{"podcast":{"title":"21st Century Entrepreneurship","slug":"21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325","podcast_index_feed_id":6829325,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2328218.rss","website_url":"https://www.21ce.biz","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/96p5ua0suhv91bd2unl1ckkbnxi5?.jpg","author":"Martin Piskoric","episode_count":544,"summary":"An entrepreneurship podcast that transforms in-depth interviews with founders, CEOs, investors, executives, creators, and business leaders into tightly edited, first-person narratives that distill what matters most from their real-world experience. A four-time Gold Award-winning show with more than 540 published interviews, 21st Century Entrepreneurship explores how businesses are built, funded, scaled, transformed, and sometimes rebuilt from failure. Host Martin Piskoric guides each conversation toward the moments, decisions, lessons, and experiences most useful to listeners, then steps out of the final edit. What remains is the guest's voice—without small talk, unnecessary promotion, or interview clutter—shaped with music and space for reflection. Episodes cover entrepreneurship, leadership, business strategy, growth, marketing, finance and investment, AI and technology, personal development, and the realities of building and leading businesses.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-11T16:18:50.859024+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325"},"episode":{"title":"#512 Alec Broadfoot: When does a CEO need a #2 leader?","slug":"512-alec-broadfoot-when-does-a-ceo-need-a-2-leader","published_at":"2026-04-08T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/512-alec-broadfoot-when-does-a-ceo-need-a-2-leader","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325","url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.buzzsprout.com/2328218/episodes/18983511-512-alec-broadfoot-when-does-a-ceo-need-a-2-leader.mp3","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.buzzsprout.com/2328218/episodes/18983511-512-alec-broadfoot-when-does-a-ceo-need-a-2-leader.mp3","summary":"Alec Broadfoot is founder and CEO of VisionSpark and author of Hiring Your Right #2 Leader. We spoke about why most entrepreneurs fail to hire the right number two—and how to fix it using data instead of gut instinct. His turning point came after building a profitable company with great service but disastrous hiring results, where “we were actually firing about 7 out of 10 people.” Everything changed when he adopted structured assessments and flipped those results, proving that hiring isn’t i...","meta_description":"Alec Broadfoot is founder and CEO of VisionSpark and author of Hiring Your Right #2 Leader. We spoke about why most entrepreneurs fail to hire the right n…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1251,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/episodes/512-alec-broadfoot-when-does-a-ceo-need-a-2-leader/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/512-alec-broadfoot-when-does-a-ceo-need-a-2-leader.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}