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Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | Surojit Chatterjee, Founder of Ema

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How this 1st-time founder went from closing customers for $500 a month to $300,000 a year. | Sean McCarthy, Founder & CEO of BackOps

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180 VCs rejected him—then a $60K billboard got him to $2M ARR in 4 months. | Isaiah Granet, CEO of Bland AI

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She bet on a consumer app when every VC wanted B2B—then grew to $10M ARR. | Anada Lakra, Founder of BoldVoice

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He raised a $10M seed with no revenue—then grew 30x to $30M in year two. | Bobby Samuels, Founder of Protege

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He ran Prime fulfillment for Amazon—then raised $20M to replace e-commerce with AI. | Maju Kuruvilla, Founder of Spangle

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She got rejected by 22 VCs—then built 6sense to $100M+ in revenue. Now she's back for AI. | Amanda Kahlow, Founder of 1mind

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How this AI founder is on track to hit $50M ARR just 2 years after launch. | Tarek Alaruri, Co-Founder of Stuut

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He launched a free product for enterprise customers—then grew to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Bhaskar Sunkara, Founding CTO of AppDynamics

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He raised $41M in one year to replace enterprise accountants with AI. | Yogi Goel, Founder of Maxima

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How he grew his AI startup from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months. | Omar Haroun, Co-Founder of Eudia

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She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta

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He moved to the US with nothing. Now he does $750M ARR. | Mateo Marietti, Founder of CookUnity

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This 3x founder hit $1M ARR in 5 months. Here's his playbook. | Roy Moussa, Founder of GetVocal

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He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine

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He built heads down for a year. Then landed a $1M contract. | Sam Jones, Co-Founder of Method Security

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He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Airbyte

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He failed for 5 years. Then hit $20M ARR with 100% outbound. | Didi Gurfinkel, Founder of Datarails

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His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founder of LiveKit

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He pivoted at $1M ARR—then raised $120M. | Kevin Tian, Co-Founder of Doppel

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He sold his first startup for $100M. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves

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He sold his first 2 startups. His 3rd grew to $1M ARR in 3 months. | Chaz Englander, Founder of Model ML

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He fired all his customers. Then built a $1B startup in 2 years. | Jay Madheswaran, Co-Founder of Eve

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He wrote the book on Account Based Marketing. Here are his GTM secrets for enterprise. | Bassem Hamdy, Founder of Briq

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He got rejected from YC—then grew to $1.8B in under 2 years. | Max Junestrand, Founder of Legora

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He sold dog food from his condo. Now he does $100M+ a year. | Russell Breuer, Founder of Spot & Tango

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He made 100 cold calls a day. Now his startup is worth $600M. | Harman Narula, Founder of Canary Technologies

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He got 100k signups in 30 days. They all churned. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR. | Rich White, Founder of Fathom

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He grew his startup to $150M ARR & an IPO. Now he's back for the AI wave. | Bob Tinker, Founder of MobileIron & BlueRock

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How his AI-enabled Services startup hit $1M ARR in just 3 months. | Shahar Peled, Founder of Terra Security

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He hit $1M ARR with just 2 people. 2 years later, he's worth $1.5B. | Ashwin Sreenivas, Co-Founder of Decagon

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His 1st startup failed. His 2nd became a unicorn in just 18 months. | Jake Stauch, Founder of Serval

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It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway

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Solo Episode: B2B SaaS is dead. Here's what the best AI founders are doing instead.

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He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer

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Solo Episode: The Five Steps to Product Market Fit

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He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia. | David Paffenholz (Juicebox)

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Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder of Scribe

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He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Founder of Higgsfield AI

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How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex

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Q3 2025 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta

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He added AI to parking lots—then raised $3.5B. | Alex Israel, Founder of Metropolis

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He left a $2B ARR company to build AI agents—then hit $1M ARR in < 6 months | Amit Shah, Founder of Instalily

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He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure

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At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza, Founder of Clover

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He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. | Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin

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He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Founder of Deliverr & Augment

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He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix & DevRev

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He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskildsen, Founder of turbopuffer

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He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | Guy Podjarny, Founder of Snyk & Tessl

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5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. | Amar Varma, Founder of Mantle

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He "kind of" had PMF for 8 years—until, after a rebuild, he raised $100M | Ben Alarie, Founder of Blue J

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They failed every POC—then grew their cybersecurity platform to $100M ARR in 5 years. | Dean Sysman, co-founder of Axonius

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He tested his pitch on Uber drivers—then built a cybersecurity platform to $180M raised. | Casey Ellis, Founder of Bugcrowd

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He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod, Founder of Warp.dev

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He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex Sherman, Founder of Bluefish AI

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A drug dealer threatened to kill him—then he grew 50x in 3 Years to $50M ARR. | Brett Carlson, Found of ServiceUp

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He pitched 100 VC and spent 3 years building— then grew to $7B AUM. | Doug Scott, Founder of Ethic

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PMF Observations: Speed is the only startup moat—& why most founders lose it.

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He spent 5 months working with customers before building—then grew to $10s of millions ARR. | Aviv Leibovici, co-founder of Buildots

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She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge

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He bet his house on a startup—took 7 years to $1M, then hockey stick to $100M+ ARR. | Eldon Sprickerhoff, Co-Founder of eSentire

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He quit his job, went all-in on AI agents—then grew to 100K users & a $30M Series A in a year. | Soham Ganatra, Founder of Composio

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TechCrunch called this YC founder a fraud at 18—then he built a $10M ARR fintech. | Sahil Phadnis, Founder of Affiniti

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Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Founder of Gamma

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He quit Google, launched Rubrik—then grew to $1B ARR & a $16B market cap. | Soham Mazumdar, Co-Founder Rubrik & Wisdom AI

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He Bootstrapped to $55M in Revenue—without ever having to hit 100% YoY growth. | Stéphan Donzé, Founder of AODocs

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He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder

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Q2 2025: The new Series A Bar is $3M ARR—& only 20% of seed startups make it. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta

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His Video AI app hit $10M+ ARR in Months—with 0 outbound sales. | Michael Lingelbach, Founder of Hedra

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He grew to millions in ARR in 18 months—by fighting with his co-founders on purpose. | Ross McNairn, Co-Founder of Wordsmith AI.

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He thought his startup would fail—then grew to $100M ARR. | Rick Song, Co-founder of Persona

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Forget PMF—Neil Patel says to give your product away for free instead. | Neil Patel, Co-Founder of Neil Patel Digital

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He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely

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She raised $1.3M, and delivered real, strategic value — then shut it down. | Mary Beth Snodgrass, Founder of Healthiby

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He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tanay Kothari, Founder of Wispr Flow

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PMF Observations: Why after PMF, every problem is a people problem.

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How Mercury Hit $500M ARR—then raised $300M from Sequoia at $3.5B. | Immad Akhund, CEO & Founder of Mercury

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Mike Maples: Your Startup Idea Isn’t Crazy Enough—And it's holding you back | Mike Maples, Founder of Floodgate

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How he grew to $100M ARR—then exited for $460M. | Zuben Matthews, Founder of Brigit

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He Hit $3.5M ARR and Still Failed. Here’s His #1 Mistake. | Joseph Lee, Founder of Freshline

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PMF Observations: Why it doesn't matter how fast you get to $1M ARR

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1st-time founder raises $140M with $0 revenue—grows to 800 employees & profitable. | Andrew Rubin, Founder of Illumio

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He went 7 years with no revenue— then grew to $100M ARR. | Rob Woollen, Co-Founder of Sigma

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$10M Raised, 500K Users, but she still failed—here’s what went wrong | Benedetta Lucini, Founder of Oval Money

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How $100B Mercado Libre got started—& why it almost went bankrupt after 9 months. | Hernan Kazah, Co-Founder Mercado Libre

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PMF Observations: How 4 Founders Built Massive Startups Their Own Way

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His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, Founder of Vapi

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WebSummit Panel w/ Founders of Glean ($5B) and Huntress ($2B): What it takes to hit $100M ARR

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How his $2B startup grew to $10M+ ARR with zero marketing. | Avery Pennarun, Founder of Tailscale

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May Startup News: Elizabeth Holmes Returns, Billion-Dollar Frauds, & the End of Tech Jobs w/ Jack Kuveke

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He hit $1M ARR in 10 months—after doing of a full, 180 pivot. | Merrill Lutsky, Founder of Graphite

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PMF Observations: Why passion is more important than you think

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He didn't raise VC for the first 7 years— then grew to $1B in ARR. | Dax Dasilva, Founder of Lightspeed

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Q1 2025: The Seed to Series A Gap is Wider Than Ever. Here's what to do. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta

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He went from 0 to a $210M exit in 3 years—without inventing anything new. | Kazi Ahmed, Founder of Carbon6

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Forecasts are overrated—great founders build one step at a time. | PMF Observations

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He took on Robinhood & built Public.com into a $1B company with $440M raised. | Jannick Malling, Founder of Public.com

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Adam Neumann Returns, SV Spies, AI Robots Rise | April Startup News w/ Jack Kuveke

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1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobber | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobber

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He lost 90% of his users overnight—then grew his consumer app to $10M ARR. | Koen Droste, Founder of Polarsteps

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He launched a “side-project”— now it’s used by 10% of all restaurants. | Jordan Boesch, Founder of 7Shifts

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1st-time founder grows AI headshot app from $0 to $10M ARR in 2 years—with no funding. | Wesley Tian, Founder of Aragon

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He raised $30M & failed. Then raised $0 & grew to $550M in revenue. Here's what he learned. | Mike Salguero, Founder of Butcherbox

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He invested in 30 early-stage startups. Here's what he looks for in the founders he backs. | Gopi Rangan, Founder of Sure Ventures

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He raised $300M to prevent heart attacks. Here's how he got his health tech startup off the ground. | Dr. Min, Founder of Cleerly

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He grew to $25M in ARR and $14M in annual profits—with no funding & no dilution. | Adam Robinson, Founder of Retention.com

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He took a 97% downround—then grew to $400M ARR & a $575M valuation in 2 years. | Dan Park, CEO of Clutch

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He bootstrapped to $4M ARR in 2 years. Here's his LinkedIn playbook you can't ignore. | Noah Greenberg, Founder of Stacker

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He invested in 684 AI startups—& realized that quitters always win. | Jack Kuveke, Founder turned VC at Jabroni Capital

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The secrets to mastering product-led growth. | Wes Bush, Author of the #1 Bestselling Book on Product-Led Growth

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He sold SkipTheDishes for $200M—then grew Neo Financial to a $1B valuation. | Jeff Adamson, Co-Founder of NeoFinancial & SkipTheDishes

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How to tell if you have true product-market fit—& what to do if you don't. | Matt Watson, Host of Product Driven

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He got rejected by 40 VCs & had 6 months of runway—2 years later, he raised $100M from a16z. | Edo Liberty, Founder of Pinecone

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Post-YC, he split with his co-founder—then grew profitably to $2M ARR with just 5 people. | Jon Yoo, Founder of Suger

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From mushroom-picking in Belarus to $200M/year. How he built Flo Health into a $1B health app. | Dmitry Gurski, Founder of Flo Health

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He started Groupon for SMBs, grew to $36M ARR—then exited for $170M. | Saurav Chopra, Founder of Perkbox

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It took him 7 years to hit $1M ARR—now his $1B public company does $1M every day. | Noah Glass, Founder of Olo

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He interviewed users, built a waitlist & raised $1.1M—but it still didn't work. | Frankie Le Nguyen, Founder of Staging Labs

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He got rejected by 50 VCs & had 4 months of runway—3 years later, he's at $150M ARR & profitable. | Hussein Fazal, Co-Founder of Super.com

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Amplitude is now a $1.5B public company. Here's how they beat competitors with a 10x cheaper product. | Jeffrey Wang, Co-Founder of Amplitude

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This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, Founder of Thatch

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Why new Carta data shows bridge rounds might be worse than you think. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta

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He exited for $335M—& felt "emptiness". So he quit, gave up millions in earnout, & grew to $1M ARR in 6 months. | Alon Arvatz, Founder of IntSights & PointFive

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He raised $20M, hit $3.5M in revenue—& failed. Here are the top 3 lessons he learned. | Ned Phillips, Founder of Bambu

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He exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jason Van Gaal, Founder of ROOT

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1st time founder completely pivots after YC—then grows 30x in a year to $2.2M ARR. | Pablo Palafox, Founder of HappyRobot

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He exited for $200M— then bootstrapped his next startup to $100M in revenue. | Alex Hawkinson, Founder of BrightAI

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The early-stage fundraising playbook—here's how to raise your first few rounds. | Nathan Beckord, Host of How I Raised It

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He lost his only 2 customers & was ready to quit—then he grew to $1.5M ARR in a year. | Josh Domingues, Founder of Flashfood

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He raised $250K, had thousands of users—but here's what he'd do differently next time. | Darius Vaillancourt, Founder of Howdy

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Stripe bought his startup for $1.1B—just 2.5 years after he quit his job. | Zach Abrams, Co-Founder of Bridge

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The 5 Steps to Product-Market Fit w/ Chris Saad, ex-Head of Product at Uber, Host of The Startup Podcast

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How Gusto’s $10B founder raised $6M, built a team of 5—& hit $5M ARR in just 2 years. | Josh Reeves, Founder of Gusto

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The top 5 early-stage startup lessons for 2025

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He raised $1.3M, hit $100K ARR—but failed. Here's the lesson every founder needs to hear. | Tolga Ermis, Founder of PromiseQ

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24 ways to get your first customers—based on real examples from the last 100 episodes.

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He bet on voice AI when no one else did. Now he has $1M+ customers & $100M raised. | Ankit Jain, Founder of Infinitus

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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

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He took 3 years to make his 1st sale—then grew 1000x to $10M ARR 3 years later. | Alex Hoff, Founder of Auvik

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If you wake up with your heart pounding out of your chest— do this.

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He refused to quit his job until $1M ARR—then grew to $5M ARR & closed a $25M Series A. | Pierce Ujjainwalla, Founder of Knak

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99% of founders SUCK at storytelling. Here's the pro who taught Slack & Salesforce how to do it. | Matthew Dicks, professional storyteller & bestselling author of Storyworthy.

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In 2019, he went all-in on AI, grew to $3M ARR in 2 years—then to $85M ARR in 5. | Shubham Mishra, Founder of Pixis

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How Wiz grew to $500M ARR in 4 years—& could exit to Google for $23B (largest VC-backed exit in history)

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He built a farming robot that shoots weeds with lasers— then closed $10M in pre-sales before shipping a single one. | Paul Mikesell, Founder of Carbon Robotics.

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Tesla’s EV market share (finally) falls below 50%. Good news for founders— incumbents took 15 years to match 1 founder.

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YC founder raises $3.5M, keeps team to 3 people—then grows 10x to $2M ARR in 1 year. | Benjamin Encz, Founder of Ashby

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Pickleball grew 3x in 4 years to 14M players. Not by competing with tennis— but by creating a new market instead.

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He fought Al Qaeda in Iraq, turned down $250K at McKinsey—& built a $150M+ ARR unicorn. Here’s how it happened: | Blake Hall, Founder of ID.me

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Each Google/OpenAI update kills more startups. Here’s how to make sure you're not next.

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1st-time founder meets 120 VCs— closes $2.7M in 5 weeks, 10x oversubscribed. Here's the step-by-step guide to close a round. | Andrew Rea, Founder of Taxwire

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Zoom hits an all-time low. Here's what AI startups can learn from the WFH hype cycle.

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He grew to $22M ARR in 4 years—but regrets spending so much on growth. | Chris Walker, Founder of Refine Labs

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ChatGPT just hit $3B in ARR—here’s why Sam Altman is a strategic genius.

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Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddit CTO & Founding Engineer Chris Slowe

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She quit her job without a startup idea. Then built a $550M startup from a bad dentist appointment. I Wardah Inam, Founder of Overjet

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Ex-Squarespace CEO on how to sell to SMBs, build tight feedback loops, & stay close to customers even after raising $200M+ | Dane Atkinson, Founder of Odeko

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He built Uber for parking & exited. Then raised $100M+. Here's his formula for finding product-market fit. | Shmulik Fishman, Founder of Argyle

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COVID nearly bankrupted him. Then with AI he grew from $0 to $25M ARR in 4 years. | Andrew Lockhead, Founder of Stay22

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He raised $11M off a deck. Here's how he launched Clumio & grew 4x to over 8-figures in ARR. | Poojan Kumar, Founder of Clumio

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He quit his cozy Google job & ignored lean startup advice— then grew to $3M in 1 year. | Arvind Jain, Founder of Glean

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5 months in, Snapchat had only 127 users. Here's how Evan Spiegel found product market fit w/ Jeremy Liew (Partner at Lightspeed and Seed Investor in Snapchat)

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He gave up on chasing unicorns. Now he earns $500K+/year from his 3-person startup. | Rand Fishkin, Founder of Moz & SparkToro

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This solo founder bet on AI 7 years ago. Now he has 5,000 customers & $115M raised. | Dylan, Founder of Assembly AI

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He raised $275M in the last 3 years. His 'boring' B2B startup is now a $1B unicorn. | Andrew Butt, Founder of Enable

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Alex sold couches online before IKEA did. He grew to $40M in revenue and exited for millions. | Alex Back, Co-Founder of Apt2B

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My Last Startup Failed With 30 Employees… It Might've Worked if we'd Kept it to 5.

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For 5 years he struggled to get traction. Then with AI he grew 12x— in 1 year | Scott Stevenson, co-founder of Spellbook

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Every VC Rejected Him. So He Bootstrapped From $0 to $10M in 3 years | Kyle Braatz, founder of Fullscript

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How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series A Investor in Shopify)

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How to Raise a Round in 2024 w/ Lee Silverstone (3x Founder)

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How Shopify & DollarShaveClub got more views than the Super Bowl for under $10K

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He Almost Went Bankrupt TWICE...Then exited for $30M. w/ Canvaspop CEO Nazim Ahmed

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How a Viral Ad drove Millions in Revenue and $55M In Funding w/ Walnut CEO Yoav Vilner

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Why you shouldn't chase unicorns; 3 Big VC Myths; and how to keep control of your startup

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How to Bootstrap from 0 to Millions in Revenue w/ Ilya (CEO & Founder, Vanhack)

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5 Steps to PMF with Rob

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The Best Episode of Season 1 - How Ada Pivoted to a $1B+ Valuation w/ Mike Murchison (Founder & CEO)

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The Top 3 Mistakes Early-Stage Founders Make When Forecasting

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The Five Steps to Product Market Fit

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How I lost $6M, Why hype means nothing, Plus a dozen other lessons from our last startup

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I Was Supposed to Be a Millionaire at 25… Instead, I Went Bankrupt.

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Why every founder needs to Be Like Knight | Rob & Pablo Series

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How Nike Found Product-Market Fit

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How to (Accidentally) Build a Unicorn

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Mark Ang, Founder of GoBolt | How to Pivot to Product Market Fit

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The Product Market Fit Pyramid

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Andrew Tai, Founder of MotoInisght | How to Pivot to Product Market Fit

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How I Missed a $10B Opportunity Because of Bad Customer Discovery

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Ron Spreeuwenberg, Founder of HiMama | How Proper Customer Discovery Leads to Product Market Fit

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Why Capital Efficiency is so Important

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Michael Hyatt, Founder of BlueCat | How to Survive Down Cycles and Get to Product Market Fit

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When Doing Customer Discovery, Don't Do This

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Myles Shedden, Founder of Chroma | How to NOT Find Product Market Fit

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The ONLY guaranteed way to find Product Market Fit

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Marty Krátký-Katz, Founder of Blockthrough (Bootstrapped to ~$100M exit) | How Never Giving Up Leads to Product Market Fit

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How to beat your main competitor

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Hamed Abbasi, Founder of Plooto | How to Pivot to Product Market Fit

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How to find great startup ideas

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Rodolphe Barrere, Founder of PotLoc | How to Find Product Market Fit

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What insane focus looks like and why you need it to survive

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Nabeil Alazzam, Founder of Forma.ai | How the First Enterprise Sale Leads to Product Market Fit

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Why value is the key to product market fit

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Martin Basiri, Founder of Applyboard | How to Find Product Market Fit

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Why market size doesn't really matter

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Jafar Owainati, Founder of Loopio ($200M+ Raised) | How to Start your Second Startup

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Andrew McLeod, Founder of Certn ($100M+ Raised) | How to Find Product Market Fit

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Vitaly Pecherskiy, Co-Founder of StackAdapt (Bootstrapped to $100M+ Revenue) | How to Bootstrap to Product Market Fit

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Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit

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Mike Katchen, Co-Founder of Wealthsimple | How to Come up with an Idea that Gets Product Market Fit

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Michael Kravshik, Founder of LumiQ | How to Pivot to Product Market Fit

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Aydin Mirzaee, Founder of Fluidware (Bootstrapped to ~$100M exit) | How to Find Product Market Fit

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Philip Cutler, Founder of PAPER ($1B+ Valuation) | How Customer Discovery Leads to Product Market Fit

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Mike Silagadze, Founder of TopHat ($200M+ Raised) | How to Start your Second Startup

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Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit

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Adrian Camara, Founder of Athennian | How to do Customer Discovery

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Jack Newton, Founder of Clio | How to Run a Beta Program

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How to Raise Your First Round (When You Know No One) | Aman Mann, Founder of Procurify

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How to do Customer Discovery | Hanif Joshaghani, Founder of Symend

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How to Create a New Market | Cherif Habib, Founder of Dialogue (IPO: TSX)

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How to Bootstrap Through Partnerships | Laura McGee, Founder of Diversio

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How to Pivot to Product Market Fit | Mike Murchison, Founder of Ada ($1B+ Valuation)

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How to Validate an Idea | Eran Henig, Founder of Thriver

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How to Launch a Consumer Product | Andrew Graham, Founder of Borrowell

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How to Come up with THREE Ideas | Matt Whitteker, Founder of Assent

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How to Launch an SMB Product | Jay Myers, Founder of Bold

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How to Raise Your First Round | Stephany Lapierre, Founder of Tealbook

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How to Launch a Marketplace | Derrick Fung, Founder of Drop

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How to Close your First Enterprise Sale | Corey Gross, Founder of Sensibill

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How to Build a Board of Advisors | Darryl Hicks, Founder of Flexpay

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How to Find your Co-Founders | Lindsey Goodchild, Founder of Nudge

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How to Find Product Market Fit | Allan Wille, Founder of Klipfolio

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How to Pivot | Rob Boukine, Founder of Noibu

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How to Launch a Marketplace | Ray Reddy, Founder of Ritual

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How to Come up with an Idea | Ray Reddy, Founder of Ritual

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How to Validate an Idea | Moe Abbas, Founder of Acadium

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How to Build the Right Solution | Carol Leaman, Founder of Axonify

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How to Start a Company on the Side | Mike Potter, Founder of Rewind

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Why you Need a Performance Coach | Dan Eberhard, Founder of Koho

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How to Raise Your First Round | Marc Boscher, Founder of Unito

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How to Build Hype | Solon Angel, Founder of MindBridge

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How to Launch a Marketplace | Allen Lau, Founder of Wattpad

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How to Come up with an Idea | Mallorie Brodie, Founder of Bridgit