Jared Smith
person on 6 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes · said 129 times in 11 episodes since 2015
20VC 39 
How I Built This 27 
My First Million 22 
the MAD Podcast 18 
Capital Allocators 14 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 9
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2026 14 mentions in 1 episode
2025 27 mentions in 3 episodes 9 per episode
- The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
- 20VC: The $BN Greenoaks Backed Protein Bar | Hitting $100M Revenues in David's First Year: Lessons & Mistakes | $0 to $600M: The Untold RXBAR Story | Product-Market-Fit, Pricing, Branding: What Every Founder Gets Wrong Today with Peter Rahal
- Advice Line with Peter Rahal of RXBAR
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 19 mentions in 1 episode
2019 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
- The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics
- 20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution
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2018 24 mentions in 1 episode
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2015 18 mentions in 1 episode
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Jared Smith co-ran Google China with Kai-Fu Lee before joining Qualtrics
“And he had been assigned to go run China for Google. So he was living in Beijing. He was working with Kai-Fu Lee and like running Google China.”
Ryan Smith: Jared Smith managed eight executives at WordPerfect aged 18
“He started working at WordPerfect as a product guy at 16, and he had to, you know, he had to figure it out. Like, he was a whiz kid. He was managing a team of eight executives at 18 years old”
Rahal: Dyslexia conditioned him to survive RXBAR's early days
“So, it was great conditioning for me to kind of go on and survive, and I think about some of the early days of our expert in particular, like, with Jared, it was, like, survival.”
Peter Rahal: RXBAR launched with $10,000 in total initial funding
“To start, it was like 5000 each. And I borrowed the five.”
Rahal: RXBAR negotiated the rxbar.com domain purchase from $10,000 to $1,000
“Some, you know, cyber squatter had the domain. And he wanted 10,000 for it. And I was like, fuck. Jared's like, well, let's offer a thousand. I was like, alright, let's just do it. He offered a thousand, he gave it to us.”