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Welcome to a new season of The Entrepreneur Podcast featuring the likes of Arkadi Kuhlmann of ING Direct Canada and US, Silicon Valley veteran Mona Sabet, and tech entrepreneur Rory Capern, whose career has included stints at some of the biggest brands in the world.
Check out our first episode of the season on Thursday, February 27th.
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Eric Morse
A pioneer and legend in the banking industry. Arkadi Kuhlmann first introduced the world to direct banking when he founded ING Direct Canada in 1996
Arkadi Kuhlmann
I'm an immigrant, like a lot of other people, right? And so, you know, I was always the outside person, and I had to fight my way in, and I had to perform to get accepted. And when you roll that forward, and now you get in a position where you have funding, you're trying to build a team, you're trying to build camaraderie, you want to be colleagues and so on, those lessons of disappointment and difficulty and challenges get you to be very empathetic and very sympathetic to what other people are going through trying to actually fit in.
Eric Morse
Google, Microsoft, Twitter and the Weather Network. Rory Capern has really done it all.
Rory Capern
So don't fall into the business hole. There's a lot of things to understand, human psychology, economics. (Stay curious) Exactly. And I think the strength of that comes out in two different ways. One is, I think you can build a better product if you understand the world from a bunch of the world from a bunch of different perspectives. But two is in the ability to relate to others.
Eric Morse
A technology sector, deal maker, entrepreneur, diversity advocate and community builder. These are some of the terms that describe Mona Sabet.
Mona Sabet
Because it was a software company I had sort of put everything in place that you needed to put for the legal part of the business. And I went to the CEO, and I said, Look, you know, this isn't interesting for me anymore. And he said, Okay, well, why don't you take on some product marketing and some business development. And so the beautiful thing about startups is there's always, like, too many things to do, and if you just raise your hand, you will get given stuff, the
Eric Morse
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