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#2183 Web scraping as a business

Today’s guest had been hearing about stories of entrepreneurship and finally he took the leap himself. And do you know what happened? He failed. Badly. You’ll hear that story in this interview and how...

Mar 14, 2022

#2182 GrubHub founder Mike Evans is starting over

I first interview Mike Evans 12 years ago when he was hustling to get GrubHub off the ground. It’s mind-boggling how much he got done in those 12 years and I want to find out about all of it: the IPO,...

Mar 07, 2022

#2181 Start a service business in minutes

Today’s guest has been starting businesses since high school. But what’s interesting is that they were all in really different spaces. He ended up taking all that experience and launching his most re...

Feb 28, 2022

#2180 Turn a product from a nice-to-have to an essential

Arvind Jain noticed a problem that so many founders running a remote team can relate to. Here’s the scenario: a person on your sales team wants to know what new features are in the product pipeline. T...

Feb 21, 2022

#2179 Brutally honest Gen Z insights

Today’s guest landed clients like Ebay, NFL and Pepsico all within a year of launching. He basically replaced the old school focus group model and turned into something more relevant and more scalable...

Feb 14, 2022

#2178 Capsule is going after pharmacy giants

Why is picking up a freaking prescription at Walgreens or CVS one of the worst experiences? Today’s guest asked himself that not too long ago. And what did he do? He found a new way. Eric Kinariwala i...

Feb 07, 2022

#2177 Launching a hardware company quickly

I am fascinated by the business that today’s guest created. Eli Harris is the co-founder of R-Zero, which designs hospital-grade disinfection solutions for the day-to-day realities of modern businesse...

Feb 03, 2022

#2176 The story behind Artlist

Today I’m talking to Ira Belsky, the founder of Artlist. Ira was a filmmaker and recognized a really painful problem with licensing and sourcing creative materials. I want to find out how he transiti...

Jan 24, 2022

#2175 Connecting content creators and brands

Keren Sachs is the founder of The Luupe, a marketplace for brands to connect with and hire diverse photographers. I want to find out how she came up with the idea and how she used grit to launch a mar...

Jan 21, 2022

#2174 Solving the e-commerce problem for alcoholic beverage brands

My guest today has found a way to solve a very frustrating problem: buying alcohol online. It’s frustrating for consumers who can order basically anything else with one click and it’s frustrating for...

Jan 19, 2022

#2173 The upside of naivety when you have a big idea

When I interviewed the founder of Tradeshift ten years ago, he had a very simple idea: Facebook for businesses. I don’t think even he could have imagined the complex problems he would encounter along...

Jan 17, 2022

#2172 Bringing tech to hospitality

I’ve been feeling the pain that today’s guest is out to solve. Since moving to Austin, my wife and I still haven’t found a place to buy. So we’ve been jumping from Airbnb to Airbnb and we’re going a l...

Jan 14, 2022

#2171 Using entrepreneurship to protest

For years, I thought protesting was a waste of time. To me, the only thing that works is to actually come up with something better. So I’m really excited that today’s guest John Laster, somebody who h...

Jan 03, 2022

#2170 A conversation with Deron Triff of WaitWhat and TED

I want to understand about the business of content creation so invited Deron Triff. Deron is co-producer of the Masters of Scale podcast. And prior to that, he was on the executive team at TED. He is...

Dec 22, 2021

#2169 How Netflix founder finds inspiring ideas

This is the big question I have for this interview: How do you decide what to do with your life? And I have the perfect guest to guide me through that question. Marc Randolph is the co-founder of Netf...

Dec 20, 2021