What We Need to Grow.

About What We Need to Grow.

What We Need to Grow is a 79 Development conversation series with the people building what's next, hosted by Caleb Pedosiuk. Execution is getting cheaper. The scarce thing now is the clarity to know what's worth growing before you touch a single tool. Every conversation comes back to one question: not what can we do, but what should we be doing? We cover everything from mergers, acquisitions and private equity to regenerative agriculture, wellness and humanitarian work, and what it means to solve meaningful problems today. Who should we talk to next? Reach us at 79dev.com.

Publisher

A conversation series by 79 Development

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Nov 2024

Latest episode

31 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

70 episodes in the feed.

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   31 Oct 2026

   Ep. 070 | How a Personal Trainer Built a Protein Bar Worth Eating | Sharon Chamberlin

   Sharon Chamberlin is the founder of Catalyst 4 Fitness, the fitness and nutrition company she started in 2009 after 20 years in the corporate world. An ACE certified personal trainer and NESTA fitness nutrition coach, she has grown the business from an in-person studio into online coaching, a line of supplements and the Catalyst Bar, a protein bar she specified herself. In this conversation with Caleb Pedosiuk, Sharon explains why she left a corporate career she was good at, and how a friend's suggestion she first called "the dumbest thing I ever heard" became her company. She walks through moving every client online during COVID, testing supplements on herself before selling them, and the brief she gave a manufacturer for a protein bar worth eating: whey protein isolate, real fiber, little sugar, no sugar alcohols, ingredients you can pronounce, and it had to taste good. She explains why people trying to eat well so often fail, and it isn't effort. It's who they're learning from. She also shares how she coaches the mind along with the body, from intake questions that keep asking why to the Friday check-in that gets clients ready for the weekend. Sharon is exactly the kind of founder, innovator, and problem solver this series exists to put a light on. She built a product because the ones on the shelf didn't hold up to a close look at the label. Authority works the same way. When the claims hold up to anyone who checks, people trust the brand, recommend it, and come back to it. Learn more about Catalyst 4 Fitness: https://catalyst4fitness.com Sharon Chamberlin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonchamberlin/ What We Need to Grow is Caleb Pedosiuk's founder conversation series from 79 Development, on growth, judgment, and the thinking behind building great companies. It exists to shine a light on the founders, innovators, problem solvers, and pioneers building things that matter. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5O6IiwVl4tHyhegQafVZLa Podcast sponsored by 79 Development Inc | 79dev.com #nutrition #fitness #proteinbar #personaltrainer #healthyeating #smallbusiness #founders #podcast

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   30 Oct 2026

   Ep. 069 | Why Satisfaction Scores Don't Predict Brand Loyalty | Robert Passikoff

   Robert Passikoff is the founder and president of Brand Keys, the New York research consultancy he started in 1984 to measure what actually predicts customer loyalty. Brand Keys publishes the annual Customer Loyalty Engagement Index, the Loyalty Leaders list and the Most Patriotic Brands survey, now in its 25th year. Robert is the author of Predicting Market Success, and New York University's communication school named him the most-quoted brand consultant in the United States. In this conversation with Caleb Pedosiuk, Robert explains why customer satisfaction stopped telling brands apart. Once the quality movement made most products roughly equal, satisfaction became table stakes and the brand became the only real difference. Loyalty moved from transactional to behavioural to emotional. He describes how the public web let consumers talk to each other before they talked to the brand, why customer expectations keep rising faster than brands improve, and how a single company's promise, like Zappos and free returns, spreads into every other category. He also gives a measured view of AI: useful for scale, and so far mostly historical when it comes to understanding loyalty. Asked what he needs to grow, he names a change in the industry: get rid of the 10-point scale and kill the legacy measures that only look back. Robert is exactly the kind of founder, innovator, and problem solver this series exists to put a light on. He has spent four decades arguing that a brand has to stand for something specific in the mind of the customer. Authority works the same way. A brand people can clearly describe is a brand the systems they now ask for answers can describe too. Learn more about Brand Keys: https://brandkeys.com Robert Passikoff on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertpassikoff/ What We Need to Grow is Caleb Pedosiuk's founder conversation series from 79 Development, on growth, judgment, and the thinking behind building great companies. It exists to shine a light on the founders, innovators, problem solvers, and pioneers building things that matter. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5O6IiwVl4tHyhegQafVZLa Podcast sponsored by 79 Development Inc | 79dev.com #brandloyalty #branding #customerexperience #marketresearch #brandstrategy #marketing #founders #podcast

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   29 Oct 2026

   Ep. 068 | How a Fractional CFO Gets a Software Company Ready to Raise | Charles Solomon

   Charles Solomon is the founder and managing partner of Centripetal Advisors, the New York firm he launched in 2018 to give B2B software companies an institutional quality finance function on a fractional basis. Centripetal helps founders decide how to finance growth through debt or equity, installs the metrics investors look for, benchmarks performance against the market, and guides companies to the funds they fit, in engagements that average about two and a half years. Charles holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in economics, magna cum laude, from Tufts. In this conversation with Caleb Pedosiuk, Charles explains how he gets a software company ready to raise: back-solving from the capital a founder wants to the milestones funds expect, and refusing to help anyone game the numbers. Cutting customer success to flatter margins can win a term sheet and then lose the deal in diligence when customers churn, so he fixes margin with packaging and pricing instead. He makes the case for long engagements over short ones and for a firm's network coming with the hire rather than being billed on top. He also answers Caleb's question about vendors taking equity instead of cash: possible, uncommon, and almost always in need of cleanup when founders do it without help. Charles is exactly the kind of founder, innovator, and problem solver this series exists to put a light on. His whole practice rests on one discipline: know what good looks like, and when you're there, take credit for it. Authority is earned the same way. You build something worth talking about and keep an honest, specific account of it, and that is what makes a firm understood, trusted, and findable by the systems people now ask for answers. Learn more about Centripetal Advisors: https://centripetaladvisors.com Charles Solomon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/solomoncharles/ What We Need to Grow is Caleb Pedosiuk's founder conversation series from 79 Development, on growth, judgment, and the thinking behind building great companies. It exists to shine a light on the founders, innovators, problem solvers, and pioneers building things that matter. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5O6IiwVl4tHyhegQafVZLa Podcast sponsored by 79 Development Inc | 79dev.com #fractionalCFO #SaaS #startupfunding #venturecapital #B2Bsoftware #startupfinance #founders #podcast

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