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September 2024

🎧🍌 Building an Open Source Security Company | Bobby DeSimone, Founder & CEO of Pomerium
How an unsecured air conditioner led to the biggest security breach in history, the sneaky large problem of access control, how AI will change security…
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1:15:07
🎧🍌 How ClickUp Bootstrapped to $10m ARR + Scaled to 9-figures in Revenue with Zeb Evans
5am standups, scrappy customer acquisition tactics, ZIRP hiring mistakes, how to run user surveys, the importance of journaling, and why all software is…
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1:43:51
🎧🍌 Inside the beehiiv Playbook with Tyler Denk, Co-founder and CEO
Lessons scaling MorningBrew to 3.5 million subscribers, positioning a new product in a crowded market, secrets to shipping fast, how to build in public…
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1:46:36
🎧🍌 The Future of AI, Software, and Tax + Lessons Scaling Zero to One | Michelle Valentine, CEO of Anrok
Why AI is so hard to predict, the trend of software consolidation, raising a Seed round in 48 hours, and early tricks for founders to avoid future sales…
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1:10:49

August 2024

🎧🍌 ShipHero’s Journey to $12B with Aaron Rubin, Founder and CEO
Narrowly avoiding bankruptcy, why ecommerce is so hard, how warehouses are still solving basic problems, why robotics is overhyped, and how TikTok Shop…
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1:16:52
🎧🍌 Building Capital One ($58B) and QED ($4B AUM) with Frank Rotman
Investing early in Nubank, common mistakes building credit businesses, losing strategies in VC, unpacking the lending supply chain, how financial…
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1:48:55
🎧🍌 Inside the Logan Bartlett Show, Investing Through Market Cycles + Bubbles, Dissecting VC Frameworks
Redpoint's founding story, analyzing Q2 '24 market data, the difference between companies valued at 100x and 5x multiples, Logan's advice for young…
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1:32:06
🎧🍌 After Selling Two Startups, Ryan Denehy's Building Electric to Automate IT Management
"Every business I've been apart of has gone through a big pivot, has had a team meltdown, and almost ran out of money"
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1:33:53

July 2024

🎧🍌 Car Dealership Guy: Anonymous VC-Backed CEO to B2B Media Company | Yossi Levi
Why Gettacar failed, surviving a pulled term sheet, tactics for recruiting, launching a media company off a Twitter account, and why people actually…
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1:31:35
🎧🍌 The Secret 4-Week Visa Powering Silicon Valley with Lisa Wehden
Why talent is the bottleneck to AI development, the secret O-1A Visa, living in a sawmill building her first startup, giving VCs their money back…
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1:10:53
🎧🍌 Building Non-Addictive Games for Kids | Melissa Cash, Pok Pok
Creating toys at Disney, designing and monetizing non-addictive products, why kids can't avoid screen time, how to get press and influencer coverage…
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