The Brilliant Ones

Managing a 10 Million Dollar Self Storage Fund with Faraz Hermani

Faraz Hemani is the Founder & CEO of Pebble Ridge Capital. Pebble Ridge partners with investors to acquire and operate under-performing self storage facilities all across the US. Faraz has been investing in real estate since the age of 22. After leaving his six-figure job at Google, Faraz went all in on his real estate investments. In this episode, he shares his journey into real estate investing, why self storage facilities make good investments and how he grew Pebble Ridge to a $10M portfolio.

Building World Class Solutions with CEO Jeevan Betigeri

Jeevan Betigeri is the Founder & CEO of Fathom Software. Fathom Software builds custom software for clients ranging from startups to enterprises.  After spending years working in IT, Jeevan decided to start his own company. Jeevan has developed world class solutions from rapid prototypes to enterprise software integrations. The journey wasn't easy. In this episode, he shares his story building Fathom Software to multi-million dollar company, growth hacks he learned along the way. We also look into his other business ventures revolutionizing the influencer and mobile ordering space.

Reinventing Tomorrow with Serial Entrepreneur Kristi Otto

Kristi Otto is the Co-founder and CMO at VClick3d. VClick3d is a proprietary sensory communication platform for video surveillance and IoT devices that reduces bandwidth and storage to zero while maintaining 100% evidentiary data at the edge. Over the past decade, Kristi has helped bring technology solutions from idea stage to launch. She has brought new ideas to companies and helped bring them to market. Her contributions have been recognized by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In this episode, she shares advice for startups looking to scale during market uncertainty, working with innovators and building a smart sensing technology product in the pediatric space.

Roderick Hearn Turns His Side Hustle Into a 2 Million Dollar Business Straight Out of Prison...

Roderick Hearn is the CEO and founder of Ironrod Steel Co. After spending 13 years in prison, Roderick founded Ironrod Steel Co and quickly grew it to over 2 Million Dollars in revenue in less than 5 years. Ironrod Steel Co is a steel distributor security fence and gate manufacturing company. In this episode, Roderick discusses how he picked up the welding trade in prison, overcoming challenges building the right team and quickly expanding operations into their 42,000 square feet warehouse.

Meet Jay Veal The Man Who Is Revolutionizing The Education Industry...

Jay Veal is the Founder and CEO of INC Education. Serving more than 11,000 students INC Education is a private, prescriptive tutoring company specializing in individual one-on-one tutoring that achieves results. Serving clients at all academic levels in math, science and standardized test preparation. He has been featured in Black Enterprise, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Rolling Out, Business Insider and NBC. In this episode, he sheds light on the importance of college readiness, private tutoring, building a tutoring business and his calling to help the youth.