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A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders — 297 episodes
He sold his 8-figure business to bet on a side app—then grew it to 20x in a year. | Andrew Antos, Co-Founder & CEO of Within
He spent $0 on marketing for 2 years—then raised $400M at a $3.25B valuation. | AJ Loiacono, Co-Founder & CEO of Judi Health
He spent $150K on brand before he had a product—then closed $1.5M ARR in 1 month. | Niklas Lindgren, Co-Founder & CEO of Endra
He lost all 5 of his first deals—then built the next Looker and raised $250M. | Colin Zima, Co-Founder of Omni
He fired almost everyone, kept 2 engineers—then grew 12x and raised a $30M Series A. | Rafael Broshi, Co-Founder of Notch
He worked out of a police department for free for a year—then built a $6.8B company. | Ben Rudolph, Co-Founder of Peregrine
1st-time solo founder does 90 interviews in 90 days—closes a $25M Series A 2 years in. | Damien Lewke, Founder of Nebulock
He tries 1,000 ideas a decade & kills nearly all—that's how X built Waymo & Google Brain. | Astro Teller, CEO of Moonshots at X (Alphabet)
He raised $75M—but kept his team to 21 people & pays everyone the same salary. | Cos Nicolaescu, Co-Founder of Accrual
He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years—with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of Render
He shut down his last startup and gave the money back—then hit $1M ARR in 6 months. | George, Founder of Monk
He quit his $50M ARR startup to work as a paralegal—then raised a $60M Series A. | Dan Mishin, Founder of Manifest
He churned 100% of his revenue on purpose—then grew 10x to $2M ARR in under 12 months. | Ali Khokhar, Founder of Amigo AI
He hit $1M ARR by sending 500,000 cold emails—then raised a $25M Series A in 6 days. | Mark Hughes, Co-Founder of Solidroad
Q1 2026 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
How to get a VC (like me) to wire you $2M in under 2 weeks (the FOMO playbook) | Solo Episode
Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | Surojit Chatterjee, Founder of Ema
How this 1st-time founder went from closing customers for $500 a month to $300,000 a year. | Sean McCarthy, Founder & CEO of BackOps
180 VCs rejected him—then a $60K billboard got him to $2M ARR in 4 months. | Isaiah Granet, CEO of Bland AI
She bet on a consumer app when every VC wanted B2B—then grew to $10M ARR. | Anada Lakra, Founder of BoldVoice
He raised a $10M seed with no revenue—then grew 30x to $30M in year two. | Bobby Samuels, Founder of Protege
He ran Prime fulfillment for Amazon—then raised $20M to replace e-commerce with AI. | Maju Kuruvilla, Founder of Spangle
She got rejected by 22 VCs—then built 6sense to $100M+ in revenue. Now she's back for AI. | Amanda Kahlow, Founder of 1mind
How this AI founder is on track to hit $50M ARR just 2 years after launch. | Tarek Alaruri, Co-Founder of Stuut
He launched a free product for enterprise customers—then grew to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Bhaskar Sunkara, Founding CTO of AppDynamics
He raised $41M in one year to replace enterprise accountants with AI. | Yogi Goel, Founder of Maxima
How he grew his AI startup from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months. | Omar Haroun, Co-Founder of Eudia
She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta
He moved to the US with nothing. Now he does $750M ARR. | Mateo Marietti, Founder of CookUnity
This 3x founder hit $1M ARR in 5 months. Here's his playbook. | Roy Moussa, Founder of GetVocal
He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine
He built heads down for a year. Then landed a $1M contract. | Sam Jones, Co-Founder of Method Security
He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Airbyte
He failed for 5 years. Then hit $20M ARR with 100% outbound. | Didi Gurfinkel, Founder of Datarails
His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founder of LiveKit
He pivoted at $1M ARR—then raised $120M. | Kevin Tian, Co-Founder of Doppel
He sold his first startup for $100M. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves
He sold his first 2 startups. His 3rd grew to $1M ARR in 3 months. | Chaz Englander, Founder of Model ML
He fired all his customers. Then built a $1B startup in 2 years. | Jay Madheswaran, Co-Founder of Eve
He wrote the book on Account Based Marketing. Here are his GTM secrets for enterprise. | Bassem Hamdy, Founder of Briq
He got rejected from YC—then grew to $1.8B in under 2 years. | Max Junestrand, Founder of Legora
He sold dog food from his condo. Now he does $100M+ a year. | Russell Breuer, Founder of Spot & Tango
He made 100 cold calls a day. Now his startup is worth $600M. | Harman Narula, Founder of Canary Technologies
He got 100k signups in 30 days. They all churned. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR. | Rich White, Founder of Fathom
He grew his startup to $150M ARR & an IPO. Now he's back for the AI wave. | Bob Tinker, Founder of MobileIron & BlueRock
How his AI-enabled Services startup hit $1M ARR in just 3 months. | Shahar Peled, Founder of Terra Security
He hit $1M ARR with just 2 people. 2 years later, he's worth $1.5B. | Ashwin Sreenivas, Co-Founder of Decagon
His 1st startup failed. His 2nd became a unicorn in just 18 months. | Jake Stauch, Founder of Serval
It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway
Solo Episode: B2B SaaS is dead. Here's what the best AI founders are doing instead.
He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer
Solo Episode: The Five Steps to Product Market Fit
He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia. | David Paffenholz (Juicebox)
Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder of Scribe
He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Founder of Higgsfield AI
How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex
Q3 2025 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
He added AI to parking lots—then raised $3.5B. | Alex Israel, Founder of Metropolis
He left a $2B ARR company to build AI agents—then hit $1M ARR in < 6 months | Amit Shah, Founder of Instalily
He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure
At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza, Founder of Clover
He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. | Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin
He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Founder of Deliverr & Augment
He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix & DevRev
He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskildsen, Founder of turbopuffer
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
5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. | Amar Varma, Founder of Mantle
He "kind of" had PMF for 8 years—until, after a rebuild, he raised $100M | Ben Alarie, Founder of Blue J
They failed every POC—then grew their cybersecurity platform to $100M ARR in 5 years. | Dean Sysman, co-founder of Axonius
He tested his pitch on Uber drivers—then built a cybersecurity platform to $180M raised. | Casey Ellis, Founder of Bugcrowd
He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod, Founder of Warp.dev
He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex Sherman, Founder of Bluefish AI
A drug dealer threatened to kill him—then he grew 50x in 3 Years to $50M ARR. | Brett Carlson, Found of ServiceUp
He pitched 100 VC and spent 3 years building— then grew to $7B AUM. | Doug Scott, Founder of Ethic
PMF Observations: Speed is the only startup moat—& why most founders lose it.
He spent 5 months working with customers before building—then grew to $10s of millions ARR. | Aviv Leibovici, co-founder of Buildots
She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge
He bet his house on a startup—took 7 years to $1M, then hockey stick to $100M+ ARR. | Eldon Sprickerhoff, Co-Founder of eSentire
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
TechCrunch called this YC founder a fraud at 18—then he built a $10M ARR fintech. | Sahil Phadnis, Founder of Affiniti
Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Founder of Gamma
He quit Google, launched Rubrik—then grew to $1B ARR & a $16B market cap. | Soham Mazumdar, Co-Founder Rubrik & Wisdom AI
He Bootstrapped to $55M in Revenue—without ever having to hit 100% YoY growth. | Stéphan Donzé, Founder of AODocs
He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder
Q2 2025: The new Series A Bar is $3M ARR—& only 20% of seed startups make it. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
His Video AI app hit $10M+ ARR in Months—with 0 outbound sales. | Michael Lingelbach, Founder of Hedra
He grew to millions in ARR in 18 months—by fighting with his co-founders on purpose. | Ross McNairn, Co-Founder of Wordsmith AI.
He thought his startup would fail—then grew to $100M ARR. | Rick Song, Co-founder of Persona
Forget PMF—Neil Patel says to give your product away for free instead. | Neil Patel, Co-Founder of Neil Patel Digital
He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely
She raised $1.3M, and delivered real, strategic value — then shut it down. | Mary Beth Snodgrass, Founder of Healthiby
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
PMF Observations: Why after PMF, every problem is a people problem.
How Mercury Hit $500M ARR—then raised $300M from Sequoia at $3.5B. | Immad Akhund, CEO & Founder of Mercury
Mike Maples: Your Startup Idea Isn’t Crazy Enough—And it's holding you back | Mike Maples, Founder of Floodgate
How he grew to $100M ARR—then exited for $460M. | Zuben Matthews, Founder of Brigit
He Hit $3.5M ARR and Still Failed. Here’s His #1 Mistake. | Joseph Lee, Founder of Freshline
PMF Observations: Why it doesn't matter how fast you get to $1M ARR
1st-time founder raises $140M with $0 revenue—grows to 800 employees & profitable. | Andrew Rubin, Founder of Illumio
He went 7 years with no revenue— then grew to $100M ARR. | Rob Woollen, Co-Founder of Sigma
$10M Raised, 500K Users, but she still failed—here’s what went wrong | Benedetta Lucini, Founder of Oval Money
How $100B Mercado Libre got started—& why it almost went bankrupt after 9 months. | Hernan Kazah, Co-Founder Mercado Libre
PMF Observations: How 4 Founders Built Massive Startups Their Own Way
His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, Founder of Vapi
WebSummit Panel w/ Founders of Glean ($5B) and Huntress ($2B): What it takes to hit $100M ARR
How his $2B startup grew to $10M+ ARR with zero marketing. | Avery Pennarun, Founder of Tailscale
May Startup News: Elizabeth Holmes Returns, Billion-Dollar Frauds, & the End of Tech Jobs w/ Jack Kuveke
He hit $1M ARR in 10 months—after doing of a full, 180 pivot. | Merrill Lutsky, Founder of Graphite
PMF Observations: Why passion is more important than you think
He didn't raise VC for the first 7 years— then grew to $1B in ARR. | Dax Dasilva, Founder of Lightspeed
Q1 2025: The Seed to Series A Gap is Wider Than Ever. Here's what to do. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
He went from 0 to a $210M exit in 3 years—without inventing anything new. | Kazi Ahmed, Founder of Carbon6
Forecasts are overrated—great founders build one step at a time. | PMF Observations
He took on Robinhood & built Public.com into a $1B company with $440M raised. | Jannick Malling, Founder of Public.com
Adam Neumann Returns, SV Spies, AI Robots Rise | April Startup News w/ Jack Kuveke
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
He lost 90% of his users overnight—then grew his consumer app to $10M ARR. | Koen Droste, Founder of Polarsteps
He launched a “side-project”— now it’s used by 10% of all restaurants. | Jordan Boesch, Founder of 7Shifts
1st-time founder grows AI headshot app from $0 to $10M ARR in 2 years—with no funding. | Wesley Tian, Founder of Aragon
He raised $30M & failed. Then raised $0 & grew to $550M in revenue. Here's what he learned. | Mike Salguero, Founder of Butcherbox
He invested in 30 early-stage startups. Here's what he looks for in the founders he backs. | Gopi Rangan, Founder of Sure Ventures
He raised $300M to prevent heart attacks. Here's how he got his health tech startup off the ground. | Dr. Min, Founder of Cleerly
He grew to $25M in ARR and $14M in annual profits—with no funding & no dilution. | Adam Robinson, Founder of Retention.com
He took a 97% downround—then grew to $400M ARR & a $575M valuation in 2 years. | Dan Park, CEO of Clutch
He bootstrapped to $4M ARR in 2 years. Here's his LinkedIn playbook you can't ignore. | Noah Greenberg, Founder of Stacker
He invested in 684 AI startups—& realized that quitters always win. | Jack Kuveke, Founder turned VC at Jabroni Capital
The secrets to mastering product-led growth. | Wes Bush, Author of the #1 Bestselling Book on Product-Led Growth
He sold SkipTheDishes for $200M—then grew Neo Financial to a $1B valuation. | Jeff Adamson, Co-Founder of NeoFinancial & SkipTheDishes
How to tell if you have true product-market fit—& what to do if you don't. | Matt Watson, Host of Product Driven
He got rejected by 40 VCs & had 6 months of runway—2 years later, he raised $100M from a16z. | Edo Liberty, Founder of Pinecone
Post-YC, he split with his co-founder—then grew profitably to $2M ARR with just 5 people. | Jon Yoo, Founder of Suger
From mushroom-picking in Belarus to $200M/year. How he built Flo Health into a $1B health app. | Dmitry Gurski, Founder of Flo Health
He started Groupon for SMBs, grew to $36M ARR—then exited for $170M. | Saurav Chopra, Founder of Perkbox
It took him 7 years to hit $1M ARR—now his $1B public company does $1M every day. | Noah Glass, Founder of Olo
He interviewed users, built a waitlist & raised $1.1M—but it still didn't work. | Frankie Le Nguyen, Founder of Staging Labs
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
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
This 1st time founder raised a $38M Series A—after taking over 2 years to launch. | Chris Ellis, Founder of Thatch
Why new Carta data shows bridge rounds might be worse than you think. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
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
He raised $20M, hit $3.5M in revenue—& failed. Here are the top 3 lessons he learned. | Ned Phillips, Founder of Bambu
He exited for hundreds of millions—then invested in 20+ founders. Here's what he looks for. | Jason Van Gaal, Founder of ROOT
1st time founder completely pivots after YC—then grows 30x in a year to $2.2M ARR. | Pablo Palafox, Founder of HappyRobot
He exited for $200M— then bootstrapped his next startup to $100M in revenue. | Alex Hawkinson, Founder of BrightAI
The early-stage fundraising playbook—here's how to raise your first few rounds. | Nathan Beckord, Host of How I Raised It
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
He raised $250K, had thousands of users—but here's what he'd do differently next time. | Darius Vaillancourt, Founder of Howdy
Stripe bought his startup for $1.1B—just 2.5 years after he quit his job. | Zach Abrams, Co-Founder of Bridge
The 5 Steps to Product-Market Fit w/ Chris Saad, ex-Head of Product at Uber, Host of The Startup Podcast
How Gusto’s $10B founder raised $6M, built a team of 5—& hit $5M ARR in just 2 years. | Josh Reeves, Founder of Gusto
The top 5 early-stage startup lessons for 2025
He raised $1.3M, hit $100K ARR—but failed. Here's the lesson every founder needs to hear. | Tolga Ermis, Founder of PromiseQ
24 ways to get your first customers—based on real examples from the last 100 episodes.
He bet on voice AI when no one else did. Now he has $1M+ customers & $100M raised. | Ankit Jain, Founder of Infinitus
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
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)
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
He grew to $90M ARR, was about to exit for $1.5B—and then, it all fell apart. | Yanni Giannaros, Co-Founder of Wyre
How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head of Product at Deel
He made his first loan at 16. Now his fintech startup does $50M+ ARR—here’s how. | Tate Hackert, Co-Founder of ZayZoon
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
He hit $40M ARR, exited for over $100M—& raised only $1.5M. Here's how | Ian MacKinnon, Co-Founder of Later.com
He raised $16M, hit $1M ARR—& failed. Here are the top 3 lessons he learned. | David Anderson, Founder of Tandym
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
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
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
VC funding is not popping back. THIS is the new normal—here's how to adjust. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
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
This 1st-time founder raised $4M, kept the team to 5 people—& just raised a $28M Series A. | Parker Gilbert, Co-Founder of Numeric
In 2004, they "almost bankrupted themselves". In 2024, they hit $500M ARR & a $5B valuation. | Mike Wessinger, Co-Founder of PointClickCare
The top 3 reasons why Zuck is killing Apple in the Mixed Reality race.
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
Your odds of raising a Series A just dropped from 30% to 15%—here's what to do about it:
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
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
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
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
He launched an Uber competitor with just $3,000—& grew to $20M in revenue in 7 years. | Cody Ruberto, Founder of Uride
The ONLY guaranteed way to attract & retain A-players.
He got rejected by 60 VCs, burned all his savings—then grew to $100M ARR & a $2B valuation. | Kyle Hanslovan, Founder of Huntress
Forget Founder Mode— MrBeast Mode is Where it's At. | The top 7 highlights from MrBeast's leaked framework.
He took on Uber & grew Rappi to $5B—here’s why the craziest founders often win. | Andres Bilbao, Co-Founder of Rappi
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
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
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
This founder was hours from hiring a VP Product—turns out, he was a total fraud. Here’s what he learned.
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
Q2 Early-Stage Venture Report w/ Carta’s Head of Insights: Valuations, Round Sizes, Graduation Rates & more. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
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
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.
He sold AI robots to Walmart & raised $150M. His #1 advice to founders? "Trust your gut." | Daniel Theobald, Founder of Vecna Robotics
VCs give a lot of advice— & a lot of it sucks. Be careful who you listen to.
He took 3 years to make his 1st sale—then grew 1000x to $10M ARR 3 years later. | Alex Hoff, Founder of Auvik
If you wake up with your heart pounding out of your chest— do this.
He refused to quit his job until $1M ARR—then grew to $5M ARR & closed a $25M Series A. | Pierce Ujjainwalla, Founder of Knak
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.
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
How Wiz grew to $500M ARR in 4 years—& could exit to Google for $23B (largest VC-backed exit in history)
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.
Tesla’s EV market share (finally) falls below 50%. Good news for founders— incumbents took 15 years to match 1 founder.
YC founder raises $3.5M, keeps team to 3 people—then grows 10x to $2M ARR in 1 year. | Benjamin Encz, Founder of Ashby
Pickleball grew 3x in 4 years to 14M players. Not by competing with tennis— but by creating a new market instead.
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
Each Google/OpenAI update kills more startups. Here’s how to make sure you're not next.
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
Zoom hits an all-time low. Here's what AI startups can learn from the WFH hype cycle.
He grew to $22M ARR in 4 years—but regrets spending so much on growth. | Chris Walker, Founder of Refine Labs
ChatGPT just hit $3B in ARR—here’s why Sam Altman is a strategic genius.
Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddit CTO & Founding Engineer Chris Slowe
She quit her job without a startup idea. Then built a $550M startup from a bad dentist appointment. I Wardah Inam, Founder of Overjet
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
He built Uber for parking & exited. Then raised $100M+. Here's his formula for finding product-market fit. | Shmulik Fishman, Founder of Argyle
COVID nearly bankrupted him. Then with AI he grew from $0 to $25M ARR in 4 years. | Andrew Lockhead, Founder of Stay22
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
He quit his cozy Google job & ignored lean startup advice— then grew to $3M in 1 year. | Arvind Jain, Founder of Glean
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)
He gave up on chasing unicorns. Now he earns $500K+/year from his 3-person startup. | Rand Fishkin, Founder of Moz & SparkToro
This solo founder bet on AI 7 years ago. Now he has 5,000 customers & $115M raised. | Dylan, Founder of Assembly AI
He raised $275M in the last 3 years. His 'boring' B2B startup is now a $1B unicorn. | Andrew Butt, Founder of Enable
Alex sold couches online before IKEA did. He grew to $40M in revenue and exited for millions. | Alex Back, Co-Founder of Apt2B
My Last Startup Failed With 30 Employees… It Might've Worked if we'd Kept it to 5.
For 5 years he struggled to get traction. Then with AI he grew 12x— in 1 year | Scott Stevenson, co-founder of Spellbook
Every VC Rejected Him. So He Bootstrapped From $0 to $10M in 3 years | Kyle Braatz, founder of Fullscript
How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series A Investor in Shopify)
How to Raise a Round in 2024 w/ Lee Silverstone (3x Founder)
How Shopify & DollarShaveClub got more views than the Super Bowl for under $10K
He Almost Went Bankrupt TWICE...Then exited for $30M. w/ Canvaspop CEO Nazim Ahmed
How a Viral Ad drove Millions in Revenue and $55M In Funding w/ Walnut CEO Yoav Vilner
Why you shouldn't chase unicorns; 3 Big VC Myths; and how to keep control of your startup
How to Bootstrap from 0 to Millions in Revenue w/ Ilya (CEO & Founder, Vanhack)
5 Steps to PMF with Rob
The Best Episode of Season 1 - How Ada Pivoted to a $1B+ Valuation w/ Mike Murchison (Founder & CEO)
The Top 3 Mistakes Early-Stage Founders Make When Forecasting
The Five Steps to Product Market Fit
How I lost $6M, Why hype means nothing, Plus a dozen other lessons from our last startup
I Was Supposed to Be a Millionaire at 25… Instead, I Went Bankrupt.
Why every founder needs to Be Like Knight | Rob & Pablo Series
How Nike Found Product-Market Fit
How to (Accidentally) Build a Unicorn
Mark Ang, Founder of GoBolt | How to Pivot to Product Market Fit
The Product Market Fit Pyramid
Andrew Tai, Founder of MotoInisght | How to Pivot to Product Market Fit
How I Missed a $10B Opportunity Because of Bad Customer Discovery
Ron Spreeuwenberg, Founder of HiMama | How Proper Customer Discovery Leads to Product Market Fit
Why Capital Efficiency is so Important
Michael Hyatt, Founder of BlueCat | How to Survive Down Cycles and Get to Product Market Fit
When Doing Customer Discovery, Don't Do This
Myles Shedden, Founder of Chroma | How to NOT Find Product Market Fit
The ONLY guaranteed way to find Product Market Fit
Marty Krátký-Katz, Founder of Blockthrough (Bootstrapped to ~$100M exit) | How Never Giving Up Leads to Product Market Fit
How to beat your main competitor
Hamed Abbasi, Founder of Plooto | How to Pivot to Product Market Fit
How to find great startup ideas
Rodolphe Barrere, Founder of PotLoc | How to Find Product Market Fit
What insane focus looks like and why you need it to survive
Nabeil Alazzam, Founder of Forma.ai | How the First Enterprise Sale Leads to Product Market Fit
Why value is the key to product market fit
Martin Basiri, Founder of Applyboard | How to Find Product Market Fit
Why market size doesn't really matter
Jafar Owainati, Founder of Loopio ($200M+ Raised) | How to Start your Second Startup
Andrew McLeod, Founder of Certn ($100M+ Raised) | How to Find Product Market Fit
Vitaly Pecherskiy, Co-Founder of StackAdapt (Bootstrapped to $100M+ Revenue) | How to Bootstrap to Product Market Fit
Rob Khazzam, Founder of Float (ex-Uber GM) | How High-Performing Teams Lead to Product Market Fit
Mike Katchen, Co-Founder of Wealthsimple | How to Come up with an Idea that Gets Product Market Fit
Michael Kravshik, Founder of LumiQ | How to Pivot to Product Market Fit
Aydin Mirzaee, Founder of Fluidware (Bootstrapped to ~$100M exit) | How to Find Product Market Fit
Philip Cutler, Founder of PAPER ($1B+ Valuation) | How Customer Discovery Leads to Product Market Fit
Mike Silagadze, Founder of TopHat ($200M+ Raised) | How to Start your Second Startup
Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit
Adrian Camara, Founder of Athennian | How to do Customer Discovery
Jack Newton, Founder of Clio | How to Run a Beta Program
How to Raise Your First Round (When You Know No One) | Aman Mann, Founder of Procurify
How to do Customer Discovery | Hanif Joshaghani, Founder of Symend
How to Create a New Market | Cherif Habib, Founder of Dialogue (IPO: TSX)
How to Bootstrap Through Partnerships | Laura McGee, Founder of Diversio
How to Pivot to Product Market Fit | Mike Murchison, Founder of Ada ($1B+ Valuation)
How to Validate an Idea | Eran Henig, Founder of Thriver
How to Launch a Consumer Product | Andrew Graham, Founder of Borrowell
How to Come up with THREE Ideas | Matt Whitteker, Founder of Assent
How to Launch an SMB Product | Jay Myers, Founder of Bold
How to Raise Your First Round | Stephany Lapierre, Founder of Tealbook
How to Launch a Marketplace | Derrick Fung, Founder of Drop
How to Close your First Enterprise Sale | Corey Gross, Founder of Sensibill
How to Build a Board of Advisors | Darryl Hicks, Founder of Flexpay
How to Find your Co-Founders | Lindsey Goodchild, Founder of Nudge
How to Find Product Market Fit | Allan Wille, Founder of Klipfolio
How to Pivot | Rob Boukine, Founder of Noibu
How to Launch a Marketplace | Ray Reddy, Founder of Ritual
How to Come up with an Idea | Ray Reddy, Founder of Ritual
How to Validate an Idea | Moe Abbas, Founder of Acadium
How to Build the Right Solution | Carol Leaman, Founder of Axonify
How to Start a Company on the Side | Mike Potter, Founder of Rewind
Why you Need a Performance Coach | Dan Eberhard, Founder of Koho
How to Raise Your First Round | Marc Boscher, Founder of Unito
How to Build Hype | Solon Angel, Founder of MindBridge
How to Launch a Marketplace | Allen Lau, Founder of Wattpad
How to Come up with an Idea | Mallorie Brodie, Founder of Bridgit