Every founder has 1 goal: find product-market fit. We interview the world's most successful startup founders on the 0 to 1 part of their journeys. We've had the founders of Reddit, Gusto, Rappi, Glean, Cohere, Huntress, ID.me and many more. We go deep with entrepreneurs & VCs to provide detailed examples you can steal. Our goal is to understand product-market fit better than anyone on the planet. Rated one of the world's top startup podcasts.
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Scaling Nerds | Communications, PR and Storytelling for Startup Founders (prev. Red To Green)
Marina Schmidt
Scaling Nerds (formerly Red to Green) helps science and tech founders master the essential “communication fluff” of VC-backed growth: from branding and storytelling to media strategy and investor decks. Ranked in the top 5% globally, with listeners in 160+ countries, Scaling Nerds will help you win minds, markets, and your next fundraise. Hosted by Marina Schmidt.
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How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.
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Produced by Foundersuite.com, makers of the leading software stack for raising capital: Investor CRM + VC/Angel database + Pitch Deck Hosting + Investor Update tools. Used by startups to raise > $2.5 Billion.
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Two struggling co-founders study and discuss other successful founders. With focus during the founding stage of each company.
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20Mile is a place where you come to learn about startup life, entrepreneurship, challenges faced by founders and how balance & discipline are key to a startup’s survival.
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Startup Stories: Entrepreneurship Education & Startup Training by Europe’s Founders
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Daniel Kunz from the Nerd Entrepreneurs team interviews the best and brightest startup founders and experts so you can be ahead of the curve with your own venture. Discover how you can quickly validate your startup idea, find problem - solution - fit and acquire your first customers so you can focus on building something that will drive revenue and profits and ultimately grow to become the business you’ve always dreamed of.
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Startup Life Hacks | Business and Life Advice | Founders | Entrepreneurship
Rommel Cabal chats with startup founders and thought leaders like Founder of Ugg Brian Smith
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Conversations with leading entrepreneurs, non-profit founders, award winning designers, educators, artists and everything else in between. We dig deep into their stories, have honest conversations about how they made their ideas come to life and the lessons learned along the way.
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The Development Engines Podcast (Growth, Investment & Mindset Strategy for Entrepreneurs & Startup Founders)
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Every business is in Competition with each other, and this competition intensifies as each operates and interacts in the same specialist niche target markets vying for market share or competitive position. This applies both in the Target Market a Start-up has entered and, in the Competition to attract Investment to Accelerate a Start-ups Growth. But Start-up businesses are Driven by their Founders, the entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are not a day job, it is a lifestyle, as a Start-up Fou ...
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LIFT99 launched the LIFTOFF podcast as a continuation of their mission to spread the incredible Stories of Startup Founders in Eastern Europe and by doing so, inspire others to shoot for the moon. Most LIFTOFF shows are recorded live at LIFT99 Tallinn Hub, the birthplace of #EstonianMafia Wall of Fame and home of Estonian startup culture. But not all of them! The road might take us to wherever we find inspiring founders with stories worth sharing. LIFTOFF was launched in collaboration with L ...
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Failure To Launch - Failed startup founders tell their stories so you can learn from their mistakes
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Of course you listen to Tim Ferriss, Mixergy, and This Week in Startups to learn about startup successes. We want entrepreneurs to learn from the mistakes of failed startups. Listen to failed founder interviews.
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Actionable Insights for Startups and Everyone in the Builder Ecosystem from Founders to VCs and Experts at building meaningful companies that track to become Unicorns and create multigenerational impact. Hosted by the former host of EduK8, Befm (Busan's English Radio) and the only SEO radio show on the internet in 2011. Previous guests include VC & 8 Time Founder David Yi, Founder & Startup Expert Kevin Henrikson, 7 Time Founder Kimberly Kovacs, CMO Olga Denisova, LinkedIn Branding Expert St ...
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Startup of the Year Podcast raises the bar for startups around the world by providing further insight on the emerging companies featured in their network and by highlighting newsworthy stories and global trends affecting the startup ecosystem.
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The show that interviews entrepreneurs, uncovering the moments of fear and doubt that even the most successful founders face. On Founders Uncut, you'll hear how they deal with these moments. If you're an early stage startup founder and the going is tough, listen in. You are not alone - being a founder is just hard! Host Maria Palma, General Partner at Kindred, an early stage venture capital fund, is here to shine a light on the parts of the startup scaling journey that often go untold and ne ...
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A weekly podcast by Josh Pigford, founder of Baremetrics, on his journey growing a startup.
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InspiredStartups.com : Entrepreneurs Talks with Founders Sharing Their Real Startup Stories
InspiredStartups.com
Through these startup stories episode podcasts we hope to inspire you and shape your thinking on various entrepreneurial topics such as choosing startup ideas and starting own business, market and product validation, startup growth and growth-hacking, funding and getting finances, venture capital, angel investors and pitching; but also wider topics such startup incubators and accelerators, startup events and startup communities around the world. We hope you will get inspired from the Inspire ...
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European Startup Pulse – The Voice of Europe’s Founders, VCs & Innovation Hubs
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European Startup Pulse™, powered by Startuprad.io, is your quarterly deep dive into Europe’s innovation heartbeat — connecting founders, investors, and policymakers shaping the continent’s startup future. Hosted by Joe Menninger, the show decodes the data, trends, and forces driving the European entrepreneurial landscape. In collaboration with DEEP Ecosystem, a leading analytics and community platform for European tech, we translate cross-border insights into actionable intelligence. From Lo ...
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He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskildsen, Founder of turbopuffer
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53:27Simon spent 10 years at Shopify scaling databases to millions of requests per second. Then he discovered vector databases were so expensive that companies couldn't launch AI features. So he solved it. When Cursor emailed about their crushing costs, Simon flew to San Francisco unannounced. They migrated their entire workload within a week, cutting t…
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The Narrative War: How Founders Shape the Public Narrative for Better or Worse
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14:51Climate activism failed to inspire hope, can founders fill the void? Discover why the next cultural revolution won’t be led by politicians, but by startup leaders. Episode Summary In this solo episode, Marina Schmidt dissects how startup founders have become some of the most powerful public communicators of our time—and why that power matters. She …
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#0143 - Johnny Crowder, Margo Jordan, and Hannes Bend, Chat About Mental Health
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57:14On this episode of the Startup of the Year Podcast, we hear from our very own Jamilah Cobitt, who hosted a panel discussion about mental health and resilience. She was joined by: Johnny Crowder, founder of Cope Notes, who is using daily text messages to improve mindset and emotional wellness. Margo Jordan, CEO of Enrichly, helping youth build confi…
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Dan Shapiro, CEO of 3D Printing Startup Glowforge on Startup Wins Podcast S1 Ep 9 Hosted by Brandon Na
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41:29Serial Startup Founder & Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton School's Generative AI Lab Dan Shapiro gives some of the BEST actionable advice for future startup founders hoping to reach the $100 mill Revenue mark. On his fourth startup after exiting to Google in 6 months with Sparkbuy, Dan gives anyone wanting to truly build a impactful company in…
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002: View your Startup as a Motorsport Race – Part 2 - The Startup Racetrack
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18:26Buy the Book: The Incubator Accelerator Engine, The Strategic Blueprint For Your Start-Up Business (Amazon)
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Ep. 312 How I Raised It with Rando Rannus of Siena Secondary Fund
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44:04Produced by Foundersuite (for startups: www.foundersuite.com) and Fundingstack (for emerging manager VCs: www.fundingstack.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital.This episode is with with Rando Rannus of Siena Secondary Fund, a firm that empowers early employees and founders by pro…
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-- Red to Green is now Scaling Nerds -- The Communications Podcast for Science and Tech Founders
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The food tech and biotech podcast Red to Green is becoming Scaling Nerds: the communications podcast for science & tech founders. New episodes every two weeks! Please share with friends, colleagues and whoever might be interested. Connect with Marina Schmidt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmidt-marina/ Need help with comms as a startup …
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He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | Guy Podjarny, Founder of Snyk & Tessl
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50:43Guy spent 2 years and $4M building Snyk to $100K ARR. Thousands of developers loved the product. They just wouldn't pay. Then he figured out the problem: he had product-user fit, but not product-buyer fit. Developers loved Snyk. Security teams (the actual buyers) didn't care about it. The distance between user and buyer was killing him. So Guy spen…
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001: View your Startup as a Motorsport Race – Part 1 – The Racing Driver Mindset
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5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. | Amar Varma, Founder of Mantle
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42:18Amar is a 5x founder who helped birth Tinder (it was the 10th project—after the first 9 failed), then sold his next company to Ford for putting a platform in every single vehicle they make. But the wildest part? He got Ford to commit in under a year by doing something most founders would never do: he asked for SO MUCH money that only the CEO could …
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He "kind of" had PMF for 8 years—until, after a rebuild, he raised $100M | Ben Alarie, Founder of Blue J
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40:43Ben Alarie spent 8 years building Blue J with "partial product market fit"—real customers, real revenue, but no real market pull. Then he made a bet that would either kill the company or 10x it: he put the existing product in maintenance mode and gave his team 6 months to rebuild everything from scratch using a technology that barely worked. Two ye…
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They failed every POC—then grew their cybersecurity platform to $100M ARR in 5 years. | Dean Sysman, co-founder of Axonius
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48:37Dean thought he'd have to bootstrap Axonius because no investor would fund a solution to a problem that had existed for 20 years. He was wrong—they've raised $500M. The breakthrough came when a Fortune 500 company was actively being hacked by Chinese state actors. Their first customer almost said no—they had 20 bugs during the POC. But Dean's team …
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Startup Wins S1 E8 | Sustainability Startup CEO & Female Founder Champion Beth Massa of Ozarka | Former Amazon Alumi
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57:22Reusable Food Packaging Startup CEO of Ozarka, Beth Massa (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethmassa/), shares how one tries to grow a companyta company in Europe (specifically the Netherlands) with Startup Wins Host Brandon Na (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonna / https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-wins) as an American. Beth tells the dra…
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Ep. 311 How I Raised It with Stephen Schenk of Stapelstein
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43:44Produced by Foundersuite (for startups: www.foundersuite.com) and Fundingstack (for emerging manager VCs: www.fundingstack.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital.This episode is with with Stephan Schenk of Stapelstein, a Berlin-based creator of colorful stacking stones and balance …
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He tested his pitch on Uber drivers—then built a cybersecurity platform to $180M raised. | Casey Ellis, Founder of Bugcrowd
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49:19Casey turned hackers into a marketplace and built Bugcrowd to $180M+ raised. But the real story isn't about cybersecurity—it's about how he validated a two-sided marketplace with almost no product, refined his pitch by literally testing it on Uber drivers until it clicked, and cracked the code on category creation when everyone thought hackers were…
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Hello, this is the Development Engines Podcast, the podcast designed to help you compete in the hectic world of startup development that I call the Startup Race. I’m James Thompson, your virtual Startup Race Engineer. As your Host of the Development Engines Podcast, my Vision is to build a thriving community of Entrepreneurs, focused on Mindset and…
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Ep. 310 How I Raised It with Chaz Flexman of Starday Foods (raised from Slow VC, Equal Ventures)
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He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod, Founder of Warp.dev
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49:14Zach spent 8 years at Google leading engineering for Google Docs, then left to build a photo sharing app with zero go-to-market plan. Reality hit hard: "At Google, anything you launch gets millions of users. At a startup, the challenge isn't building—it's getting anyone to care." After writing a brutal postmortem documenting everything that went wr…
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He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex Sherman, Founder of Bluefish AI
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44:39Alex had $2,000 in his checking account when Microsoft acquired his last company. For years, he paid himself $30K while his friends made six figures at corporate jobs. He had only 2 months of runway for 18 straight months. Then retail media exploded and everything changed—he went from grinding against the current to riding a wave. After selling to …
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A drug dealer threatened to kill him—then he grew 50x in 3 Years to $50M ARR. | Brett Carlson, Found of ServiceUp
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33:28Brett had a drug dealer's car for 13 days. By day 11, the death threats started coming. This is the reality of building ServiceUp, the "DoorDash for auto repair." Brett literally stole DoorDash's entire playbook—city launches, three-sided marketplace, everything—but discovered even if he got 90% right, 10% of B2C customers can end you. He raised fr…
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Ep. 309 How I Raised It with Mark Phillips of 11 Tribes Venture Capital
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38:02Produced by Foundersuite (for startups: www.foundersuite.com) and Fundingstack (for VCs: www.fundingstack.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital.This episode is with with Mark Phillips of 11 Tribes, an early stage VC fund that invests in the care and resilience of its founders. Ano…
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#0142 - Jared Goralnick From Your360.ai Talks About Self-Awareness and the Future of Feedback
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34:43On this episode of the Startup of the Year Podcast, we hear from Jared Goralnick, who is a product executive and 3x founder & CEO with deep expertise in HR Tech, AI, and marketplaces. Over the past decade, he has led product organizations at category-defining companies, including LinkedIn, Microsoft, Upwork, Go1, and Articulate. Get Involved! Found…
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Startup Wins (Podcast) S1 E7 | Micromarkets Startup Founder Mike King Shares Sage Advice
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43:52Payments Processing Startup Founder Mike King, CEO of Moneta Market (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-king-41284838/) joins Brandon Na (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonna) & Startup Wins (https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-wins). Mike provides wisdom gained over many years building more than 20 businesses and truly honing in on how …
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He pitched 100 VC and spent 3 years building— then grew to $7B AUM. | Doug Scott, Founder of Ethic
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PMF Observations: Speed is the only startup moat—& why most founders lose it.
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11:01Arnold Schwarzenegger mastered three completely different fields—bodybuilding, acting, and politics—with one simple philosophy: reps, reps, reps. This solo episode reveals why speed of execution is the only real moat for early-stage founders. One founder takes an idea from conception to signed customers in three weeks. Another takes six months. The…
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He spent 5 months working with customers before building—then grew to $10s of millions ARR. | Aviv Leibovici, co-founder of Buildots
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48:10Aviv spent months walking construction sites carrying tools for managers just to understand their problems—speaking to customers is "bullsh*t"—you need to work beside them to see reality. His company Buildots had a working AI product that tracked construction progress perfectly, but 90% of users got zero value from it. Until he made one key change …
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She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge
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40:16Shensi cold messaged 50,000 engineers to build Merge. She worked 9am-9pm every day, gave her first customers two months free to prove herself, and refused to hire anyone remote—even during peak COVID. She purposefully didn't collect a single dollar of revenue until she knew she could hit $1M in a months. "Startups are all about momentum." She lost …
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7 Time Startup Founder Kimberly Kovacs Shares Cap Table Secrets, Startup Venture Capital & More | Startup Wins Podcast S1 E6
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1:08:457 Time Startup Founder & Startup Financing Expert Kimberly Kovacs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/klkovacs/) joins Brandon Na (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonna) & Startup Wins (https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-wins). Kimberly not only impresses us with Startup Financing knowledge better than Brad Feld's Venture Deals or The Entrepren…
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He bet his house on a startup—took 7 years to $1M, then hockey stick to $100M+ ARR. | Eldon Sprickerhoff, Co-Founder of eSentire
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40:58Eldon put a $150K line of credit on his house to start eSentire in 2001. No VCs would touch him—they didn't understand services businesses. He worked 12-hour days, 7 days a week for 7 years to hit $1M in revenue. His co-founder coded while he flew to New York on $99 JetBlue flights from Buffalo to save money. Then something clicked: they brought in…
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Ep. 308 How I Raised It with Andrew Ackerman
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42:15Produced by Foundersuite (for startups: www.foundersuite.com) and Fundingstack (for VCs: www.fundingstack.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital.This episode is with Andrew Ackerman, a 2x startup founder, professor, investor in 70+ companies, and author of a new book called the Ent…
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He quit his job, went all-in on AI agents—then grew to 100K users & a $30M Series A in a year. | Soham Ganatra, Founder of Composio
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58:20Soham spent 6 months building AI that would auto-generate integrations between any software. He locked down Glean as an early customer because he had friends there. And it failed completely. So he pivoted. This time, he refused to work with friendly customers who knew him. Instead, he did 10-20 calls per day with strangers who would tell him his pr…
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#0141 - Eric Mathews From Start Co. Chats About Unleashing Unprecedented Potential
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25:12On this episode of the Startup of the Year Podcast, we hear from Eric Mathews, CEO of Start Co. He's a proven startup strategist, venture architect, and author. He's launched companies, coached founders, and written books that cut through the noise. This conversation was recorded live at one of our Monthly Innovation Circle sessions inside the Esta…
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TechCrunch called this YC founder a fraud at 18—then he built a $10M ARR fintech. | Sahil Phadnis, Founder of Affiniti
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59:59Sahil was 18 when TechCrunch published a hit piece calling him a copycat. His co-founder Aaron was 16. They'd just raised $6 million from YC and top VCs for their crypto startup, then got subpoenaed by a state government and watched their business implode. So they fired everyone, moved back to their parents' homes, and spent months cold-calling den…
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Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Founder of Gamma
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1:00:08Jon spent 3 years building Gamma with barely any traction—just a few hundred users after burning millions. Then ChatGPT dropped. In desperation, he pivoted to AI-powered presentations in March 2023 with one year of runway left. What happened next was insane: Paul Graham publicly mocked their launch tweet calling it worthless—then it went viral. The…
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Ep. 307 How I Raised It with Woodie Neiss of Crowdfund Capital Advisors
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8 Time Founder & Ethos Fund VC David Yi Shares Valuable Startup Advice for Founders Across the Globe | Startup Wins Podcast S1 E5
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1:01:198 Time Startup Founder & VC David Yi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedavidyi) joins Brandon Na (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonna) & Startup Wins to Share INCREDIBLE Startup Tips from Southeast Asia (https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-wins). David blows us away with impressive career spanning over many education startups with the lat…
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He quit Google, launched Rubrik—then grew to $1B ARR & a $16B market cap. | Soham Mazumdar, Co-Founder Rubrik & Wisdom AI
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53:55Soham co-founded Rubrik by taking what he learned from building Google's data center tech to enterprises desperate for cloud migration. Two quarters later, he hit $1M ARR. And a few years later, a $16B IPO. Soham breaks down why paid pilots beat free trials, how to sell enterprise hardware before it works, and why early customers become your bigges…
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He Bootstrapped to $55M in Revenue—without ever having to hit 100% YoY growth. | Stéphan Donzé, Founder of AODocs
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43:23Stéphan bootstrapped AODocs to $55M in revenue and 250 employees without taking a dime of VC money—while competing directly with venture-backed competitors. Starting as a services company in 2012, he spotted the cloud migration wave early and built document management for enterprises moving to Google Workspace. In this episode, Stéphan breaks down …
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He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder
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1:08:13Andrew bootstrapped Wrike and grew it from 0 to a $2.2B exit by doing the exact opposite of what every startup book tells you. No pivots. No talking to customers before launch. No narrow niche. Just 17 years of relentless focus on one problem while everyone else was pivoting every 18 months. In this episode, he breaks down exactly why bootstrapping…
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LinkedIn Personal Branding Expert Tips by String Nguyen (former Top Voice) in S1 E3 of Startup Wins Hosted by Brandon Na, MGP of Good Peoples Ventures
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1:09:52Startup Wins Podcast Interviews LinkedIn Branding Expert String Nguyen in Ep 3 | Founder Tips Social Media Branding Expert & Fried Chicken Queen String Nguyen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stringstory//) who has more than 100k of followers joins Brandon Na (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonna/) & Startup Wins (https://www.linkedin.com/company/star…
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Q2 2025: The new Series A Bar is $3M ARR—& only 20% of seed startups make it. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
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57:09Peter Walker from Carta drops the hard data every founder needs. Based on actual cap table data from 1000s of startups, this Q2 update reveals the brutal new reality. It takes 2+ years to go from seed to A (up from 1.6), you need 3X the revenue you used to, and if you're not AI, you're getting half the attention. But there's good news too—teams are…
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Ep. 306 How I Raised It with Nik Talreja of Sydecar.io
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34:42Produced by Foundersuite (for startups: www.foundersuite.com) and Fundingstack (for VCs: www.fundingstack.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital.This episode is with with Nik Talreja, CEO of Sydecar.io, a platform that helps investors and founders set up a “Special Purpose Vehicle”…
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His Video AI app hit $10M+ ARR in Months—with 0 outbound sales. | Michael Lingelbach, Founder of Hedra
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1:05:53Hedra CEO Michael Lingelbach breaks down how his generative video app went from zero to millions of users and an eight-figure run rate in months — then deliberately slowed down to rebuild a V2 that enterprises would pay for. We dig into the prosumer-to-pro upsell, why free users are a false signal, and how a creator-seeded launch can outpull ad spe…
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