Welcome to yet another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! 🎉 Today's episode was live recorded in Austin where I interviewed Jason Cohen at the SaaStock conference in May 2024. Jason Cohen is a four-time entrepreneur across 24 years who has built both bootstrapped and VC-funded businesses in his career. He had two exits and two unicorns and has…

Welcome to yet another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! 🎉 Today's episode is a fun one where the tables have turned and I got to be interviewed by my friend and a fellow podcaster Andrew Tsao. This episode was originally recorded in February 2024 and the publishing step got delayed due to other priorities until now (May 2024). In this conver…

Welcome to yet another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! 🎉 Today's episode features Tharshan Thavaharan who leads Partnerships at Paddle, a fintech company last valued at $1.4b where I also work now. In 2023, he started the AI Launchpad, a global founder program at Paddle which attracted 59 AI startups from 21 countries and in 6 weeks helped …

Welcome to yet another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! 🎉 Today's episode features Ariel Renous, co-founder and CEO of Augment.org. Augment is a modern online alternative to the traditional MBA program. Augment's approach is to reshape education by leveraging online tools to offer high-quality business knowledge straight from the minds of th…

Welcome to 2024's 1st episode of the Build In Public Podcast! 🎉 Today's episode features Jason Cohen, four-time entrepreneur across 24 years who has built both bootstrapped and VC-funded businesses in his career. He had two exits and two unicorns and has been writing for 17 years on the Internet. You may have seen him on X as @asmartbear or read on…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Gale Wilkinson, founder and Managing Partner at VITALIZE, a seed fund and angel community investing in transformative WorkTech software and currently deploying capital out of a $23.4M Fund II and their 500+ member angel community. Previously founded IrishAngels, one…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Jess Chan, founder of Backbone, a platform designed to streamline email marketing for small eCommerce teams. She is one of the top retention marketing experts, with expertise in retention marketing through email and SMS. She previously founded Longplay Brands, a ful…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Michael Girdley, CEO of a $100m/yr holding company and a serial entrepreneur for 20 companies over 30 years in San Antonio. Michael is also a partner at the Geekdom Fund, a seed-stage tech venture capital fund that has invested in over 50 high-growth tech companies.…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Champ Bennett, co-founder and CEO of Capsule, an AI-powered video editor for content and marketing teams. Previously, Champ also co-founded a startup called “Phhhoto” that was widely used by celebrities like Katy Petty and Beyonce. In this interview, Champ and KP di…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features serial entrepreneur Yong-Soo Chung, who has bootstrapped his Personal Holding Company to near 8-figures in annual revenue over the past 8 years. In this interview, KP and Yong-Soo covered a spectrum of topics, exploring Yong-Soo's journey and providing their insight…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features founder of ApplyAll Tal Flanchraych, Co-founder of Engyne AI Sukhpal Saini, Codeless Coach Andrew Tsao and Fermi Fun founder Sangharsh Bhustalimath - four of the most promising fellows from the 3rd Cohort of the Build In Public Fellowship In this interview, KP, Tal,…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Sachit Gupta - founder of Platforms Media, a company that offers services to help podcasters grow their audiences and monetize their shows He has worked on campaigns with top podcasters like Andrew Warner (Mixergy), #1 NYT best-selling authors (Tim Ferriss, Seth God…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features John Weiman, founder of Life Bridge Coaching and a world-class expert in relationship counseling. Dubbed a 'Miracle Man,' he's helped over 3,000 couples in coaching sessions In this interview, John and KP discussed their insights and opinions on topics such as: ● In…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features a sneak peek of a Fireside Chat we had in our Build In Public Podcast Fellowship on the theme of podcasting and asking great questions. We were thrilled to have Danny Miranda share his insights on this topic. Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast (t…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Tyler Denk, CEO of the multi million dollar start-up Beehiiv - a newsletter platform that helps creators launch, scale, and monetize their newsletters. He and his co-founders were able to grow Beehiiv to $4M in annual revenue and raise tens of millions of dollars fr…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Lloyed Lobo, an entrepreneur, podcast host and community builder, who experienced the Gulf War as a young refugee in Kuwait, witnessing the strength of communities in evacuating the population to safety. He is currently the founder of Boast AI - a software that inte…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Neil Thanedar, the founder & solo GP of Utopic, a pre-seed VC fund investing in biotech startups led by scientist CEOs. He is also the founder & chairman of Labdoor, a consumer watchdog with $7M+ in funding and 20M+ users, and Air to All, a 501(c)3 nonprofit medical…

Welcome to the eleventh episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Mac Martine, a bootstrapped SaaS founder who recently had a life-changing exit for his business that he grew from 0 to $58k MRR in just 30 months. Building apps since 2008, he began his journey with multi…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Adam Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Boost VC, which is an early-stage venture capital firm with $200m AUM. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist who comes from a family of highly influential leaders including his dad, Tim Draper…

Welcome to the tenth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features John Rush, founder of Mars X - a dev tool making $1.5m ARR with over 20,000 developers in the ecosystem. John has been a software expert and entrepreneur for over 15 years and has made multiple acquisitions …

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Calum Johnson, host of The Calum Johnson Show – a podcast with over 250 episodes. He built a top 5% pod that got 1.5 million views on social in 60 days. Calum also owns the podcast production company CJ Podcast Pro - helping companies & entrepreneurs build a unique …

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Jim Kroft, Aishwarya Ashok, and Varun Kumaraswamy - three exceptional fellows from the awesome 2nd cohort of the Build In Public Fellowship (BIPF). BIPF is a curated community and 6-week program designed to help ambitious founders put themselves out the arena and bu…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Sheel Mohnot, the co-founder and GP at Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $225M fund that helps fintech founders at their early stages. BTV has also recently launched a fintech accelerator, this time under its own roof, called The Mint. In this interview, Sheel and KP unco…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Marc Cohen, a solo partner and investor at Unbundled VC, typically investing in early-stage startups mainly in digital tech, and e-commerce with up to £200k checks. In this interview, Marc and KP navigate through Marc's experiences, personal insights and reflections…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Anna Buldakova, the founder and CEO of Meander - a platform that helps tech professionals to change or advance their careers through mentorship. Meander was recently launched on Product Hunt snatching #1 Product of the Day, #1 Product of the Week, #5 Product of the …

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Krish Ramineni, co-founder and CEO of Fireflies - an AI note-taking assistant designed to streamline corporate productivity. In this interview, Krish and KP delve into Krish’s founder journey, sharing their perspectives on topics such as: ● Introduction to Fireflies…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Chenell Basilio, the prolific writer behind Growth in Reverse, a newsletter that reverse engineers how top creators go from zero to 50k+ subscribers. In this interview, Chenell and KP unpack an array of perspectives and a few tips on topics such as: ● What ‘Growth i…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Oliver “Olly” Meakings, Co-founder of Senja, a platform that makes it easy to collect video and text testimonials from clients and customers. He has now taken Senja to $7K MRR while also being prolific at building in public, sharing his highs and lows in being a fou…

Welcome to the ninth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Andrew Gazdecki – founder and CEO of MicroAcquire, now Acquire.com. Acquire is a platform that helps different entrepreneurs for startups and acquisitions. He previously founded The Job Board and Bizness App…

Welcome to the eighth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Alexander Isora - founder of Unicorn Platform, a SaaS tool that Alex bootstrapped, grew and sold after ~4 years. In this interview, Alex and KP tackled different topics about Alex’s experiences throughout h…

Welcome to the seventh episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Joe France - founder of The Independent You, a newsletter and course. He previously built Admax, a media company in Southeast Asia, and grew it up to its multi-million dollar acquisition. In this interview…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! Today's episode features Louis Pereira, founder of AudioPen – an AI tool that transforms unstructured voice notes into concisely summarized text. Louis is a prolific no-code product builder, and also a writer. Since the recording of this episode, AudioPen has officially launched on ProductH…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! Today's episode features 4 prolific Fellows from the first cohort of the Build In Public Fellowship – a curated community and 5-week program designed to help builders put themselves out there and build in public fearlessly. For this episode, KP got to sit with: Jesse Link: previous VP at Go…

Welcome to the sixth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Igor Krasnik - the CTO at Paralect & co-founder of Mmntm and Nano community. By the way, Paralect is our official sponsor for the Million Dollar Exits segment. In this interview, Igor and KP explored an arra…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! Today's episode features Linda Lebrun, the person behind Writer Partnerships at Substack.com which is a subscription network based on writing, podcasting, community, and other forms of culture-making. The network has more than 35 million active subscriptions, including 2 million paid subscr…

Welcome to the fifth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Chris Frantz, founder of an early-stage automated copywriting startup Snazzy AI, which he built and scaled to a multi-million-dollar exit to Unbounce. In this interview, Chris shares his experience and thoug…

Welcome to the fourth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Arvid Kahl, co-founder of FeedbackPanda - an online teacher productivity SaaS company, that he and his partner built, bootstrapped to $55k MRR, and sold in under two years. In this interview, Arvid shares h…

Welcome to the third episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features JK Molina, the 22-year-old co-founder of Tweet Hunter that helped grow it to a multi-million revenue business and eventually exited. In this interview, JK delves into topics such as: ● JK’s Million Dollar Ex…

Welcome to the second episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features James Clift, currently the founder of Durable, an AI website builder that generates an entire business website. He grew Visual VC to 4M+ members which eventually led to his million dollar exit. In this inte…

Welcome to the debut episode of the “Million Dollar Exits”, a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Tibo Louis-Lucas, founder that created and scaled Tweet Hunter, a SaaS startup, from idea to a multi-million dollar exit. He is also the Founder of Taplio, Co-Founder of Pony Express and recently received…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Andrew Barry, the founder, and CEO of Curious Lion, a Leaning Culture consulting firm reimagining how high-growth B2B tech companies learn. He is an accomplished education consultant, previously a Program Director at On Deck Course Creators, a CPA, and an entreprene…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Owen Willis, a prolific operator, community builder and investor in the healthtech space. He recently ran On Deck Health and previously was COO at Osmosis and a special education teacher through Teach For America. In this chat, Owen shared valuable insights on: ● Th…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Gina Bianchini, who has always been on the forefront of the online community business and has led over 3 million people from her journey at the pioneering platform, Ning. Now as a founder of the successful “network effect” platform, Mighty Network and author of high…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode is a cross post from a separate episode from the “Ask KP Show” on the Waitroom platform - where listeners ask KP anything about Startups, Building Communities, Leveraging No-Code Tools, Launching Side-Projects. This particular episode is about Launching on Product Hunt and e…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. In this episode from The Founder Hotline project, KP interviews serial entrepreneur, Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia and the Creator and CEO of VeeFriends Gary Vaynerchuk popularly known as Gary Vee. Here he shares his expertise as a seasoned successful entrepreneur, answers pressin…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. In this episode, KP visits Day One’s Founders Found Podcast as a guest which is hosted by Jake Hurwitz. The original episode was published at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7C34Njif4&t=1s Thankful to Jake for such incredible questions and turning this into one of my favorite interviews e…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Yohei Nakajima, an entrepreneur, investor and productivity geek. Yohei is currently a General Partner at Untapped Capital which is a pre-seed/seed VC firm investing in unexpected founders, found off the beaten path, not yet well connected into the global startup eco…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features “The Creative Entrepreneur-Content Creator” Josh Spector, who has a massive audience of 20k subscribers in his newsletter, a podcast, and runs a 6-figure business. With the lessons he learned in his entertainment and media industry journey, he utilized his niche to …

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Jay Clouse (“The Creative Scientist”) who’s a prolific content creator and Host of the Creative Elements podcast with over 1 million downloads. With the lessons he learned in his journey from shifting to professional content creation, and using his platform to educa…

Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Founder, Operator and Investor, Brian Nichols. He is a Venture Partner at Hustle Fund and currently runs the Angel squad - a vetted community of angel investors. Previously, he founded the Lyft Syndicate and invested $30M+ together across 70+ startups. After going t…