Founders and Builders with Aakash Shah: Recent Episodes
Aakash Shah
Aakash Shah digs into the people taking big bets with new companies and ideas. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/founders-and-builders/support
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People like to feel like they're being engaged with on a more personal level. Bonjoro helps you get more leads and replies, and also drive next steps by including links to your site, calendar, or other resources. Matthew Barnett, CEO of Bonjoro, joins Aakash to discuss how he is helping over 50,000 companies grow with his product that lets you send fast personal videos to leads and customers, to stand out, build trust, and make more sales. Matthew loves building high performing teams and PLG focused companies. For 10 years he's run one of Sydney's most active founder groups, X-tech.
Matthew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbjbarnett/
Bonjoro: https://www.bonjoro.com/
My Website: https://www.aakash.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraakashshah/
Twitter: @aakashdotio [https://twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wyndlyteam?lang=en
Music: Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Produced by Thomas Troy
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This episode discusses Medplum's platform and how they provide developers with a toolbox to tame the complexity of healthcare development. Their goal is to help you build a healthcare application quickly, easily, and compliantly. Reshma Khilnani, CEO and Founder of Medplum, joins Aakash to discuss how she is making an electronic health record open source, yet highly programmable. Before working at YC, she co-founded and exited 2 startups, MedXT and Droplet.
Reshma: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshmakhilnani/
Medplum: https://www.medplum.com/
My Website: https://www.aakash.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraakashshah/
Twitter: @aakashdotio [https://twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wyndlyteam?lang=en
Music: Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Produced by Thomas Troy
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Vee Langer, Founder of BBy, joins Aakash to discuss how he is revolutionizing the way hospitals manage, store, and administer breast milk to our most vulnerable humans. Vee Langer started off this business being in debt after going to medical school. He saw how that there was an overwhelming amount of babies being formula fed and getting preventable diseases and wanted to develop a way to prevent this.
BBy: BBYmilk.com
My Website: https://www.aakash.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraakashshah/
Twitter: @aakashdotio [https://twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wyndlyteam?lang=en
Music: Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Produced by Thomas Troy
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This episode covers the benefits of Anja Health, and how they're helping to save lives by creating affordable stem cell storage, how it works, and how it can help you. Kathryn Cross, founder of Anja Health, joins Aakash to discuss how she has helped to create affordable stem cell storage. Anja has been using social media to spread her message and has been having great success with it!
Kathryn's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathryn-cross/
Kathryn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kathrynjc7
Anja Health: https://www.anjahealth.com/
My Website: https://www.aakash.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraakashshah/
Twitter: @aakashdotio [https://twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wyndlyteam?lang=en
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anja.health/?hl=en
Music: Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Produced by Thomas Troy
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This episode covers the journey of learning and making a passive income through real estate. You can invest as little as $100 and earn a passive income thanks to Steady. Dillon Zhang Forrest, CEO of Steady, joins Aakash to discuss how he built a product to help himself and others make money. Dillon Zhang Forrest originally worked to make other people rich to taking that risk into entrepreneurship and creating his own software for himself. Dillon when from a very depressing time in his life, comparing himself to his peers to the successful position he is in today.
Dillon:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dillonforrest
https://twitter.com/dillonzfo
Steady:
https://www.steady.capital/
My Website: https://www.aakash.io
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraakashshah
Twitter: @aakashdotio [https://twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aakashdotio
Music: Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Produced by Thomas Troy
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Maitham Dib, CEO and Founder on Vital, joins Aakash to discuss how he started building the API layer for at-home health.
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Maitham: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maitham-dib-7380696a
Vital: https://tryvital.io/
Twitter: @aakashdotio [https://twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Aakash: https://www.aakash.io
Music: Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Audio Engineer: Thomas Troy
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Ashish Advani, CEO and Founder on InPharmD, joins Aakash to talk about how discovered a problem costing hospitals millions of dollars per year.
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Ashish: https://twitter.com/aaadvani
InPharmD: https://inpharmd.com/
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Aakash's website: https://www.aakash.io
Music credits: Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds
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Aakash and Xand interview Seam co-founder Sy Bohy as he takes on build the platform for IoT. Seam lets developers connect and control 3rd-party connected devices like door locks, thermostats, and more.
Sy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sybohy
Seam: https://www.seam.co/
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Contact:
Email: podcast@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Aakash's website: https://www.aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds
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Danny Granick is one of the brain behind Bristle, the new health company that is using genetic sequencing to determine risk for dental disease. Bristle uses similar technology to popular DNA testing companies and applies it to a whole new realm of science. Using Bristle's affordable and convenient kits, customers can get accessible and clear results that they can easily apply to their everyday lives and know exactly which concrete actions they can take to improve their oral health.
In this episode, Danny and Aakash go in-depth about what your oral microbiome is, how different bacteria affect your health, and how you can make changes today that will improve your health tomorrow.
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Bristle: https://www.bristlehealth.com/
Contact:
Twitter: @aakashdotio [https://www.twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Aakash's website: https://www.aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Adam Alpert is the CEO and co-founder at Pangea.App, the new company that's paving the way for thousands of talented college students to enter the workforce. Adam, a New York native, is based out of Rhode Island. He works with his team to revolutionize internships by changing how they are accessed, making them all paid, and having one seamless interface for companies and students to manage all paperwork.
Today Aakash and Adam sit down to discuss how Pangea came to be, the challenges with starting a company and where Pangea is going. Please see the links below to find out more about Adam and Pangea.
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Episode 12: Stacksi with Emre Murray Mangir - Make Security Questionnaires Not Suck
Aakash and Xand interview Stacksi (https://www.stacksi.com/) cofounder Emre Murray Mangir (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emremangir/). Emre is solving a key issue in the SaaS sales process - the security questionnaire. Everyone is worried about their data, but no one is making it easy to check if software buyers and sellers are keeping up with their data security. Stacksi is solving this, and Emre knows more about this space than anyone else.
Emre Murray Mangir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emremangir/
Stacksi site: https://www.stacksi.com/
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Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: https://www.allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: https://www.aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds
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Episode 11: Taloflow with CEO LV Jadavji - Find the best dev and cloud tools for your use case 10x faster
Aakash interviews Taloflow (https://www.taloflow.ai) CEO LV Jadavji. Part of YC W21 - Taloflow analyzes data about your cloud architecture and business requirements to match you with cloud tooling that best fits your use case. LV shares deep insight about the cloud computing space. He details the Cambrian explosion, the rise of the niche solution, and the pains felt by buyers of cloud computing software.
LV Jadavji on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LegendaryLVJ
LV Jadavji on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ljadavji/
Taloflow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TaloHQ
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [https://www.twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: http://allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: https://www.aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Episode 10: DigitalBrain - Get through your support tickets twice as fast
This week on the show, Aakash and Xand discuss DigitalBrain [www.digitalbrain.app]. DigitalBrain's product focuses providing customer support agents the perfect tool for their support tickets. They sit on top of existing help desk software like Salesforce Help Desk or Zendesk and integrate with other system the support agent would have to touch like JIRA, Github, Salesforce, or the company database. By focusing on making the fastest and best support agent experience, DigitalBrain bets they can improve the efficiency of customer support teams.
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Episode 9: Latchel - 24/7 maintenance for landlords and property managers
This week on the show, Aakash and Xand discuss Latchel [latchel.com]. Latchel's product focuses providing landlords and property managers a a 24/7 maintenance service that takes requests from tenants and deploys the right professional to fix the things that need fixing. Latchel offers services in several multi-billion dollar industries. Property management is a $72B industry in the US; contractor services are worth hundreds of billions. Both of these industries are underserved by technology and suffer from low market penetration and extreme fragmentation.
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Episode 8: Seam - The API for controlling homes and buildings
This week on the show, Aakash and Xand discuss Seam [getseam.com]. Seam's product focuses on smart buildings. By building an integration layer that works with all smart devices, Seam handles the frustration of working with different smart building hardware devices. Seam brings IOT to hotels and other commercial real estate.
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Episode 7: Wave with Flavius Popan - a first-of-its-kind virtual show
This week on the show, Aakash and Xand discuss Wave VR (https://wavexr.com/) with Flavius Popan, a software and audio engineer. Wave is building a new type of virtual show. They partner with music artists to create virtual reality experiences which are delivered digitally. Flavius's elaborates on the completely new experiences unlocked by going to a virtual reality concert. It's almost like Ready Player One is real.
Flavius can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/flaviuspopan/
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Episode 6: QuestDB - The fastest open source time series database
This week on the show, Aakash and Xand discuss QuestDB [https://questdb.io/]. QuestDB's product focuses querying large amounts of time series data quickly and easily. Xand takes Aakash on a journey which delves into why massive companies like Elastic and MongoDB give away their product for free. We learn that open-source is the developer product version of freemium, and there's a huge benefit to being open-source.
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Episode 5: HireSweet - Recruit targeted passive candidates at a click of a button
This week on the show, Aakash and Xand discuss HireSweet [https://www.hiresweet.com/]. HireSweet's product focuses recruiting and hiring passive candidates. They're building a marketplace where the buyers are people with job roles to fill and the sellers are passive job candidates. Recruiting is a competitive industry, and the prices are cutthroat -- so HireSweet only works on commission. That's risky! HireSweet has a dual challenge of growing both sides of its marketplace, and this is a tricky balancing act.
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Episode 4: Karat - The Amex black card for creators
This week on the show, Aakash and Xand discuss Karat [https://www.trykarat.com]. Karat focuses on providing lines of credit to creators. The creator economy is here to stay. Patreon is the largest example of building a product for creators. However, banks haven't kept up with the times (surprise surprise!), and creators have a very difficult time getting credit for their projects. Karat provides lines of credit to creators by having a better understanding of how creators can monetize their audiences. Xand and Aakash also weave in broader discussion about financial technology as a whole.
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Episode 3: Warmly - Warm Intros to Warm Leads Every Week
This week on the show, Aakash and Xand discuss Warmly [https://www.getwarmly.com/]. Warmly's product focuses on lead generation for oubound sales. They've taken a proven strategy, looking at your current customers' employees who have reached purchasing decisions, and they've turned it into a SaaS product. We think it's a brilliant idea, and we stan Warmly's offering. We talk about how Warmly can find buyers of their own product primarily through outbound sales. Warmly's pricing model also interests us, because it's always profitable to be where the money is made -- on the revenue side.
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: aakash.io
Music credits:
Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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Episode 2: Pilot - Payroll, benefits, and compliance for remote teams
This week on the show, Aakash and Xand discuss Pilot [www.pilot.co]. Pilot focuses on helping companies hire, pay, and manage talent internationally. They solve the complexities that come with international hiring. Their competition is traditional enterprise personnel management solution providers and apathy. Pilot needs to be pleasant to use, and they have to get in front of people who would benefit from the new capability of the Pilot product -- painless international hiring. Xand and Aakash agree that there is a demand and the product can disrupt the traditional players, but they disagree on go-to-market. Go-to market risk is the make-or-break for Pilot. Xand thinks outbound sales and SEO are the best channels. Aakash thinks partnerships would be most fruitful.
Contact:
Email: allschemesconsidered@aakash.io
Twitter: @aakashdotio [twitter.com/aakashdotio]
Podcast website: allschemesconsidered.com
Aakash's website: aakash.io
Music credits: Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release] provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
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We talk about Handl -- https://handl.ai/
Aakash is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aakashdotio
Aakash is on the web: https://aakash.io/
Music Track: Syn Cole - Gizmo [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
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