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How Midday Squares Is Building a Billion Dollar Brand Through Community, Chaos & Conviction | Jake Karls

May 28, 2026

In this final episode of Billion Dollar Moves for a bit, I sit down with Jake Karls, Co-Founder and Rainmaker of Midday Squares, for a candid conversation about building one of North America’s boldest founder-led consumer brands. Jake shares how he, his sister, and his brother-in-law went from making 50 bars a day in a Montreal condo kitchen to building an automated factory capable of producing more than 150,000 bars daily. We talk about why the co-founders committed to therapy from day one...

She Built a Billion-Dollar Company—Then Learned When to Walk Away | Suneera Madhani

May 21, 2026

In this episode of Billion Dollar Moves, I sit down with Suneera Madhani, founder of Stax and Worth, for a candid conversation about building, scaling, exiting, and knowing when it is time to begin again. Suneera shares how a rejected idea became a billion-dollar payments company, why focus and customer obsession mattered more than any single formula, and what she learned from raising capital as a young Pakistani-American woman building outside Silicon Valley. We also talk about liquidity, ...

From Preserving Wealth to Investing Globally | Erika Aquino on Billion Dollar Moves

May 14, 2026

Erika Aquino is a next-generation family office allocator and angel investor building on a Filipino family business legacy. In this episode of Billion Dollar Moves, Erika shares how her family moved beyond wealth preservation to deploy capital with purpose across wellness, education, sustainability, and the future of work. We discuss how she allocates to venture, why she prefers pre-seed and seed-stage companies, what she looks for in founders, and why proximity to the problem matters. Eri...