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Above Board — 97 episodes

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Paul has retired

2

Why Google search is failing us

3

Fathom updates and WP drama

4

Jack and Paul talk politics

5

Small updates, big progress

6

New Fathom UI, who dis?

7

Exploring the Ethics and privacy implications of AI

8

The problem with big projects

9

The art of progress

10

The road to version 4

11

Version 3.5 and the shape of things to come with Fathom Analytics

12

Dealing with negative feedback

13

SaaS founder time machine (questions)

14

Vacations for bootstrapped founders

15

Paul’s perfect day (for productivity)

16

Consultants for Startups

17

Justin Jackson and Paul Jarvis chat about starting and maintaining a SaaS

18

Is a lot of startup advice incorrect?

19

What does retirement look like for a SaaS founder?

20

What’s important when everything’s important in your company?

21

No more branches, ever!

22

The saga of building our Google Analytics Importer

23

How our SaaS company approaches marketing and promotion

24

Ruben Gamez on marketing, long-term success and making the right decisions as business owners

25

How to build a multi-million dollar SaaS without funding (an interview with Rob Walling)

26

Silicon Valley Bank and bootstrapped companies

27

Matt Wensing on Product Market Fit, raising money and enterprise sales in SaaS

28

Can makers become managers?

29

Are programmers going to be replaced by OpenAI?

30

Jack and Paul answer your questions (Pt. 2)

31

Jack and Paul answer your questions (Pt. 1)

32

Paul and Jack are back

33

A brief history of (Fathom Analytics) time

34

Can bootstrapped startups survive a recession?

35

The art of making great decisions for your business

36

When the business itself becomes the distraction

37

Can Matt Damon save Coinbase?

38

Does Jack Scale?

39

Dr. Sherry Walling on the mind of entrepreneurs

40

Is Google Analytics 4 a middle finger to SMBs?

41

Jordan Gal on competing with giants

42

Is product market fit really just luck?

43

How we've failed

44

Growth is testing Fathom

45

How can small businesses make a difference to Ukraine?

46

Should we take funding? (feat. Rob Walling)

47

When to spend money

48

What it took to get Fathom off the ground: Jack and Paul interviewed

49

EU Ruling: Google Analytics is now illegal

50

Our daily routines

51

Paul quit the internet… again?!

52

Sharing MRR is egotistical

53

Adblockers & breaking the law

54

The episode where we initially think there’s nothing new, but in actuality a whole ton of things are new

55

What’s been happening at Fathom?

56

The pros and cons of being the Chief Hype Officer

57

Interview with the the founder of Carrd: going from bootstrapping to raising venture capital

58

What’s the best pricing model for a SaaS?

59

Hiring, firing and retiring

60

Version 3 is live

61

Privacy stories: The Markup

62

Drug abuse and WWDC

63

It doesn’t have to be fascist at work

64

Privacy stories: Sparktoro

65

Investing in relationships

66

How to destroy the privacy of your entire customer base with a single line of code

67

Why ad-blockers are completely wrong

68

We landed a whale!

69

We don’t want your business

70

Paul quit the internet

71

Privacy stories: Fastmail

72

Someone tried to put us out of business

73

Privacy stories: DuckDuckGo

74

We're taking a break

75

Building an audience, analytics & virtue signalling

76

Being competitive, YouTube and going viral

77

Credit cards, trust and why people buy indie software products

78

New hires and vacations

79

Bad CEOs and Cat Jumpers

80

SaaS collaboration tools, organization, pancakes and more

81

You’re fired!

82

Wealth

83

Are you a bad person if you use YouTube?

84

Is Joe Rogan a sell out?

85

Were we wrong about enterprise customers?

86

Customer happiness over money

87

Capitalism and copycats and communism, oh my!

88

Why was the first $10k MRR the hardest?

89

Fighting with COVID-19

90

Why do programmers suck at design?

91

Jack is leaving

92

Being a solo founder sucks

93

Every single marketing effort Fathom has used thus far

94

How many hours of work is enough?

95

How to win friends and influence features

96

The open-source dilemma

97

Announcing Above Board, an episode about all future episodes, also known as a trailer