A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders
Every founder has 1 goal: find product-market fit. We interview the world's most successful startup founders on the 0 to 1 part of their journeys. We've had the founders of Reddit, Gusto, Rappi, Glean, Cohere, Huntress, ID.me and many more.
We go deep with entrepreneurs & VCs to provide detailed examples you can steal. Our goal is to understand product-market fit better than anyone on the planet.
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A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders
Latest Episodes
He introduced his buyers to VCs instead of pitching them—then closed 20 deals in a row and a $20M Series A | Jonathan Awad, Co-Founder & CEO of Baselayer
Jonathan quit his job in early 2023 with no idea and no co-founder. Tim agreed to join only if he raised $3M. He lined up 75 investor meetings a month in advance. SVB crashed on day four and 40% of his meetings canceled. He closed the round any...
He runs 3 dinners a week instead of cold outbound—and closes $500K+ ARR deals. | Nick Fleisher, Co-Founder & CEO of Sandstone
Most investors told Nick not to hire a salesperson before he had product market fit. He hired the top rep in legal tech anyway and called him a product market fit finder. That rep signed a paid five-year deal in his first week, over lunch. By t...
Revenue fell from $25M to $8M—so he raised $75M in crowdfunding and ignored VCs. | Dan Novaes, Co-Founder & CEO of Mode Mobile
Dan's first app made over $1M in two months. Then Facebook sent a cease and desist and killed it. His next company, Mode Mobile, grew revenue 32,481% in three years and ranked #1 on the Deloitte Fast 500. Then his crypto advertisers went bankru...
He turned off a product with 20M users and went from 70 people to 7—then raised a $47M Series A. | Keith Peiris, Co-Founder & CEO of Lightfield
Keith raised a $43M Series B for Tome. The product had 20 million users. But retention was terrible and nobody cared enough to complain. So he turned it off before he knew what he'd build next, went from 70 people to 7, and started over. Lightf...
VCs chased crypto and passed on his “boring” startup—then he raised $385M at a $2B valuation. | Aaron Schumm, Founder & CEO of Vestwell
Aaron started Vestwell in 2016. Two years in, he had $500K in ARR and an investor asking if it would ever make money. During the 2021 bull market, VCs told him 401ks were too boring—they were busy chasing crypto. Then Morgan Stanley signed. Tod...
