Dos Marcos

Dennis Steele is the co-founder of Podium—a company they’ve taken from the attic of a bike shop to being named Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbe’s Cloud 100, #13 on the Inc. 5000 list, and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. Podium started as a reviews company, but that was just the beginning. Now Podium is leading the charge to modernize the way business happens locally—powering everything from reviews to messaging and insights. Podium is a complete Interaction Management Platform, handling the full communication process for businesses. In this episode, you’ll hear the incredible story of how Dennis and his cofounder Eric figured out a way to help Eric’s dad get his happy customers to leave reviews for his tire shop.Plus, Dennis reveals the very first conversation they had with a potential customer that made them know they had an idea that was going to work — and it was going to be big. Discover how Podium evolved from reviews into a full platform that 100,000+ customers use fo