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Bryce Maddock built TaskUs using $20,000 of his and his co-founder’s savings. Today, TaskUs is valued at $3.46 billion. During those early startup years, Bryce never took a penny of venture capital, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Investors simply didn't want to invest – they passed on every opportunity Bryce offered, leaving him to fend for his business on his own. On Business X factors, Bryce tells the origin story of TaskUs including how he is taking what he learned as the forgotten outsider to turn his undervalued company into the massive success it is today.
Some companies know the rules of the game so well they change how the game itself is played. Bob Walters, the CEO of Rocket Mortgage and President and Chief Operating Officer of Rocket Companies, shares how Rocket Companies blossomed from a small team to a colossus of 26,000 by simplifying complexity for customers and betting on remote processes before that was even a thing.
Kim Budil, Laboratory Director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been working on some of the biggest problems in the world for a long time, and as a result of her work, and the work of LLNL, the world is a better, safer place. But what does it take to actually change the world? Find out on this episode.
What if to save and sustain the planet, it meant unleashing creativity with personalized, on-demand fashion? It may sound too good to be true, but Ronen Samuel, the CEO of Kornit Digital, explains why this model is both immensely profitable for business and utterly essential for the world.
For more than one hundred and thirty years, NCR has been a household name. In a world packed with competition and constant innovation, a company with staying power like that stands out. Ismail Amla, the Executive Vice President of Professional Services of NCR, shares how the company has remained relevant and agile in an ever-changing market.
Being the greatest of all time is all about competing. But what if winning at business is really about a higher calling of serving the world and reducing human suffering? If that’s the case, what does this new breed of GOAT entrepreneur look like? Serial entrepreneur Scott Donnell gives us a window inside the mind of this new kind of entrepreneurial GOAT.
When Steve Smith joined Zayo as CEO, he found himself at the head of a company that was a Frankenstein of 46 acquisitions. And while the company’s decentralized approach had served it well in the early years, Steve saw an opportunity to take the company further. This time — and almost paradoxically — through centralization. Tune in to learn how Steve married these two concepts to better serve customers while still empowering innovation and creativity.
Why is it that when the whole world stopped due to the pandemic, certain companies were equipped to keep moving forward? Charles Eide, the Founder and CEO of EideCom, explains how being great at one thing empowered his company — and his customers — to quickly pivot in real-time.
How does a company control its own destiny? Bruce Baumgartner, Vice President of Procurement & Strategic Partnerships, reveals how it’s possible to control your own destiny by making key decisions in service of a higher calling.
