Seriously Don’t Do That™

Seriously Don’t Do That™ is a weekly show for founders making high-stakes growth decisions and trying not to learn the hard way.

Each episode focuses on one specific mistake founders make under pressure: U.S. market entry assumptions, emotional beachhead choices, premature sales hires, ICP chaos, compliance blind spots, broken pipelines, and board-level credibility gaps.

Hosted by Dan Griffith, the show brings pattern recognition from real founder situations across healthcare, fintech, insurance, and other regulated or institutionally complex markets. Guest episodes validate the reality. Dan explains what actually went wrong and what to do instead.

This isn’t hustle content. It’s not tactics without context. And it’s not agency advice.If growth feels harder than it should… you’re probably right.

Seriously, Don’t Do That!

Contributors

Host

Dan Griffith

So, the short version: undergrad in accounting, then law school – where I decided pretty quickly I didn’t want to be a lawyer. From there it was Fortune 50 sales at IBM, then years in startups, exits, and helping growth-stage companies build sales and marketing engines that actually scale.

These days I help founder-led B2B software companies – mostly in healthcare, fintech, and insurance – make the jump from “the founder closes every deal” to a repeatable process the team can run. U.S. market entry is a big part of it. So is telling people, kindly, when they’re about to do something that’s going to cost them.

That’s really what this show is. The stuff I’d tell you over coffee before you spend six figures learning it yourself.

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