My Biggest Lesson

Range Ventures

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Welcome to My Biggest Lesson, the podcast that brings you the key learnings from the most influential founders, executives and investors in the Colorado tech community.

Hosts, Adam Burrows and Chris Erickson, are the founders of Range Ventures - an early stage venture firm based in Denver. Listen to a series of conversations featuring the leaders of successful startups in Colorado and beyond. You’ll learn about their life, career, and the most important lesson they’ve learned along the way.

Find out more about what they're up to at Range.VC at https://www.range.vc/

Connect with Adam and Chris and the Range VC team on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/range-ventures/

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Allison Lowrie: Play Outside Your Position

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11/18/21 • 20 min

Host Adam and Chris chat with Allison Lowrie who is a seasoned marketing leader that has spent the last 20 years growing consumer brands like Volkswagen, Celebrity Cruises, Cars.com, HomeAdvisor and Angie’s List. Allison helped take Angi Homeservices public while increasing revenue from $200M to $1.4B. She currently leads the marketing organization at Vacasa which is expected to make its public debut in 2021.

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Jake Bolling: Be Impatient with Inputs and Patient with Outputs

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07/20/23 • 20 min

This week Adam speaks with Jake Bolling, Co-founder and CEO of Skupos, a technology platform used by over 15,000 convenience stores nationwide, as well as companies like PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Hershey, and more. Skupos has raised over $60M in funding and Jake was recently recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30. In this episode, Jake talks about how fixing a problem with a bankrupt gas can company he bought led to the launch of Skupos, what prompted him to grow his company in Colorado's emerging tech scene, and how his biggest lesson taught him the value of trusting the process.

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Skupos - https://www.skupos.com/

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Eric Roza: Trust Your Internal Compass

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08/12/21 • 28 min

In a very special episode, Adam and Chris speak with Eric Roza, the CEO of CrossFit who also serves on the boards of Crestone Capital, Endeavor, Sondermind, Spark Grills and as an advisor to Range Ventures. He started his career at Bain & Company and worked for a number of technology companies in product, marketing, strategy, and general management. Eric led the team that built Datalogix to its sale to Oracle for over a billion dollars. Hear how Eric uses his intuition to help guide him through his biggest lesson.

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Erik Mitisek: Everything Is An Infinite Game

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11/04/21 • 23 min

On this episode, Chris and Adam speak with Erik Mitisek, who is the Founder and CEO of the first open data platform for commercial insurance, Highwing. Erik has over two decades of experience leading ventures in the public, private, non-profit, and education spaces. Also a Colorado native, Erik shares his unique perspective on the growth in the Colorado tech ecosystem as well as his biggest lesson.

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Loren Bendele: Invest in Relationships

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12/02/21 • 24 min

Loren Bendele has spent his career building, leading, and advising disruptor tech companies. He’s now the CEO of Arryved, an innovative fintech company going above and beyond standard point of sale systems. In this episode, hosts Adam and Chris learn how investing in people has made an impact in Loren's life and career and why Loren finds the Colorado's ecosystem so appealing

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Matthew Wetschler: Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast

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07/21/22 • 18 min

Our guest this week is Matthew Wetschler who as CEO of Plume, empowers teams to provide world-class trans-healthcare and create more equitable health experiences for everyone. Matthew shares stories from his unique career from Stanford-trained physician, entrepreneur, and healthcare innovator. Plus Chris and Adam learn what attracted Matthew to Denver and its tech community.

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Kristin Langenfeld: Hire Based on Culture & Mission Alignment

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02/17/23 • 21 min

Hosts Adam and Chris chat with Kristin Langenfeld, who is the CEO and founder of GoodBuy Gear, a managed marketplace for parents to safely and sustainably buy and sell used baby and kid products. As of 2016, Kristin has created and launched a custom in-house app, expanded from a garage to multiple 30,000 sq ft warehouses and taken GoodBuy Gear from five to over 75 employees. On this episode Kristin shares, her story on what led her to Colorado, her favorite companies to watch, plus tactical advice for screening new hires to fit your companies culture!. Dive in!

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GoodBuy Gear - https://goodbuygear.com/

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Nicole Glaros: It's About the People

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08/26/21 • 30 min

Nicole Glaros is currently the Chief Investment Strategy Officer at Techstars, where she helped grow the portfolio from 10 companies to over 2,500 and from $300K to over $750M under management. On this episode, hosts Adam and Chris speak with Nicole as she shares how her persistence manifested a role with Techstars, what her thoughts are on how to manage risk as an investor and how her Biggest Lesson has shaped her career

Find out more about what we're up to at range.vc and connect with Adam and Chris and the Range Ventures team on LinkedIn.

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Tom Higley: Success Can Mean More Than Winning

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09/29/22 • 27 min

Our guest this week is Tom Higley, who is the founder and CEO of X Genesis a new venture studio focused on entrepreneur success in health, water, climate and 10.10.10. a 501(c)3 a project of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center (CNDC). Tom has seen the Colorado ecosystem grow since the dot come era as a long-time Techstars mentor and advisor to hundreds of founder and CEO's in his over 20+ years. On this episode Tom shares why his lesson on success is based on what the meaning of success is to you Plus hosts, Chris and Adam learn what Colorado company Tom has his eyes on and what exactly led to his exit of $280MIllion.

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Check out more about what we're up to at Range.vc

Connect with hosts Adam and Chris and the Range VC team on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/range-ventures/

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Katrina Benjamin: Learn Everyday

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01/20/22 • 21 min

Katrina Benjamin currently is the CPO at Apartment List where she oversees Product Management, Design, Research and Analytics. Prior to Apartment List, Katrina spent 8 years at Upwork leading Operations, Marketing and Product teams. She was most recently VP of Product and GM of Talent Marketplace. She started her career in Operations and Strategy at Oportun Financial, a financial technology start-up. She is a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Katrina lives in Colorado with her husband and three young children.

Check out more about what we're up to at Range.vc

Connect with Adam and Chris and the Range VC team on LinkedIn

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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