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every year every show Top Founders 69 the Official SaaStr Podcast 45 20VC 31 My First Million 28 Startups For the Rest of Us 20 A Product Market Fit Show 9 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3 Lenny's Podcast 2 
Founder's Journal 1 
Startup Acquisition Stories 1 
Mixergy 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
Latent Space 1 
Starter Story 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
TBPN 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Buffer comes up on Top Founders, the Official SaaStr Podcast, 20VC, My First Million, Startups For the Rest of Us
The Meta Compute Debate | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:44 John Coogan It said, uh, buffer recommends focusing on sustainable organic growth instead of quick hacks, like follow trains, post reels consistently since they get 36% more reach than carousels in a 125.
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 50:12 Jason Cohen We're a company like buffer is a great example. 2 times in the scene
#2279 How are there so many AI agencies?
- ▶ 20:35 Rob Howard In this case, you could bring in like a buffer or a Hootsuite, for example, to, uh, you know, do the social media posting.
He hit $40M ARR, exited for over $100M—& raised only $1.5M. Here's how | Ian MacKinnon, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
- ▶ 4:38 Ian MacKinnon People were used to using existing tools like Buffer and Hootsuite, and just had to accept that if you wanted to get content into Instagram, you had to go native
- ▶ 8:36 Pablo Srugo Buffer's going to do it.
- ▶ 16:09 Ian MacKinnon There was, as I said, Buffer, who's with so many others, and I was even more.
- ▶ 28:16 Pablo Srugo Like, first of all, you must have expected that at some point Hootsuite or Buffer or whoever was going to. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:21 Ian MacKinnon Buffer had something similar, um, but we kind of caught it before, um, any later users were spewing out pro-Russian propaganda through their accounts. 3 times in the scene
I Turned $150 into $2M/Year
- ▶ 11:19 Jozef Gherman We use Discord a lot for our communication, and we use Buffer for our marketing management for, like, our different channels, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, whatever.
Episode 711 | Finding Early Customers, Horizontal vs. Vertical, P...
- ▶ 43:04 Ruben Gamez Buffer. 4 times in the scene
How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- ▶ 1:25:20 Shawn Wang So they have to go get, like, Sprout Social or Buffer, both of which are horrible.
Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month
Takeaways from Rihanna’s Career & How to Test Your Business Ideas
- ▶ 43:46 Alex Lieberman And on the B to B side, I was actually reading a really good story about, you know, Buffer, which is like the, the social media scheduling tool.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Minh-Phuc Tran, Founder of Queue.so
- ▶ 1:11 Minh-Phuc Tran So basically it just like the very basic standard, uh, Twitter scheduling tool that you see, like typefully buffer this tool, but this tool work directly integrated into Notion.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:32 Kat Mignalek So one YC company described themselves early on as Buffer for Snapchat. 3 times in the scene
Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work
- ▶ 1:12:19 Aaron Dignan Look what Buffer did.
Episode 616 | An 8-Figure SaaS Founder's Approach to Remote Work
- ▶ 30:15 Liam Martin Looking towards where team retreats really started, it started with Joel Gascoigne with Buffer.
Brainstorming The Best Business Ideas To Start In 2022 with Noah Kagan
- ▶ 48:52 Noah Kagan So I invested in, like, Circle, invested in Buffer, invested in LMNT, Huckberry. 7 times in the scene
Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped
Why You Should Spend 5x Your Budget on an Engagement Ring | My First Million #201
Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184
Episode 544 | Annual Raises, Finding Good Startup People, and More Listener Questions with
- ▶ 12:42 Josh Pigford And the biggest help for me on how to figure out that stuff was Buffer's salary formula and what they do. 2 times in the scene
MFM #157: Instagram Food Drops Making $200k/Week, Chrome Extensions That're Crushing & Open Salaries
- ▶ 30:49 Shaan Puri And then we have companies like buffer, uh, and whole foods have been doing this for a while buffer kind of tried to like make a name for themselves by being like the open transparent company will share everybody's salary. 10 times in the scene
SEO Secrets from Shopify, G2 Head of SEO Strategy
- ▶ 4:17 Kevin Indig So you can find anything from a sales force to a buffer, any, any kind of software needs, uh, including reviews, comparisons, alternatives, and all that.
Episode 526 | Launching, Learning, and Teaching with Justin Vincent
- ▶ 4:10 Rob Walling And the way I've explained it to a few people, I want to hear, you know, I'm interested to hear your story of kind of why you built it and what it was like, but I remember you kind of built buffer before buffer. 6 times in the scene
RiteKit 431k Email List, Conversions Tough?
- ▶ 4:50 Saul Fleischman Because you were doing your social in Sprout or Buffer, Hootsuite, TweetDeck, HubSpot, something from Salesforce.
TinySeed Tales Season 2 | Episode 1: Introducing Gather
- ▶ 12:16 Rob Walling And then there was funding, and then Basecamp came around, and MailChimp, and there were just a, just those two, and then Buffer, you know, and there were just a handful literally that 2 times in the scene
Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
- ▶ 16:01 Nathan Latka Which is, I think, a very smart way to think about, I mean, look at how Buffer grew. 2 times in the scene
Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing
- ▶ 42:17 Tyler Tringas Kind of doing radical transparency, like Joel at Buffer and, um, Josh at Barometrics and some of the other folks who, who are publishing, um, their revenue numbers and a lot of detail about building their business, you know, in, in part, I…
Episode 504 | 15 Tools We Use to Run Our Business
- ▶ 38:08 Rob Walling Tool number 14 is buffer. 5 times in the scene
Kontentino is Profitable Bootstrapped, Hit $1m Revenue Competing with Buffer, Hootsuite
- ▶ 10:02 Bo Pokstefl It's Hootsuite Buffers, Proud Social, these guys.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Tiny does also invest in businesses, including the likes of Superhuman, SpaceX, Pitch, and Buffer, to name a few.
1605 How He Gets Movers, Trash Companies, Internet Providers To Pay Him Referral Fees on 13,000+ New Home Owners
- ▶ 14:31 Venkatesh Ganapathy Uh, Joel Cascoin from Buffer, primarily on his focus on cash flow and transparency. 4 times in the scene
20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Hidden's also an incredible angel investor, with a portfolio including the likes of Buffer, Clearbit, Front, Gusto, and many more incredible companies.
- ▶ 40:54 Hiten Shah I'm an advisor to Automatic as well as Buffer, and I get to enjoy and see how they sort of run remote teams.
1459 He Left Growth At Buffer to Launch Amazon Retargeting Tool PixelMe, $10k in MRR
- ▶ 0:54 Nathan Latka He drove a lot of growth at buffer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07 Nathan Latka He's the CEO and co-founder of Pixel Me at Night and product manager of growth at Buffer during the day. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:27 Nathan Latka So you're obviously driving growth at buffer. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:31 Nathan Latka And then talk to me about kind of, you know, what you've learned from buffer that you're now applying to pixel me.
- ▶ 14:44 Nathan Latka He drove a lot of growth at Buffer. 2 times in the scene
1407 Ex Facebook Now Happily Bootstrapping in UX Research Tool Space Past $125k in MRR
20VC: Buffer's Joel Gascoigne on The Moment The Founder Is No Longer The Boss, The Questions Founders Must Ask Their VCs and Why We Need A Spectrum of Different Financing Mechanisms Other Than VC
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings With that, I'm thrilled to welcome Joel Gascoigne, co-founder and CEO at Buffer, the social media management tool that makes it easy for businesses and marketing teams to schedule posts, analyze performance, and manage all their accounts… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:08 Harry Stebbings But that's quite enough of me, so now I'm so excited to hand over to Joel Gascoigne, co-founder and CEO at Buffer.
- ▶ 3:48 Harry Stebbings And come to found Buffer with that kind of initial aha moment. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:38 Joel Gascoigne Learned in my journey with Buffer, which is just over eight years now that I've been doing this, and we've raised two rounds of funding and had a lot of investing ups and downs with all of that.
- ▶ 15:57 Harry Stebbings Listen there, every Sunday evening I sit on Buffer for three hours, so uh, thanks for that.
- ▶ 17:53 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, and this is a really hard question to ask, it's almost a luxury, though, to have the flexibility to change kind of what lights you up, because when you have a company with many employees like Buffer does, or, you know, a founder… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:48 Joel Gascoigne And I think that's been just a really, really healthy thing for us at Buffer.
- ▶ 27:56 Joel Gascoigne And then in the last few years, there's been a big inflection point that we've, we've talked about of this sustainability mentality for the company of, can we create a company that we never want to sell and create a company that can keep… 6 times in the scene
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 31:11 Harry Stebbings As always, I cannot thank you enough for your support, and I'm so excited to bring you a very, very awesome episode on Friday with Joel Gascoigne at Buffer.
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 20:40 Sten Tamkivi Uh, Paul's argument was that that 95% probably part of that wants to move, uh, to Silicon Valley and should be allowed to do so, which is true, but I would also argue that if you're able to crack distributed teams and remote work and build…
1226 How GrowSumo is Covering Base Expenses While Growing Performance Based Revenue
- ▶ 8:41 Luke Swanick Those are all real buffers, buffers, a company as well on bounce reverb, some, some really good looking companies.
- ▶ 19:59 Luke Swanick You know, taking value to market, providing value to their clients, um, and even businesses like Intuit, Asana, Buffer, Evernote, how do they approach their go-to-market strategy?
1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
- ▶ 14:36 Max Armbruster I love, um, reading Joel Gascoigne from buffer.
SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe
- ▶ 25:05 Guillaume Princen So I wanted to kind of take a very quick example of a company who actually published a few numbers, uh, a year ago, um, uh, Buffer, um, great company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Guillaume Princen So, talking about Buffer, um, once you've found your product market fit, um, you're kind of immediately looking at new, acquiring new customers.
1076 We pivoted to pure play SaaS, now $1m in ARR growing 100% yoy
- ▶ 17:11 Chris Kenton Uh, buffer.
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?
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings Plus, Andy also has a stellar angel portfolio with the likes of Buffer, Intercom, and Pipedrive, all as angel investments.
887 22 Year Old King of Influencer Marketing?
- ▶ 19:51 Nathan Latka Buffer did that strategy and it worked really well because all those people then become natural marketers for the product.
880 SaaS: Why Is This Engineer Competing in Highly Competitive Space?
- ▶ 2:12 Natwar Maheshwari If you go, like, all big, like, who are not in the niche, uh, Buffer, and Hootsuite, and Sprout Social, and, and people like that, who are, you know, doing tens of millions of dollars in ARR, uh, Buffer just crossed, like, 15 mil, uh,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:33 Natwar Maheshwari All the, so the buffer was 10 dollars at the time, and we were pricing it at 20 dollars, just because you want to build something for a niche, and we wanted to make sure that, uh, uh, people genuinely want it, and people will end up paying…
- ▶ 12:04 Natwar Maheshwari So I'm not saying that, so Buffer is great at customer service, right? 2 times in the scene
876 SaaS: Selling Discounted "Lifetime Subscriptions" For One Flat Fee is Huge Risk
- ▶ 23:51 unnamed speaker Um, Joel, Joel Gash, the way in a buffer and Josh Pickford, I guess I, I follow quite closely just because I, I, I admire their businesses, but
717: Why Moving Her Team to Brazil Was Genius
- ▶ 4:40 Nathan Latka So is this like, can I, can we relate this to like buffer or Hootsuite or, or if not, how's it different?
Leo Widrich of Buffer: Top 10 Learnings Going to 10 Million
- ▶ 0:03 BJ Lackland I'm BJ Lachlan, the CEO of Leiter Capital, and I'm really pleased to present today Leo Widrick from Buffer, the co-founder and CEO of Buffer. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43 Leo Widrich We, who in the room knows about Buffer? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:06 Leo Widrich And I want to make one more final, um, point on the data, so, like, avoid being sort of distracted by data early on, trying to use these questions, but then also, sort of, as your company grows, as you hit that point that he then talked… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:58 Leo Widrich And at Buffer, one of the things we've done early on, we picked a single, single strategy only, and that was content marketing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:10 Leo Widrich This is another one that's sort of a lesson for, for Buffer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:08 Leo Widrich This is a very strange phenomenon I see going on at startups, and, um, I feel like I'm bringing up Heaton a lot, but, uh, he's a big mentor, and, and, and advisor, and, and, and investor in Buffer, and had some great conversations, and… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:10 Leo Widrich I feel like that almost gets me to, like, a spiritual level whenever we did get offers to sell Buffer. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:45 unnamed speaker One question I had regarding companies like Buffer that start off, like, solving a very specific need for, like, a, you could say, like, a niche segment, is, like, uh, when you look at companies normally, like consumer companies or… 4 times in the scene
692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
- ▶ 22:27 John Ferrara Uh, Buffer app.
643: Nimble Passes $1.5M In ARR Last Year, $200k MRR now as CRM space heats up with CEO Jon Ferrara
- ▶ 19:24 John Ferrara You know, I'm a big fan of buffer app.
EP 528: ConvertKit Hits $480k MRR, Helping 10,000 Professional Bloggers Grow Email Lists with CEO Nathan Barry
- ▶ 20:02 Nathan Latka Yeah, you don't, you know, Buffer took the approach of give all these big influencers a very small amount of equity, so they're incentivized.
EP 508: Siftery $4M Raised, 25,000 Users to Help You Find Software Tools with CMO Gerry Golyer
- ▶ 18:42 Jerry Collier Oh, we've, we've been using Buffer a fair bit, and that's been really good for us.
EP 501: Track Uninstalls with $325k in Funding, 15 Customers, with CEO Pritesh Vora of Uninstall.io
- ▶ 16:15 Pritesh Vora So, I would say just buffer.
EP 482: Snip.ly $50k MRR, 1000 Customers For Lead Gen on Social Media Sharing with CEO Michael Cheng
- ▶ 3:55 Michael Cheng Uh, social media teams, and these are not necessarily the CMO, which is a pretty high executive level, but there's usually a social media team that, uh, aggregates content, curates relevant content to their audience, and decides what posts…
EP 383: Prospect.io $0 to $17k in MRR in 6 Months, 400 Customers
- ▶ 18:09 Vincenzo Ruggiero Joel Gascon from Buffer is one of my favorite because, uh, of course, he shares a lot of things.
EP 327: This B2B SaaS Companies Prevents Death With Wearables
- ▶ 10:06 Nathan Latka And I imagine in this kind of space, this is not like Nathan, I'm sure maybe you've heard of like, you know, buffer or one of these low priced consumer apps.
My Goal is To Put Them Out of Business (Paypal, Venmo). Will He Win? EP 262: John Rampton
- ▶ 18:56 John Rampton Um, I am a big fan of Buffer. 2 times in the scene
Why Is He Scared to Share Revenue Numbers? EP 235 with Randy Rayess
- ▶ 10:18 Randy Rayess And there's companies like buffer that put them all out there and they're going by the company, the decision by the company.
How To Get Your First 100 Customers with Matthew Bernman EP 201
- ▶ 14:20 Matthew Berman Um, you know, the founder of buffer actually told me about this, uh, just a week ago and I've been reading it and it's super important to think about the relationships between people and, uh, how to deal with people.
How To Make $500k/year Podcasting With Best Selling Author Jay Baer EP 197
How Latergram.me Grew to $50k/mo, 500,000 users, $1.2m Raised in Episode 190 with Matt Smith
- ▶ 11:16 Matt Smith So I mean, typical numbers to buffer in that, like, you know, five percent free to pay conversion.
- ▶ 18:21 Nathan Latka Buffer makes a lot of this kind of stuff public. 2 times in the scene
20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Now, I do have a hard time formulating an intro for Heaton, as he seemingly has many hats, both as a phenomenal operator, being the co-founder of Kissmetrics and Crazy Egg, and he's also a superb angel investor, having invested in more…
- ▶ 24:34 Hiten Shah I really, really, really admire the folks who started Buffer, Joel and Leo. 2 times in the scene
Edgar Social Posting Tool Does $2.2m in Annual Revenue with Laura Roeder of Edgar
- ▶ 9:26 Laura Roeder Um, so one of our competitors, Buffer has a 10 dollar a month plan, as well as a free plan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:13 Nathan Latka People are listening right now going, wait, I use Buffer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:03 Nathan Latka Again, I started, I was using a buffer. 4 times in the scene