Dan sits down with Tamim Khalfa, Co-Founder and CEO of Toters. Toters is an on-demand delivery platform based in Lebanon that connects users with restaurants, grocery stores, and various retailers, providing fast and convenient delivery services. Tamim is also an Endeavor Entrepreneur and Board Member through Endeavor Lebanon. Prior to Toters, Tamim was a Management Consultant at Booz & Company and Oliver Wyman.
The Bear Roars
The Bear Roars is hosted by three-time decacorn entrepreneur and venture investor Dan Caruso. Colorado Innovators, the Bandwidth revolution (associated with Dan’s book), and DeepTech are areas of focus. The purpose is to celebrate innovators, inspire listeners, and spark conversations within the innovation community.
Latest Episodes:
Bandwidth: Stephanie Copeland, Managing Partner at Four Points Funding
Dan sits down with Stephanie Copeland, Managing Partner at Four Points Funding. Dan and Stephanie relive the telecom era and their career journeys, including working together at Level 3 and Zayo group. This episode includes many great stories about the early bandwidth days and those influential in shaping the sector: from illegal stock swaps, accounting fraud, to larger than life characters that followed a strict ethical code.
Colorado Innovators: Brandon Spano, founder and CEO of ALLCITY
Dan sits down with Brandon Spano, the CEO of ALLCITY Network. ALLCITY is a content-focused sports media company that provides in-depth coverage, podcasts, and videos focused on professional and collegiate sports teams in 5 cities across the US: Denver, Phoenix, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Dallas. They also have physical bar locations in each of these cities, which offer a hub for passionate local sports fans.
Bandwidth: Bob Yates Part II, Building the Foundation of the Internet
This is Part II of Dan's sit down with Bob Yates, a prominent figure in the Boulder, Colorado community. In Part II, Dan and Bob discuss their shared history in the world of telecom in relation to Dan's book, Bandwidth.
The Quantum Revolution: Matthew Kinsella, CEO of Infleqtion
Dan sits down with Matthew Kinsella, CEO of Infleqtion, the world’s leading quantum-information company. Infleqtion is a trusted supplier of high-precision components for research labs and quantum machine development.
The Quantum Revolution: Ian Dickinson, President and CEO of LongPath Technologies
Dan sits down with Ian Dickinson, President and CEO of Longpath Technologies. Dan and Ian discuss the early days of Zayo, LongPath’s origin story, why it is important to be at the forefront of Quantum, and why LongPath is on a mission to flatten the emissions curve.