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Escape Velocity
Most business stories are highlight reels. This one isn't. Honest conversations about the messy middle of scaling a company, the part nobody puts on stage.
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Most business stories are highlight reels. The Escape Velocity Podcast isn't. Host Craig Ceccanti is a founder, CEO, and integrator who's spent his career growing and scaling companies across retail, tech, and venture (including Pinot's Palette), and now helps leadership teams do the same as a Professional EOS Implementer®. He sits down with operators and the people who advise them for the real version: the hire that nearly sank the company, the year the founder stopped sleeping, the moment they realized they'd become the bottleneck. Every guest walks through a hard-won lesson. What happened, how they recovered, and how it made the business more sustainable. It's about the unglamorous middle, where a company either learns to run without its founder or stalls. Pull up a chair. We'd love to have you in the conversation.
Every guest answers the same question
What's the hardest lesson you learned while scaling, and how did you come back from it?
Who You'll Hear From
Founders and operators in the thick of scaling, plus the advisors, coaches, and mentors who guide them: VCs, fractional CFOs and COOs, bankers, and the people who've helped dozens of companies through the same turbulence. Houston, and beyond.
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