We are all born with heroic potential...
The question is, how do you execute on it?
Hosted by tech investor & entrepreneur Chris Vasquez, World Class is a personal development show on a mission to humanize greatness and equip anyone with the mindset & tools to achieve extraordinary success in all aspects of life.
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On this episode of the World Class Podcast, we sit down with one of the most ambitious entrepreneurs of our generation and the world‘s first "space drug dealer”. Delian Asparouhov is a partner at Founders Fund, as well as the cofounder and chairman of Varda, a revolutionary company building pharmaceuticals infrastructure in outer-space to advance humankind here on earth. In this conversation, we discuss how to accomplish Elon Musk-level moonshot goals, how to assemble World Class teams to make those goals reality, and Delian's advice on how to be fulfilled along the journey.
Today’s conversation is with the legendary Executive & Crypto pioneer, Brad Garlinghouse. Brad is currently the CEO of Ripple, a leading blockchain based payment solutions company with a current valuation of $11B. Prior to Ripple, Brad was the CEO of Hightail, President at AOL, and Sr. Executive at Yahoo. In this conversation, we really dive into his turbulent story leading Ripple through lawsuits into success. We talk about how to build a World Class team and company culture, the importance of taking risks, as well as Brad's predictions for the crypto market in the future.
This week we sit down with Jan Bednar is an immigrant from the Czech Republic, who moved to the US at 16 years old to pursue his American Dream. In 2014, he Founded Shipmonk, with a vision to revolutionize the way e-commerce companies manage their supply chains & ship products to their customers. In less than a decade, he built Shipmonk into a $1B enterprise with thousands of employees around the world. Today, we’re going to dive into how to turn your ideas into Billion dollar companies and how to have a lot of fun along the way.
Howard Lerman is a visionary entrepreneur and pioneer. He is the Founder & CEO of Yext, a data technology company he took public in 2017 that reached more than $3B in Market Cap at its peak. Howard ran Yext as a Public CEO for 22 quarters, before returning back to his roots as startup founder. After experimenting with a number of ideas, Howard stumbled upon his next big venture. With a rampant increase in remote work and distributed workforces, Howard saw an opportunity to create the office of the future – a cloud based virtual office with the power to transform company culture and productivity. Today, we’re diving into his mindset, strategies and tactics on how to be a high performing entrepreneur and create legendary companies.
In today’s episode I sit down with my friend Steven Galanis. Steve is the Co Founder and CEO of Cameo, in my opinion one of the coolest technology companies in the world that he built to a $Billion Dollar Business in just 5 years. Cameo is a platform that allows fans to purchase personalized videos from their favorite celebrities. It’s my go to gift for birthdays and Holidays, and some of my favorite presents have been Cameo videos. In this conversation we follow Steven’s journey from a student at Duke, hustling and building random businesses to finally discovering and executing on his big idea. We also discuss how to find your confidence, overcome adversity and how to build a billion dollar network.