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Hosted by Chris Mailander · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 27 episodes
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The Mailander Podcast is a film room for high-stakes decisions. In each episode, strategist and author Chris Mailander sits down with leaders who have been tested under real pressure to replay 2–3 pivotal choices that changed the trajectory of a company, career, or market. The show is built around decision intelligence—the discipline of designing the processes, frameworks, and systems that make consequential choices better over time. Guests are typically CEOs of private mid-market companies (roughly $50M–$5B+ in revenue) or founders of AI and technology platforms (roughly $5M–$50M ARR) who have already navigated major inflection points: exits, strategic investments, AI transformations, turnarounds, or elite program builds. Instead of surface-level origin stories, conversations slow the game down. Chris and his guests break down what they saw, what they missed, the trade-offs they wrestled with, and how those decisions shaped enterprise value
Chris Mailander hosts Mailander Podcast, a business show with 27 episodes published.
The wealth management industry manages trillions — yet underneath the surface, it still runs on Zillow searches, handwritten notes, and decades-old workflows. In this episode, Chris Mailander talks with Sam Kendree, CEO
Monica Marquez has spent her career inside some of the world's most prestigious organizations—Goldman Sachs, Google, EY, Bank of America. She watched from the inside how these companies respond (or don't) to massive shif
Ethan Monkhouse built AI technology so advanced at psychological profiling that he deemed it "too intense" for public release. As co-founder of Naviro AI, Ethan has created systems that can identify personality traits, p
Meet Eli Portnoy, a serial entrepreneur who has done what few have: Founded and led two separate tech companies to successful eight-figure exits. He sold his first company, ThinkNear, for $22.5 million and his second, Se
In this conversation, Chris Mailander and Ryan Davis explore the evolution and current state of influencer marketing, its impact on political campaigns, and the future of media strategy. They discuss how influencer marke
Step into the private studio of Hollywood composer Billy Goodrum as he shares the creative secrets behind some of comedy's most iconic films. From crafting the memorable music for “Dumb and Dumber,” “There’s Something Ab
In an era where AI giants like Palantir, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA battle for supremacy, a new frontier is emerging: the race to predict Earth's future. Josh Gilbert and Gopal Erinjippurath, co-founders of Sust Globa
Andrew Jones is one of the foremost experts on the use of simulation modeling to improve decision-making for our most pressing global challenges, including the socio-economic and geopolitical ramifications of climate cha
Jan Jensen is the new head coach for women’s basketball at the University of Iowa. Jensen takes over an elite program that developed generational phenom, Caitlin Clark (WNBA Rookie of the Year with the Indiana Fever), an
Tech entrepreneur Eliot Puplett shares his vision for democratizing global finance through blockchain technology. As founder of Medici, he's building a decentralized financial system that could do for money what the inte
Are you giving your greatest decisions the time they deserve? Short-term decisions are easy—they fit into neat timelines with clear metrics. But when it comes to the decisions that will most significantly impact your com
What do card games with Grandma and corporate strategy have in common? They're both high-stakes games of deception and decoding how the other player thinks. Beneath the surface lies a battle of wits, where every move is
This is a story about an admiral unlike any other. Admiral Rickover was no ordinary leader. He was the architect of the US Nuclear Navy. How did he pull off the feat of creating asymmetric power for the United States thr
Underdogs. We revel in them. We identify with them. Their stories become ours. They are the clever ones who find innovative ways to achieve victory over the bigger and stronger. The methods of the underdog apply equally
Volatility. It is often feared by leaders and decision-makers. In reality, it is a powerful gift. As we gear up for 2024, learn the art of perceiving and embracing change -- a skill essential for leaders, CEOs, and decis
Imagine yourself in the Oval Office. Eighteen months before, you suffered a debacle that will come to mark the low point of your presidency. Your poor decision-making then changed the game, and not in your favor. Castro
Explore the rules and pitfalls of decision-making amidst the significant systemic shifts we will likely see in 2024. From significant economic change, to the chaos of being a presidential election year, to a shifting glo
There is a fight for influence over your decision-making process amongst your internal teams. This is how to curate a healthy fight, and harvest its benefits for your company. There are competitors amongst those on your
Elite CEOs and companies do not shy away from the noise, confusion, and chaos of shifting markets. Instead, they study them. They move their assets and players into place. They place a mark on others, including those les
A quick exercise for CEOs to better understand how their decision-making is influenced by key actors, both in overt and subtle ways. In this excerpt from Decidedly, a podcast focused on helping private company CEOs, fami
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