Startup Renegades
Startup Renegades is a raw conversation with powerhouse founders hosted by Shauna Armitage. Listen to these entrepreneurs as they uncover what the startup journey looks like and share the key strategies that helped them grow their brands. Come back to your business with intentional, actionable steps to take on your own journey to scalable growth.
Episodes
105 episodes
Intentional Startup Growth with Ethan Song, Founder of RareCircles
Ethan Song is forever an optimist and began his journey as the founder and CEO of Frank And Oak, which aimed to reshape the fashion industry by making it more personal and sustainable. Frank And Oak was named Most innovative company in retail b...
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Episode 105
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It’s All About The Founders with Caroline Winnett, Executive Director of Berkeley SkyDeck
Caroline Winnett is the Executive Director of Berkeley SkyDeck, a global hub for entrepreneurship, and one of the leading accelerators in the world. She is a serial entrepreneur, civic activist, angel investor, advisor and board mem...
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Episode 104
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Building something we use everyday with Krish Ramineni, Founder of Fireflies
Krish Ramineni was a former PM at Microsoft and stumbled into entrepreneurship. When focusing on productivity solutions, he and his co-founders decided to just build something that they would use. Fireflies AI was born and the rest is history!<...
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Episode 103
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Disrupt, Disrupt, Disrupt with Marshall Conley, Co-Founder of slø Jeans
Marshall started his career in 2015 in the event space and had an affinity for pedal-to-the-metal organizations, guerilla marketing tactics, and doing things others won’t.After dropping out of university in 2017, Marshall started working...
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Episode 102
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An Introvert’s Guide to Starting Up with Ron Ross, Founder of Everee
Ron Ross is the founder of Everee, workforce payments technology that makes it easy to pay people instantly. He is a seasoned finance executive with 15 years of experience leading accounting, finance and operations teams at fast-growing compani...
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Episode 101
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Hiring Your Fractional CFO with Alejandra Santos, founder of Startup Tandem
Alejandra Santos is the founder and CEO of Startup Tandem. She landed in Miami from Honduras at the age of 17 with no support, money, or family. During her first few years in the US, she struggled to keep a roof over her head and food on her ta...
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Episode 100
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Getting Creative with It with Shannon Erley, Founder of Pomp Beauty
Shannon Erley has worked in the skincare and beauty industry for years and was personally struggling with adult hormonal acne. It wasn’t until she started working with a licensed esthetician that recommended a good at-home skincare routine was ...
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Episode 99
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Getting Obsessed with the Customer Journey with Maia Monell, Co-Founder of Nav.it
Maia's the Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of the Nav.it Money App, the fitness app for finances which provides personalized financial coaching to help people build good habits and live financially well. She's devoted to closing wealth gaps...
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Episode 98
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Partnerships, Shared Content, and Engagement with Lindsay Pinchuk, Founder of Bump Club and Beyond
Lindsay Pinchuk started her first company with just a $500 investment, growing it to reach 3MM users per month and generating 7-figures in revenue year over year. Less than a decade later she led her company through its acquisition to a large a...
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Episode 97
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Building a Winning Pitch Deck with Justin Izzo, Research Lead at DocSend
Justin Izzo is the research lead at DocSend, the secure document sharing platform that provides founders with the insight they need to succeed throughout their fundraising journey. Justin brings 15 years of research and leadership experience to...
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Episode 96
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Authentic Community to Drive Growth with Stephanie Cartin, Co-Founder of Entreprenista
An entrepreneur at heart, Stephanie Cartin walked away from her corporate career in 2012 to follow her passion to launch Socialfly, a leading social-first digital and influencer marketing agency based in New York City named to Inc. 5000's faste...
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Episode 95
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Disrupting an Industry from the Inside Out with Priyanka Murthy, Founder of Array
The eldest daughter of two immigrant entrepreneurs, Priyanka Murthy has a talent and passion for the law. She became a Fulbright Scholar, a cum laude Northwestern Law graduate, an editor of the Law Review, and a law clerk to two prolific federa...
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Episode 94
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From Farmer’s Market to Whole Foods with Saskia Sorrosa, Founder of Fresh Bellies
Originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, Saskia Sorrosa built a strong career in marketing and moved into what she believed to be her dream role—VP of Marketing for the NBA. When her second child arrived on the scene, Saskia realized that she needed...
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Episode 93
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Painting a Compelling Narrative for Investors with Joshua March, Co-Founder of SciFi Foods
Joshua March is Co-founder and CEO of SCiFi Foods, a Bay Area food tech company focused on making transformational meat alternatives first by combining plant-based and cultivated meat to make burgers that are drastically closer in taste to the ...
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Episode 92
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How to Build a Unicorn with Yahya Mokhtarzada, Co-Founder of Truebill
Before co-founding Truebill (now Rocket Money), Yahya Mokhtarzada and his brothers were always starting companies together. From the traditional lemonade stand to shoveling driveways, their ventures were always evolving. Together, they launched...
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Episode 91
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Doing Things That Don’t Scale with Joe Keeley, Co-Founder of Justifi.ai
Joe Keeley’s love for hockey led him into entrepreneurship in one of the most unique ways you’ve ever heard! Today, Keeley is the CEO and Co-founder of JustiFi Technologies, a venture backed fintech business providing payments and fintech infra...
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Episode 90
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Building Moments of Delight with Doug Ludlow, Co-Founder of MainStreet
Doug Ludlow grew up in Modesto, an agricultural town in Central California. Despite Modesto city’s proximity to Silicon Valley, the city is almost entirely cut off from the technology industry, which is the economic engine of the 21st century. ...
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Episode 89
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Investing in Women of Color Who are Changing the World with Lisha Bell, Co-Founder at BLXVC
Lisha Bell is cofounder of BLXVC, an angel syndicate of moms funding Black and Brown founders. She is also the co-founder of the Women of Color Capital Collective, a women of color led group ensuring equitable distribution of capital for ...
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Episode 88
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The Intersection of Profit and Purpose with Dominic Kalms, Founder of BGenerous
Dominic Kalms is CEO of a new venture backed Fintech company B Generous, which is revolutionizing how people donate to nonprofits through the advent of the first ever philanthropic credit product. B Generous is backed by some of the top VCs, Ba...
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Episode 87
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Turning the Startup Spark Into Something Beautiful, Scalable, and Long Lasting with Samantha Alexander, Co-Founder of bitewell
Samantha Citro Alexander is the Co-Founder of bitewell, a food health company on a mission to improve your health through food. She came onboard as co-founder after a LOT of conversations with the original founder and after asking herself, “Do ...
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Episode 86
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Bootstrapping a Community-Driven Marketplace with Monica Fullerton, Founder of Spouse-ly
Military life often requires wearing lots of hats, and that’s especially true for Monica Fullerton, founder of Spouse-ly. Named a Trailblazer in Tech by Military Spouse Magazine, Forbes Next 1000 List, and recently named on the MIGHTY 25 list a...
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Episode 85
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Is an Accelerator Right for Your Startup? with Lorrie King, Co-Founder of Caire Beauty
Co-founders of Caire Beauty Celeste Lee and Lorrie King were both grade-school entrepreneurs. Both are graduates of The Wharton School. Both started in finance.Both knew they were onto something ‘important’ when their friends were consta...
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Episode 84
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Becoming the CEO with Michelle Penczak, Founder of Squared Away
Named Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay Military Spouse of the Year 2019 and MCAS Miramar Military Spouse of the Year 2022, Michelle Penczak is a virtual assistant by trade and a military spouse by love. Her husband Sean is a pilot in the Marine Co...
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Episode 83
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Building a Product for a Cultural Moment with Cara Oppenheimer and Cary Telander Fortin, Co-Founders of goodbuy
Cara Oppenheimer and Cary Telander Fortin are creative social entrepreneurs who founded goodbuy, a first-of-its-kind online shopping tool that connects consumers with small businesses that align with their values, and does so in a simple and st...
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Episode 82
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It’s Time to Take Control with Lynn Power, Co-Founder of MASAMI
Lynn Power spent much of her 30 year career running and transforming agency brands. She recently left the big agency world to launch MASAMI, a premium clean haircare brand which launched in February 2020.In this episode, Lynn shares the ...
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Episode 81
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