Τα καλύτερα Product Market Fit podcast (2024)

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YC said his idea "would never work". So he lived in his office for months—then raised $17M from a16z in 14 days. | Marty Kausas, founder of Pylon 1:07:26

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Marty and his co-founders lived full-time in their office for several months. They worked on their startup 24/7. To come up with the idea, they messaged 120 potential customers every day for 3 months. Originally, when they pitched YC they were told their idea would never work. YC said they'd seen it several times and it was destined to fail. So in …

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He built a $4B unicorn & crossed $100M ARR—here's why it took 10 years of 100-hour weeks. | Martin Basiri, Founder of Passage & Applyboard (SaaS North Keynote) 30:02

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I interviewed Martin on the keynote stage at the SaaS North conference. Here is the audio version. Martin built Applyboard into a $4B unicorn doing $100M+ in ARR. He left and started a new startup called Passage— and raised a $40M seed round. He talks about 100-hour weeks, hiring exceptional talent, why smaller teams can outperform—and why he decid…

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His sports betting app went from $0 to $10M ARR in a year—& to $150M ARR in 4. Here's how he did it. | Jon Robin, Founder of Dabble 44:26

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Jon started a sports betting app 4 years ago-- now he does $150M in revenue and $1B in betting volume. AND he's profitable. In his first year alone , he did $10 million in revenue. He took a year to build the app and as soon as he launched it, it took off. He did $10M in revenue in his first year. Honestly, it sounds too easy. But the reason it wor…

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He grew to $90M ARR, was about to exit for $1.5B—and then, it all fell apart. | Yanni Giannaros, Co-Founder of Wyre 55:58

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Yanni started building in crypto back in 2013, when you could buy one Bitcoin for $20. At one point, he was playing poker games and betting 1 bitcoin each round! He built an extension that let people use bitcoin to buy anything, anywhere on the internet. Then he pivoted to building the first on ramp for bitcoin. And finally, pivoted into Wyre, whic…

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How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head of Product at Deel 37:54

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Aaron was Director of Product at Amazon, VP Product at Twilio, PM at Facebook and Twitter. Now he’s head of product at Deel where he reports directly to the CEO. Deel was founded in 2019— now, just 5 years later, it’s worth $12B and raised over $650M. We go deep on what it takes to build world-class products, how early-stage founders can balance cu…

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He made his first loan at 16. Now his fintech startup does $50M+ ARR—here’s how. | Tate Hackert, Co-Founder of ZayZoon 1:03:24

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Description Tate started doing commercial fishing at 16. He took that money and started lending it— on Craigslist! By 23 years old, he’d lent out $250,000. Then he found out about cash advances, and decided to start ZayZoon, a platform to help employers pay their employees faster. Tate was one of the early pioneers of the entire Earned Wage Access …

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After I passed, this startup grew 30x in 3 years to $10M+ ARR. Here's how he did it—& what I missed. | Francois de Kerret, Co-Founder of Zeffy 30:36

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Zeffy is one of my biggest misses so far. I met Francois 3 years ago when he was raising his $3M seed round. But I passed. They were at ~$500K in revenue at that point. In the last 3 years, they've grown 30x. Clearly, I missed out. But it's been a long road for Francois. Before he got to the current idea, he had to make 3 pivots, including building…

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He hit $40M ARR, exited for over $100M—& raised only $1.5M. Here's how | Ian MacKinnon, Co-Founder of Later.com 56:01

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In 2014, Ian launched a simple product: it let social media marketers buffer Instagram posts. It was originally a hackathon project. But it quickly gained users. So he and his co-founders went all in. They raised just one small seed round. His main competitor, HootSuite, raised over $300M. In spite of that, he built a $40M ARR business that sold fo…

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He raised $16M, hit $1M ARR—& failed. Here are the top 3 lessons he learned. | David Anderson, Founder of Tandym 54:13

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David's startup failed. But he had everything going for him: a solid thesis, $16M in funding across 3 rounds, $1.5M in ARR. At a high-level it seemed like everything was going the right way. And yet, it didn't work out. This is what happens to 95% of startups. On thhis show, we mainly speak with the top 5%-- the ones where things went right and eve…

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He sold his 1st startup for 8 figures, grew his 2nd to $3M in a year—while battling panic attacks from the pressure. | Justin Adams, Founder of Aiwyn 46:00

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Justin sold his first bootstrapped startup for over $10M. He raised $2M out of the gate for his second and then grew from $250K to $3M ARR in one year. He raised $40M in total, including a Series B from Bessemer. And yet, just a week before recording the episode, he shared a post on LinkedIn about a recent panic attack that left him frozen for 15 m…

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He raised $1.5M, hit $400K ARR in 9 months— but had to Exit Early. Here’s the top 3 lessons he learned | Rob Palumbo, Co-Founder of Outpoint 39:08

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Rob founded Outpoint in 2020 to help marketers optimize their ad spend. He was a growth marketer and his founder a data scientist. He had team-market fit, a solid thesis, and paying customers. But when the recession hit and ad spend dropped, growth ground to a halt. Nothing he did could revitalize growth. Ultimately, he decreased expenses and exite…

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His startup Cameo was a unicorn—until it crashed 90%. Here's how he went from near-bankrupt to profitable again. | Steven Galanis, Founder of Cameo 57:47

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Cameo is one of the best-known recent consumer startups. You've either used it or know someone who's used it to get famous people to create personalized videos. And, for a while, they were a total rocket ship. Year 1: $300K GMV Year 2: $4M Year 3: $20M Year 4: $100M They were backed by Jeremy Liew, the VC who seeded Snapchat in 2012. Cameo became a…

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VC funding is not popping back. THIS is the new normal—here's how to adjust. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta 41:57

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Q3 startup data just dropped. We chat with Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta about valuations at pre-seed, seed and Series A. Why the current fundraising environment is the new normal and not about to get much better. We also talk about trends in founder vesting, and why some founders are choosing to vest for longer. Finally, we go through wh…

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His robotics startup raised $400M, his VC fund over $4B—& he ran both at the same time. Here's how he did it.| Lior Susan, Bright Machines & Eclipse Ventures 42:59

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Lior is the Elon Musk of VC. In just 8 years, his venture fund went from 0 to $4B under management. And while doing that, he founded Bright Machines, which to date has raised over $400M. He's both the CEO of Bright Machines and the Managing Director of Eclipse Ventures. And he's not building "easy" software startups either. Bright Machines is looki…

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This 1st-time founder raised $4M, kept the team to 5 people—& just raised a $28M Series A. | Parker Gilbert, Co-Founder of Numeric 37:39

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Parker quit his job as VP Finance at a late-stage startup in mid 2021. He raised $4M out of the gate because, well, it was 2021. But he didn't ramp up sales, he didn't hire 15 developers. He kept the team to 5 people for the first year. He worked with a dozen design partners until the value prop was perfect. He even refused to let customers pay upf…

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In 2004, they "almost bankrupted themselves". In 2024, they hit $500M ARR & a $5B valuation. | Mike Wessinger, Co-Founder of PointClickCare 55:13

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Mike started selling SaaS before SaaS was a thing. PointClickCare is the Salesforce of healthcare. For the first 7 years, they raised just $600K from friends and family. With that funding, they grew to $50M in ARR. Through that time, they went through the 2000 Dotcom crash and nearly went bankrupt in 2004 as they chased too many markets too soon. S…

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The top 3 reasons why Zuck is killing Apple in the Mixed Reality race. 11:27

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Apple sold only 370,000 VisionPro headsets-- much fewer than it expected. Meanwhile, Meta Ray-Bans are the top-selling product in 60% of Ray-Ban stores. The outcome of their AR/VR products couldn't be more different, even though they both have as much awareness as you could possible buy. There are 3 reasons: 1. Price. 2. Killer feature vs cool prod…

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[Raised $27 million] Ep.169 - The Playbook of a Founder that Grew his Business to 99k Users 33:19

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James Hawkins is the co-founder of PostHog, an open-source product analytics platform that lets developers track product usage, understand the impact of new features on user behavior, and integrate product and user data with data warehouses – all without sending any data to a 3rd party. The Company has raised to date $27 million from Y Combinator C…

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His influencer marketplace hit $150M in revenue—& just exited for $500M. It all started with a party at Coachella. | Piotr Tomasik, Co-Founder of Influential 40:49

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Piotr met his co-founders at a party in Coachella. He built them an app for influencers to post online. That simple idea evolved into one of the world's first influencer marketplaces. While so many other tried and failed, Piotr and his team targeted marketing agencies with big budgets. They grew to $150M in revenue over a 10 year period. This summe…

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Your odds of raising a Series A just dropped from 30% to 15%—here's what to do about it: 12:38

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New Carta data shows that 30% of seed-stage startups used to raise a Series A within 2 years of their seed. Now, only 15% do. The bar for Series As is as high as it's ever been. And the number of seed extensions that I see is going up as a result. But for founders, this is NOT a bad thing. I remember as a seed-stage founder I was obsessed with rais…

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[Raised $1.5 million] Ep.168 - The Power of Event Marketing with Joe Lewin 31:02

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Joe Lewin is the founder of Foundy, an acquisition marketplace where startup shareholders – including founders and employees – can anonymously list company equity on the Foundy platform to raise funds or seek full or secondary buyouts. Foundy has raised $1.5 million. Where to find Joe Lewin: • Website: Foundy | No.1 Advisor for Selling & Buying Bus…

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His 1st startup failed—but his 2nd one hit $100M ARR & a $1.6B valuation. Here's what he learned. | Liran Zvibel, Founder of WEKA 46:44

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Liran quit a cozy job at IBM to launch Fusic, a TikTok-like app back in 2011. He raised over $10M, acquired tens of thousands of users, and failed. So he went back to what he knew: deep tech and enterprise. He launched WEKA in 2013 to improve the efficiency of GPUs. He was operating on hard mode: building deep tech and selling to large enterprise c…

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He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figures in ARR. | Dan Lorenc, Founder of Chainguard 31:48

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This episode is going to piss you off. Most founders struggle to raise their first few million. Many have to bootstrap for years. Even once there's revenue, many get rejected because they're "too early". Dan had dozens of VCs asking to invest before he even quit his job. He raised his first $5M with no deck, no story, and no product idea. All it to…

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He founded a banking app for kids 10 years ago, grew to 2M customers & exited—in one of the biggest fintech M&A deals ever. | Dean Brauer, Founder of GoHenry 52:52

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It was “really slow in the first couple of years...really, really slow.” GoHenry was an app and debit card for kids to help parents teach their kids about money. Dean started over a decade ago in 2012, when mobile was just truly taking off. And yet, it took multiple years to get off the ground. Once he found the right channels and repeatable growth…

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1st-time AI founder grows from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 8 months. Here's exactly how he did it. | Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, Founder of Artisan 31:43

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Jaspar graduated YC & closed a $11.5M seed round this week. He launched Artisan just 8 months ago. And this is the first venture-backed startup he's ever ran. He started with product-led-growth but struggled. In May, he moved to a sales-first go-to-market & scaled from $200K ARR to $1.3M ARR by September. We go deep and tactical to figure out exact…

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He launched an Uber competitor with just $3,000—& grew to $20M in revenue in 7 years. | Cody Ruberto, Founder of Uride 40:53

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Cody started a ride-share business in 2017 with no capital. He focused exclusively on small towns (population <100K) where Uber/Lyft weren't available. I know as a VC I would've passed if he'd pitched me when he started—and I would've been dead wrong. So far he's raised only $2.1M, compared to Uber's $30B+ raised. And yet, he built a business doing…

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[Raised $200 million] Ep.167 - How Chris Bach Built Netlify to 35M+ Sites 44:07

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Christian Back is the founder of Netlify, a software platform that allows developers to build highly-performant and dynamic websites, e-commerce stores, and applications. The company has now raised close to $200 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Mango Capital, and Menlo Ventures. The c…

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The ONLY guaranteed way to attract & retain A-players. 11:11

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I tried to pay my employees as little as possible. I thought I was being resourceful—& it seemed to work. Until it totally backfired. I learned my lesson the hard way. No founder wants to hire B-level or C-level talent. Everyone is looking for A-players. But most founders don't put in the work. And they end up with B-level teams. If you're serious …

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[Raised $34 million] Ep.166 - How This Founder Grew a SaaS Business from 27 to 1,000 Customers Using Just $3k a Month on Facebook Ads 26:30

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Chris Ronzio founded Trainual, a software platform that helps businesses document their processes, policies, and procedures in one place. It provides a centralized location for employees to access training materials and ensures that everyone is on the same page. Trainual also offers features such as onboarding checklists, quizzes, and analytics to …

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He got rejected by 60 VCs, burned all his savings—then grew to $100M ARR & a $2B valuation. | Kyle Hanslovan, Founder of Huntress 58:31

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Kyle left his job as a hacker at the NSA to launch Huntress. He bootstrapped for 3 years and burned all his savings. One of his co-founders quit. He got into an accelerator program, but had to sleep in his car for 16 weeks because he couldn't afford a hotel. Finally, 3 years in he'd hit $1.5M ARR. So he pitched 60 VCs for a Series A—and got 60 'no'…

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[Raised $6 million] Ep. 165 - How this Founder started only with $4k and grew to millions of ARR 21:59

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Shafiq Khartabil, the co-founder of Ogram, an on-demand staffing platform, matches qualified local workers with jobs in Hospitality, Retail, Logistics, and more. Ogram has now raised a total of $6 million from Modus Capital, Aditum Investment Management, Dtec Ventures and DAAL VC. Where to find Shafiq Khartabil: • Website: Ogram - Part-Time Staff O…

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Forget Founder Mode— MrBeast Mode is Where it's At. | The top 7 highlights from MrBeast's leaked framework. 13:03

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MrBeast's 36-page framework leaked this week. It's how he built a $1B+ company and became the #1 YouTuber in the world. His channel is worth over $1B. For the first time ever, we get to see how MrBeast operates. We go through the 7 most important things that startup founders can learn from MrBeast. From what maniacal obsession looks like, what it m…

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[Raised $10 million] Ep.164 - How the Founder of Odoo grew the Company to 10 million users 23:00

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Fabien Pinckaers is the founder of Odoo, a Belgium-based provider of open-source business software that ranges from inventory management and ERP to human resources and CRM software, marketing tools, and more. Odoo has raised to date more than $10 million. With 10.6 million users on its platform, Odoo is a prime example of the strong payoffs to be h…

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He took on Uber & grew Rappi to $5B—here’s why the craziest founders often win. | Andres Bilbao, Co-Founder of Rappi 52:56

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Andres Bilboa is one of the co-founders of Rappi, the highest-valued app of LATAM ($5B valuation). Now he runs an incubator called Makers and has invested in dozens of startups. In this episode, he shares how Rappi started with no funding and no network. They added restaurants into their platform without permission and gave cash to couriers to buy …

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[Raised $35 million] Ep.163 - This Founder was able to get buy-ins from 300 Global Payment Providers 28:34

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Juan Pablo Ortega is the founder of Yuno, which enables any company to manage all payment methods and fraud providers through a single integration. Yuno has raised to date more than $35 million from notable investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, Kaszek Ventures, and Monashees. This is Juan's 2nd startup. Before Yuno, he co-founded on-…

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How to Get Free PR for Your Startup—Tips from the Editor-in-Chief of Canada’s TechCrunch. | Douglas Soltys, Editor-in-Chief of Betakit 46:37

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Douglas has been in media and PR for over two decades. He’s the founder of Betakit Inc and has been running Betakit, Canada’s TechCrunch, for nearly 10 years. He understands what startups need to do to leverage PR, and how PR can help startups hire, fundraise and sell. On this episode, we get tactical and go deep on exactly when it makes sense to u…

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[Raised $3 million] Ep.162 - This Founder grew his company to 1200 customers in 12 months 21:49

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Josh Pillsbury is the co-founder of Summit Insurance national insurance brokerage and risk management firm headquartered in Kelowna, British Columbia. Shaping the future of commercial insurance through technology-driven risk management and insurance solutions. Summit Insurance has now raised a total of $3.5 million since its 2020 inception. Where t…

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He built Cohere into a $5.5B AI startup; How to Win in AI; & Why LLMs won't lead to AGI. | Nick Frosst, Co-Founder of Cohere 46:42

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In this episode, I sit down with Nick Frosst, Co-Founder of Cohere, the $5.5B AI startup that’s targeting the enterprise landscape. We go through the origin story of Cohere, the challenges of building foundational models, and why he believes large language models (LLMs) won’t lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI). We also explore the fierce…

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[Bootstrapped] Ep.161 - The First 100 with Gary Ross, the Founder of Blip 13:10

3M ago13:10

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Gary Ross founded Blip, a tech-enabled and digital-first small business insurance agency. Where to find Garry Ross: • Website: (11) blip: About | LinkedIn • LinkedIn (11) Gary Ross | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan: • Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack • LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn If you like our podcast, please don't f…

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The ONLY guaranteed way to find Product Market Fit 16:08

4M ago16:08

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Even if founders do everything right, they may still fail to find PMF. That's why even repeat founders have only 1.5% chance of building a unicorn. We talk about product-market fit constantly in this podcast. Hopefully, we learn from what others did and improve our chances of finding PMF. But there is only one way to guarantee that one day you will…

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[Bootstrapped] Ep.160 - The First 100 with Kevin Stewart, Professional Premier League Football Player 32:32

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Kevin Stewart is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Born in England, he plays for the Jamaica national team. He has previously played for Tottenham Hotspur, Crewe Alexandra, Liverpool, Cheltenham Town, Burton Albion, Swindon Town, Hull City and Blackpool. Where to find Kevin Stuart: • LinkedIn (11) Kevin Stewart | LinkedIn Where t…

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They hit $100M ARR—in a "crowded market". Here's how they got to $1M ARR in just 18 months. | Don Mal, Co-Founder of Vena Solutions 40:42

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Don co-founded Vena & was CEO for 8 years. Last month, Vena became a Centaur crossing $100M in ARR. Don & his team launched Vena in a crowded market, where everyone else was trying to replace excel. So they built a budgeting and planning (FP&A) solution that instead leveraged excel. As Don says, they "disrupted the disruptors". Don knew the problem…

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[$3 million] Ep.159 - The First 100 with Miles Thorson, founder of Odie Pet Insurance 20:51

4M ago20:51

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Miles Thorson founded Odie Pet Insurance, a New York-based tech-enabled pet health insurance company, that raised $3M in funding from notable investors such as Walkabout Ventures and Slow Ventures. Where to find Miles Thorson: • Website: Odie Pet Insurance® | Affordable Pet Insurance For Dogs and Cats (getodie.com) • LinkedIn (11) Miles Thorson | L…

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This founder was hours from hiring a VP Product—turns out, he was a total fraud. Here’s what he learned. 10:48

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It's the first time I see a candidate BS his way through interviews with multiple people, impress each one of them, and ultimately end up being a complete fraud. But the biggest learning wasn't that you should watch out for fraud-- it was that you shouldn't trust interviews nearly as much as you'd think. While fake candidates are rare, candidates w…

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He quit his cozy Google job & founded not 1 but 2 unicorns— then grew from $1M to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Ashutosh Garg, Founder of Eightfold AI 36:22

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Ashutosh is one of those rare founders who founded not just one, but two unicorns. He worked at Google for 4 years, left and started Bloomreach, which was last valued at $2.2B. Halfway through that journey, he left to do it all over again. He started Eightfold AI which is the one we're talking about today. In 2021, he raised $220M from Softbank at …

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Q2 Early-Stage Venture Report w/ Carta’s Head of Insights: Valuations, Round Sizes, Graduation Rates & more. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta 40:39

4M ago40:39

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Carta is the backbone of most venture-backed startups. They have access to specific information about every single round, not just what's reported in TechCrunch. Today, Peter Walker, Carta's Head of Insights joins us to share the findings from Carta's Q2 reports. We go deep into data from pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds. We cover median valuatio…

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He built in stealth with 1 customer for a year—then grew to 1M paid users across 60,000 locations. | Sanish Mondkar, Founder of Legion 42:21

4M ago42:21

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Last quarter, Sanish raised a $50M Series D. His company has raised over $130M. They have enterprise customers across 14 countries including Dollar General, Aldo, and CircleK. It all started because Sanish was working out of coffee shops. He wasn't looking for a startup idea. But after a few casual conversations with employees, he noticed several p…

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Sean Ellis led growth at Dropbox—& invented growth hacking. Here's his step-by-step growth guide. | Sean Ellis, creator of the PMF test & best-selling author of Hacking Growth. 47:07

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Sean Ellis created THE test for PMF. He led growth teams at Dropbox, Eventbrite and LogMeIn, which sold for $4.3B. He coined the term Growth Hacking and wrote the best-selling book Hacking Growth. Today we go deep and tactical with him. He takes us through how to use the Sean Ellis test to perfectly measure and understand product market fit. He tak…

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He sold AI robots to Walmart & raised $150M. His #1 advice to founders? "Trust your gut." | Daniel Theobald, Founder of Vecna Robotics 38:04

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Daniel's been building robots for 20 years. He's sold 100s of AI robots-as-a-service to Walmart, FedEx, & DHL amongst others. Last month, he raised a $40M round. 6 years ago, he realized why robots weren't getting massively adopted. Builders like him were trying to build perfect robots that always worked. But every situation has edge cases. What if…

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VCs give a lot of advice— & a lot of it sucks. Be careful who you listen to. 7:32

5M ago7:32

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Advice is free—actioning bad advice isn't. Early-stage founders are bombarded with advice. A lot of it from investors who have never operated a business, never ran marketing, never led sales. And yet, many founders take VCs' advice as sacrosanct. And many VCs feel like they can and should opine on everything. If many people treat you like an expert…

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