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Zach Moreno

Founder, Lightworks. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Moreno co-founded SquadCast.fm, a remote recording platform bootstrapped past $4M in ARR that was acquired by Descript in 2023. He previously taught full-stack engineering at UC Berkeley and authored the technical book AngularJS Deployment Essentials.

What they said8 Shows1

Everything Zach Moreno said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Opinion

Moreno: Zencastr was better than Skype but failed to evolve

“I'll give Zencaster credit for being better than Skype, but I think it's a failure to evolve in a number of different ways.”

Zach Moreno Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 7:43 Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Moreno: Established SaaS companies cannot 'move fast and break things'

“There's this terrible quote, but like move fast, break things from Mark Zuckerberg. And you kind of lose that over time as you gain customer trust, as you are more and more relied upon as the industry standard to really throw something against the wall like th…”

Zach Moreno Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 31:34 Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Moreno: Founders failing to evolve causes most startup leadership turnover

“It became very clear to us that the reason leadership and startup kind of has turnover or changes hands or anything like that. It can happen for a number of reasons, but it seems like the biggest reason is like Failure to evolve with the company. The company k…”

Zach Moreno Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 20:40 Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Moreno: Asking VCs for advice rather than money reliably yields investment offers

“When you talk to these venture capitalists, You know, try to learn as much as you can from them and don't ask them for capital, ask them for advice. And this weird thing will happen where they will offer you capital when you ask them for advice. And that's tot…”

Zach Moreno Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 36:20 Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Disclosure

Moreno: SquadCast cleared $3M ARR and 13,000 customers

“And the revenue, I think a few months ago, we cleared a huge milestone of three million annual reoccurring revenue. We're a, of course, a SaaS business and I think north of 13,000 customers.”

Zach Moreno Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 5:01 Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Disclosure

Moreno: I manage dual CEO and CTO roles using two separate calendars

“I'm the CEO and the CTO, and I just have two calendars, and I schedule time for CTO. I schedule time for CEO, and that is weird.”

Zach Moreno Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 21:34 Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast

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Moreno: SquadCast has scaled to nine employees at over $3M ARR

“I believe we're up to nine.”

Zach Moreno Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 22:02 Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Disclosure

Moreno: SquadCast has not spent any TinySeed investment capital

“I believe we still have that capital in our savings account. We haven't needed to touch it, and that's kind of the best case scenario.”

Zach Moreno Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 38:39 Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Zach's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF USLEDGER	Founder, Lightworks	1	8	—	full record on Startups For the Rest of Us →