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E1020: CEO/Investor Coach & Author Matt Mochary shares insights on developing his coaching method, understanding & overcoming primal fear, addressing imposter syndrome & more

Jan 21, 2020 · 01:22:06

✨ CEO Coach Matt Mochary shares insights on his coaching method.

01:22:06

E1019: Mahmee CEO & Co-Founder Melissa Hanna is helping new moms navigate thru postpartum care, shares insights on getting Serena Williams & Mark Cuban to invest, improving the experience for mothers of color & adding structure to a fragmented industry

Jan 17, 2020 · 01:07:38

✨ Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna on postpartum care for new moms.

01:07:38

E1018: #AskJason! Avoiding first-time founder mistakes, causes of big-tech layoffs, participating in a Series A as an Angel, running a US-based startup as an international student, importance of having a strong lead investor & more!

Jan 14, 2020 · 00:48:28

✨ Jason advises on avoiding founder mistakes and big-tech layoffs.

00:48:28

E1017: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: scaling as a solo founder, reducing churn, raising capital in a heavily regulated field, pivoting from one-time payments to SaaS & more @ WSGR

Jan 10, 2020 · 01:03:58

✨ Jason helps founders scale solo, reduce churn, and raise capital.

01:03:58

E1016: Substack CEO & Co-Founder Chris Best empowers writers via his email newsletter platform, shares insights on driving change in the attention economy, raising $15M from a16z, providing value to retain talent & more

Jan 7, 2020 · 01:39:08

✨ Substack CEO Chris Best on empowering writers via newsletters.

01:39:08

E1015: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: gaining interest from investors, scaling while bootstrapping in a niche market, automating operations tasks, acquiring national customers & focusing on customers in the cannabis compliance space @ WSGR

Jan 3, 2020 · 01:07:18

✨ Jason helps founders gain investor interest and scale bootstrapped businesses.

01:07:18

E1014: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: targeting a specific segment of customers, overcoming past failures in a market, developing new nuclear energy, competing against a major incumbent & more!

Dec 31, 2019 · 01:05:38

✨ Founders seek advice on customer segmentation, overcoming past failures, and developing new nuclear energy.

01:05:38

E1013: Decade Wrap-Up Roundtable! Garry Tan, Initialized Capital & Zach Coelius, Coelius Capital on the biggest hits & misses of the past decade: Trump, Theranos, Streaming, Mindfulness, Crypto, Tesla, WeWork, Amazon Prime, Vaping & more!

Dec 27, 2019 · 01:06:06

✨ Garry Tan and Zach Coelius join Jason for a decade wrap-up, debating major hits and misses.

01:06:06

E1012: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: goal-setting, starting a sales flywheel, converting bounced customers, capitalizing on investor feedback & more!

Dec 24, 2019 · 01:04:32

✨ Founders get advice on setting goals for seed rounds and starting sales flywheels.

01:04:32

E1011: Check Point CEO & Co-founder Gil Shwed shares insights on being the “Godfather of Cybersecurity”, growing Check Point into Israel’s most impactful tech company, pricing & developing products for an emerging market, best practices on protecting data from hackers & the next generation of cybers

Dec 20, 2019 · 01:01:03

✨ Check Point CEO Gil Shwed shares insights on cybersecurity and building a tech giant.

01:01:03

E1010: TWiST Live! Thumbtack CEO & Co-founder Marco Zappacosta shares insights on pivoting to optimize for consumer experience, starting a company during the great recession vs. 2019, fundraising tips & the future of Thumbtack

Dec 17, 2019 · 01:10:24

✨ Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta discusses pivoting for consumer experience and early-stage challenges.

01:10:24

E1009: #StartupTuneup! Startmate Founders pitch Jason: AR presentation platform, experiential marketing, wearables that help menstrual cramps, education thru e-sports & more!

Dec 13, 2019 · 01:21:50

✨ Startmate founders pitch AR platforms, experiential marketing, and wearable tech for menstrual cramps.

01:21:50

E1008: VSCO CEO & Co-founder Joel Flory is building a photo-sharing platform free of ads, likes & comments to empower creators, shares insights on appealing to Gen Z, expanding their global reach & the magic of subscriptions

Dec 10, 2019 · 01:13:58

✨ VSCO CEO Joel Flory discusses building an ad-free photo platform for creators.

01:13:58

E1007: DoNotPay CEO & Founder Josh Browder built an AI lawyer to fight corporations & governments, demos product features & how it helps consumers, shares insights on following in footsteps of his father Bill Browder, & future of consumer empowerment

Dec 6, 2019 · 01:04:38

✨ DoNotPay CEO Josh Browder demos his AI lawyer fighting corporations and governments.

01:04:38

E1006: Farmer’s Fridge CEO & Founder Luke Saunders is creating a connected network of vending machines offering fresh & healthy meals, shares insights on creating a restaurant-like experience, solving food-supply chain issues, capitalizing on grassroots marketing & real-world virality & using sales

Dec 3, 2019 · 01:07:47

✨ Farmer's Fridge CEO Luke Saunders discusses creating healthy meal vending machines.

01:07:47

E1005: Scale AI CEO & Co-founder Alexandr Wang creates training data for all AI applications to improve machine learning, shares insights on the future of autonomous vehicles, China’s AI advantages over US, importance of humans focusing on higher-value work & next major trends in AI

Nov 29, 2019 · 01:35:19

✨ Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang discusses training data for AI and machine learning.

01:35:19

E1004: Yousician CEO & Co-founder Chris Thür created an interactive platform to master musical instruments, shares insights on acquiring 1M+ users, increasing retention through gamification, using profitability as leverage while attracting investors as an international startup

Nov 26, 2019 · 00:56:15

✨ Yousician CEO Chris Thür built an interactive music learning platform.

00:56:15

E1003: The Athletic CEO & Co-founder Alex Mather is building a paid online sports media publication, shares insights on attracting investors in a seemingly dying industry, managing 500+ remote writers, creating interesting angles through unique coverage & more

Nov 22, 2019 · 01:33:16

✨ Alex Mather co-founded The Athletic, a paid sports media publication.

01:33:16

E1002: Wealthfront CEO & Co-founder Andy Rachleff on hitting escape velocity at Wealthfront, pioneering “self-driving money” for consumers, shares insights on product-building in 1980’s vs. today, best investor attributes, & the future of NextGen banking

Nov 19, 2019 · 01:25:20

✨ Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff pioneered 'self-driving money' for consumers.

01:25:20

E1001: Eight Sleep CEO & Co-founder Matteo Franceschetti pioneered “sleep-fitness” with smart heating & cooling technology; shares insights on product iteration, delighting customers, innovating in D2C, raising $40M from LAUNCH, Founders Fund, Craft & more

Nov 15, 2019 · 01:00:10

✨ Matteo Franceschetti created Eight Sleep's smart heating/cooling mattress.

01:00:10

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