Groundup

Special Episode! Today we sit down and have a semi-wild unfiltered conversation with TV reality personality Natalie Negrotti (@natelienegrotti) and what she's going to tackle in her new podcast "Chit Chat with Nat"  

Straight from bountiful ForbesLand sails Captain* Nik Ingersöll (Co-Founder and CMO of Barnana), chatting about potentially large holes in the hull of entrepreneurialism, as well as the personal struggles that lurk under the surface.*Sam is writing this episode description and he likes boats.

SEASON TWO COMMENCE! Team GroundUp heads down to NYC to reunite with our wonderful host Abbey and meet up with Marcela Sapone, CEO of Hello Alfred. We get deep into the roles actual human interaction has when integrating with technology, and how the right combination of the two can scale a company into unforeseeable success.

Wow, we've come a long way. From first text to first episode, from first argument to infinite laughs, our team recollects our grand adventures of building the podcast from the gr-.. well, you know by now.

We're back Beantowne!! We missed you dearly. And what a warm welcome by initiating a deep chat with Larry Kim (CEO at MobileMonkey). Listen in as we talk about classifying successful and resonating content, and going gung-ho promoting the needle in the haystack.

We've reached the finale of our GroundUp New York tour! In our last episode of the series, we explore the art of relationship building with the CEO & Founder of eBoost Josh Taekman, and how to place value on providing resources in business partnerships.

GU/NY continues as the team interviews New York-based modern artist Jeremy Penn, and how he visually unravels the ever-mystic dichotomy between men, women, and a world of disconnection.

GroundUp's journey continues in Brooklyn as we meet with CEO Andrea Nye, MBA MPH, and Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder John O'Neill, PhD of East River Bio, a biotech leading the path in building extracellular matrix biomaterials used for cutting-edge research. (No, Keanu's not on this episode). Andrea and John talk through the startup struggle of The Pitch, especially when everyone just hears "oh, you work with stem cells!"

For third installment of the GU/NY series, team GU hunkers down with Jon Staff (CEO & Founder of Getaway), diving into the hardships of the startup/millennial workplace strategy and nuggets of productive gold that have turned Getaway into an integral necessity of the American machine.

GroundUp made it Broadway! Episode 2 in our GU / NY series takes us on-location to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre where we meet with Adam Kantor ("Mark" in final & filmed Broadway cast of Rent, "Motel" in Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof) a couple hours before showtime of his appearance in "The Band's Visit" winner of 10 Tony Awards. The GU Team and Adam dig into the up and downs of New York's various creative industries, and the rare occasions they decide to meld together.

GroundUp is on location in New York City this week! Today on this beautiful and warm Brooklyn afternoon we sit down with Jay Cardiello (Fitness Professional, 50 Cent's Strength Coach, & TEDx presenter) and converse about the fallacies of modern fitness, and his successes with a unique perspective towards achieving massive goals.

Keith Frankel (Co-Founder of Parlay, Host of CreativeMornings Boston, Former Head of Creative & Design at Hubspot) unravels the unorthodox startup journey for entrepreneurs of creative descent, and how to thrive in a life of professional entropy.

Kelly Brabants (Founder of Booty by Brabants) joins in to discuss her unrelenting journey through fitness & fashion entrepreneurship, all the while it giving her, her family, and her Brazilian roots a certainly fruitful future.

Sam Vaghar (CEO and Co-Founder of Millennium Campus Network) relives the moments of entrepreneurial despair and success in his journey of social activism.

For the inaugural installment of GroundUp, we have Nick Pirollo (CTO of Scholly; Founder of Gradifi; Principle in expanding dating app Hatr), a founder, early team member, advisor, and late-stage consultant all by the age of 28.