442: What It’s Like to be a Serial Start-Up Entrepreneur in Your 20’s With Pete Birsinger, Picasso & Podible [Main T4C Episode]

Pete Birsinger is the CEO and Founder of Picasso, a program that helps brands with their advertising through the transcription and data collection of nearly one million podcasts. Pete also co-founded Podible, a multi-platform podcast app that learns what you love and suggests new podcasts based on your listening preferences. Prior to his entrepreneurial adventures, Pete worked at Tapad as a software engineer and solutions engineer from 2015 through 2017. Pete graduated from UC Berkeley in 2013 with a B.A. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science & Applied Mathematics.  WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: Why Pete developed Podible and what it does (3:39) How Pete used his experiences from developing Podible to found Picasso and what is the purpose of Picasso (5:48) Why Pete is hesitant to try to raise more money from VC (8:38) How Pete learned the value of failing quickly in a new business (12:57) Why working in the field of software engineering provided Pete with a “cushy life” (17:14) What inspired Pete to launch a start-up (22:32) What extra curricular to get into if you want to be a software engineer  (32:48)