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How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi) Nov 6, 2025 · 27 mentions

• ▶ 0:00 Zack Kanter We've decided we're gonna eat glass. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 14:27 Zack Kanter When I was starting Steady, I had a lot of friends who had started companies, and I noticed something interesting, which is that founders wanted to often leave the company that they had started.
• ▶ 24:23 Zack Kanter And basically that's the philosophy that I brought forward to study, which was like, there is, yes, other people have, you know, attempted to solve business to business transaction communication before, but like, I can look at it and I can…
• ▶ 24:51 Brett Berson Switching gears slightly and going back to talking about the journey of building Steady, the company sort of has had this interesting path where it took something like five years to get to your first million in revenue, and then you sort… 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 34:40 Brett Berson How did it instantiate itself in this path that steady took?
• ▶ 40:46 Zack Kanter And, uh, of course, in the days after we launched that, you know, what we built was a set of drop-in replacements for their API so that people could migrate directly from them to us. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 47:17 Zack Kanter What you don't appreciate is that it's not about steady or first round or Uber or whoever it is.
• ▶ 55:01 Brett Berson So take a couple of those and explain how they express itself specifically and how you're building Steady.
• ▶ 1:01:47 Zack Kanter On everybody's first day at Steady, I say, welcome to Steady, everything's your fault now. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:07:59 Brett Berson Over the years, there's lots of things that you've chosen to do your own way at Steady that maybe is not perfectly aligned with best practice. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:13:43 Brett Berson There's a correct way and incorrect way to do something in the context of steady, but I would assume at the 96th employee, it's so much harder to get that unconscious alignment that maybe you have with five or seven people when you're… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:17:23 Brett Berson I think it's something that you've thought a lot about as you've been building Steady and, and sort of earlier parts of your career.