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Start School Sessions is the podcast from Start School, the free entrepreneurship program Silicon Slopes runs with Mountain America Credit Union. Each episode is one from a live session.
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Ryan Gardner never planned to build one of the fastest-growing supplement brands in America. He and his twin brother started by helping other companies generate online traffic. Then they decided to stop building everyone
Arian Lewis was told in ninth grade that he probably shouldn't plan on going to college. He had ADHD, dyslexia, and struggled academically. Instead of letting that define him, he learned something that would shape the re
David Bradford has helped build some of Utah's most iconic technology companies. He joined Novell when it had just a few hundred employees and helped scale it into one of the most important software companies in the worl
Dan Burton never planned to become a CEO. He thought he was going to medical school until one economics class changed everything. After spending a decade building businesses inside large technology companies, Dan joined
Mary Crafts started her business with just $150. She was a former social worker, a mother of two young children, and living on welfare when she realized she needed a way to support her family. So she did what entrepreneu
Brock Blake has started over more times than most entrepreneurs ever will. He launched his first company after winning $50,000 in a BYU entrepreneurship competition. That business grew to $10 million in revenue before he
John Koelliker didn't start Leland because he wanted to build another AI company. He started it because he believed one person could change another person's life. After building marketplaces at Uber, LinkedIn, and other
David Neeleman has founded five airlines. Morris Air. WestJet. JetBlue. Azul. Breeze Airways. Along the way, he sold a company to Southwest Airlines, built one of the most successful airlines in Brazil's history, changed
Ryan Wedig didn't set out to build one of Utah's largest enterprise software companies. He started as a business process consultant without a college degree. A chance introduction led him to work with a small software co
Steve Daly changed his major six times in college. He started as a pre-med, hit organic chemistry, and decided that wasn't going to work. He went into psychology. Then mechanical engineering. Then got an MBA because he t
Andrew Smith started his first company in 1998 because his roommate figured out how to put a Jaguar commercial on the internet. He called Jaguar 400 times until someone picked up. They said how much. He said $125,000. Th
Gail Miller was a stay-at-home mom for 44 years. She raised five children while her husband Larry worked 90-hour weeks building what would become one of the most consequential business empires in the history of Utah. She
Brandon Fugal grew up in Pleasant Grove, Utah, reading the Wall Street Journal and Business Week as a teenager. He started in commercial real estate one week out of high school at 18, making $500 his first year, working
Brian Beutler was a history major at BYU with a business minor, just in case teaching did not work out. In 1998, while serving a mission in Chile, he noticed that calling home cost him $3 a minute. His parents were payin
Sandi Hendry did not set out to build a company. She set out to comfort her daughter. In 2009, her middle daughter was sick in the hospital. Sandi asked what she could do. Her daughter said she wanted a soft, cozy blanke
Derek White has seen the future four times. He helped build the first internet bank. He ran FinTech at Barclays across the UK, Dubai, and Spain. He led Galileo as CEO. Now he's in stealth mode, building what he believes
Will West is a Silicon Slopes legend. He's built multiple successful companies, most notably Control 4, a pioneer in home automation. In this session, Will got honest about what it actually takes to build something worth
John Pestana, co-founder of Omniture and co-founder and CEO of ObservePoint, joins Start School for a candid, wide-ranging conversation about building billion-dollar companies, surviving the AI shift, structuring founder
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