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Season 3 Episode 55
I tried to pay my employees as little as possible. I thought I was being resourceful—& it seemed to work. Until it totally backfired. I learned my le…
1 year, 6 months ago
He got rejected by 60 VCs, burned all his savings—then grew to $100M ARR & a $2B valuation. | Kyle Hanslovan, Founder of Huntress
Season 3 Episode 54
Kyle left his job as a hacker at the NSA to launch Huntress. He bootstrapped for 3 years and burned all his savings. One of his co-founders quit. He …
1 year, 6 months ago
Forget Founder Mode— MrBeast Mode is Where it's At. | The top 7 highlights from MrBeast's leaked framework.
Season 3 Episode 53
MrBeast's 36-page framework leaked this week. It's how he built a $1B+ company and became the #1 YouTuber in the world. His channel is worth over $1…
1 year, 6 months ago
He took on Uber & grew Rappi to $5B—here’s why the craziest founders often win. | Andres Bilbao, Co-Founder of Rappi
Season 3 Episode 52
Andres Bilboa is one of the co-founders of Rappi, the highest-valued app of LATAM ($5B valuation). Now he runs an incubator called Makers and has inv…
1 year, 7 months ago
How to Get Free PR for Your Startup—Tips from the Editor-in-Chief of Canada’s TechCrunch. | Douglas Soltys, Editor-in-Chief of Betakit
Season 3 Episode 51
Douglas has been in media and PR for over two decades. He’s the founder of Betakit Inc and has been running Betakit, Canada’s TechCrunch, for nearly …
1 year, 7 months ago
He built Cohere into a $5.5B AI startup; How to Win in AI; & Why LLMs won't lead to AGI. | Nick Frosst, Co-Founder of Cohere
Season 3 Episode 50
In this episode, I sit down with Nick Frosst, Co-Founder of Cohere, the $5.5B AI startup that’s targeting the enterprise landscape.
We go through the…
1 year, 7 months ago
The ONLY guaranteed way to find Product Market Fit
Season 3 Episode 49
Even if founders do everything right, they may still fail to find PMF. That's why even repeat founders have only 1.5% chance of building a unicorn.
We…
1 year, 7 months ago
They hit $100M ARR—in a "crowded market". Here's how they got to $1M ARR in just 18 months. | Don Mal, Co-Founder of Vena Solutions
Season 3 Episode 48
Don co-founded Vena & was CEO for 8 years. Last month, Vena became a Centaur crossing $100M in ARR.
Don & his team launched Vena in a crowded market,…
1 year, 7 months ago
This founder was hours from hiring a VP Product—turns out, he was a total fraud. Here’s what he learned.
Season 3 Episode 47
It's the first time I see a candidate BS his way through interviews with multiple people, impress each one of them, and ultimately end up being a com…
1 year, 7 months ago
He quit his cozy Google job & founded not 1 but 2 unicorns— then grew from $1M to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Ashutosh Garg, Founder of Eightfold AI
Season 3 Episode 46
Ashutosh is one of those rare founders who founded not just one, but two unicorns. He worked at Google for 4 years, left and started Bloomreach, whic…
1 year, 7 months ago