Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Business Podcast
Host Ryan Olson introduces the show, the mission, and what makes this conversation different from every other business podcast in your feed.
Watch on YouTube →Honest conversations with the people running the region's most interesting companies — the decisions, the lessons, and the stories you won't hear anywhere else.
Every guest is a sitting CEO or Founder. No second-hand commentary, no business pundits — just the people actually running the companies, in their own words.
Every guest is the person at the top of the org chart. The decisions they make, the bets they place, the lessons they learned the hard way.
From Portland to Seattle to Boise — the region's most interesting companies, the people building them, and the playbooks that work here.
No 20-minute soundbite interviews. Real conversations where guests can actually finish a thought — released weekly on YouTube.
Two decades in the rooms where decisions get made. Ryan has spent his career building partnerships, leading global teams across seven countries, and helping companies grow — from scaling programs at Intel and MarketStar to advising executives on the bets that shape their next chapter.
Now, from his home base in Portland, Oregon, he's turning that experience outward — sitting across the table from the CEOs and Founders building the Pacific Northwest's most interesting companies, and asking the questions other interviewers don't.
Every episode is a long-form sit-down with a sitting CEO or Founder building a company in the Pacific Northwest.
Host Ryan Olson introduces the show, the mission, and what makes this conversation different from every other business podcast in your feed.
Watch on YouTube →An in-depth conversation with a Pacific Northwest CEO about the early days, the hard pivots, and what they'd tell their younger self.
Watch on YouTube →How one PNW Founder thinks about hiring, capital, and scale — and the unconventional decisions that have defined the company's growth.
Watch on YouTube →Subscribe to the channel and you'll catch every conversation as soon as it drops.
Full episodes, in 4K, with the people who actually run the companies.
Subscribe on YouTubeEach episode is a long-form conversation with a sitting CEO or Founder running a Pacific Northwest company. If that's you — or someone you know who'd be a great fit — tell us a little about the company below.