290 source episodes in the catalog.
David Rabie built Tovala, a combined smart oven hardware, companion app, and meal-prep delivery service, iterating from an MVP while…
James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, discusses the habits and science behind habit formation and how he grew his site to 400,000+…
Shola Akinlade founded Paystack, an online payments processor positioned as 'Stripe for Africa,' scaling to 17,000+ merchants processing…
Christy Laurence, a non-technical designer, bootstrapped Plann, a mobile app for social media planning. She traded her marketing skills to…
After her co-founder left and the core product stalled, Christine Spang rebuilt Nylas, an email/calendar API for developers, into a…
Ben Halpern gave himself a 10-year horizon to grow Dev.to, a developer community, and used patient, empathy-driven product decisions plus…
Mathilde Collin, first-time founder of Front (a shared inbox/team-email SaaS), explains how she picked up the skills she needed and scaled…
Ryan Hoover describes how he built Product Hunt into a large tech enthusiast community, sold it to AngelList, and is now working on making…
Brian Jagger, a casting director fed up with manual file renaming and copy-pasting, co-founded Casting Calls America, a SaaS for the…
Nat Eliason describes how he built Growth Machine, an SEO-focused content marketing agency, to about $85,000/month in revenue in its first…
Des Traynor, co-founder and CSO of Intercom, walks through seven years of growth to roughly $50M/year, covering product prioritization,…
Katie Keith of Barn2 Media explains how she and her husband left corporate jobs, built a stream of client WordPress work, then transitioned…
Mike Taber walks through how he developed a SaaS idea for Bluetick (a CRM/follow-up tool), validated it by talking to customers and closing…
JT Marino, a former software engineer, bootstrapped Tuft & Needle, a direct-to-consumer mattress brand, to roughly $250 million in annual…
Psychologist Dr. Sherry Walling discusses the mental-health side of founding, including trauma and entrepreneurship, stress, loneliness,…
After being laid off, John Doherty built a name in SEO consulting, used that reputation to land high-paying engagements, and self-funded…
Joel Gascoigne of Buffer explains how he built the social-media scheduling tool from zero to roughly $18 million in annual revenue and…
Saron Yitbarek of CodeNewbie runs multiple podcasts, a conference, a blog and weekly Twitter chats, and discusses how she leverages wins in…
Quincy Larson, founder of freeCodeCamp, describes how he built the platform into a global community that helps millions of people learn to…
Claire Lew leads Know Your Company, a small team generating millions in revenue by helping companies run better internal meetings and…
Vicky Hsu went from HabitRPG community volunteer to CEO of Habitica, a gamified habit-tracking app that generates real revenue. The…
Steli Efti, after several businesses in Germany, moved to Silicon Valley, hit years of failure, then built Close.com into a CRM doing…
Tiffany Chu and Danny Whalen turned a viral side project into Remix, transit planning software sold to city governments, growing from 4…
Rand Fishkin, after being deep in debt, started a blog that grew into Moz, an SEO and marketing software company, which reached $47M in…
