Podcast A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders

He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. \| Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	42:50
Solo Episode: The Five Steps to Product Market Fit	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	30:45
He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia. \| David Paffenholz (Juicebox)	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	51:58
Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. \| Jennifer Smith, Founder of Scribe	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	65:09
He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. \| Alex Mashrabov, Founder of Higgsfield AI	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	45:40
How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. \| Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	71:43
Q3 2025 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. \| Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	45:37
He added AI to parking lots—then raised $3.5B. \| Alex Israel, Founder of Metropolis	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	39:30
He left a $2B ARR company to build AI agents—then hit $1M ARR in < 6 months \| Amit Shah, Founder of Instalily	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	40:37
He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. \| Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	50:02
At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. \| Matt Espinoza, Founder of Clover	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	51:57
He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. \| Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	46:44
He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. \| Harish Abbott, Founder of Deliverr & Augment	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	52:12
He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. \| Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix & DevRev	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	49:07
He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. \| Simon Eskildsen, Founder of turbopuffer	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	53:27
He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. \| Guy Podjarny, Founder of Snyk & Tessl	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	50:43
5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. \| Amar Varma, Founder of Mantle	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	42:18
He "kind of" had PMF for 8 years—until, after a rebuild, he raised $100M \| Ben Alarie, Founder of Blue J	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	40:43
They failed every POC—then grew their cybersecurity platform to $100M ARR in 5 years. \| Dean Sysman, co-founder of Axonius	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	48:37
He tested his pitch on Uber drivers—then built a cybersecurity platform to $180M raised. \| Casey Ellis, Founder of Bugcrowd	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	49:19
He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. \| Zach Llyod, Founder of Warp.dev	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	49:14
He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. \| Alex Sherman, Founder of Bluefish AI	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	44:39
A drug dealer threatened to kill him—then he grew 50x in 3 Years to $50M ARR. \| Brett Carlson, Found of ServiceUp	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	33:28
He pitched 100 VC and spent 3 years building— then grew to $7B AUM. \| Doug Scott, Founder of Ethic	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	45:14
PMF Observations: Speed is the only startup moat—& why most founders lose it.	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	11:01
He spent 5 months working with customers before building—then grew to $10s of millions ARR. \| Aviv Leibovici, co-founder of Buildots	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	48:10
She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. \| Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	40:16
He bet his house on a startup—took 7 years to $1M, then hockey stick to $100M+ ARR. \| Eldon Sprickerhoff, Co-Founder of eSentire	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	40:58
He quit his job, went all-in on AI agents—then grew to 100K users & a $30M Series A in a year. \| Soham Ganatra, Founder of Composio	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	58:20
TechCrunch called this YC founder a fraud at 18—then he built a $10M ARR fintech. \| Sahil Phadnis, Founder of Affiniti	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	59:59
Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. \| Jon Noronha, Co-Founder of Gamma	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	60:08
He quit Google, launched Rubrik—then grew to $1B ARR & a $16B market cap. \| Soham Mazumdar, Co-Founder Rubrik & Wisdom AI	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	53:55
He Bootstrapped to $55M in Revenue—without ever having to hit 100% YoY growth. \| Stéphan Donzé, Founder of AODocs	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	43:23
He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. \| Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	68:13
Q2 2025: The new Series A Bar is $3M ARR—& only 20% of seed startups make it. \| Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	57:09
His Video AI app hit $10M+ ARR in Months—with 0 outbound sales. \| Michael Lingelbach, Founder of Hedra	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	65:53
He grew to millions in ARR in 18 months—by fighting with his co-founders on purpose. \| Ross McNairn, Co-Founder of Wordsmith AI.	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	49:57
He thought his startup would fail—then grew to $100M ARR. \| Rick Song, Co-founder of Persona	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	59:57
Forget PMF—Neil Patel says to give your product away for free instead. \| Neil Patel, Co-Founder of Neil Patel Digital	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	31:01
He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. \| Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely	A Product Market Fit Show \| Startup Podcast for Founders	52:45

He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders

42:50

Solo Episode: The Five Steps to Product Market Fit

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders

30:45

He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia. | David Paffenholz (Juicebox)

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders

51:58

Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder of Scribe

A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders

65:09