The Split

The Split

Home
Notes
Podcast
Archive
About
🎧🍌 Lessons Scaling Zero to $40M ARR in Two Years | Dan Lorenc, Chainguard
How a malware attack almost took down the internet, learning to love sales as a technical founder, lessons from Frank Slootman, and the future of open…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢
🎧🍌 Surviving Two Seed Extensions, Fixing Auth for AI Agents | Clerk Founder & CEO Colin Sidoti
How to recap a Seed stage company, leveraging Associates when fundraising, why you shouldn't change your pitch for investors, building a compound…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢
1
🎧🍌 Inside Verkada, the $4.5B Physical Security Company | Filip Kaliszan, Founder and CEO
Going zero to nearly $1B revenue in nine years, why building hardware is easier than you think, how to add new product lines, hardware fundraising…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢
🎧🍌 Forage: The Trillion Dollar Opportunity in Restricted Payments with Ofek Lavian, Co-founder and CEO
Building food stamps to 10% of Instacart's revenue, why 1 in 8 American's can't afford groceries, when micromanagement isn't bad, and why everyone…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢

March 2025

🎧🍌 How the Top US Angel Investor Operates | Ed Lando, Founder of Pareto Holdings
A playbook for incubating companies, benefits of concentration vs diversification, how to start angel investing, high vs low PR investing strategies…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢
🎧🍌 Alloy’s Unconventional Path to $1.5B with Tommy Nicholas, Co-founder and CEO
Getting PMF on steroids with hands-on sales implementations, why you're most likely to give up on something hard when it first starts to work, and how…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢
🎧🍌 The $750 Billion AI Opportunity in Customer Service | Mike Murchison, Co-founder and CEO of Ada
Why AI is still underhyped, how large companies stand to benefit most from AI, why companies talk to customers less as they grow (and how to flip that…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢

February 2025

🎧🍌 Why Founders are Moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee to Lock-in | Cam Doody at Brickyard
16x funds, building a startup insulator, scaling a local services business, why 5-star review systems don't work, and why Cam wants everyone to copy…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢
1
🎧🍌 Zero to $20m ARR in Two Months: Inside Bolt’s 7-Year Journey to Overnight Success | Eric Simons, Co-founder & CEO
Behind the scenes of hyper growth, almost shutting down months before launch, living on $1/day, building a community around your product, and how AI is…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢
🎧🍌 Rick Zullo on Building Equal Ventures, Why Traction is Overrated, and Advice for Emerging Managers
Why venture capital isn't venture capital anymore, how PE firms will benefit the most from AI, why it sucks to be a Seed investor right now, and inside…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢
🎧🍌 Illegal Immigrant to $160m Fund 1: Inside Villi Iltchev’s Journey Building Category Ventures
The evolution of Silicon Valley, his biggest career mistake, why profitability always matters, advice for founders selling their company, and why you…
 • 
Turner Novak 🍌🧢

January 2025

© 2025 Turner Novak
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture