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The Undefeated Underdogs
by Sharath Kuruganty
The Undefeated Underdogs is a podcast unpacking the underdog stories you never heard of!It highlights the underdog mentality and brings authentic conversations with people who play the long game, take action with a chip on their shoulders, and convert obstacles into opportunities!Buckle up, as I will be bringing some authentic founders, VCs, community builders, and content creators who got underestimated their whole life, and yet they beat the odds and became insanely successful!
Episodes
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Andrew Yeung - How to build a million-dollar events company from scratch!
👉🏼 About the Guests: Business Insider dubbed Andrew Yeung as The Great Gatsby of startups. Andrew moved to the US as an immigrant in 2020 and after a brief stint at Facebook, Google he founded his events company Fibe, generated millions of dollars in revenue, hosted more than 40K tech folks,...
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Julian Weisser - Why ODF is on a mission of making things for people who make things!
👉🏼 About the Guests: Julian Weisser is a prominent entrepreneur, investor, and musician, best known as the co-founder and CEO of ODF/On Deck, a platform designed to support startup founders in launching and scaling their companies. Under his leadership, On Deck facilitated the launch of over...
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Founders of Defang - Building the easiest way to develop, deploy and debug cloud apps in minutes!
👉🏼 About the Guests: Prakash and Lionello are the co-founders of Defang, a radically simpler way to develop, deploy, and debug production-ready cloud apps. Lionello is CTO at Defang, as well as an engineering lead and community organizer with EE and CS background and 20 years of international...
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Brett Goldstein - How Micro is reinventing email and making it great again!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Brett Goldstein is the founder of Micro, an email-CRM blend so you can stay on top of your communications. He is also the co-founder of Launch House, which is a community built to connect and support the world's most ambitious entrepreneurs and creators. Launch House brings...
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Chrys Bader - A masterclass on the art of building viral consumer apps for the Internet!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Chrys is the co-founder at Rosebud, an AI-powered personal growth journal. He is a 6-time founder, founding Curio NFT Intelligence, Ikaria (social wellness), and Secret (social media). Prior to Secret, Chrys was a Product Manager at Google where he launched the photo-sharing...
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Charlie Clark - How a solo founder took a side project from an idea to $300k+ ARR product!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Charlie Clark is a software engineer, creative coder, & bootstrapped founder who has grown his short links product, Liinks, to $25K MRR just 3 years after it officially launched. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial...
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Zachary Hamed - How using AI and design thinking made Clay the next generation rolodex!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Zach Hamed is a design-focused engineer who enjoys designing, building, and selling software. He is currently co-founder and co-CEO of Clay, a beautiful and private home for your personal and professional relationships. Previously, he helped build the product team at Goldman...
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Brendan Mahony - Why founders should look at building startups as a game and not a business!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Brendan Mahony is the founder of Sunset, a company that helps tech companies shut down, saving founders thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours. He is also the ex-founder of Toybox (YC S18, acquired) and Contrast (shut down). From this experience, he built Sunset! 👉🏼...
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Ryan Gilbert - How to master the art of building and scaling curation newsletters!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Ryan Gilbert is the founder of Workspaces, a newsletter with nearly 14K subscribers, $2K MRR, and 45K subscribers on Twitter, all about the desks of creatives around the world, born during the pandemic. Workspaces was acquired by Loops in 2022, where Ryan was Head of…
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Yana Welinder - How to build and scale a VC-backed startup as a solo founder!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Yana Welinder is CEO and Founder of Kraftful (YC S19) – an AI assistant that helps product teams build better products by listening to users at scale. Before starting Kraftful, she led product teams at multiple tech companies and personally experienced the challenge of…
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Chris Hladczuk - Tactical advice you need to know to build a fintech startup in stealth!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Chris (300K+ followers on Linkedin and Twitter) went to Yale and played in the Men's Lacrosse team, then to investment banking at Goldman Sachs, then joined the tech startup world, and is now the founder of his own startup. Now, he's bringing together his backgrounds in...
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Derek - How to master the art of growing and monetizing newsletters from scratch!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Derek is the founder of Remote Jobs, the world's repository for remote jobs, and the creator of Daily UI, the #1 design challenge, with a combined total of 650K+ email subscribers. Join him in this episode to learn how he grew his user base from 0 to 650K+! 👉🏼 About the...
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Dani Grant - Why falling in love with your users and the problem you're solving is a differentiator!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Dani Grant is the CEO of Jam, a dev tools startup helping 30K+ improve their bug reporting process, backed by executives from Apple, GitHub, and Pager Duty, and VCs such as Village Global (LPs include Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos). Before Jam, Dani was an early...
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Derek Sivers - How to reframe your life using ideas and beliefs as tools!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Derek Sivers is an author of philosophy and entrepreneurship, known for his surprising quotable insights and pithy succinct writing style. Formerly a musician, programmer, TED speaker, and circus clown, he sold his first company, CD Baby, for $22 million and gave all the…
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Andrew Rea - Why first-time founders should invest time and effort in building conviction!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Andrew Rea is the founder of TaxWire which automates SaaS sales tax compliance across your finance stack. He accidentally started Taxwire when he was doing fractional work. Previously he played key roles and led growth at On Deck and Party Round. He also built and sold an EV...
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Mehul Nariyawala - From selling a $40M startup to Google to building the future of smart home robots!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Mehul Nariyawala is the founder of Matic, where he is building fully autonomous home robots. He previously worked at Nest as a Lead PM for Nest Cams Portfolio and founded Flutter, a company that develops gesture recognition technologies, and was eventually acquired by Google...
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Phil Lakin - How an enterprise no-code startup went from zero to one to Zapier acquisition!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Philip Lakin is the co-founder and CEO of NoCodeOps, a community and automation management platform (Operator) dedicated to supporting operations professionals that are reimagining the future of internal innovation with no-code. He was previously the Solutions Architect for...
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Blake Emal - How to convert people browsing your website into people buying your product!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Blake Emal is the CEO and founder behind Pagetear. He is the 10-year marketer behind Marketing Monday and has been an SEO Specialist, agency manager, marketing leader at a $10B tech co, and ex-CMO of Copy.ai. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community...
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Pritika Mehta - How you can build a dream website using a simple prompt with Butternut AI in 20secs!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Pritika Mehta is the founder of Butternut AI, an AI-based website builder. After having earned her first dollar on the internet when she was 14, Butternut is her third startup, having built Mindbatteries (acquired), and SockSoho (YC S20), which went from 0 to millions in ARR...
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Hiten Shah - How startups are building a future using AI that is fully inspired by our past!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Hiten Shah (268K followers on Twitter!) has been building and writing about SaaS businesses for 20+ years. He is currently the CEO and Co-founder at Nira and is the ex-founder at CrazyEgg and KISSmetrics. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community...
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Marie Martens - The story of how two founders bootstrapped a $1M+ ARR startup!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Marie Martens is the co-founder of Tally, the simplest way to create forms. With a background in marketing, she co-founded a travel marketplace, Hotspot, and pivoted to Tally during the pandemic. Between 2020 and 2024, Tally's lean team has bootstrapped Tally to a $1M in…
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Peer Richelsen - How Cal.com is changing the perception of open-source software(OSS)!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Peer Richelsen is the co-founder and co-CEO of Cal.com. Peer has also previously served as the head of product at On Deck and as the founder and CEO of Lean Hire, as well as attending Y Combinator as an alumni in the winter of 2019. for Mage App, Inc., where they raised…
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Sonia Baschez - Why you need to hire a fractional CMO!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Sonia Baschez was the Head of Marketing at Atmos and currently is a a Marketing and PR Advisor at The Council. She is an expert at building and executing marketing strategies for early-stage startups focused on social media, content creation, and email marketing. She has...
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James Evans - How CommandBar is using AI to help brands master user assistance!
👉🏼 About the Guest: James Evans (Princeton alumni, ex-Bain) is the co-founder and CEO of CommandBar, a user assistance platform that makes your software product easier to use. In 3.5yrs, CommandBar is a 7-figure ARR SaaS business, with over 20 million end-users across hundreds of customers like...
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Dr. Corey Wilks - How can founders access baseline greatness, self-awareness and clarity in life!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Dr. Corey Wilks is a licensed clinical psychologist and executive coach who helps top entrepreneurs in the world clarify what matters, overcome limiting beliefs, and build values-aligned lives and businesses. His work focuses on exploring the psychology of how to succeed in...
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Louis Pereira - Why prioritizing fun helps you build and grow viral AI products!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Louis Pereira (10K+ followers on X!) lives a dual life. During the day, he works with his family to run a traditional, offline first business in Goa, India. At night, he is a creator on the internet where he builds web apps and publishes the occasional article. He is…
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Adam Renklint - How should founders navigate through VC and grow a startup with intention!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Adam Renklint is the co-founder, CEO, and prev CTO of Pitch (allowing teams to create compelling stories in the blink of an eye). Adam was previously the founder of Wunderlist, and before that, a senior software engineer at Microsoft, where they led a cross-platform team…
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Mubashar Iqbal - How to build a career & a name in tech by shipping side projects!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Mubashar Iqbal (Maker of the Year on Product Hunt) is a serial maker and the creator of 114+ side projects! He was a Lead Engineer at Founderpath and the ex-CTO of MadGlory Interactive. Legend says Mubs shipped more than 200+ projects in the last decade. He is known for…
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Nathan Baschez - How AI is revolutionizing the way you write on the Internet!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Nathan Baschez is the founder of Lex, a modern word processor that enables a radically new way to write. He also cofounded Every, a writer collective focused on business. Previously, he was the first employee at Substack, the Head of Product at Gimlet Media, and co-created…
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Emuye Reynolds - How to build and scale your engineering teams in startups!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Emuye worked as Head of Engineering at Superhuman, where she focused on scaling the engineering team. She joined Superhuman in 2016 to build the mobile team and also managed the customer delight team, becoming an integral member of company leadership. Previously, she worked…
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Katelyn Bourgoin - Unpacking the hidden secrets behind why people buy!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Katelyn Bourgoin (190K+ followers across Twitter and her newsletter!) is a marketer by trade and a 4X founder by choice. Her specialty is helping growth-hungry teams figure out what triggers customers to buy so they can market smarter. She's been called an "influential...
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Rob Hope - The science behind building a perfect landing page!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Rob Hope is a South African-born entrepreneur and the founder of One Page Love, the leading online showcase of beautiful One Page websites, templates, and resources. He also sends a weekly newsletter and interviews good folk building their own thing on the Yo! Podcast…
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James Brackin IV - How to land your podcast in one of the top 1% popular shows in the world!
👉🏼 About the Guest: James Brackin IV is in the top 1% of podcasters worldwide, hosting "The You Can Too Podcast" where he interviewed Seth Godin, Derek Sivers, Mark Sisson, Evan Carmichael, Bruce Lipton, Case Kenny, Gary Brecka, and so many more. He is also a coach, living by the belief that…
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Noah Kagan - All you need is a weekend to launch a million-dollar business!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Noah Kagan (1.5M+ followers across Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter) graduated from UC Berkeley and became employee #30 at Facebook, where he invented status updates, developed the Facebook ads platform, and worked on the very first version of Facebook's mobile app. He was…
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Arvid Kahl - Lessons from being a bootstrapped founder and a content creator!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Arvid Kahl is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and writer. He co-founded and bootstrapped FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company, with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, two years after founding…
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Arlan Hamilton - On a 10yr mission to empower 1000 underrepresented millionaires!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Arlan Hamilton is the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, a seed investment fund that backs overachieving, underrepresented startup founders, breaking barriers in VC and championing diversity and inclusivity. She is also a tour manager with world-renowned...
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Jack Appleby - How to use originality and authenticity to build a social brand on the Internet!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Jack Appleby is a social media whiz and the founder of Future Social, a newsletter with 60,000+ subscribers. With over a decade of experience in the industry, Jack has worked with multiple well-known companies, such as the NBA, Microsoft, Beats By Dre, Verizon, Spotify, and...
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Chenell Basilio - How to grow a newsletter empire(50K+ subscribers) on the Internet!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Chenell Basilio is not just a name, but a powerhouse of knowledge and strategic thinking that fuels the growth of leading creators. With her incredible ability to reverse engineer the growth strategies of top creators, she uncovers the blueprint of creators who amassed over...
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Eric Bahn - Why being a founder of a VC fund is often easier than being a founder of a startup!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Eric Bahn who proudly identifies as a 'Minivan enthusiast' is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a VC fund that invests in "hilariously early" founders at the pre-seed stage. With $130M AUM, they invested in over 500 startups including the biggest names like...
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Alex Friedman - How to be unapologetically authentic and optimist on the Internet!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Alex Friedman is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence for Techstars Music. She is also an angel investor and a 3x startup founder who has developed CPG products that have been sold in over 3,000 stores across the nation. She is well-known for building Founder…
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John Andrew Entwistle - How to make the right decisions in the most crucial times!
👉🏼 About the Guest: John Andrew Entwistle is the founder and CEO of Wander, a startup revolutionizing short-term rental space! So far John and his team have raised over $27M in funding and are on a mission to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers. John was previously a Thiel Fellow and...
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Polina M. Pompliano - How to master the art of asking insanely great questions!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Polina Marinova Pompliano (131K followers!) is the founder of The Profile, a new media company that features long-form profiles of successful people and companies each week. Previously, she spent five years at FORTUNE where she wrote more than 1,300 articles and earned the...
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Bobby Pinero - How to successfully execute big, bold, ambitious bets as a startup founder!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Bobby Pinero (CEO at Equals) has been an analyst for the past decade. With 8 years at Intercom, building Finance, Analytics, Biz Ops, and several other functions, he built out functions that took the company from $1M ARR and ~20 employees to ~$200M ARR and ~700 employees. He...
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Danny Miranda - The art, the power and the impact of podcasting!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Danny Miranda (The Danny Miranda Podcast, ArtOfInterviewing.com) is a writer and podcaster, with 420+ episodes on his podcast. His interviews include Gary Vaynerchuk, Alex Hormozi, Robert Greene, Seth Godin, Andy Frisella, Chris Williamson, Kamal Ravikant, and more. His...
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Neil Patel - Give First philosophy, SEO tactics, how to leverage AI in marketing and brand building!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Neil Patel is a New York Times Bestselling author. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, Forbes says he is one of the top 10 marketers, and Entrepreneur Magazine says he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies. He was recognized as a top 100...
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Amanda Goetz - On facing fear, choosing abundance, and how to standout as a creator!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Amanda Goetz is a 2x founder, 3x CMO, brand builder, and content creator on personal and professional growth and brand building, inspiring over 150,000 people every week through her social insights and weekly newsletter, 🧩 Life's A Game. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a...
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Matthew Kobach - A masterclass on how to do marketing, branding and social media in 2023!
👉🏼 About the Guest: In 2007, Matthew Kobach became one of the first to ever pursue a PhD predicting how people use social media. This led to an opportunity with a social media analytics firm where he was required to accurately code social media sentiment and spot cultural trends. While working...
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Sarah Peck - Lessons startup founders should learn from parents!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Sarah K Peck (The New York Times, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, 99U, Psychology Today, Life Hacker, Thought Catalog, and more) is an author, startup advisor, and yoga teacher based in New York City. She’s the founder and executive director of Startup…
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Andrew Gazdecki - From living on food stamps to being a reason for many founders’ living!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Andrew Gazdecki is a four-time startup founder with three-time exits, former CRO, and founder of Acquire.com. Gazdecki has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as prominent industry blogs such as...
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Sarah Stockdale - Lessons from building a diverse community of ambitious marketers!
👉🏼 About the Guest: Sarah is the Founder and CEO of Growclass, an online growth marketing training company. She is also a copywriting expert, the host of The Growth Effect, and the author of We Need To Talk About This, a popular blog and newsletter for millennial women. Sarah has spent her…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Undefeated Underdogs is a podcast unpacking the underdog stories you never heard of!It highlights the underdog mentality and brings authentic conversations with people who play the long game, take action with a chip on their shoulders, and convert obstacles into opportunities!Buckle up, as I will be bringing some authentic founders, VCs, community builders, and content creators who got underestimated their whole life, and yet they beat the odds and became insanely successful!
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Sharath Kuruganty
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