Just Getting Started

Today you’ll hear from Nate Hamet, Co-founder and CEO of Quindar. Join us as we discuss Nate’s path to discovering his passion for SpaceTech, meeting his five co-founders, and how Quindar is becoming mission-critical – pun intended – for satellite operators and beneficiaries of their data like you and me. Let's get started!

Today you’ll hear from Doug Logan, Co-founder and CEO of Aerial. Join us to learn about Doug’s prior experience serving startups and midmarket M&A at K&L gates, and how the pain from masses of clerical work inspired his vision for Aerial. Speeding up financing rounds and creating legal cost savings for founders is what inspired his mission from the start. Let's get started!

Today's Operational Excellence episode features Mike Bignold, the Founder and CEO of CostCertified. In this conversation he sits down with FUSE GP Brendan Wales to share about how he leverages a numbers-driven approach to operating, and how it's helped CostCertified to grow by more than 10x in the last two years.  Let's get started! 

In this episode we sit down with Leif Magnuson, Co-Founder and CEO of TipHaus . In this conversation he is joined by FUSE GP Brendan Wales to discuss some of his creative tactics for operating leanly and efficiently -- and how it's helped TipHaus 10x its revenue in two years.Let's get started!

Today's Operational Excellence episode features FUSE Operating Partner John Connors. John has been a partner at Ignition (FUSE’s Alma Matter) since 2005 and also served as CFO and CIO of Microsoft. Throughout his career he has served on many public, private, non-profit and civic boards, some notably including Nike and Splunk. In this conversations he sits down with FUSE GP Cameron Borumand to share about how to build and run world class boards. John has seen it all when it comes to boards and offers some sage advice about what to do and what NOT to do - especially in the wake of some recent notable public company board failures. It's going to be a great discussion. Let's get started! 

Today I am joined by Jackson and Jamieson Fregeau, the founders of Quandri. Join us as we discuss how these two brothers teamed up to build an RPA platform to automate workflows for insurance brokerages. Let's get started!

Today's Operational Excellence episode features Paul Mikesell, the current Founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics. Prior to Carbon, Paul co-founded Isilon Systems, which went public in 2006 and was subsequently acquired by EMC for $2.25 billion in 2010. Paul also served as Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber, where he grew the team and opened the company’s engineering office in Seattle.Paul knows what it takes to build consequential businesses. In this conversation he sits down with FUSE GP Cameron Borumand to share about how to effectively hire, motivate and lead teams. He will also walk through his employee scoring system that is a great method for driving clear performance conversations. Let's get started! 

Today you’ll hear from Benji Barash, Co-founder and CEO of Roboto. Join us to learn about Benji’s experience helping run the drone program at Amazon – and how it paved the way for starting Roboto. This business is transforming the way engineers can access and analyze multimodal hardware and sensor data. Let's get started!

This month's Operational Excellence webinar features FUSE LP and Attentive VP of Sales, Gavin Hewitt.In this discussion, Gavin and FUSE's Brendan Wales discuss sales best practices. Topics include: how to best serve big and small ACVs, how to build comp and capacity models for SDRs/AEs, how to drive top rep performance, and more.With Gavin's experience leading teams + selling a diversified set of products and services his guidance is timely and relevant.Let's get started!