Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Krish Ramineni, co-founder and CEO of Fireflies - an AI note-taking assistant designed to streamline corporate productivity. In this interview, Krish and KP delve into Krish’s founder journey, sharing their perspectives on topics such as: ● Introduction to Fireflies.ai ● Krish’s background story ● How and why Krish decided to build a startup ● Krish’s realization that he is meant to be a founder ● His experiences...
Jul 05, 2023•46 min•Ep. 64
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Chenell Basilio, the prolific writer behind Growth in Reverse, a newsletter that reverse engineers how top creators go from zero to 50k+ subscribers. In this interview, Chenell and KP unpack an array of perspectives and a few tips on topics such as: ● What ‘Growth in Reverse’ newsletter is ● How Chenell came up with the concept ● Which content she reviews when writing about a creator ● The secret behind the aesth...
Jun 27, 2023•43 min•Ep. 63
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Oliver “Olly” Meakings, Co-founder of Senja, a platform that makes it easy to collect video and text testimonials from clients and customers. He has now taken Senja to $7K MRR while also being prolific at building in public, sharing his highs and lows in being a founder. In this interview, Olly shares his journey and perspective on topics such as: What is Senja and how long has Olly been at it Sharing both the hi...
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 62
Welcome to the ninth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Andrew Gazdecki – founder and CEO of MicroAcquire, now Acquire.com. Acquire is a platform that helps different entrepreneurs for startups and acquisitions. He previously founded The Job Board and Bizness Apps that both led to highly successful exits In this interview, Andrew and KP dive into topics about Andrew’s journey, sharing their thoughts and insigh...
Jun 13, 2023•50 min•Ep. 61
Welcome to the eighth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Alexander Isora - founder of Unicorn Platform, a SaaS tool that Alex bootstrapped, grew and sold after ~4 years. In this interview, Alex and KP tackled different topics about Alex’s experiences throughout his journey and their personal thoughts about: ● Why Alex started Unicorn Platform ● His thought process when he was still starting ● His zero to one p...
Jun 06, 2023•49 min•Ep. 60
Welcome to the seventh episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Joe France - founder of The Independent You, a newsletter and course. He previously built Admax, a media company in Southeast Asia, and grew it up to its multi-million dollar acquisition. In this interview, Joe and KP ventured into exploring topics about Joe's journey and exchanging their thoughts and insights about: Joe’s current project “The Independe...
May 30, 2023•58 min•Ep. 59
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! Today's episode features Louis Pereira, founder of AudioPen – an AI tool that transforms unstructured voice notes into concisely summarized text. Louis is a prolific no-code product builder, and also a writer. Since the recording of this episode, AudioPen has officially launched on ProductHunt and became #1 Product of the Day! In this interview, KP and Louis delve into insightful topics, themes and ideas such as: • The process behind the...
May 23, 2023•44 min•Ep. 58
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! Today's episode features 4 prolific Fellows from the first cohort of the Build In Public Fellowship – a curated community and 5-week program designed to help builders put themselves out there and build in public fearlessly. For this episode, KP got to sit with: Jesse Link: previous VP at Goldman Sachs, co-founder of Rella and currently founder of Three Seas (Founder Advisory & Consulting company) Edgar Brown: co-founder of Engyne.ai,...
May 12, 2023•58 min•Ep. 57
Welcome to the sixth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Igor Krasnik - the CTO at Paralect & co-founder of Mmntm and Nano community. By the way, Paralect is our official sponsor for the Million Dollar Exits segment. In this interview, Igor and KP explored an array of topics about Igor’s journey and their insights on topics such as: • What Paralect is and its ideal clients • How Igor met Aleksander, the one...
May 08, 2023•47 min•Ep. 56
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast! Today's episode features Linda Lebrun, the person behind Writer Partnerships at Substack.com which is a subscription network based on writing, podcasting, community, and other forms of culture-making. The network has more than 35 million active subscriptions, including 2 million paid subscriptions. In this interview, Linda shares her thoughts and insights on topics such as: • How she ended up joining Substack • Linda's first two months a...
Apr 24, 2023•48 min•Ep. 55
Welcome to the fifth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Chris Frantz, founder of an early-stage automated copywriting startup Snazzy AI, which he built and scaled to a multi-million-dollar exit to Unbounce. In this interview, Chris shares his experience and thoughts on topics such as: • His new startup company, Loops.so (a YC-backed email platform) • How Chris designed Loops using his background knowledge and ...
Apr 18, 2023•43 min•Ep. 54
Welcome to the fourth episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Arvid Kahl, co-founder of FeedbackPanda - an online teacher productivity SaaS company, that he and his partner built, bootstrapped to $55k MRR, and sold in under two years. In this interview, Arvid shares his bootstrapping expertise and in-depth knowledge on topics such as: • Arvid’s thoughts on why just a few founders choose to bootstrap • Growth-to-Pro...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 53
Welcome to the third episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features JK Molina, the 22-year-old co-founder of Tweet Hunter that helped grow it to a multi-million revenue business and eventually exited. In this interview, JK delves into topics such as: ● JK’s Million Dollar Exit journey ● What has changed with JK's mindset after his exit ● The first three months of Tweet Hunter's adventure - obstacles, and lessons ● What ta...
Mar 27, 2023•44 min•Ep. 52
Welcome to the second episode of “Million Dollar Exits” - a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features James Clift , currently the founder of Durable, an AI website builder that generates an entire business website. He grew Visual VC to 4M+ members which eventually led to his million dollar exit. In this interview, James shares his strategies as well as his insights on topics such as: ● James’s journey in his career ● Launching Durable ● James’ Million Do...
Mar 20, 2023•57 min•Ep. 51
Welcome to the debut episode of the “Million Dollar Exits”, a special series brought to you by The Build In Public Podcast. This episode features Tibo Louis-Lucas, founder that created and scaled Tweet Hunter, a SaaS startup, from idea to a multi-million dollar exit. He is also the Founder of Taplio, Co-Founder of Pony Express and recently received a “Maker of the Year” Golden Kitty award on Product Hunt. In this interview, Tibo discusses his experience and perspectives on topics such as: • Rece...
Mar 13, 2023•46 min•Ep. 50
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Andrew Barry, the founder, and CEO of Curious Lion, a Leaning Culture consulting firm reimagining how high-growth B2B tech companies learn. He is an accomplished education consultant, previously a Program Director at On Deck Course Creators, a CPA, and an entrepreneur. In this interview, Andrew shares his journey and perspective on topics such as: · Andrew’s journey in his education career · How his teaching care...
Mar 03, 2023•58 min•Ep. 49
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Owen Willis, a prolific operator, community builder and investor in the healthtech space. He recently ran On Deck Health and previously was COO at Osmosis and a special education teacher through Teach For America. In this chat, Owen shared valuable insights on: ● The lesson on appreciating people, and the practice of gratitude ● Owen’s career trajectory and inflection points ● Common challenges in healthtech pre-...
Feb 24, 2023•39 min•Ep. 48
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Gina Bianchini, who has always been on the forefront of the online community business and has led over 3 million people from her journey at the pioneering platform, Ning. Now as a founder of the successful “network effect” platform, Mighty Network and author of highly actionable book “Purpose: Design a Community and Change Your Life”, Gina delves into her take and insights on topics such as: ● Community vs. Audie...
Jan 27, 2023•44 min•Ep. 47
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode is a cross post from a separate episode from the “Ask KP Show” on the Waitroom platform - where listeners ask KP anything about Startups, Building Communities, Leveraging No-Code Tools, Launching Side-Projects. This particular episode is about Launching on Product Hunt and everything before and after. KP answers questions from his listeners on specific areas of Product Hunt Launch such as: • The buildup towards Product Hu...
Dec 16, 2022•28 min•Ep. 46
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. In this episode from The Founder Hotline project, KP interviews serial entrepreneur, Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia and the Creator and CEO of VeeFriends Gary Vaynerchuk popularly known as Gary Vee. Here he shares his expertise as a seasoned successful entrepreneur, answers pressing questions from listeners and talks about topics such as: ● Moving on from failures and channeling humility ● Getting the ‘right timing’ for selling ...
Dec 02, 2022•31 min•Ep. 45
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. In this episode, KP visits Day One’s Founders Found Podcast as a guest which is hosted by Jake Hurwitz. The original episode was published at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7C34Njif4&t=1s Thankful to Jake for such incredible questions and turning this into one of my favorite interviews ever. Hope you’ll enjoy this one! In this interview, KP and Jake sit down and take a deep-dive into an array of interesting topics such as: ● KP’s ...
Nov 25, 2022•38 min•Ep. 44
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Yohei Nakajima, an entrepreneur, investor and productivity geek. Yohei is currently a General Partner at Untapped Capital which is a pre-seed/seed VC firm investing in unexpected founders, found off the beaten path, not yet well connected into the global startup ecosystem. In this interview, Yohei shares his insights and perspectives on topics such as: ● Yohei's career and his roles at Techstars, Scrum Ventures a...
Nov 18, 2022•41 min•Ep. 43
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features “The Creative Entrepreneur-Content Creator” Josh Spector, who has a massive audience of 20k subscribers in his newsletter, a podcast, and runs a 6-figure business. With the lessons he learned in his entertainment and media industry journey, he utilized his niche to create revenue through his newsletter, content creation, and now his successful business, Josh shares his insights and perspectives on topics such as:...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 42
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Jay Clouse (“The Creative Scientist”) who’s a prolific content creator and Host of the Creative Elements podcast with over 1 million downloads. With the lessons he learned in his journey from shifting to professional content creation, and using his platform to educate, entertain, and making revenue at the same time, Jay shares his insights and perspectives on topics such as: ● Jay’s principles in creating content...
Nov 04, 2022•42 min•Ep. 41
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Founder, Operator and Investor, Brian Nichols. He is a Venture Partner at Hustle Fund and currently runs the Angel squad - a vetted community of angel investors. Previously, he founded the Lyft Syndicate and invested $30M+ together across 70+ startups. After going through his journey from rejections to finally breaking into VC as an investor, and now helping thousands of angels through the Angel Squad, Brian delv...
Oct 28, 2022•41 min•Ep. 40
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Rehan Choudhry, founder of Chptr, an app where you can gather, share, and hold memories of loved ones lost. Rehan also founded Life is Beautiful, one of the world's highest grossing music festivals featuring major artists like Kanye West and Chance The Rapper. In this episode, we discussed a gamut of topics like: - Rehan’s story of how he got into Vanderbilt University - How he found the balance between strategy-...
Oct 08, 2022•36 min•Ep. 39
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Aditya Kulkarni and Raj Kunkolienkar — founders of the MBA Alternative, Stoa, which is India’s pioneer in community-led, cohort-based model for business education. They share their insights on various topics like: - What Raj and Aditya used to do before they came up with Stoa - What is Stoa? Its background, thesis, and phases of its growth - Challenges they encounter in building Stoa - Stoa’s mission and what it ...
Sep 30, 2022•44 min•Ep. 38
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Day One Founders, Andrew Hutton and Rahul Brahmbhatt, as they take a deep dive into the thesis, core foundation and principles of the Day One Community. This episode covers: - Major announcements at Day One - Andrew and Rahul’s background before starting Day One - Why listening is essential in helping founders - The role authenticity plays inside Day One - Building a scalable way to deliver progress while allowin...
Sep 23, 2022•49 min•Ep. 37
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features Swipe Files Founder and Default Alive podcast host, Corey Haines. With 75 episodes on his podcast show, while helping exceptional products get the attention they deserve, Corey shares his knowledge and expertise on some interesting topics: • How Corey found his way to SaaS, Software, Tech and Marketing • His version of Rob Walling’s Stair-Stepping Approach, and how this can be utilized in the world of founders • ...
Sep 16, 2022•44 min•Ep. 36
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features one of the world's top productivity experts, and the creator of Building A Second Brain, Tiago Forte. He has taught over five thousand people on this revolutionary approach of organizing digital lives and enhancing creativity. In this episode, Tiago recounts his experiences and lessons in (before, during and after) publishing his book, “Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Un...
Sep 09, 2022•42 min•Ep. 35
