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.
Latest episodes
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42 min
Start School Session: Vivint Co-Founder Keith Nellesen
What does it actually take to survive long enough to build a great company?Silicon Slopes CEO Clint Betts sits down with Vivint co-founder and McColee Partners CEO Keith Nellesen f…
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46 min
Start School Session: Kickstart Founder & General Partner Gavin Christensen
What does it take to build a company worth betting on?Silicon Slopes CEO Clint Betts sits down with Kickstart Founder and General Partner Gavin Christensen for a Start School sessi…
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1 h 04
Start School Session: Torus Founder & CEO Nate Walkingshaw
What does it take to build a company capable of transforming the way we produce, store, and distribute energy?Silicon Slopes CEO Clint Betts sits down with Torus CEO Nate Walkingsh…
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40 min
Start School Session: Disruptive Advertising Founder & CEO Jacob Baadsgaard
What does it take to build a marketing strategy that actually drives growth?In this Start School session, Silicon Slopes CEO Clint Betts sits down with Jacob Baadsgaard, founder an…
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48 min
Start School Session: Stance Socks Chief Growth Officer Clarke Miyasaki
Clarke Miyasaki has built a career around turning ordinary products into extraordinary brands.In this Start School session, Silicon Slopes CEO Clint Betts sits down with Clarke, Ch…
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46 min
Start School Session: Chatbooks Co-Founder & CEO Nate Quigley
In this Start School Session, Clint Betts sits down with Nate Quigley, co-founder and CEO of Chatbooks, to talk about entrepreneurship, product-market fit, leadership, family, and…
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55 min
Start School Session: First Colony Mortgage CEO Carine Clark
Carine Clark never planned to follow a conventional career.She started as a librarian, joined Novell during the early days of Utah's tech industry, helped build iconic technology c…
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51 min
Start School Session: Neighbor Founder & CEO Joseph Woodbury
Joseph Woodbury didn't set out to build another software company.He set out to solve a problem his co-founder experienced firsthand after struggling to find affordable storage. Tha…
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53 min
Start School Session: MX Founder & CEO Ryan Caldwell
Ryan Caldwell knows what it's like to build a company through uncertainty.As the Founder and CEO of MX, Ryan set out to solve a deeply personal problem after watching his single mo…
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42 min
Start School Session: Nursa Founder & CEO Curtis Anderson
Curtis Anderson never planned to build a healthcare marketplace.He started by buying a traditional nurse staffing agency and quickly realized the business itself was the problem. T…
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41 min
Start School Session: Bucked Up Founder Ryan Gardner
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…
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39 min
Start School Session: Kiln Co-Founder & CEO Arian Lewis
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 le…
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48 min
Start School Session: Quiklearn Chairman of the Board David Bradford
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 i…
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52 min
Start School Session: Health Catalyst Strategic Advisor Dan Burton
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…
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1 h 03
Start School Session: Culinary Crafts Founder Mary Crafts
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…
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53 min
Start School Session: Lendio CEO Brock Blake
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 g…
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48 min
Start School Session: Leland CEO John Koelliker
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 mark…
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56 min
Start School Session: Breeze Airways Founder & CEO David Neeleman
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…
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58 min
Start School Session: Vasion CEO Ryan Wedig
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 l…
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59 min
Start School Session: Instructure CEO Steve Daly
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 en…