x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders

Every founder has 1 goal: find product-market fit. We interview the world"s most successful startup founders on the 0 to 1 part of their journeys. We"ve had the founders of Reddit, Gusto, Rappi, Glean, Cohere, Huntress, ID.me and many more.We go deep with entrepreneurs & VCs to provide detailed examples you can steal. Our goal is to understand product-market fit better than anyone on the planet.Rated one of the world"s top startup podcasts.

business entrepreneurship

All Episodes

31:48

He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/10/11

This episode is going to piss you off. Most founders struggle to raise their first few million. Many have to bootstrap for years. Even once there's revenue, many get rejected because they're "too early". Dan had dozens of VCs asking to invest before he even quit his job. He raised his first $5M with no deck, no story, and no product idea. All it took was two founders who wanted to build something in the security space. To add fuel to the fire, 6 months after he incorporated, he raised a...

en-us

52:52

He founded a banking app for kids 10 years ago, grew...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/10/07

It was “really slow in the first couple of years...really, really slow.” GoHenry was an app and debit card for kids to help parents teach their kids about money. Dean started over a decade ago in 2012, when mobile was just truly taking off. And yet, it took multiple years to get off the ground. Once he found the right channels and repeatable growth, he and his team started pouring fuel on the fire. In total, they raised over $100M. He ultimately grew to 2 million paying customers. E...

en-us

31:43

1st-time AI founder grows from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 8...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/10/03

Jaspar graduated YC & closed a $11.5M seed round this week. He launched Artisan just 8 months ago. And this is the first venture-backed startup he's ever ran. He started with product-led-growth but struggled. In May, he moved to a sales-first go-to-market & scaled from $200K ARR to $1.3M ARR by September. We go deep and tactical to figure out exactly what he did to grow so fast: from hiring a Chief of Staff as one of his first hires, to living in the same house as his employees, ...

en-us

40:53

He launched an Uber competitor with just $3,000—&...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/09/30

Cody started a ride-share business in 2017 with no capital. He focused exclusively on small towns (population <100K) where Uber/Lyft weren't available. I know as a VC I would've passed if he'd pitched me when he started—and I would've been dead wrong.So far he's raised only $2.1M, compared to Uber's $30B+ raised. And yet, he built a business doing $20M+ in annual revenue that is live in a dozen markets and multiple countries. At one point, he came weeks away from bankruptcy when ride-...

en-us

11:11

The ONLY guaranteed way to attract & retain A-players.

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/09/26

I tried to pay my employees as little as possible. I thought I was being resourceful—& it seemed to work. Until it totally backfired. I learned my lesson the hard way.No founder wants to hire B-level or C-level talent. Everyone is looking for A-players. But most founders don't put in the work. And they end up with B-level teams. If you're serious about getting and keeping A-players there's only one way to do it. You need to have a coherent strategy, you need to be intentional, and y...

en-us

58:31

He got rejected by 60 VCs, burned all his...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/09/23

Kyle left his job as a hacker at the NSA to launch Huntress. He bootstrapped for 3 years and burned all his savings. One of his co-founders quit. He got into an accelerator program, but had to sleep in his car for 16 weeks because he couldn't afford a hotel.Finally, 3 years in he'd hit $1.5M ARR. So he pitched 60 VCs for a Series A—and got 60 'no's. He was forced to raise a small, $1M inside round. But then things changed:2018: $1.5M ARR2019: $5M ARR2020: $10M ARR2021: $20M ARR2022: $40M...

en-us

13:03

Forget Founder Mode— MrBeast Mode is Where it's At. |...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/09/19

MrBeast's 36-page framework leaked this week. It's how he built a $1B+ company and became the #1 YouTuber in the world. His channel is worth over $1B. For the first time ever, we get to see how MrBeast operates. We go through the 7 most important things that startup founders can learn from MrBeast. From what maniacal obsession looks like, what it means to be an "A player", to how to teach employees to never take 'no' for an answer. In the leaked document called "How to Succeed at M...

en-us

52:56

He took on Uber & grew Rappi to $5B—here’s why the...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/09/16

Andres Bilboa is one of the co-founders of Rappi, the highest-valued app of LATAM ($5B valuation). Now he runs an incubator called Makers and has invested in dozens of startups. In this episode, he shares how Rappi started with no funding and no network. They added restaurants into their platform without permission and gave cash to couriers to buy meals. Demand was through the roof. But just as they started closing funding and scaling, Uber and UberEats came to compete.Here's the story o...

en-us

46:37

How to Get Free PR for Your Startup—Tips from the...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/09/12

Douglas has been in media and PR for over two decades. He’s the founder of Betakit Inc and has been running Betakit, Canada’s TechCrunch, for nearly 10 years. He understands what startups need to do to leverage PR, and how PR can help startups hire, fundraise and sell. On this episode, we get tactical and go deep on exactly when it makes sense to use PR and how founders can get the most from it.Why you should listenWhy you should treat PR like a subset of inbound marketingPR is all abou...

en-us

46:42

How he built Cohere, a $5.5B AI startup; How to Win...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/09/09

In this episode, I sit down with Nick Frosst, Co-Founder of Cohere, the $5.5B AI startup that’s targeting the enterprise landscape. We go through the origin story of Cohere, the challenges of building foundational models, and why he believes large language models (LLMs) won’t lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI). We also explore the fierce competition in AI, what sets Cohere apart, and Nick’s advice for founders building in AI today. Why you should listenLLMs are powerful b...

en-us

16:08

The ONLY guaranteed way to find Product Market Fit

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/09/05

Even if founders do everything right, they may still fail to find PMF. That's why even repeat founders have only 1.5% chance of building a unicorn.We talk about product-market fit constantly in this podcast. Hopefully, we learn from what others did and improve our chances of finding PMF. But there is only one way to guarantee that one day you will find product market fit. We explore that in this episode.**Got sick this week so re-releasing one of the most downloaded short episodes from last s...

en-us

40:42

They hit $100M ARR—in a "crowded market". Here's how...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/09/03

Don co-founded Vena & was CEO for 8 years. Last month, Vena became a Centaur crossing $100M in ARR. Don & his team launched Vena in a crowded market, where everyone else was trying to replace excel. So they built a budgeting and planning (FP&A) solution that instead leveraged excel. As Don says, they "disrupted the disruptors".Don knew the problem, he knew the space, he knew the customers— that’s why he grew from 0 to $1M in ARR in 18 months. Here's exactly how he did it.Why you s...

en-us

10:48

This founder was hours from hiring a VP Product—turns...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/08/29

It's the first time I see a candidate BS his way through interviews with multiple people, impress each one of them, and ultimately end up being a complete fraud. But the biggest learning wasn't that you should watch out for fraud-- it was that you shouldn't trust interviews nearly as much as you'd think.While fake candidates are rare, candidates who are 10x better at interviewing than they are at the job are quite common. In fact, the only thing you know about candidates with great logos is t...

en-us

36:22

He quit his cozy Google job & founded not 1 but 2...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/08/26

Ashutosh is one of those rare founders who founded not just one, but two unicorns. He worked at Google for 4 years, left and started Bloomreach, which was last valued at $2.2B. Halfway through that journey, he left to do it all over again. He started Eightfold AI which is the one we're talking about today. In 2021, he raised $220M from Softbank at a $2.1B valuation. When he left Bloomreach, he didn't even have a clear idea of what he was going to build. He just knew he wanted...

en-us

40:39

Q2 Early-Stage Venture Report w/ Carta’s Head of...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/08/22

Carta is the backbone of most venture-backed startups. They have access to specific information about every single round, not just what's reported in TechCrunch. Today, Peter Walker, Carta's Head of Insights joins us to share the findings from Carta's Q2 reports. We go deep into data from pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds. We cover median valuations, time between rounds, graduation rates between rounds, the AI and repeat-founder premiums, and much more.VCs know most of this data. Founde...

en-us

42:21

He built in stealth with 1 customer for a year—then...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/08/19

Last quarter, Sanish raised a $50M Series D. His company has raised over $130M. They have enterprise customers across 14 countries including Dollar General, Aldo, and CircleK. It all started because Sanish was working out of coffee shops. He wasn't looking for a startup idea. But after a few casual conversations with employees, he noticed several problems retail workers and managers faced. He decided to build Legion to solve them.He partnered with one local coffee chain, worked as a bari...

en-us

47:07

Sean Ellis led growth at Dropbox—& invented growth...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/08/15

Sean Ellis created THE test for PMF. He led growth teams at Dropbox, Eventbrite and LogMeIn, which sold for $4.3B. He coined the term Growth Hacking and wrote the best-selling book Hacking Growth. Today we go deep and tactical with him. He takes us through how to use the Sean Ellis test to perfectly measure and understand product market fit.He takes us to case studies of things that he did at LogMeIn and Dropbox to dramatically increase growth. And he shares exactly what you can do to dr...

en-us

38:04

He sold AI robots to Walmart & raised $150M. His #1...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/08/12

Daniel's been building robots for 20 years. He's sold 100s of AI robots-as-a-service to Walmart, FedEx, & DHL amongst others. Last month, he raised a $40M round.6 years ago, he realized why robots weren't getting massively adopted. Builders like him were trying to build perfect robots that always worked. But every situation has edge cases. What if you designed robots to work only 80% of the time and use humans for the other 20%?That one unique insight changed everything and was the ...

en-us

7:32

VCs give a lot of advice— & a lot of it sucks. Be...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/08/08

Advice is free—actioning bad advice isn't. Early-stage founders are bombarded with advice. A lot of it from investors who have never operated a business, never ran marketing, never led sales.And yet, many founders take VCs' advice as sacrosanct. And many VCs feel like they can and should opine on everything. If many people treat you like an expert, you must be one... right?VCs have a lot to offer founders. But, like everyone, they have circles of competence. Be careful who you listen to....

en-us

46:34

He took 3 years to make his 1st sale—then grew 1000x...

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders ·

2024/08/05

Alex got the co-founder of a public company to join him and raised $6M out of the gate—but it took him 3 years to make his first sale. But after he shifted from selling to SMBs to selling to MSPs (Managed Service Providers i.e., outsourced IT), things took off:April 2015 - $1K MRRAugust 2015 - $10K MRRJune 2016 - $100K MRRNov 2018 - $1M MRR ($12M ARR)And growth never stopped—soon, he'll cross $100M ARR.Alex and his co-founder did many things differently. They came up with an idea by star...

en-us

244 results

Similar Podcasts

TaxTalent.com The Golden Rule Podcast

Adam Golden

TaxTalent.com Podcast

Tony Santiago

Handelsblatt Crime - spannende Streitfälle der deutschen Wirtschaft

Ina Karabasz, Solveig Gode, Sönke Iwersen

Deffner und Zschäpitz – Der Wirtschafts-Talk von WELT

WELT

Black Box - La scatola nera della finanza

Guido Brera e Gian Luca Comandini -...