Dan
person on 25 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 232 times in 83 episodes since 2013
My First Million 85 
How I Built This 23 
A Product Market Fit Show 21 
20VC 14 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 11 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 10 
Top Founders 10 
Founder's Journal 6 
BigDeal 6 
Latent Space 6 
David Senra 6 
the a16z Podcast 5 
In Depth 4 
Founders 4 
Startups For the Rest of Us 4 
the MAD Podcast 4 
Sourcery 3 
TBPN 3 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
Capital Allocators 2 
Innovators & Investors 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
Starter Story 1 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Pitch
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My First Million 85How I Built This 23A Product Market Fit Show 2120VC 14the Startup Ideas Podcast 11Top Founders 10the Official SaaStr Podcast 10Founder's Journal 615 more shows
2026 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- He built heads down for a year. Then landed a $1M contract. | Sam Jones, Co-Founder of Method Sec... · PMF Show
- This is why I don't believe in sales quotas | Figma CRO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
- Claude Design: Full Walkthrough. I'm blown away.
- Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Datacenter Protests, Paramount WB Bid Clears Key Hurdle, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
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2025 55 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- Forecasts are overrated—great founders build one step at a time. | PMF Observations · PMF Show
- He sold his startup to Stripe for $1.1B—in just 2.5 years. | Zach Abrams, Co-Founder of Bridge · PMF Show
- My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- ⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex
- From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
- Carvana CEO & Co-Founder, Ernest Garcia: Building a $50B Company, Losing 99% and Coming Back · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 34 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
- Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
- From Outbound to Channel Partnerships: Your Burning Sales Questions Answered by Jason Lemkin
- The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
- America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall | Jason Fiedler, Left Lane Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- [Paper Club] Embeddings in 2024: OpenAI, Nomic Embed, Jina Embed, cde-small-v1 - with swyx
- FBI Hostage Negotiator: These Conversation Tactics Will Make You Rich | Chris Voss
- I Built A $1M SaaS In 87 Days
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 3 Non-Obvious Networking Strategies That Work
- How Founders Should Be Integrating AI To Their Business
- Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Personal Holding Companies: Build vs. Buy?
- Episode 669 | 10 Years to Overnight Success: Bootstrapping to a M...
- Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
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2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2021 75 mentions in 18 episodes 4 per episode
- Making Billions in Coworking & the Dark Side of Confidence | My First Million #190
- How Vending Machines are Generating Millions & The Next Big Social App | My First Million #187
- How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205
- What It's Like to Be Rich & How to Respond to Growth Plateaus | My First Million #188
- How to Make Millions With a Modern Day Infomercial | My First Million #221
- How Celebrities Have Made Billions off Their Names | My First Million #210
- Founder's Mailbox
- Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2017 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2016 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Spanx: Sara Blakely
- He'll Help You Get On Stage With Journey, Power Broker to 3,000 A Listers, Billionaires, And Grammy Winners, EP 269: Steve Sims
- EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
- 20VC: Giphy's Adam Leibsohn on From Being Homeless To Founding a Multi Hundred Million Dollar Startup & The Challenges of Creating One of The World's Largest Search Engine
- This Teacher is Right About Education and You're Crazy if You Disagree with Joe Sual Sehy of Stacking Benjamins Podcast EP 245
- Italian Fashion Brand Doing $12m/Year In Transaction Volume EP 227
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
2014 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2013 1 mention in 1 episode
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3 statements about Dan, every show
Optimizely began as an internal bookmarklet used to deliver consulting contracts
“At Optimizely, the hardest part of building our first product was building this website editor.
That would work with any other website and would allow a non-technical person to go in and build an A-B test without writing code.
And that ended up taking us at le…”
Dan Hershberg secures $250,000 in investment commitments on The Pitch
“Dan secured 250,000 in the pitch room.”