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Sidebean — 342 episodes
What nobody told me about Starting a Business | Sidebean
Is Slack really worth $20 Billion? | Sidebean
How NOT to spend your first $250,000 round of funding | Sidebean
Why Blockbuster passed on acquiring Netflix | Sidebean
Excel Financial Modeling Tutorial (+ free download) | Sidebean
Amazon Fire Phone: a $170 million flop | Sidebean
Is Tesla REALLY the most valuable car company? | Sidebean
How Robinhood App Crashed on the best day in Wall Street history | Sidebean
Segway: An overpriced mall cop ride | Sidebean
Subscription / SaaS Financial Model Tutorial | Sidebean
Mixer: why Microsoft keeps failing at being cool | Sidebean
Customer Acquisition Cost: How to track it and calculate it | Sidebean
The danger with convertible notes | Sidebean
How Spotify beat Apple at their own game | Sidebean
Marketplace Financial Model Tutorial: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean
A WhatsApp design flaw exposed identity data for 3.5 billion users | Sidebean
The death of Yahoo! (and how they almost bought Google) | Sidebean
8 red flags when pitching investors | Sidebean
Bernie Madoff: the biggest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history | Sidebean
Avoiding the WRONG type of investor for your company | Sidebean
The death of Yahoo! (and how they almost bought Google) | Sidebean
Sanctions didn’t slow China’s AI. They changed how it wins | Sidebean
Why you SHOULDN'T do content marketing | Sidebean
Pitch Deck Mistakes: the Go-to-Market slide | Sidebean
How Joe Rogan Became The Biggest Interviewer in the World | Sidebean
Boston Dynamics: The company making robots to replace us | Sidebean
The rise and fall of MTV | Sidebean
The Low-Tech Bottleneck that's Killing America's Al | Sidebean
Mobile App Financial Model Tutorial: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean
8 red flags when pitching investors | Sidebean
Startup accelerators: are they still worth it? | Sidebean
The Windows Phone: an $8 Billion fiasco | Sidebean
This is the reason drugs are so EXPENSIVE! 💰 | Sidebean
How to Write an Investor Pitch Deck - Startups 101 | Sidebean
Managing Time as CEO | Sidebean
Avoiding the WRONG type of investor for your company | Sidebean
Is Herbalife a Pyramid Scheme? - Company Forensics | Sidebean
Why the next AI battle won’t be about models | Sidebean
The metric that could kill your startup | Sidebean
Why Do Bankrupt Companies Stay Open? - Company Forensics | Sidebean
How a Tinder ex-girlfriend created Bumble | Sidebean
Shopify: quietly moving $30 Billion in sales | Sidebean
Beyond Meat vs Impossible Foods: a fight to take away my steak | Sidebean
Pitch Deck Mistakes: the Go-to-Market slide | Sidebean
The time Apple lost $708M in 3 months | Sidebean
Why OpenAI’s child safety reports exploded 80× | Sidebean
This Company had a Private Army | Sidebean
What prediction markets reveal about founder credibility | Sidebean
What happens when scientific research becomes entertainment? | Sidebean
Neuralink wants to upgrade a brain chip while it’s still in someone’s head. | Sidebean
The Assassination of Movie Theaters | Sidebean
Uber: the scandal that got Travis Kalanick fired | Sidebean
Is Omaze a scam? | Sidebean
Nvidia’s $5T milestone shows who’s really winning the AI race. | Sidebean
Was Henry Ford... Actually a Cool Boss? | Sidebean
The border is becoming a drone network | Sidebean
Softbank $24 Billion down the drain | Sidebean
Boston Dynamics: The company making robots to replace us | Sidebean
Farmville: patient zero of the micro-transactions plague | Sidebean
Quibi: celebrity endorsements weren't enough | Sidebean
OpenAI wants to raise $100B in one round and that’s the least wild part | Sidebean
Where Amazon stole their customer support from | Sidebean
Apple engineers are quietly fixing American factories, one bottleneck at a time | Sidebean
Fyre Festival: dumb planning or genius scam? | Sidebean
Stores now have to tell you when prices are personalized | Sidebean
Why is Slack worth $27B to Salesforce? | Sidebean
Google killed the best product they ever had | Sidebean
Social Media Platform Business Financial Modeling: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean
A Fleeting Story: How Twitter Fleets Failed | Sidebean
Why “$9 trillion markets” say more about storytelling than reality | Sidebean
What ACTUALLY happens during an IPO? - Startups 101 | Sidebean
The U.S. is suing states for regulating AI, even though it has no AI laws | Sidebean
The creator economy (and the thin line we CAN'T cross) | Sidebean
How do startup exits work? | Sidebean
Ignite / Dan Bilzerian: Whose Millions Is He Spending? | Sidebean
Why real time deepfake tools represent a new phase of online fraud | Sidebean
I looked at 105 SaaS pricing pages. Here's what I learned. | Sidebean
DoorDash: from origins to IPO (are they overvalued?) | Sidebean
Startup Valuation: How to Calculate It - Startups 101 | Sidebean
How much money do you get if your startup gets acquired? | Sidebean
AI isn’t just learning anymore, it’s teaching itself | Sidebean
The rise and fall of MTV | Sidebean
How Microsoft killed the one cool product they ever had: MSN Messenger | Sidebean
The $72 trillion lawsuit: how Limewire died | Sidebean
eCommerce Platform Financial Modeling Tutorial: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean
Reddit: The Front Page of Internet Scandals | Sidebean
OpenAI just launched a model that charges more when it thinks harder. | Sidebean
The pandemic-driven rise of OnlyFans 🍆 🍑🍒 | Sidebean
The startup that almost BANKRUPT Steve Jobs | Sidebean
Digg: Six Feet Under | Sidebean
Hardware + Subscription Business Financial Model Tutorial: Projecting Revenue | Sidebean
Farmville: patient zero of the micro-transactions plague | Sidebean
Robots, Grokpedia & Therapy Bots Lose the Plot. | Sidebean
Digg: Six Feet Under | Sidebean
DogeCoin Explained | Sidebean
SaaS metrics: the ULTIMATE guide to Software as a Service KPIs | Sidebean
The Problem with startup Stock Options | Sidebean
Amazon: A company in its Prime? | Sidebean
Meta is paying publishers to train the AI that may replace them. | Sidebean
How to Estimate More Accurately | Sidebean
10 Commandments for Great Startup Pitches | Sidebean
The Mafia that Rules the Tech World | Sidebean
How honest is the Honest Company? | Sidebean
Why Do Bankrupt Companies Stay Open? - Company Forensics | Sidebean
U.S. Air Traffic Still Runs on Floppy Disks | Sidebean
China's Real Estate Disaster - Company Forensics | Sidebean
What ACTUALLY happens during an IPO? - Startups 101 | Sidebean
A new AI model is challenging OpenAI by giving away its secrets. | Sidebean
How Startups Shaped Silicon Valley | Sidebean
HP’s long term plan reveals what AI job loss really looks like | Sidebean
Google Maps isn’t just a map anymore, it’s your personal scout. | Sidebean
Foursquare: the startup zombie that still eats your data | Sidebean
AI Can’t Get Smarter Forever | Sidebean
The Biggest Telescope has an Impossible Problem | Sidebean
Apple vs. Fitbit vs. Garmin: the battle for your fitness (No, this isn’t a review!) | Sidebean
Napster: the REAL story of Sean Parker | Sidebean
I Infiltrated the Most Valuable Plot of Land in America* | Sidebean
Amazon’s layoffs show what “AI efficiency” really looks like | Sidebean
Zuckerberg’s secret preschool is real and illegal | Sidebean
Rappi: the Latin American Unicorn | Sidebean
The iPhone’s designer wants to replace the iPhone | Sidebean
A flying Ford Pinto: the Invention that Killed its Inventor | Sidebean
Goop: the insane business between Gwyneth Paltrow’s legs | Sidebean
Duolingo: Making millions out of you | Sidebean
DogeCoin Explained | Sidebean
Why this thumbnail keeps changing - Startups 101 | Sidebean
Humanoid Robots = Hype? | Sidebean
The (Real) Untold Story of The Office | Sidebean
This AI reads your brain literally | Sidebean
How to grow a startup | Sidebean
Meta ties employee performance to AI usage | Sidebean
Space Junk, Smart Rings, and a Trillion-Dollar Ego. | Sidebean
Pandora Papers: the 'legal' way to avoid taxes | Sidebean
This company was burning $10 million a month? | Sidebean
Foursquare: the startup zombie that still eats your data | Sidebean
The Dangerous Success of GPT Therapy | Sidebean
ChatGPT isn’t driving people crazy but it might be making them believe lies | Sidebean
The $72 trillion lawsuit: how Limewire died | Sidebean
How to find investors for your startup | Sidebean
Goop: the insane business between Gwyneth Paltrow’s legs | Sidebean
Pandora Papers: the 'legal' way to avoid taxes | Sidebean
What ChatGPT ACTUALLY does to your Brain | Sidebean
Google killed the best product they ever had | Sidebean
How this Company (Accidentally) F*cked Us All | Sidebean
Yo! The dumbest app ever to raise $1M | Sidebean
Investors can SCREW your startup with a post-money valuation | Sidebean
Elon made his own Wikipedia | Sidebean
How to recruit engineers for a startup | Sidebean
How Red Bull makes money selling nothing | Sidebean
OpenAI’s dropping the “AI for humanity” part | Sidebean
The Rotten Company Behind all Porn | Sidebean
How Grammarly Tricked You Into Paying for Spell Check | Sidebean
A historic lawsuit could redefine how social media treats youth | Sidebean
The AI smart ring nobody asked for | Sidebean
Peloton had a heart attack | Sidebean
Financial Modeling for Startups: Explained - Startups 101 | Sidebean
How to setup a company in the US? (for startup founders) | Sidebean
What Comes After TikTok? (Hint: Nothing) | Sidebean
A marketing team approved these stunts... and they're bad | Sidebean
How to get a startup job | Sidebean
Investors can SCREW your startup with a post-money valuation | Sidebean
This Company had a Private Army | Sidebean
Inside the illusion of autonomy in robotics | Sidebean
The scams and frauds behind non-profits - Evil Businesses | Sidebean
GoPro’s Fatal Flaw | Sidebean
Casio launches Moflin, the AI powered emotional pet. | Sidebean
The REAL story of how Elon "stole" Tesla | Sidebean
The world just isn’t ready for humanoids yet | Sidebean
AI Karma: Altman vs. Sora | Sidebean
The Fast Fashion problem is bigger than we ever imagined | Sidebean
The TERRIBLE business of pro tennis | Sidebean
How greed is ruining NFTs | Sidebean
Alexa is DEAD (but she has no idea) - Company Forensics | Sidebean
The growth hacks that made these startups | Sidebean
Meta & AI Chatbots Under Fire | Sidebean
The crazy history of the space race (so far) | Sidebean
How One Man Made The Perfect Ponzi Scheme | Sidebean
Marketing Channels: Explained in 10 minutes | Sidebean
How Google F*cked us - Startups 101 | Sidebean
Is Crowdfunding a startup a bad idea? | Sidebean
The Credit Card Reward Scam 🇪🇺 vs 🇺🇸 | Sidebean
A Crash Course in Startup Fundraising with Caya (Slidebean CEO) | Sidebean
Startup Funding Explained: Series A vs Seed - Startups 101 | Sidebean
The AI Productivity Paradox #ai #startups #robot | Sidebean
Spotify’s Biggest AI Scam Yet | Sidebean
Selling Human Data - Evil Businesses | Sidebean
Why the Hummer STILL exists! - Company Forensics | Sidebean
Criminals or Scapegoats? Kim Dotcom and Pavel Durov | Sidebean
Why Millennials HATE GenZs At Work -Millennials Decoded | Sidebean
Why We CAN'T Beat Ticketmaster | Sidebean
What is the Matilda effect? | Sidebean
Why investors reject most startups | Sidebean
Tipping culture is OUT OF CONTROL | Sidebean
We Destroyed Truth - but AI Could Fix It | Sidebean
Off the rails: the NY Subway system | Sidebean
The Business of Treating Pets like Children - Millennials Decoded | Sidebean
Can you go to Jail for what your users do? | Sidebean
Is GoPro DEAD? | Sidebean
The Great Humanoid Robot Hoax | Sidebean
The Biggest Startup Failures (that deserved it) | Sidebean
How TikTok RUINED Marketing - Company Forensics | Sidebean
Why Dyson’s Products Keep Getting Weirder (And Pricier) | Sidebean
The DARK Side of Digital Nomads: Nosara, Costa Rica | Sidebean
The Economics of the Slidebean Channel - Startups 101 | Sidebean
What’s Left of Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos? | Sidebean
What Science Says About a Future with AI | Sidebean
This YouTube Channel was an Accident | Sidebean
AI Looks EXACTLY Like the Dot-Com Bubble | Sidebean
The Side of India NOBODY Talks About | Sidebean
Why Millennials Are OBSESSED With Old Tech | Sidebean
America’s Stock Market Obsession is Worse than you Think | Sidebean
We transformed our sales team in 4 weeks | Sidebean
AI-Washing Killed a $500M Startup | Sidebean
WhatsApp’s SECRET Revenue Plan (it’s Not Reading your Texts) | Sidebean
The Trap of Credit Cards is NOT the Interest Rate | Sidebean
The Side of Bitcoin City Nobody Tells you About | Sidebean
How Gig Workers will Ruin our Retirement - Millennials Decoded | Sidebean
OpenAI: who is REALLY in charge? | Sidebean
What startups get wrong about Financial Modeling | Sidebean
Are We in Another Dot-Com Bubble? 📉 | Sidebean
Apple Removes ICE-Tracking Apps from App Store | Sidebean
The Invisible Company Powering the World | Sidebean
How Panama Turned Colonization into Profit | Sidebean
The dark side of Telehealth | Sidebean
America ‘Saves’ TikTok—Kind Of | Sidebean
The REAL Reason You’ll Never Own Anything Again | Sidebean
The REAL Cause of EVERY Financial Crisis | Sidebean
This is why you love F1 | Sidebean
Spotify’s CEO Shuffle: Two Replacements for One | Sidebean
A Crash Course in Startup Fundraising with Caya (Slidebean CEO) | Sidebean
The (bad) business of being Kanye | Sidebean
What Happens to Your DNA Data if 23andMe Shuts Down? | Sidebean
How Big of a THREAT is TikTok? Who Should Be Worried? | Sidebean
Forbes’ Accidental Criminal Hall of Fame | Sidebean
SAFE vs Convertible Notes vs KISS | Sidebean
15 Slides you NEED on your Pitch Deck - Startups 101 | Sidebean
Reddit’s Secret Deal That Changed Everything | Sidebean
The Hacker that Broke North Korea’s Internet | Sidebean
Airbnb: the Curse of Success | Sidebean
The UNBELIEVABLE Life (and Death?) of John McAfee | Sidebean
The FATAL Flaw in AI Hiring Nobody Can Fix | Sidebean
How to Build A Cap Table (and not get screwed) | Sidebean
How Bangalore is Outpacing Silicon Valley | Sidebean
Bitcoin's FATAL Trust Flaw | Sidebean
How sex made (and killed) Tumblr | Sidebean
How Y2K (kinda) gave us Putin | Sidebean
Most business ideas don’t pass this test | Sidebean
Art investments and how they have changed | Sidebean
How IBM Got Crushed by ChatGPT | Sidebean
Netflix is losing at their own game - Company Forensics | Sidebean
The Great AI Productivity Paradox | Sidebean
The Side of Texas The Media Won't Show You | Sidebean
The FATAL Flaw on Every Flight in America | Sidebean
Why you are NOT having sex | Sidebean
How this startup keeps getting featured by Apple | Sidebean
Trade shows are terrible businesses | Sidebean
Do You Have a Hireable Face? | Sidebean
Exposing the REAL Numbers Behind Shark Tank | Sidebean
Why Visa & Mastercard always win | Sidebean
The Phone Call That Broke Silicon Valley Bank | Sidebean
SpaceX Is Making Its Own Rocket Fuel | Sidebean
The Silicon Valley Dystopia | Sidebean
The FATAL Flaw in Every GoPro Camera | Sidebean
Why is WeWork's founder still rich? | Sidebean
AI Has a Fatal Flaw—And Nobody Can Fix It | Sidebean
Pensions = Ponzi Schemes? | Sidebean
Why Investors WANT Startups to Lose Money | Sidebean
How is the WeWork Founder Still Rich?! | Sidebean
Your Bank Balance Is a Lie (and here's how they do it) | Sidebean
Cursed Startups: The Deadliest Companies in History | Sidebean
Big Tech's Formula for Hacking Your Brain | Sidebean
How Zuck screwed Saverin - Fact vs Fiction | Sidebean
How Telehealth Created a New Drug Crisis | Sidebean
A map to hack into North Korea #northkorea #hacker | Sidebean
How to build an Investor Data Room | Sidebean
Will AI Make You Rich or Jobless? | Sidebean
Slidebean Pitch at DreamIt Ventures Demo Day | Sidebean
The Fatal Flaw in Apple's $500 Headphones | Sidebean
How to Make a Pitch Deck for Investors - Startups 101 | Sidebean
Death By PowerPoint: a Crash Course on Slide Design | Sidebean
Product Management in Startups: MVP to 4.0 roadmap and product manager tasks | Sidebean
Startup Stock Options Explained - Startups 101 | Sidebean
What Does a Startup CEO Do: Roles and Responsibilities - Entrepreneur Life | Sidebean
Why Your Bluetooth Always Disconnects | Sidebean
yeah... AI just had its iPhone moment | Sidebean
What is a Company Profile: the first company presentation you should design | Sidebean
The Secret Behind Tesla's Engine Noise | Sidebean
How Your Phone Screen Actually Works | Sidebean
Startup vs Small Business. What’s the difference? - Startups 101 | Sidebean
Apple's $250 Million "Fake AI" Mistake | Sidebean
Startup Financial Model example: Slidebean (actual) earnings and expenses 📊 | Sidebean
How to Find a CoFounder | Sidebean
Airbnb's First Pitch Deck (Teardown + Redesign) - Startups 101 | Sidebean
The Secret Behind Samsung's $1 Trillion Valuation | Sidebean
Apple is secretly trying to escape TSMC | Sidebean
The Uber Pitch Deck Used to Raise Funding - Pitch deck template included | Sidebean
Startup Mistakes that almost put Slidebean out of business | Sidebean
Presentation Design Examples: Canva Pitch Deck redesigned by Slidebean | Sidebean
Spotify Pitch Deck: startup pitch deck design and teardown | Sidebean
How to Grow a Small Business: growth marketing for startups (Part I) | Sidebean
How to Write an Elevator Pitch with Examples (Airbnb, WeWork, Slack) | Sidebean
Startup Questions: Starting a Business, Startup KPIs and Product development | Sidebean
HQ Trivia's failed mutiny against their CEO | Sidebean
Are Startup Accelerators Worth It? | Sidebean
How to Make a Killer Startup Pitch Deck? | Sidebean
What Happened to Google Glass? | Sidebean
What ACTUALLY happened with WeWork? - Company Forensics | Sidebean
Yik Yak: a deadly combination | Sidebean
Why do startups fail after MILLIONS of dollars? | Sidebean
How to Grow a Small Business: growth marketing for startups (Part II) | Sidebean
What happened to Pebble Watch? | Sidebean
The Painful Death of BlackBerry | Sidebean
How Mission Impossible killed MoviePass | Sidebean
How Facebook killed MySpace | Sidebean
Startup Resources: Our Top 3 Startup Tools for Financials | Sidebean
The Death of Periscope and Meerkat | Sidebean
Juicero: the $400 juicer that couldn't make juice | Sidebean
Rookie startup mistakes when raising money | Sidebean
The North Face: from Bankruptcy to Brand Success | Sidebean
Startup Funding Explained - Incorporation and First Investor (Part 1) | Sidebean
Juicero: the $400 juicer that couldn't make juice | Sidebean
Rookie startup mistakes when raising money | Sidebean
How to start a business in 2020 | Sidebean
Startup Funding Explained - Incorporation and First Investor (Part 1) | Sidebean
What Happened to Shyp? - Startup Forensics | Sidebean
Who killed Toys "R" Us? Walmart or Amazon | Sidebean
Ouya: the $33 million Kickstarter FAIL | Sidebean
How to calculate Total Addressable Market (TAM) - Startups 101 | Sidebean
Who killed Toys "R" Us? Walmart or Amazon | Sidebean
Zoom company story: How Eric Yuan defeated Skype | Sidebean
Why Startups should NOT write a Business Plan | Sidebean
Google's $585 MILLION mistake | Sidebean
Startup Financial Modeling 101: Tutorial and Template | Sidebean
Why Motorola’s CEO cried on his first day | Sidebean
Boosted Boards: from flight risk to $70 million failure | Sidebean
How we made $2.5M from YouTube and Google | Sidebean
How Microsoft ruined Skype | Sidebean
How to estimate the revenue model of an eCommerce Business | Sidebean
Will Airbnb survive Coronavirus? | Sidebean
What nobody told me about Starting a Business | Sidebean
Is Slack really worth $20 Billion? | Sidebean
How NOT to spend your first $250,000 round of funding | Sidebean