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Sidebean — 333 episodes

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1

What is a Company Profile: the first company presentation you should design | Sidebean

2

The Secret Behind Tesla's Engine Noise | Sidebean

3

How Your Phone Screen Actually Works | Sidebean

4

Startup vs Small Business. What’s the difference? - Startups 101 | Sidebean

5

Apple's $250 Million "Fake AI" Mistake | Sidebean

6

Startup Financial Model example: Slidebean (actual) earnings and expenses 📊 | Sidebean

7

How to Find a CoFounder | Sidebean

8

Airbnb's First Pitch Deck (Teardown + Redesign) - Startups 101 | Sidebean

9

The Secret Behind Samsung's $1 Trillion Valuation | Sidebean

10

Apple is secretly trying to escape TSMC | Sidebean

11

The Uber Pitch Deck Used to Raise Funding - Pitch deck template included | Sidebean

12

Startup Mistakes that almost put Slidebean out of business | Sidebean

13

Presentation Design Examples: Canva Pitch Deck redesigned by Slidebean | Sidebean

14

Spotify Pitch Deck: startup pitch deck design and teardown | Sidebean

15

How to Grow a Small Business: growth marketing for startups (Part I) | Sidebean

16

How to Write an Elevator Pitch with Examples (Airbnb, WeWork, Slack) | Sidebean

17

Startup Questions: Starting a Business, Startup KPIs and Product development | Sidebean

18

Are Startup Accelerators Worth It? | Sidebean

19

How to Make a Killer Startup Pitch Deck? | Sidebean

20

What ACTUALLY happened with WeWork? - Company Forensics | Sidebean

21

Yik Yak: a deadly combination | Sidebean

22

How to Grow a Small Business: growth marketing for startups (Part II) | Sidebean

23

What happened to Pebble Watch? | Sidebean

24

The Painful Death of BlackBerry | Sidebean

25

How Facebook killed MySpace | Sidebean

26

Startup Resources: Our Top 3 Startup Tools for Financials | Sidebean

27

Juicero: the $400 juicer that couldn't make juice | Sidebean

28

Rookie startup mistakes when raising money | Sidebean

29

Startup Funding Explained - Incorporation and First Investor (Part 1) | Sidebean

30

Juicero: the $400 juicer that couldn't make juice | Sidebean

31

Rookie startup mistakes when raising money | Sidebean

32

Startup Funding Explained - Incorporation and First Investor (Part 1) | Sidebean

33

What Happened to Shyp? - Startup Forensics | Sidebean

34

Ouya: the $33 million Kickstarter FAIL | Sidebean

35

How to calculate Total Addressable Market (TAM) - Startups 101 | Sidebean

36

HQ Trivia's failed mutiny against their CEO | Sidebean

37

What Happened to Google Glass? | Sidebean

38

Why do startups fail after MILLIONS of dollars? | Sidebean

39

How Mission Impossible killed MoviePass | Sidebean

40

The Death of Periscope and Meerkat | Sidebean

41

The North Face: from Bankruptcy to Brand Success | Sidebean

42

How to start a business in 2020 | Sidebean

43

Who killed Toys "R" Us? Walmart or Amazon | Sidebean

44

Who killed Toys "R" Us? Walmart or Amazon | Sidebean

45

Zoom company story: How Eric Yuan defeated Skype | Sidebean

46

Why Startups should NOT write a Business Plan | Sidebean

47

Google's $585 MILLION mistake | Sidebean

48

Startup Financial Modeling 101: Tutorial and Template | Sidebean

49

Why Motorola’s CEO cried on his first day | Sidebean

50

Boosted Boards: from flight risk to $70 million failure | Sidebean

51

How we made $2.5M from YouTube and Google | Sidebean

52

How Microsoft ruined Skype | Sidebean

53

How to estimate the revenue model of an eCommerce Business | Sidebean

54

Will Airbnb survive Coronavirus? | Sidebean

55

What nobody told me about Starting a Business | Sidebean

56

Is Slack really worth $20 Billion? | Sidebean

57

How NOT to spend your first $250,000 round of funding | Sidebean

58

What nobody told me about Starting a Business | Sidebean

59

Is Slack really worth $20 Billion? | Sidebean

60

How NOT to spend your first $250,000 round of funding | Sidebean

61

Why Blockbuster passed on acquiring Netflix | Sidebean

62

Excel Financial Modeling Tutorial (+ free download) | Sidebean

63

Amazon Fire Phone: a $170 million flop | Sidebean

64

Is Tesla REALLY the most valuable car company? | Sidebean

65

How Robinhood App Crashed on the best day in Wall Street history | Sidebean

66

Segway: An overpriced mall cop ride | Sidebean

67

Subscription / SaaS Financial Model Tutorial | Sidebean

68

Mixer: why Microsoft keeps failing at being cool | Sidebean

69

Customer Acquisition Cost: How to track it and calculate it | Sidebean

70

How Spotify beat Apple at their own game | Sidebean

71

Marketplace Financial Model Tutorial: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean

72

8 red flags when pitching investors | Sidebean

73

Avoiding the WRONG type of investor for your company | Sidebean

74

The death of Yahoo! (and how they almost bought Google) | Sidebean

75

Pitch Deck Mistakes: the Go-to-Market slide | Sidebean

76

Boston Dynamics: The company making robots to replace us | Sidebean

77

The Low-Tech Bottleneck that's Killing America's Al | Sidebean

78

8 red flags when pitching investors | Sidebean

79

Startup accelerators: are they still worth it? | Sidebean

80

This is the reason drugs are so EXPENSIVE! 💰 | Sidebean

81

Avoiding the WRONG type of investor for your company | Sidebean

82

Why the next AI battle won’t be about models | Sidebean

83

The metric that could kill your startup | Sidebean

84

Shopify: quietly moving $30 Billion in sales | Sidebean

85

Beyond Meat vs Impossible Foods: a fight to take away my steak | Sidebean

86

Why OpenAI’s child safety reports exploded 80× | Sidebean

87

What prediction markets reveal about founder credibility | Sidebean

88

What happens when scientific research becomes entertainment? | Sidebean

89

Uber: the scandal that got Travis Kalanick fired | Sidebean

90

Is Omaze a scam? | Sidebean

91

Was Henry Ford... Actually a Cool Boss? | Sidebean

92

The danger with convertible notes | Sidebean

93

A WhatsApp design flaw exposed identity data for 3.5 billion users | Sidebean

94

The death of Yahoo! (and how they almost bought Google) | Sidebean

95

Bernie Madoff: the biggest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history | Sidebean

96

Sanctions didn’t slow China’s AI. They changed how it wins | Sidebean

97

Why you SHOULDN'T do content marketing | Sidebean

98

How Joe Rogan Became The Biggest Interviewer in the World | Sidebean

99

The rise and fall of MTV | Sidebean

100

Mobile App Financial Model Tutorial: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean

101

The Windows Phone: an $8 Billion fiasco | Sidebean

102

How to Write an Investor Pitch Deck - Startups 101 | Sidebean

103

Managing Time as CEO | Sidebean

104

Is Herbalife a Pyramid Scheme? - Company Forensics | Sidebean

105

Why Do Bankrupt Companies Stay Open? - Company Forensics | Sidebean

106

How a Tinder ex-girlfriend created Bumble | Sidebean

107

Pitch Deck Mistakes: the Go-to-Market slide | Sidebean

108

The time Apple lost $708M in 3 months | Sidebean

109

This Company had a Private Army | Sidebean

110

Neuralink wants to upgrade a brain chip while it’s still in someone’s head. | Sidebean

111

The Assassination of Movie Theaters | Sidebean

112

Nvidia’s $5T milestone shows who’s really winning the AI race. | Sidebean

113

The border is becoming a drone network | Sidebean

114

Softbank $24 Billion down the drain | Sidebean

115

Boston Dynamics: The company making robots to replace us | Sidebean

116

Farmville: patient zero of the micro-transactions plague | Sidebean

117

Quibi: celebrity endorsements weren't enough | Sidebean

118

OpenAI wants to raise $100B in one round and that’s the least wild part | Sidebean

119

Where Amazon stole their customer support from | Sidebean

120

Apple engineers are quietly fixing American factories, one bottleneck at a time | Sidebean

121

Fyre Festival: dumb planning or genius scam? | Sidebean

122

Stores now have to tell you when prices are personalized | Sidebean

123

Why is Slack worth $27B to Salesforce? | Sidebean

124

Google killed the best product they ever had | Sidebean

125

Social Media Platform Business Financial Modeling: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean

126

A Fleeting Story: How Twitter Fleets Failed | Sidebean

127

Why “$9 trillion markets” say more about storytelling than reality | Sidebean

128

What ACTUALLY happens during an IPO? - Startups 101 | Sidebean

129

The U.S. is suing states for regulating AI, even though it has no AI laws | Sidebean

130

The creator economy (and the thin line we CAN'T cross) | Sidebean

131

How do startup exits work? | Sidebean

132

Ignite / Dan Bilzerian: Whose Millions Is He Spending? | Sidebean

133

Why real time deepfake tools represent a new phase of online fraud | Sidebean

134

I looked at 105 SaaS pricing pages. Here's what I learned. | Sidebean

135

DoorDash: from origins to IPO (are they overvalued?) | Sidebean

136

Startup Valuation: How to Calculate It - Startups 101 | Sidebean

137

How much money do you get if your startup gets acquired? | Sidebean

138

AI isn’t just learning anymore, it’s teaching itself | Sidebean

139

The rise and fall of MTV | Sidebean

140

How Microsoft killed the one cool product they ever had: MSN Messenger | Sidebean

141

The $72 trillion lawsuit: how Limewire died | Sidebean

142

eCommerce Platform Financial Modeling Tutorial: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean

143

Reddit: The Front Page of Internet Scandals | Sidebean

144

OpenAI just launched a model that charges more when it thinks harder. | Sidebean

145

The pandemic-driven rise of OnlyFans 🍆 🍑🍒 | Sidebean

146

The startup that almost BANKRUPT Steve Jobs | Sidebean

147

Digg: Six Feet Under | Sidebean

148

Hardware + Subscription Business Financial Model Tutorial: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean

149

Farmville: patient zero of the micro-transactions plague | Sidebean

150

Robots, Grokpedia & Therapy Bots Lose the Plot. | Sidebean

151

Digg: Six Feet Under | Sidebean

152

DogeCoin Explained | Sidebean

153

SaaS metrics: the ULTIMATE guide to Software as a Service KPIs | Sidebean

154

The Problem with startup Stock Options | Sidebean

155

Amazon: A company in its Prime? | Sidebean

156

Meta is paying publishers to train the AI that may replace them. | Sidebean

157

How to Estimate More Accurately | Sidebean

158

10 Commandments for Great Startup Pitches | Sidebean

159

The Mafia that Rules the Tech World | Sidebean

160

How honest is the Honest Company? | Sidebean

161

Why Do Bankrupt Companies Stay Open? - Company Forensics | Sidebean

162

U.S. Air Traffic Still Runs on Floppy Disks | Sidebean

163

China's Real Estate Disaster - Company Forensics | Sidebean

164

What ACTUALLY happens during an IPO? - Startups 101 | Sidebean

165

A new AI model is challenging OpenAI by giving away its secrets. | Sidebean

166

How Startups Shaped Silicon Valley | Sidebean

167

HP’s long term plan reveals what AI job loss really looks like | Sidebean

168

Google Maps isn’t just a map anymore, it’s your personal scout. | Sidebean

169

Foursquare: the startup zombie that still eats your data | Sidebean

170

AI Can’t Get Smarter Forever | Sidebean

171

The Biggest Telescope has an Impossible Problem | Sidebean

172

Apple vs. Fitbit vs. Garmin: the battle for your fitness (No, this isn’t a review!) | Sidebean

173

Napster: the REAL story of Sean Parker | Sidebean

174

I Infiltrated the Most Valuable Plot of Land in America* | Sidebean

175

Amazon’s layoffs show what “AI efficiency” really looks like | Sidebean

176

Zuckerberg’s secret preschool is real and illegal | Sidebean

177

Rappi: the Latin American Unicorn | Sidebean

178

The iPhone’s designer wants to replace the iPhone | Sidebean

179

A flying Ford Pinto: the Invention that Killed its Inventor | Sidebean

180

Goop: the insane business between Gwyneth Paltrow’s legs | Sidebean

181

Duolingo: Making millions out of you | Sidebean

182

DogeCoin Explained | Sidebean

183

Why this thumbnail keeps changing - Startups 101 | Sidebean

184

Humanoid Robots = Hype? | Sidebean

185

The (Real) Untold Story of The Office | Sidebean

186

This AI reads your brain literally | Sidebean

187

How to grow a startup | Sidebean

188

Meta ties employee performance to AI usage | Sidebean

189

Space Junk, Smart Rings, and a Trillion-Dollar Ego. | Sidebean

190

Pandora Papers: the 'legal' way to avoid taxes | Sidebean

191

This company was burning $10 million a month? | Sidebean

192

Foursquare: the startup zombie that still eats your data | Sidebean

193

The Dangerous Success of GPT Therapy | Sidebean

194

ChatGPT isn’t driving people crazy but it might be making them believe lies | Sidebean

195

The $72 trillion lawsuit: how Limewire died | Sidebean

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How to find investors for your startup | Sidebean

197

Goop: the insane business between Gwyneth Paltrow’s legs | Sidebean

198

Pandora Papers: the 'legal' way to avoid taxes | Sidebean

199

What ChatGPT ACTUALLY does to your Brain | Sidebean

200

Google killed the best product they ever had | Sidebean

201

How this Company (Accidentally) F*cked Us All | Sidebean

202

Yo! The dumbest app ever to raise $1M | Sidebean

203

Investors can SCREW your startup with a post-money valuation | Sidebean

204

Elon made his own Wikipedia | Sidebean

205

How to recruit engineers for a startup | Sidebean

206

How Red Bull makes money selling nothing | Sidebean

207

OpenAI’s dropping the “AI for humanity” part | Sidebean

208

The Rotten Company Behind all Porn | Sidebean

209

How Grammarly Tricked You Into Paying for Spell Check | Sidebean

210

A historic lawsuit could redefine how social media treats youth | Sidebean

211

The AI smart ring nobody asked for | Sidebean

212

Peloton had a heart attack | Sidebean

213

Financial Modeling for Startups: Explained - Startups 101 | Sidebean

214

How to setup a company in the US? (for startup founders) | Sidebean

215

What Comes After TikTok? (Hint: Nothing) | Sidebean

216

A marketing team approved these stunts... and they're bad | Sidebean

217

How to get a startup job | Sidebean

218

Investors can SCREW your startup with a post-money valuation | Sidebean

219

This Company had a Private Army | Sidebean

220

Inside the illusion of autonomy in robotics | Sidebean

221

The scams and frauds behind non-profits - Evil Businesses | Sidebean

222

GoPro’s Fatal Flaw | Sidebean

223

Casio launches Moflin, the AI powered emotional pet. | Sidebean

224

The REAL story of how Elon "stole" Tesla | Sidebean

225

AI Karma: Altman vs. Sora | Sidebean

226

The Fast Fashion problem is bigger than we ever imagined | Sidebean

227

The TERRIBLE business of pro tennis | Sidebean

228

How greed is ruining NFTs | Sidebean

229

Alexa is DEAD (but she has no idea) - Company Forensics | Sidebean

230

The growth hacks that made these startups | Sidebean

231

Meta & AI Chatbots Under Fire | Sidebean

232

The crazy history of the space race (so far) | Sidebean

233

Marketing Channels: Explained in 10 minutes | Sidebean

234

How Google F*cked us - Startups 101 | Sidebean

235

Is Crowdfunding a startup a bad idea? | Sidebean

236

The Credit Card Reward Scam 🇪🇺 vs 🇺🇸 | Sidebean

237

A Crash Course in Startup Fundraising with Caya (Slidebean CEO) | Sidebean

238

The world just isn’t ready for humanoids yet | Sidebean

239

How One Man Made The Perfect Ponzi Scheme | Sidebean

240

Startup Funding Explained: Series A vs Seed - Startups 101 | Sidebean

241

The AI Productivity Paradox #ai #startups #robot | Sidebean

242

Spotify’s Biggest AI Scam Yet | Sidebean

243

Selling Human Data - Evil Businesses | Sidebean

244

Why the Hummer STILL exists! - Company Forensics | Sidebean

245

Criminals or Scapegoats? Kim Dotcom and Pavel Durov | Sidebean

246

Why Millennials HATE GenZs At Work -Millennials Decoded | Sidebean

247

Why We CAN'T Beat Ticketmaster | Sidebean

248

What is the Matilda effect? | Sidebean

249

Why investors reject most startups | Sidebean

250

We Destroyed Truth - but AI Could Fix It | Sidebean

251

Tipping culture is OUT OF CONTROL | Sidebean

252

Off the rails: the NY Subway system | Sidebean

253

The Business of Treating Pets like Children - Millennials Decoded | Sidebean

254

Can you go to Jail for what your users do? | Sidebean

255

The Great Humanoid Robot Hoax | Sidebean

256

How TikTok RUINED Marketing - Company Forensics | Sidebean

257

The DARK Side of Digital Nomads: Nosara, Costa Rica | Sidebean

258

What’s Left of Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos? | Sidebean

259

The Side of India NOBODY Talks About | Sidebean

260

This YouTube Channel was an Accident | Sidebean

261

AI-Washing Killed a $500M Startup | Sidebean

262

America’s Stock Market Obsession is Worse than you Think | Sidebean

263

The Trap of Credit Cards is NOT the Interest Rate | Sidebean

264

How Gig Workers will Ruin our Retirement - Millennials Decoded | Sidebean

265

What startups get wrong about Financial Modeling | Sidebean

266

Apple Removes ICE-Tracking Apps from App Store | Sidebean

267

America ‘Saves’ TikTok—Kind Of | Sidebean

268

How Panama Turned Colonization into Profit | Sidebean

269

The REAL Cause of EVERY Financial Crisis | Sidebean

270

Spotify’s CEO Shuffle: Two Replacements for One | Sidebean

271

The (bad) business of being Kanye | Sidebean

272

How Big of a THREAT is TikTok? Who Should Be Worried? | Sidebean

273

SAFE vs Convertible Notes vs KISS | Sidebean

274

Airbnb: the Curse of Success | Sidebean

275

Reddit’s Secret Deal That Changed Everything | Sidebean

276

Is GoPro DEAD? | Sidebean

277

The Biggest Startup Failures (that deserved it) | Sidebean

278

Why Dyson’s Products Keep Getting Weirder (And Pricier) | Sidebean

279

The Economics of the Slidebean Channel - Startups 101 | Sidebean

280

What Science Says About a Future with AI | Sidebean

281

AI Looks EXACTLY Like the Dot-Com Bubble | Sidebean

282

Why Millennials Are OBSESSED With Old Tech | Sidebean

283

We transformed our sales team in 4 weeks | Sidebean

284

The Side of Bitcoin City Nobody Tells you About | Sidebean

285

WhatsApp’s SECRET Revenue Plan (it’s Not Reading your Texts) | Sidebean

286

OpenAI: who is REALLY in charge? | Sidebean

287

Are We in Another Dot-Com Bubble? 📉 | Sidebean

288

The Invisible Company Powering the World | Sidebean

289

The dark side of Telehealth | Sidebean

290

The REAL Reason You’ll Never Own Anything Again | Sidebean

291

This is why you love F1 | Sidebean

292

A Crash Course in Startup Fundraising with Caya (Slidebean CEO) | Sidebean

293

What Happens to Your DNA Data if 23andMe Shuts Down? | Sidebean

294

15 Slides you NEED on your Pitch Deck - Startups 101 | Sidebean

295

Forbes’ Accidental Criminal Hall of Fame | Sidebean

296

The Hacker that Broke North Korea’s Internet | Sidebean

297

The FATAL Flaw in AI Hiring Nobody Can Fix | Sidebean

298

The UNBELIEVABLE Life (and Death?) of John McAfee | Sidebean

299

How to Build A Cap Table (and not get screwed) | Sidebean

300

How Bangalore is Outpacing Silicon Valley | Sidebean

301

Bitcoin's FATAL Trust Flaw | Sidebean

302

How sex made (and killed) Tumblr | Sidebean

303

How Y2K (kinda) gave us Putin | Sidebean

304

Most business ideas don’t pass this test | Sidebean

305

Art investments and how they have changed | Sidebean

306

How IBM Got Crushed by ChatGPT | Sidebean

307

Netflix is losing at their own game - Company Forensics | Sidebean

308

The Great AI Productivity Paradox | Sidebean

309

The Side of Texas The Media Won't Show You | Sidebean

310

The FATAL Flaw on Every Flight in America | Sidebean

311

Why you are NOT having sex | Sidebean

312

How this startup keeps getting featured by Apple | Sidebean

313

Trade shows are terrible businesses | Sidebean

314

Do You Have a Hireable Face? | Sidebean

315

Exposing the REAL Numbers Behind Shark Tank | Sidebean

316

Why Visa & Mastercard always win | Sidebean

317

SpaceX Is Making Its Own Rocket Fuel | Sidebean

318

The Phone Call That Broke Silicon Valley Bank | Sidebean

319

The Silicon Valley Dystopia | Sidebean

320

The FATAL Flaw in Every GoPro Camera | Sidebean

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Why is WeWork's founder still rich? | Sidebean

322

AI Has a Fatal Flaw—And Nobody Can Fix It | Sidebean

323

Pensions = Ponzi Schemes? | Sidebean

324

Why Investors WANT Startups to Lose Money | Sidebean

325

How is the WeWork Founder Still Rich?! | Sidebean

326

Your Bank Balance Is a Lie (and here's how they do it) | Sidebean

327

Cursed Startups: The Deadliest Companies in History | Sidebean

328

Big Tech's Formula for Hacking Your Brain | Sidebean

329

How Zuck screwed Saverin - Fact vs Fiction | Sidebean

330

How Telehealth Created a New Drug Crisis | Sidebean

331

A map to hack into North Korea #northkorea #hacker | Sidebean

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How to build an Investor Data Room | Sidebean

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Will AI Make You Rich or Jobless? | Sidebean