Andrew Warner
Founder & Host, Mixergy. On 2 shows, 40 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Andrew Warner is the founder and host of Mixergy, where he has conducted over 2,000 interviews with startup founders about business building and growth. Earlier in his career, he co-founded the online greeting card company Bradford & Reed and authored the book Stop Asking Questions.
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13said about them ↓ Everything Andrew Warner said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Andrew Warner reveals Latka made under $100,000 from the Heyo acquisition
“And you got less than a 100,000 dollars from it.”
Warner: Pulsia's automated tweets are generic and receive no engagement
“Yeah, I, to be honest with you, the tweets that come out of your account are not very good.
They're kind of generic.
No one's engaging with them.”
Warner: Zapier is actively building marketing motions targeting AI agents
“I just talked with Wade, the founder of Zapier, he's got people in his company now who are mark, who are building marketing motions to sell to agents, and it's phenomenal, and it's going well”
Warner: Chat marketing is today's shift from physical mail to email
“Email is now becoming outdated. We're all shifting to messaging, and I feel like the same opportunity that existed back when we shifted from paper mail to email is happening now in chat.”
Warner: Building a subscriber list via chat is easier than email
“You can build an email list now, but it's pretty hard as opposed to building a chat list. People who are going to say, yes,
Sign me up.
I want to hear from you via chat.
That's much easier at this point.”
Warner: Facebook Messenger website embeds will have an advantage over Intercom
“Here's why I think that's better than Intercom, and I love Intercom, but I think that they're gonna have an advantage over Intercom because of this.”
Warner: Massive businesses will be built implementing and maintaining OpenClaw
“OpenClaw has tremendous power, but it's also a blank sheet That needs to be connected and configured, and I could totally see a humongous business being built around just implementing this in businesses with customization and maintenance and everything else.”
Warner: Zapier's founder automates employee meeting feedback based on management books
“Wade, the founder, likes the, what is it, the five dysfunctions of an organization, of a team. I forget the name of the book. Anyway, he likes it so much that that, at the end of each internal meeting, Everyone's individual contribution to the meeting gets ana…”
Warner: AI agency StealthX closes $80,000 engagements from how-to trainings
“This is a company called StealthX.co. He's closing, I think, 80,000 dollar deals, engagements, after one of these types of how-to things.”
Warner: Start as a consultant to get paid for finding software ideas
“If you do it as a consultant, you start to see the problems that people have firsthand, and then who knows, maybe you have just a big consulting company, or maybe you augment it with a little bit of software, and then you have recurring revenue from software. …”
Warner: Customers will prepay for unbuilt software if the pain is severe
“I think when you find a problem that people have that's a big enough problem, they'll pay you even before the software is built, even before the solution is built, and I think that that's where we're going to see it.”
Warner: Building and maintaining chatbots is a viable standalone business
“Just doing, creating bots and maintaining it for people and showing them a real return on investment, that's a strong enough business. I've seen companies really thrive that way.”
Warner: Elaborate chatbot flowcharts are unmaintainable and impossible to delegate
“People have these, like, elaborate flow charts that are too confusing for them, and they'll never maintain it. Or they'll, worse, they'll be the only ones to maintain it, and then they can't hire people to help build on it. You're right. Keep it really short.”
Warner: Message chat subscribers daily for 2-3 days, then switch to weekly
“Largely because people find it overwhelming to get too many messages via chat from a company, and so if you're coming in daily, your unsubscribes increase, I've been close to the companies that make software that manages this, they're finding the same things t…”
Warner: Entrepreneurs resist being led and insist on driving conversations
“Entrepreneurs just don't like to go along with anything that someone else does for them. Anything someone else is leading them towards. They want to feel like they're leading it.”
Warner: Most people in 2014 do not know how to access podcasts
“Go through the streets of San Francisco, ask someone to show you how they install a podcast on their phone. Most people don't freaking understand what it is. Yes, there are programs like Stitcher that make it more accessible. Ask someone about Stitcher, and th…”
Warner: Bot Academy charges $2,000 for courses or done-for-you agencies
“At this point, it's 2000 dollars for each option. So 2000 dollars, we teach you how to do it, we set you up and show you how to do it as a business, tell you how to charge for it, how to demo it, the whole thing. Or if you want us to build it, you pay 2000 dol…”
Warner: Bot Academy has graduated approximately 400 students to date
“I don't know the exact numbers, but it's somewhere around 400 people.”
Warner: Bot Academy has generated about $800k in revenue
“We're about 800,000 in revenue from right now when we're not sure even where the big money is going to come from.”
Warner: App analytics platform Kochava bootstrapped to over $10M ARR
“This is a 10 plus million dollar a year software company, all bootstrapped, giving analytics to app makers.”
Warner: I actually invested in chatbot platform ManyChat
“I use ManyChat. I love them. I actually invested in the company.”
Warner: Emulate short text messages with friends for chatbot copy
“Don't go long. Keep it short. If you really want to get a sense of how long you should make it or how it should feel, look at your text messages with some of your favorite people.”
Warner: I paid $12,000 to structure Mixergy's email onboarding process
“I hired a company, I paid them 12,000 dollars to help me structure my onboarding process for Mixergy, and it made a huge difference.”
The other half of the tape: Andrew Warner's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 9 times in 5 episodes across the shows. 4 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 5Aurelien Amaker 4
Statements about Andrew Warner, by other people (4)
Godin: Trying to conquer fear and resistance is a distracting mistake
“Well Steve and I disagree with this about the resistance, but I don't think it can be conquered. I think that trying to conquer it is the problem. That trying to make the fear and the lizard brain go away is what distracts us and takes all of our time and ener…”
Latka: Interviewers should tee up supporters rather than self-promoting directly
“If I know someone's a big supporter of me, and I'm with them, the last thing I want to do is promote myself when I could tee up a question where I know it's going to be a positive response.”
Latka: Andrew Warner has interviewed over 1,500 startup founders
“Many of you know Andrew from his company Mixergy and where he's interviewed over 1500 entrepreneurs and startup founders such as the founders of Airbnb, Twitch, Groupon, and LinkedIn.”
Every mention by year
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Top Founders 9
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 4 mentions in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Andrew's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Founder & Host, Mixergy | 3 | 18 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Top Founders → |
 MIXERGYLEDGER | Founder & Host, Mixergyhost | 37 | 13 | 100% 3/3 | full record on Mixergy → |