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#2258 Why Didn’t Facebook Groups Crush Circle?

When I interviewed founders of online courses and asked about their communities, they often said they host them on Facebook. “That’s where everyone is” was the answer. Sometimes they’d use Slack, but...

Jan 19, 2024

#2257 How TikTok Students Sold to Morning Brew

They used TikTok to promote their podcast, but podcasting is painful. There’s no discovery. It’s hard to grow. And there’s little audience feedback. Meanwhile, their short videos took off. This is the...

Jan 12, 2024

#2256 Profiting from bad email deliverability

The clearest line to a business success is solving big pain. That’s what Benny Rubin did. Senders.co, optimizes email deliverability for businesses. You’ll hear how he came up with his business idea,...

Jan 05, 2024

#2255 YouTube’s Most Popular Productivity Creator

How did Ali Abdaal reach over 5 million YouTube subscribers? How did he build his business? what insights can he offer to aspiring content creators? You’ll hear about that and about his new book, Feel...

Jan 02, 2024

#2254 HipCamp, not like AirBnb for camping

Before we started, I asked Alyssa Ravasio, why she didn’t model her company on other marketplaces. “Why don’t you encourage more people to buy land near national parks and turn them into campgrounds t...

Dec 01, 2023

#2253 Mahway: A Startup Creating Startups

Jess Mah was listening to my interviews when I first connected with her, just like you are now. We got to know each other and I invested in her first startup, indinero. It aimed to take on Quickbooks,...

Nov 10, 2023

#2252 Israeli Startup During Hamas Invasion

I read a plea from Kevin Natanzon on X: Hi @harleyf, PLEASE HELP. I live in Israel ?? And I woke up to MORE BAD NEWS. Can it get any worse? Yes. The main source of our revenue was cut. @ShopifyDevs de...

Oct 17, 2023

#2251 Boast: Community Built to $20 million Revenue

Lloyed Lobo believes anyone could have founded Boast, a company designed to help businesses secure R&D tax credits. However, when asked about why he built it to tens of millions in revenue when ot...

Sep 15, 2023

#2250 SocialBee Faked a Software Company

Today, SocialBee is a fully functional social media management tool. But at first, it was a guy secretly servicing his customers by using publicly available tools like Google Sheets and Zapier. That b...

Sep 01, 2023

#2249 Anyword: $10 MM / Year Selling AI for Marketers

Yaniv Makover didn’t intend to launch Anyword, the AI writing tool for marketers. He set out to help publishers like the New York Times buy social media ads so they could grow their readerships. At fi...

Aug 25, 2023

#2248 SiteGPT From Weekend Project to $15,000 Monthly

Seven months ago, Bhanu Teja P saw his Twitter timeline fill with AI talk. He had an idea. What if web users could use a chat-like experience to talk with the content of their sites? He wasn’t sure it...

Aug 14, 2023

#2247 1 Change Got Wistia a $6 Mil Profit

The change: cutting expenses. Wistia was on track to lose $3 million per year when the founders bought out their investors with borrowed money. Chris Savage & Brendan Schwartz told me that meant t...

Jul 31, 2023

#2246 OYO’s One Change Made Billions

Ritesh Agarwal was an entrepreneurial teen in India who loved to travel. So he created a travel search engine. One obstacle to growth was the subpar customer service provided by the local hotels. So h...

Jul 24, 2023

#2245 RE/MAX Founder

I feel like Dave Liniger is a self-help made man. On the verge of quitting real estate, a transformative seminar reignited his determination and radically changed his business trajectory. When his wif...

Jul 17, 2023

#2244 Million Dollar Company You Could’ve Built

Yaro Starak had a problem we all experienced: too much email. It was important, but it also kept him from doing real work. So he hired an assistant to answer his email. It’s a bit scary to pass your i...

Jul 10, 2023