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21st Century Entrepreneurship

by Martin Piskoric
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About the show

An entrepreneurship podcast that transforms in-depth interviews with founders, CEOs, investors, executives, creators, and business leaders into tightly edited, first-person narratives that distill what matters most from their real-world experience. A four-time Gold Award-winning show with more than 540 published interviews, 21st Century Entrepreneurship explores how businesses are built, funded, scaled, transformed, and sometimes rebuilt from failure. Host Martin Piskoric guides each conversation toward the moments, decisions, lessons, and experiences most useful to listeners, then steps out of the final edit. What remains is the guest's voice—without small talk, unnecessary promotion, or interview clutter—shaped with music and space for reflection. Episodes cover entrepreneurship, leadership, business strategy, growth, marketing, finance and investment, AI and technology, personal development, and the realities of building and leading businesses.

Latest episodes

  • #551 Joe Downs: Can $150K Buy What $500K Does in Multifamily?

    September 30, 2026 · 24 min

    Joe Downs is a self-storage investor, developer, educator, and former residential real-estate investor, and we spoke about why he moved into a market where more than 70% of facilities are still owned by mom-and-pop operators. His turning…

  • #550 Alexandre Mongeon: Can $5 Replace $350 in Boat Fuel?

    September 26, 2026 · 19 min

    Alexandre Mongeon is a CEO and co-founder of Vision Marine Technologies. Alex has been building electric boats since 2013, and we spoke about what it takes to turn a technology people doubt into something they can actually trust and use…

  • #549 Latané Conant: Why Are 75% of Customer Insights Ignored?

    September 23, 2026 · 14 min

    Latané Conant is a four-time CMO, author, community builder, and Chief Market Officer at Parloa, and we spoke about why companies spend heavily trying to understand customers while often making it harder for those same customers to talk to…

  • #548 Matt Edelman: How Can Brands Win Gamified Consumers?

    September 17, 2026 · 22 min

    Matt Edelman is the CEO and president of Super League Enterprise and we spoke about how the gamified consumer mindset is reshaping marketing—and how his own path from Marvel and film production unexpectedly prepared him to run a public…

  • #547 Dean Drako: How Do Product, Timing, and Luck Drive Success?

    September 14, 2026 · 15 min

    Dean Drako is a serial entrepreneur who has founded somewhere between five and fifteen companies, raised venture capital around 20 times in Silicon Valley, and experienced both successful exits and failures—and we spoke about the operating…

  • #546 Sam Demma: What Happens When You Expect Nothing Back?

    September 11, 2026 · 17 min

    Sam Demma is an author and keynote speaker who has delivered close to 850 talks across four continents, and we spoke about how losing a Division I soccer scholarship after three major knee injuries redirected his life toward service…

  • #545 Amy Perez: Can Dreams Improve Your Decisions?

    September 11, 2026 · 20 min

    Amy Perez, CEO at myDream & Mindful Software, Inc. - is a former government technology leader, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and responsible AI consultant, and we spoke about using dreams as another source of information for decisions…

  • #544 Saurabh Gupta: Why Do 90% of AI Pilots Fail to Scale?

    September 8, 2026 · 21 min

    Saurabh Gupta is CEO of The Modern Data Company, and we spoke about why so many AI initiatives struggle to scale despite massive investment in the technology. His perspective comes from nearly 30 years in data: designing the World Bank’s…