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Joining me as a Mixergy listener whose numbers don’t exactly hit our minimum for revenue but when we heard his story we knew we had to bring it to the audience. Adrian Tobey is the creator of Groundhogg, a CRM and marketing automation WordPress plugin. We believe that Adrian Toby is going...

Joining me is a listener who has started a company that I think is just phenomenally useful. I think when you hear how he came up with his idea, it’ll actually help you think of better products to create for your audience too. His name is John Li and he’s the founder of Pickfu, a...

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 know that some of you who are listening are probably thinking of yourselves as wantrepreneurs. Well,  joining me today is an entrepreneur who maybe would’ve considered himself that as well. But one day he said, “There’s something about just listening to entrepreneurs tell...

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...

Joining me is a Mixergy listener who has been distilling spirits in Huntington Beach. The distillery was doing so well that earlier this year they were hiring and starting construction on a bigger facility. Then COVID hit and everything came to a halt. But then something else happened. They...

Today’s guest is a Mixergy listener who runs a company that manages sales and operations for hotels and venues. I want to find out what a business like his is doing to stay afloat when hotels and venues are closed during COVID. Bob Graham is the founder of Event Temple, venue management...

Joining me as someone who listened and actually sent me a thank you note in 2014 that I still have. I want to talk about why he did that and what the result of gestures like that did for his business. We’ve stayed in touch over the years and I’ve watched him go from being solid to...

Joining me is an entrepreneur said, “I created a good product, but if you’re going against trends, you’re rolling a boulder up a mountain.” But if you’re capitalizing on a topic or you happen to be in a topic that people are excited by, suddenly everything seems...

Joining me is someone who was a Mixergy listener and whose software runs our entire booking process for guests. I love what he built for so many reasons but about a year ago I read that he sold it to Squarespace! He bootstrapped the company so I want to find out his motivations for exiting. I...

Joining me is an entrepreneur and longtime Mixergy listener. About 10 years ago he wanted to sell insurance more efficient but the market wasn’t ready for it. He went on to sell in more traditional methods until his clients started asking him if they could go through the process online. Sa El...

Joining me is a Mixergy listener whom I’ve known a bit about over the years. Recently, he put out this tweetstorm that really moved me and anyone who runs a company should be exposed to them. I’ll read a few excerpts in this interview and ask him about what led up to writing them....

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...

Today’s guest is a Mixergy listener who I invited to share his story. Caleb Roth is someone who might not think of himself as an entrepreneur—in fact, he went pretty high up the corporate ladder at Johnson & Johnson. But all along he was doing things on the side. Finally, he took the...

Joining me is a listener who has been a part of the Mixergy community since 2008. He is someone who worked for Mozilla and discovered a pain point there. But when he applied to YC with a solution, he didn’t get in. We’ll talk about what happened that day in this interview. And also about...

I’m especially excited to talk to today’s guest because he’s creating a solution for anyone I’ve interviewed who is selling a physical product. I’m talking about packaging. I ask about it in my interviews but I feel like I never get a satisfying answer. Well, Raine Mahdi is the founder...

Joining me today is a Mixergy listener who has built a company so big that I’m lucky to have him on here. Matt Symes is the founder of Simplicity, a service business that helps organizations get out of their own way and scale. If you’re listening to me and you’re running a...

Joining me is a Mixergy listener who built a company and sold it. He is now running a company that’s super intriguing to me. I want to ask him how he came up with this idea because he was kicking around a bunch of ideas. Gaurav Sharma is the founder of JustCall, a Cloud phone system that...

Joining me today is an entrepreneur I’m especially excited to talk about for a few different reasons. Number one, he’s a Mixergy listener. He’s somebody who’s listened just like you and has had these stories embedded in his head. Number two, he is outside the United...

Acuity Scheduling was in the news because they were acquired by Squarespace. We’re reposting this older interview to show you how Gavin Zuchlinski grew his software with spectacular customer support. Gavin Zuchlinski is the founder of Acuity Scheduling, a 13-year-old calendar scheduling...