Hosted by Pete Ozolin; peter@achieve-one.com · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 31 episodes
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It is difficult to choose the entrepreneurial and risk-taking path. I made that decision, and after a lot of mistakes, I eventually found a balanced life that resulted in more time with family, friends, and the community. This podcast will focus on the lessons and experiences of successful (and sometimes not-so-successful) entrepreneurs and rule-breakers who have endured along their journeys and found positive outcomes—whose efforts were the result of deliberate approaches, not those of starry-eyed 'unicorns,' but rather committed, determined company builders and visionaries.
Pete Ozolin; peter@achieve-one.com hosts “Bend”ing Rules, a business show with 31 episodes published.
Intro : I have always believed in learning from entrepreneurs younger than myself, which seems to be happening more and more these days, and this episode with Elina Panteleyeva is no exception. It's too easy, as an exper
Show notesIntro : I have had the pleasure of interviewing several individuals who have built great companies (Hydro Flask, G5, Cairn, Walker Tracker, etc.) in my hometown (I still see it as a town, despite the significant growth),
Show notesIntro: I was joined by Christa King. Christa has over 30 years of experience in pioneering commercial strategy in hospitality, launching and executing high-impact revenue strategies for some of the world’s most iconic ho
Show notesIntro: Chris Capdevila and I were joined today by Michael Ulin, most recently a Co-founder of Paxton.AI, a legal technology firm designed to transform the legal landscape with state-of-the-art generative AI tools that ex
Show notesIntro: One challenge in growing a company, especially as a first-time entrepreneur, is answering the question, “Am I the right person for the CEO job at this time?” I’d say that in the VC world, there’s a bias toward hav
Show notesIntro: Rob Little, former CEO and Co-Founder of Cairn—a discovery platform founded in 2014 and acquired by Outside Magazine in 2021—joins Bending Rules to share his journey into entrepreneurship and the eventual founding
Show notesIntro: Dan Hobin’s name is synonymous with entrepreneurship in the state of Oregon. He first gained recognition as the co-founder and CEO of G5, a SaaS company he led to become one of Oregon’s most successful software co
Show notesIntro: Alan Rich, a lifelong entrepreneur, is likely best known as the former Founder and CEO of Elite Information Systems, a company that was acquired by Thomson Reuters, as well as later being a Founder and CEO of Chro
Show notesIntro: Scott Allan, Former CEO of Hydro Flask, a consumer product company that he guided from $2 million in sales to $100 million in a four-year period (2012-2016), is a story worth telling. Many aspects of Scott’s and h
Show notesIntro: It’s not every day you have a chance to interview someone who was a successful start-up founder and, initially in her words, “a stay-at-home mom” who was bored. She went on to discover a product category where her
Show notesIntro: Taylor Welsh joined Walker Tracker as employee #1, several years later she was elevated into the CEO role by the founder. From there, Taylor successfully grew the business and navigated the company to a successful
Show notesIntro: Entrepreneurship is not a "one size fits all" type of endeavor. I have always been fascinated why some people want to build companies and others are more comfortable operating alone. What characteristics make you
Show notesIntro: Nick was fortunate to cross paths early in his career and become a co-founder of a team where Mark Cuban participated in a large financing round. Having said that, Nick's experience taught him that raising the mon
Show notesIntro: It’s never too late to start a company, but in some ways it’s likely more difficult the longer one waits to take the proverbial jump, especially in the event you reach the “golden handcuff” stage as our guest, Dan
Show notesIt is difficult to choose the entrepreneurial and risk-taking path. I made that decision, and, after a lot of mistakes I found a balanced life without having to compromise other needs, such as family, friends and health
Show notesIntro: The path to entrepreneurship comes in all shapes and sizes. That's why when I had a chance to interview Kyle Morris, Special Forces Army Ranger (retd), now a successful entrepreneur (recently realizing an "exit" i
Show notesIntro: We all have heard war stories on starting companies, but it's even tougher (on some level) if you have take on all the risk yourself. That's what Gabe Ayers did when he bootstrapped Apricity from a company of one
Show notesIntro: I was happy to have Patrick join to discuss what it means to be an "intrapreneur" at a company as large as Oracle. Patrick is on his second or third stint with Oracle, having left a time or two to start various co
Show notesIntro: I am sure more than once many of you have sat behind your comfortable corporate environment and thought "is now the time to take a leap of faith?" Well, Justin Johnson did just that. After a 20 year career in prof
Show notesIntro: We have all had a great idea for a restaurant at some point, right? Well, Ian picked his spots to invest and start new brands and restaurant concepts over the past 20 years with some great results, including the c
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“Bend”ing Rules is hosted by Pete Ozolin; peter@achieve-one.com. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 31 episodes.
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