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The 5 Steps to Product-Market Fit w/ Chris Saad, ex-Head of Product at Uber, Host of The Startup Podcast
Season 4 Episode 3
We took examples from the last 100 episodes and built a clear, 5 step path to finding product market fit:
1.Before Startup Mode, There’s Research Mode…
1 year, 3 months ago
How Gusto’s $10B founder raised $6M, built a team of 5—& hit $5M ARR in just 2 years. | Josh Reeves, Founder of Gusto
Season 4 Episode 2
Gusto is a $9.5B startup that does $500M ARR. Josh built an absolute monster of a company-- and it all started with payroll software for SMBs. Not ju…
1 year, 3 months ago
The top 5 early-stage startup lessons for 2025
Season 4 Episode 1
We go through the top 5 product-market fit lessons I've learned from speaking to well over 100+ founders on this show over the last 3 years.
These are…
1 year, 3 months ago
He raised $1.3M, hit $100K ARR—but failed. Here's the lesson every founder needs to hear. | Tolga Ermis, Founder of PromiseQ
Season 3 Episode 81
Tolga stumbled upon a problem in the security monitoring space. Motion cameras generated way too many false alerts. So he decided to solve it using A…
1 year, 3 months ago
24 ways to get your first customers—based on real examples from the last 100 episodes.
Season 3 Episode 81
There are a few things harder when building startups than getting your first few customers. When you're on a standstill, getting momentum is incredib…
1 year, 3 months ago
He bet on voice AI when no one else did. Now he has $1M+ customers & $100M raised. | Ankit Jain, Founder of Infinitus
Season 3 Episode 80
Ankit left his job as a VC to launch a Voice AI platform—back in 2018! It wasn't the voice AI of today. The first demo sounded like a robot. But stil…
1 year, 3 months ago
YC said his idea "would never work". So he lived in his office for months—then raised $17M from a16z in 14 days. | Marty Kausas, founder of Pylon
Season 3 Episode 79
Marty and his co-founders lived full-time in their office for several months. They worked on their startup 24/7. To come up with the idea, they messa…
1 year, 3 months ago
He built a $4B unicorn & crossed $100M ARR—here's why it took 10 years of 100-hour weeks. | Martin Basiri, Founder of Passage & Applyboard (SaaS North Keynote)
Season 3 Episode 78
I interviewed Martin on the keynote stage at the SaaS North conference. Here is the audio version. Martin built Applyboard into a $4B unicorn doing $…
1 year, 4 months ago
His sports betting app went from $0 to $10M ARR in a year—& to $150M ARR in 4. Here's how he did it. | Jon Robin, Founder of Dabble
Season 3 Episode 77
Jon started a sports betting app 4 years ago-- now he does $150M in revenue and $1B in betting volume. AND he's profitable. In his first year alone ,…
1 year, 4 months ago
He grew to $90M ARR, was about to exit for $1.5B—and then, it all fell apart. | Yanni Giannaros, Co-Founder of Wyre
Season 3 Episode 76
Yanni started building in crypto back in 2013, when you could buy one Bitcoin for $20. At one point, he was playing poker games and betting 1 bitcoin…
1 year, 4 months ago