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What's it like getting acquired by Spotify? (Dave Zohrob from Chartable)
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Dave Zohrob is the co-founder of Chartable (a podcast analytics startup), talks about selling his company to Spotify in February 2022.
Highlights (go straight to π₯ for the best stuff):
- 1:00 β What's the Spotify office in New York like?
- 5:24 β Dave's first startup: he started an indie record label (Tellall Records)
- 7:12 β Founding in Chartable in 2017
- 8:00 β Behind the scenes: talking to Chris Enns (our editor at Lemon Productions)
- 9:50 β Dave's first business as a kid: publishing programming tutorials on the internet (Qbasic.com)
- 12:25 β What made you want to make money on the internet?
- 14:25 β Do all geeks have the intuition to start a business? (Justin's tweet) π₯
- 19:23 β What's your real motivation for building a startup? π₯
- 24:28 β Side-projects vs Bootstrapping vs Venture Funding (VC) π₯
- 30:12 β Once you choose the VC-funded path, what's it like? π₯
- 32:00 β The huge risk/cost for founders with families π₯
- 34:30 β Public health insurance is the best way to boost entrepreneurship
- 36:30 β Bootstrappers and VC-funded founders have this same anxiety π₯
- 40:00 β What it's like joining a massive company as a small 11-person company? π₯
- 48:10 β What's next in podcast ad tech, analytics, and attribution π₯
What should we talk about next?
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- Oleg Kulyk
- Ethan Gunderson
- Ward Sandler, Memberspace
- Russell Brown, Photivo.com
- Noah Prail
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- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, Fathom
- Dan Buda
- Darby Frey
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
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Dave Zohrob is the co-founder of Chartable (a podcast analytics startup), talks about selling his company to Spotify in February 2022.
Highlights (go straight to π₯ for the best stuff):
- 1:00 β What's the Spotify office in New York like?
- 5:24 β Dave's first startup: he started an indie record label (Tellall Records)
- 7:12 β Founding in Chartable in 2017
- 8:00 β Behind the scenes: talking to Chris Enns (our editor at Lemon Productions)
- 9:50 β Dave's first business as a kid: publishing programming tutorials on the internet (Qbasic.com)
- 12:25 β What made you want to make money on the internet?
- 14:25 β Do all geeks have the intuition to start a business? (Justin's tweet) π₯
- 19:23 β What's your real motivation for building a startup? π₯
- 24:28 β Side-projects vs Bootstrapping vs Venture Funding (VC) π₯
- 30:12 β Once you choose the VC-funded path, what's it like? π₯
- 32:00 β The huge risk/cost for founders with families π₯
- 34:30 β Public health insurance is the best way to boost entrepreneurship
- 36:30 β Bootstrappers and VC-funded founders have this same anxiety π₯
- 40:00 β What it's like joining a massive company as a small 11-person company? π₯
- 48:10 β What's next in podcast ad tech, analytics, and attribution π₯
What should we talk about next?
- Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda, @jsonpearl, and @helenryles
- Leave a review/comment on Podchaser; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts.
- Email us: support@transistor.fm
Thanks to our monthly supporters:
- Jason Charnes
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, ββwearebold.af
- Alex Payne
- Bill Condo
- Anton Zorin from ProdCamp.com
- Harris Kenny, Intro CRM podcast
- Oleg Kulyk
- Ethan Gunderson
- Ward Sandler, Memberspace
- Russell Brown, Photivo.com
- Noah Prail
- Colin Gray
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis, Fathom
- Dan Buda
- Darby Frey
- Adam DuVander
- Dave Giunta (JOOnta)
- Kyle Fox GetRewardful.com
- Pascal from sharpen.page
- Rewardful.com
- Greg Park
- Mitchell Davis from RecruitKit.com.au
- Marcel Fahle, wearebold.af
- Bill Condo (@mavrck)
- Ward from MemberSpace.com
- Evandro Sasse
- Austin Loveless
- Michael Sitver
- Dan Buda
- Colin Gray
- Dave Giunta
Want to start a podcast on Transistor? Justin has a special coupon for you: get 15% off your first year of hosting: transistor.fm/justin β Support this podcast on Patreon β
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