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The Peel with Turner Novak

Exploring the world’s greatest startup stories. Get a behind the scenes look into the founding stories of your favorite companies. Learn how the industries they operate in actually work, and learn playbooks and tactics you can use to launch and scale your own business.

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01:23:44

SMB Masterclass: Zero to $150M Revenue in Two Years...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2024/04/11

Dane Atkinson is the Founder and CEO of Odeko, the all-in-one operations partner for local businesses.Dane has spent his entire career helping small businesses. This episode is a masterclass on selling to SMBs. He shares all his lessons learned as a founder, and how Odeko survived zero revenue during COVID and hit $150 million in revenue two years later. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (03:33) The magic formula to sell to SMBs (04:06) Why every small business starts as a dream (21:57) The reasons you

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01:15:39

Josh Miller on How The Browser Company Started, How...

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2024/04/04

Josh Miller is CEO and co-founder of The Browser Company, which is building a new internet browser. He explains why effective hiring requires caring a lot and trusting your taste and why Arc Search, a default mobile browser, could be The Browser Company’s next act.TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:35) Working for Obama (00:03:55) Giving up 8-figures in Meta stock (00:08:19) Barack Obama’s favorite web browser (00:09:02) Why Arc released a mobile browser (00:10:03) How Josh met Josh

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01:26:58

Market Update: Peter Walker on 2023 VC Valuation...

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2024/03/28

Subscribe to my newsletter The Split for new episodes emailed every week: https://www.thespl.it/ Brought to you by Attio, the next generation of CRM: https://bit.ly/AttioThePeel Peter Walker is Head of Insights at Carta and writes a newsletter called “The Data Minute”, a weekly newsletter highlighting data from over 43,000 private tech companies that use Carta’s platform to manage their cap table. He gives us into a deep dive on VC valuation trends, the fundraising landscape, and startup

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01:08:55

Chris Bakke on Selling to Elon, Small Exits, and...

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2024/03/21

Subscribe to my newsletter The Split for new episodes emailed every week: https://www.thespl.it/Chris Bakke has founded and sold three companies for between $25-100 million to Zillow, Indeed, and most recently Twitter / X. He shares how he convinced Elon to buy his company, what it's like working for Elon, exactly how the Twitter algorithm works, and all his meme making secrets. — — — — Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:52) Inside Twitter’s acquisition of Laskie(05:38) Why Twitter / X works so

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01:19:10

Inside Anchor’s Sale to Spotify and its Journey to...

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2024/03/13

Subscribe to my newsletter The Split for new episodes emailed every week: https://www.thespl.it/ Brought to you by Attio, the next generation of CRM: https://bit.ly/AttioThePeelMike is currently a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Before Lightspeed, he spent five years building Anchor, which he sold to Spotify in 2020, and then led Spotify’s podcast, video, and live products for three years. It's probably safe to assume every podcast you listen to uses Mike’s product, and we go way back

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01:21:25

Eric Newcomer on Scaling to 80,000 Newsletter Subs,...

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2024/03/07

Eric Newcomer is the founder of Newcomer, a publication he launched in October of 2020 to cover the business of startups and venture capital. He had just left Bloomberg after nearly six years, and was previously the first employee at The Information.— — — — Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:46) The current state of media (05:59) Anchoring his 4th grade newscast (07:21) Becoming the 1st employee at The Information (09:34) How reporters get stories (21:12) The moment he quit Bloomberg to start

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01:34:17

How To Go Viral, Secrets to Storytelling, and...

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2024/02/29

Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Runway, the modern and intuitive way to model, plan, and align your business for everyone on your team. Or, in Siqi’s words, “revolutionizing the $80 trillion business industry”.A few months ago, Runway’s new website went viral across the internet. Siqi takes us inside how that happened. He’s no stranger to going viral, having previously built multiple companies that went from zero to millions of users within weeks, including the fastest growing product ever

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01:18:21

Automating the $80 Billion SOC 2 Market with Shrav...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2024/02/23

Shrav Mehta is the Founder and CEO of Secureframe, which empowers businesses to build trust with customers by automating information security and compliance. Shrav started the company in 2019 after being an early employee at Scale, Pilot, Lob, and Hired, and has since raised from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Backend Capital, Soma Capital, and Banana Capital.Shrav takes us inside how Secureframe’s automating the compliance market, lessons learned on recruiting and scaling teams, and his

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01:36:04

Epic Gardening's $100+ Million YouTube Playbook with...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2024/02/15

Kevin Espiritu is the founder and CEO of Epic Gardening, which is, by multiple measures, one of the largest brands in gardening on the planet.What started in 2013 as a blog has since evolved into a gardening empire spanning YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, 4,500 gardening stores, and three gardening books. Epic raised a $17.5m Series A from The Chernin Group in 2021, and according to external sources did $27 million in revenue in 2022. — — — — Brought to you by Attio, the next generation of

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01:18:27

How Kirsten Green Built Forerunner Ventures

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2024/02/08

Kirsten Green is the founder of Forerunner Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on understanding the mindset of the modern consumer. Kirsten started Forerunner in 2010, and was an early investor in companies like Faire, Chime, Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club, Hims, Glossier, Jet, Bonobos, HotelTonight, and The Farmer’s Dog. This episode takes us behind the scenes of Kirsten’s two decade journey building Forerunner from scratch. She talks about her biggest mistakes, wins, and lessons learned

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01:56:49

The Great Media Arbitrage: How Craig Fuller Built...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2024/02/01

Craig Fuller is the Founder and CEO of FreightWaves, a media company and data provider for the global supply chain. He’s also the CEO of Flying Media Group, which he founded in 2021 to acquire Flying Magazine, the largest US-based print magazine for the aviation industry. This conversation is split into three parts: a crash course on logistics and supply chains, how to build and run a media company, and finally all things print magazines. Topics discussed include: (00:00) Intro (02:39) Why

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01:05:13

Building a $510 Million Personal Care Giant with...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2024/01/25

Danielle Cohen-Shohet is the CEO and Founder of GlossGenius, the all-in-one booking, payments and POS solution that helps beauty and wellness professionals drive bookings and grow their business. Danielle started the company in 2016 and has since grown it to a $510 million valuation. This is while taking a disciplined approach to fundraising, raising roughly $70 million throughout the life of the company. — Topics include: A crash course on the $160 billion beauty, health, and wellness market How

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00:51:12

The Story of Nubank, The World’s Largest Neobank with...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2024/01/18

Cristina Junqueira is the co-founder of Nubank, the largest neobank in Latin America – and in the world – with more than 80 million customers. She is also the second self-made female billionaire in Brazil. Cristina and her co-founders David Vélez and Edward Wible launched Nubank in 2013, essentially building the fintech category in a market where it was nonexistent, and went on to release a no-fee credit card, app, and other banking products across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Cristina takes us

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02:02:39

Immigrant to $250M CEO: How Circle Powers the Creator...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2024/01/11

Sid Yadav is the Co-founder and CEO of Circle, the all-in-one community platform trusted by creators like Tiago Forte, David Perell, and Miles Snider. Sid started the tech blog Rev2 when he was a teenager in New Zealand, writing about the launch of YouTube and the iPhone. He was the founding engineer and designer of Teachable, which he helped scale to +25m+ in ARR before it was acquired in 2020. He started Circle in 2019 with co-founders Rudy Santino and Andrew Guttormsen, which they scaled to $16m

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01:10:55

🎮 Growing Medal to 10+ Million Gamers | Pim de Witte...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2023/12/18

Pim de Witte is the Co-founder and CEO of Medal, which enables millions of gamers to capture and share their favorite gaming moments with friends. Pim started the company in 2015 and has since raised over $72 million, supported by investors like OMERS Ventures, Makers Fund, Dune Ventures, and Horizon Ventures. Brought to you by Secureframe, the automated compliance platform built by compliance experts: https://bit.ly/3OwGdGC Read the transcript:

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01:21:39

How Unit Operates with Precision, with Itai Damti...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2023/12/14

Itai Damti is the Co-founder and CEO of Unit, the platform that helps leading tech companies store, move, and lend money.Unit has raised over $170 million from investors like Better Tomorrow Ventures, Accel, Insight, and dozens of angels. — In this episode, we discuss: The first and second wave of fintech innovation How the second wave brings financial services inside other software How Unit beat the competition and raised $170 million by focusing on product and expanding the market size

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01:12:15

Pricing Lessons from the Fastest Growing Companies...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2023/12/12

Kevin Liu is the Co-founder and CEO of Metronome, which enables software companies to launch, iterate, and scale their business models with billing infrastructure that works at any size and stage. Prior to Metronome, Kevin and his co-founder Scott Woody both sold their respective separate companies to Dropbox. Kevin and Scott started Metronome in 2019, and have since raised over $30 million from investors like a16z, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, and dozens of other angels. — Brought to

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01:13:01

Zapier’s Secrets to Product Market Fit with Wade...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2023/11/30

Wade Foster is the Co-founder and CEO of Zapier, an automation platform that helps you work faster. Wade and his co-founders Mike and Bryan started the company in 2011, and have always done things a bit differently. From being a startup based in Missouri, working as a remote team since 2011, and raising very little outside capital despite being one of the fastest growing startups in the world. — Brought to you by Secureframe, the automated compliance platform built by compliance experts. Get

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01:06:58

How Solugen is Saving the $5 Trillion Chemical...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2023/11/15

Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt are the Co-founders of Solugen, which replaces petroleum based products with plant-derived substitutes without sacrificing affordability or performance. They met playing poker in college, kickstarted the company with $10k from an MIT pitch competition, and have since scaled the business to over nine-figures in revenue. Solugen has raised over $642 million from investors like Fifty Years, Lowercarbon Capital, Founders Fund, Refactor Capital, and Cantos

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02:07:32

Secrets of the $131 Billion Parking Industry with...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2023/11/08

Jonathon Barkl is the Co-founder and CEO of AirGarage, a full-stack parking management company that helps real estate owners increase their income. Jonathon and his co-founders Chelsea and Scott started the company in 2017. They’ve since raised roughly $15 million from investors including Founders Fund, Floodgate, a16z, Abstract, and prior guest of the show Ryan Delk. — Brought to you by Secureframe, the automated compliance platform built by compliance experts. Get compliant with security and

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