Search a title or topic

Over 20 million podcasts, powered by 

Player FM logo

Ben Schultz Podcasts

show episodes
 
The two ordinary cops are former Northern Territory Police Officers Remote Sergeant Ben Schultz and Detective Sergeant Damien Barbe. With over 25 years experience Ben and Damo share stories from their time in the job. Follow along through the laughter, anger and tears that come with the rigours of Policing Australia’s last frontier.
  continue reading
 
Artwork
 
The Primal MMA podcast is back and rebranded as the Learning to fight podcast. Same convos bringing together coaches, athletes, and sports scientists to discuss training and practice design for Mixed Martial Arts. Exploring the science of skill acquisition, human motivation, and sports psychology, the podcast seeks answers to the question, can we get better quicker? Now with Coach Adam Singer of SBG Athens
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Americana Curious

Ben Fanning & Zach Schultz

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly+
 
The podcast that unearths hidden Americana gems, shares untold stories from legends, and proves music still has the power to move us all. If you believe Americana music can transform the world, you’re in the right place. Too many overlook its raw beauty and power to connect, heal, and inspire. We spotlight the artists carrying that torch — unsung heroes writing the soundtrack to something bigger. Each week, hosts Ben Fanning and Zach Schultz bring you intimate, entertaining conversations wit ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Zero 2 F1

Richard Hages, Nick Schultz, Ben Fallin

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
Welcome to Zero 2 F1, the podcast where F1 meets fun and fresh eyes! Spearheaded by Ricky, Nick, and Ben, this show is a lively blend of race analysis, fan-driven banter, and a welcoming space for all levels of F1 enthusiasm. Dive into the exhilarating world of Formula 1 with us, where Ricky and Nick, fans with just a few years under their belts, share their growing passion and insights. Along for the ride is Ben, our newest recruit to the sport, whose journey from novice to knowledgeable ad ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Bringin' It Back to..."The Beatles"

Doug Kolk & Ben Don Sherwood

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
"Bringin' it Back to "The Beatles" with Doug and Ben" will include in-depth interviews with celebrities who discuss their bodies of work while including intimate aspects of how they were profoundly impacted by "The Beatles" throughout their lives. Doug Kolk is a professional entertainment broadcaster in Los Angeles. Ben Don Sherwood is an Australian artist/musician who runs the "World's Largest Beatles Facebook Group".....Oh yeah, and their wives are sisters!
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
CIM Marketing Podcast

CIM | The Chartered Institute of Marketing

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
The CIM Marketing Podcast delivers the latest news, trends, and insights from across the industry. Hosted by Ben Walker, this podcast offers accessible, relevant discussions on the big issues impacting marketing today. We spotlight actionable strategies, highlight best practices, and source expert opinions to help you elevate your marketing game. Whether you're focused on digital marketing, content creation, SEO, strategy, or something else entirely, we’ve got you covered. This podcast is yo ...
  continue reading
 
Sound Laws of Success is a podcast hosted by serial entrepreneur James Karl Butler who has grown five business from start-up to over $1 million. This podcast is designed to share with you laws and lessons from entrepreneurs that they've used as they've achieved success in their business and life.
  continue reading
 
The official companion podcast for the HBO Original series Succession. Journalist and host Kara Swisher unpacks every episode of this final season with the show’s writers, producers, and directors. Plus, she taps real life experts outside the show – like business titans, whistleblowers, and political consultants – to find out just how terrifyingly accurate the world of Succession really is. You can stream all episodes of Succession and listen to the podcast on Max. The Official Succession Po ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Wiffle Statement

Wiffle Statement

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
Hello there, I'm Ben. A pro Wiffle Ball player and analyst of the sport. You can catch me on my YouTube Channel where I strive to deliver the best Wiffle Ball content around the web and talk about what is going in the Wiff community as well as my own endeavors in the sport. I hope you enjoy the podcast and get out there and play some wiff!!
  continue reading
 
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show note ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
New Relic Modern Software Podcast

Modern Software podcast from New Relic

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
The New Relic Modern Software Podcast is designed to share insights and perspectives on the most important things happening in the world of software analytics, cloud computing, application monitoring, development methodologies, programming languages, and related topics. New Relic execs, customers, and industry experts participate in lively discussions on how to create, deliver, and manage great software experiences. New Relic, because you need to know what's happening in your software and sy ...
  continue reading
 
Welcome to Leadership Unpacked, the ultimate podcast series for anyone looking to elevate their leadership game, unlock their potential, and inspire others to do the same. Brought to you by the Business Book Club, this series dives deep into the timeless principles and groundbreaking strategies found in some of the world’s most influential leadership and personal development books. In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving business landscape, true leadership requires more than just making deci ...
  continue reading
 
Loading …
show series
 
David George is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm's Growth investing team. His team has backed many of the defining companies of this era, including Databricks, Figma, Stripe, SpaceX, Anduril, and OpenAI, and is now investing behind a new generation of AI startups like Cursor, Harvey, and Abridge. AGENDA: 03:05 – Why…
  continue reading
 
Why has Acquired — seemingly against all odds — “worked”? It's a puzzling question: episodes are four hours long, they come out infrequently, and they usually don’t have guests or video. Hardly the standard-issue playbook for podcasting success! And yet well over a million smart, curious and exceedingly busy humans share their (your!) valuable time…
  continue reading
 
Raaz Herberg is the Chief Marketing Officer and VP Product Strategy at Wiz, the fastest-growing cloud security company in history. As one of the first 10 employees, Raaz has helped scale the business from nothing to a multi-billion-dollar ARR business. Before Wiz, Raaz was a Senior PM working on Azure at Microsoft. AGENDA: 03:51 What No One Knows A…
  continue reading
 
In this deeply personal episode, Brett’s wife, Senior Constable Susan Forte, shares what it’s like to hear your husband’s final moments over the police radio and live through the week that followed. From the frantic drive to the scene, to sitting in the paddock as she’s told Brett is gone, to a funeral watched by thousands in blue, Susan opens a ra…
  continue reading
 
AGENDA: 03:46 SpaceX's $800 Billion Valuation: A Deep Dive 09:18 IPO Market Predictions for 2026 18:18 Netflix's Bold Move: Acquiring Warner Brothers 27:43 Tiger's New Fund Strategy 33:02 Databricks' Head of AI $500 Million Seed Round 36:38 Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Valuation 48:22 Will LLMs Kill the App Layer 01:02:02 Google's AI Capabilities…
  continue reading
 
Send us a text Learning to Fight Podcast — Conversations in Combat Skill After a year-long hiatus, the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast is back—Rebranded, and refocused as the Learning to Fight Podcast: Conversations in Combat Skill. Your hosts are: Adam Singer — Co-owner and head coach at SBG Athens, BJJ black belt, long-time MMA coach, with years of d…
  continue reading
 
There are times in every life where we come against things that would seem insurmountable. Some of these times we question if we can get through them at all. And sometimes it may be that God takes us home. Whatever we face, we can know that if our hope is in God alone, He has a plan and we can rest on that. On today's program, we will visit with a …
  continue reading
 
Tarek Mansour is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Kalshi, the leader in the world of prediction markets. Just last week, they announced their $1BN raise at an $11BN valuation. In total, they have raised $1.59BN from some of the best, including Sequoia, a16z, General Catalyst, IVP, Meritech, and more. They also last week announced exclusive partnerships wit…
  continue reading
 
The industry wanted virality. She wanted honesty. Guess who won? She walked away from the band, the marriage, the map — and somehow walked straight into her true voice. Nikki Bluhm didn’t plan the reinvention. She didn’t chase the algorithm. She didn’t engineer a “moment.” She just told the truth. This is a woman whose band once went viral… in a va…
  continue reading
 
Bending Spoons is the acquisition machine of the tech world. They have acquired the likes of Evernote, Vimeo, Eventbrite, Streamyard and more. However, they never open their gates to the secrets behind Evernote's product machine. Today that changes with Federico Simionato joining 20Product. Fede has been a Product Lead at Bending Spoons for 8 years…
  continue reading
 
In Part Three of our In Remembrance of Brett Forte series, Cath Nielsen takes us inside the coronial inquest and the fight for truth that followed Brett’s death. Cath reveals what happens when you challenge the accepted narrative from inside the job — how asking questions can lead to isolation, retaliation, and personal attacks. She outlines the mi…
  continue reading
 
AGENDA: 04:20 Thrive and OpenAI Partnership 07:14 Databricks Raising $5BN at $134BN Valuation: Cheap or Not? 17:39 Eventbrite Acquired by Bending Spoons for $500M 21:39 Pagerduty's $1BN Market Cap, Just 2x Revenue 26:59 The TAM Trap: Why SaaS Is Like Japan 37:42 Lessons from Companies Hitting $100M ARR 44:57 The Future of Labour Markets is F****** …
  continue reading
 
All of us at some time in our lives go through a painful loss. As a child, something small seems impossible to get through and as we get older small things become big things. No matter what it is that we face, there is always a way to get through. Today's guest will share a story of how he and his wife got through the untimely death of their young …
  continue reading
 
Jonathan Siddharth is Founder and CEO of Turing, one of the fastest-growing AI companies advancing frontier models. Jonathan has led the company to an astonishing $300M ARR with just $225M raised and a profitable company. A Stanford-trained AI scientist, Jonathan previously helped pioneer natural language search at Powerset, which was acquired by M…
  continue reading
 
Send us a text Learning to Fight Podcast — Conversations in Combat Skill After a year-long hiatus, the Primal MMA Coaching Podcast is back—Rebranded, and refocused as the Learning to Fight Podcast: Conversations in Combat Skill. Your hosts are: Adam Singer — Co-owner and head coach at SBG Athens, BJJ black belt, long-time MMA coach, with years of d…
  continue reading
 
John McMahon is widely regarded as one of the greatest enterprise-software sales leaders of all time. He's the only person to have served as Chief Revenue Officer at five public software companies: PTC, GeoTel, Ariba, BladeLogic and BMC Software. He helped scale BladeLogic from a startup into a public company — ultimately leading to its ~$880M sale…
  continue reading
 
In Part Two of our In Remembrance of Brett Forte series, Cath Nielsen takes us through the immediate aftermath of the ambush — the shock, the confusion, and the heavy days that followed Brett’s death. Cath shares what it was like going home in the early hours still covered in Brett’s blood, breaking the news to her family, and feeling the weight of…
  continue reading
 
AGENDA: 04:06 Anthropic's $30BN Investment from Microsoft and NVIDIA 07:01 Google vs. OpenAI: Sam Altman's "War Mode" Memo 15:27 NVIDIA's Customer Concentration: Bull or Bear 22:12 Is "War Mode" BS: Does Hyper-Aggressive Ever Work? 36:12 Sierra Hits $100M ARR: Justify $10BN Price? 46:14 Implementation is the Biggest Barrier to Enterprise AI Growth …
  continue reading
 
In this high-impact episode, we sit down with Amir Malik, Managing Director EMEA at Alvarez & Marsal, to break down the AI, marketing, and digital transformation trends that will shape the next 3-5 years. From agentic AI, conversational interfaces, and prompt-driven workflows to hyper-personalisation at scale, Malik reveals what these shifts really…
  continue reading
 
In our upcoming episode, we sit down with Amir Malik, Managing Director EMEA at Alvarez & Marsal, to break down the AI, marketing, and digital transformation trends that will shape the next 3 - 5 years. From agentic AI, conversational interfaces, and prompt-driven workflows to hyper-personalisation at scale, Malik reveals what these shifts really m…
  continue reading
 
There are so many times when we're going through really hard times and we begin to feel sorry for ourselves. We can allow those times to make us feel defeated and that life is unfair. But if we really look around at those around us, can we honestly say that? I've got it pretty easy compared to some others. As we listen to today's program, we will h…
  continue reading
 
Maor Shlomo is the Founder and CEO of Base44, the AI building platform that Maor built from idea to $80M acquisition by Wix, in just 8 months. Today the company serves millions of users and will hit $50M ARR by the end of the year. Before Base44, Maor was the Co-Founder and CTO of Explorium. AGENDA: 00:05 – 00:10: How Vibe Coding is Going to Kill S…
  continue reading
 
Coca-Cola is… sugar water. And somehow it’s also America, Christmas, summertime, friendship and happiness. Today we tell the story of how The Coca-Cola Company amazingly transmogrified a beverage into emotion in all of our collective psyches, and ALSO built one of the most incredible scale economy businesses of all-time. And oh yeah, there’s also c…
  continue reading
 
Max Altman is Co‑Founder & Managing Partner at Saga Ventures, a US$125 M early‑stage fund. Before Saga Max was an investor with Apollo Projects, Hydrazine Capital and Altman Capital (where he helped deploy over US$500 M) into breakout names such as Rippling and Reddit. AGENDA: 03:55 – Venture Capital Is FULL of Tourists With Single-Digit IQs 06:20 …
  continue reading
 
In this deeply personal and emotional first instalment of our In Remembrance of Brett Forte series, we sit down with Queensland police officer Cath Nielsen, the partner who sat beside Brett in the Tactical Crime Squad vehicle on 29 May 2017 — the day he was ambushed and killed. For the first time on the podcast, Cath takes us inside the moments lea…
  continue reading
 
AGENDA: 04:47 Cursor Raises $2.3BN at $29BN Valuation 11:36 What Gemini 3 Means for Lovable, Cursor and Replit 30:54 Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: The Bubble Bursting? 48:54 Oracle Credit Default Swaps: The Risk is Increasing 01:07:22 Stripe Does Tender at All-Time High: Why the Best Companies Will Never IPO 01:19:18 Why Retail WIll Cause a…
  continue reading
 
Jake Owen iis a platinum-selling artist with ten #1 hits, a Breakthrough Artist of the Year winner, and one of the most recognizable voices in modern country. You know him from “Barefoot Blue Jean Night,” “Beachin’,” and “American Country Love Song.” But after two decades at the top, Jake Owen did something most artists never dare to do - he reinve…
  continue reading
 
In this episode, Lee Milteer interviews me about Chapter 13 of my book Clear and Present Game Changers on how to deal with crisis situations in business and in life. I think you'll find this interview helpful as it seems that there are many crisis situations that emerge in business and in life from time to time and it is important to know how to be…
  continue reading
 
There are many times where we are struggling hard to hear a voice of direction for our lives. These messages can come from many places and many people, but the messages that we hear from God Himself are the most important ones. On today's program, we will hear from a husband and wife who were blessed with an inheritance of a family property that ha…
  continue reading
 
Dr. Andrew Ng is a globally recognized leader in AI. He is Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Executive Chairman of LandingAI, General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera. As a pioneer in machine learning Andrew has authored or co-authored over 200 research papers in machine learning, robotics and related fields. In 2023, he was named …
  continue reading
 
Carl Rivera is the Chief Design Officer at Shopify, where he previously led both Merchant Services and the Shop App as VP of Product. Before joining Shopify through its acquisition of Tictail, Carl was the co-founder and CEO of Tictail, the "Tumblr for e-commerce," where he built one of the most beloved design-forward commerce platforms of its era.…
  continue reading
 
Part 2 of our first-ever live show gets raw, real, and bloody funny. The crowd jumps in with questions—some from people looking to join the job—sparking honest advice not just from us, but from the current serving cops in the room. We cover it all: mental-health jobs that can turn in a heartbeat, the art of leadership on the frontline, and lessons …
  continue reading
 
Our first-ever live show! We’re at the Gold Coast Tavern with a rowdy crowd, reunited with our recruit-college “Mum” Di Gallo, swapping pink-slip memories, OC “party pack” war stories, the infamous Christmas domestic, and the legendary “red button” mishap. Plus, Todd jumps up for pursuit and stinger tales, and we launch the Cartonable Offence on th…
  continue reading
 
AGENDA: 04:22 Sequoia's Leadership Transition 09:46 Michael Burry's Big Short on Nvidia and Palantir 17:41 Gamma Raises $100M at a $2BN Valuation 32:34 Does Defensibility Exist Today When Copying is Easy 40:31 Should All Funds Be Way More Diversified 47:12 How to Run a Fundraising Process & What Not To Do 57:57 Datadog Surges 20% and Duolingo Crash…
  continue reading
 
In the latest episode of the CIM Marketing Podcast, we sit down with Meta’s Chief Marketing Officer, Alex Schultz, who shares powerful insights from his role at Meta and from his new book, Click Here: The Art and Science of Digital Marketing and Advertising. Schultz also discusses why marketers need to get the basics right, the concept of increment…
  continue reading
 
Alex Schultz, Meta’s Chief Marketing Officer, joins us to unpack the future of digital marketing. From defining your North Star and key metrics to mastering the concept of incrementality and leveraging AI for smarter campaigns, this teaser gives you a taste of what’s to come in the full episode launching later this week. Can’t wait for the full epi…
  continue reading
 
In hunting and fishing, we often learn hard lessons by the proverbial, "one that got away". The buck we missed, the trophy fish that broke off either at the boat or when it wrapped around a submerged tree. Every failure that we face in the outdoors or in life is the making of a lesson that might change our lives. On today's program, we join our hos…
  continue reading
 
Ev Randle is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the best funds in venture capital. In their latest fund, they have Mercor ($10BN valuation), Sierra ($10BN valuation), Firework ($4BN valuation), Legora ($2Bn valuation) and Langchain ($1.4Bn valuation). To put this in multiples on invested capital, that is a 60x, two 30x and two 20x. Before Benchm…
  continue reading
 
Chad Peets is one of the greatest sales leaders and recruiters of the last 25 years. From 2018 to 2023, Chad was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. Chad has worked with the world's best CEOs and CROs to build world-class go-to-market organizations. Chad is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Lacework and Luminary Cloud and on…
  continue reading
 
After seven huge weeks with Zach Rolfe, we’re back to basics—Two Ordinary Cops, eight jobs between us, and a candid debrief on where we’ve been and what’s coming. We unpack the big takeaways on resilience from the Rolfe series, preview an unmissable new multi-part interview with Cath Nielsen and Susie Forte (Brett Forte’s partner and widow), and re…
  continue reading
 
AGENDA: 04:27 Navan's IPO: Winners, Losers and 20% Crater 12:55 Harvey Raises $150M at an $8BN Valuation 35:36 Was Sam Altman Wrong to Snap at Brad Gerstner 41:25 Why GOOG is a Buy and Amazon is a Short 47:43 Meta Down 10%, Buy or Sell? 51:12 If You Have Not Accelerated with AI, You Are Dead 01:05:20 Why Now is the Best Time for Series A and Worst …
  continue reading
 
At just 21 years old, Stella Prince has already done what most artists spend a lifetime chasing. She’s been called “the artist bringing folk music to Gen Z” by Forbes, sang at a John Prine tribute in Nashville, and will record her debut album under the Northern Lights in Iceland. But what struck me most wasn’t her voice (which has shades of Joni Mi…
  continue reading
 
Most all of us who love the outdoors has at one time dreamt of how we could spend every day in the outdoors doing what we love. Life can be hard. It can be unfulfilled or it can be exciting and satisfying every day of our lives. How can we get there? On today's program, we will hear from a young man who thought he had everything he could want in li…
  continue reading
 
Joelle Pineau is the Chief AI Officer at Cohere, where she leads research on advancing large language models and practical AI systems. Before joining Cohere, she was VP of AI Research at Meta, where she founded and led Meta AI's Montreal lab. A professor at McGill University, Joelle is renowned for her pioneering work in reinforcement learning, rob…
  continue reading
 
🎧 20VC x Tim Ferriss — Full Episode Timeline 00:00 – "How Do You Stay True to Yourself When You Have to Perform for the World?" 06:00 – "Why Tim Ferriss Refused to Go All-In on YouTube" 09:00 – "You Don't Need 10 Million Fans—You Need 1,000 True Believers." 12:00 – "The Internet Is Not a Relevance Machine—It's a Sensationalism Machine." 15:00 – "Mo…
  continue reading
 
In the powerful conclusion to the Zach Rolfe series, the questions come from you — the listeners — and the answers come straight from Zach himself. No scripts, no rehearsals, just genuine, unfiltered truth. Schultzy and Damo sit down for one final deep dive where nothing’s off-limits. From leadership accountability and training shortfalls to moral …
  continue reading
 
AGENDA: 05:17 OpenAI's Restructuring: Winners and Losers 17:17 Andreessen Horowitz's Raise $10BN in New Funds 26:38 Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation 43:08 Spray and Pray: Does it Work: Data Breakdown 47:04 The Role of Option Checks Venture Capital 48:36 The Three Ways to Win in VC Today 54:26 Why IRR is a BS Metric and What Matters More 01:…
  continue reading
 
With AI and algorithms now powering much of our digital lives, it's easy to lose sight of the customer. Tune in to the latest episode of the CIM Marketing Podcast to learn how marketers can design strategies that prioritise authenticity, empathy and connect with human psychology. In the latest, must-listen episode of the CIM Marketing Podcast, we d…
  continue reading
 
In this upcoming episode, we’ll be diving into the powerful and often subtle ways that emerging technology is reshaping consumer psychology and giving marketers an entirely new playbook. We’ll be welcoming experts Becky Simms, CEO of Reflect Digital, and Dr. Tom Bowden-Green, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Behavioural Science on to the show to di…
  continue reading
 
In most of the nation, we are in the middle of the fall hunting season and as we think about the game we are chasing we know that they are extremely sneaky and elusive. God created most every game animal to be a master of hiding and they do it well. On today's program, we will meet a father and son as well as our host and his grandson who all love …
  continue reading
 
Loading …
Copyright 2025 | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | | Copyright
Listen to this show while you explore
Play