Yesterday

706: Jay Hated His Plumbing Job - Now He Sells Beach Pools and did $50K in a Month

Jay Haddad hated being a plumber. He lived for the weekends - free diving, waterfalls, surfing, the beach - and when he and his wife had their first daughter at 23, the outdoor life they'd promised each other suddenly got hard. On his first Father's Day, they bought some fabric f ... Show More

37m 26s

Sep 14

705: (Solo) How Success Made Me Neglect the Thing That Built Everything

I am going to tell you about the dumbest thing I have done in 12 years of building Foundr. It is not a bad hire or a failed launch. It is something far more dangerous, because I did not even realise I was doing it. For four years I took my eye off the thing that built this entire ... Show More

11m 54s

Sep 10

704: How One Pivot Turned My FAILING Startup Into a $300M Brand

Mariam Naficy sold her first company for over $100 million in cash - two weeks before the Nasdaq crashed in 2000. Then she did something harder. She built Minted, a crowdsourced design marketplace her own investors thought was weird, watched it generate zero sales for its first m ... Show More

49m 13s

May 2021

011: From Redundancy To $19k ONE MONTH After Launch: Korean Beauty, Micro-Influencers, And The Manufacturing Challenge

Elita Gluscevic and Stephanie Turzi had an incredible product idea, but suddenly found themselves feeling a little overwhelmed and unsure of where to go next. With a background in marketing and graphic design, the friends knew they wanted to launch a chin-lifting mask based on a ... Show More

41 m

Aug 2020

Are You Ready to Start Your Own Digital Agency?

Are you tired of working for an agency? Do you feel like you could do things better yourself? Are you ready to start your own digital agency but afraid of the unknowns? You can spend all your time worrying about the uncertainty or you can get busy turning your dreams into real ... Show More

31m 56s

Jul 2022

Billion Dollar Business Philosophies With Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk to Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot, Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh), about why a bad economy is a good time to start a business, creating an alternative to Wordle, and the trillion dollar Venn diagram of success. Also, want $5,000? Chec ... Show More

1h 30m

Jan 2025

#354 - How Fery Kaszoni Grew An $8,000,000/yr Agency in 4 Years

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we dive deep with Fery, founder of Search Intelligence, about building a fast-growing digital PR agency from scratch.From embracing chaos as a growth strategy to developing enterprise-level software solutions, Fery shares candid insights about the ... Show More

1h 14m

Feb 2025

Silicon Valley OG shares crazy stories from Zynga early days + 3 business ideas

Episode 678: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Siqi Chen ( https://x.com/blader ), the founder of Runway.com. — Show Notes: (0:00) Early days at Zynga (14:34) Business ideas (52:18) Touchy-feely class (1:07:24) Siqi’s f ... Show More

1h 19m

May 2024

Leading by example with Simon Gould of Sydney Digital Marketing

In this episode, Fiona chats with Simon, founder of Sydney Digital Marketing, about his journey from coin-operated internet kiosks to establishing a leading digital marketing agency. Simon also shares valuable insights on maintaining lead quality. Tune in!You'll ... Show More

56m 24s

May 2024

Social Media Marketing The Right Way

Today's episode is a 4Ds session I had in the VaynerMedia office, I answer a bunch of very important questions for business owners and entrepreneurs such as how to deliver value to your people, the impact of AI on agencies and how should brands approach selling. I also sha ... Show More

59m 35s

May 2021

Is Your Digital Agency Fishing in the Right Pond?

Brent Weaver is the CEO and founder of uGurus. He leads the vision for the company and creates educational programs that help agency owners work on their business to drive additional revenues, increase profits, and create freedom in their life. Brent is here to share his insig ... Show More

23m 46s

Aug 2025

Practical Entrepreneurship for Marketers

In this episode of the DMI podcast, host Will Francis speaks with Faisal Laljee, entrepreneur and growth strategist, about the intersection of entrepreneurship and marketing. Faisal shares his insights on risk-taking, growth hacking, customer acquisition, and building brands that ... Show More

45m 27s

Feb 2024

Scaling an Agency to $500M, with Dimi Albers | Ep# 674

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393: How to Start a Digital Agency with ...