Episodes
Ahmed is the founder of Narrator, the first customer data analytics platform built for product teams that uses data directly from the data warehouse. The company raised a Series A round of $6.2 million in 2020.
Published 07/18/21
Published 07/18/21
George Carollo is the co-founder of Dover, the first end-to-end recruiting automation platform for the world's top companies, which has raised $3M from top VCs. Currently, they are helping more than 80 companies to run a better hiring process.
Published 06/10/21
Ravi is the founder of Heap, an analytics platform that helps product, marketing, and customer success teams craft exceptional digital experiences that convert and retain users. Heap has raised over 200 Million Dollars and has 6000+ Active customers. Ravi just started his new startup, Airplane.dev, a platform for engineers to efficiently build internal tools.
Published 04/11/21
Jinesh is a 4x Alt Protein Founder, including his YC startup (Mylk guys), and has advised/mentored 40+ alt protein startups & 100+ tech startups across six continents.
Published 03/05/21
John is the founder of Sendbird, the no.1 chat API for mobile apps and websites. They help businesses build direct messaging and group chat quickly on their applications. They have raised over 120 Million Dollars in funding and employ 250 people across seven different cities worldwide.
Published 02/16/21
Hello everyone! This podcast with Praful Mathur, a YC alumnus who once was an engineering kid who dreamt big. He shares his mindset while starting, how he and his friend decided to go ahead with an idea to advertise inside cabs and how it became a success.
Published 02/08/21
Ruben Harris is the founder of Career Karma, the easiest way to find a job training program online. They have raised 11.9 Million Dollars so far and help over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching.
Published 01/21/21
Tamar Blue is the founder of Mental Happy, a social network designed to help people of all races, genders and economic statuses improve their emotional wellbeing through positive peer support.
Published 12/15/20
Karn Saroya is the founder of Cover, a startup that simplifies insurance. Cover uses mobile technology, automation, and expert advice to match someone with a policy that works for them at a great rate for just about anything you can capture on camera. Cover has raised over 27 million dollars and employs over 70 employees.
Published 11/20/20
Kong Pham is the founder of Jumpcut, a Startup that creates captivating online courses about entrepreneurship. He is a retired Youtuber who started multiple viral YouTube channels that now have over 4.5 million subscribers and over 500 million views. Now, he spends most of his time changing the landscape of online education, one course at a time.
Published 11/01/20
Liron Shapira is the founder of Relationship Hero, a company that provides on-demand, professional, one on one, relationship coaching services. Relationship Hero currently has over 100 experts available 24/7 to help people with relationship issues.
Published 10/19/20
Sarah Sandnes is the founder of Safety Wing, a company that builds a global safety net for online freelancers. SafetyWing is currently offering a travel medical insurance, health insurance for digital nomads and remote teams.
Published 10/09/20
Jesper Thomsen is YC alumni, a Thiel Fellow, and founder of Soundboks, a company that built the first and the loudest Bluetooth performance speaker. Almost 100,000 people have bought these speakers in over 40 countries.
Published 09/29/20
Jeremie Habib is the founder of Gigwell, the first end-to-end booking management platform providing the world’s leading artists and booking agencies with the tools needed to maximize revenue, time, and efficiency.
Published 09/25/20
James Sinka is a chemist and the founder of Hypnos.ai, a company that helps you improve your quality of sleep.
Published 08/11/20
Kwame Ampem is the founder of MentalHappy, a startup in the mental health space, which started off as a service to send care packages and since then has pivoted into a community where people can learn life skills for their emotional well being.
Published 08/07/20
Today, I'm interviewing Dillon Forrest, a non-active founder of a consumer startup called RankScience. Dillon is one person that I've met in my startup journey who has tried so many different roles, from marketing to product to tech and I find that very interesting because most of the people are specialists whereas Dillon is a generalist. He has worked at a bunch of different startups as a founder and as an employee and has some really interesting insights and experiences that we cover in...
Published 07/30/20
Today I interview Tatul Ajamyan, founder of social media app Wakie, started off by trying to fix a simple problem of waking up in the morning. It is now an app where strangers can talk to strangers about any topic they want to talk about. They have raised over $7 Million and the app is being used by millions of people around the world. This is a must-listen episode for anyone excited about social media startups and I enjoyed a lot because Tatul and I share a common connection of starting a...
Published 07/29/20
Today's guest, my good friend David, a serial entrepreneur who has started multiple startups in the last few years. One of his startups, Banjo raised $121M in funding. His next venture, Hackbright Academy got acquired for $18M. He then found BloomJoy which got in YC, where I had the pleasure of meeting him. Unfortunately, that didn't work out as the founders didn't manage their runway well. The experience with BloomJoy lead to pivoting into Fondo, which helps startup founders protect &...
Published 07/24/20
As a start-up gets bigger, the founder stories get refined to comply with PR. My goal is to bring out raw experiences of YC Alumni, lessons learned from starting a successful or an unsuccessful startup. You can learn from these smart human beings' mistakes and skip years of trial and error. In this episode, we have Priyank Singh, co-founder of Stilt which is a fin-tech start-up focussed on providing loans and credits to immigrants and the underserved. They have raised over 100 million dollars...
Published 07/15/20