale founded IrishAngels, one of the largest angel groups in the world. She has led $65M+ in early-stage deals across 80+ startups. Her experience prior to VC includes founding two failed startups, consulting for new product launches with Nielsen, and strategy with Orbitz. Gale received a BBA with honors from Notre Dame and an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She was a founding Board member of the C200 Scholars Network, and she is currently a founding Board member of Chicago Blend, an organization focused on increasing diversity in VC and startups.Website: VITALIZE Venture Capital LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/galevc/Twitter: @galeforceVCVITALIZE Newsletter: Re:VITALIZEVITALIZE Angel Investing Community: VITALIZE AngelsShow Notes: What Gale looks to get out of initial founder calls Gale's secret to running founder calls The general script Gale uses and how she tailors it contextually What helps founders stand out How Gale takes notes during the call Gale's mindset in initial evaluation of founders and the process for a founder to make it through to diligence How these calls differ for Gale as a VC fund manager vs as an angel investor Behavioral red flags from founders How Gale has adjusted to remote founder calls Process and company red flags to look out for Factors to consider when determining ownership terms How founders/investors should prepare for calls with investors/LPs The importance of showing up authentically Gale's thoughts on giving feedback on calls What founders should ask VCs More about the show:The Vitalize Podcast, a show by Vitalize Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed 400+ member angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work.Hosted by Justin Gordon, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. The Future of Work series takes a look at the founders and investors shaping the new world of work, including insights from our team here at Vitalize Venture Capital. More about us:Vitalize Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.The Vitalize Team:Gale - https://twitter.com/galeforceVCCaroline - https://twitter.com/carolinecasson_Justin - https://twitter.com/justingordon212Vitalize Angels, our angel investing community open to everyone:https://vitalize.vc/vitalizeangels/
On-air travel expert, Jeanenne Tornatore, shares her journey with Angela in today's episode. From her start blogging for Orbitz to co-owning The Broadcast Experts, listen as Jeanenne shares her preference for behind-the-scenes work while embracing her role in front of the camera. Follow Jeanenne's work here: https://www.theoutsideinsider.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoutsideinsider/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmtornatore The Broadcast Experts: https://www.thebroadcastexperts.com/ Orbitz: https://www.orbitz.com/blog/author/jtornatore/ Vivid Seats: https://www.vividseats.com/ StubHub: https://www.stubhub.com/ Find Jeanenne's early segments on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJiqUGGL8TmmpALrHlXVYNw/videos?view=0&sort=da SMT: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2018/12/27/the-satellite-media-tour-getting-your-executives-on-tv/?sh=52c0c37e7920 Europe: https://visiteurope.com/en/ Australia: https://www.australia.com/en-us Caribbean: https://www.islands.com/caribbean-islands/ National Parks: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1365/index.htm Alyssa Sullivan: https://www.alyssasullivanpr.com/ Thank you for listening! Please take a moment to rate, review and subscribe to the Media in Minutes podcast here or anywhere you get your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/media-in-minutes/id1555710662
Scott is a longtime travel industry data guru, having served in senior executive roles at United, Adara, and Orbitz. He was instrumental in the founding of Orbitz and is CRO at Journera, which has been recognized as one of the World's “10 Most Innovative Travel Companies“ by Fast Company and a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum. Participating companies include United, American, Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, IHG, and many others. On this episode of Destination on the Left, I talk with Scott Garner, Chief Revenue Officer for Jounera, about the brand's unique data collaboration model that sees hotels, destinations, and airlines working together. He describes how the shared data helps marketers to create a 360-degree view of the travelers' journey, identify potential customers and anticipate their needs seamlessly. What You Will Learn in this Episode: How Journera facilitates seamless travel experiences and how they got the six big founding partners on board Why competing travel brands come together and share data to learn how the consumer is moving through the planning and purchase stage of travel and arrival How to focus on the areas of common interest and common benefit when creating a partnership How to foster communication and collaboration in the travel industry while still allowing brands to retain their uniqueness What Journera does with the data to benefit and provide those solutions for their clients The importance of data in digital marketing in the travel industry What historical data tells you a lot about a person's future behavior and how that helps marketers in the travel and tourism industry Collaborating with Shared Data Journera was founded to take advantage of the insights that the travel and tourism industry can take from sharing data to make the visitor journey as seamless as possible. Scott talks about why it's so important to bring together travel companies, even companies that are competitors, for the common good, which is to make the travel experience better. Travel involves piecing together many components, and you need companies, from airlines to car rental agencies, to enhance the traveler experience, and sharing data is the way to do that. Retaining Uniqueness There are times when Journera partners compete fiercely against one another, but there are also times when they're stronger and need to collaborate and work together to create more efficient marketing solutions. Scott describes how he and his team create a win-win scenario while also being mindful that there are some parts of that relationship that have to be fenced off. The critical thing is to focus on the areas where cooperating benefits everybody involved, especially the consumer. Using Data to Move Forward At the core of what Journera does is assess data and then distill the findings to make them more usable in a marketing context. Scott describes how the team integrates individual partners' data into their broader digital ecosystem, enabling marketers to target their potential visitors with greater precision. He outlines how data drives intelligence, which in turn helps DMOs make sound investment decisions to put themselves in the best position to move forward with confidence. Resources: Website: https://journera.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/journera/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-garner-8504942/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/journera We value your thoughts and feedback and would love to hear from you. Leave us a review on your favorite streaming platform to let us know what you want to hear more of. Here is a quick tutorial on how to leave us a rating and review on iTunes!: https://breaktheicemedia.com/rating-review/
We are circling back in honor of Max's recent engagement!This week we have another special guest. Welcome Max, Trans content producer, activist and Head of Global Partnerships at HER. Listen to Max's fun dating adventures, coming out, safe spaces and obstacles for Trans folx in the UK healthcare system. We also settle the debate of what was more disappointing: Brexit or Just Karen Rowling.This episode is sponsored by Orbitz: orbitz.com/prideShoutouts:Shana - Krystina Jackson: Cohost of the Bravemaker Show on YouTube. Actor, LGBTQ+ and differently abled advocate, singer, designer and Ms Wheelchair California 2018 Kris - Jon Key and James Powell of The Tenth Magazine. The Tenth is a media organization that documents the history, ideas, aesthetics, and politics of the Black LGBTQ+ community.Max - Queer Culture Club - Volunteer-led, London based collective for queer women and trans & GNC folxBad Queers is co-hosted by:Shana Sumers: @shanahasagramKris Chesson: @kris.chess
In this episode, Gale talks about her learnings from Orbitz and failed startups and her time spent at Booth Biz School, being an LP at other funds, decision-making process, training, and mentorship, internal talent building, sourcing deals on Twitter, VITALIZE in 20 years, Experience as a Kauffman fellow, and much more!
Guard of the royal family (of Medieval Times the restuarant), Temperance Floor (Meg MacKay) was the one to first discover the dead corpse of the Prince. Along with brave squire Sand, they talk about Orbitz grapes, BMO Field, and the horny stick. Brought to you By: The Sonar Network
In today's episode, EFG's Alli Murphy is joined by Teresa Hillis, Manager of Global and Community Impact at Expedia Group, Laura Ramsey, Senior Director of Corporate Partnerships at UNICEF USA and Mollye Rhea, President and Founder of For Momentum to talk about the winning initiative "Give The World A Shot."In the summer of 2021, UNICEF USA and Expedia Group and its family of brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, ebookers and CheapTickets - partnered with the shared goal to accelerate the equitable rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. At the time, less than 1% of the global supply of COVID vaccines was going to those living in low-income countries.In recognition of the scale of the world's largest ever vaccination program, Expedia Group committed to donating at least $10 million and enlisted the support of its brands and customers. From August 5 to September 5, 2021, each booking made via one of Expedia Group's mobile apps resulted in a $2 donation by Expedia Group to UNICEF's COVID-19 response. This was the brand's first cross-branded marketing campaign that spanned it's entire family of brands.The partners raised more than $10.5 million, enabled the delivery of 5 million vaccines and achieved more than 15 million impressions on Expedia Group's social media platforms. The CEOs of both organizations were also featured on CNN (which has almost a million prime-time viewers), and for earned media, they saw 516 media hits, which equates to a potential reach of 651 million.Give The World A Shot, as the campaign was aptly named, was crowned the Gold Winner in the Consumer-Activated Corporate-Donation category of our Halo Awards program. The initiative also took home the coveted title - Best of the Best.In today's episode, we'll explore:What makes for a best-in-class campaignWhy this campaign was unanimously crowned the "Best of the Best" by the judgesHow the partnership came to life and what they learned along the wayHow Expedia Group relied on UNICEF's expertise to roll out its first social impact campaign that spanned all Expedia Group brandsHow each organization's leadership teams bought inLaura & Teresa's top tips for successful cause partnershipsAnd more!This episode is brought to you by For Momentum.Links & NotesExpedia Group WebsiteExpedia Group LinkedInExpedia Group InstagramUNICEF USA WebsiteUNICEF USA TwitterUNICEF USA FacebookUNICEF USA InstagramFor Momentum WebsiteFor Momentum Research - Next Level PartnershipsFor Momentum Research - Key Elements Of Best In Class CampaignsHalo AwardsGive The World A Shot Halo Award Blog PostElevate Your Social ImpactSign up for Engage for Good's newsletterCheck out past podcast episodesAccess free resourcesCheck out our monthly webinarsLet Alli know what you think of the show!
Wendy Berger is a serial entrepreneur. For reasons she can't even explain, Wendy grew up wanting to be president of a bank. Her journey has led her down the path to where she finds herself today as CEO and Founder of WBS Equities, LLC. Wendy used to always focus on the end result, but now she enjoys the journey. She learned this in part from the traumatic losses of her brother and then her husband three years later. Mary didn't allow the tragedy of their deaths to go in vain, instead she learned and developed the strength and tools for the successes she acquired to date. In this episode, Wendy also shares with us her ideas around “big thinking” and the courage it takes to make significant moves in life and business. She's a curious businesswoman who now focuses on real estate and the cannabis industry, for which she serves on an executive board. And, if that isn't impressive enough, she is an avid athlete who has completed 38 triathlons! Take a few minutes to tune in and learn the tips and tools Wendy regularly shares with her many mentees. Visit https://www.iambeyondbarriers.com where you will find show notes and links to all the resources in this episode, including the best way to get in touch with Wendy. Highlights: [02:31] Wendy's journey to where she is today [07:18] Pushing through fear and self-doubt [13:35] Tools Wendy uses to think big [20:47] How to ask others for help [25:56] How to have confidence and promote yourself [30:24] What to do when facing a difficult day [37:05] Advice Wendy gives her mentees [40:25] Lightning round questions Quotes: “It takes retraining our minds to be courageous enough to let go of our fears.” – Wendy Berger “Big thinking precedes great accomplishments.” – Wendy Berger “Each day is focused on what am I doing to help other women succeed.” – Wendy Berger “Place yourself in the middle of interesting conversations.” – Wendy Berger Lightning Round Questions: What book has greatly influenced you? “Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship” by Winston Churchill (and another great one about triathlons) What is your favorite inspiring quote or saying? “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” – Elie Wiesel What is one word or moniker you would use to describe yourself? Curious What is one change you've implanted that made your life better? I stopped feeling my soul with food. What power song would you want playing as you walk out onto a stage? “Steady Pull” by Jonatha Brooke or “Cool Change” by Little River Band About Wendy Berger: Wendy is CEO and Founder of WBS Equities, LLC, a company she founded in 2004. WBS Equities specializes in ground-up construction, renovation, development, sale lease back transactions and acquisition of industrial buildings for food and beverage manufacturers and distributors. She has grown the business into a nationally recognized leader in this niche area within industrial real estate development and acquisitions. In addition to the firm's focus on real estate development for food and beverage manufacturers and distributors, Wendy has over 30 years' experience in real estate brokerage, real estate finance and structuring complex real estate transactions. Wendy is also a serial entrepreneur. Outside of WBS Equities, LLC, Wendy brings decades of experience in strategic planning, execution, and exits for rapid growth start-ups. She loves being a part of the explosive growth phase of companies and working alongside founders to provide strategic leadership and guidance to help create dynamic and forward-thinking organizations. Wendy serves on the Board of Directors of Green Thumb Industries, Inc. (GTI) (CSE: GTII) (OTC: GTBIF). Green Thumb is a national cannabis consumer packaged goods company and retailer, is dedicated to providing dignified access to cannabis while giving back to the communities in which they serve. Green Thumb manufactures and distributes a portfolio of branded cannabis products including Beboe, Dogwalkers, Dr. Solomon's, incredibles, Rythm and The Feel Collection. The company also owns and operates rapidly growing national retail cannabis stores called Rise™ and Essence. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Green Thumb has 16 manufacturing facilities, 75 retail locations, licenses for 111 retail locations and operations across 15 U.S. states. Established in 2014, Green Thumb employs over 4,000 people and serves thousands of patients and customers each year. In 2000, Wendy was employee number 11 at Orbitz, the Travel web site founded by Continental, American, Northwest, Delta, and United Airlines. Wendy was Director of the Enterprise Planning at Orbitz and focused on strategic planning. Prior to Orbitz, Wendy co-founded and was COO of Neoglyphics Media Corporation in 1994, which was one of the country's first web site development firms. Wendy began her career at American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago (a subsidiary of First Chicago, now JP Morgan Chase) in Commercial Lending. Wendy spent several years as a principal with Berger Realty Group, an 80-year- old family-owned Real Estate business where she focused on residential and industrial property management and development. Wendy earned her MBA in Finance and Real Estate from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business. She received a B.S., cum laude, in Finance and Marketing from Syracuse University. Wendy was a participant in the 2011 class of Leadership Greater Chicago. Wendy serves on the Board of directors of the Jewish Federation/Jewish United Fund of Chicago (2001 – 2007, and 2009 – present). Wendy served as the 2019 General Campaign Chair for the Jewish United Fund of Chicago and currently Chairs the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC). Wendy also serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Chicago Public Library Foundation Board (2016 – present). Wendy served on the Board of TEDxMidwest from 2010 - 2012. Other activities include the Wexner Heritage Program, Board Member Vice-President, and Membership Chair at The Standard Club of Chicago (1994 – 2004). Wendy is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and served as the chair of the Real Estate Membership Committee. In 2014, Wendy co-founded Illinois Women in Cannabis (IWC). IWC connects, educates, mentors, and supports Illinois women of all ages and backgrounds in order to maximize their opportunities in the emerging Illinois cannabis industry. In 2021 Wendy joined the Board of Directors of The Secure Community Network, the official safety and security network of the Jewish Community in North America. Wendy is an avid Triathlete, having completed 39 Olympic distance triathlons and 13 half marathons. Wendy actively mentor's young women, helping to guide them through the challenges of leadership and development. Wendy is a frequent speaker on Cannabis related real estate, industrial real estate, and the Cannabis industry and on Women's leadership roles. Links: Website: https://wbsequities.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-berger-53157a10/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wbsequities Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendyaberger/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendybshap
On this episode Jamie chats with JEBCommerce's own Director of Affiliate Marketing, Blagica Bottigliero, about the convergence of Affiliate Marketing and Public Relations (PR).We noticed a trend occurring over a year ago with more PR professionals and agencies entering the affiliate marketing space. It's one of the reasons we set out to find someone with significant affiliate marketing AND PR chops to lead our Affiliate Marketing team. And Blagica fits the bill perfectly being a pioneer in the affiliate space (managing the Orbitz affiliate program back in the day) and having significant experience and success in the PR world with her time at Edelman. She also has significant experience in social marketing as well. Oh, did we mention she won an Emmy for her marketing? It's true. On today's episode we discuss the following topics:The general merging ofAffiliate Marketing and PR, and how that impacts affiliates, PR professionals, and advertisersHow Affiliate Marketing and Public Relations are very similar in relationship building and pitching/recruiting publishersHow the advancing technology of the affiliate channel can help PR firms and professionals track way more than they have before and protect the top-of-funnel publishers and track outside of pixelsHow affiliate marketing can increase the speed and reach of PR campaignsHow we need to change our KPIs to measure in this new worldYou can reach out and follow Blagica on LinkedIn.And don't forget to read our blog posts on the subject:Welcoming Public Relations to the Affiliate Marketing PartyAffiliate Marketing Can Boost the Speed of Public RelationsKPIs Need to Change With the Merging of PR and Affiliate MarketingAffiliate Recruitment and PR Pitching Have a Ton in CommonTechnology Available to PR Teams Through Affiliate Marketing
In this episode, Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks again with Gale Wilkinson (@galeforceVC), Founder and Managing Partner at VITALIZE, a seed-stage venture fund and angel community investing in The Work Revolution. In this round with Gale, we dig into the details of the Work Revolution and VITALIZE's investment focus.Previously, Gale founded IrishAngels, one of the largest angel groups in the world. She has led $65M+ in early-stage deals across 80+ startups. Her experience prior to VC includes founding two failed startups, consulting for new product launches with Nielsen, and strategy with Orbitz. Gale received a BBA with honors from Notre Dame and an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She was a founding Board member of the C200 Scholars Network, and she is currently a founding Board member of Chicago Blend, an organization focused on increasing diversity in VC and startups.Website: VITALIZE Venture Capital LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/galevc/Twitter: @galeforceVCVITALIZE Newsletter: Re:VITALIZEVITALIZE Angel Investing Community: VITALIZE AngelsShow Notes: How Gale defines the Work Revolution Why VITALIZE is focused on the Work Revolution VITALIZE's buckets within the Work Revolution Some of VITALIZE's portfolio companies in the each of the Work Revolution buckets How Gale views verticalized solutions and next gen hiring Gale's thoughts on remote work trends The growing trend of hiring internationally Where Gale sees the greatest opportunity within the Work Revolution The shifting space of learning development The over-crowded benefits space New areas Gale is excited about within the Work Revolution Gale's thoughts on both the potential and challenges of the exploding Web3 space How Gale views innovative b2b2c business models More about the show:The Vitalize Podcast, a show by Vitalize Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed 300+ member angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work.Hosted by Justin Gordon, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. The Future of Work series takes a look at the founders and investors shaping the new world of work, including insights from our team here at Vitalize Venture Capital. More about us:Vitalize Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.The Vitalize Team:Gale - https://twitter.com/galeforceVCCaroline - https://twitter.com/carolinecasson_Justin - https://twitter.com/justingordon212Vitalize Angels, our angel investing community open to everyone:https://vitalize.vc/vitalizeangels/
Becoming a fraud fighter was not on Mark Michelon's radar when he interviewed for a finance job at a new company called Orbitz. He got the job and was asked to look at a problem the company was having with chargebacks on its new website. It turned out to be a fraud ring. Soon, Michelon […]
Justin Walter is undoubtedly a man of many talents. A travel content creator, writer, influencer, and producer with over 16 years of experience as a TV host. Justin is also considered a travel expert and is regularly featured on KTLA News, BeondTV, and other media outlets. He has also worked with media brands like Shark Week, Orbitz, Expedia, and Discovery. In today's episode, Justin shares what he has learned regarding social engagement and how to increase it, build an audience, create fantastic content, build business relationships to create work opportunities, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review if you like the episodes we are producing :) GUEST LINKS - Name: Justin Walter - Website: http://justinwalter.com/ RESOURCE LINKS - Website: blitzgrowth.com - Course, funnel, & store builder: hyax.com - Giveaway & contest builder: vyper.ai - Free marketing courses & guides: jackpaxton.com
This week on the Super Fun Time Trivia Podcast, we discuss Kevin Gill's Micro Machine, what happens if you spend too much time fasting while drinking Orbitz soda, and if King Midas was able to masturbate without fear of turning his weiner and bumbum 24 karats. Music Round: SPACE Patreon: Super Fun Time Trivia Facebook: superfuntimetrivia Instagram: superfuntimetrivia Twitter: @sftimetrivia Email: superfuntimetrivia@gmail.com Intro Music By David Dino White. Welcome to Super Fun Time Trivia: The known universe's only live improv comedy trivia podcast.
This episode is guaranteed to have so much '90s nostalgia for you! Katie and Heather remind you about all of the things you could do and OH the places you could visit in our '90s malls that you can't go to today! We all turned into animal rescuers as we saved the wind-up, yapping animals from their backs as we walked in to KB Toys. Owe shopped at stores like Wet Seal, Sharper Image, The Limited Too, Delia's, Structure, Rave, 5-7-9 and SO many more! Don't forget about the nostalgic food and drinks we had too like Orbitz, Creme Savers, String Thing, Squeezit, Pepsi Blue, Butterfinger BB's and Baby Bottle Pop! Commercials clips included!Grab your Toys 'R Us Geoffrey Dollars and let's go back to a time when rummaging through the toy aisles could provide hours of titillating entertainment, stores in the mall like Discovery World helped us to discover freeze-dried ice cream for the first time and immediately made us want to become astronauts just so we could eat more, and the food pyramid that emerged in 1992 became our holy grail of dieting.Prepare for your deepest memories to be unlocked! This is a fun one!Life. Was. Good.
Support Topic Lords on Patreon and get episodes a week early! (https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Duncan * http://duncanrobson.com/ * https://twitter.com/dunkr * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8V6QtlRbro * Avery * https://averyburke.bandcamp.com/releases Topics: * Judging by the selection on eBay, the 1960's and 1970's seems to have been the golden age of belt buckles. * https://www.filfre.net/2019/07/chief-gates-comes-to-oakhurst-a-cop-drama/ * The time a parent of my kid's friend said "Do you remember Tetris?" * JVC PocketMail * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketMail * The Prelude, by Matthew Zapruder * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/53843/the-prelude * Hyperspecific collections * Yiwum, the city in China that produces 60% of all the Christmas decorations in the world Microtopics: * An album that someday will be available on Spotify. * The Mauretania comics by Detective Pikachu. * The kind of work that falls out of relaxation. * The Golden Age of Belt Buckles. * Going into an eBay fugue state. * Promotional belt buckles. * The British obsession with American long haul truckers. * The kind of video game where you have to file copious paperwork before and after you shoot someone. * What Police Quest was before and after Daryl Gates was hired as lead designer. * Whether there were any racist belt buckles in the 1960s. * Buying 20 $2 games for Christmas rather than the one $40 game your kid actually asked for. * Men's names from the 1960s and 1970s. * Hewlett Packard belt buckles. * The personalized belt buckles you'll sell at your merch table when you go back on tour. * A conference about fingers. * Talking to the funeral director before you're dead just in case you die someday. * A point-of-sale system for funeral directors. * Bidding on a Cheeto and getting outbid. * Having It's-Its and That's-Its in the freezer and completing your collection with a What's-It. * Remembering Tetris. * Being a parent and making friends with people you have basically nothing in common with. * Talking to normies about your nerd interests. * Going into the Forever 21 and yelling "Skeletor!" and everybody cheers. * People high-fiving you as you walk down the street in your Wolverine costume. * Listening to an adult man gush about Power Rangers to you and realizing that probably Star Wars isn't any good after all and you just happened to be the right age for it. * Star Wars fans trying to convince each other that being based on the Hero's Journey makes a story good art. * Reading a mathematical proof that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is actually exactly as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark and having no choice but to believe it. * Remember Tetris? This is a topic about Tetris. * Writing email in the jungle and getting the chance to send it if you survive all the quicksand. * A product using technologies developed by NASA, i.e. one of the programmers drank Tang once. * Dongling things to the Palm Pilot. * An article from 1999 titled "Email on the Move." * Check your pocket… you've got mail! * Preserving your Motorola Razr M in amber so Jim can buy it on eBay the next time he's ordering a batch of Orbitz. * The Linux open source phone that everybody likes but nobody's heard of. * The idea of chocolate. * A disappointing and super creepy bed and breakfast. * Art where the artist has disguised a message for you. * Contrasting a Diet Coke with Coleridge and Wordsworth. * Freedom Power Style Motion. * Having a bunch of Tumblrs and never going on Tumblr. * Hours Played. * A new weird thing that a video game can be. * Collecting tumbleweeds. * A tumbleweed the size of a car that stops at the red light. * Movies from the 1930s giving a false impression of how much you need to worry about quicksand. * Sentient poison oak. * The sentient tumbleweed episode of The Outer Limits. * Consuming media by fast-forwarding to the tumbleweed parts. * A book of polaroids of all your favorite lighting fixtures. * A list of every move in every game that Mario has ever been in. * Desert Chrome. * Drawing a van and airbrushing your drawing of a van. * Jean-Claude Van Dad. * Spending the rest of your life googling "van dad." * Zoning your city by the kind of Christmas decorations sold. * An ocean of booths selling plastic Santa Clauses as far as the eye can see. * The city that sells the other 40% of Christmas decorations. * The Christmas memeplex. * Clone shoes with strange names. * Running shoes for dogs. * A romantic comedy set in the city in China entirely dedicated to selling Christmas decorations.
Gale Wilkinson, founder and managing partner at Vitalize Venture Capital, shares her wisdom on building startups with entrepreneurs. Gale talks about investing in the future of work and future of learning technologies, and highlights the questions she asks founders to understand their north star.In this episode, you'll learn:4:44 What investors are looking for when they ask “Why did you pick this business?” 6:08 How the virtual experience trend is driving innovation11:37 Themes that influence how we think about the future of work16:39 Benefits of angel networks to investors and foundersThe non-profit organization that Gale is passionate about: Chicago BlendAbout Guest SpeakerGale Wilkinson is an angel investor and the Founder and Managing Partner at Vitalize, a seed fund and angel community investing in future of work + learning software. Gale is also a startup advisor and is currently a founding Board member of Chicago Blend, an organization focused on increasing diversity in VC and startups. Previously, Gale founded IrishAngels, one of the largest angel groups in the world. She also founded two failed startups, consulted for new product launches with Nielsen, and was part of the strategy team at Orbitz.About Vitalize Venture CapitalVitalize Venture Capital is a Chicago-based early-stage B2B software fund and 300+ member angel community investing in the high-potential future of work and future of learning technologies. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Portfolio companies include: CloudEagle, NOWHERE, The Mom Project, Toucan, Zingtree, Abstract, Enklu among others.Learn more about Vitalize Venture Capital on Vitalize's YouTube channel and The VITALIZE Podcast.Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode that will drop next Tuesday. Follow Us: Twitter | Linkedin | Instagram | Facebook
Blagica was a media planner at Orbitz in the legendary days of playable interactive pop-ups and pop-unders and went on to work across social and affiliates at Edelman and elsewhereMore
Jeffrey Katz is the former CEO of Swissair and a former president of SABRE. He is also the founding CEO of Orbitz. Before rising to the top, Jeff went into various industries in American Airlines. He worked his way to the top from being in management, finance, marketing, sales, and even customer service. He started from the bottom, and now, he has achieved so much more. How did Jeff handle the challenges he encountered throughout his journey? How did he survive and become successful to who he is today? Tune in and see how Jeff made his journey as a leader and discover the lessons he learned in life. --------------------- The #1 challenge for organizations right now is how to attract and retain talent. Organizations are stuck in old ways of thinking about work and they are struggling! In my new PDF, I outline 7 ways the workforce is changing and what you and your organization need to do to adapt. The Great Resignation is The Great Opportunity if you are willing to take action! Click here to download the PDF. --------------------- Get the latest insights on the Future of Work, Leadership and employee experience through my daily newsletter at futureofworknewsletter.com Let's connect on social! Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobmorgan8 Instagram: https://instagram.com/jacobmorgan8 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jacobm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FuturistJacob
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