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DO AS I SAY

Joel Di Trapani

An advice show about the real problems in startups.

business entrepreneurship

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31: How to value a startup (with Pat Moody)

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2024/06/23

THE GUEST Pat Moody is a finance and strategy expert with experience spanning venture capital, investment banking, and early-stage ventures. He began his entrepreneurial journey in college with a clothing company, Burassi Apparel, quickly making a name for himself in the startup ecosystem. Pat then joined LawnStarter as the first employee, moving to Austin and going through the Techstars accelerator. He served as Chief Investment Officer of Virginia Tech’s SEED investment fund, worked in investment

00:44:36

30: Finding the right investor (with best-selling...

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2024/06/16

THE GUEST Gordon Daugherty is a seasoned business executive, startup advisor, and investor with a keen focus on early-stage startups. As the co-founder and chairman of Capital Factory, Texas’s leading startup incubator and accelerator, Gordon has been instrumental in nurturing hundreds of successful startups. He has also invested in over 350 companies, providing him with deep insights into the dynamics of venture funding and growth strategies. Gordon’s bestseller, “Startup Success,” distills his

00:16:54

29: I hate sales. How do I get better? (with Amos...

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2024/06/08

THE GUESTAmos Schwartzfarb has had a wild career and has had success so many times it's unbelievable. Amos started his career packing boxes for an old-school mail order company, which he helped convert into one of the first e-commerce companies in the world. Since then, he has founded six more companies, of which five were merged or acquired. After that success became predictable, he jumped to the investor side of the startup world as the Managing Director for Techstars, where he worked for

00:37:08

28: What should young entrepreneurs know? (with Aly...

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2024/06/02

THE GUEST Aly DeNardo is the COO for Matt Mochary, which means she does almost everything you can imagine at one of the most interesting companies in the world for the greatest CEO coach alive. I am biased because of my experience with Matt, but don’t trust me - trust the founders of OpenAI, Reddit, Coinbase, Brex, and Discord, who all swear by him. Aly is doing incredible work with Matt and fundamentally changing the way that business operates. Before this, Aly had a wealth of experience in VC,

00:34:38

27: Is Generative AI too risky right now? (with AWS...

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2024/05/26

THE GUESTMatt Domo is one of the founders of AWS! Yes, Matt created the world’s first cloud computing database and invented the entire database as a service market category, which has generated billions of dollars in revenue! And that is just one of Matt’s accolades. Matt has spent his career in technology, leading teams and boards at many of the biggest companies in the world, including Amazon, Microsoft, Verizon, and a whole lot more. Currently, Matt is the CEO and Digital Strategy Expert at

00:42:27

26: Getting Things Done (with David Allen)

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2024/05/19

THE GUESTDavid Allen is the best-selling author of Getting Things Done. In this book, David shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to 2 million people across the globe. His premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. This has to be one of the most high-impact books I have ever

00:38:27

25: Is being an entrepreneur worth it? (with Jahin...

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2024/04/28

THE GUESTJahin Tanvir is a young Australian with an insane resume. He is the CEO and co-founder of the Australian School of Entrepreneurship, a 3-time TEDx speaker, board director, guest university lecturer, and social commentator. Jahin was named one of the 40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians in 2022 at 21 years old. The Australian School of Entrepreneurship group is a community-led and purpose-driven business for good that delivers life skills education, entrepreneurship, and

00:33:15

24: Making money with AI (with Jake O’Shea)

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2024/04/01

THE GUESTJake O’Shea is the co-founder and organizer of AITX, a monthly meetup for AI entrepreneurs, operators, and enthusiasts in Austin. Each month, Jake brings together a dynamic mix of people to explore the latest advancements in AI technology, real-world applications, and the future of this rapidly growing field. Outside of this, Jake is a Principal at Antler, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on backing founders from Day Zero. When you boil this all down, Jake is a professional

00:45:30

23: Using AI to improve your startup (with 2x unicorn...

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2024/04/01

THE GUEST Jason Cohen is just insanely good at building businesses. Jason has built four technology startups with more than $1M in revenue; he has sold two and is currently working on his 4th business, WP Engine, which has 200,000 customers and 1200 employees. 2 of the businesses Jason started are worth over $1B. On top of all of this Jason is very active in the startup community, as an angel investor and writer. He is one of the only people who writes about startups that is actually worth

00:41:32

22: Why are investors obsessed with scaling? (with...

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2024/03/02

THE GUESTShark Tank Shark Steve Baxter has had incredible success as a founder and has since transitioned to starting and running one of the top investment funds in Australia. Outside of the fame, the success, and the 1000’s pitches, Steve also ran Australia’s top accelerator, River City Labs. In 2017, I went through that accelerator, which is why we survived and grew as a business. I will always have a lot of love for what Steve has been able to do for the startup community. But, to give some

00:48:03

21: How can I meet new people? (with Nick Gray)

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2024/02/25

THE GUESTBest-selling author Nick Gray wrote one of the most influential books I read last year, “The 2-Hour Cocktail Party,” which is essentially a formula and guide to hosting small gatherings or parties. This book aims to help you meet new people, strengthen existing relationships, and make YOU the person everyone wants to know. I read this book the first week I moved to the US and threw a party three weeks later. I really do love his book and recommend it all the time. Before the book, Nick

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20: Are startup accelerators worth it? (with Michael...

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2024/02/13

THE GUEST Michael Batko is the CEO of Startmate, Australia's most ambitious accelerator. Michael started as a business student following the traditional path into consulting and corporate life (Amex, PwC, KPMG) … but then fell in love with the startup world growing two start-ups from a team of 2 to 50+, including a $ 13M Series B capital raise. Then he joined Startmate, Australia's most ambitious accelerator, as Head of Operations, and ended up taking over as CEO. On top of this, Michael is

00:43:40

19: Getting started with sales (with Talia Jacqueline)

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2024/02/04

THE GUEST Talia Jacqueline is the CEO and Founder of Visceral, a training and consulting company that works with executives and sales teams to transform their verbal communication skills so they really shine in the meetings that matter most. After studying psychology at university, Talia dedicated her life to truly understanding how people think, and she is working to help people communicate effectively so they can connect deeply(a skill often taken for granted or forgotten about in the business

00:39:39

18: How to announce the death of my startup (with...

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2024/01/28

THE GUEST Danny Miranda is the host of the Danny Miranda podcast! A podcast with the ambition of selling out Madison Square Garden and one of the most incredible guest lineups you could imagine, Danny has interviewed Alex Hormozi, Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, and over 400 others! What I admire most about Danny is that he is an independent thinker; throughout his life and career, his deep curiosity has shone through, he has always asked questions that challenged who he was and challenged the path he

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17: LinkedIn outreach (with Clay Mosley)

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2023/12/02

THE GUEST Clay Mosley is the Founder and CEO of Dripify, a company founded to help businesses build their entire marketing system internally so they never have to rely on agencies again. Dripify’s tagline is ‘WE HATE MARKETING TOO,’ which I absolutely love. Before this, Clay had a wild business life; he spent the first eight years of his career bouncing from one job to another, being fired eight times before finally starting his own business. He spent the next seven years starting 2x marketing

00:34:28

16: My startup is crushing me (with Jordan Allen)

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2023/11/26

THE GUEST Jordan Allen is a very successful multiple-time founder. In 2011, Jordan founded and scaled Stay Alfred, a next-generation hospitality platform, to over $100M in annual revenue, which served over 1M guests across 40 markets with a team of more than 300 people. After this, Jordan founded Doorsey, a platform that makes buying a home 100x easier. He sold it this year to Auction.io. While Jordan has had a lot of business success, my favorite achievement is that he took investment from Adam

00:38:31

15: Product roadmaps (with ex-Google product lead...

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2023/11/19

THE GUEST Mike Knapp is an incredibly smart product thinker. Currently, Mike is building Mottle, a platform that lets you build a chatbot in 10 minutes with no coding. Before this, Mike was a product lead at Google and co-founded the experimental Google product Task Mate. Mike also co-founded Shoes of Prey, a startup he helped scale MASSIVELY to a valuation I can only imagine. In the middle of all of those projects, he was the Entrepreneur in Residence in the accelerator I did years ago and has been

00:37:14

14: Co-founder issues (with CEO Coach Regina Gerbeaux)

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2023/11/12

THE GUEST Regina Gerbeaux, is a CEO and Executive coach at Coaching Founder where she helps top-tier CEOs, operators, and investors put structure to chaos. Previously, Regina was the COO at Mochary Method, Chief of Staff to Matt Mochary, Head of Operations at On Deck, and founder of a profitably-bootstrapped startup (sold in 2019). Regina is passionate about helping people of the highest integrity build successful companies and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems and she is an expert

00:35:05

13: Does TikTok marketing work?? (with 1B+ view...

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2023/11/05

THE GUEST Michael Sikand is one of the co-hosts of the Out Future podcast, the entrepreneurship podcast for young people. Before this, and while he was in college, Michael co-founded a TikTok' business media' business aimed at Gen Z also called Our Future, that he sold to Morning Brew this year as a 22-year-old. Michael is obsessed with business and what makes people win, which is where his entire media empire started. Michael is an expert at story-telling and Gen-Z media. THE

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12: How do you launch a new feature? (with ex-Amazon...

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2023/10/30

THE GUEST Tanmay Jain is the founder of Qwokka, the first stop for movies & tv shows combining the powers of social and AI. Tanmay is a really smart product thinker, so smart in fact he has the most insane product resume I could imagine. Before Qwokka, Tanmay worked at Atlassian, Amazon and Canva building and leading product teams - and we have all used those platforms so we know Tanmay knows how to build cool shit. He also won the Apple App of the year award and the Product Hunt Golden Kitty

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