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This 1st-time founder raised $4M, kept the team to 5 people—& just raised a $28M Series A. | Parker Gilbert, Co-Founder of Numeric
Season 3 Episode 65
Parker quit his job as VP Finance at a late-stage startup in mid 2021. He raised $4M out of the gate because, well, it was 2021. But he didn't ramp u…
1 year, 5 months ago
In 2004, they "almost bankrupted themselves". In 2024, they hit $500M ARR & a $5B valuation. | Mike Wessinger, Co-Founder of PointClickCare
Season 3 Episode 64
Mike started selling SaaS before SaaS was a thing. PointClickCare is the Salesforce of healthcare. For the first 7 years, they raised just $600K from…
1 year, 5 months ago
The top 3 reasons why Zuck is killing Apple in the Mixed Reality race.
Season 3 Episode 63
Apple sold only 370,000 VisionPro headsets-- much fewer than it expected. Meanwhile, Meta Ray-Bans are the top-selling product in 60% of Ray-Ban stor…
1 year, 5 months ago
His influencer marketplace hit $150M in revenue—& just exited for $500M. It all started with a party at Coachella. | Piotr Tomasik, Co-Founder of Influential
Season 3 Episode 62
Piotr met his co-founders at a party in Coachella. He built them an app for influencers to post online. That simple idea evolved into one of the worl…
1 year, 5 months ago
Your odds of raising a Series A just dropped from 30% to 15%—here's what to do about it:
Season 3 Episode 61
New Carta data shows that 30% of seed-stage startups used to raise a Series A within 2 years of their seed. Now, only 15% do. The bar for Series As i…
1 year, 6 months ago
His 1st startup failed—but his 2nd one hit $100M ARR & a $1.6B valuation. Here's what he learned. | Liran Zvibel, Founder of WEKA
Season 3 Episode 60
Liran quit a cozy job at IBM to launch Fusic, a TikTok-like app back in 2011. He raised over $10M, acquired tens of thousands of users, and failed.
So…
1 year, 6 months ago
He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figures in ARR. | Dan Lorenc, Founder of Chainguard
Season 3 Episode 59
This episode is going to piss you off. Most founders struggle to raise their first few million. Many have to bootstrap for years. Even once there's r…
1 year, 6 months ago
He founded a banking app for kids 10 years ago, grew to 2M customers & exited—in one of the biggest fintech M&A deals ever. | Dean Brauer, Founder of GoHenry
Season 3 Episode 58
It was “really slow in the first couple of years...really, really slow.” GoHenry was an app and debit card for kids to help parents teach their kids …
1 year, 6 months ago
1st-time AI founder grows from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 8 months. Here's exactly how he did it. | Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, Founder of Artisan
Season 3 Episode 57
Jaspar graduated YC & closed a $11.5M seed round this week. He launched Artisan just 8 months ago. And this is the first venture-backed startup he's …
1 year, 6 months ago
He launched an Uber competitor with just $3,000—& grew to $20M in revenue in 7 years. | Cody Ruberto, Founder of Uride
Season 3 Episode 56
Cody started a ride-share business in 2017 with no capital. He focused exclusively on small towns (population
1 year, 6 months ago