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#2138 Building a global business from a small market

Rahul Aggarwal is the founder of Desighill, a creative marketplace for businesses and individuals. He built it and is running it from India even through only a small percentage of their customer base...

Sep 24, 2021

#2137 What I’ve learned from 2,000+ interviews

I haven’t talked about this much but I have a new book coming out in October. The book is full of conversation techniques I’ve learned after 14 years and 2,000 interviews. The book is called Stop Aski...

Sep 22, 2021

#2136 Why there’s still room in the productivity space

Alice Default is the co-founder of Double, which connects busy executives with experienced part-time assistants and delegation tools. I want to find out why she went from building software to buildin...

Sep 20, 2021

#2135 Reinventing a business killed by COVID

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who had a business that suffered of COVID closures in the restaurant space. So he rebounded with an idea that I think most people expected to fail. I want to find o...

Sep 17, 2021

#2134 Finding a gap to fill in online education

Joining me as an entrepreneur who took on the cloud at a time when people were not as enthused about it as I would have expected them to be. And so he looked around and realized that there’s a world o...

Sep 15, 2021

#2133 The profitable business model you’ve never heard of

I can’t believe that today’s founder created a company that’s in my world, in my space, and I didn’t know it existed. It’s a fantastically successful company with a model that just makes sense. How di...

Sep 13, 2021

#2132 The startup powering your streaming videos

Today’s guest figured out that distributing streaming video is becoming more complicate, not less complicated. So he created a way to make it easier for developers. Jon Dahl is the founder of Mux, an...

Sep 10, 2021

#2131 Outsourcing the role of technical co-founder

One of the things that new entrepreneurs keep looking for is how to get a technical co-founder. They have an idea but they need somebody to partner with to actually build it. Well, joining me is some...

Sep 08, 2021

#2130 The liquor alternative making $10M ARR in 2 years

My guest today is someone who came up with a counter-intuitive product that I think a lot of people in my audience can probably really relate to. There comes a point in your life when you’ve got kids...

Sep 03, 2021

#2129 How to outsource your tax headaches

I know so many founders who have had tax compliance issues that drove them crazy. Well, today’s guest has a solution for that. We’ll talk about that and the other insanely companies he’s built. Scot...

Sep 01, 2021

#2128 How Early (Repeated) Mistakes Gave Birth to a $1MM Creative Solution by Solving His Own Problem

Joining me is someone I’ve known for years and watched as he struggled with challenges with his business. But I also saw how committed he was. He’s here to talk about what that was like and how he pul...

Aug 30, 2021

#2127 Turning a physical product into a service

Today I’m talking to two co-founders about this unbelievable service they have created. It’s a fascinating model solving a very specific pain point for a very specific group of people. I’ll ask them a...

Aug 27, 2021

#2126 Bootstrapping an ambitious idea in crypto

Today’s guest is solving such a pain for anyone who has ever tried to make a transaction using cryptocurrency. I would have guessed that he was backed by huge VCs based on the product he’s built but...

Aug 25, 2021

#2125 How Chess.com scaled a massive community

Nobody thought the old game of chess could turn into a real business in a world with internet. Frankly, there was a time when Erik Allebest, Chess.com’s founder, didn’t think it would and even tried t...

Aug 23, 2021

#2124 Hint founder on overcoming doubts and doubters

Today I’m talking to Kara Goldin, the founder of Hint, a flavored water I see all over San Francisco. I invited her here to talk about how she built up the business and a large part of this interview...

Aug 20, 2021