👉🏼 About the Guest: Brian Swartz (ex-Startup Chile, NeighborSchools) is a 2x venture-backed founder who sold his last company NeighborSchools. He is currently working on a stealth startup improving remote work and the way we show up as teams. They are on a mission to improve connectivity & real-time collaboration among remote teams. Brian is all about building startups, teams, and software products to solve big hairy real-world problems. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, ...
May 25, 2023•55 min•Ep. 18
👉🏼 About the Guest: Mindaugas Petrutis (ex-InVision, ex-On Deck) is the founder of Coho, leading community-based cohorts in learning data science, design, marketing, and more. He founded On Deck's Design Fellowship and was the Head of EMEA Community at InVision. He loves building relationships, connecting the dots between humans, systems, and problems and simplifying complex ideas. Mindaugus is currently based in Lisbon 🇵🇹 with his rescue dogs, Rina and Mya. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 17
👉🏼 About the Guest: Justin Welsh is the writer of the Saturday Solopreneur, a weekly newsletter with 90K+ subscribers, as well as the founder of a boutique advisory firm for entrepreneurs and creator of digital products for creators. He is also an angel investor, a mentor to entrepreneurs in LATAM with 500 Startups, and an LP at GTM Fund, a rolling fund investing $4 million per year into early-stage B2B SaaS companies. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. ...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 16
👉🏼 About the Guest: Ben Putano is a CEO and book publisher for entrepreneurs and innovators at damngravity.com and a writing coach at Great Founders Write - a 5-week, cohort-based course that helps entrepreneurs build a consistent and confident writing habit. He is also the author of 'Great Founders Write' and merchant of big ideas. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His Sa...
Mar 28, 2023•57 min•Ep. 15
👉🏼 About the Guests: Tibo and Tom are the cofounders of Tweethunter.io , a product that helps you up your Twitter game. After meeting at graduate school, they went on to team up across several startups (Taplio, Tweethunter.io, PonyExpress), finally creating Tweethunter.io and scaling it from $0 to a $1M exit. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout gene...
Feb 11, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 14
👉🏼 About the Guest: Rand Fishkin is cofounder and CEO of SparkToro , makers of fine audience research software. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos , speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder . When Rand’s not working, he’s usually cooking a fancy meal for the love of his life, author Geraldine DeRuiter . If you bribe him with great pasta or fancy cocktails, he’ll pull back the curtain on big tech’s dark secrets. 👉🏼 About the ...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 13
👉🏼 About the Guest: Peter Yang (Roblox, ex-Reddit, ex-Credit Karma, ex-Twitter, ex-Twitch, ex-Facebook, ex-Microsoft) is the creator of several product management courses, from Odyssey in Web3 to Launching Your Product Management Career with Maven. He is also the author of two awesome books The Art of Writing and Principles of Product Management, where he shares learnings on communication, leadership, and customer obsession. He is also a writer for 35,000+ subscribers at his newsletter, Creato...
Jan 24, 2023•56 min•Ep. 12
👉🏼 About the Guest: Zehra Naqvi is a Senior Investment Associate at Republic and the co-founder of GLO, a clothing brand that's all about staying fresh. She is a financial economics major with a concentration in art history and is all about investing in new founders through the power of community. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generates $30k A...
Jan 17, 2023•41 min•Ep. 11
👉🏼 About the Guest: Arvid Kahl is the founder of FeedbackPanda.com , an online teacher productivity SaaS company. He is also the author of two awesome books Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entrepreneur , where he shares how to build a business, an audience, and a path to financial independence. He is also creating the Bootstrapper’s Bookshelf , the Bootstrapped Founder Podcast , the YouTube channel, and the Bootstrapped Founder Newsletter , all for founders looking to build sustainable businesse...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 10
👉🏼 About the Guest: Dickie Bush is the founder of the writing-centered cohort-based course, Ship 30 for 30 (5600+ students) and Typeshare (30K+ MRR), after life as a portfolio manager. He provides writing frameworks at Digital Writing Compass , as well as providing guidance to over 300K+ Twitter followers. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generat...
Dec 29, 2022•56 min•Ep. 9
👉🏼 About the Guest: Amanda Natividad is the VP of Marketing at audience research startup, SparkToro (100K+ ARR), after being a tech journalist and a test kitchen cook. While pioneering the concept of Zero-Click Content , she teaches an intermediate-level content marketing course and writes at The Menu , a weekly newsletter with 8000+ subscribers on marketing and food recipes! 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and ship...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 8
About the Guest: 👉🏼 Jay Clouse is a creator and entrepreneur, producing the popular newsletter, Creator Science , and the podcast Creative Elements (1M+ downloads!), exploring all the ways you can make a living with your art and creativity. He has sold two companies he has co-founded and has led the Community Experience team for Pat Flynn and Smart Passive Income, designing their paid membership community and cohort-based course programs. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and...
Dec 13, 2022•53 min•Ep. 7
Show Notes 👉🏼 About the Guest: Justin Jackson is a veteran entrepreneur, founder, podcaster, writer, and community builder. He is the co-founder of Transistor.fm , a platform that helps you distribute your podcast to multiple platforms seamlessly. He runs a private community for bootstrappers called MegaMaker , hosts a podcast Build your SaaS , and writes at bootstrap a SaaS. Some of Justin's posts immediately inspire you and puts you on the path to take action. In short, Justin is a jack of a...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 6
👉🏼 About the Guest: Warren Shaeffer is a seasoned entrepreneur, 3x founder, dad, writer, and 1st gen immigrant. He built three companies in the past and sold them to giants like Giphy. Notably, his latest startup Knowably was sold to Medium . Overall he raised more than $12M from some of the world's best investors, including Andreesen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and First Round Capital. He preaches and practices transparency, vulnerability, and authenticity. Currently, he serves as a VP at ...
Nov 03, 2022•46 min•Ep. 5
👉🏼 About the Guest: Anne-Laure is a writer, founder, serial maker, and neuroeducation Ph.D. researcher. She founded Ness Labs , a collective that provides content, coaching, courses, and community to help makers put their minds to work. She also runs Maker Mind a weekly newsletter packed with neuroscience-based insights to be more productive and more creative. Currently, it serves around 30k subscribers. She also gathered and built an audience of close to 60k on Twitter. 👉🏼 About the Host: S...
Oct 27, 2022•44 min•Ep. 4
👉🏼 About the Guest: Shriya Nevatia is a founder, community builder, angel investor, and mentor. She is currently a General Manager at Sylva and previously led On Deck Catalyst, a remote program for young tech leaders dubbed as one of the most successful programs in On Deck's history. Shriya comes with a ton of experience in the community space with over 10yrs building in-person and online communities. She is also a Founder & CEO of The Violet Society , a community for ambitious female &...
Oct 20, 2022•55 min•Ep. 3
👉🏼 About the Guest: David is a founder, writer, podcaster, and educator. His course Write of Passage helped thousands of people break writer’s blocks and turned them into amazing writers. David accumulated a community of 350K+ Twitter audience and frequently hosts The Northstar podcast where he interviews interesting founders, creators, artists, and more. He is a big proponent of the Internet and firmly believes everyone should be a citizen of it. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, cre...
Sep 12, 2022•44 min•Ep. 2
👉🏼 About the Guest: Jack Butcher is a designer, founder, and creator of many things. He is famously recognized for the courses he created where he teaches how to productize yourself and build leverage on top of it. His minimalistic posters are iconic and inspire you to take action. His two successful courses - How to Visualize Value, a playbook for creating meaningful visual communication; Build Once Sell Twice, where he teaches his process for creating digital products and taking VV's revenue...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 1
