The First 100: Recent Episodes
Hadi Radwan
In this podcast, serial entrepreneur Hadi Radwan will sit with founders and entrepreneurs to uncover how they acquired their first 100 paying customers. This podcast is designed for early-stage founders or soon-to-become entrepreneurs who want to discover tactics, frameworks, and advice on how to reach this important milestone.
Christian Back is the founder of Netlify, a software platform that allows developers to build highly-performant and dynamic websites, e-commerce stores, and applications. The company has now raised close to $200 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Mango Capital, and Menlo Ventures.
The company boasts more than 5 million developers using the platform, although many are using the free tier. It took the company five years to reach 1 million users and just a year to double that, so things are moving quickly.
Where to find Christian Bach:
• Website: Scale & Ship Faster with a Composable Web Architecture | Netlify
• LinkedIn (8) Christian (Chris) Bach | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Chris Ronzio founded Trainual, a software platform that helps businesses document their processes, policies, and procedures in one place. It provides a centralized location for employees to access training materials and ensures that everyone is on the same page. Trainual also offers features such as onboarding checklists, quizzes, and analytics to track employee progress and improve training effectiveness. Trainual has raised to date more than $33.75 million from notable investors such as Altos Ventures, The Shark Group CEO Daymond John, Indeed Co-Founder and Chairman Rony Kahan, PandaDoc CEO Mikita Mikado, TSheets Co-Founder Matt Rissell, 8x8 CEO David Sipes, 4490 Ventures, MATH Venture Partners and PHX Ventures.
To date, the company powers the ops behind more than 10,000 businesses across countless industries in 177 countries.
Where to find Chris Ronzio:
• Website: Employee Onboarding, SOP & Training Software | Trainual
• LinkedIn (7) Chris Ronzio | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Shafiq Khartabil, the co-founder of Ogram, an on-demand staffing platform, matches qualified local workers with jobs in Hospitality, Retail, Logistics, and more. Ogram has now raised a total of $6 million from Modus Capital, Aditum Investment Management, Dtec Ventures and DAAL VC.
Where to find Shafiq Khartabil:
• Website: Ogram - Part-Time Staff On Demand
• LinkedIn (3) Shafiq Khartabil | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Fabien Pinckaers is the founder of Odoo, a Belgium-based provider of open-source business software that ranges from inventory management and ERP to human resources and CRM software, marketing tools, and more. Odoo has raised to date more than $10 million.
With 10.6 million users on its platform, Odoo is a prime example of the strong payoffs to be had from economies of scale in the most successful open-source projects.
Odoo is similar to many open-source projects where customized programming, support, and other services are provided by an active global community and partner network. The community is comprised of more than 1,500 active members and has contributed more than 4,500 modules to the ongoing enrichment of Odoo. The network of certified partners, established in more than 120 countries, deploys the solution locally. The software, with more than 1,500 downloads a day, is one of the most frequently installed business suites worldwide.
Where to find Fabien Pinckaers:
• Website: Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
• LinkedIn (3) Fabien Pinckaers | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Juan Pablo Ortega is the founder of Yuno, which enables any company to manage all payment methods and fraud providers through a single integration. Yuno has raised to date more than $35 million from notable investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, Kaszek Ventures, and Monashees.
This is Juan's 2nd startup. Before Yuno, he co-founded on-demand delivery unicorn Rappi (which as of last July was valued at $5.25 billion).
Where to find Juan Pablo Ortega:
• Website: Yuno | The Go-To for High-performing payments teams
• LinkedIn (7) Juan Pablo Ortega | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Josh Pillsbury Joffe is the co-founder of Summit Insurance national insurance brokerage and risk management firm headquartered in Kelowna, British Columbia. Shaping the future of commercial insurance through technology-driven risk management and insurance solutions. Summit Insurance has now raised a total of $3.5 million since its 2020 inception.
Where to find Josh Pillsbury:
• Website: Summit - Commercial & Business Insurance Solutions Canada (summitcover.ca)
• LinkedIn: (3) Josh Pillsbury | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Gary Ross founded Blip, a tech-enabled and digital-first small business insurance agency.
Where to find Garry Ross:
• Website: (11) blip: About | LinkedIn
• LinkedIn (11) Gary Ross | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Kevin Stewart is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Born in England, he plays for the Jamaica national team. He has previously played for Tottenham Hotspur, Crewe Alexandra, Liverpool, Cheltenham Town, Burton Albion, Swindon Town, Hull City and Blackpool.
Where to find Kevin Stuart:
• LinkedIn (11) Kevin Stewart | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Miles Thorson founded Odie Pet Insurance, a New York-based tech-enabled pet health insurance company, that raised $3M in funding from notable investors such as Walkabout Ventures and Slow Ventures.
Where to find Miles Thorson:
• Website: Odie Pet Insurance® | Affordable Pet Insurance For Dogs and Cats (getodie.com)
• LinkedIn (11) Miles Thorson | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Dan Roselli, Co-founder of Revtech Labs, The first and oldest incubator program in Charlotte that focuses on general tech in emerging hot sectors. Dan is also the founder of RTL Capital, a financial technology fund based in Charlotte, NC, and Queen City Fintech, an Incubator program on Financial Services Technology innovation. There are also another six companies you started.
Where to find Dan Roselli:
• Website: Startup Founders | Revtech Labs
• LinkedIn (10) Dan Roselli | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Marcelo Lebre is the President and Co-founder of Remote, a Global HR Platform that helps companies hire, manage, and pay their entire team — and more effectively compete in the modern global economy through a comprehensive set of core solutions including, HRIS, payroll, international employment, contractor management, and more. Remote has raised to date $500 million from notable investors such as Accel, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Two Sigma, General Catalyst and Day One Ventures
In 2022, Remote surpassed a $1 billion valuation after closing a $300 million Series C round led by Accel.
Where to find Marcelo Lebre:
• Website: Global HR Solutions & Employment Tools for Distributed Teams | Remote
• LinkedIn (9) Marcelo Lebre | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Where to find Pablo Srugo:
• Website: (7) Mistral: Overview | LinkedIn
• LinkedIn (7) Pablo Srugo | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
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• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Richard Joffe, the co-founder of Honey Insurance, a digital home insurance provider that provides consumers quick access to insurance coverage by using public house information, satellite data, and artificial intelligence to estimate rebuild costs. Honey Insurance has now raised a total of $125 million since its 2020 inception.
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Where to find Richard Joffe:
• Website: Smarter home insurance | Honey Insurance
• LinkedIn (6) Richard Joffe | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Gage Caligaris is the founder of Ledgebrook, a tech-enabled E&S MGA looking to provide “the fastest, easiest quoting experience to wholesale brokers.”. Boston-based insurance startup Ledgebrook has closed a $4.6 million round of funding to scale its non-admitted GL & Supported Excess product & support the development of future offerings. The round, led by Markd, is structured as an uncapped SAFE and brings Ledgebrook’s total funding to date to $32.8 million.
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Where to find Gage Caligaris
• Website: Ledgebrook: Expertise & Speed for your E&S needs
• LinkedIn (6) Gage Caligaris, FCAS | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Sanish Mondkar, CEO of Legion, a leading workforce management platform, dedicated to assisting business leaders in optimizing labor efficiency for hourly workers. Through its innovative technology, the platform employs a natural language interface to empower employees and managers, particularly in retail stores and restaurants.
Sanish Mondkar is passionate about transforming hourly jobs into sustainable ones through intelligent automation, advocating for employee-centric management systems.
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Where to find Sanish Mondkar:
• Website: (6) Legion Technologies: Overview | LinkedIn
• LinkedIn (6) Sanish Mondkar | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Rand Fishkin is the co-founder of Moz, SparkToro, and Inbound.org. When it comes to SEO and digital marketing, it’s hard to find someone more knowledgeable than Rand Fishkin. His popular blog, hundreds of keynotes, and 2 hyper-successful SaaS businesses are a testament to his skill.
Rand Fishkin was the founder and former CEO of Moz, a leading SEO software for marketers created in 2007 that grew out of the active followers of Rand’s popular SEOmoz blog. Moz grew quickly to over $30 million in revenue by 2013, having raised $30 million in venture capital investment.
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Where to find Rand Fishkin:
• Website: (9) SparkToro: Overview | LinkedIn
• LinkedIn (8) Rand Fishkin | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Karim Helal is the founder of ProTenders, a Platform for Construction Companies to build their online reputation, find the right partners for each job, get new leads and streamline all their Tendering activities. Essentially, architects, Engineers, Contractors, and Suppliers can use the platform to generate more business by building their online profiles and receiving detailed updates on ongoing projects. The ProTenders platform is available to over 29,000 businesses of all sizes from 105 countries. Dubai-based construction intelligence and procurement platform ProTenders is bootstrapped.
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Where to find Karim Helal:
• Website: Construction's #1 Platform to Connect, Source & Procure. | ProTenders | ProTenders
• LinkedIn (7) Karim Helal | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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David Tal is the CEO and Co-founder of Verse.ai, a next-generation lead conversion platform that’s 100% focused on inbound lead conversion. It uses a mix of text-first, multi-channel capabilities, AI and human-driven conversations, and patent-pending lead conversion technology to increase the chances of converting leads. Verse has raised to date $17.3 million from notable investors such as Moderne Ventures, OurCrowd, etc.
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Where to find David Tal:
• Website: Convert Leads With AI-powered SMS Conversations! | Verse.ai
• LinkedIn (7) David Tal | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Vidit Agrawal is the Founder of GajiGesa, financial wellness partner for employers in Indonesia. GajiGesa's powerful fintech platform is built to help millions of hardworking Indonesians take control of their financial lives with dignity. The GajiGesa app provides member employees with Earned Wage Access (EWA), financial education, and other financial management tools to improve their long-term financial health responsibly. It also empowers employer partners with an enterprise-grade HR analytics platform to improve employee productivity, engagement, and retention by reducing financial stress for their workforce.
GajiGesa was founded in 2020 by Martyna Malinowska (formerly Product Lead at Standard Chartered Bank, Product Director at LenddoEFL) and Vidit Agarwal (formerly Head of Business Development APAC at Stripe, COO at CARRO, and first employee at Uber in Asia). GajiGesa has raised $12 million. The round was co-led by Defy.vc and Quest Ventures. Other participants included GK Plug and Play, Next Billion Ventures, Alto Partners Multi-Family Office, Kanmo Group and strategic angel investors.
Where to find Vidit Agrawal:
• Website: GajiGesa
• LinkedIn (1) Vidit Agrawal | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Lucy Slack is one of the co-founding member of Gaia, which is a startup that is effectively out to “de-risk” the whole process of IVF fertility treatment, using products like personalized insurance and payment plans. Gaia has now raised $23 million since its inception from Kindred Capital, Seedcamp, and U.S.-based Clocktower Technology, and Atomico.
Where to find Lucy Slack:
• Website: (18) Gaia: Overview | LinkedIn
• LinkedIn (18) Lucy Slack | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Noosheen Hashemi is the Founder and CEO of January, who has developed a platform that predicts diabetic patients’ responses to certain foods. January has raised $40 million to date from notable investors such as Felicis Ventures, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, and former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer.
“One out of three people in America has pre-diabetes, and 90% of them don’t know it,” said Hashemi. “And one out of nine people has diabetes, and 20% of those people don’t know it. So blood sugar is something we should all be managing, but we just don’t know that we should.”
While other companies have made headway in understanding biometric sensor data—from heart rate and glucose monitors, for example—January AI has made progress in analyzing and predicting the effects of food consumption itself.
Where to find Noosheen Hashemi:
• Website: Blood Sugar Monitoring Without A CGM | AI Health App | January AI
• LinkedIn(18) Noosheen Hashemi | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Sancar Sahin is the founder of Oliva, which is a healthtech platform offering specialist, on-demand mental health and wellbeing support to employees. The Company raised €13 million from notable investors such as Molten Ventures and was joined by existing investors Stride VC and new backers Alumni Ventures. Angels including Kieran Flanagan, CMO at Zapier, also participated.
The raise follows a year where Oliva doubled the size of its team, increased its network of therapists from 50 to over 250, and grew revenues by over 300% year-on-year. Oliva is already used in UK and Key European markets worldwide and is currently available in 38 languages, with existing customers including Marshmallow, Maze, and Leapsome.
Where to find Sancar Sahin:
• Website: Oliva | Employee Mental Wellbeing Platform & Partner
• LinkedIn (18) Sançar Sahin | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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My guest today is Jenny He the Co-founder of Ergeon, which uses tech to fundamentally transform the residential construction sector by empowering both the customer and local installers in their construction project. Ergeon has raised to date $53 million from notable investors such Prysm, DST, Basis Set and Metaprop.
Where to find Jenny He:
• Website: Ergeon Fence Contractors Installation and Repair
• LinkedIn (1) Jiayue (Jenny) He | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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Shani Bocian is the Founder of Allermi, the world's first allergy medication customized online by a physician and delivered to your door. With $4M raised to date and having licensed their product in 50 states, they're well on their way to addressing the U.S,'s worsening allergies caused by climate change and Long COVID.
Where to find Shani Bocian:
• Website: Allermi - Personalized Allergy Care
• LinkedIn Shani Bocian Steinberg | LinkedIn
Where to find Hadi Radwan:
• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack
• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedIn
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My guest today is Erik Allebest, the Co-founder and CEO of Chess.com, the #1 online chess service on the planet with more than 150+ million members and 15+ million games played daily. Erik has scaled the company to over 700 people and $100M+ in revenue with no venture funding.
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Ron Gidron is the co-founder and CEO of xtype.io, a technology company that accelerates software development for large companies like Zurich Insurance, Heineken, HP, Abbot Laboratories, and IBM. Xtype has also recorded over 75,000 customer deployments using its product in the past year and has raised $10.8 million to date.
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Devin Bostick is the founder of Lucky Truck, a Cincinnati-based company that is seeking to bring together essential pieces of the insurance purchase and management process in an easy-to-use digital platform, that leverages data and automation to remove friction from the customer journey. Lucky Truck has raised a $6.5 million from Candid Insurance Investors with participation from Markd, Draper University Ventures and SiriusPoint.
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Bethany Stachenfeld is the co-founder of Sendspark, a technology that makes it easy for businesses to create and send personalized videos to strengthen relationships with customers at every stage of the buyer journey. Founded in Jan 2019 by Brandon Escalante and Bethany Stachenfeld, Sendspark provides a video outreach platform for businesses to record and send personalized videos to buyers over email. With the platform, users can record videos from their browser, customize video landing pages, and share videos through email or a public URL.
Where to find Bethany Stachenfeld:
• Website: Sendspark | Record and Share Personalized Videos
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Aron D'Souza is the co-founder of Enhanced Games, a planned international sports event where the athletes will not be subject to drug testing. Enhanced Games is a vision of the future Olympics where athletes use safe and legal enhancements to improve their performance. Backed by top venture capitalists, including Peter Thiel, it aims to create a better version of the Olympic Games. In contrast to traditional drug testing, the Enhanced Games will not subject athletes to such tests. Instead, it focuses on celebrating science and making sports safer, fairer, and more inclusive. The event is planned to take place in 2025 and will feature individual efforts across five categories: athletics, aquatics, combat, gymnastics, and strength.
Where to find Bethany Stachenfeld:
• Website: Home - Enhanced Games. A Better Version of the Olympic Games.
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Bartosz Skwarczek is the Founder of G2A, the world’s largest digital marketplace for digital entertainment such as games, gift cards, subscriptions, and software. Bartosz is also a serial entrepreneur, Forbes Technology Council member, public speaker, and a huge proponent of Web3’s integration with digital marketplaces. G2A has scaled rapidly since its launch in 2012 -- it's available in 180 countries and supports 200+ payment methods.
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• Website: https://www.g2a.co/
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Hamdi Tabbaa is the co-founder of the Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab, which is the MENA and Pakistan region that encompasses more than 160 million students. Abwaab has raised $27 million from investors such as BECO Capital (UAE), 4DX Ventures (USA), GSV Ventures (USA), Water Partners (KSA), and others. Founded in late 2019, the startup expanded from Jordan to Egypt and Pakistan.
Where to find Hamdi Tabbaa:
• Website: أبواب - بيئة تعليمية متكاملة (abwaab.com)
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George Moringer is one of founder of Tapouts, which is a s an online program that coaches children to practice social and emotional skills. The mental health startup just raised a $3.2 million seed round at a $20 million valuation.
The children's mental health market is booming as part of a larger cultural shift toward transparency around mental health and well-being.
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• Website: Home - tapouts
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Bob Moore is the founder of Crossbeam, which is a platform-led ecosystem that helps companies build sales partnerships by understanding their overlapping accounts using a process called account mapping. There is a vast network effect as customers attract other partners to the network. The Company raised $117 million from notable investors such as Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with participation from prior round lead investors Redpoint Ventures, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital and Uncork Capital, along with Salesforce Ventures, HubSpot Ventures and Okta Ventures.
So far that network has grown to 18,000 companies.
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Bobby Touran is the co-founder of Rainbow, which is an insurance reinventing the way restaurants buy insurance. Essentially, Rainbow is a digitally enabled managing general underwriter building tailored small business insurance products. Rainbow has now raised $12 million since its inception from Caffeinated Capital, Altai Ventures, Zigg Capital, 8VC, Buckley Ventures, Habitat Partners, and Arch Capital Group Ltd.
The company’s flagship program, an admitted business owner’s policy (BOP) product specifically tailored to the restaurant industry, is currently available in 11 states, including California, and is expected to be available in over 25 states in 2024. Exclusively distributed through independent insurance agents and digital partners, Rainbow’s restaurant program offers producers a specialized appetite when many name-brand carriers have exited the restaurant business class.
Where to find Bobby Touran:
• Website: Rainbow | Flexible Pay-As-You-Go Restaurant Insurance (userainbow.com)
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Chris Slater is the co-founder and CEO of Oka, a Carbon Insurance company that is de-risking the voluntary carbon market (VCM) for buyers and sellers of carbon credits. Its first-of-its-kind carbon insurance solution provides buyers with financial compensation for unforeseeable and unavoidable post-issuance risks, including reversal and invalidation. Oka has now raised $7 million since its inception from Aquiline Technology Growth.
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is experiencing significant growth and is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2037, highlighting the scale of the opportunity. Oka, The Carbon Insurance Company, is currently focused on providing insurance that will replace credits if destroyed or invalid, providing security and confidence to the VCM market.
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Nikolaus Suhr, the co-founder of Kasko, an insurance technology company founded in 2015, offers "InsurTech as a Service"; it specializes in working with large insurers to design, distribute, and run digital insurance products for any distribution channel. Kasko has now raised $3 million since its 2015 inception.
Where to find Nikolaus Suhr:
• Website: KASKO
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Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz, the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chapter, a Medicare advisory platform that uses a blend of technology and a trained team of advisors to decipher all plans at a microscopic level, ensuring that members can enroll in the plans that are best suited for their needs based on cost and coverage. Chapter has raised to date $61 million from notable investors such as Addition, Narya Capital, Susa Ventures, Maverick Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, Core Innovation Capital, and Health2047 Capital Partners, and Peter Thiel.
Where to find Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz:
• Website: Free Guidance from Licensed Medicare Advisors - Chapter (askchapter.org)
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Aidan Rushby is the co-founder and CEO of Carmoola, liberating the archaic, slow, and backward car finance market with a new, straightforward “neo car finance” product that is effortless to use and reduces the time taken to complete a car purchase from days to just minutes. Carmoola’s exclusive proprietary technology and systems enable a streamlined process that provides buyers with a budget, generates a free history check on the car, and allows payment to be made both instantly online and at the showroom within just 60 seconds using a Carmoola virtual card for a seamless consumer experience. UK car finance fintech Carmoola [www.carmoola.co.uk] has raised £140 in equity and debt facility from QED Investors, with participation from existing investors VentureFriends and InMotion Ventures, the investment arm of Jaguar Land Rover. It also includes a debt facility provided by Natwest and BCI, priming Carmoola for rapid growth in a lucrative market worth £120 billion in the UK alone.
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• Website: Carmoola - Cruise Through Car Finance
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Julio Martínez is the co-founder & CEO of Abacum is the leading FP&A automation platform that empowers Finance teams to:
👉Drive efficient growth with faster revenue forecasts, scenarios, and headcount planning.
👉Free up time by automating Board decks and monthly performance and forecasting reports.
👉Increase your time for analysis with all your operational and financial KPIs in one place, in real time.
👉Drive budget owner accountability with structured workflows.
Abacum has raised $40 million from notable investors such as Atomico.
Where to find Julio Martínez:
• Website: Abacum – FP&A Platform to Drive Efficient Business Growth
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Robert Korzinek, the co-founder of Zingcover, which delivers truly specialist, tailored insurance cover for end-consumers through embedded partnerships in retail markets. ZingCover has now raised a total of $1.2 million since its 2021 inception.
Where to find Robert Korzinek:
• Website: Zing Cover – Embedded insurance powered by Brands, Data & Expertise
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Matt Watson is the founder and CEO of Origin, a comprehensive employee financial wellness platform. Its integrated solution helps employees simultaneously manage compensation, benefits, and personal finances with financial professionals. Origin is the first platform that combines human financial planners with cutting-edge financial technology that educates employees and allows them to create, execute, and track their personalized financial plans. Origin has now raised $72 million since its inception and is backed by leading VC firms and investors like 01A, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, General Catalyst and Lachy Groom.
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• Website: Origin - Let's Talk Money (useorigin.com)
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Steven Bartel is the co-founder of Gem, which is helping talent acquisition teams hire with remarkable speed and efficiency. With Gem, teams can automate and personalize candidate communication, unify all recruiting touchpoints into a single system, and get usable data across the entire hiring process. Gem has raised a total of $148 million from notable investors such as ICONIQ, Greylock, Accel, Sapphire Ventures, and Meritech Capital.
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• Website: Recruiting CRM | All-in-One Hiring Software | Gem
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Matthew Grant is a partner at Instech which is the world’s largest insurance technology community. They offer unprecedented connections to the most comprehensive and global gathering of tech entrepreneurs, investors, and insurance industry incumbents. They host conferences, webinars, roundtables, and insurtech rankings. They have hosted over 25,000 executives, entrepreneurs, and investors.
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• Website: (5) Matthew Grant | LinkedIn
• LinkedIn instech.co |
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Jeff Seibert is co-founder of Digits, a beautifully designed accounting and reporting platform that essentially sits on top of Intuit’s QuickBooks. It then uses that data, plus API-based integrations on incoming and outgoing money in its business, to create a massive information database. Digits then begins to organize and read that data to create more intelligence around it, such as providing automatic answers to the kinds of “how” or “why” questions that an accountant or other finance pro might have around a basic financial report, the kinds of answers that previously would have only been possible through human queries, and being able to read and understand the stories behind paper trails and siloed sources of data. Digits Reports will sit alongside and is based around a search feature that Digits launched last year to help users find transactions that tap into a similar idea: answers are not found just through keywords but in results. Digits has raised $97.5 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, U.K. investor Harry Stebbings’ 20VC Growth, GV, and Benchmark.
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• Website: Digits - Accounting,
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Hedda Båverud Olsson is the co-founder and CEO of Lassie, a pet health app and insurance provider. Lassie has now raised €36.5 million from Balderton Capital, Felix Capital, Inventure, Passion Capital, and Philian. Since Lassie's successful launch in Sweden, over 2.5 years ago, and 60,000 customers later, the company recently launched in Germany.
Where to find Hedda Båverud Olsson:
• Website: Djurförsäkring – Din digitala djurförsäkring | Lassie
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Nozomi Ito is the co-founder and CEO of MagicPod, an AI no-code test automation platform supporting the development of high-speed, high-quality software. Using MagicPod, developers can easily automate most of their UI testing one step at a time, all without having to write any code. They can use the built-in device emulator for mobile app testing, or test on real-world devices they either own themselves or through integrations with SauceLabs, BrowserStack and HeadSpin. MagicPod raised a $2.4 million funding round from STRIVE and Angel Bridge.
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Harish Consul is the founder of Ocgrow Group of Companies, which includes Ocgrow’s venture capital group, Ocgrow Ventures, focused on several early stage high growth verticals which include the technology sector, including a major focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, Saas software, fintech & other related sectors.
Where to find Harish Consul:
• Website: Ocgrow Group of Companies - Real estate development & venture capital
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Bradley Flowers is the founder of Portal Insurance based in Mobile, Alabama, a scratch-independent agency he founded and is building on the back of social media, personal branding, content, and technology. In 2019, Portal Insurance was named the "Agency for the Future'' by Safeco Insurance for the Southeast United States. Bradley is an acclaimed speaker in the insurance and real estate sector and is the co-host of the “Insurance Guys Podcast,” the most downloaded podcast in the insurance industry, which is featured on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud, and iHeart Radio.
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Jules Veyrat is the co-founder of Stoik, an insurtech that sells cyber services to SMEs. Specifically, Stoik combines security software to mitigate risk levels and an insurance offer that transfers residual risk to a third party. Stoik has now raised $27.5 million since its 2021 inception from notable investors such as Munich Re Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Alven.
The company doesn’t sell its insurance product on its website anymore. Instead, it works with third-party insurance brokers. Around 1,500 brokers offer Stoïk products to their clients. The company reports approximately 2,000 policies enacted and says that the 10-million gross written premium landmark is within its sights and expected to be achieved by year's end.
Where to find Jules Veyrat:
• Website: Stoïk | Insurance designed for cyber risk (stoik.io)
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Craig Unger is the Co-founder & CEO of Hyperproof, a software-as-a-service risk and compliance management company. Hyperproof has raised to date $66.5 million from notable investors such as Riverwood Capital and Toba Capital.
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Kris Bennatti is the Co-founder & CEO of Hudson labs, State-of-the-art financial language modeling that can help its user summarize AI-generated investment memos, earnings call summaries, and real-time risk assessments. Bedrock has raised $1.5 million to date.
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Hamesh Chawla is the co-founder of Mulberri, an AI-powered intelligent business insurance platform that PEOs, brokers, small-medium businesses, and carriers trust to help them be more efficient and productive when writing business together. Mulberri has now raised a total of $4 million from investors includes Hanover Technology Management, MS&AD Ventures, and Altamont Capital Partners.
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• Website: Home - Mulberri
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Yi Shi is the founder of Flash Intel, an all-in-one sales platform to consolidate the sales tech stack. Welcome to the show, Yi. Flash Intel raised a total of $10 million.
Yi is 4x Entrepreneur. Before Flash Intel, Shi was the chief executive of the Shanghai-based technology group Avazu Holding. Founded in 2009, the startup owns game developer and distributor Teebik, app developer Dotc United, and investment firm aFund. In 2015, Shi sold Avazu Holding's advertising unit Avazu to Shenzhen-listed gaming company Zeus Entertainment for more than $300 million.
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• Website: https://www.flashintel.ai/
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Dylan Serota is the CEO and Co-founder of Terminal, a full-stack remote workforce solution for software-driven companies, providing both recruiting and remote long-term employee support, making it easier for remote software developers to build remote careers and for high-growth companies to find in-demand workers. You have raised to date $30 million.
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• Website: Engineer your perfect team with Terminal - Terminal.io
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Richard Valtr is the founder of Mews — which provides a cloud-based hotel property management platform with tools covering reservations, payments, and more. It has raised $223 million of funding, from notable investors such as Kinnevik, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Revaia, Derive Ventures, Orbit Capital, Battery Ventures, Notion Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Thayer Ventures and henQ, with a potential company a post-money valuation of $865 million.
Mews are streets (for example, in London) full of usually small houses or flats converted from horse stables for bigger houses nearby. Ironically, though, Mews the startup is not that small at all. In the year that travel “came back” post the peak of COVID and the various restrictions imposed on people moving around, Mews saw revenues grow 174%, with gross payment volume in the period up 227% and now standing at $2.3 billion. It has customers in 85 countries, and 5,000 hotels in all.
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• Website: The Hospitality Management System of the Future | Mews PMS
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Suman Kanuganti is the Co-Founder of Personal.ai, an artificial intelligence that can act just like you. It is an AI version of yourself that uses personal data, facts, and opinions to create a responsive and interactive experience that others can use. Simply put, it is not a large language model (LLM) trained on all available information or a “virtual assistant or chatbot” but rather a personal language model (PLM) trained exclusively on the data that you control. Think of Personal.ai as an extension of yourself that can interact with anyone in your voice and your style. Personal.ai has raised to date $8.4 million.
Where to find Suman Kanuganti:
• Website: My AI | Create an AI Version of Yourself | Create Your Own Personal AI
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David McFarland is the co-founder of Coterie Insurance, which is on a mission to transform the commercial insurance market for small and micro-businesses. Using an innovative digital platform, Coterie makes insurance easier, faster, and more accessible for businesses and their 32 million employees nationwide. Coterie has now raised a total of $80 million since its 2018 inception.
Today, Coterie has more than 40,000 clients.
Where to find David McFarland:
• Website: Coterie Insurance - Small Business Insurance
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Today I’m joined by Bob Moesta, the co-creator of the Jobs To Be Done framework, a concept he developed alongside the late Clayton Christensen. Bob's expertise spans a wide range of accomplishments, including the successful launch of over 3,500 new products, services, and businesses. He's also the CEO and founder of the Re-Wired Group, as well as the brains behind several other startup ventures. He is also the author of multiple books including the famous Demand Selling 101.
Where to find Bob Moesta:
• Website: The Re-Wired Group | Innovation & Design Consulting (therewiredgroup.com)
• LinkedIn Bob Moesta | LinkedIn
• Book: Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress (Audio Download): Bob Moesta, Greg Engle - contributor, Lauren Anthony, Lioncrest Publishing - Bob Moesta: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Kyle Hanslovan is the Founder of Huntress, a software company whose mission is to help Managed Service Providers (MSPs) quickly detect advanced cyber threats. With your endpoint agent and cloud-based analysis engine, you discover breaches before they cause downtime, costly cleanup, and damaged reputations. Huntress software deploys within seconds through the customers’ existing Remote Monitoring and Management software, hunts down infections that slip past their firewalls/antivirus, and creates remediation tickets (not alerts) directly in their service boards. Huntress has raised $200 million to date.
Where to find Kyle Hanslovan:
• Website: Managed Cybersecurity Platform for SMBs and IT Providers | Huntress
• LinkedIn: Kyle Hanslovan | LinkedIn
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James Evans is the Co-Founder of CommandBar, a software company that allows users to add a command bar to their app with one line of code, making it easy for them to learn and navigate their GUI. Commandbar has raised $23.8 million to date from Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Thrive Capital and BoxGroup.
Where to find James Evans:
• Website: CommandBar | AI-powered user assistance
• LinkedIn: (2) James Evans | LinkedIn
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Travis Hedge is the co-founder of Vouch Insurance a provider of business insurance to startups and high-growth companies. In under 10 minutes, founders and finance teams can apply for coverage customized for their startup and industry vertical. Vouch offers 10+ lines of proprietary coverage, from General Liability, EPL, and D&O, to Cyber policies. As the underwriter of these insurance policies, Vouch removes any hidden third-party fees and handles all of the paperwork from start to finish. San Francisco-based Vouch has now raised a total of $165 million since its 2018 inception.
Today, Vouch has more than 4,000 clients.
Where to find Travis Hedge:
• Website: Startup Insurance for Venture Backed Companies | Vouch
• LinkedIn: Travis Hedge | LinkedIn
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My guest today is Artem Harutyunyan the cofounder of Bardeen.ai, an AI workflow automation startup. Bardeen has raised to date $ 18.8 million from notable investors such as Insight Partners, 468 Capital, and FirstMark Capital.
According to recent public data, Bardeen has close to 200k installations.
Where to find Artem Harutyunyan:
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• LinkedIn: Artem Harutyunyan | LinkedIn
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Antton Pena, the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Flock Insurance, a UK Insurtech on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer with connected fleet insurance that enables and incentivizes safer driving. Flock started providing drone insurance, then commercial vehicle insurance. Essentially the company uses the telematics of cars so that the vehicle only triggers insurance cover when it’s moving, not when it’s sitting on the lot, incapable of causing any accidents. Flock has raised to date $60 million from notable investors such as Anthemis, Social Capital, and Octopus Ventures.
Today, Flock has more than 600 commercial fleet clients, including Jaguar Land Rover, Europe’s electric car subscription company Onto and a third of the U.K.’s independent Amazon fleets.
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My guest today is Miguel Fernandez Larrea, the CEO and Co-founder of New York-based CapChase, a funding platform that offers founders nondilutive financing alternatives. Capchase offers a variety of tools on its platforms that give founders non-dilutive financing tools to fund their startups. It has two products—Capchase Grow—which enables recurring-revenue companies to access future capital upfront, and Capchase Pay, which is a buy now, pay later solution for B2B SaaS. Capchase has raised $120 million in equity and $950 million in debt from notable investors such as QED, Thomvest Ventures, Tusk Ventures, and many more.
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My guest today is Gerald Kierce Iturrioz who founded Trustible with his Co-founder & CTO Andrew Gamin-Cheong. The company is an AI governance management platform that enables data science and compliance teams to manage and mitigate AI risk, build trust, comply with AI regulations and accelerate Responsible AI development. The company has raised over $1.8m from Harlem Capital, Vamos Ventures and angel investors.
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Mohit Kumar is the Founder and CEO of Ultrahuman, which is helping health-conscious individuals achieve optimal metabolic health through a blood sugar sensor and a ring. Ultrahuman has raised to date $30 million.
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My guest today is Jiaqi Pan, the CEO and Co-founder of Barcelona-based Landbot, a “no-code” chatbot builder, which has raised more than $10.2 million led by Swanlaab, alongside support from Spain’s innovation-focused public agency, CDTI. Previous investors Nauta Capital, Encomenda, and Bankinter also participated in the round.
According to recent public data, it has grown to ~3,500 paying customers, with some 70,000 individuals now using its tool (across both free and paid accounts).
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Landbot: https://landbot.io/
Jiaqi Pan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiaqipan/
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My guest today is Alex Leonardi, the CEO and Co-founder of VectorShift, a Developer of a no-code platform intended to help developers build and deploy generative AI workflows. The company's platform empowers businesses to easily create custom generative AI workflows that can be used for a variety of purposes, such as responding to requests for proposals (RFP), writing proposals, and generating customer support chatbots, enabling businesses to automate tasks, improve productivity, and better serve their customers.
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Sterling Snow is the former Chief Revenue Officer at Divvy, which raised €380m to date from Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Partners. He is now a Venture Partner at Pelion Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm bent on exceeding the expectations of unapologetic entrepreneurs.
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My guest today is David Wiesen, the co-founder of Nextdoor, which operates a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California, by Nirav Tolia, Sarah Leary, Prakash Janakiraman, and David Wiesen. Nextdoor has built a platform that facilitates healthy neighborhood connections and conversations. Nextdoor has ~36 Million weekly active users or neighbors on the platform. With 63 Million users and over 280,000 neighborhoods, Nextdoor has become a niche social media platform with the purpose of cultivating a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Nextdoor has raised $736.5M in funding over 13 rounds. Their latest funding was raised from a post-IPO equity round on Jan 17, 2023. Nextdoor is registered under the ticker NYSE: KIND
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Blair Cohen is the Founder and President of AuthenticID, a disruptive and transformational AI-driven fraud prevention and identity company that has changed the identity-proofing process as we know it. AuthenticID, founded in 2001, provides 100% automated identity proofing and fraud detection solutions that are leveraged by companies and industries around the world, including top telecom/wireless, banking, fintech, background screening, identity, gig, retail, e-commerce, government, healthcare and more.
With more than 30 years of experience, Blair is future-focused and can anticipate industry needs, identify pain points, and build systems to help organizations improve their bottom line. Before focusing on solving the biggest challenge on earth, identity, Blair launched several other groundbreaking enterprises and pioneering technology products.
In 1989, he transformed the background screening industry when he founded InfoMart. InfoMart produced high-quality, fast, automated background reports at a lower cost, revolutionizing the sector. A decade later, he founded the Association of Consumer Reporting Agencies, which preempted government regulation and served as a catalyst in moving the background screening industry toward self-regulation. In 2010, Cohen created Cohen & Company, which transformed how Human Capital Management (HCM) companies service their clients’ needs to confirm the qualifications of job candidates by designing, developing, and integrating automated background screening solutions into recruiting management software.
Blair’s reputation as a dynamic technology entrepreneur, combined with high-level experience, has made him an authority on identity and technology. Named by One World Identity (OWI) as one of the 100 Most Influential Identity Experts globally, his articles can be found in publications like Fast Company, and he frequently speaks at conferences focused on identity, risk management, and information security.
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Avinash Sukhwani is the Co-founder of Payflow, a Spain-based salary-advance fintech with ambitions to evolve into an employee benefits company. The startup sells a salary-advance service to employers to offer their staff — charging companies a commission for the tech rather than levying a fee on users to withdraw a portion of their salary early. Payflow has raised $14 million from a mix of national and international funds, including Spain’s Seaya Ventures, a new backer of Payflow and Cathay Innovation, Entrepreneurs Fund, which is co-leading the round, with participation from Force Over Mass Capital, Y Combinator and Rebel Fund.
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https://www.payflow.es/
You can find Avinash Sukhwani at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/avinash-sukhwani/
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Meeri Savolainen, the CEO, and co-founder of INZMO, Berlin-headquartered InsurTech, and a standout player in the insurtech field, specializing in embedded insurance solutions designed to cater to the needs of residential renters across Europe. Inzmo offers a variety of insurance products, including renters, electronics, liability, and home contents insurance, all delivered in a 100% digital format. Inzmo raised to date $7.9 million.
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Jacob Jolibois is the co-founder and Chief of Product at Check, an early-stage SaaS company helping home service operators streamline and automate their business. Check was founded 4+ years ago and has more than 15k users.
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Website: https://www.hellocheck.co/
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My guest is Jimmy Soni, an American author, and former The Huffington Post managing editor. He is best known for A Mind at Play, his biography of Claude Shannon, and The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley.
This is a masterclass episode on the skills, mentality, and stories of the greatest team ever built, The Paypal Mafia.
You will learn on this episode:
- Why it took Jimmy 6 years to write this amazing story
- What is Peter Thiel's exceptional skill that powered the growth of PayPal
- How was he able to interview Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, and Peter Thiel
- How PayPal acquired the first 100 and went viral in a strategy that could have bankrupted the company
- The key ingredients common between Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks
- and much more ...
You can find Jimmy on:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmysoni/
https://twitter.com/jimmyasoni
This is a must-read, and I would recommend purchasing the book. Here is a link:
https://jimmysoni.com/books/the-founders/
https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Paypal-Entrepreneurs-Shaped-Silicon/dp/1501197266
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My guest today is Chris Barton, the co-founder of Shazam, which was created due to Chris’ frustration with being unable to identify a song he heard while at a club in San Francisco in 1999. Shazam Entertainment has raised $143.5M. In 2018, Apple bought the music recognition startup and app Shazam for about $400 million.
I doubt anyone who doesn’t like music hasn’t used Shazam. Chris Barton founded the app Shazam twenty years ago, in 2002, years before the iPod and iTunes had even been created. In fact, the flip phone had just come out.
You can find Chris, "Innovation Keynote Speaker." at
www.chrisjbarton.com
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Waseem Daher is the CEO and co-founder of Pilot, specializing in bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for high-growth technology startups. He is a three-time entrepreneur with two successful exits: His first company, Ksplice, was acquired by Oracle in 2011, and his second, Zulip, was acquired by Dropbox in 2014. Pilot has raised $161.3M from 24 investors, including Empede Capital and Akkadian Ventures.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdaher/
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Website: https://pilot.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/waseem
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Tony Beltramelli is CEO and co-founder of Uizard, an easy-to-use drag-and-drop editor, and its AI features help users design and prototype user interfaces for web and mobile applications. Although commonly deployed as a UI design solution, Uizard's powerful AI capabilities can assist with a wide range of tasks, from heatmap prediction to text generation and UI theme creation. Uizard's AI features allow users to generate UI designs from text prompts, convert hand-drawn sketches into wireframes, and transform screenshots into editable designs. Uizard has a whole host of pre-made design templates and UI components to support rapid and collaborative ideation and iteration. Uizard has raised $18.6M to date from 14 investors, including Insight Partners and LDV Capital.
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Will Nitze is the Founder of IQbar, plant protein bars, IQMIX® hydration sticks, and IQJOE® instant coffees packed with functional compounds to help you win your day. What stands out about your brand is its bright, fun, and youthful colors. You launched the company in 2017 and have raised $10 million to date.
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David Dodson is an author, successful serial entrepreneur, a board member of more than 40 companies, a former McKinsey & Company consultant, and an active investor in over 100 businesses. He is on Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business faculty, where he draws on his real-world experience to guide students in tactical execution. He is a recent recipient of the MSx Teaching Excellence Award, and co-founder of Sanku, which has improved the health of over 5 million people across rural East Africa.
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Tony Jamous is the CEO and Co-founder of Oyster, a distributed HR platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location. Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere.
Oyster has raised to date $225 million, and last year surpassed a $1 billion valuation after closing a $150 million Series C round led by Georgian.
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Roy Wellner is the co-founder of Augment, an alternative MBA program taught by very notable founders such as the Founder of Wikipedia, Shazam, and Lime, to name a few. Augment has raised $2.7 million to date.
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Lilit Davtyan is the CEO of Phonexa, a software company that provides brand marketing all-in-one solutions for calls, leads, clicks, email SMS, and more. Your company is fully bootstrapped and has reached more than $200 million in annual revenue.
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Rootd founder Ania Wysocka shares the secrets of how she managed to take her panic attack and anxiety relief app to over 2.5 million downloads with nooutside capital and without hiring a single employee.
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Ania Wysock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ania-wys/
Rootd: https://www.rootd.io/
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Amol Sarva is a serial entrepreneur, advisor, and mentor at 70+ companies; He has co-founded several startups, including Virgin Mobile USA, Peek, Halo Neuroscience, Knotable, Knotel, and he has developed and taught the course "Venturing to Change the World" at Columbia University.
He entered the Museum of Failure with a crazy gadget called Peek. Now he spends his time with amazing new things like Aikito and CornerUp, investing in climate and longevity through LifeX ventures. He has raised to date a combined $1.1 billion.
You can find Amol at
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amol
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amolsarva/
Personal website: https://amolsarva.com/
You can find LifeX Ventures
Website: https://www.lifex.vc/
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Rabih Ataya is the CEO and founder of Bayt.com, which is the Middle East's #1 job site, connecting job seekers with employers for the past 22 years. Bayt, which raised $3 million (Dh11m) in 2000, was the only funding round – and the company has been profitable since then.
Rabea started Bayt.com 23 years ago, and the company employs 650 people with +15 offices across the region and serves more than 35 million professionals and 40,000 employers.
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Roei Ganzarski is the CEO of Alitheon, an Optical AI technology company designed to trace the lifecycle of goods without labels, markings, or packaging to solve the $3 trillion counterfeiting market. Alitheon has developed FeaturePrint® technology which digitizes physical objects for irrefutable identification, authentication, and tracing and eliminates misidentification and misuse of items. Alitheon has raised Raising a $30 million Series A round with BMW as the lead investor.
Roei is a force of nature, and you don't want to miss an episode full of tactics and advice that any entrepreneur will benefit from. Here are three principles he lives by:
1) Only dead fish go with the flow
2) Always remember where you come from and where you are going
3) The light at the end of the tunnel could be a train, so have a Plan B
You can find
Roei Ganzarski: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roeiganzarski/
Alitheon: https://www.alitheon.com/
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Alex Levin, the CEO, and co-founder of New York City-based Regal.io, a tech stack for powering calls and messages that might provide customers — as well as sales and marketing teams — a better outbound calling experience. Regal has raised $42.1 million with Emergence Capital leading and Founder Collective, Homebrew, Flex Capital, Inspired Capital, and Operator Collective.
Regal.io was founded in 2020 to help brands drive more conversations with consumers and hit their growth goals way faster. They currently have 150 brands that use their product in ways they never imagined to power 40M customer conversations and $1 billion in brand revenue to date.
Alex Levin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlevin1/
Regal: https://www.regal.io/
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Michael Cardamone is CEO and Managing Partner at Forum Ventures, which helps founders grow and scale their businesses. Forum is designed to give founders capital, personalized guidance, and support from a growing SaaS community to get your company to the next level.
Forum writes 75+ checks per year to trailblazing early-stage B2B SaaS founders.
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David Wachs is the Founder of Handwrytten, a developer and provider of scalable handwriting solutions designed to help users send handwritten notes. The company uses custom-designed handwriting robots that hold real pens to write out the letters in the handwriting style of the client's choice, address the envelope, and place it in the mail with a real stamp, thereby allowing consumers to exchange personalized letters efficiently.
David founded Handwrytten in 2014 and now has more than 175 robots helping handle over 320,000 written pieces per month.
You can find David here:
https://twitter.com/DavidBWachs
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwachs/
and Handwrytten here:
https://www.handwrytten.com/
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Marc Vayn, Founder, Chairman, and CMO of American Technologies Network (ATN) Corp, an innovative industry leader and manufacturer of night vision and thermal Smart Optics.
Marc started the tech optics company in 1995 and has transformed the brand into the leading high-performance digital optics company for civilians, law enforcement, and the military.
Like almost every successful business, ATN started from a small space the size of a garage in Silicon Valley. The early years were difficult for Marc as the optics industry was not only a niche market, but it was challenging to attract attention to night vision commercially and not only to law enforcement and the military.
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Dan Raju, CEO of Tradier, an essential infrastructure fabric that powers over 250 investing platforms globally and serves some of the most active traders in the market. Tradier is one of the most widely used Fintech platforms and the largest Stock and Options Trading API'. Tradier is the first "Brokerage-as-a-Service" company and the de-facto brokerage engine that enables a large network of Platform Providers, Digital Advisers, Robo's, Developers, Traders, and Broker-Dealers. Tradier has raised to date $30.7 million from notable investors such as PEAK6 Strategic Capital and F-Prime Capital.
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Barada Sahu is the founder of Mason, an AI shopping engine that aims to bring the joy of shopping back online by powering brands with autonomous shopping agents that help shoppers discover, zoom in on, and buy their favorite products from their favorite brands – Anywhere. Anytime – and hence eliminating the middleman.
Barada is a product and technology entrepreneur with over 20+ years of expertise working in high-tech companies - in both the consumer and enterprise space.
He loves building technology at the intersection of humans and systems.
Having spent a career spanning building solutions for enterprises like BMW, Citibank, and Daimler and subsequently building revenue, personalization, and merchant solutions for scaled marketplaces like Flipkart, he is now on a mission to bring high-performance and scalable solutions for the billion+ global SMBs and entrepreneurs.
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Nicolo Robba is the Co-founder of LifePal, the no. 1 B2C insurance aggregator in Indonesia. Essentially, LifePal is a marketplace that lets users compare policies from more than 50 providers, get help from licensed agents, and file claims. Nicolo Robba is an e-commerce leader in the South East Asia region and has previously held senior roles within Alibaba.com and Lazada before co-founding Lifepal, which has raised $ 12 million to grow its business.
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Anttoni Aniebonam is the Founder of Veri, which is helping health-conscious individuals achieve optimal metabolic health through a blood sugar sensor and an iOS app. Veri has raised to date Euros 10.8 million.
Veri: https://www.veri.co/
Anttoni Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anttonianiebonam/
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Matt Higgins is an American entrepreneur, investor, and media personality with extensive experience in various industries such as sports, technology, media, and marketing.
Matt is the co-founder and served as CEO of RSE Ventures, a sports and entertainment venture firm. He has been involved in numerous successful ventures, including co-founding the digital advertising agency Omnigon and serving as Vice Chairman of the Miami Dolphins football team. He also was a Guest Shark on Shark Tank for around two years.
Matt Higgins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-higgins-rse/
Burn the Boats: https://www.burntheboatsbook.com/
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Marc Aptakin, the CEO and brains behind Yes We Are Mad,an all-inclusive creative agency. Marc started Yes We Are Mad 22 years ago and has since made a name for himself with clients pushing the boundaries and creating the next trend-setting venture IRL or digitally.
Mad is redefining reality by raising the bar on connected experiences, digital production, and the development of custom products. With a relentless passion for creativity, culture, and innovation, Mad builds future-forward solutions that prepare its partners for the ever-evolving digital world. The agency is comprised of multiple departments, including a few from MadLabs, where client ideas are flushed out and brainstormed, to Mad Studios, where the ideas are brought to fruition, and even Mad Dev, where the agency develops products entirely in-house with no third-party vendors, this agency is one of a kind.
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Ali Tajskandar is the CEO and Founder of Wishpond, a marketing-focused online business solutions provider. Wishpond's vision is to become the leading provider of digital marketing solutions that empower entrepreneurs to succeed online. The Company offers an "all-in-one" marketing suite that provides companies with marketing, promotion, lead generation, and sales conversion capabilities from one integrated platform. Wishpond replaces entire marketing functions with an easy-to-use product for a fraction of the cost. Wishpond serves over 2,000 customers who are primarily small-to-medium size businesses (SMBs) in a wide variety of industries.
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Christian Brown is the Founder of Glewee, a Glewee is an application-based platform that combines influencer search and discovery, relationship management, collaboration tools, campaign planning, launch, and reporting to help brands. Glewee has raised to date $9.5 million.
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Patrick Gannon is the Founder of BlueTape, a payment and financing platform for the construction industry. BlueTape has raised to date $55 million.
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Mark Chahwan is the Co-founder of Sarwa, an online platform that makes investing in global markets simple and affordable for investors in the Middle East. Sarwa has raised $24.9 million from 16 investors, including Kuwait Investment Projects Company and Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP).
You can find Mark on:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markchahwan/
You can find Sarwa on:
https://www.sarwa.co/
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Jorge Penalva is the founder of Lang.ai, a platform that helps to scale customer service organizations and structure their text data. The platform automatically builds tags from the content of each support ticket. That way, tickets can be easily routed and prioritized based on the topic to make your team more efficient.
Lang.ai has raised to date $15 million.
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Shane Orlick is the President of Jasper.ai, a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform. Jasper leverages AI to generate content for blog articles, social media posts, website copy, and more. Using the platform, customers can describe in natural language what they want Jasper to write, whether a keyword-rich piece designed to rank well in search engines or existing content repurposed with additional context. Jasper has raised to date $ 131 million.
According to recent public data, Jasper has more than 105,000 customers and generated $75 million in revenue last year— and its valuation is around $1.5 bn, and you just launched in 2021.
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- How he got into AI
- How did the first version of Jasper.ai look like
- How Jasper is different from ChatGPT
- How they acquired their first 100 customers
- How selling to B2B clients is different from B2C clients.
- How does the sales playbook differ between Single-player and Multi-player
- His Interview Framework to find the right talent
- and much more...
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Ola Sars is the founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand, the music tech startup revolutionizing the B2B space. Before founding Soundtrack, he was the co-founder and COO of Beats Music, acquired by Apple and transformed into Apple Music, and the co-founder of Pacemaker, the world's first DJ-driven music platform.
In this episode, we cover great insights. Few topics discussed:
- How he acquired the First 100 with Soundtrack Your Brand
- How he met Dre. Dre and Jimmy Lovine
- The advantage of being early in an industry
- The fine line between Work and Life
- His principle on simplicity and saying no
- and much more ...
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James Clift is the founder of Durable, a free website builder that uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help other entrepreneurs create company websites in three clicks and 30 seconds. The platform also gives solo entrepreneurs access to various other tools required for building and growing a service-based business, from customer relationship management to invoicing, automated reviews, analytics, and LLC registration.
Durable has raised USD 6.25 million from investors that include Altman Capital, Torch Capital, Dash Fund, Infinity Ventures, and South Park Commons.
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My guest today is the renowned tech author, consultant, and venture partner at Wildcat Ventures, Geoffrey Moore, who has spent his career focused on the dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations, and his book, Crossing the Chasm, has become a canonical work for young businesses trying to unlock mainstream markets.
In this episode, we cover great insights. Few topics discussed:
- How the First 100 customers differ between B2C and B2B
- How VMware and Facebook Crossed the Chasm
- How can you convince your customer to create a budget for your product
- Has AI crossed the Chasm?
- How to market for your First 100
- and much more ...
Few of Geoffrey Moore's Amazing Books
- Crossing the chasm
- Zone to Win
- Inside the Tornado
- The Infinite Staircase
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Christer Holloman is the Founder of Divido, a retail finance platform that provides point-of-sale finance programs for some of the world’s leading enterprise merchants. Divido acts as a white-label platform that integrates with e-commerce platforms so retailers can offer consumers options such as the “buy now, pay later” at the point of sale. Divido has raised to date $54.9 million.
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Paul Anton and Lyeth Saeed are the founders of Huupe, a smart basketball hoop with content that connects basketball players worldwide. Huupe has raised to date $11mn from Protagonist VC, Marvan Ventures, and Reform Ventures, to name a few.
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Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Richard Feynman: "You must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
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Lloyed Lobo is the founder of Boast and Traction podcast. First, I start with Boast, which helps companies easily capture more of their eligible R&D tax credits with its scalable, intelligent software and expert services. Governments give away $20 billion in R&D tax credits each year but applying has been difficult and slow.
Boast has raised $123 million to date. Traction, a community of over 110k+ founders and tech professionals co-founded by Boast.ai, brings leaders from the fastest growing companies like Shopify, Twilio, Slack, LinkedIn, GitHub, Cloudflare, and many more to share learnings on building, growing, and scaling startups via weekly webinars, regular meetups, and an annual conference.
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Khalil Alami is the founder of Telr. Founded by Khalil Alami in 2014 with a presence in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Telr enables merchants to accept payments online in over 120 currencies and 30 languages. It also provides other services, including social commerce, QR Codes, anti-fraud protection, BNPL solutions, shopping cart integrations, and digital invoicing. Telr’s has raised to date to $30 million.
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Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Coco Chanel.: “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
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Stu Heinecke is the Author of multiple books, including How to Get a Meeting with Anyone and How to Grow your business like Weed.
This is a great episode full of insights on How to Grow your business. Here are a few topics we talked about:
- How to Become a great cartoonist
- How you can grow your business through contact marketing
- The successful campaign for RollingStone that got a 100% open rate
- How Ch got Johnny Cash's attention
- The tongue scraper that got $1 million in sales
- The $28 ad that yielded $20 million in value
- and much more ...
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Rishabh Jain is the founder of Fermat, a platform that provides the tooling and the network to enable distributed commerce. It helps brands embed shopping experiences in influencer content, so an influencer’s audience has a native, engaging shopping experience. Fermat lets them effectively share their products with influencers to create shopping experiences. Specifically, brands can license products based on the partner, create unique payout structures per partner, and have closed loop attribution on each partner’s impressions and sales. Fermat raised to date $12 million from Greylock and QED Investors, with participation from Courtside Ventures.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Kobe Bryant: “Rest at the end, not in the middle.”
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
Ludovic Lacay is the founder of Napo, a pet insurance technology startup that allows pet owners to buy insurance for their beloved ones to buy. It provides 24/7 online vet consultations, obesity awareness resources, and access to expert-led live classes to help dog owners train their puppies. Napo has raised GBP 17 million to grow its business.
Nick Telson is the founder of Trumpet and Pitch Deck podcast.
Trumpet is a platform that helps users design personalized, trackable sales pods in just a few clicks: Think microsites for salespeople. Shopify + Canva + Slack all combined to help you close more deals faster.
Trumpet has raised to date $2mn Lightbird Ventures alongside Triple Point Ventures and a few angels.
Nick is also an angel investor invested in over 55 startups across the US, UK, Latam, and Africa through your investment arm, Horseplay Ventures.
Pickers Podcast
Recycling America...One Story at a Time!
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Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Rose Blumkin: “Tell the truth, sell cheap, and don’t cheat, don’t lie.”
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
Don Bosco is the founder of Bhuman.ai, a technology company creating personalized videos that are indistinguishable from recorded videos by using a mixture of proprietary voice cloning, auto lip sync, and morphing technology. Bhuman.ai raised $885k for your pre-seed round.
In this episode, I chat with Dirk Lueth, a serial entrepreneur and an early adopter of blockchain and related technologies based in Silicon Valley. In addition to being the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Uplandme, Inc., Dirk co-founded and is chairman of the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (OMA3).
We talk about:
- How he grew Upland to more than 3 million users.
- The reason Upland became the number one metaverse game
- What he learned from his previous startup failures or success that you brought with - Is the Metaverse a fad?
- and much more ...
The Demand Gen Fix
B2B buyer behavior is changing and traditional lead generation tactics just don’t work...
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Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Naval Ravikhant: "If You Can't Decide, the Answer is No."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
Daniel Keiper-Knorr is a general partner and one of the founding partners at Speedinvest, which is a leading pan-European seed stage VC investing in Fintech, Marketplaces, SaaS, DeepTech, Climate & IndustrialTech and Digital Health, established in 2011 with around a billion now AuM from multiple funds and more than 300 startups in 30 countries.
Jenny von Podewils is the Founder of Leapsome, a people enablement platform that enables organizations to develop a central repository of the collective intelligence of their individuals. Bootstrapped since 2016, you recently raised $60 million in a Series A round as you set out to expand globally.
Website: https://www.leapsome.com/
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jennypodewils/
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Robert Greene: "Always Say Less than Necessary."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
Matheus Riolfi is the founder of Tint, which empowers tech platforms to sell more by embedding unique insurance products that protect their end-users. Tint has raised $30 million to date from notable investors such as QED Investors, Nyca, Deciens, Y Combinator, and Webb Investment Network.
In this episode, I chat with Selim Benayat, the founder of Bento, a platform that lets users display their work in an elegant way across both desktop and mobile. It is essential a link-in bio tool but with a twist. Bento has raised $1.6 million to date Sequioa Arc.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Seneca: "While We Teach, We Learn."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
In this episode, I chat with Mariano Kostelec. the founder of StudentFinance, a platform founded out of Spain in 2019, that partners with educational institutions to help finance those looking to upskill into certain disciplines like software development, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, through Income-share agreements. StudentFinance has raised $46.3 million to date.
In this episode, I chat with David Senra, the creator of the Founders Podcast, which deconstructs history’s greatest founders. Basically, he reads an autobiography of a famous founder or high performer (like Michael Jordan or Jay-Z) and then does a podcast on it.
Currently, there are over 300 episodes to choose from. It has quickly become one of my favorite shows in the world.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share one principle by Jim Rohn: "The Pain of Discipline is better than the Pain of Regret."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
Karthik (KP) Puvvada is the Founder of the Build in Public podcast. He chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons. He:
- Grew Twitter from 414 followers to 37,700+
- Grew newsletter from 0 to 7100+ subscribers
- Grew podcast to 1000s of listeners and landed interviews with iconic guests like Gary Vee, Sahil Lavingia, Alexis Ohanian, Kat Cole, etc.
In this episode, I chat with Peer Richelsen, the CEO of Cal.com, an open-source scheduling platform (and Calendly alternative).
It raised $25M in Series A financing last year led by Alexis Ohanian’s venture firm Seven Seven Six. Cal.com also opened an app store to allow developers to create apps using the company's platform technology.
Janna Bastow is the Founder of Prodpad, a software that helps product managers plan and deliver better products. Janna also organizes ProductTank events worldwide, including Mind The Product, a global community of product managers.
In this episode, I chat with Samy Dindane, the Founder of Hypefury, a scheduling and automation platform for Twitter and now Linkedin.
In this episode, I chat with Blake Hutchison, the CEO of Flippa, a marketplace to buy and sell websites, online stores, apps, and online businesses. He is building the investment bank for the 99% and building sophisticated valuation, negotiation, and transaction functionality traditionally reserved for the 1%…making the opportunity to exit a possibility for 100’s of millions of site, store, and app owners over the world. Flippa raised last year $11 million Series A, led by OneVentures.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Elon Musk: "Always be Learning."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
In this episode, I chat with Piotr Pisarz, the Founder of Uncapped, a provider of revenue-based financing that enables founders to raise growth capital without interest or equity. It has recently raised an $80 million combined funding round of debt and. Notable investors include Lakestar, All Iron Ventures, White Star Capital, Global Founders Capital, and Mouro Capital.
In this episode, I chat with Snehal Antani, the Founder of Horizon3, a software company that mission is to help companies find and fix attack vectors before attackers can exploit them. Horizon 3 has raised $38.5 million to date.
Horizon3 was founded in 2019, as a cybersecurity firm delivering autonomous Pentesting to help companies proactively find and fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Neil deGrass Tyson: "It is not enough to be Right. You also have to be Effective."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Jose Hamilton Vargas--the co-creator of Youper, an artificially intelligent personal assistant that helps manage emotional and behavioral health--about the benefits and risks of using AI chatbots to assist therapy and mental health care. It has raised $3 million in seed funding from Goodwater Capital.
In this episode, I chat with, Yehong Zhu, the founder of Zette, a media tech platform that provides pay-per-article access to online publications via a monthly subscription. With footprints in Los Angeles and New York City, the startup raised a $1.7m pre-seed round from Afore Capital, Halogen Ventures, Hyphen Capital, The Community Fund, and MGV Capital Group.
In this episode, I chat with Tunde Kara, the Founder of Vendease, an all-in-one food procurement platform in Africa. Vendease has recently raised a $30 million Series A round led by Partech Africa and TLcom.
Vendease launched in January 2020 as a middleman trying to solve the challenges and inefficiencies in Nigeria’s highly fragmented food sector. It connected suppliers and farms to restaurants and food businesses to facilitate deliveries within 24 hours. But the founders noticed that some of these businesses complained of delivery times, quality of food supplies, and inadequate set-up to handle operations. So they shifted their model to become the go-to provider for these customers by building relationships with food suppliers, buying discounted products in bulk, storing them, and making deliveries through third-party logistics partners within 12 hours now.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Bill Campbell: "Solve the Biggest Problem First."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
In the episode, I chat with Henry Albrecht, the Founder of Limeade, a software company that sells software to firms seeking to boost well-being, engagement, and inclusion among employees. It debuted in December 2019 as a public company by raising $100 million — Australian — in its IPO. That’s worth $68.75 million in U.S. dollars.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Steve Jobs: "Do What you Love"
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
In this episode, I chat with Matt Barnett, the Founder of Bonjoro, a software-as-a-service platform that lets you send quick personal videos to new leads and customers, to stand out, build trust, and make more sales.
In this episode, I chat with Ramy Assaf, the Founders of Zbooni, which was founded in 2016 to provide tools and solutions that empower businesses to capture orders, accept payments, sell more, and track every order. The company was incubated at Facebook, one of only a handful of global businesses to receive such access and support from the social media giant. Its merchant app went live in 2018, developing its current robust platform as the MENA region’s pioneer in cCommerce.
Through the power of one-to-one conversation, Zbooni enables businesses to convert customer interactions into transactions via social and messaging apps. In this way, Zbooni is reinventing how businesses seamlessly transition into the new era of “cCommerce”.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Sir Isaac Newton: “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
In the episode, I chat with David Heinemeier Hansson, the Co-founder and CTO of 37Signals, the company behind the famous Basecamp and Hey. He is also the creator of the programming language Ruby on Rails, used by companies such as Twitter, Airbnb, Shopify, and Square, to name a few. He is also the best-selling author of the book Remote and Rework, and impressively he is a Le Mans class-winning race driver.
This is a wide-ranging conversation exploring topics such as:
☑️Going from not having a driver's license at 25 to being a Le Mans Champion.
☑️How to reach an Immersed State of Flow.
☑️The framework to compete and beat the best version of yourself.
☑️How he built Basecamp in a non-risky manner.
☑️How HEY is revolutionizing email and competing against the Free Gmail.
☑️His template to unlearn habits that we don't need.
☑️How he uses stoics principles to make decisions.
☑️and so much more.....
So get ready to expand your thinking and learn how to supercharge yourself with David Heinemeier Hansson!
In this episode, I chat with Farzad Rashidi, Lead Innovator of Respona, The link-building outreach platform built for B2B SaaS and agencies to increase organic traffic from Google.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by John Wooden: "Always Keep Moving."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share the principles of successful entrepreneurs, founders, and big thinkers.
In this episode, I chat with Fineas Tatar, the Founder of Viva, a leading productivity solution that combines remote EA talent + technology + techniques to help startup executives become more productive. They work with executive teams at fast-growing startups like Notion, Mutiny, and Apollo.io.
In this episode, I chat with Charlotte and Norman, the Founders of Grandma Crunch, an alternative cereal packed with proteins and ideal for Keto Lovers, like me. I came across the brand as I switched last year to a keto-based diet and I wanted to enjoy a morning cereal. Grandma Crunch high protein cereal is a whopping 52% protein, with only 6-7g carbs per portion and no sugar. Grandma Crunch is fully bootstrapped.
Every Friday, I share with you one principle that has inspired me.
In this episode, I share with you one principle by Reid Hoffman: "Faster Decisions are Better."
In our daily life, we have to make multiple decisions daily. It becomes really hard when you don’t have any key points based on what you will make that particular decision. Our understanding of the world around us is largely shaped by the core principles we have accepted. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions very quickly, even if our situation is completely new.
Principles Friday will help you share with you the principles of successful entrepreneurs.
In this episode, I chat with Michael Galvin, the Founder of Toqio, a saas platform that allows companies to launch their own embedded finance products. With a proliferation of innovative fintechs and financial service providers pouring into the market over the past five years, Toqio has been built to help make these services more accessible through its low-code platform, designed to build and launch new banking and finance solutions quickly and easily. Toqio has recently raised a $20 million Series A round led by AlbionVC and includes Aldea Ventures, alongside previous investors Seaya, Speedinvest, and SIX FinTech Ventures.
In this episode, I chat with Brian Bagdasarian, the Founder of Simply Homes, the A.I.-driven real estate investment company that is transforming the way that homes are bought and sold off-market. Simply Homes raised to date pre-seed $2.1 million
In this episode, I chat with Madison Rifkin, the Founder of Mount, an amenity management platform that enables private real estate companies to launch, manage and monetize amenities. Mount raised $1.4 million in its pre-seed round from Scribble Ventures and General Catalyst.
In this episode, I chat with Lluis Canadell, the Founder of Treinta, a fintech dedicated to digitizing and increasing micro-businesses sales in Latin America. Treinta has raised $60 million to date. It registers millions of transactions daily with a current value of more than US$10 billion per year, which is the equivalent of 4% of Colombia’s economy
In this episode, I chat with Brendan Weitz, the Founder of Journey, a storytelling tool designed for the internet age. Journey allows you to combine all sorts of content into one interactive experience. Brendan was previously GM @ Quora, Sr Director @AdRoll, and early Sales @ Facebook.
In this episode, I chat with Ashray Malhotra, the Founder of Rephrase.ai, a platform for producing videos of virtual humans with synthetic voices reading out a script for marketing, sales, and other business needs. For those who don’t know how Rephrase works, a customer can select an avatar, background, and voice, and enter the text that the avatar will recite. The AI processes the script through the voice model and matches the chosen avatar’s lip movements to the words to mimic how a real human would look and sound while performing. You can then embed the video on their website, social media page, or wherever else you choose. Rephrase raised $10.6 million in a Series A round led by Red Ventures with participation from Silver Lake and 8VC.
In this episode, I chat with Hanna Asmussen, the Founder of Localyze, an all-in-one software to manage international teams and hire beyond borders. Localyze has recently raised a $35 million Series B round led by General Catalyst.
In this episode, I chat with Rosie Chopra, the Founder of Magical, a Robotic Process Automation startup that’s designed to move data across websites and web apps with a few keystrokes. Magical was in stealth until a few months ago after announcing a $41 million raise led by Coatue with participation from Greylock, Bain, Lightspeed Capital, SV Angels, and Blank Ventures.
In this episode, I chat with Luca Micheli, the founder of Customerly, a platform that helps SaaS companies Support, Engage and Gather Feedback from their customers within one app. Customerly is bootstrapped, has 25k customers, and reached $500k in ARR this year.
In this episode, I chat with Jean de Rauglaudre, the Founder of Collective Work, a SaaS-enabled marketplace to enable any freelancer to create and run collectives. In 15 months, Collective. Work has generated multi-millions of project value for freelancers working in a team and raised one of the largest European seed rounds ($8m).
In this episode, I chat with Gordana Sretenovic, the Founder of Workello, a platform that helps content teams hire better writers on auto-pilot.
In this episode, I chat with Farokh, a serial entrepreneur, a professional writer, and the Co-Founder of Formaloo, a no-code collaboration platform that helps businesses create custom data-driven business applications and internal tools, automate their processes and engage their audience.
In this episode, I chat with Bobby Pinero, the founder of Equals, a data tool that enables startups to analyze data from any source in a fast way, with little coding knowledge. Equals have raised $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures, with participation from BoxGroup, Worklife Ventures, and founders from Intercom, Front, Lattice, and Vanta.
In this episode, I chat with Acquibur Rahman, the founder of Mailmodo , a complete email marketing solution enabling users to create and send app-like interactive emails to improve email conversions. Last year, Mailmodo raised a $2 million seed round to simplify email marketing and maximize conversions for businesses.
In this episode, I chat with Valeri Potchekailov, the founder of StoryChief, a platform that allows editorial teams and social media managers to collaborate better, distribute their content faster and measure multi-channel content performance in one place. StoryChief recently raised a $3,5 million round led by Capricorn Partners
In this episode, I chat with Niels Martin Brochner, Founder & CEO of Contractbook, an automated platform that helps businesses and individuals manage and organize their contracts and automate their workflows. Niels is a Forbes Council Member and was named one of Denmark’s 100 best young business talents. Contractbook has raised $43.3 million over four rounds from notable investors such as Tiger Global and Bessemer Venture Partners.
In this episode, I chat with Janis Zech, the founder of Weflow, a sales productivity tool that helps AEs save time, structure their day, and win more deals on Salesforce. The company is backed by Cherry Ventures and founders of Contentful, Pitch, Soundcloud, and Tier, among others, and raised $2.7mn in 2021.
In this episode, I chat with Erik Fontenele Nybo, the founder of Bits Academy, a digital transformation school founded in 2019.
In this episode, I chat with Santosh Sharma, the founder of Book My Jet and Foresight Aviation, a premium general aviation company.
In this episode, I chat with Karim Abouzeid, co-founder of Voo, a mart in an app that delivers essentials and non-essential to the end consumer. The company has been bootstrapped from Day 1.
In this episode, I chat with Eran Shirazi, co-founder and CTO of EasySend, a platform that helps companies build customer interactions using drag-and-drop interfaces with no coding required. Easysend has raised $71.5mn to date from notable investors, including Oak HC/FT, Vertex IL, Intel Capital, and Hanaco Venture.
In this episode, I chat with Michelle Marcelline, co-founder of Typedream, a no-code website builder that is ideal for first-time founders, solopreneurs, and digital creators. The company raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Y Combinator, ex-Sequoia Capital partner Timothy Lee, Makerpad founder Ben Tossell, WordPress executive Aadil Mamujee, and Twitter founding engineer Blaine Cook.
In this episode, I chat with Aaron Podolny, co-founder and CTO of Scribe, a productivity platform that enables organizations to develop a central repository of the collective intelligence of their individuals. Scribe has raised to date $30 million over two rounds from notable investors such as Tiger Global and Amplify partners.
In this episode, I chat with Sophia Solanki, the founder of Narrato, a platform that brings all content creation and collaboration in one single place. Sophia is a serial entrepreneur with multiple startups under her belt. We dive into the details of how she utilizes content marketing to drive acquisitions.
In this episode, I chat with Melissa Kwan, Founder of eWebinar, an automated webinar solution that helps customer success teams deliver personalized training and onboarding at scale. She's been an entrepreneur for over ten years, and eWebinar is the third company she's co-founded. .We dive deep with Melissa on how she acquired her first 100 paying customers at eWebinar.
In this episode, I chat with Matt Wolach, A serial entrepreneur, podcast host, and founder of Ring Bot. Matt is on a mission to help software founders quickly scale to $1M MRR. You will learn in this episode the DEAL framework on how Matt closed his first 100 customers.
In this episode, I chat with Brendan Rogers, Founder of Wag, an American pet care company that offers a technology platform to connect pet owners with independent pet professionals for on-demand and scheduled dog walking, training, and other pet care services. Wag raised more than $360 million with a notable $300 million round from Softbank. We talk about how he started the business from 0 to 100. Brendan is also the co-founder of 2 am VC.
In this episode, I chat with Patrick Campbell, CEO of ProfitWell, a B2B SaaS company that helps organizations optimize their revenues. Patrick just sold his bootstrapped company for $200 million.
Welcome to the Trailer of the First 100 where we learn how entrepreneurs and founders of big and small companies acquired their first 100 paying customers. The show is full with actionable insights, tactics, frameworks, and methods that highlight how successful founders managed to acquire their first 100 customers and cement product-market fit.