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[$10M+ Raised] Mark Doble, Co-Founder of Alexi, on Overcoming Adversity and Achieving Product-Market Fit in Legal Tech

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[Harnessing AI Technology for Business Growth] Founder Daniel Saks Discusses Persistence, Overcoming Rejection, and the Evolution of AppDirect and Landbase

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[Sustaining Competitive Edge] CEO Randy Wootton of Maxio on the Dynamics of Product-Market Fit in a Changing Landscape

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[$121.5M in Funding] Efficient Capital Labs' Kaustav Das on Bridging the Funding Gap and Achieving Product-Market Fit

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[Pioneering Retail Innovation] CEO Angie Westbrock on Standard AI's Journey from Autonomous Checkout to Computer Vision Insights

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[$30M Raised] Transforming Legal Tech: Spellbook Co-Founder & CEO Scott Stevenson on Achieving Product-Market Fit

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[Transforming Crypto Access] Co-Founder/CEO Driss Benamour on Building Exponential.fi and Overcoming Crypto Winter

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[Navigating the AI Landscape] Co-Founder and CEO Jensen Harris on Textio's Journey and the Future of AI in Management

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[~$100M Raised] Transforming Talent Assessment: Co-founder and CEO Tigran Sloyan on Building CodeSignal

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[Revolutionizing Climate Tech] Sealed’s co-founder and CEO Lauren Salz on Raising ~$100 Million and Finding Product-Market Fit

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[$300M Raised] Mapping the Human Immune System for Drug Discovery: Noam Solomon on Building Immunai

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[90% of Co-Founder's Time Spent Speaking to Customers] How Inspectify has Navigated Startup Success

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[$0 to $20M ARR in 1 year] Creating a Path to Financial Empowerment with Brigit's co-founder and CEO Zuben Mathews

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[$150M Raised] Navigating Product-Market Fit in Healthcare: Ashok Subramanian on Building Centivo

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[$3 Trillion Market Revolution] Democratizing Structured Notes with Halo Investing

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[4x Founder] From FBI to Founder: Jo Riley’s Journey to Product-Market Fit with Censia

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[$30B Market Reimagined] Unlocking Home Care's Potential with Honor

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[$400M raised] FLYR Labs’s Founder, Alex Mans: journey to product-market fit

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[$80M+ raised] THAT Product-market fit moment: Avoid the analysis trap; Shippo’s Founder, Laura Behrens Wu

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Trulia’s Founder; product-market-fit journey with Sami Inkinen

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Failed startup to $98M raised; Thoropass’s Founder, Sam Li shares their product-market-fit journey

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[$163M raised] Knowing you’ve hit product-market fit; Redpanda’s Founder, Alex Gallego

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[$100M+ raised] How to get product-market fit validation without an MVP

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[$217M raised] Stop convincing prospects and find the ones who get it: Sentry’s Founder, David Cramer

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Arc’s $181M Success: Unity-Led-Growth with Founder, Don Muir

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Bootstrapped to $40M and then raised $125M? Slice’s Founder, Ilir Sela

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[$150M raised] OpenStore’s Co-Founder, Jeremy Wood: Building the Right Engine: Overcoming Doubts

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[$200M+ Raised] Self-Doubt & Worry to Thriving Through Startup Challenges; Electric.ai's Founder, Ryan Denehy

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The Founder-led Content Formula; Atrium’s Founder Pete Kazanjy

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[$1.2B Val] Epidemic Sound's Founder, Oscar Hoglund: Overcoming Gov Regulations & Launching A Marketplace

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Tailscale's $113M Success: Developer-Led-Growth

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[$161M Raised] From Series A Struggles to 400 Employees: LinkSquares' Growth Strategies with Founder Vishal Sunak

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Bootstrapped to $100M+ Exit: Pardot’s Founder, David Cummings' Startup Journey

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Instacart's Former Chief Growth Officer; Building a Successful ML Startup: Anomalo's, Founder, Elliot Shmukler

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$0 to 100M ARR in 18-months: Revolutionizing Cloud Security With Base Thinking; Wiz’s Co-Founder, Ami Luttwak

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($155M raised) Glean’s Founder, Arvind Jain: How to close enterprise deals from day one

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Bootstrapped to nearly $100M exit to Citrix; Jesse Lipson; knowing when to ignore the “smart” advisors vs. just building

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[$271M raised] Frubana’s Founding Engineer, now board member, Daniel Bilbao; GTM tactics for $0 - $1M

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Backed by a16z, Virtually Human Studio’s Co-Founder, Chris Ebeling: Building with community, listening vs. letting them lead

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Zapier’s Founder: scalable growth strategies

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[$0 - IPO] Braze’s Founder, Mark Ghermezian; knowing when to pivot & the power of persistence

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Talkdesk & Cleverly Co-Founder: Cristina Fonseca - Product obsessed, 5-min rule & not being distracted by competition

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[$396M Raised] Nailing pitch-market-fit? Eightfold AI’s CEO, Ashutosh Garg

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[0-IPO] Yext’s Founder, Howard Lerman: key to building a lasting company

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[$0-IPO] Shift’s Co-Founder, Toby Russell; knowing when to pivot DESPITE having product-market-fit?!

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[$99M raised] Sweep’s Co-Founder, Rachel Delacour; listening for low signals during customer research to land big logos

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[$600M+ raised] Deel’s Founder, Alex Bouaziz: pivoting with conviction

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[$1.6B val] Mercury’s Founder, Immad Akhund; rapid growth via word of mouth

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[$1.2B val] Pilot’s CEO, Waseem Daher; knowing where to stay in the weeds

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[Acquired by Apple] Beats by Dre’s Omar Johnson on building a brand and standing out

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[$70M+ raised] Origin’s Matt Watson on finding clarity to target problems

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[$194M raised] Bizzabo’s Alon Alroy on pivoting early and fast

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[3M+ users] BharatAgri’s Founder, Sai Gole: micro influencers as a GTM channel

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[$98M raised] Paystand’s Founder, Jeremy Almond; meet them where they are > selling a cool tech idea

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[$164M+ Raised] Aisera’s Muddu Sudhakar on fundraising the right way

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[Ukrainian Founder] Fuel Finance’s Alyona Mysko; growth during a war

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[$LFLY] Leafly’s Founder, Cy Scott - don’t hack everything & knowing which battles to fight

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[$73M+ Raised] Pair Eyewear’s Nathan Kondamuri - customer discovery & GTM wins

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Carrot Fertility’s Tammy Sun on knowing your business inside and out

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Swag.com’s Jeremy Parker on targeting the top from the get-go

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[$6.5B Exit] Auth0’s Founder, Eugenio Pace on prioritizing people over segments

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Modern Health’s Alyson Watson on staying focused when navigating changes

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[$4.2B Valuation] Outreach’s Founder & CEO, Manny Medina on nailing the basics

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DocSend’s Russ Heddleston on the importance of getting product pricing right

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Jane Technologies’ Socrates Rosenfeld on industry building

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Sense360’s Eli Portnoy on getting the most from your data and the power of cold-reach email

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OLO (NYSE) Founder & CEO Noah Glass talks about segmentation & the demonstration effect

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ZoomInfo’s CEO, Henry Schuck; Prioritizing Go-to-market-fit & Getting to $800M ARR

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$469M Raised, Capchase’s CEO, Miguel Fernandez on funding startups with future revenue

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ERA’s Jonathan Axelrod on prioritizing the customer for growth

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Ada’s Mike Murchison on scaling customer experience

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Pachama’s Diego Saez Gil on building startups that make a true difference

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Lang.ai’s Jorge Peñalva on powering customer experience with AI

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Highlights episode: Making it through a pandemic

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Live episode: Creating the future of skin health

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Product School’s Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia on unifying product with customer experience

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Kaizo’s Christoph Auer-Welsbach on hacking Zendesk Marketplace

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Atman’s Pedro Sorren on inevitable founders

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Finimize’s Max Rofagha on becoming your own financial advisor

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bud.com’s Justin Hall on making it in a fresh industry

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Unstack’s Grant Deken on helping businesses be digital-first

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Defy’s Madison McIlwain on breaking into venture capital

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Vindi’s Rodrigo Dantas on finding success in emerging markets

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Mary Louise Cosmetics’ Akilah Releford on following good ideas

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Dispatch Goods’ Lindsey Hoell on building sustainable solutions

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(Live episode) How to find your product market fit

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Wavy’s Victor Lebeau on helping beauty services scale

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LeaseQuery’s George Azih on making accounting easy

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Freshly’s Michael Wystrach on the future of food

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TravelNest’s Rebecca Moore on strong leadership in times of flux

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Ameelio’s Uzoma Orchingwa on changing the future of prison communications

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Raheem’s Brandon D. Anderson on using AI to end police violence

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Novo’s Michael Rangel on building a customer-centric Fintech

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Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on bringing startup values to government

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Sit Down Startup Podcast is back!

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Software taking over the world: (Bonus live episode)

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Lessonly’s Max Yoder on doing better work

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Mindler’s Magnus Pettersson on scaling a fast-growth startup

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CodeSignal’s Sophie Baik on hiring with less bias

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Zenni Optical’s Bai Gan on how customers influence product