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product on 31 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 438 times in 245 episodes since 2013
Top Founders 76 
the Knowledge Project 73 
Founders 55 
Acquired 39 
Startups For the Rest of Us 27 
My First Million 19 
Lenny's Podcast 18 
20VC 18 
TBPN 17 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 16 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 11 
the a16z Podcast 10 
All-In 10 
the Neon Show 8 
Big Technology 7 
the MAD Podcast 4 
How I Built This 4 
David Senra 4 
A Product Market Fit Show 3 
Capital Allocators 3 
Mixergy 2 
Another Podcast 2 
We Live to Build 2 
American Optimist 2 
BigDeal 2 
Founder's Journal 1 
Startup Acquisition Stories 1 
the Pitch 1 
Innovators & Investors 1 
Latent Space 1 
Sourcery 1
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Top Founders 76the Knowledge Project 73Founders 55Acquired 39Startups For the Rest of Us 27My First Million 1920VC 18Lenny's Podcast 1823 more shows
2026 18 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- Bending Spoons Buys Airtable, OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Spider-Man Ads in BMWs | Diet TBPN
- How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
- The Merchant Bankers
- GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
- Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN
- Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 55 mentions in 33 episodes 2 per episode
- Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- Could AI TAKE OVER by 2027? | Morgan Housel on TBPN April 4th
- We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
- Are AI Agents Further Away Than We Think? | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Joins TBPN
- David Senra on How to Become a World Class Founder
- He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
- 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- How AI Agents Are Transforming Logistics · Joe Lonsdale
- 25 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 88 mentions in 37 episodes 2 per episode
- Working with Jeff Bezos
- Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- Episode 726 | Selling 29,000 Copies, Information vs. Motivation,...
- Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 42 mentions in 22 episodes 2 per episode
- TKP Insights: Learning and Thinking
- Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
- A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
- Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The Biography of Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
- Henry Ford's Autobiography
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 53 mentions in 21 episodes 3 per episode
- Amazon.com · Acquired
- Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- Episode 637 | B2B vs. B2C, Hiring for Sales, and Bootstrapping a...
- How to Build a Second Brain? THIS Will Change Your Life! | Ft. Tiago Forte | 100x Entrepreneur
- Build better products with continuous product discovery | Teresa Torres
- The Easiest Way To Make $10,000/Month In Passive Income
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 16 mentions in 13 episodes 1 per episode
- Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool
- How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183
- Episode 533: Life Profitability After Two Exits (with Adii Pienaar)
- Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny
- Standard Oil Part I · Acquired
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 10 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- Episode 528 | 2021 Predictions from Rob and Mike
- Fireside Chat: Ashley Kramer (CMO & CPO, Sisense) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase
- ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR
- #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- 20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 66 mentions in 62 episodes 1 per episode
- #63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- 1489 Getting your First 20 Customers and $1k/mo in Revenue
- 1485 Social Media Management For Banks Raising $1.5m on $8m Pre (4x ARR)
- 1484 Content Marketing at Scale Passes $3m ARR, 500 Customers
- 1480 Social Listening Tool Raising $6m on $22M Pre Money (10x Valuation)
- 1479 Are they actually better than WebMD w $500k+ in Revenue?
- 1475 If Clearbit and Hubspot Had a Baby...
- 54 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 27 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- #39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- When Advertising Isn't Enough
- A Conversation with Werner Vogels · Y Combinator
- 1170 Playbook he used for taking 3 companies public f\rom scratch
- 20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 16 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- #18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- 886 SaaS: 27 Year Old Breaks $240m in Annual Revenue, Piping of the Internet
- Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- How 'Going Direct' Changes Everything: for Brands, Retail, Marketing, and Advertising
- #1417 How Sam Ovens is helping everyday people start their own consulting businesses
- EP 573: I Sell My Financial Data On This Podcast with BitMark CEO Sean Moss-Pultz
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 24 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- #14 Morgan Housel: Reading, Writing, and Lifelong Learning
- #15 Samuel Arbesman: Future-Proof Your Knowledge
- EP 464: $1.7M In Book Sales After Being Dead for 6 Minutes
- 20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC
- Look! A Book Author Who Actually Made Money! ($250,000 To Be Exact), EP 305: Ash
- How To Make $500k/year Podcasting With Best Selling Author Jay Baer EP 197
- Under 30, Made $5m, Tells Me He Loves Me Dane Maxwell Ep 2
- Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
2015 21 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
2013 2 mentions in 1 episode
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5 statements about Amazon Kindle, every show
Hays: Meta Will Likely Release Ad-Supported Smart Glasses
“I would expect to see, just like we saw the ad supported Kindle, I think we'll see the ad supported metaglasses.”
Söderström: Amazon bundled lifetime carrier data into Kindle hardware pricing
“And what they did was they signed deals with these carriers. They calculated the average book size, and they made a fixed cost deal where all the data sort of forever was included in the price of the hardware. You bought this thing for one time cost, and it ju…”
The Kindle Was Amazon's First Product Created Using the PR/FAQ
“And so the Kindle is going to be the first product in which they used and they created using this press release approach.”
Howey: Free first installments prevent bad reviews and funnel paid readers
“I would rather someone read something for free because if they don't like it, they don't feel like they're not likely to write a bad review because what can they say? Like, I'm, I feel ripped off. Like I didn't pay anything. I didn't enjoy this. And so there's…”