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Building a marketplace from scratch, with Hipcamp founder Alyssa Ravasio

Alyssa Ravasio loves using ‘coyote trickster energy’ to get more people to put down their technology. Her camping marketplace, Hipcamp, has grown into the largest source for booking campsites on public and private land. She talks with host Jeff Berman about scaling the company, l ...  Show more

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Building a marketplace from scratch, with Hipcamp founder Alyssa Ravasio

Alyssa Ravasio loves using ‘coyote trickster energy’ to get more people to put down their technology. Her camping marketplace, Hipcamp, has grown into the largest source for booking campsites on public and private land. She talks with host Jeff Berman about scaling the company, l ...  Show more

Kalshi vs. Everyone: Co-Founder Luana Lopes Lara on the lawsuits and the long game

Prediction markets incentivize truth. Everything else incentivizes clickbait. That's the core argument Luana Lopes Lara makes for Kalshi — the prediction market platform she co-founded that has gone from $5 billion to $22 billion in valuation in under a year, and is now being sue ...  Show more

Don't be boring: KCRW's Jennifer Ferro on building a brand people love

Jennifer Ferro is the former board chair of NPR and president of Southern California’s iconic public radio organization: KCRW. Ferro talks with host Jeff Berman about how nearly two decades as the founder’s deputy taught her to lead, why she thinks we deserve a better internet, a ...  Show more

Halloween meets GLP-1s: Hershey’s candy Super Bowl, with CEO Kirk Tanner

The second a brand like Hershey stops being culturally relevant, says its CEO Kirk Tanner, you should be worried. He joins Rapid Response to explain exactly what he's doing to make sure that never happens. Tanner also reveals why GLP-1 users are actually good for the candy busine ...  Show more

Rapid Response: Stop creating businesses. Buy one instead, with Codie Sanchez

Own or be owned. That's Codie Sanchez's ultimatum for anyone serious about their financial future. The founder of Contrarian Thinking and author of the new book Own or Be Owned returns to Rapid Response to make her most impassioned case yet for why buying a small business is the ...  Show more