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Top Founders 6620VC 30the Official SaaStr Podcast 21How I Built This 18Another Podcast 17We Live to Build 16the Pitch 8the a16z Podcast 625 more shows
2026 11 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
- Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- How David Chevalier Hit $15M ARR With a Chrome Extension and No Sales Team - Surfe
- The spring updates on AI
- He built for 2 years before raising a dollar—then hit $13M ARR and a $40M Series B. | Alex Hallid... · PMF Show
- ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How To Stay Focused, Beat Distraction, and Get Things Done | Nir Eyal
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2025 43 mentions in 22 episodes 2 per episode
- Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid
- Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- Over Capacity Built the Internet. Vijay Says AI Is Next
- AI in Wealth Management: Scaling Financial Advisory & Democratizing Access
- Will VCs Back 3D-Printed Conformal Batteries?
- [State of Context Engineering] Agentic RAG, Context Rot, MCP, Subagents — Nina Lopatina, Contextual
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2024 24 mentions in 18 episodes 1 per episode
- The Biography of Balenciaga
- Walt Disney and Picasso
- Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
- Episode 744 | Bluesky, TinySeed is Raising, YC Backs Competitors,...
- America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall | Jason Fiedler, Left Lane Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- 2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!
- What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg
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2023 26 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- ChatGPT versus Google
- Generative AI
- How Generative AI Is Changing Travel — With Priceline's Marty Brodbeck
- Startup Acquisition Stories with JM Sanchez Co-founder of Studia
- Polarizing Talent: Navigating 2023's Landscape
- Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- He Called It a Work Husband. Then Came the Surprise Money.
- Buzzfeed News, Reddit and OpenAI
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2022 36 mentions in 23 episodes 2 per episode
- Balancing Growth and Efficiency in Tougher Times | Point Nine Managing Partner Christoph Janz
- 10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR | UserZoom's CEO and CMO | SaaStr Software Community
- 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him
- His Partners Said No, So He Funded the App Alone (It Hit $4.5M)
- 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
- The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation
- New SaaS goes 0 to $2.4m in 9 months using genius growth strategy
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2021 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Profitable UserZoom Hits $80m Run Rate, 1k Customers, $500m+ Valuation
- They Did $210k Last Month Helping Eliminate Debt in Spain
- The Warm Intro Hierarchy Investors Won't Tell You About
- Freightos Grows GMV 800%, Exits COVID Stronger Than Ever
- Trying to understand Ad Tech
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2020 24 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- How I Built Resilience: Sonia Gil of Fluenz
- Is Europe a market?
- SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?
- Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- Episode 527 | From Agency to SaaS, Equity Splits, and More Listener Questions with Courtland Allen
- How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million
- Episode 514 | An Inside Look at MicroConf Remote
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2019 18 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- 1580 Why ReviewPro CEO Sold 80% For $28M in 2016 and How He Grew to $15M in ARR Today
- 1432 $100M/Day In AirBnB Bookings, He Makes $375k/mo Selling The Data
- 1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
- 1507 Guesty Passes 1,000 Customers, 50,000 Properties, Charging 2-5%
- Jon Wertheim – Sports and… (Capital Allocators, EP. 102)
- 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
- 20VC: How Founders Can Really Get The Most Out of Their Board, Why Culture Fit At The Board Level Is Not Discussed Enough & Why Growth and Culture Are 2 Sides of The Same Coin with Avi Meir, Founder & CEO @ TravelPerk
- a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
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2018 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- 948 How Barcelona Company Grew Past 600,000 Users With Email Open Tracking
- 1175 He'll Process $100m in Business Travel This Year
- 1022 How This Barcelona Sales Tool Grew 2x YoY, Raised $16m, Charging $200/Seat
- 1252 Typeform Now At $19m ARR, 50m Forms Each Month, 40,000 Customers
- Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
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2017 16 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- 803: SaaS: Email He Used To Get From $0 to $10k MRR
- 733: With $50M Raised, He's Leading Cargo Container Software Space
- AI Startup Predictions // Bradford Cross - A fireside chat with Matt Turck (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- 779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company
- Panel: Alternative Data in Financial Services (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
- 20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+
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2016 18 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- No One Is Talking About This Multi-Million Dollar Tech Company in Barecelona with Gina Tost of GeneApp Episode 238
- Celebrity Chef: José Andrés
- This 30 Year Old Bought a $6.2m Apartment Complex And Makes How Much Cash Flow? With Joe Fairless Episode 239
- This Entrepreneur Served 10 Years in The Army, You Won't Believe What Happened Next with Michael Slavin EP 237
- Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
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5 statements about Barcelona, every show
First-Generation Food Delivery Platforms Left Massive City Supply Unlocked
“There was the generation one of food delivery in, in the case of Spain, Barcelona, where we started the business, it was Just Eat that basically had a marketplace where they aggregated restaurants that did the delivery themselves, but there wasn't a marketplac…”
European Founders Do Not Need to Relocate to Silicon Valley to Compete
“No, I strongly disagree. Look, I think from Barcelona where there was very, a very small ecosystem of tech and tech talent, we were able to build top notch technology. I don't think our technology had anything to envy our American competitors. So I fully disag…”
Khosrowshahi: Uber pulled out of Barcelona because regulations protected taxicabs over consumers
“We pulled out of Barcelona just because we fundamentally disagree with something that the city government did. It was designed to protect taxicabs versus consumers, and when that happens, we won't do business there”
Lomban: Barcelona Leads Spanish Startups as Regional Hubs Rise
“For sure, Barcelona, but I would say it's like the most startup city of Spain, but it's true that, of course, Madrid has a lot of, I mean, is a big area for startups, but more and more, there are all the cities like Valencia, which is also Spain on the, and th…”
Meir: TravelPerk rejected remote work, accepting talent loss to maintain culture
“And so far, we made very clear not to have multiple locations. We only had Barcelona. We never did remote, and we lost great people because we didn't do remote, and some, like, great engineers want to travel to Japan and work from there, so we paid some price,…”