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Ben Smith is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Chancebending Ventures, a full-service consulting and advisory firm servicing seed stage digital startups to Fortune 500 clients. Ben has built and sold multiple venture backed startups, including Blayze inc. Prior to that, Ben was an early Google and YouTube business exec behind YouTube’s biggest partnerships and strategic efforts. Ben created many first of its kind social media partnerships on the web, and lead YouTube’s efforts with Hollywood for years. He helped bridge the gap between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, leaving YouTube HQ to be the company’s first businessperson in Los Angeles.
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Episode #37: Hot 2019 trends in VC! Voice tech, Subscription networks & more with Mark Linao
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EPISODE #34: What does it take to make great content in 2019? We sit down with director/writer Amir Farhang and find out
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One Question About Tech Law with Morvareed Salehpour, Salehpour Legal Consulting
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Robin Kiera of Digitalscouting Gives Us His Take on Insurance Innovation
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We Talk Entrepreneurial Transformation with Karen Barnes
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One Question About eLearning Trends with Rishu Singh of Learning Solutions LLP
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