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Q2 Early-Stage Venture Report w/ Carta’s Head of Insights: Valuations, Round Sizes, Graduation Rates & more. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
Season 3 Episode 46
Carta is the backbone of most venture-backed startups. They have access to specific information about every single round, not just what's reported in…
1 year, 7 months ago
He built in stealth with 1 customer for a year—then grew to 1M paid users across 60,000 locations. | Sanish Mondkar, Founder of Legion
Season 3 Episode 44
Last quarter, Sanish raised a $50M Series D. His company has raised over $130M. They have enterprise customers across 14 countries including Dollar G…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sean Ellis led growth at Dropbox—& invented growth hacking. Here's his step-by-step growth guide. | Sean Ellis, creator of the PMF test & best-selling author of Hacking Growth.
Season 3 Episode 43
Sean Ellis created THE test for PMF. He led growth teams at Dropbox, Eventbrite and LogMeIn, which sold for $4.3B. He coined the term Growth Hacking …
1 year, 8 months ago
He sold AI robots to Walmart & raised $150M. His #1 advice to founders? "Trust your gut." | Daniel Theobald, Founder of Vecna Robotics
Season 3 Episode 42
Daniel's been building robots for 20 years. He's sold 100s of AI robots-as-a-service to Walmart, FedEx, & DHL amongst others. Last month, he raised a…
1 year, 8 months ago
VCs give a lot of advice— & a lot of it sucks. Be careful who you listen to.
Season 3 Episode 41
Advice is free—actioning bad advice isn't. Early-stage founders are bombarded with advice. A lot of it from investors who have never operated a busin…
1 year, 8 months ago
He took 3 years to make his 1st sale—then grew 1000x to $10M ARR 3 years later. | Alex Hoff, Founder of Auvik
Season 3 Episode 40
Alex got the co-founder of a public company to join him and raised $6M out of the gate—but it took him 3 years to make his first sale.
But after he s…
1 year, 8 months ago
If you wake up with your heart pounding out of your chest— do this.
Season 3 Episode 39
When an employee unexpectedly quits, an investor backs out, or a big customer churns— fear of failure takes over. When you close a new round, land a …
1 year, 8 months ago
He refused to quit his job until $1M ARR—then grew to $5M ARR & closed a $25M Series A. | Pierce Ujjainwalla, Founder of Knak
Season 3 Episode 38
Pierce launched a consulting business that grew to millions in revenue and dozens of employees. But he noticed his customers kept asking for the same…
1 year, 8 months ago
99% of founders SUCK at storytelling. Here's the pro who taught Slack & Salesforce how to do it. | Matthew Dicks, professional storyteller & bestselling author of Storyworthy.
Season 3 Episode 37
There is no better storyteller in the world than Matthew Dicks. He tells stories for a living. He gets paid by the world's biggest brands to create s…
1 year, 8 months ago
In 2019, he went all-in on AI, grew to $3M ARR in 2 years—then to $85M ARR in 5. | Shubham Mishra, Founder of Pixis
Season 3 Episode 36
5 years ago, Shubham had just graduated college and had no network. He bootstrapped to $3M in ARR, then raised $200M & grew to $85M ARR.
But he starte…
1 year, 8 months ago