Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features a fun interview with rising TikTok star Julia Montgomery. She has almost 300k followers on TikTok (her account is @itxmejules ) and through the app she has built her brand and business in public. She is now also the CEO of her business, Influent . In this episode, Julia shares the backstory of her rise to TikTok fame, and her passion in helping creators with content and business. She also unpacks tons of tips on ...
Sep 05, 2022•45 min•Ep. 34
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode is special because it is to celebrate my 35k milestone on Twitter! And I mainly attribute it to none other than my career-long advocacy, which is Building in Public. A little bit about myself: I am a no-code product builder, community leader, Twitter content creator, angel investor and podcast host. I’m currently the Program Director at Day One, a founder school backed by Gary Vee. In this episode, I give a walk through o...
Aug 26, 2022•19 min•Ep. 33
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features an insightful interview with Justin Welsh, founder of The Saturday Solopreneur. He has over 260k followers on LinkedIn and 170k followers on Twitter that witnessed his journey of building two $50M+ ARR companies, three 6-figure digital products for creators, and making $2.5M+ in self-employed income. In this episode, Justin talks about his in-depth knowledge on becoming a successful content marketer. He covers an...
Aug 19, 2022•42 min•Ep. 32
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features an insightful conversation with Shawn Wang, more commonly known as “swyx,” a GitHub Star who ran the React subreddit for over 200,000 developers, grew the Svelte Society from 0 to over 15,000 developers, and is now the Head of DX at Airbyte. Build In Public Podcast is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons. I...
Aug 12, 2022•43 min•Ep. 31
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features an in-depth conversation with Phanindra Sama, co-founder, and former CEO of Redbus. Redbus is an Indian online bus ticketing platform with over 180 million trips and $710 million GMV (in 2020). In 2013, redBus was acquired by Ibibo Group. "Build In Public Podcast" is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights and lessons. In t...
Aug 03, 2022•46 min•Ep. 30
Welcome to another episode of the Build in Public Podcast. Today’s podcast episode features a fascinating conversation with top execs from Threado, the command center for community builders. In this interview our host KP chats with Pramod Rao (co-founder & CEO), Abhishek Nalin (co-founder & CTO) and Sharath Kuruganty (Head of Community). They recount the backstories of their careers and how they came to work on this community-based startup, and share highly anticipated fundraising and pr...
Aug 03, 2022•50 min•Ep. 29
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features an insightful conversation with Sharath Kuruganty, founder, community builder, and content creator. “Build In Public Podcast” is hosted by KP, where he chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons. In this episode, KP, an angel investor and startup consultant interviews Sharath Kuruganty, Head of Community at Threado, a command center for co...
Jul 22, 2022•43 min•Ep. 28
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's podcast episode features an in-depth conversation with a special guest, Michele Marcelline, data analyst, passionate entrepreneur, and co-founder of startup "Typedream," a no-code website builder that helps you make a stunning website as easy as writing on Notion and as pretty as Webflow. She shares her inspiring journey, learnings, successes, challenges, and failures in building https://typedream.com / . Before Typedream, she co...
Jul 10, 2022•33 min•Ep. 27
In this episode, I chatted with Danny Miranda , who I believe is the world's most underrated podcaster. On his show, The Danny Miranda Podcast, he produced over 250 episodes within 1.5 years and unpacked the stories of some of the happiest, healthiest, and wisest people in the world. His guest list includes Gary Vaynerchuk, Tom Bilyeu, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Miss Excel Kat Norton, James Altucher, Ariel Helwani, David Perell, Kamal Ravikant, Mike Maples, and many more incredible humans. In t...
May 31, 2022•51 min•Ep. 26
In this episode, I chatted with Khe Hy , Founder and CEO of RadReads , an online education company that helps professionals lead productive, examined and joyful lives. Khe is a brilliant creator of the $10K Work productivity method and teaches the popular cohort-based course Supercharge Your Productivity. In this interview, we covered Khe's teenage years, the transformation of his worldview away from just external accomplishments, what inspires him now, his writing routine/regimen, along with so...
May 16, 2022•47 min•Ep. 25
In this episode, I chatted with Mariam Hakobyan, co-founder and CEO of Softr.io, a no-code platform that helps you build websites, web apps or internal tools using simple databases. Softr has over 50,000 users and 1000 paying customers and just closed a $13.5 million Series A funding round from top tier investors across Europe and the U.S. [Full Disclosure: I am a small investor too as I've been a fan of the team and their execution] In our chat, we got to the origin story of Softr, how Mariam's...
Apr 27, 2022•40 min•Ep. 24
In this episode, I chatted with Raad Mobrem , CEO of Intro , who's building an amazing new platform to book top experts for a video advice. Intro is backed by top funds like a16z and 776 by Alexis Ohanian along with an all-star roster of celebrity investors like Kevin Durant and Kevin Hart. In our chat, we got to the origin story of Intro, how an iconic Raad’s childhood memory with Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea shaped his worldview, the power of learning from the greats & his future vision fo...
Apr 01, 2022•53 min•Ep. 23
In this episode, I chatted with Dave Gerhard t, one of my favorite B2B storytellers who intuitively understands the power of being authentic on the Internet. He's one of the top marketing experts right now, previously led brand and marketing teams at Drift and Privy before going full-time as an independent creator via his popular online community DGMG . In this interview, we chat about Dave's latest book "Founder Brand", what inspired him to write it, his content experiments along with David Can...
Mar 20, 2022•54 min•Ep. 22
In this episode, I chatted with Nick deWilde , creator and co-founder of Invisible College which is a one-of-a-kind learning DAO that gives you the skills, network, and opportunities to make an impact in web3. Nick is the fantastic writer behind "Jungle Gym", a popular and thoughtful newsletter for people who want fulfilling careers in tech and startups. Before that, he worked in product marketing at a fast-growing startup called Guide Education, the job he eventually quit to plunge into the web...
Feb 19, 2022•47 min•Ep. 21
Getting Acquired (on Amazon) Andrew's Twitter MicroAcquire website
Jan 27, 2022•46 min•Ep. 20
In this episode, I chatted with one of my tech heroes Alexis Ohanian (Co-Founder of Reddit and 776 Fund). After his iconic time at Reddit, Alexis became a full-time investor with a portfolio that consists of 9 decacorns (startups worth $10B) and 25 unicorns (worth $1B). In this episode, we talk about the power of building in public, Alexis' own Twitter strategy, how he encourages his portfolio founders to share their journey and be vulnerable. Alexis also discussed why he's excited about web 3.0...
Jan 07, 2022•49 min•Ep. 19
In this episode, I chatted with Ish Baid, Co-Founder and CEO of Virtually. Virtually is a startup building the easiest way to manage Zoom events for online communities. They were part of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 batch and have recently raised $1.75m in funding from top funds like Tiger Global recently. In this episode, we talk about evolution of online education from MOOCs to Cohort-based-courses (CBCs), the inevitable crests and troughs within new technology trends, the origin story of Virt...
Jan 05, 2022•31 min•Ep. 18
Link to Hera's Techcrunch article Louise's Twitter Bruno's Twitter Hera's website
Dec 28, 2021•32 min•Ep. 17
Stilt's website: http://stilt.com/ Rohit's Twitter: @rohitdotmittal Rohit's email: rohit@stilt.com
Dec 22, 2021•43 min•Ep. 16
Sahil's Twitter: @shl Sahil's latest book 'The Minimalist Entrepreneur' on Amazon
Dec 16, 2021•51 min•Ep. 15
Cabal's website: https://getcabal.com/ Brian's contact info: brian@getcabal.com
Nov 30, 2021•33 min•Ep. 14
Show Notes: Thread on Spiky POV: https://twitter.com/wes_kao/status/1449389707385790473?s=20 Blogpost on Spiky POV: https://www.weskao.com/blog/spiky-point-of-view-lets-get-a-little-controversial The Super Specific How: How to make your cohort-based course more rigorous https://www.weskao.com/blog/super-specific-how The State Change Method: How to deliver engaging live lectures on Zoom https://www.weskao.com/blog/the-state-change-method...
Nov 18, 2021•49 min•Ep. 13
In this episode, I chatted with a Kai Han, co-founder and CEO of Pallet, a startup building hiring tools for communities and creators. I've been following Pallet's journey from early days to their recent $7m seed round and personally use their platform for my audience. Kai and I are hyper bullish about the potential for reimagining hiring. In this episode, we go over a bit of his origin story and what led him to start Pallet, their current roadmap and future experiments he is excited about. I ha...
Oct 20, 2021•39 min•Ep. 12
In this episode, I chatted with a truly special guest who has been a shining example of the philosophy of building in public for years. Ruben Harris is the co-founder and CEO of Career Karma, a platform that helps people find a job training program online to break into the tech industry. Previously, he was the founder and a co-host of the very popular podcast "Breaking Into Startups" and Ruben is a Bay Area transplant from Atlanta, Georgia (where I live now). I've been following his story for a ...
Sep 28, 2021•41 min•Ep. 11
Show Notes: Kat's Substack: https://katcole.substack.com/ Kat's sessions on Bright Live: https://brightlive.com/kat-cole Kat's Course on Maven (upcoming!)
Sep 21, 2021•48 min•Ep. 10
In this episode, I sat down with one of the most influential indie hackers Justin Jackson. He's a co-founder of Transistor.fm (the very platform on which my podcast is hosted!) which is a podcast hosting and analytics tool used by clients like Indie Hackers, the Vegas Golden Knights, and VH1. He also writes a newsletter, hosts a podcast called "Build Your SaaS" and runs a community called MegaMaker. In this chat, we discuss how indie developers can win in a market filled with behemoth companies ...
Sep 10, 2021•49 min•Ep. 9
Show Notes: Arvid's home page: The Bootstrapped Founder Link to Zero To Sold on Amazon Link to The Embedded Entrepreneur on Amazon Link to Arvid's latest book: https://buildinpublicbook.com/...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 8
In this episode, I sat down with two of the fastest-growing creators on Twitter, Aadit Sheth and Sahil Patel. They built an audience of more than 20,000 followers each at a rapid and despite being remarkably young, they both have a knack of staying authentic and community-first. In our conversation, I invite them to break down their frameworks on consistency, building in public, and content experiments. I also uncovered some top tips and actionable advice on how to stand out on Twitter if you ar...
Aug 09, 2021•48 min•Ep. 7
In this episode, I sat down with Josh Fabian, CEO of Metafy which is a coaching platform for gamers that recently raised an $8.65m seed round from top investors like Naval Ravikant, Alexis Ohanian and funds like Forerunner and DCM. In our light-hearted authentic conversation, we discussed the origin story of Metafy, why Josh has been sharing investor updates publicly, how he adopted the principle of building in public as a VC-backed startup founder and his no-BS approach to building trust with h...
Jul 21, 2021•49 min•Ep. 6
In this episode, I sat down with a friend and an emerging fund manager Paige Finn Doherty who's building Behind Genius Ventures. BGV is a $5m early-stage fund that invests in product-led growth companies with a focus on GenZ & underrepresented founders. In our conversation, we get into Paige's origin story and what brought her to the venture space, how building in public on Twitter helped her launch a children's book on venture, and why she's driven to invest in product-led companies.
Jul 05, 2021•48 min•Ep. 5
