A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders

He pitched 100 VC and spent 3 years building— then grew to $7B AUM. | Doug Scott, Founder of Ethic

PMF Observations: Speed is the only startup moat—& why most founders lose it.

The podcast emphasizes the critical importance of speed and iteration for startup founders, especially in the early stages. Drawing inspiration from Arnold Schwarzenegger's "reps, reps, reps" philosophy, the speaker argues that rapid experimentation and execution are a startup's greatest asset. The discussion highlight...

He spent 5 months working with customers before building—then grew to $10s of millions ARR. | Aviv Leibovici, co-founder of Buildots

She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge

He bet his house on a startup—took 7 years to $1M, then hockey stick to $100M+ ARR. | Eldon Sprickerhoff, Co-Founder of eSentire

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

TechCrunch called him a fraud at 18—then he built a $10M ARR fintech. | Sahil Phadnis, Founder of Affiniti

Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Founder of Gamma

He quit Google, launched Rubrik—then grew to $1B ARR & a $16B market cap. | Soham Mazumdar, Co-Founder Rubrik & Wisdom AI

He Bootstrapped to $55M ARR—without ever having to hit 100% YoY growth. | Stéphan Donzé, Founder of AODocs

He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder

Q2 2025: The new Series A Bar is $3M ARR—& only 20% of seed startups make it. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta

His Video AI app hit $10M+ ARR in Months—without a sales team. | Michael Lingelbach, Founder of Hedra

He grew to $5M ARR in 18 months—by fighting with his co-founders on purpose. | Ross McNairn, Co-Founder of Wordsmith AI.

He thought his startup would fail—then grew to $100M ARR. | Rick Song, Co-founder of Persona

Forget PMF—Neil Patel says to give your product away for free instead. | Neil Patel, Co-Founder of Neil Patel Digital

He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely

She raised $1.3M, delivered real value—but still failed. Here’s what happened. | Mary Beth Snodgrass, Founder of Healthiby

He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tanay Kothari, Founder of Wispr Flow

Tanay Kothari, founder of Wispr, discusses his journey from building one of the first voice assistants at age 11 to creating Wispr Flow, an AI-powered voice interface. Kothari recounts early entrepreneurial experiences, including Google shutting down his initial app due to scraping YouTube for music. He emphasizes the ...

PMF Observations: Why after PMF, every problem is a people problem.