Octavia Goredema is the CEO and founder of Fire Memos, a software company dedicated to igniting careers. The platform empowers employees to record and recognize their work accomplishments with AI powered career coaching.

She’s also an acclaimed career expert: she’s the author of "PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women", the host of the Audible Original series "How to Change Careers with Octavia Goredema", and has been featured on CNN, Harvard Business Review, and Fortune.

Today we’re seeing stars on Startup Different!

In this episode of Startup Different, we discuss our insightful conversation last week with Mark Organ. We'll unpack the myths of entrepreneurship, the importance of communication, iterative improvement, and the dynamics of acquisitions. We'll also explore how effective communication and customer connection can drive business success, the iterative processes that lead to improvement, and the significance of understanding the founder's role post-acquisition. Let's get into it!

This week we’re talking to a ridiculously successful entrepreneur, Mark Organ. Mark was an entrepreneurial go-to-market specialist, a CEO with a focus on sales, marketing and business development. Along the way he’s lived in Toronto, Silicon Valley, Chicago and Singapore. He’s Founded 6 companies, raised more than 15 rounds of financing, hired over 250 people, built 7 offices around the world, and helped a lot of people realize their dreams. We had a bunch of questions for him but honestly he was so interesting that we just let him talk. It’s go time on Startup Different.