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My First Million 2 the Official SaaStr Podcast 2 
Invest Like the Best 2 
the Pitch 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
Latent Space 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
the a16z Podcast 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Kool Aid comes up on Top Founders, How I Built This, Innovators & Investors, 20VC, Lenny's Podcast
How to bet on yourself (without venture capital) · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 14:55 William Hockey But when you do that, you can start to drink your own Kool-Aid a little bit too much.
- ▶ 47:16 William Hockey And if you, if you start to like, you know, drinking on Kool-Aid too much, you kind of forget that.
The AI Coding Factory
- ▶ 58:55 Shawn Wang There's an AI native attitude that like is going to set people apart if they're just open to it, but then also like they're maybe not, they don't drink too much Kool-Aid.
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 51:47 Anjney Midha So is, is, am I being, am I drinking too much Kool-Aid when I, when, when, you know, Eric, I, I look at you and say, you, you were, you were an investor.
43 - AI, Entrepreneurship, and Bold Decisions: Gaurav Bhattacharya's Journey with Jeeva.ai
- ▶ 21:01 Kristian Marquez I would tell you in simplest terms, the way I like to describe it is, do they drink the Kool-Aid?
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- ▶ 1:09:46 Varun Mohan Cause you drink your own Kool-Aid too. 2 times in the scene
32 - Secure File Transfer 2.0: Botdoc's Karl Falk on Innovation, Client Focus, and Team Culture
- ▶ 16:14 Kristian Marquez What's been your approach about attracting and retaining great staff who are going to drink the Kool-Aid?
#19 Sandbox
- ▶ 9:34 Sterling Smith But at a macro level, if you can say anyone in Austin, Texas, who is between the ages of 18 and 35, send them a push notification and let them know that we're having a pop-up shop, and that if they bring their device, they can get free…
23 - Hands-On Investing with Blu Venture Investors Partner and ColoWatch Co-Founder Bikram Bakshi
- ▶ 24:53 Bikram Bakshi So just to make sure I drink my own Kool-Aid, and it was amazing.
13 - Revolutionizing Legal Depositions with Skribe Founder Karl Seelbach
- ▶ 21:50 Karl Seelbach And that played a big role in validating our vision and also making sure that we weren't just drinking our own Kool-Aid, so to speak.
Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
- ▶ 1:04:38 Mark Sisson You know, Velveeta, and Kraft Mac and Cheese, and Orida Potatoes, Heinz, yeah, and, and Crystal Light, and Kool-Aid, and Oscar Mayer Wiener, and none of these companies have anything to do with each other.
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 35:35 Tom Gaynor Um, and within 20 minutes of me getting my hands on that portfolio, I had sold 99% of the equity positions because in my, my sense, they had drunk the Kool-Aid and had a NASDAQ
Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)
- ▶ 18:19 Lenny Rachitsky And I think the way I thought about it is the Kool-Aid kind of exited my bloodstream and taking that time off kind of created separation.
Scaling a SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Figma's VP of Sales, Scott Pugh
- ▶ 18:39 Scott Pugh My wife used to talk to me about drinking the Kool-Aid that I was, like, obsessed by.
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:33 Brad Gerstner Like drinking the Kool-Aid is a recipe for disaster.
Daniel Yanisse: Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in the Hiring Process | 20VC #903 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:17 Harry Stebbings Um, have you ever, have you ever drank your own Kool-Aid too much?
Behind The Scenes Of $1,000,000/Year Online Courses
- ▶ 4:36 Shaan Puri And I'm a Kool-Aid drinker.
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 1:29 David Sacks I was, I was fully drinking the Kool-Aid at the Solana conference. 3 times in the scene
3 Patterns for Great Business Ideas with Jack Abraham, Founder, Managing Partner & CEO at Atomic
- ▶ 59:07 Shaan Puri On a scale of one to chugging the Kool-Aid, where are you at with crypto?
Live From The HIBT Summit: Brené Brown
- ▶ 13:53 Brené Brown I'm drinking the Kool-Aid on vulnerability, and so that's my, that's my first flag.
The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler
- ▶ 29:39 Melissa Butler Like, every single time I made a product, like, I never wanted to drink my own Kool-Aid.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Morgan DeBaun
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
- ▶ 46:38 Katia Beauchamp We drank the Kool-Aid of excitement in it.
1601 If All Content Becomes 3d With AR, VR, This CEO Will Be At The Center Of It
- ▶ 1:50 Sai Krishna So not on the pre-revenue Kool-Aid just yet.
1588 Why 450 Enterprises Pay Him $45M+ in ARR To Help With Employee Volunteering and Donation Programs
- ▶ 16:00 Brian de Lottinville Or 460 of them are millennials, so we drink our own Kool-Aid, and I, I raise the average age in every room by 15 or 20 years when I walk in.
Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:19 Sarah Nahm I mean, I was like drinking the Kool-Aid, mixing the Kool-Aid, distributing the Kool-Aid to everybody else.
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 5:02 Frederic Kerrest We drank a lot of Kool-Aid at salesforce.com and we came out of there and said, look, I think there's going to be a huge opportunity, software as a service, infrastructure as a service.
Barre3: Sadie Lincoln (2017)
- ▶ 11:33 Sadie Lincoln This attachment to an ideal, I was sort of drinking that Kool-Aid, and I was shameful that I wasn't looking that ideal or feeling that ideal.
1161 How 4m Freemium Users Power Enterprise Content Offering at Scoop.it
- ▶ 12:40 Guillaume Decugis Um, so we do really, you know, one thing from a marketing standpoint is we do content marketing and that sounds a bit like, you know, we drink our own Kool-Aid and cause we're a content marketing software company and we do content…
Michael Mervosh – Invest in Yourself (Capital Allocators, EP.68)
- ▶ 14:35 Michael Mervosh Drink the same Kool-Aid.
Live Episode! Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams: Jeni Britton Bauer
874 How This $10m+ Agency Keeps 85%+ Gross Margins
- ▶ 11:25 Bob Gilbreath We're, we're drinking our own Kool-Aid.
832: SaaS: Machine Learning and AI for Re-Engaging Customers, $250k ACV and $1.5m Raised
- ▶ 13:19 Nathan Latka Kind of, uh, God, you, you people in Palo Alto, man, I want to, I want, what, I want the Kool-Aid.
Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:30 Mr. Money Mustache but you got Steve Jobs, or Captain Kirk, or the leaders of the religions, or the gods, all this stuff is, uh, is handy for creating, uh, cult, people think of a cult as a bad thing, because they're thinking of Waco, Texas, and Kool-Aid,…
Three Non Obvious Lessons Learned Selling to SMBs with Xero and Friends
- ▶ 35:48 Matt Rissell You're just lying to yourselves, and you'll start to make decisions, by the way, and drink your own Kool-Aid, and I highly recommend that you do an NPS score, you know, create your NPS score by using the best, ah, practices, like the most…
EP 546: The Pitch Made $80k in Year 1 Sponsor Revenue, 700,000 Downloads with Producer Josh Muccio
- ▶ 1:56 Nathan Latka I don't like these people that talk about businesses, but they never drank the Kool-Aid.
EP 457: 4000+ Units Sold Teaching Kids How To Code, $2m+ Raised with Piper
- ▶ 8:52 Nathan Latka You're drinking the Kool-Aid. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures
- ▶ 18:12 Josh Hannah And founders, honestly, because at the early create, at the early stages of making something out of nothing, you know, this ability to persuade and promote and have people see the vision, it can be a valuable characteristic, but some of…
Clif Bar: Gary Erickson
- ▶ 21:38 Gary Erickson I must have been serving some good Kool-Aid at the, at the office, because people started believing that we could do it.
EP 309: Ad Tech Company Hits $500k in 2015 Revenue with 26 Year Old At Helm
- ▶ 4:54 Nicholas Haas And so what that kind of looks like is we have a client that would work, man, for instance, like Kool-Aid or Red Bull, and they would have, uh, people take a picture with the product and upload that for,
Matt Turck, Bloomberg Ventures // Data Driven NYC# 3 // Feb 2012
- ▶ 7:51 Matt Turck So this is the drinking the Kool-Aid part.