Chris
person on 29 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 329 times in 142 episodes since 2015
BigDeal 146 
Top Founders 49 
My First Million 24 
20VC 18 
How I Built This 14 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 10 
Big Technology 9 
Sourcery 8 
the a16z Podcast 6 
the Knowledge Project 5 
In Depth 4 
Startups For the Rest of Us 4 
American Optimist 4 
Latent Space 4 
TBPN 4 
Innovators & Investors 3 
Capital Allocators 3 
Acquired 2 
We Live to Build 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
Startup Acquisition Stories 1 
the Pitch 1 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
the Green Blueprint 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
All-In 1 
the Neon Show
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BigDeal 146Top Founders 49My First Million 2420VC 18How I Built This 14the Official SaaStr Podcast 10Big Technology 9Sourcery 820 more shows
2026 61 mentions in 22 episodes 3 per episode
- The Psychology of Cheaters (According To A Divorce Lawyer) | James Sexton
- AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How to Start A Business With NO Money | Blake Mycoskie (Founder of TOMS)
- Stop Overthinking: The 70% Rule to Beat Procrastination
- How To Stay Focused, Beat Distraction, and Get Things Done | Nir Eyal
- Katelin Holloway – Human Side of Venture Investing at 776 (EP.490)
- How to Rewire Your Brain to Hate Procrastination
- Advice Line with Sarah LaFleur of M.M. LaFleur
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 97 mentions in 40 episodes 2 per episode
- What They Don’t Tell Fathers About Raising Sons: Green Beret Nick Freitas
- Broke to Billionaire: How to Turn a Side Hustle Into Your Salary | Allison Ellsworth
- They’re Lying to You About Getting Rich
- His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
- Why You're Not Getting Pregnant | Kimberly Van Der Beek
- How to Complete Overhaul Your Health in 2025 | Aaron Alexander
- Divorce Expert: The Early Signs of Infidelity | James Sexton
- 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- 32 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 64 mentions in 24 episodes 3 per episode
- How Millionaire Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler Balances Business, Family, and Adventure
- Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
- THIS One Thing All Fit People Know — | Mike Israetel
- Green Beret Sniper: Behind Discipline and Pain Is Everything You've Ever Wanted | Tim Kennedy
- Everything I Learned In Med School Was WRONG | Paul Saladino
- Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
- The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing
- Klaviyo's CEO Founder on the Journey to an $800,000,000 ARR Leader in Marketing
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 20 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- Is AI the Only Thing in SaaS that Anyone Cares About Anymore? AMA Part 1 w/ SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story (#521)
- Airtory Did $120k Last Month, Profitable with ad creation and management tool
- The 2023 Milly Awards (#531)
- Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- 4 Profitable Business Ideas That Men Are Sleeping On | ft. Codie Sanchez (#512)
- How I Built a Media Company (within Gainsight) that Created a $1B Brand
- Episode 644 | Buying Back Your Time with Dan Martell
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 16 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- How Clickup Bootstrapped to $25m, Then Decided to Go All In and Raise $530m to Take on Giants
- He Closed the Paper the Same Month He Buried His Wife
- Someone Moved the Net Every Time He Scored
- $100m Deck Builder: Bootstrapped to $100M Valuation
- #AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
- He Used Community to Hit $7m Revenue, VC's chased him
- Startup Acquisition Stories with Kevin McArdle - CEO of SureSwift Capital
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 21 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- MFM #167: Answering Your Questions On Investments, Businesses and Life
- Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets
- 20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
- Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- 20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- Holiday Special: Great Finds (Products, Apps, Media)
- How He Built The Largest Rev Ops Community In The World (and $500k of revenue!)
- 20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 497 | Documenting SaaS for a Sale, Email Harvesting and Spam, and More Listener Questions
- Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
- Cylynt Security SaaS To Break $10m Up From $6m Last Year, Bootstrapped
- How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
- 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
- Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- 1731 How He Raised $10m From PE To Buy Out 80% Cofounders
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2018 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu
- 1128 New CEO with New Funding Grows SalesScout from $35k to $260k MRR
- 20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Kathryn McKinley
- EP 575: Fruitstreet Raises $6m From 180 Customers for HealthTech, New Kind of VC with CEO Laurence Girard
- How the Relationship Changes Between CEO and VP Sales After Funding
- 20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 20 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Nathan Records Negotiation With Seller, Should He Sell Heyo or Not?
- EP 310: You Won't Believe How Many Books This 24 Year Old Has Sold
- EP 525: Orangedox Doubles Down on Enterprise with $7.5k in MRR with CEO Chad Brown
- EP 474: SharkTank No Deal, $6M Raised, $4.2M in 2015 Revenue, 10,000 Customers To Help Clean Up Your Online Image with Brandyourself CEO Patrick Ambron
- The Math Behind Donald Trumps Brain, EP 293: Brian Ley,
- EP 476: NomadicMatt 1.6M Monthly Views, $400k Travel Insurance Sold Monthly with Matt Kepnes
- EP 463: Close.io More Than $200k MRR, 500 Customers, $400 ARPU with CEO Steli Efti Who Wont Sell for $40M
- EP 417 SPECIAL: Warner Interviews Latka: Con Artist or Brilliant Genius?
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2016 →
2015 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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3 statements about Chris, every show
Wilkinson: Tiny forces AR discipline by leaving companies with two weeks' cash
“Chris, Chris and I, we used to leave two weeks expenses in the business. If it meant that if they don't collect their AR, their accounts receivable, they go off a cliff. Now, what they don't know is they're not going to go off a cliff because Tiny, the bank, w…”
Germanidis: Runway originated as co-founder Cristóbal Valenzuela's thesis project
“Runway, which was originally Chris, my co-founder's thesis project, it turned out that that had gotten some initial interest and traction. And so we just decided to focus on that instead of our plans to build this creative studio.”