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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...

Joining me is a guy who failed a couple of times in entrepreneurship but he decided to continue anyway. I’m curious why he didn’t just give up. And instead of giving up, he went on to create this software called Bonjoro. It allows you to send individual videos to people at scale....

I happen to be the one of the many people who don’t have enough time to take my car in for maintenance. Well, joining me is an entrepreneur who recognized that problem and is solving it. Limvirak Chea is the founder of Fixter, which lets users book hassle-free car maintenance.

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...

Adii Pienaar is the founder of multiple companies. Many of us know him as the guy who created WooCommerce, an e-commerce platform that works on WordPress. It was acquired by Automatic. He then created Conversio, email marketing automation for e-commerce brands which was acquired by Campaign...

I have to be honest, I was very skeptical as I went through the site today’s guest created. But I I was impressed with it I thought, “I should have come out with this idea!” It’s so simple, so brilliant, So elegant. My guest, Bobby Peddi, realized that one of the big...

Joining me is somebody who got funded and got to Silicon Valley. But it didn’t work out for him. He had to leave the country. He ended up coming back with a bootstrap company that’s doing better than the previous business. I invited him here to talk about how he did it. His name is...

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’s guest is someone who has this big vision of changing the world. But he realized something. If you want to change the world, if you want to really have big impact, you have to start small. Ashray Malhotra is the founder of Rephrase.ai, which uses Generative AI to address millions of...

Two weeks ago I saw the news story “Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200 million”. So I immediately contacted the founder of the company to do an interview. And he said, “Come on, man. Let’s do it, but give me a little bit of time.” And so we waited a...

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....

Joining me is a guy who went to Harvard Business School and said, “This is really helpful, but it’s available to a limited number of people.” So he decided to make online top tier education available to more people. He created a company called Eruditus which makes really high...

Joining me is Martin Martinez. I know him as the founder of Alfred, which lets you market to people on LinkedIn. If I wanted to expand my network to know every founder in San Francisco, Alfred would allow me to find all those founders, add them on LinkedIn and then send them messages. And then...

Four years ago today’s guest sold HeyZap for $45M. It was a long journey which we’ll talk about in this interview but I also want to find out about what he’s building now. Immad Akhund is the founder of Mercury, a bank that helps startups scale. I tweeted out before this...

Vineet Devaiah is the founder of Teliportme, which offers virtual tour software. I invited him because I want to hear how he built the company up, had sales cut 90% by COVID, and is now building it back up even stronger.

Joining me is a Mixergy listener who says that listening to Mixergy gave him the sense that it wasn’t as hard as he thought to create his own company. And sure enough, he did. Alright. Prashant Salla is the founder of FixMyCar, the fastest and easiest way to get your car fixed anywhere. As...

I freaking love the hustle of today’s guest. I love how she went extra mile to make everything a little bit better. Tavleen Kaur is the cofounder of BuildWooFunnels, optimized WooCommerce checkout pages, order bump and one-click upsells/downsells. I want to find out how she tested...

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...

Joining me as an entrepreneur who spent 10 years as a consultant, helping enterprises solve boring problems. But here’s the thing: He discovered a few problems that the clients all had in common. And so he bootstrapped software that solved those issues and turned his clients into...