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#2033 Answering a major question for first-time founders

I have to be honest, I was very skeptical as I went through the site today’s guest created. But I I was impressed with it I thought, “I should have come out with this idea!” It’s so simple, so brilli...

Jan 18, 2021

#2032 Going public through SPAC

Joining me is someone who’s become essentially famous for being one of the first Silicon Valley companies that went public through a SPAC. George Arison is the co-founder of Shift which makes it easy...

Jan 15, 2021

#2031 Solving the huge pain of haircuts

I am so freaking excited about the problem today’s guest is solving. Obi Omile is the founder of theCut, a barbershop technology platform that allows users and barbers to schedule and manage appointme...

Jan 13, 2021

#2030 Bootstrapping after a funded failure

Joining me is somebody who got funded and got to Silicon Valley. But it didn’t work out for him. He had to leave the country. He ended up coming back with a bootstrap company that’s doing better than...

Jan 11, 2021

#2029 Custom prospecting at scale

Joining me today is the founder of BombBomb. His software lets you record a video of yourself, customize it for your prospects, email it out, and even get insights about who watched it. His name is Co...

Jan 08, 2021

#2028 EdTech Series: LearnWorlds

Joining me is an entrepreneur who created a platform that helps teachers do more than just teach. They enable testing, student success and even give teachers tools to help them sell their courses. It’...

Jan 06, 2021

#2027 An audio documentary about my life

Instead of a usual interview today, I’ve got an audio documentary about my life, one that was done by Samuel Donner. What I love about this recording is the amount of research and time that Samuel was...

Jan 04, 2021

#2026 Inside Nomad’s product development

About eight years ago, today’s guests realized that if you’re walking around with a phone and you don’t have a way to charge it you just feel vulnerable. So he started a company that builds smartphone...

Dec 28, 2020

#2025 Music streaming for b2b

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who was crucial in creating the Beats Music brand that was eventually sold to Apple. He then partnered up with Spotify to create a way to bring music streaming to b...

Dec 21, 2020

#2024 Selling from the stage

Joining me as a Mixergy listener whose numbers don’t exactly hit our minimum for revenue but when we heard his story we knew we had to bring it to the audience. Adrian Tobey is the creator of Groundho...

Dec 18, 2020

#2023 Is your business model broken?

Joining me is an entrepreneur who is dealing with a realization that I think a lot of us need to come to. I wish I had this conversation myself years ago. In this interview we’ll talk about what today...

Dec 16, 2020

#2022 Killing repetitive tasks in PR

Today I have a founder who just sold her company to SEMRush. She was running her own PR agency and was looking for a solution to make her team more efficient. When she couldn’t find what she was looki...

Dec 14, 2020

#2021 Otter outpaces Google in voice-to-text

I’m so excited about the software today’s guest created. It’s so powerful and it costs pennies on the dollar compared to the competition. I invited the founder here to talk about how he built it. Sam...

Dec 11, 2020

#2020 $15M ARR internet marketing agency

Joining me is Matt Bowman, a guy who runs a results-focused internet marketing agency. The thing that I find about people who run agencies is it’s an easy way to get started, but it also has basically...

Dec 09, 2020

#2019 My process for deeper conversations

If you’ve been listening to my podcast for a while, has it ever felt a little uncomfortable to hear me get so open with people? I didn’t realize that even my friend Wil Schroter noticed it. Recently,...

Dec 07, 2020