Michael
person on 24 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes · said 137 times in 68 episodes since 2014
Top Founders 22 
How I Built This 22 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 12 
the a16z Podcast 10 
Starter Story 9 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 7 
20VC 7 
Startups For the Rest of Us 6 
TBPN 6 
Sourcery 5 
Capital Allocators 5 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 4 
Latent Space 3 
My First Million 3 
the Pitch 2 
Mixergy 2 
BG2 Pod 2 
American Optimist 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
Invest Like the Best 2 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
the Neon Show 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
the MAD Podcast 1
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How I Built This 22Top Founders 22the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 12the a16z Podcast 10Starter Story 920VC 7the Official SaaStr Podcast 7Startups For the Rest of Us 616 more shows
2026 37 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode
- This Stupidly Simple App Makes $100K/Month
- Going From Blobs to Billions. Clay's Co-Founder Breaks Down Inbound, Outbound, and AI-Powered Sales.
- This Startup Catches Fraud at Scale · Y Combinator
- ⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- 17 Young Founders | 8 Startups | 20 Lakh Grants | Third WTFund Cohort · Nikhil Kamath
- Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started · Invest Like The Best
- Making Mistakes – Josh Steiner (EP.502)
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2025 25 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
- Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything · Y Combinator
- How This 25 Year Old College Kid Built a $500K/Month App Empire
- From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- TBPN Year in Review
- Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- From Ghaziabad to Silicon Valley: Nikhil Kamath x Nikesh Arora | People by WTF | Ep. 11 · Nikhil Kamath
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2024 13 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Build Your Startup With AI
- How to use AI to build your SaaS startup (Lovable, Supabase)
- Ep19. State of Venture, AI Scaling, Elections | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Jamin Ball · Bg2 Pod
- Michael Leffell – Opening Doors to Niche Private Opportunities at 10 East (EP.373)
- How Chess.com Founder Built A $150 Million ARR Empire With Zero VC Funding | Erik Allebest | Neon
- Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch?
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- Why Capital Efficiency is so Important · PMF Show
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2023 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Episode 666 | Entering a Competitive Market, Books for SaaS Found...
- Chef and Restaurateur: Thomas Keller
- Why You're Unfundable Today: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS Part 2 with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?
- This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale
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2022 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
- Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?
- University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)
- Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- How we bootstrapped to $2m ARR, $800k in Profits, and what we plan to do with extra cash
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2021 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Folderly Email Deliverability SaaS Hits $1.56m ARR In Under 9 Months, Bootstrapped
- 20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio
- Chas Cocke - From Allocator to Manager (Capital Allocators, EP.224)
- Brazilian Quote to Cash SaaS Hits $10k in MRR up from $2k, $250k raised at $2.5m Valuation
- MFM #162: Why Clubhouse Will Fail
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2020 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
- Tempur-Pedic: Bobby Trussell (2018)
- 20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands
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2019 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns?
- a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- a16z Podcast | On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
- a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- a16z Podcast | It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
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2018 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2016 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Meat on Demand Does $1,200,000 in 2015, EP 280: Tim Ray
- No One Is Talking About This Multi-Million Dollar Tech Company in Barecelona with Gina Tost of GeneApp Episode 238
- EP 462: $8.8M 2015 Sales of iPhone Repair Parts with CEO Chris Koerner
- Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
- 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
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2 statements about Michael, every show
Dan LaCivita: Play launched with $1M founder capital, mostly from Michael
“We started with our own capital. So we started with a million dollars of capital. Michael put in the lion's share of capital.”