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Adam Nash is a legend in the Silicon Valley product world and has held almost every possible role in the startup ecosystem, including: VP of Product and Growth at Dropbox and LinkedIn, CEO of Wealthfront, board member at Acorns and Shift, lecturer at Stanford, and investor in over 120 startups such as Figma, Gusto, and Opendoor, to name a few. Most recently, Adam co-founded Daffy , a modern giving platform. In this interview, we cover: Adam’s journey from executive to founder and why he started ...

Lazer Cohen is the founder & CEO of Concrete Media, one of the top PR firms in Israel focused on tech startups. In this special episode we get tactical on the mechanics of PR for startups. Topics covered include: - Launches, funding announcements, and press releases - Crafting a story - How to approach pitching; and more In our discussion, Lazer makes a compelling case for investing in PR at the early stages, and shares practical tips for founders or anyone responsible for early-stage startup g...

Derek Osgood is the founder & CEO of Ignition and a seasoned Product Marketer. Ignition is “the platform for go-to-market” — a collaborative hub to plan, execute, and measure launches. In today’s discussion Derek shares the keys to a successful launch; Ignition’s experience launching on Product Hunt and AppSumo; why Apple is so successful with their launches and much more; so tune in and get ready to master your next product launch. As always, I love to hear from you so please leave a rating or ...

Pietro Saccomani is the CEO of FeedBear (and founder of MixBloom and MobiLoud). FeedBear is a tool to collect and prioritize feedback from customers and internal teams. In our discussion, Pietro explains how to collect customer feedback and the ways in which companies often get it wrong. He also shares his insights on how to prioritize customer feedback and how to turn it into actionable insights for your team to act on. Pietro talks about his experience purchasing the company on MicroAcquire, a...

As our special guest this week, we have Ömer Artun, who founded AgileOne in 2006 and held the CEO role until he sold it to Acquia in 2019. Now he's pursuing his dream of running his own restaurant. Omer explains how to leverage customer data to anticipate their needs, preferences, and behaviors. During our conversation, he also gave us some insight into his experience building, scaling, and selling AgileOne. He emphasizes the importance of having “grit as startups don't fail because it's a bad i...

As Founder and CEO of Pex, the next VISA for Digital Rights, Rasty understands the business of UGC attribution. During our conversation, we covered the early days of Pex, its current status, and how a combination of stubbornness, stupidity, and luck kept Pex growing. In this presentation, Rasty discusses how to sell your product or service independently as a startup founder and the significance of understanding the difference between a start-up company, a small business, and an enterprise busine...

I sit down with futurist, inventor and founder, Alan Smithson, to explore the fascinating world of AI and the metaverse. We talked about the metaverse and its associated technologies and how AI is changing the landscape for virtual reality and augmented reality. Alan shares his vision for the future across many vectors, and he provides practical guidance for founders and brands thinking about how to incorporate the metaverse into their strategies. From blockchain to replicators in every home, Al...

Advancements in artificial intelligence have taken the world by storm recently, however, these new technologies also introduce ethical dilemmas for individuals, companies, and society as a whole. In this episode I speak with Reid Blackman, Ph.D., a leading expert on AI ethics. Reid is the author of Ethical Machines, and the founder of Virtue Consultants. Prior to starting Virtue he was a professor of philosophy for over 10 years. We dive into important and timely questions about the ethical impl...

Are you struggling to find the right target market for your startup? Don't make the mistake of trying to appeal to everyone, it's a recipe for disaster! I had the privilege of interviewing Jakob Knutzen, founder and CEO of Butter. Jakob is a management consultant turned agency director, turned startup founder. He has a very thoughtful and intentional way of approaching product market fit for his startup. Jakob shares his insights on Butter's targeted approach to finding their ICP (ideal customer...

Sean founded Flurry in 2005 — building it into the most widely adopted analytics tool for mobile apps. He later went on to sell the company to Yahoo. In 2015 he started Outlier.ai, a pioneering company in the field of Augmented Analytics. That company was acquired in 2022. Sean has invested in hundreds of startups and has advised hundreds more. He has an immense wealth of knowledge and 1st-hand experience building, scaling, and exiting tech startups and he was kind enough to share those insights...

The backlash is coming! 😱😱 In this episode we talk about the risks of AI content generation and what it means to do SEO in 2023. Alexander shares how he grew his company’s website traffic from 0 to 1 million monthly visitors in under 6 months; and lessons learned building and growing INK. If you’re involved in content strategy or SEO in any way, or if you're curious about the effects of artificial intelligence on search, you’re definitely going to want to listen. Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction ...

If you follow Tech Twitter then you probably already know who Sara is. Before starting Winnie, Sara was Director of product at Postmates. She was an early employee at Twitter, and also worked at YouTube and Google. In today’s conversation, Sara shares how her company initially struggled to find product market fit and her journey pivoting the product to success. We also dive into the nature of multi-sided marketplaces; launching new product lines, and how to choose a co-founder. Sara has got real...

With the release of Chat-GPT, everybody is suddenly talking about AI. How does Chat-GPT work? Is it truly a game-changer? What will happen to Google and the field of SEO? In the previous episode (#7), I talked to Pascal Weinberger, CEO of Bardeen.ai, and we talked about Bardeen’s journey and the growth lessons he learned along the way. If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, you should definitely check it out. When I was chatting with Pascal I took the opportunity to pick his brain about ar...

Pascal Weinberger is the founder and CEO of Bardeen. I don’t throw the word genius around lightly but Pascal definitely ranks up there. I really enjoyed this thoughtful and honest interview and I think you will too! In this episode, Pascal shares Bardeen’s growth story and we cover: How they built a beta product and iterated with user feedback His experience launching on Product Hunt How to activate new users And whether startups should be multi-platform or go all-in on a single one to start We ...

Rajesh has worked with 50+ product teams and wrote the book Build What Matters — he knows a thing or two about building great products. In this episode, Rajesh covers: - Why pricing is such a critical component of product-market fit (and signals you may be missing the mark on PMF) - The Kano model for product development - How to gain insights from speaking with customers and prospects - What is vision-led product management? - Hiring product managers and product leaders, and org designs for gro...

Sara Well founded Dropstat with a mission to make healthcare more efficient and humane. Her passion and commitment to that mission are truly inspirational. In this conversation, Sara discusses her journey from nursing to tech founder, how she came up with the idea for Dropstat, lessons learned while piloting with enterprise customers, and more. Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction (1:43) What is Dropstat? (3:53) Coming up with the idea for Dropstat and how did COVID affect the business (8:33) Selling...

I’m excited to share my interview with Sam Shepler, founder and CEO of TestimonialHero. I got to work with Sam last year to support his company’s growth efforts and was impressed with Sam’s laser focus on the customer and his methodical way of thinking and executing. Because his business is a tech-enabled service but nearly all his customers are SaaS I thought he would have unique insights on the differences between the two. We also talk about the importance of video, customer storytelling, and ...

Cart.com ’s early story has been nothing short of remarkable! The company was founded in the fall of 2020. And hit $150 million in annualized ARR with an 18 months. To date, the company has raised 400 million in debt and equity financing; and completed nearly a dozen acquisitions. They currently have a roster of over 6,000 brands on the platform. And at last count, a global team of 1400 employees. In this conversation, Omair shares his experience navigating the C art.com ship through this period...

Eli Schwartz literally wrote the book on "Product-led SEO," a practice he has applied at leading B2B and B2C companies such as Coinbase, Zendesk, Gusto, MixPanel, Quora and many more. In this conversation he shares practical advice on implementing this strategy along with examples from Zillow, Figma, Canva and others. We also talk about hiring for SEO in a startup and where SEO should live inside the org, as well as AI tools in SEO. Sponsor: This podcast is brought to you by grwth.co . Grwth off...

Welcome to Product Market Fit, a podcast all about startup growth. To kick things off we have Raphael Allstadt , founder and CEO of tl;dv , a tool for recording and transcribing meetings. In this episode, Rapha shares his experience launching on Product Hunt, building viral loops into a product to accelerate growth, experimenting with SaaS pricing and more. Sponsor: This podcast is brought to you by grwth.co . Grwth offers fractional CMOs, paired with best-in-class digital marketing execution to...

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