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🎧🍌 From Zero to $150 Million Revenue in Two Years with Odeko Founder and CEO, Dane Atkinson
The magic formula for selling to SMBs, when you shouldn't listen to customers, doing things that don't scale, how to navigate pivots with your board…
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🎧🍌 The Untold Story of the Browser Company with Josh Miller
Obama's favorite web browser, why Thrive Capital gave so much equity to the founders, how to build a great team, the history of web browsers, Arc…
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🎧🍌 Peter Walker on Startup Valuations, VC Dry Powder, New Bubbles, and Employee Trends
Inside the emerging manager fundraising landscape, why Seed valuations are up 40% from 2022, why startup employees aren't exercising their options, and…
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🎧🍌 Chris Bakke on Selling His Startup to Elon and Meme Marketing
Working for Elon, how the X algorithm works, why you shouldn't raise venture capital, small exits are cool, M&A is hard, surviving inside Big Tech as a…
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🎧🍌 Inside Anchor's Journey to Product Market Fit and its Sale to Spotify with Mike Mignano
Finding PMF with only a few months of runway, traits of the best product founders, how to build a close-knit community, and the past, present, and…
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🎧🍌 Eric Newcomer on How to Pitch a Reporter, Scaling to 80k Newsletter Subscribers
Why leaks drive subscriber growth, a framework for pitching stories to reporters, differences between a reporter scooping and announcing a funding…
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🎧🍌 How To Go Viral with Siqi Chen (Runway)
Creating the fastest growing product ever, getting shut down by Tim Cook, making B2B more consumer-ey, secrets to storytelling, when to forget best…
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🎧🍌 Why Finding Product Market Fit Never Ends with Shrav Mehta (Secureframe)
Automating the $80B compliance market, non-intuitive fundraising advice, doing effective reference checks, sending strong cold emails, and why an IPO…
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🎧🍌 YouTube to Entrepreneur: Epic Gardening's $100+ Million Playbook with Kevin Espiritu, Founder and CEO
The YouTube meta game, why creators have negative CAC, mistakes launching new products, non-intuitive way products influence your cost structure, and…
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🎧🍌 The Story of Forerunner Ventures, with Kirsten Green (Founder and Managing Partner)
The future of consumer investing, being early in Faire and Dollar Shave Club, how she raised her first $5m fund, transitioning to intuitional LPs, and…
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🎧🍌 The Great Media Arbitrage: How Craig Fuller Built FreightWaves
A crash course on global supply chains, negative CAC in media companies, why Craig's acquiring magazines, building a private airport community, and why…
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🎧🍌 Building a $510 Million Personal Care Giant, with Danielle Cohen-Shohet, Founder and CEO of GlossGenius
Her secrets to capital efficiency, navigating COVID as a tool for in-person services, how she learned to delegate, why most companies aren't good at…
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