Best Josh Pigford Podcasts (2024)

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Programming Books w/ Aaron Francis 49:27

7M ago49:27

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Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started f…

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Redis w/ Nate Berkopec 42:40

8M ago42:40

42:40

Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at flip…

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Service Objects w/ Jason Swett 1:31

8M ago1:31

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Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for…

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Testing w/ Josh Pigford 43:56

8M ago43:56

43:56

Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started fo…

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GraphQL w/ Trevor Turk (Bonus: VCR) 54:16

8M ago54:16

54:16

Matt and Trevor talk about GraphQL and try to answer the question "do we need it?" (Bonus hot takes on VCR snapshot testing) This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’r…

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Friday Deploys w/ Charity Majors 51:10

8M ago51:10

51:10

Matt and Charity talk about Friday Deploys and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags! Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started fo…

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Do we still need this podcast? 1:31

9M ago1:31

1:31

By Matt Swanson

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RSpec w/ Justin Searls 51:19

1+ y ago51:19

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Justin Searls on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Test Double Justin's "What do you like about RSpec" thread (2016) Dan North BDD Nate Berkopec "Reading rspec documentation like..." tweet Corey Haines: Fast Rails Tests Kent Beck: "I get paid for code that works, not for tests..." Nick Quaranto's minitest CLI wrapper Mocktail gem test_data gem…

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Small user stories w/ Dave Copeland 51:31

1+ y ago51:31

51:31

Dave Copeland on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Mood Health Taylorism / Scientific management Google DORA Report "Agile" on TikTok The Joel Test “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George CarlinBy Matt Swanson

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Staging servers w/ Justin Duke 46:21

1+ y ago46:21

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Justin Duke on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Buttondown Accidental AirBnB "test" notification The Pragmatic Programmer "SICP" book "We dont use a staging server" HN thread Checklist Manifesto IQ Bell Curve / Midwit - Know Your MemeBy Matt Swanson

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Detailed commit messages w/ Chris Toomey 53:03

1+ y ago53:03

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Chris Toomey on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Sagewell Financial Write Good Commit Messages by Blaming Others The seven rules of a good git commit message David Hemphill - WIP Hot Ones Russian Roulette and expected valueBy Matt Swanson

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WTF is YAGNI? 2:46

2y ago2:46

2:46

Everything has to start somewhere. Why not here?By Matt Swanson

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A Holistic Approach to Financial Forecasting with Bijan Moallemi 52:45

2y ago52:45

52:45

About Bijan Moallemi: A graduate of UCSD, Bijan Moallemi has nearly a decade of experience building and leading finance functions at companies like Qualcomm and Palantir. He knew CFOs deserved access to better tools, so he co-founded Mosaic Finance to build the next generation of finance software for CFOs and their teams. Today, Mosaic has achieved…

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🏅 37. Patrick Campbell (Profitwell, now Paddle) 1:39:18

2y ago1:39:18

1:39:18

(Bio courtesy of Indie Hackers podcast) We're talking to Patrick Campbell, an indie founder who just sold his company for $200,000,000. That's an insane nine figure exit for a bootstrapped founder. In this episode, we talk with Patrick about his champagne problems and what indie hackers need to know today to get to where he is more quickly. Patrick…

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Escaping the Analysis Paralysis of Managing Personal Finances with Will Peng 1:00:53

2y ago1:00:53

1:00:53

About Will Peng: Will Peng is the CEO and Co-Founder of Northstar, a financial wellness and benefits platform. Prior to founding Northstar, Will worked in Venture Capital and his firm was an early investor in Coinbase, Guideline, Even, and Oscar. Inspired by the positive change fintech can have on people’s lives, Will set out to solve the inequalit…

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🏅 36. Leo Bassam (Plutio) 1:10:54

2y ago1:10:54

1:10:54

Leo Bassam is an entrepreneur and the CEO & founder of Plutio. Their Twitter bio reads: "Founder @plutio_app. Roaming the world with an incredible remote team as we pave the way for anyone to start, run and grow their business from anywhere" Leo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/loaibassam Plutio's website: https://www.plutio.com/ —— Links Reddit SaaS…

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🏅 35. Chris Do (The Futur, Blind) 36:15

2y ago36:15

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Chris Do's bio (courtesy of "Web 3 and NFTs for Newbies" Podcast) Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. Check out Chris' Socials: Website | Instagram | T…

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Ownership Mentality: How to Tackle Problems Proactively as a Growing Team with Jon Penland 1:18:26

2y ago1:18:26

1:18:26

About Jon Penland: With 6+ years of experience working remotely in the technology space, and 10+ years working with customer-facing teams across multiple industries, Jon stepped into the role of Chief Operating Officer at Kinsta, where his responsibilities include hiring and onboarding as Kinsta has grown from a team of 4 to a team of more than 250…

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The Advantages of Open Source Platforms with Douwe Mann 54:11

2y ago54:11

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About Douwe Mann: Born and raised in the Netherlands, Douwe Maan was introduced to computers early by his father, and picked up programming at the age of nine. While studying at Utrecht University, Douwe co-founded a SaaS startup that grew to $150k in ARR, which led to him joining GitLab in 2015 as employee number 10 after landing the parents of it…

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🏅 34. Josh Pigford (Maybe Finance, Baremetrics) 47:36

2y ago47:36

47:36

Josh Pigford Josh Pigford is a serial entrepreneur. He is the creator of Maybe.co, Baremetrics.io, Temper.io, PopSurvey.com, PugSpot, Tiny Farmstead and other little bits of internet stuff. Josh's most recent business is Maybe. Their website reads "In 2021 I founded Maybe where we're helping folks take control of their financial future. I also run …

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Cutting Time Wasters and Using Resources Efficiently with Bryan Clayton 47:37

2y ago47:37

47:37

About Bryan Clayton: Bryan is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal, Bryan Clayton founded Pe…

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🏅 33. Pierre De Wulf (ScrapingBee) 1:10:14

2y ago1:10:14

1:10:14

Pierre's Bio (c/o NoCode Wealth Podcast) Pierre de Wulf is the co-founder of ScrappingBee, a service that handles headless browsers and rotates proxies for you. Pierre is bootstrapping ScrappingBee, currently making $1 million ARR with a team of 3, and sharing all the lessons learned along the way. —— Links Pierre's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pie…

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🏅 32. Pat Walls (Starter Story) 1:32:42

2+ y ago1:32:42

1:32:42

Pat's bio (c/o Indie Bites Podcast) Pat Walls is the founder of Starter Story, a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. They interview entrepreneurs from around the world about how they started their business and how they grew it, including revenue figures for every business they interview. Pat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepatwa…

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How to Develop the Products Your Customers Actually Need with Aran Khanna 52:33

2+ y ago52:33

52:33

About Aran: Aran Khanna has been labeled many things. Thought leader. Innovator. And (at times) troublemaker. Now, in his search to give technological control back to developers and business leaders, he’s added cloud management entrepreneur to that list as the Co-Founder & CEO of Archera, a company that helps organizations find cloud solutions that…

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🏅 31. Dennis Hegstad (LiveRecover, OrderBump) 54:40

2+ y ago54:40

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Dennis' bio (courtesy of Ecommerce Conversations podcast) Dennis Hegstad co-founded LiveRecover, a real-time SMS app, in 2018. He sold the company in 2021. "I became bored," he said. So he purchased OrderBump, a Shopify app for product upsells. Dennis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/dennishegstad —— Links Reddit SaaS: https://www.reddit.com/r/saas My…

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Selling Online Businesses and Growing a Global Team with Justin Cooke 1:13:08

2+ y ago1:13:08

1:13:08

Show Notes: 00:46 Starting your first business 03:30 As a company, how do you provide value to your employees? Is offering high commissions sustainable? 06:30 Losing a business isn’t the end of the world, there’s no shame in taking a job while you regroup 09:20 Outsourcing labor in the days before Upwork etc 11:25 Getting the mojo back: starting a …

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🏅 30. Rob Walling: How To Price Your SaaS 1:41:18

2+ y ago1:41:18

1:41:18

Rob's bio (c/o Leadmore) Rob Walling sees himself as a maker and serial entrepreneur. These days he leads with three things: Startups for the Rest of Us, a podcast about bootstrapping SaaS companies, MicroConf, the oldest and largest community for bootstrapped SaaS founders, and TinySeed, the first accelerator designed for bootstrappers. Rob's Twit…

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🏅 29. Brian Casel: How To Get Acquired 10 Times (ZipMessage.com) 1:49:54

2+ y ago1:49:54

1:49:54

Brian's bio Brian Casel is a serial founder who currently runs ZipMessage.com. In the past, they've built (and sold many of the following): ProcessKit, Big Snow Tiny Conf, Audience Ops, Productize, Thready, SunriseKPI, Ops Calendar, Restaurant Engine, Hotel Propeller, WP Bids, ThemeJam. Their website reads: I love the hard, creative work of designi…

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Innovating the Translating Industry with Matija Kovač 1:04:02

2+ y ago1:04:02

1:04:02

About Matija Kovač: Matija Kovač is the co-founder and head of development at Taia Translations, a company that bridges the gap between language barriers with the help of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. About Taia Translations: Taia Translations is a modern translation platform, where we help companies translate their documents, websi…

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Eliminating Passwords with Reed McGinley-Stempel 59:31

2+ y ago59:31

59:31

About Reed-McGinley-Stempel: Reed is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stytch, a platform for passwordless authentication that makes it simple for apps and websites to retire the password. Before founding Stytch, Reed joined Plaid as one of their first 100 employees. He remained with them until they grew to a $5B+ valuation. With a selection of new product…

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How Leaders Should Use Data with Benn Stancil 59:27

2+ y ago59:27

59:27

About Benn Stancil: Benn Stancil is cofounder and Chief Analyst at Mode Analytics, a company building collaborative tools for data scientists and analysts. Benn is responsible for overseeing Mode's internal analytics efforts, and is also an active contributor to the data science community. In addition, Benn provides strategic oversight and guidanc…

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From 0 to 100K customers with Mike Potter 1:03:46

2+ y ago1:03:46

1:03:46

About Mike Potter: Mike Potter is the co-founder and CEO of Rewind, the leading data backup and recovery provider for cloud and SaaS data. While studying Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University, Mike began his start-up career as the founder of InTheHack.com, one of the most popular sporting websites in Canada. Since founding Rewind in 2015, M…

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Serial entrepreneurship and customer development with Jeff Solomon 1:23:12

2+ y ago1:23:12

1:23:12

About Jeff Solomon: Jeff is a 6x founder and has been in the startup scene for most of his career. He has done just about every role from CEO to Chief Janitor, Head of Product to Marketing Lead. He has deep expertise in Saas, Content Marketing, SEO, Mobile Apps, Startup Accelerators, Lead Generation, UX, Angel & Seed Funding, B2B Software, Enterpri…

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🏅 28. Tyler Robertson (DieselLaptops.com) 1:23:38

2+ y ago1:23:38

1:23:38

Tyler's Bio (from his Reddit AmA) "6 Years ago I quit my full time job to start a business. We’ve bootstrapped it to over $50 million/year in revenue and just won Top 25 Fastest Growing in SC for 4th year in a row. AMA!" We are debt free, 185 employees (trying to hire another 20…), and I started it with less then $1000. We’ve just won Top 25 Fastes…

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Building a Better CRM with Jeroen Corthout 1:00:19

2+ y ago1:00:19

1:00:19

About Jeroen Corthout: Jeroen is the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, a simply powerful CRM that automates data to build better relationships and make more sales. It's a fast, visual and easy-to-use sales machine. Salesflare is the most popular CRM ever on both Product Hunt and AppSumo. It also got featured on TechCrunch and Entrepreneur.com. Prio…

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🏅 27. Christian Friedland (ex Build.com) 1:35:44

2+ y ago1:35:44

1:35:44

Christian's bio (courtesy of Andrew Gazdecki, Microacquire) Christian Friedland is a highly successful entrepreneur and EY Entrepreneur Of The Year nominee who founded, bootstrapped, scaled, and sold Build.com, the largest pure-play internet retailer in the home improvement space in the U.S. During his 15-year tenure at Build.com, he led the compan…

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Building a Customer-Centric Brand with André Monteiro 48:09

2+ y ago48:09

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About André Monteiro: André is the co-founder and CTO of Verb Energy. He's a NY-based entrepreneur that leads the tech team at Verb Energy, one of the fastest growing food and beverage brands in the country. André and his team have built a suite of internal tools like a CRM and workflow orchestrator that enable their team to personalize and manage …

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🏅 26. Rob Walling (TinySeed, MicroConf, Drip.com) 1:24:20

2+ y ago1:24:20

1:24:20

Rob's bio (c/o Leadmore) Rob Walling sees himself as a maker and serial entrepreneur. These days he leads with three things: Startups for the Rest of Us, a podcast about bootstrapping SaaS companies, MicroConf, the oldest and largest community for bootstrapped SaaS founders, and TinySeed, the first accelerator designed for bootstrappers. Rob's Twit…

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🏅 25. Daniel Vassallo 2:46:41

2+ y ago2:46:41

2:46:41

Daniel's bio (c/o The Genuinely Interested Podcast) Daniel Vassallo used to work for Amazon. By every measuring standard, he should have been happy & content. He was successful, making a high salary, getting promotions, working with great coworkers - all while working for one of the biggest companies in the world. However, over time, Daniel's motiv…

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Writing a New Startup Narrative with Rand Fishkin 1:01:32

2+ y ago1:01:32

1:01:32

About Rand Fishkin: Rand Fishkin is cofounder and CEO of audience research software startup, SparkToro. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos, speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder. When Rand’s not working, he’s usually cooking a fancy meal for the love of his life, author Geraldin…

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Pivoting 2x to find product market fit with Spencer Coon 1:06:07

3y ago1:06:07

1:06:07

In this episode, we talk about Spencer's start in investment banking, his decision to leave banking & start a SaaS, and how he pivoted multiple times to find product market fit.By Baremetrics

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🏅 24. Andrew Gazdecki (MicroAcquire.com) 1:28:35

3y ago1:28:35

1:28:35

Andrew's bio (from their AmA) Hi everyone, Andrew here from MicroAcquire! Startup acquisition marketplace! MicroAcquire helps startups find buyers. Simple as that. We’ll help you start conversations that lead to an acquisition in just 30 days – for free. When my company Bizness Apps was acquired in 2018 by a PE firm, it was a bittersweet moment. On…

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🏅 23. Derrick Reimer (SavvyCal.com) 2:12:42

3y ago2:12:42

2:12:42

Derrick's bio (from their AmA) Hey, I’m Derrick Reimer, a full-stack developer. I fell in love with the 37signals ethos back in 2009 and I’ve been bootstrapping ever since. I've built and sold StaticKit (acquired 2020), a toolkit of dynamic components for static sites, Codetree (acquired 2016), a way of managing development tasks across multiple re…

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🏅 22. Spencer Fry (Podia.com): A how-to on founders and financial aims 1:41:26

3y ago1:41:26

1:41:26

Spencer's bio (from their AmA) Hey everyone 👋 Excited to talk about all things startups and creator economy, and anything else. A brief bit of bio: I’ve been an entrepreneur my entire life, since my early teens. At 37 years old, I’ve never earned a paycheck from anyone other than myself. This is one of my proudest accomplishments. Co-founded and ex…

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Scaling a values-led podcasting platform with Craig Hewitt 1:18:04

3y ago1:18:04

1:18:04

About Craig Hewitt: Craig is the founder of Castos, where he leads of team of 15 extremely talented individuals that are crafting the best podcasting platform in the industry. He's a husband to an amazing wife, and father to two incredible children. About Castos: Castos is a full-service podcast hosting, distribution, and analytics platform, with a…

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21. Live AmA, AJ (Carrd.co): Accidentally bootstrapped Carrd to $1M ARR, 3m sites, and a funding round 1:24:09

3y ago1:24:09

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AJ"s Bio, from their AmA Hi folks! I'm AJ, the guy behind random projects like HTML5 UP, Pixelarity, and for the last few years Carrd, a platform for creating one-page sites for pretty much anything (from personal profiles to landing pages to ... well, a whole bunch of use cases I never anticipated ;) Carrd began life back in 2015 as an experiment …

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The Road to SaaS From the Music Industry with Marc Brown 1:14:58

3y ago1:14:58

1:14:58

About Marc Brown: Marc Brown is the founder of Byta. Marc got his start in music at murderecords, Canada’s premier artist-owned label during the mid 90s. After working in A&R at the legendary London indie Creation Records, then at Alan McGee’s Poptones, Marc started his own boutique UK radio promotion company off the back of his success with The Hi…

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🏅 20. James McKinven (Indie Bites): How to start a podcast + personal life chat 3:37:06

3y ago3:37:06

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I'm a podcaster, video creator and marketer. By day, I'm part of the Growth Team at Welder. By night, I run various different side businesses. Indie Bites is my podcast, Striqo is my podcast editing service and Whitstable Craft Co is what I do when I need to get away from the screen. I love starting and building side projects (maybe too much) and I…

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🏅 19. Marie Prokopets (Nira.com) 1:56:27

3y ago1:56:27

1:56:27

Marie's Bio, thanks to the Life Profitability Podcast Marie Prokopets has had a “wild ride” of a career. She is the co-founder of tech start-up FYI, recent recipient of Product Hunt’s Golden Kitty Maker of the Year award, former Diageo Director of Tequila, comedy screenplay writer, and avid meditator, crystal collector, and sage burner. In this epi…

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Evolving a Fantasy Sports Business with Peter Schoenke 59:15

3y ago59:15

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ABOUT PETER SCHOENKE: Peter Schoenke is the co-founder and President of RotoWire.com, a leading content and technology provider to fantasy sports consumers and media companies including ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, NFL.com, FanDuel, DraftKings and Sirius XM Radio. Mr. Schoenke is also a board member of the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association, where he head…

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