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Today’s guest needed some inspirational posters to cover the blank walls in his startup’s office. When all he could find was cheesy, dated options he decided to create them himself. Davis Siksnans is the founder of Printful, easy print-on-demand drop shipping and fulfillment...

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,...

Joining me today is an entrepreneur who was crucial in creating the Beats Music brand that was eventually sold to Apple. He then partnered up with Spotify to create a way to bring music streaming to businesses. He has recently moved away from Spotify and I’m fascinated by how he’s...

Today I have a founder who just sold her company to SEMRush. She was running her own PR agency and was looking for a solution to make her team more efficient. When she couldn’t find what she was looking for, she created it. Joanna Drabent is the founder of Prowly, PR and Media Relations...

One of the biggest hesitations that can keep us from starting something is how much time, work, and money goes into building something that’s likely to fail. It gets in our head. It keeps us from building. Well, joining me as an entrepreneur who failed. He created a product called tldr.io....

Today’s guest is Andrew Burnett-Thompson. He is the founder of SciChart. A lot of software has charts in it and I always assumed that the software makers created those charts. But it turns out it’s not just the chart–it’s a way of analyzing lots of data fast and making it...

Today’s guest came up with the idea to scrape the internet’s audio and video to find pirated content. But he had one major problem: no investor would touch it. We’ll find out how everything changed for him just days before filing bankruptcy. If you have an idea that investors...

I’ve known for years about the software that today’s guest created. It’s beautiful. It’s elegant. It’s well-organized.  But it’s automated CRM. And he’s dealing with competitors like Salesforce. Microsoft is in the space of contact relationship...

Joining me is a Mixergy listener who quit his job to start blogging. He only made €82 euros in his first month but he didn’t stop. The next month he made a little more and then a little more. Eventually he moved into SaaS which he could offer to the audience which he had grown. Aurelien...

My guest today has a background in working with influencers. He’s not a developer but he built software that allows user to share and discover the products they love. Enric Gabarró is the co-founder of Picker.me, where you can share your favorite products with friends, with family, or...

I was supposed to do this interview weeks and weeks ago. But the day of the interview, I talked to Thomas and he told me that he had COVID-19. I had never heard of anyone who had COVID-19. I got really worried for him and we stayed in touch. Eventually he recovered and he’s finally here...

I remember talking to a friend in San Francisco who told me he was running into a problem with his employees that is never really talked about. Well, today’s guest recognized this problem too and he came up with a really unique solution to deal with it. Oren Barzilai is the founder of...

A few of the founders I have interviewed have either bought or sold businesses through today’s guest. Thomas Smale is the founder of FE International, a website broker. They started with small deals but are now brokering $50M deals. I want to ask him about growing this type of company as...

When I first started Mixergy, digital marketers were using pop-ups on their sites. It might have created a bad user experience but it did lead to more email subscribers. Well. today’s guest says you can still get those results without using 2004 tactics. You can be proud of the way you...

Joining me is an entrepreneur from Italy who wanted to start a business so bad that he was doing it even as a child. But he went on to a very safe corporate job that made his friends envious and his parents proud. And then he left. He risked it to start a company. Simone Di Somma is the...

Joining me is an entrepreneur who tried so many different things. And a lot of them failed. I think most people would just have said, “All right. This isn’t for me.” I don’t know what kept him going. I don’t know why he persisted, but he did persist and he...

Joining me is someone who is taking on Google by offering an alternative. If your interested in how entrepreneurs survive in a world of these giants, I think you’ll find his story valuable. I also like that he’s a product person but not a hardcore developer. He’s not a geek; he actually...

I remember when I first got my iPhone, one of the coolest apps to try was called Shazam. With Shazam, if there was music playing somewhere and you wanted to know what song it was, the app would tell you. Back then, I think it would even link you over to buy the song and it was like magic. It...

Joining me is one of the co-founders of Skype, formerly known as Skyper. Ahti Heinla is, among other things, the co-founder of Kazaa, which I remember as one of the first ways of getting music and movies. I’m excited to have him here but the thing that he’s probably more excited to...

Joining me direct from Israel is the CEO and founder of Israel’s largest publicly traded company, a billionaire who’s self-made. He did it by helping companies protect themselves. Gil Shwed is the co-founder and CEO of Check Point. They are the world’s largest pure play cyber...