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E4: Brendan Schwartz - Building Wistia for 18 years to ~200 employees after buying out investors
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(0:00) Intro (1:55) Early entrepreneurial influences (5:20) Starting Wistia (8:11) Shredding business plans and burning thru savings (11:02) The portfolio website for artists that didn't pay the bills (12:44) The first business customer (15:22) Going up against YouTube and Vimeo (18:50) The Starbucks barista healthcare backup plan (21:00) Raising a…
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E3: Mike Salguero - Bootstrapping ButcherBox to $600M in ARR while working 4 days/week...
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(0:00) Intro (3:45) Buying CustomMade - relaunching and making every mistake in the book (7:09) Raising VC for CustomMade and getting on the VC train (11:24) CustomMade failing (17:17) Starting ButcherBox as a hobby business while collecting unemployment (21:56) The 3 core decisions that led to ButcherBox success (28:06) Growth hacking to Go To Mar…
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E2: Art Papas tells Bullhorn Founding Story to Almost $500M in ARR, VC vs. PE & Startup Profitably
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(0:00) Intros (1:50) Growing up in a family of doctors (5:13) Getting his first software job at Thompson Financial during the original internet boom (7:26) Writing software to automate himself and all the interns out of a job (11:40) Building and launching one of the first SaaS products in 1997 (16:09) Making a mistake leaving his first job for mor…
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Larry Kim - Founder Story, Early Google Days with Eric Schmidt, Reverse Engineering to a $130M exit
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(0:00) Entrepreneurship as a kid, starting a business in high school that won a $50,000 contract (6:57) Role models: Mom with her home based piano teaching business was earning 4x his father (12:49) Paying for his own college education with the money he earned in high school (15:42) Getting a job in Silicon Valley in the late 90's (17:53) Timing ma…
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