Scale Like a CEO
Join host Justin Reinert as he sits down with founders who’ve navigated the jump from do-it-all entrepreneur to strategic CEO. Each episode uncovers the key milestones, hard-won insights, and practical tactics you need to build a high-performing leadership team, overcome decision fatigue, and scale your business with confidence. Tune in weekly for quick, actionable conversations designed to accelerate your path to CEO mastery.
Episodes
63 episodes
From Strategy to Execution: Insights from Render Networks CEO Stephen Rose
Want a real playbook for scaling without hiding behind a 90-day plan? We sit down with Stephen Rose, CEO of Render Networks, to unpack how he makes faster decisions without sacrificing rigor—grounding every move in customer conversations, emplo...
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Episode 63
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19:42
Leading Through Crisis: Empathy, Pivots, and The Future of Media
What does it take to pivot a public company under real pressure and come out cleaner, simpler, and stronger? We sit down with Matt Edelman, CEO of Super League, to unpack the strategy and humanity behind a turnaround that moved the business fro...
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Episode 62
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21:35
Scale Like a CEO: Transitioning to SaaS & Building Leadership Culture with Dean Curtis
Most decks drain attention; the best stories drive decisions. We sit down with Dean Curtis, CEO of Ingage, to unpack how a services agency transformed into a focused SaaS company by turning sales content into interactive, data-driven experience...
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Episode 61
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17:32
From Founder to CEO: Leading with Soul & Scaling a Health Tech Agency w/ Ricardo Velasquez
What if a software company could scale and still feel deeply human? We sit down with Ricardo Velazquez, founder of Alternova, to unpack how a 90-person team navigated a pandemic pivot, built patient-first products in digital health, and held on...
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Episode 60
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23:44
Scale Like a CEO | Adrian Moise - Founder & CEO of Aequilibrium
What if scaling faster wasn’t about adding more process but changing how you lead? We sit down with Adrian Moise, founder and CEO of Equilibrium, to unpack a simple operating system—AAA: Alignment, Autonomy, Accountability—that helps teams move...
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Episode 59
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21:09
How AI is Saving Hospitals Millions in the Operating Room | Robert Brown
What if the operating room, the most complex and costly part of the hospital, finally became transparent? We sit down with Robert Brown, co-founder, president, and CTO of Omnimed, to unpack how AI can turn surgical chaos into clarity—without ge...
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Episode 58
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16:37
How MedTech CEO Justin Ramsaran Scales Teams & Culture | Scale Like a CEO
What if the skill that built your product is the very thing holding your company back from scaling? We sit down with medtech founder and CEO Justin Ramsaran to unpack the real transition from hands-on builder to culture shaper, and why learning...
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Episode 57
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15:54
How to Scale & Pivot Your Business: The 5 Ps Framework with Dr. Georgette Zinaty
Growth doesn’t stall because ideas run out. It stalls when leaders can’t pivot fast enough. We sat down with Dr. Georgette Zinaty—Chief of Staff for Myant and founder of Women Helping Empower Women—to map a clearer path from promising idea to d...
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Episode 56
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20:15
Letting Go & Leading with Gil Allouche | Scale Like a CEO
What if the fastest way to scale isn’t doing more, but doing less yourself? We sit down with Gil Allouche, founder and CEO of metadata.io, to unpack how he turned a hacked-together experiment engine into a platform that automates B2B performanc...
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Episode 55
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19:54
Scaling to 280 Employees in 2 Years: Immigration, Hiring & Empathy with Raghu Suram
Visa backlogs stretching into decades. Policy shifts that raise the stakes for employers and talent. A founder who turned his own immigration journey into a blueprint for scaling a 280-person services company built on empathy and execution. In ...
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Episode 54
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16:49
Scale Like a CEO: David Duguan on Building Teams, Delegating, and Creating a Growth-Centered Culture
Customer support often feels like a cost center, but what if it’s actually the engine that powers your growth? We sit down with Voxify founder and CEO David Duguan to explore how deliberate customer conversations by phone and text shape better ...
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Episode 53
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16:33
Scale Like a CEO: Eric Sheinkop on Building Trust, Delegation & Company Culture
Fake reviews waste time and money, and everyone knows it. We sat down with Eric Scheinkop, founder of the Desire Company, to unpack how expert-led, real-world product reviews can restore trust for shoppers and deliver clarity for retailers—whil...
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Episode 52
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19:49
From 9 to 90 Employees (and Back): A Founder's Journey Through Extreme Growth | Scale Like a CEO
What happens after the rocket ship stalls? We sit down with David Abbey, CEO and founder of Penny AI, to unpack the ride from pandemic-fueled hypergrowth to a bruising market reset—and the rebuild that followed. David shares how the team pivote...
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Episode 51
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18:36
Scaling Leadership and AI in Retail: Interview with Trevor Sumner, CEO of i-Genie.ai
What if your market research told you a product was winning in a country where it isn’t even sold? Trevor Sumner has seen that kind of failure up close—and built a company to fix it. As CEO of Igenie, Trevor explains how tapping billions of rea...
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Episode 50
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22:01
Why Psychological Safety Can't Be Rushed: AI, Cognitive Diversity & Team Collaboration with Nicole Radziwill
What if the real blocker to AI impact isn’t the model, but the space between your people? We sit down with Nicole Radziwill, CTO and Chief AI Officer of Team X AI, to unpack why organizations are sprinting toward a breaking point—and how a retu...
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Episode 49
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28:46
From Founder to CEO: Scaling Teams & The Future of Early Career Talent | Mike Roberts
Stuck in founder mode and drowning in decisions? Justin sits down with Mike Roberts, founder of Creating Coding Careers, to trace the moment he stopped being the default problem-solver and started building a leadership engine. Mike shares how a...
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Episode 48
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20:18
Scaling Leadership in the AI Era with Omer Jamal | Scale Like a CEO
Every minute you wait to call a new lead, your odds drop. We unpack how a 60-second follow-up window becomes a growth engine when paired with AI voice agents and an automated media buyer that can even run TV ads for local businesses. With Atlas...
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Episode 47
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20:17
From Attorney to Media Entrepreneur: Building a Franchise News Empire | Michael Shapiro
Tired of watching your town’s news vanish into rumor threads and paywalled dead ends? We sat down with Michael Shapiro, founder and CEO of Tap Into, to explore how a revenue-first franchise model is rebuilding local journalism while giving smal...
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Episode 46
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19:56
Nicolas Genest: Training Business-First Technologists for the AI Era | Scale Like a CEO
What if the real edge in tech isn’t code, but care? We sit down with Codebox founder and longtime CTO Nicholas Genest to unpack the “big reset” that AI triggered across engineering teams and hiring—and why the winners now pair sharp business in...
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Episode 45
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21:44
From Google Engineer to $4.3M ARR: Building Mexico's Next Tech Giant | Roby Peñacastro
What if your CRM started where your customers actually are—inside WhatsApp and social DMs? We sit down with Robbie Peña Castro, founder and CEO of Lead Sales, to unpack how a chat-native platform scaled to 3,000+ companies across 20 countries a...
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Episode 44
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16:49
Scaling Startups: Execution, Team Building, and Avoiding Mistakes with Sam Wong
Most startups don’t fail for lack of technology; they fail on execution. We sit down with Sam Wong, founder of Fundable Startups, to pull apart the mechanics of executing well—how to hire the right people, when to scale headcount, and how to bu...
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Episode 43
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25:24
Revolutionizing Healthcare Technology with Alex Koshykov | Scale Like a CEO
Imagine a healthcare system where the first mile of care starts at home—and the data is so clear your doctor can act with confidence. That’s the future we explore with serial founder and CEO Alex Koshykov, who moved from building bespoke tech f...
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Episode 42
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15:31
Scaling Startups: Challenges, Management & The Role of AI | Scale Like a CEO
“Cutting costs with AI” sounds sharp until the bots get confused and your help desk catches fire. We sat down with Matt Peters of Fixify to unpack a smarter path: design for the mix—pair automation and agentic AI with skilled people who step in...
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Episode 41
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25:28
Scaling with AI: Ajay Malik, CEO of Studio X, everyone is a manager of one
Stop treating skills as the finish line and start treating them as a starting point. That was the spark running through our talk with Ajay Malik, CEO of Studio X, who argues that AI turns every motivated person into a “manager of one.” When kno...
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Episode 40
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18:24
Transforming Business Communication: Insights from Relayto CEO Alex Shevelenko
Static files don’t just slow you down—they mute your best ideas. We sit down with Alex Shevelenko, founder and CEO of Releto, to unpack how turning PDFs and PowerPoints into interactive, nonlinear experiences can unlock attention, shorten sales...
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Episode 39
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19:37