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Richard Holcomb: Using "Hillbilly Negotiating" to Create an Excel-lent Microsoft Deal
Episode 13
What happens when you grow up on a tobacco farm in rural North Carolina, turn down a million-dollar offer from Microsoft, and then build multiple gro…
1 year, 7 months ago
Todd Olson, CEO of Pendo: Pendo Founding story and What Makes Him Tick?
Episode 12
What drives someone to leave a cushy corporate role, start (and sometimes stumble at) multiple tech ventures, and finally build one of the Triangle’s…
1 year, 7 months ago
Peter Zaitsev: Open-Source Entrepreneurship and the Percona Story
Episode 11
How do you grow a 350-person, globally distributed tech company—without outside venture funding?
In this episode of Triangle Tweener Talks, we chat w…
1 year, 7 months ago
Tina Tang: Finding Product-Market Fit, Raising Pre-Seed, and the Bristles.AI Story
Episode 10
How do you turn a simple “what if?” into a thriving venture—especially when you’re blending creativity, technology, and a dash of entrepreneurial cou…
1 year, 8 months ago
Robbie Allen: Automated Insights and Infinia ML (Exits) -> Bionic Health and Triangle Tweener Fund
Episode 9
How do you transition from corporate life to building a successful startup? What does it take to create a company culture where people genuinely enjo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Dr. Joy Bhosai: Raising Millions and Revolutionizing Healthcare with Pluto Health
Episode 8
How can technology close the healthcare gaps that leave so many underserved? What does it take to build a startup that challenges the status quo whil…
1 year, 8 months ago
Dr. Alison Fragale: Author of Likeable Badass and UNC Professor and Assistant Dean
Episode 7
What does it take to embrace your unique strengths, navigate the dynamics of power and status, and achieve the success you deserve?
In this episode of…
1 year, 9 months ago
Dusan Babich: South Africa -> Device Magic (Double Exit!) -> New Startup
Episode 6
What does it take to bootstrap a company, achieve a private equity exit, and then score a second windfall with a double exit?
In this episode of Tria…
1 year, 9 months ago
Robbie Hardy: Her CI Technologies Exit, Women Investing in Women, and Upsetting the Table
Episode 5
Throughout her corporate consulting career in the 1980's, Robbie Hardy continued to rise in the ranks.
However, according to Robbie, "I kept thinking…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jesse Lipson: ShareFile (Exit to Citrix) -> Raleigh Founded and Levitate
Episode 4
In 2005, Jesse Lipson founded ShareFile, which he bootstrapped until it was sold to Citrix Systems in 2011 - for $93M.
So how did he do it?
And what in…
1 year, 9 months ago