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Off the Record

Practical advice and actionable takeaways for building a better business. With exclusive insights from industry leaders.
This series is full of insider insights to help you navigate leadership and stay focussed on your founder's journey.
If you are a founder or director, Off the Record is a podcast you want to bookmark. Most stories you’ll hear haven’t been shared publicly before. It’s like chatting with a mentor privately at lunch. Enjoy!
- Aram, CEO @ Crowdlinker.

Hi, it’s Aram.
Every week I’m interviewing Founders and VC’s to talk about all thing’s growth. From raising and allocating capital, to building a dedicated team and managing mental wellness.

Episodes

March 31, 2021
41:40 minutes
Excited to speak with Rachel Zimmer, the General Manager of Entrepreneur First, a $140M fund that bets on people first, and then coaches them to find their breakthrough ideas.
March 22, 2021
37:24 minutes
It’s an absolute pleasure to interview Nasir Qadree, a Founder and Managing Partner at Zeal Capital Partners about building a more diverse VC industry.
March 9, 2021
41:30 minutes
I’m chatting with Jayesh Parmar, the former CEO/Cofounder of Picatic (acquired by Evenbrite) about getting through ups and downs of running your business.
March 2, 2021
27:41 minutes
This is the 2nd episode with our guest host Sergey Ross. He's interviewing the founder and CEO of NRPR Group - Nicole Rodrigues.
March 1, 2021
44:08 minutes
I’m honoured to be interviewing Bruce Croxon today. They call him a modern Renaissance man. He started delivering newspapers when he was only 12 for Globe and Mail making $5 to $7 a week before going to school at 7am. Co-founded a company Lavalife in 1988 long before “social networking” became a thing. Sold it for 180 million dollars with 2,000,000 users. 
February 24, 2021
43:38 minutes
Today Brennan McEachran, CEO @ Soapbox shares how to raise money, make a strong pitch deck and not to blow the money you raised too quickly.
February 10, 2021
55:26 minutes
It’s a very personal interview with stories I haven’t shared publicly before. In this episode I’m surrendering my role as a host of the show and being interviewed by our content marketing team-member Sergey Ross.
January 27, 2021
43:19 minutes
This time I’m chatting with Co-CEO of talent.com, Lucas Martinez. talent.com is one of the fastest growing employment websites in the world.
December 22, 2020
42:01 minutes
I’m joined today by Brett Belchetz, CEO of Maple. Brett has $73.7M in 4 rounds and shares what he has learned in this journey.
December 12, 2020
41:53 minutes
Excited to be joined today by Craig Zingerline, 6 time founder (4 exits) who has helped dozens of companies scale their growth. He now heads Startup Growth University and is also a CPO at Sandboxx.
December 5, 2020
39:21 minutes
My first interview with a bootstrapped founder Ilya Brotzky from Vanhack. We are chatting about how he avoided raising money, mistakes he made early on with not vesting equity, and general advice to entrepreneurs.
December 3, 2020
38:34 minutes
Today I’m chatting with the CEO of EnergyX Nishaant Sanjavi about his story if raising money, managing their VCs and spending their money.
December 1, 2020
40:44 minutes
In this episode I’m joined by Lu Zhang, Founder & Managing Partner of Fusion Fund to talk about how to structure your round as a founder, when to raise money and how to assess your company valuation.
November 28, 2020
40:52 minutes
Today I have a pleasure to interview Jillian Manus, Managing Partner at Structure Capital. She wrote the third investment check that Uber raised and has now backed a total of about 71 companies.
November 24, 2020
38:07 minutes
In this episode I’m interviewing a VC who used to be a software engineer Troy Henikoff, Managing Director from MATH Venture Partners.
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