Segment 1: Benjamin Waterhouse is a historian of business, politics, and capitalism in the United States. He is the author, most recently, of “The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States”.

Segment 2: Steve Mariotti left a successful business career in 1982 to become a public high school teacher in New York City’s roughest neighborhoods.  In 1987, he founded the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) to bring entrepreneurship education to low-income youth. 

Segment 3: Kristin Rae is a small business owner, designer and entrepreneur.  She sells several brands exclusively through Amazon (Exclusives). Over the last few years, she has been able to keep her operation small by outsourcing key operations to Amazon, which gives her business the opportunity to grow and expand.

Segment 4: Kraig Kleeman is the one of the World’s Greatest Cold Callers and a world-leading expert on sales process, sales transformation, and professional motivation. 

Segment 5: John Howe, PhD, CFA® is chair of the Department of Finance at the University of Missouri, where he has taught finance for more than two decades and has received awards for excellence in teaching.

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