Introducing Leap Forward

As listeners of the Jordan Harbinger show, you know that behind every successful leader is often a messy human story. That's what makes Leap Forward a podcast worth checking out. It's hosted by entrepreneur and investor David Rusenko. And the unique thing about each leap forward episode is that David talks with his guests alongside people who knew them. before their success. There's been a college roommate, a first employee, even an episode with a parent. I specifically want to recommend the leap forward episode where Airbnb's Nathan Blicharzik talks about eighty percent of their business evaporating in a global pandemic. We hosted Nathan's co founder, Brian Chesky, here on the show back in September twenty twenty one, which some of you might remember. I'm gonna play you a few minutes from another leap forward episode featuring Twitch co-founders Michael Sibel and Justin Ken. Live streaming might feel inevitable today, but Twitch originally began as a twenty-four hour streaming experiment called Justin.tv, which by the way, this show, my show, was on a million years ago. And in the early days, just surviving through the explosive growth was quite a roller coaster, as you'll hear in this episode preview. The platform

grew pretty quickly until at one point it didn't Yeah. And you guys had another moment of having to figure things out. So the platform opens up. I think two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine, we're just growing. So you snap your fingers, you wake up. You know, we now have twenty something employees.

We now have thirty million people coming to the website. Every month from all over the world. It became a thing and the focus shift. So it was less about life casting and it was more about anything that people wanted to stream. So we had people streaming Pets, we had people streaming video games, we had people streaming The Simpsons. It was a free for all.

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