BACON PODCAST - Key Persons


Captain Hoff

Job Titles:
  • Captain
  • Chairman & CEO of Founders Space

Dr. Jim Barry

Job Titles:
  • Author of Social Content Marketing for Entrepreneurs
Dr. Jim Barry is the author of Social Content Marketing for Entrepreneurs, a textbook used in the instruction of MBA courses. He has served as Professor of Marketing at NSU since August, 2004 where he teaches courses in social media marketing, consumer behavior, and integrated marketing communication. He won the 2019 President's Distinguished Faculty Award…

Gavin Zuchlinski

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Be Family
Gavin Zuchlinski is the founder of Be Family, an app to help parents take care of all of the work involved in running their families. Before starting Be Family, Gavin previously founded Acuity Scheduling which he scaled to support more than 50,000 businesses and handle millions of bookings worldwide. He sold Acuity to Squarespace in…

Mark S. A. Smith

Mark S. A. Smith designs and implements customer acquisition systems that find and recruit customers for disruptive products. He speaks at entrepreneurial events delivering pragmatic ideas to grow and succeed. He is an electrical engineer, media technologist, computer programmer, hardware salesman, software marketer, and business owner who works with leaders who must develop the best…

Mark S. Babbitt

Job Titles:
  • President of Worq
Mark S. Babbitt is President of WorqIQ, a community and change management consultancy that helps organizations understand leadership's impact on culture and the company's collective level of Workplace Intelligence (WQ). Mark is also CEO and Founder of YouTern. This career-focused community enables college students, recent graduates, and young professionals to find their first or next…

Marla Tabaka

Job Titles:
  • Small Business Strategist
Marla Tabaka is an internationally known small business strategist, national radio show host, and leading Inc.com author. Her integrative approach to coaching combines mindset management and strategic planning, resulting in multi-million dollar businesses for many of her small business clients. After a career of 22-years as an Emmy Award-winning producer at NBC Television, Tabaka worked…

Ryan Weiss

Ryan Weiss is a Christian, Husband, Father, Son, Brother, and Friend to many. He is passionate about engaging with business leaders who are interested in influencing the world in a positive way and has over 20 years of success leading teams, programs, and operations to drive business results and profitability. He is an accomplished executive…

Steve Hoffman

Job Titles:
  • Captain
  • Chairman & CEO of Founders Space
Steve Hoffman (Captain Hoff) is the Chairman & CEO of Founders Space, a global innovation hub for entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors, with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Hoffman is also a venture investor, founder of three venture-backed and two bootstrapped startups, and author of several award-winning books. These include "Make Elephants Fly" (Hachette), "Surviving…

Tiffany Prince

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Prince Performance LLC
Tiffany Prince, founder of Prince Performance LLC, is experienced in providing coaching, workshops and consulting around leadership, performance, change management and building high-performing teams for leaders at all levels of organizations that are facing challenges due to technology transformations, skill gaps within employees, globalization and building inclusive workplaces. Tiffany obtained a Master's degree in Business…