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other on 32 shows · 12 statements across 11 episodes · said 517 times in 255 episodes since 2010
How I Built This 108 
Top Founders 74 
the a16z Podcast 40 
TBPN 37 
20VC 37 
My First Million 26 
the Green Blueprint 21 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 20 
American Optimist 17 
Capital Allocators 15 
All-In 13 
Sourcery 11 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 10 
the Knowledge Project 10 
Catalyst 9 
Big Technology 9 
Innovators & Investors 8 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 8 
the MAD Podcast 8 
Acquired 7 
Startup Acquisition Stories 6 
Founders 6 
A Product Market Fit Show 5 
No Priors 3 
Founder's Journal 2 
BigDeal 2 
Mixergy 1 
We Live to Build 1 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
the Neon Show 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
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How I Built This 108Top Founders 74the a16z Podcast 4020VC 37TBPN 37My First Million 26the Green Blueprint 21the Official SaaStr Podcast 2023 more shows
2026 64 mentions in 38 episodes 2 per episode
- Musk Loses OpenAI Case, Leopold’s 13F, Data Center Backlash | Diet TBPN
- The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN
- An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott
- He hit $1M ARR by sending 500,000 cold emails—then raised a $25M Series A in 6 days. | Mark Hughe... · PMF Show
- Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
- Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 109 mentions in 46 episodes 2 per episode
- Crumbl: Jason McGowan
- Building Fervo's geothermal giant
- The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
- The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- Leading Authentically: Levi King’s Journey from Entrepreneur to Fintech Innovator
- Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy’s Pita Chips
- Poppi: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth. From Farmers Market Vinegar Drink to $2B Soda Sensation
- Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- 38 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 74 mentions in 39 episodes 2 per episode
- Therabody: Jason Wersland
- Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps
- Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
- Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary on Techno-Optimism, Talent Vortexes, & Writing “Investing 101” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Black Diamond Equipment: Peter Metcalf
- Going deep on next-gen geothermal
- Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Marc Lore
- Noosa Yoghurt: Koel Thomae
- 31 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 38 mentions in 26 episodes 1 per episode
- Uber for Laundry did $200k last year. Can this be a $10/year business?
- HIBT Lab! Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- Startup Acquisition Stories with Devon Gethers, Founder of EarlyAdmit
- Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends (#523)
- Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- The IRL Tribes That Could Change Your Life
- Making sense of advanced nuclear’s stumbles
- Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 29 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
- SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Divvy CRO Sterling Snow
- Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation
- Hydrogen, meet salt cavern
- Kelsey Chase – Analyzing Venture Transactions at Aumni (Capital Allocators, EP.241)
- How he sold his $2.3m SaaS with approx $500k EBITDA for $6m+ Cash
- Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The Easiest Way To Make $10,000/Month In Passive Income
- The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
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2021 19 mentions in 13 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- How I Built Resilience: Lisa Baird of National Women's Soccer League
- Ryan Batchelor – Clifford Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.11)
- Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV
- The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht
- SoloSuit Makes $80k/mo Helping Consumers Fight Bank Debt Collectors
- Shaan Challenges Sam to Ignore His Limits, Michael Rubin is the Billy of the Week, and More
- Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
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2020 24 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
- 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: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
- #98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- Trakto Hits $30k MRR With Canva Competitor. Can They Hit $1m ARR?
- Wooly Hits 80 Customers, $2m Revenue Helping Brands Turn Customers Into Ambassadors
- Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
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2019 79 mentions in 25 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z Podcast | How One Startup Went from Being Banned by Regulators to Being Open for Business
- Going from $0 to $60M ARR in 4 Years with Podium CEO Eric Rea | SaaStr Software Community
- A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- 1379 Live Video for Consumer Brands like Pottery Barn Passes $3m in ARR
- Bumble: Whitney Wolfe (2017)
- 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- 1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise
- Live From The HIBT Summit: Tariq Farid Of Edible Arrangements
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 27 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- 1148 We've passed $10m in ARR helping companies make sure their analytics are working
- Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell (2017)
- 1189 Sococo is a Visual Slack doing $240k MRR, 60% yoy Growth
- 1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed
- 1099 Salt Lake Event Management Company Breaks $4m in ARR, 30,000 Paid Events
- Crypto, Beyond Silk Road
- #41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- Stephen McKeon – Professor of Crypto Security Tokens (Capital Allocators, EP.69)
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 18 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell
- Bumble: Whitney Wolfe
- Thomas DeLong – Authentic Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.18)
- 859 How Kabbage Took Small Business Lending Crown: $500m raised, $4b Lended
- 831: You Have $10k, Should You Defer or Deduct?
- 792: SaaS: $7m ARR Founder Used Ice Cream To Get Customers, How?
- 684: How to Raise Your First Round of Funding with Healthcare API, Redox Founder Niko Skievaski
- 682: Why Tech Companies Are Opening Salt Lake City Offices With CloudCherry CEO Vinod Muthukrishnan
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 32 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- This Mom of 3 Does Clever Thing Each Morning, Has Made $76 Million with Jana Francis of Steals.com EP 244
- EP 524: Podium Hits $1m MRR in 12 Months, $4m Raised with 6500 SMB Customers sub 1% Churn with CEO Eric Rea
- 20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- EP 491: $13M in Funding, Grow.com Hits $300k MRR, Helping 600 Customers w/ Better Dashboards with Rob Nelson CEO
- The Role of Data in Pluralsight's Technology Learning Platform // Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight
- How To Quickly Build Million Dollar SaaS Company with Jonathon Ende of Seamless Docs
- EP 431: Agency Does $6m 2015, 41 Employees with Publisher/Advertiser Network CEO Nathan Putnamof Monumetric
- From Cleaning Company at 26 to $14m Agency By His 42nd Birthday, EP 266: Andrew Howlett
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
2015 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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12 statements about Utah, every show
Taylor: Valar airlifted entire modular control room from California to Utah
“We literally picked this up, put it on an airplane and fluid here. So the entirety of the plant, including a controller and fluid with us”
Chamath: OpenAI-backed pro-AI groups beat Anthropic-backed anti-AI groups in key primaries
“In Utah and in New York, there was a couple of very important races where it was essentially anthropic funded anti AI groups, which is again, insane against In some ways, open AI funded pro AI groups and the pro AI groups won.”
Forensic experts proved China is funding opposition to Utah data center
“And then he hired forensic experts to go and factually prove that it is China actually funding all of this opposition in Utah. And he actually mapped it a lot. You can go look on his Twitter and Instagram and he shares all of the data. And apparently has now s…”
Weinberg: Autonomous AI law firms are illegal in 48 US states
“Basically, there, there's two rules. One is state by state, which is the unauthorized practice of law. It's actually a felony. And so, you know, you actually need to be barred in order to give legal advice. And then the other one is an ethical rule. So it's by…”
General Matter considers Utah, Texas, Wyoming, and Washington for plant
“There's a bunch of states that are very nuclear friendly that we've been talking to. So you know, Utah, Texas, Wyoming, Washington are all really good candidates.”
Langtry: Texas and Utah are suing the NRC over SMR regulation
“Texas and Utah that are suing the NRC to try and get regulatory control over small modular reactors.”
Horne: Fervo's 90MW Utah EGS project is 20x larger than predecessors
“Their near-term plan is 90 megawatts, which is, you know, probably 20 times bigger than any of the former EGS projects, the old EGS projects that people have done.”
Horne: Batch drilling reduced Fervo's Utah drilling times two- to threefold
“So further again in their EGS project in Utah is doing batch drilling where they're actually drilling, you know, eight wells at a time. Well, not quite eight at a time. They, they're drilling the first segments eight at a time, and then the second segment's ei…”
Mormon mission talent makes Utah the hub for successful direct sales
“That's why almost all the direct sales companies, all the successful direct sales companies are all based out of Utah. Because that's where the talent is that knows how to do this sort of thing.”
Samuels: Zenefits ultimately prevailed in regulatory battle against Utah
“When you see those kinds of battles with Zenefits and Utah and Zenefits. Ultimately prevailed.”
Rain employs roughly 100 people across three offices
“About a hundred, hundred employees between the three offices.”
Francis: ScrapbookSteals margins are higher due to local Utah suppliers
“We have a much better margin on our scrapbook steel site that just sells paper, right? Exactly. And so that, that's a, we get a lot better margin on that site, mainly because partially our friction costs aren't as high, are because most of the scrapbooking bra…”