John
person on 30 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 289 times in 149 episodes since 2014
TBPN 59 
Top Founders 57 
Founder's Journal 24 
20VC 21 
Startups For the Rest of Us 18 
How I Built This 17 
My First Million 13 
Capital Allocators 12 
the Pitch 11 
All-In 10 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 9 
Innovators & Investors 5 
We Live to Build 5 
Latent Space 4 
the a16z Podcast 4 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 3 
the Neon Show 2 
A Product Market Fit Show 2 
Sourcery 2 
the MAD Podcast 2 
Acquired 1 
Founders 1 
American Optimist 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
BigDeal 1 
No Priors 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
Big Technology 1 
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TBPN 59Top Founders 57Founder's Journal 2420VC 21Startups For the Rest of Us 18How I Built This 17My First Million 13Capital Allocators 1221 more shows
2026 25 mentions in 17 episodes 1 per episode
- Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- Nvidia’s $500B Compute Deal, Paramount Threatens CA Exit, Musk’s Shortcut to $1T Payday | Diet TBPN
- Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- FULL INTERVIEW: Apple Exec on How Apple Builds Products That Actually Win
- REACTION: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
- Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
- We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 74 mentions in 53 episodes 1 per episode
- Is America Losing the Tech War with China? | Jordan Schnaider on TBPN
- Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- Surfing the Waves of Deep Tech: Early-Stage University Research and Startup Formation
- All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- LTK for Food… Will VCs invest in this $10 TRILLION market!?
- Jordan Schneider (ChinaTalk) On the US-China Power Struggle
- Justin Mares talks Tru Med, MAHA, and the Future of CPG.
- Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger's Greatest Lessons · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- 45 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 49 mentions in 26 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 739 | Selling SaaS to Customers Who Don't Know They Have...
- Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch?
- Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- Episode 722 | Bootstrapping a Vertical SaaS to 7-Figures in 18 Mo...
- Dan Tennebaum - The Case for India at India Capital (EP.387)
- 5 Metrics that Matter When Raising Your SaaS Series A and Series B with Christoph Janz of Point 9
- Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 38 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- Exclusive: Selling My Company & Making Life-Changing Money
- Priority Bicycles: Dave Weiner
- How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
- Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
- When the Time Comes You'll Know What to Do (Then She Changed the Mantra)
- Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
- Freshpet: Scott Morris
- How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 22 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes · Y Combinator
- How he makes $7k/mo from app the fund his new SaaS tool
- How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
- Roblox: David Baszucki
- 20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
- High Volume, Low ARPU Sales Playbook: 14 Page Process We Used to hit $3m Revenue, Profitable
- ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
- Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun
- Live Episode! Wellness Coach and Podcaster: Jay Shetty
- MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped)
- The Eight-Figure Exit Secret: Put $1 In, Get $15 Back
- Ariel Helwani Is Building His Own ESPN. He Already Has 1m+ Followers. He Tells Us How.
- Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy
- The Roles You Played at Home Are Killing You at Work
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
- 20VC: Why You Never Want To Fight A Fair Fit For Distribution, Why No Great Company Is Built with 1 Product and When To Release Your Second & What Founders Can Do To Extract The Most From Their Cap Table with Shoaib Makani, Founder & CEO @ KeepTruckin
- 20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
- Sustainable Investing 6: Richard Lawrence - ESG Integration at Overlook (Capital Allocators, EP.144)
- Production AI: Lessons Learned the Hard Way // Adam Wenchel, Arthur.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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2019 33 mentions in 4 episodes 8 per episode
- 1332 We almost missed payroll 3 months ago as we reset 5 year old business
- Donna Snider – Inside the Investment Process at the Kresge Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.84)
- Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114)
- 1334 This $600k+ ARR SaaS Helps Oil and Gas Companies Predict Oil Well Production
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 3 mentions in 1 episode
2016 20 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- EP 328: She Bought 50% for $17k, Now Does $1M Per Year in iPhone Repairs
- EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO
- Ideally Students Pay $20/mo To Learn From Robots, $1,000,000 In Revenue in 2015, EP 263: Aditya Singhal
- Is It Possible To Launch a Startup And a Baby At The Same Time? EP 257: Arry Yu
- EP 365: From Consultant to $300k SaaS with Amit Kotharie of Tallyfy
- 20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
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5 statements about John, every show
Frankel: Tiger Global operated like a casino
“Those guys were just like a casino. One call to John at Tiger. Like, 20 on 80, no problem.”
Narang: Founders underestimate practical engineers who build with high velocity
“At Indeca, I met Steve and John, and you know, these were these proverbial TEDx engineers, which I think people underestimate. You need people that can build with velocity and are practical.”
Neman called Sweetgreen's first landlord 30 consecutive days to secure a meeting
“I actually remember the landlord of our Georgetown, our first location, wouldn't even return our call. John called her 30 days in a row, every single day, so she finally took a meeting just to stop the calls.”
SmartSuite's founder spent $7.5M of personal capital before acquiring a customer
“I I'm close with John and he said, Nathan, we can't launch until we have all the features that ClickUp has, which is kind of in the same space that you're in. Well, finally, he spent 1.5 million dollars of his own money on the MVP, right? But before, before, l…”