Tech Visionary Steve Case, founder of AOL, on how to deliver a compelling investor pitch and more

In this week’s episode, Dan Hesse talks with Steve Case, one of America’s most influential tech visionaries, the CEO of the investment firm Revolution, the founder and former CEO of AOL, and the author of The Rise of the Rest. In addition to learning how entrepreneurs can make a great pitch to investors, we’ll discuss how innovation is moving to America’s heartland, rejuvenating major cities, and why this is so important to our country’s future. 

Steve Case co-founded AOL in 1985. Under Steve’s leadership as CEO, AOL became the largest and most valuable Internet company on the planet, driving the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based investment firm that backs entrepreneurs at every stage of their development. The Rise of the Rest Seed Fund has invested in more than 200 startups in more than 100 U.S. cities, in partnership with many of America’s most successful entrepreneurs and investors. Steve was recently named co-chair of the National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, an organization aimed at celebrating and accelerating entrepreneurship.

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Meet George Brett: How a willingness to be coached and listen turned an average hitter into one of the greatest to ever swing a bat

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, host Dan Hesse talks with one of the greatest baseball players of all-time, Hall of Famer George Brett.

George is the only major league player in history to win batting titles in three decades, and the only player ever with 3000 hits, 300 home runs, 600 doubles, 100 triples and 200 stolen bases. In addition to a  career batting average of over .300, he retired as the American League’s all-time leader in being walked intentionally.

During George’s 21-year career with Kansas City, the Royals had 15 winning seasons with seven post-season and two World Series appearances, winning the World Series in 1985. A gold glove third baseman, his #5 was retired by the Royals, and George was inducted into the Hall of Fame with the 8th highest vote tally of all-time. Read the full entry at TheMentorsRadio.com.

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Manfred Krankl: An Immigrant’s Self-Taught Journey to the American Dream

In this episode, host Dan Hesse talks with Manfred Krankl, the successful builder of multiple businesses including the restaurant Campanile and the bakery La Brea, but he is best known as a winemaking icon.

Manfred is the founder, owner and winemaker at Sine Qua Non, which has redefined the term “cult wine” and earned 25 perfect 100 point scores from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, more than any winery in the world during this time period according to my research. Krankl is an innovator with unusual wine bottle shapes plus his own art that changes each year. According to Chat GPT, Sine Qua Non wines have appreciated more in value in the last decade than any wine in the world, including the famous French Burgundy Domaine de la Romanee-Conti. His new winery Next of Kyn is yet another remarkable success.

SHOW NOTES

BIO: https://www.vinum.eu/de/wein/winzer/2020/manfred-krankl/

BOOK: The Art of SQN, by Manfred Frankl

WEBSITE: Sine Qua Non

ARTICLES

• The Frankl Cult – Forbes

• Sine Qua Non, Next of Kyn and the Third Twin – The Wine Independent

• Hedonism Meets… Manfred Krankl – Hedonism Wines

• The 12 Wines from “The Drops of God” – The Drink Business

• Sine Qua Non Collection – Cult Wine

General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal on Leadership, Building Teams and Risk Management

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Dan Hesse talks with General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal about his career, leadership, building teams, risk response and more.

A one-of-a-kind commander with a new perspective on organizational dynamics, Ret. General Stan McChrystal is known for helping elite teams tap into the potential of their people to better compete in a complex and interconnected world.

Few can speak about leadership, teamwork, technology and international affairs with as much insight can he. Ret. General McChrystal is the former Commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan, former leader of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and co-founder of The McChrystal Group. His exceptional and innovative understanding of organizational dynamics has led to remarkable achievements in both military and business applications.

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Tom Wheeler, former Chairman of the FCC and pioneering CEO telecom entrepreneur about the privacy issues and the future of high-tech communications

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, host Dan Hesse talks with Tom Wheeler. Currently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Tom Wheeler is a businessman, an author of many books and former Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017.

As an entrepreneur, Wheeler started and helped start multiple companies offering offering innovative cable, wireless and video communications services. He is the only person to be selected to both the Cable Television Hall of Fame and the Wireless Hall of Fame.

Prior to being appointed to the FCC, Wheeler was president and CEO of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) and following NCTA, he was the CEO of several high-tech companies. For 12 years, Tom Wheeler served as president and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA). Read the full entry at TheMentorsRadio.com.

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How Mentors Developed Golf Master Tom Watson’s Skills, Character and Love of Golf, and How He’s Returning the Favor

In this episode, The Mentors Radio host Dan Hesse talks with Tom Watson, a true legend of the game of golf. Watson won eight major championships including five British Opens, two wins at The Masters, and arguably the most dramatic U.S. Open victory in history. He also has 39 PGA Tour wins, 14 additional wins worldwide and 14 wins on The Champions Tour, six of them majors. A six-time PGA Tour Player-of-the-Year, Tom Watson was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1988. 

In this episode, Hesse and Watson discuss the role and critical importance of mentors in his life and career, and how he’s now paying it forward for future generations. The life lessons in this powerful interview are applicable in so many other areas of our life and definitely applicable to anyone’s career path.

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Values, Priorities and the Impact of a Good Mentor, a conversation with Tim Brown

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Dan Hesse talks with Tim Brown, one of the greatest wide receivers in NFL history. He is the only receiver in history to win the Heisman Trophy AND be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Tim grew up in Dallas and received a scholarship to play football at Notre Dame.  After winning the Heisman, he was the sixth overall pick in the NFL draft, taken by the LA Raiders, where “Mr Raider” as he was called, played almost his entire 17-year NFL career. He made the Pro Bowl nine times. When he retired Tim trailed only Jerry Rice in career receiving yards. In the long history of America’s most popular sport, only 10 players have won the Heisman and later been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Eight are still living. He is the author of The Making of a Man. Off the field, Tim has been involved in various charities, including his work with the Tim Brown Foundation.

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Discovering our Unconscious Bias with Anne Chow

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, host Dan Hesse talks with Anne Chow, the former CEO of AT&T Business, a $35B global operating unit comprised of 35,000 people. Anne became known for her unique style of leadership which prioritizes people, relationships, trust, and culture as the foundation for growth and success. Her leadership experiences span product management, marketing sales, strategy, customer service, operations, network engineering and more. Anne was named to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business twice, Forbes inaugural CEO Next List of Leaders and is a best-selling co-author of The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias.

Everyone harbors unconscious biases which reduce team effectiveness, that’s why leaders—at ALL levels, from entrepreneur, to small business owner, to manager and middle managers, to CEOs, even to nonprofits, volunteer leaders, parents and individuals—must reflect and discover their own biases in order to help their team members discover and mitigate theirs. In this episode Dan and Anne discuss how bias stands in the way of team performance and how to overcome it.

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