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#2273 What happened to our partnership?

Before I partnered with Jesse Pujji, we were buddy-buddy. Texting all the time. When we got started, we got excited about the world of possibilities for our company. Now? Something is missing. I asked...

Mar 05, 2025

#2272 Aux: >$10mil advising private equity

When Kasey Grelle heard that private equity companies paid marketing agencies to evaluate companies they wanted to buy, she spotted a business opportunity. That realization became Aux Insights, the fi...

Feb 21, 2025

#2271 Tucker Max left & his business crashed

Tucker Max thought his business was worth $64 million. Then it nearly died. This is the story of how Scribe, the ghostwriting and publishing company rose, crashed, and rose again. Tucker Max first bec...

Nov 29, 2024

#2270 Zillow laid him off, so he started his own company

Zillow laid him off. So John Doherty launched Credo a digital agency matchmaking firm. Exactly 7 years later — to the day — he sold the company. This is the story of how he built and sold Credo, and h...

Nov 22, 2024

#2269 How the “My First Million” Guy Made his Money

Shaan Puri was exceptional at doing the Silicon Valley thing. Still, he says his newsletter was the fastest way he’s ever made money. Within a year of its creation, The Milk Road grew to 250k readers...

Nov 15, 2024

#2268 How is beehiiv making $15 mil per year?

They feel like the millionth company to offer email newsletter publishing. How are they growing so fast despite the competition? Tyler Denk is a big reason. A former Morning Brew employee, he took the...

Nov 01, 2024

#2267 This listener got a Mixergy guest to invest in her startup

Vlada Lotkina noticed something wrong at her daughter’s school. So she built the solution and sold it for 8-figures. It’s called ClassTag, and it’s a platform where teachers, parents and school admini...

Sep 20, 2024

#2266 The $21M ARR Business That Sells Your Email Address

Adam Robinson struggled to compete with MailChimp. So he built software that’s too dangerous for them to build. Businesses that use Retention.com can instantly grab email addresses from anonymous webs...

Sep 13, 2024

#2265 He Bought a Ghost Town

Brent Underwood had a business idea: buy an abandoned town and turn it into a tourist destination. It didn’t work. Mostly because he tried running it remotely. Then he moved in. He started looking aro...

Apr 12, 2024

#2264 From Chaos to $200M. Ryan Deiss’s Method

Ryan Deiss’s business was too chaotic to grow beyond a few team members. So he tried creating SOP’s, you know those how-to docs that every business is told to create, but few people end up using. He f...

Mar 01, 2024

#2263 Art.com’s A Rocky Road to Success

He built Art.com through the early days of the internet, despite the dotcom bust, and through heavy competition….After all that work, the company sold to a much bigger company….And that’s when the law...

Feb 23, 2024

#2262 What happened to Allbirds?

Allbirds were the sustainable shoes known to be worn by Marissa Mayer, Jennifer Garner, and every dude I knew when I lived in San Francisco. How did the company get so big and where is it now? I invit...

Feb 16, 2024

#2261 Succeeding Where Airbnb Falls Short?

This founder found a niche that Airbnb didn’t reach and rode it to $6 million in revenue. Steve Satoru Naito’s Anyplace, accommodations come with big monitors, high-speed internet, an office setup, er...

Feb 09, 2024

#2260 Noah Kagan, SHUT UP and take my $100!

My vision for this interview was to hear Noah Kagan’s process for launching companies, like the $80+ million / year AppSumo – the process he wrote about in his book, Million Dollar Weekend. We did tha...

Jan 30, 2024

#2259 Bootstrapping a Subscription Service Company

Video Husky started with a challenge. Justin Tan challenged himself to get 10 customers in 90 days for his new venture. The company grew to over $1 million in annual sales by providing flat fee remote...

Jan 26, 2024

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