The Necessary Entrepreneur

Eric Saperston took an unconventional path into entrepreneurship. After college, he hit the road in a Volkswagen bus, asking successful and influential people if they would sit down with him for a conversation. Those interviews eventually became The Journey, an award-winning documentary that took a decade to complete and featured conversations with people including Jimmy Carter, Henry Winkler and Maya Angelou. After interviewing hundreds of extraordinary people, Eric began identifying the princ

How do you take a law firm from a one-bedroom apartment to a 150+ employee organization without losing the standards that made it successful in the first place? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, Mark Perkins sits down with Seth Bader, founder and CEO of Bader Law, one of Georgia's leading personal injury and workers' compensation firms. Seth started the firm in 2008 out of a one-bedroom apartment and grew it into a business serving tens of thousands of clients. Seth shares what he

How do you scale a business when technology is moving faster than your ability to plan for it? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, Mark Perkins sits down with Gilad Bechar, Founder & CEO of Moburst, a global digital growth company that has worked with brands including Google, Uber, Samsung, and Reddit. Gilad built Moburst from a highly specialized mobile marketing company into a much broader digital growth business, expanding through technology, AI, and strategic acquisitions. Along

What does it really take to build a successful business and a life that still works when the business gets complicated? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, Mark Perkins sits down with Dr. Thomas J. Powell, founder of The Founder’s Office, to explore the mindset, resilience, risk management, and decision-making that separate successful entrepreneurs from everyone else. Tom has spent decades working with founders and says his experience helping more than 500 founders and deploying mor

What does it take to build a company that can scale, adapt and keep getting better when the problems never stop? On this episode of The Necessary Entrepreneur, Mark Perkins sits down with Darragh de Stonndún, co-founder and CEO of Automated Industrial Robotics (AIR), a rapidly growing global industrial automation company with operations across the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Darragh has spent decades building and leading businesses in industrial automation and advanced manufa

Kim Keating, founder and CEO of The Fifty Factor, joins Mark Perkins on The Necessary Entrepreneur to discuss confidence, experience, entrepreneurship, and creating new opportunities in the second half of your career. What happens when decades of professional experience become an overlooked asset? Kim Keating believes the answer is not stepping back. It is finding new ways to leverage the knowledge, wisdom, relationships, and leadership skills that come with experience. In this episode, Mark an