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PMF Observations: Why it doesn't matter how fast you get to $1M ARR
Season 4 Episode 53
Forget what you thought about early-stage growth. In this must-listen episode, you’ll hear firsthand how startup success truly happens—and spoiler al…
9 months, 1 week ago
He went 7 years with no revenue— then grew to $100M ARR. | Rob Woollen, Co-Founder of Sigma
Season 4 Episode 52
Rob Woollen, founder of Sigma Computing, shares the unfiltered reality of going from 0 to $100M ARR. After spending seven years grinding without prod…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
$10M Raised, 500K Users, but she still failed—here’s what went wrong | Benedetta Lucini, Founder of Oval Money
Season 4 Episode 51
This is the brutally honest startup story every founder needs to hear. Benedetta shares how she built a fintech app to half a million users and rais…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
How $100B Mercado Libre got started—& why it almost went bankrupt after 9 months. | Hernan Kazah, Co-Founder Mercado Libre
Season 4 Episode 50
How do you build a $100B business without hypergrowth or endless funding rounds? Hernan Kazah co-founded Mercado Libre, the Latin American ecommerce …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
PMF Observations: How 4 Founders Built Massive Startups Their Own Way
Season 4 Episode 49
Four founders prove you don’t need Silicon Valley, a technical degree, or a massive seed round to build a massive company. We go through the key obse…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, Founder of Vapi
Season 4 Episode 48
Jordan Dearsley spent 3 years building a startup stuck at $500K in revenue—then he burned it all down and moved to San Francisco. A year later, he wa…
10 months ago
WebSummit Panel w/ Founders of Glean ($5B) and Huntress ($2B): What it takes to hit $100M ARR
Season 4 Episode 47
Two founders, two wildly different paths to $100M ARR: Arvind Jain, founder of Glean, walked away from a unicorn to start over—raising $15M without r…
10 months ago
How his $2B startup grew to $10M+ ARR with zero marketing. | Avery Pennarun, Founder of Tailscale
Season 4 Episode 46
Avery Pennarun raised $160M for Tailscale—without even meaning to. What started as a small, simple project exploded into an unstoppable force in netw…
10 months, 1 week ago
May Startup News: Elizabeth Holmes Returns, Billion-Dollar Frauds, & the End of Tech Jobs w/ Jack Kuveke
Season 4 Episode 53
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Jack Kuveke returns to unpack the wildest startup news this month: from billion-dollar frauds and crypto scams, to OpenAI’s secretive $6.…
10 months, 1 week ago
He hit $1M ARR in 10 months—after doing of a full, 180 pivot. | Merrill Lutsky, Founder of Graphite
Season 4 Episode 44
After two pivots and nearly running out of runway, Merrill Lutsky found insane growth—scaling Graphite to tens of thousands of daily users and millio…
10 months, 2 weeks ago