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I’ve been talking with founders who used AI to build companies, but aren’t getting enough customers. I found the perfect person to show them how to grow. Neil Patel has been on the cutting edge of AI marketing. He’s going to show us what’s working for his customers and...

He built Art.com through the early days of the internet, despite the dotcom bust, and through heavy competition….After all that work, the company sold to a much bigger company….And that’s when the lawsuit came. You’ll hear how Joshua Chodniewicz built that business and how his latest...

This founder found a niche that Airbnb didn’t reach and rode it to $6 million in revenue. Steve Satoru Naito’s Anyplace, accommodations come with big monitors, high-speed internet, an office setup, ergonomic chairs, webcams, and key lights, all tailored to create an optimal environment for...

My vision for this interview was to hear Noah Kagan’s process for launching companies, like the $80+ million / year AppSumo – the process he wrote about in his book, Million Dollar Weekend. We did that. You’ll hear his step-by-step business launch process. But, when I asked him how he was...

Before we started, I asked Alyssa Ravasio, why she didn’t model her company on other marketplaces. “Why don’t you encourage more people to buy land near national parks and turn them into campgrounds that they list on Hipcamp? It’s a good way for entrepreneurs to make...

Ritesh Agarwal was an entrepreneurial teen in India who loved to travel. So he created a travel search engine. Naturally, you can’t outcompete with the big, established sites. Plus local hotels had poor customer experience. Ritesh’s idea: He tried helping hotels improve. He...

I don’t know how today’s guest is still standing. Chad Newell is running a company that has pivoted so many times for so many different reasons. The tenacity and the agility it must have taken to stay with it fascinates me. We’ll find out how he did it in this interview. Chad...

I’ve been so excited about marketplaces as businesses that I’ve done interviews with the founders who created them for over 10 years. It started out being such a hard thing to do. Now, with no-code solutions, it’s so easy. That’s why I wanted to talk to today’s...

Joining me is someone who’s become essentially famous for being one of the first Silicon Valley companies that went public through a SPAC. George Arison is the co-founder of Shift which makes it easy to buy and sell cars online. I want to find out how he built his company and about his...

I am so freaking excited about the problem today’s guest is solving. Obi Omile is the founder of The Cut, a barbershop technology platform that allows users and barbers to schedule and manage appointments. I want to find out how he grew this app to 7 figures.

Joining me is an entrepreneur who created a platform that helps teachers do more than just teach. They enable testing, student success and even give teachers tools to help them sell their courses. It’s kind of like Shopify for online education. If you want to teach, you want the platform,...

I love interviewing entrepreneurs who are actually changing the world through technology. My guest today is one of those people. Matt Reilly is the creator of the Fever Free app which enables virtual temperature checks and symptom prescreening. It’s a tool he created out of necessity for...

Joining me is Adam Jackson, a guy who has been building marketplaces for years–starting with one where he went door to door here in the San Francisco Bay area and signed up users. He’s developed most of his businesses here and still, he told me before this interview that he would...

Joining me as somebody who I’ve been talking to via email for a while, and I’ve wanted to have on here and I’m so excited that he said yes to an interview. So many entrepreneurs that I’ve interviewed had little businesses when they were kids. They’re usually so...

Nobody cared about local grocers like Bobby’s dad, the New York pork grocer. Then the coronavirus hit the world. Bobby Brannigan created Mercato to give local grocers like his dad an easy way to sell online. It was a nice goal, he’s a good son, but Amazon was still beating him. Then covid...

Why is Gagan Biyani still smiling? He raised a reported $56.7 million from investors, and lost most of it. This is the story of Sprig, the startup that made and delivered food. It’s also the story of Gagan, the founder who reached the success and happiness that we all aspire to.

This is part of my series of interviews to understand what’s working in business during this difficult time. Ankur Nagpal is the founder of Teachable, which allows creators to launch and sell online courses. Teachable is a fast-growing company, but you won’t believe the metrics...

I assumed all businesses were leveled and I got depressed. Then I started hearing about a few companies who are doing well. I wanted to understand why and revive my optimism. In this interview you’ll hear how the sudden economic hit and the forced home isolation led would-be creators to...

Joining me is an entrepreneur who discovered there was no easy way to hire a scientist. If you have a company and you need a specific expertise, there’s no clear path for contacting these experts. To create a solution, she launched a marketplace where anyone could hire PhD level experts and...

Today’s guest was one of the first 500 hires at Google. She stayed with Google for 10 years—all the way to IPO. But while she was there she experienced a problem while selling her car. So she and her co-founder developed a company to make that process easier. Minnie Ingersoll is the...