Notable Guests
IA
Immad Akhund
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WF
We're F*cked
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Recent Episodes
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Episode: Immad Akhund: How Mercury Saved The Day For Startups
Immad Akhund
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John Zimmer discusses how Lyft co-founders outmaneuvered taxi monopolies and battled Uber for market supremacy while scaling a business many experts called impossible
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Wade Foster built Zapier as a remote automation giant worth $5 billion by helping users connect web-based applications with minimal funding ($1.3M raised)
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Howie Liu co-founded Airtable by recognizing that spreadsheet-database hybrids could serve anyone for diverse use cases beyond finance, now valued at $4 billion
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Joe Liemandt founded Alpha School, an AI-powered private school in Austin, Texas with a revolutionary learning approach where students excel with just two hours of focused academics daily
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Mårten Mickos built MySQL into a $1 billion success that powered Facebook, Google, and YouTube, then led teams at Eucalyptus and HackerOne with consistent execution ability
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Pedro Franceschi jailbroke the iPhone at age 13, co-founded a payments company processing over $1 billion in transactions by 15, and helped transform YC's pivot into Brex
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Mitchell Hashimoto built HashiCorp by solving problems he couldn't ignore, starting with open-sourcing tools he wished existed while hacking nights and weekends for over a year
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Jake Knapp has helped build Gmail, Microsoft Encarta, and Google Meet while advising major companies like Slack, Miro, and NASA on product strategy
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Aaron Levie co-founded Box while in college at USC and grew it into a $1 billion revenue cloud storage cornerstone, using creative tactics like sending faxes to Bill Gates
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Guillermo Rauch grew up in Argentina building computers as a kid, developed expertise in open source programming, and founded Vercel as a cloud platform used by over one million developers monthly
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Zach Perret and William Hockey's Plaid persevered through austere early days, rejection from roughly 100 VCs, and multiple pivots to eventually become a $13.4 billion fintech juggernaut
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Baiju Bhatt co-founded Robinhood, sparking a movement that democratized investing for everyday people and fundamentally shifted market dynamics
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Josh Reeves co-founded Gusto in 2012 when 40% of US employers still did payroll by hand, solving a major pain point for small business owners buried in tax codes and paperwork
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Pattern Breakers don't follow old-school marketing rules; instead they ignite movements where they rise uncontested while competitors scramble for leftovers
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Niels Hoven founded Mentava, an ambitious educational technology app teaching two-year-olds to read at second grade level, born from his commitment to accelerating K-12 education
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