A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders
A podcast by Mistral.vc
216 Episodes
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Pickleball grew 3x in 4 years to 14M players. Not by competing with tennis— but by creating a new market instead.
Published: 7/4/2024 -
He fought Al Qaeda in Iraq, turned down $250K at McKinsey—& built a $150M+ ARR unicorn. Here’s how it happened: | Blake Hall, Founder of ID.me
Published: 7/1/2024 -
Each Google/OpenAI update kills more startups. Here’s how to make sure you're not next.
Published: 6/27/2024 -
1st-time founder meets 120 VCs— closes $2.7M in 5 weeks, 10x oversubscribed. Here's the step-by-step guide to close a round. | Andrew Rea, Founder of Taxwire
Published: 6/24/2024 -
Zoom hits an all-time low. Here's what AI startups can learn from the WFH hype cycle.
Published: 6/20/2024 -
He grew to $22M ARR in 4 years—but regrets spending so much on growth. | Chris Walker, Founder of Refine Labs
Published: 6/17/2024 -
ChatGPT just hit $3B in ARR—here’s why Sam Altman is a strategic genius.
Published: 6/13/2024 -
Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddit CTO & Founding Engineer Chris Slowe
Published: 6/10/2024 -
She quit her job without a startup idea. Then built a $550M startup from a bad dentist appointment. I Wardah Inam, Founder of Overjet
Published: 6/3/2024 -
Ex-Squarespace CEO on how to sell to SMBs, build tight feedback loops, & stay close to customers even after raising $200M+ | Dane Atkinson, Founder of Odeko
Published: 5/27/2024 -
He built Uber for parking & exited. Then raised $100M+. Here's his formula for finding product-market fit. | Shmulik Fishman, Founder of Argyle
Published: 5/20/2024 -
COVID nearly bankrupted him. Then with AI he grew from $0 to $25M ARR in 4 years. | Andrew Lockhead, Founder of Stay22
Published: 5/13/2024 -
He raised $11M off a deck. Here's how he launched Clumio & grew 4x to over 8-figures in ARR. | Poojan Kumar, Founder of Clumio
Published: 5/6/2024 -
He quit his cozy Google job & ignored lean startup advice— then grew to $3M in 1 year. | Arvind Jain, Founder of Glean
Published: 4/29/2024 -
5 months in, Snapchat had only 127 users. Here's how Evan Spiegel found product market fit w/ Jeremy Liew (Partner at Lightspeed and Seed Investor in Snapchat)
Published: 4/22/2024 -
He gave up on chasing unicorns. Now he earns $500K+/year from his 3-person startup. | Rand Fishkin, Founder of Moz & SparkToro
Published: 4/15/2024 -
This solo founder bet on AI 7 years ago. Now he has 5,000 customers & $115M raised. | Dylan, Founder of Assembly AI
Published: 4/8/2024 -
He raised $275M in the last 3 years. His 'boring' B2B startup is now a $1B unicorn. | Andrew Butt, Founder of Enable
Published: 4/1/2024 -
Alex sold couches online before IKEA did. He grew to $40M in revenue and exited for millions. | Alex Back, Co-Founder of Apt2B
Published: 3/25/2024 -
My Last Startup Failed With 30 Employees… It Might've Worked if we'd Kept it to 5.
Published: 3/18/2024
Every founder has 1 goal: find product-market fit. We interview the world's most successful startup founders on the 0 to 1 part of their journeys. We've had the founders of Reddit, Gusto, Rappi, Glean, Cohere, Huntress, ID.me and many more. We go deep with entrepreneurs & VCs to provide detailed examples you can steal. Our goal is to understand product-market fit better than anyone on the planet. Rated one of the world's top startup podcasts.