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Guest interviews
English
United States
71 episodes
since Aug. 3, 2024
episodic

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What does it take to walk away from a business that’s working, because you know it will never be great? On Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan talks with Jean-Denis Greze, co-founder of Town, about a path that took more than a decade to find. He started coding as a teenager to play dial-up BBS games f…

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Why do we accept broken systems as normal? On Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan talks with Heather Fernandez, co-founder of Solv, about a career spent questioning the systems everyone else accepts. It started in elementary school, when she asked the monsignor at her church why she couldn't be an alt…
What happens when the kid who scored his first basket on his own team becomes an NBA champion, and then has to start over again? On Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan talks with former Golden State Warrior Festus Ezeli about a journey nobody could have scripted. Festus grew up in Benin City, Nigeria,…
What does it take to quit your job, skip venture capital entirely, and build two seven-figure businesses on relationships alone? On Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan talks with Stephanie Cartin, co-founder of Socialfly and Entreprenista, about the day she and co-founder Courtney quit their jobs, May…
How do you keep going when your biggest success comes with losing almost everything along the way? On Breaking Precedent, Kass and Mike Lazerow discuss their book Shoveling Shit: A Love Story and what happens when entrepreneurship and marriage collide, especially while raising three kids. They re…
What happens when a $648 billion market goes uncounted, and who decided it wasn't worth measuring in the first place? This episode follows Erin Harkless Moore from the breakfast table in San Antonio, through Goldman Sachs, Cambridge Associates, and Princeton's endowment, to Pivotal, the organizati…
What happens when you turn down an early job at Netflix, back when it was still just an idea about mailing DVDs, and then spend the next decade proving that work doesn't have to happen in an office? This episode follows Gary Swart from running a parts middleman business in New Jersey to leading oD…
What does it take to keep building a workwear brand for a decade after a top VC tells you, in writing, that utility doesn't belong in women's clothing? This episode traces Sali Christeson's path from a childhood split between a South Carolina farm and her father's rug shop in Istanbul's bazaars to…
What did Anne Wojcicki see in healthcare that made her leave Wall Street and risk challenging an entire industry to put power back in patients’ hands?  Welcome to the brand new season of Breaking Precedent where Leah Solivan interviews 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki about breaking medical “gatekeep…
Season 3 of Breaking Precedent is here. This season, Leah sits down with founders, athletes, and builders who refused to accept the world as it was handed to them. From a card game that turns into hard business questions, to rewriting the script for life after sports, to reimagining what healthcare…
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