Aaron
person on 16 shows · 7 statements across 3 episodes · said 112 times in 48 episodes since 2013
My First Million 32 
A Product Market Fit Show 29 
Top Founders 16 
TBPN 10 
How I Built This 8 
Starter Story 4 
20VC 3 
the MAD Podcast 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
In Depth 1 
Startups For the Rest of Us 1 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
the Neon Show 1 
No Priors 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
Sourcery 1
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My First Million 32A Product Market Fit Show 29Top Founders 16TBPN 10How I Built This 8Starter Story 420VC 3the MAD Podcast 28 more shows
2026 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2025 42 mentions in 10 episodes 4 per episode
- Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder o... · PMF Show
- TechCrunch called this YC founder a fraud at 18—then he built a $10M ARR fintech. | Sahil Phadnis... · PMF Show
- How this dumb doll makes $2M per day
- I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
- Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- How I Built It: $400K/Month Mobile App (Gravl)
- He grew to millions in ARR in 18 months—by fighting with his co-founders on purpose. | Ross McNai... · PMF Show
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2024 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
2023 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2022 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2021 17 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- 1119 "Channel partners gave us 200,000 customers, $40m ARR"
- 20VC: Lightspeed Partner Adam Goldberg on Why There Remains No Mass Market Crypto Consumer Product, The Future For The Token Economy, The Good and Bad of Telegram's ICO and Why The Rate of Founder Learning is The Most Important Element A VC Can Assess
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2017 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 729: Will Edelman Digital Creator Lead New AI Marketing World?
- 20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- 805: SaaS: 30,000 Customers Make Him King of Call Tracking and Attribution
- 20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
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2016 8 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- EP 472: $65k Crowdfunded on Angel List and 75,000 Pre-Launch Email With Youngry CEO Ash Kumra
- EP 469: SharkTank Sunk Him, Then He Won Big With $1.4M with Revestor CEO Bill Lyons
- EP 468: $6M in 2015 Revenue With Health and Wellness Infoproduct with CEO Craig Ballantyne
- EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
- EP 460: One Man Agency Does $500k Recommending Health Plans with Michael Chapman
- Ep 456: $700k Agency Enters Group Coaching Space. Why? With CEO AriMirza
- EP 452: 70k MRR, CSTOREPRO, Data play, <1m Raised, <5% monthly churn
- YEC Lands Forbes Partnership, 1000's of Paying Members Early EP 232
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2013 1 mention in 1 episode
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7 statements about Aaron, every show
Smith met over 80 co-founder candidates before partnering with Aaron
“I kept a spreadsheet. I met over 80 people before I met Aaron.”
Schnettler attributes co-founder split to fundamentally divergent long-term goals
“It just feels like my partner and I fundamentally wanted different things, And we thought we wanted the same thing.”
Schnettler says she would have quit Hello Query if unfunded
“So if we didn't raise money, And he decided not to be involved. I can almost say I would not do this without him, for sure.”
Schnettler admits Hello Query's half-built product fails to solve customer needs
“It's that the product Aaron and I had envisioned is not the right solution. Like I can already tell you from the customer interviews, what he, what we have 50% done, that is not the right solution.”
Schnettler regrets attempting a huge vision instead of shipping simple tools iteratively
“I think originally when we had talked about this idea, once we, you know, got rid of our consulting arm we had talked about starting, which is SQL to CSV and iteratively building. And for reasons that I'm still kind of unclear, I couldn't get Aaron to do that.…”
Schnettler regrets avoiding conflict and delaying co-founder breakup by eight months
“And I, because Aaron and I, we maybe didn't, I don't want to say we're conflict avoiders, but you know, when you have a personal relationship with your co-founder, you don't, I was always really worried about pushing him too hard. And we broke up anyway. So I …”