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INDIE AUDIO
by Bryce Roberts
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Idea Maze or Insanity? with Anjan Katta, Founder of Daylight
I had never met Anjan Katta before entering his apartment a few months back. It was some combination of office, shrine, and looney bin plucked from the Charlie Conspiracy episode of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Despite the absolute chaos surrounding us, the vibe was calm and the energy was high....
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The Modern Startup Playbook with Grant Lee, CEO of Gamma
Miss us? Feels like it's been a few weeks since we’ve had something new to share. This week, we’re excited to share a video we recorded just before the release of First of Kind. Grant Lee fits the profile of a founder indie is built to support: worked in investment banking, and joined a hot YC...
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A Process for Having it All with Jason Jacobs
Jason Jacobs wants it all. As a father to young children, he wants to be active in their lives, but as an ambitious founder, he’s compelled to build and chase down opportunities that often require sacrificing the time with his family that he longs for. This is not a new tension for a repeat...
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Riding an AI Rocketship with Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno
Mikey Shulman is having a great time. He’s running a rocket ship of a company, has $100M+ in funding from some of the top VCs, and is working on an opportunity that he’s passionate about. Mikey hit my radar because of a text from my friend TJ. His firm was an early backer of Suno, and he said…
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Discovering What Your Company Wants to Be with Mike Salguero, CEO of ButcherBox
Today’s conversation with Mike Salguero went in a direction I really wasn’t anticipating. Initially, I was interested in talking to Mike because he’s lived multiple lives as a Founder. First, buying and then raising 10s of millions for a crafts persons marketplace called Custommade.com. Then…
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Skipping from Pre-Seed to Series A with Dreadnode
"Would you be mad at us if we raised more money?" That was the text I got late one night from Will Pearce, co-founder and CEO of Dreadnode, a company we'd funded about nine months prior. I'd gotten to know Will through a cold DM he sent me. The DM had nothing to do with tech or investing, just...
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Where Are They Now with Scott Heiferman, Founder of Meetup
It is incredibly rare to have your startup become a verb. Google and Uber immediately come to mind. But what about when a group of strangers or friends with shared interests decide they want to get together? They, Meetup. Scott Heifferman didn’t set out with becoming a verb in mind but he…
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Getting off the VC Treadmill with Brandon Arvanaghi, CEO of Meow
This is a spicy one! 🌶️ This week we sat down with Brandon Arvanaghi from Meow.com to discuss his journey from money burning crypto company to profitable fintech. His tweet last year about hitting the profitability milestone had some obvious, and some less intuitive, take aways from their...
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How to Fix the Founder Mental Health Crisis with Eric Ries of the Lean Startup
Late last year, we sat down with Eric Ries, who fundamentally changed how we think about building startups through The Lean Startup. Only Eric can make corporate governance sound poetic. The conversation took an unexpected turn as we delved into what Ries calls "vampire founders" - leaders who…
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Stargate, Deep Seek and the Futility of Making Predictions about AI in 2025 with @jacsrice, CEO @tribe.ai
Making any kind of time bounded predictions about where AI will be in the year of our lord 2025 is a fools errand. But, we’re suckers for this stuff, so we asked Jackie from Tribe to revise the State of AI download we did last year and orient it to what she sees coming for AI in the enterprise in...
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Terminal NYC with Reggie James
On my flight to NYC last week, I casually asked if there were any events happening in the city while I was there. Reggie, who you may remember from his New Hardware video, and as the person who coined the term “indie-pilled”, replied that we should do one of our own. So we did. Thankfully we had...
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Drones, Defense Tech, and The Consumer Hardware Trap with Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson can’t talk a lot about what he is up to these days. At least on camera. His LinkedIn profile says he’s currently an Engineer at “Stealth". Prior to this current professional opacity, he was at Kitty Hawk, the electric aircraft maker founded by Sebastian Thrun (legendary Stanford...
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Cults & Culture with Soleio
Soleio Cuervo is more than a chin on the internet. He’s more than an early design leader at Facebook and Dropbox. And he's more than an epic angel investor. He’s a truth seeker and truth teller. Or at least the truth as he sees it. Soleio was one of Facebook’s earliest designers, joining in 2005...
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Closing The Chapter
Throughout the first year of indie’s return, I’ve felt a real sense of tension. That tension sat at the intersection of what indie was and what indie wants to be. In its earliest days, indie was often framed as an anti-VC, profit maxi path. Rigid in its philosophy and dogmatic in its practices....
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Where Are They Now with Joshua Schachter from Del.icio.us
Once upon a time, when MTV played music videos, their more mature sister channel, VH1, had a show called “Where Are They Now”. The idea behind the show was to track down notable artists of previous generations to see where life had taken them once they’d stepped out of the spotlight. OK boomer,...
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Post-AI Entrepreneurship with Rahul Sonwalkar of Julius AI
There’s a section of our website that generates more reaction than any single piece of content I’ve ever written. It says: We’re obsessed with the idea that someone is going to build a business doing $100M in revenue with less than 10 employees and see it as this generation of founders’ 4 min…
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Startup Confessionals Vol. 1 — Ben Kaufman (Camp), Harper Reed (Galactic), Finbarr Taylor (Shogun)
A few weeks back in this very email, I put out a request for a new content format we wanted to experiment with that we called “Startup Confessionals”. From my note: If you, or founders you know, are willing to share a startup confessional, we’d love to help. We can make these totally anonymized…
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Going Bananas with Turner Novak, Founder of Banana Capital
As someone who entered the venture industry in the wake of the Dot-com crash, I have a deep appreciation for new managers, their entry point into the industry, and how that shapes their world view. For me, it was pure carnage for the first few years of “investing”. I put that in quotes because it...
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From $250k Raised to a $1.25B Exit with Shegun Otulana
A few weeks back, I was the morning speaker at an event hosted by David Senra of FoundersPodcast (one of my favorite podcasts and people). The afternoon speaker was someone I’d never heard of before, Shegun Otulana. The story he told resonated deeply — a Nigerian immigrant who came to study at…
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In the Are.na Trying Things with Charles Broskoski
When I reached out to Charles Broskoski, co-founder of Are.na, it was largely because I kept hearing mention of the service he'd built increasingly entering the zeitgeist among young, creative technologists. What I thought would be a conversation about the tension between creativity in technology...
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Why Tech wants DEI to DIE with Y-Vonne Hutchinson, Founder of ReadySet
After wrapping this week’s conversation with published author and ReadySet’s CEO, Y-vonne Hutchinson, I stepped out of the studio, opened my phone, and X was ablaze. In the year of our Lord 2024, a startup had decided that an anti-woke marketing campaign was the best possible way for them to...
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Career Transitions for High Achievers with Steve Schlafman
Walking through Madison Square Park a year ago, @schlaf talked about transitions, something he knew a lot about. I first met Steve when he was a junior investing partner at RRE, a venture capital firm in New York City. At the time, Schlaf had the NYC startup scene in a chokehold. He had a...
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Stepping into The Shade Room with Angelica Nwandu
In April 2015, I read an article that elicited a reaction I’d only had a few other times prior. We had just closed applications for our first round of experimental indie investments and had made most of our selections. The article in question was titled Instagram’s TMZ, not exactly a title that...
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At Home with Karri Saarinen, Cofounder of Linear
A few years back, I got a DM from a founder wanting to meet and swap stories about adventures in entrepreneurship. Despite being backed by some of the top VCs in the world, they were taking a very different approach from the classic VC blitzscaling playbook. As we sat on the back patio of a bar…
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Born Again Bootstrappers — An Interview with the co-founders of Wistia
In this conversation we unpack their journey of building a “lifestyle business”. Some takeaways: — Chris and Brendan emphasize the importance of patience, focus, and long-term thinking in building a sustainable business. They challenge the notion that raising large amounts of venture capital is...
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Founder-Led Sales with Jen Abel of Jjellyfish
Product-market fit requires both customers willing to pay and stay. It’s not just about initial sales, but also retention. Early-stage sales should focus on research and understanding customer problems rather than immediate revenue generation. Founders often skip this crucial research phase....
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Venture Capital Curmudgeons Club with Eric Paley of Founder Collective
— Capital has no insights Eric argues that venture capital alone doesn’t solve business problems, and having more capital doesn’t necessarily lead to better outcomes. — Compounding value vs. negative value The importance of building companies that compound positive value over time, rather than...
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The Current State of AI with Jaclyn Rice Nelson from Tribe AI
Some takeaways: — There’s a significant gap between the hype around AI and its actual implementation in businesses. Many companies are still in the experimental phase, with few AI solutions in production. The main barriers to AI adoptions are technical challenges, cost considerations, and lack of...
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Current State of Crypto with smac from Compound
A few takeaways from this conversation: — Early crypto applications were challenging to use and primarily attracted tech enthusiasts and speculators. Over time, the technology matured, making applications more user-friendly and broadening the user base. While there’s still a long way to go, the...
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Reading the Comments on The End of Software with Chris Paik, Partner at Pace Capital
When you end an essay with a line like: "Majoring in computer science today will be like majoring in journalism in the late 90’s.” You’re bound to ruffle some feathers. In the case of Chris Paik’s “End of Software” essay, not only were feathers ruffled, but the entire farm was flustered. And then...
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Unpacking The Slow PhD with Will Quist, Partner at Slow Ventures
This is really one you should watch on our YouTube. Like, all of them are. But this one has Will going to a White Board. What if we could know whether the business idea you can’t shake is worth pursuing? What if we could ensure that we're pairing the right ideas with the right capital sources to...
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Intersection of INDIE & Deep Tech — A Conversation with Michael Dempsey, Compound Managing Partner
My friend, Michael Dempsey, Managing Partner at Compound, and I have an ongoing thread about the intersection of indie ideals and his areas of focus in deep tech. Most of these conversations happen over meals or online, so we decided to dive in a bit with the cameras on. Our conversation was as…
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New Hardware Soapbox with Reggie James, Founder & CEO of Eternal
We invited our friend, Reggie James, to help unpack what's happening in hardware and break down what's behind many of the recent negative viral product review videos currently hitting the internet. Reggie is a longtime friend to indie and prolific advisor to many of this new crop of hardware...
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Influencers Aren't Going Anywhere — A Conversation with James Nord, Fohr Co-Founder & CEO
One of the most frequent requests we get is to hear directly from indie founders. Today's conversation is just that. And we did it in style. James Nord, founder of Fohr, has had a front row seat to indie having been one of the very first investments we made. In turn, I've had a front row seat for...
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Building Vanta — A Conversation with Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder & CEO of Vanta
I had the opportunity to know Christina Cacioppo early in her time at Union Square Ventures. Always whip-smart and ever curious, we found ourselves drawn to similar founders and edges of emerging markets. When her time at USV ended, we lost touch. She moved from NYC to San Francisco, took a job…
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Building GitHub — Live Event with Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub Co-Founder
A few weeks back, we had the unique opportunity to sit down with Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder and former CEO of Github. We met in a church he recently renovated into an incredible event space and rolled the cameras to capture our wide-ranging conversation. Over the better part of an hour, we...
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