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He raised a $10M seed with no revenue—then grew 30x to $30M in year two. | Bobby Samuels, Founder of Protege
Season 5 Episode 31
Bobby launched Protege in early 2024 to connect data holders with AI model builders. He raised a $10M seed with almost no demand pipeline. A year la…
13 hours ago
He ran Prime fulfillment for Amazon—then raised $20M to replace e-commerce with AI. | Maju Kuruvilla, Founder of Spangle
Season 5 Episode 30
Maju ran Prime fulfillment technology for all of Amazon — same-day, one-hour shipping, global logistics during the pandemic. He became CEO at Bolt. T…
4 days, 13 hours ago
She got rejected by 22 VCs—then built 6sense to $100M+ in revenue. Now she's back for AI. | Amanda Kahlow, Founder of 1mind
Season 5 Episode 29
Amanda spent 16 years running a services business for Cisco and Intel. When she tried to productize her business, 22 VCs rejected her. That became 6s…
1 week ago
How this AI founder is on track to hit $50M ARR just 2 years after launch. | Tarek Alaruri, Co-Founder of Stuut
Season 5 Episode 28
Tarek already built a B2B software company to $30M ARR. But when the AI wave hit, he realized he could build a generational business by automating th…
1 week, 4 days ago
He launched a free product for enterprise customers—then grew to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Bhaskar Sunkara, Founding CTO of AppDynamics
Season 5 Episode 27
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Bhaskar was employee #1 at AppDynamics, which was sold to Cisco for $3.7B. He and co-founder Jyoti found a way to change how enterprise mo…
2 weeks ago
He raised $41M in one year to replace enterprise accountants with AI. | Yogi Goel, Founder of Maxima
Season 5 Episode 27
Yogi spent 20 years living the nightmare of enterprise accounting. As a senior finance leader at Rubrik, he watched highly paid professionals spend t…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
How he grew his AI startup from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months. | Omar Haroun, Co-Founder of Eudia
Season 5 Episode 24
Omar already built and sold an AI startup for over $100M. But when the generative AI wave hit, he realized the technology wasn't just the future of s…
3 weeks ago
She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta
Season 5 Episode 25
Helen was a software engineer who noticed a massive problem: accounting software for startups was broken, manual, and weeks out of date. Instead of j…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
He moved to the US with nothing. Now he does $750M ARR. | Mateo Marietti, Founder of CookUnity
Season 5 Episode 22
Mateo had already built a successful food company in Argentina. But he wanted more. So he moved to New York with no network, no credibility, and a dr…
4 weeks ago
This 3x founder hit $1M ARR in 5 months. Here's his playbook. | Roy Moussa, Founder of GetVocal
Season 5 Episode 23
Roy is a three-time founder who has cracked the code on enterprise AI. After selling his first company and realizing his second idea was too slow, he…
1 month ago