- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Thiago da Costa
CEO of Datagrid
Thiago da Costa is a technology entrepreneur specializing in physics simulation, cloud computing, and AI. He founded Lagoa, which developed a cloud-based mechanical CAD product later acquired by Autodesk and integrated into Fusion 360. While at Autodesk, he led major cloud, data, and AI initiatives across construction, manufacturing, and media entertainment divisions. Thiago holds two patents in collaborative high-frequency data systems and actively invests in startups and late-stage private companies, including SpaceX, Vention, and others.
His visionary approach to AI-driven innovation, data management, and the transformative potential of technology in traditional industries continues to shape the future of tech. With a career marked by groundbreaking achievements and a passion for pushing technological boundaries, Thiago da Costa remains at the forefront of digital transformation, inspiring the next generation of tech innovators and entrepreneurs.
X: @ThiagoDaCosta_
Whitney Johnson
Founder and CEO at Disruption Advisors
Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors (thedisruptionadvisors.com), a leadership development company, helping you grow your people to grow your business.
A Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author, Whitney was named by Thinkers50 as one of the ten leading business thinkers in the world (2021). She is a world class keynote speaker and a popular lecturer for Harvard Business Publishing’s Corporate Learning. She has 1.7 million followers on LinkedIn where she was selected as a Top Voice in 2020. Her course on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than one million times, and her LinkedIn Lives have more than 1 million cumulative views. In 2017, she was selected from more than 17,000 candidates for the initial cohort of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches, and was named as the #1 Talent Coach.
Johnson is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, as well as the author of the WSJ bestselling Smart Growth, Build an A Team, a Financial Times Book of the Month, and the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself. In these books, she codifies the S Curve of Learning and the Seven Accelerants of Personal Disruption, both of which operationalize disruption theory by applying it to the individual. Integral to her work is the weekly Disrupt Yourself Podcast which has millions of downloads. Guests have included Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Stephen M.R. Covey.
Johnson was the cofounder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen, through which they invested in and led the $8 million seed round for South Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at more than $25 billion. She was involved in fund formation, capital raising and the development of the fund’s strategy.
A former award-winning Wall Street stock analyst, Johnson applies her understanding of momentum and growth in stocks to people. She was an Institutional Investor–ranked equity research analyst for eight consecutive years, rated by Starmine as a superior stock-picker. As an equity analyst, stocks under coverage included America Movil (NYSE: AMX), Televisa (NYSE: TV) and Telmex (NYSE: TMX), which accounted for roughly 40% of Mexico's market capitalization.
She is married, has two children, and lives in Lexington, Virginia, where her family grows strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries and enjoys making jam.
Bill Zujewski
Founder and CEO of GoodLiife LLC,
and author of What’s Your Life Score: A Playbook for Designing Your Best Life
Bill Zujewski is the Founder and CEO of GoodLiife LLC, a company dedicated to helping individuals design balanced, fulfilling lives through the ZenScore™ system, mobile app, and his book, What’s Your Life Score. He is also the CEO of Mementix, a next-generation social networking app for live events, launched in 2024.
With over two decades in enterprise software marketing, Bill has held executive roles at high-growth companies, including CMO at Tulip Retail, Axeda, and PTC, and leadership positions at Oracle and BroadVision. In 2017, he transitioned from corporate leadership to entrepreneurship, co-founding Green Business Bureau and leading it to a successful acquisition in 2023.
Bill holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from UConn and an MBA from Boston College. At 50, he embraced entrepreneurship to align his career with his passions—sustainability, mindfulness, and intentional living—which now drive GoodLiife’s mission. A devoted husband and father of four, Bill is committed to creating a more conscious, connected, and purpose-driven world for future generations.
