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Ground Zero Growth

Ground Zero Growth

By: Sam Sapp
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 A podcast dedicated to interviewing professionals and their journey with a focus on those moments of growth.© 2024 Lockbaud Economics Leadership Management & Leadership
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  • Ep 51 - "Internet Pioneer" with James Gorman

    Ep 51 - "Internet Pioneer" with James Gorman
    Feb 19 2026
    James Gorman helped wire the early internet, stood in a New York data center turning screwdrivers in the morning and pitched bankers in the boardroom that afternoon, and once told GE's leadership they could own the internet for 30 million dollars. They passed. Now he runs Hard to Hack, an advisory practice that builds security programs for small and mid-sized companies, then trains them up and leaves. He calls his clients graduates. Sam sat down with him to talk cybersecurity, the dot com crash, Y2K, CrowdStrike, AI, and why your network really is your net worth.
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  • Ep 50 - "Carrying Forward" with Robert Gold

    Ep 50 - "Carrying Forward" with Robert Gold
    Jan 22 2026
    Robert Gold was 26 years old, on track at KPMG, when his father died at 51. His dad ran a small CPA practice out of the basement of the family house, office wedged between the furnace and the dryer. Robert left the national firm within weeks, took over the clients he had known since high school, and started the long climb that turned a basement practice into Bennett Gold LLP, a Toronto firm he can trace back to 1929. The conversation follows that thread through partnership deals, a few well-timed deaths, early internet audits, and 700 podcast episodes.
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  • Ep 49 - "Built to Adapt" with David G. Ewing

    Ep 49 - "Built to Adapt" with David G. Ewing
    Jan 15 2026
    Two weeks into his freshman year at Harvard, David G. Ewing tore his Achilles tendon clean in half. The football career he had been recruited for ended before it started, and he spent the next year learning to run without a limp. That early gut check became the pattern for everything that followed. A cancelled future in his family's Detroit manufacturing plant. A tech startup that imploded in the dot-com winter. A first employee hired on September 10, 2001. Every time a door closed, David figured out what he still had and kept moving.
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