Today’s episode is with Gagan Biyani, co-founder and CEO of Maven, a company that empowers the world’s experts to offer cohort-based courses directly to their audience.
After being early at 3 startups that achieved over $1 million in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan has learned some valuable lessons and seen a wide range of outcomes — ... Show More
Nov 19
How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
Jyoti Bansal is the co-founder and CEO of Harness, the software delivery platform used by thousands of engineering teams, and previously founded AppDynamics, which he led from inception to a multibillion-dollar acquisition by Cisco. In this episode, Jyoti unpacks what it really t ... Show More
1h 5m
Oct 23
Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped Serval's AI agents for IT teams | Jake Stauch (Founder and CEO)
Jake is the founder and CEO of Serval, an AI-driven IT automation and service management platform that just raised $47M in Series A funding this week. Before founding Serval, Jake spent over five years at Verkada, where he led multiple products from 0-1 and helped scale the compa ... Show More
1h 23m
May 2024
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Join us for an insightful discussion with Dickie Bush, Co-Founder of Premium Ghostwriting Academy, and Nicolas Cole, Co-Founder of Ship 30 for 30. We discuss how writing entrepreneurs can leverage Chat-GPT and Kindle Unlimited to build a profitable portfolio of books in underserv ... Show More
41m 57s
Mar 2022
Great Startup Ideas, Bad Businesses
I sent out a tweet asking my followers: "what’s a startup idea that sounds great in theory but would be a shitty business?” 1,600 likes and 700 responses later, I'm running some of your ideas through the gauntlet and walking you through how I analyze and form business ideas. Chec ... Show More
15m 52s
Jan 2024
E65: 2023’s most practical advice
In this second part of 2023’s wrap up, we take a look at some of the year’s most practical advice. We hear from top entrepreneurs and venture capitalists about company culture, shutting down a startup, selling a startup, re-purchasing a startup after a sale and the importance of ... Show More
41m 22s
Jan 2021
15 years of investing experience - what do founders do wrong? By Ali Jamal
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mralijamal/">Ali Jamal</a>, Growth and Product Executive, Founding Partner at <a href="https://angel.co/first-check-ventures/syndicate?utm_campaign=syndicate_direct_link">First Check Ventures</a>, Angel Investor and a Startup Advisor talks ... Show More
29m 43s
Dec 2023
How to Build a Start-Up — Without VC Funding
As interest rates have risen in recent years, venture capital funding has dried up. How can founders grow their companies in this new environment? In this episode, a founder who grew a $600 million company using just $10,000 of his own money, shares his strategy. Mike Salguero is ... Show More
32m 42s
Jun 2024
Don’t Fundraise Unless You Have to, But if You do, Look for this in your Investors - with Sonia W. at VentureSouq | The Perfect Pitch Podcast Ep5
<p>We were thrilled to speak with Sonia Weymuller, one of Dubai’s most active investors who started her VC career by launching the largest angel investor syndicate before professionalizing the firm to become <a href='https://lucidityinsights.com/investors/venturesouq-63'>VentureS ... Show More
41m 16s
Aug 2021
370: How to Build a Billion-User App
Prerna Gupta is a serial entrepreneur who entered the tech spotlight when her Songify app hit #1 in the app store. She’s gone on to co-found several startups focused on music, dating, and short stories, and in 2011 Fast Company named her one of the most influential women in techn ... Show More
52m 47s
Sep 2021
Dave Girouard - Making Better Loans - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 52]
My guest today is Dave Girouard, co-founder and CEO of Upstart, a lending platform that leverages AI to make loans more accessible and affordable. Dave started in Silicon Valley as a Product Manager at Apple and later spent eight years at Google, where he built their suite of clo ... Show More
1h 8m