May 3, 2024 - 8 Exits Jeremy Lessaris and Digital Transformation Success Michael Schank

School for Startups Radio

Jeremy Lessaris – Founder and CEO of Payment Brokers – Rang Opening Bell on NASDAQ in 2014

The number one thing for bootstrappers is micro monetization. If you can
find the shortest, lowest energy position to get to revenue in a profitable
way, that’s the best advice I can give you. Identify little, tiny micro
businesses units that you can do.

Jeremy Lessaris is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and former global marketing and communications executive. Over the past two decades Jeremy has founded and led 8 of his companies to successful exit. His current title is Founder and CEO of Payment Brokers, a fintech application that utilizes AI/ML to uncover proprietary pricing data. For 19 years, he was Global VP of MarCom, a $23B US/Chinese Conglomerate. As a seasoned entrepreneurial leader with over two decades of experience in the industrial, energy, transportation, and technology sectors, establishing and investing in numerous ventures across different industries, his mission is to educate and raise awareness for SMBs. Jeremy would be delighted to share advice and tips that entrepreneurs looking to navigate the complexities of financial management in their businesses will benefit from. He would also love to share ideas and strategies on entrepreneurship and business-building tips.

Michael Schank – Digital Transformation Consultant and Author of Digital Transformation Success: Achieving Alignment and Delivering Results with the Process Inventory Framework

Transformations fail at about a 70% rate. Process inventory is a way to create a
common language to coordinate all resources involved in a transformation.

Michael Schank is Founder and Managing Director at Process Inventory Advisors LLC. He has over 25 years of experience as a management consultant in the financial services industry, advising clients on technology, process, risk, and large-scale business and digital transformations. His new book, Digital Transformation Success: Achieving Alignment and Delivering Results with the Process Inventory Framework, shares how to drive a new level of operating efficiency and agility necessary to thrive in this digital era.