United States

also referred to as: the us · us

9 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2025 by Kevin Busque · said 100 times in 34 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Sam Chaudhary (12), Brett Berson (8), Kevin Busque (6), Amjad Masad (6), Tomer London (5), Christopher Payne (4), Abhinav Asthana (4), Jack Krawczyk (3)

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2026 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode

Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash) Apr 17, 2026 · 4 mentions · from 13:09
Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel) May 21, 2026 · 3 mentions · from 2:22
The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO) Jun 25, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 2:34
AI killed the product roadmap | Diya Jolly (CPO & CTO of Xero) Apr 30, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 40:23
How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma) Jul 24, 2026 · 1 mention · from 56:41
Why great leaders make themselves obsolete | Eric Sager (COO, Plaid) Jul 16, 2026 · 1 mention · from 31:56
Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake) Feb 26, 2026 · 1 mention · from 15:55
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2025 50 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode

Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO) Sep 3, 2025 · 12 mentions · from 2:12
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO) Feb 20, 2025 · 6 mentions · from 13:26
How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem Jul 1, 2025 · 5 mentions · from 4:55
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO) Aug 28, 2025 · 4 mentions · from 5:51
Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO) Dec 10, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 22:44
How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO) Aug 20, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 45:30
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury) Aug 6, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 41:54
Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition Feb 6, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 1:01:44
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2024 23 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode

How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub) May 30, 2024 · 9 mentions · from 1:22
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO) Feb 15, 2024 · 8 mentions · from 1:58
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple) Apr 4, 2024 · 3 mentions · from 24:28
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data) Sep 19, 2024 · 2 mentions · from 1:14:04
How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers) Sep 26, 2024 · 1 mention · from 25:52
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2023 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode

Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany) Dec 21, 2023 · 3 mentions · from 5:31
The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google) Nov 30, 2023 · 3 mentions · from 20:49
Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier) Oct 5, 2023 · 3 mentions · from 6:20
The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO) Oct 26, 2023 · 1 mention · from 1:07:44
How young outsiders changed the shipping industry | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo) Sep 28, 2023 · 1 mention · from 2:53
How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox) Aug 17, 2023 · 1 mention · from 16:13
Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss Jul 13, 2023 · 1 mention · from 22:21
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Feb 20, 2025

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Busque: Healthcare is the second leading cause of failed retirement in the US

“Healthcare is the second leading cause of unsuccessful retirement in the country.”

Kevin Busque Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 1:10:22 Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)

Feb 20, 2025

Assertion Contradicted

Busque: Under 2% of US taxpayers contribute annually to an IRA

“Most people, less than two percent actually contribute to an IRA annually from all the taxpayers in the United States.”

Kevin Busque Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 1:09:33 Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)

Feb 20, 2025 neutral

Assertion Supported

Busque: 16 US states now mandate employer retirement benefits

“There's 16 different states that has a required benefit, required benefits. So you have to have some level of retirement benefit.”

Kevin Busque Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 1:02:56 Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)

Feb 20, 2025 neutral

Assertion Supported

Busque: 76% of US investors first learn to invest via 401(k)s

“I think the stat is 76% of all investors in the United States first learn to invest in their for one K”

Kevin Busque Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 48:24 Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)

Feb 20, 2025 bullish

Assertion Contradicted

Busque: Guideline was first in US to charge SaaS-based 401(k) fees

“We're the first one charging a SaaS-based fee for a four one K benefit in the country.”

Kevin Busque Feb 20, 2025 ▶ 13:26 Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)

Jul 1, 2025 neutral

Assertion Supported

London: About 500,000 new employers are created annually in the US

“There's half a million new employers coming in to the US every year.”

Tomer London Jul 1, 2025 ▶ 47:23 How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem

Aug 20, 2025

Assertion Supported

Adams: Canva's top five markets are US, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Philippines

“Our top five markets now are the US, Brazil, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines.”

Cameron Adams Aug 20, 2025 ▶ 46:30 How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)

Sep 3, 2025

Assertion Not checkable as stated

One in five US families uses ClassDojo on a weekly basis

“Once we hit a certain level of scale, like in the US, you know, something like one in four, one in five families in America use Dogen every week.”

Sam Chaudhary Sep 3, 2025 ▶ 42:27 Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)

Sep 3, 2025 positive

Assertion Not checkable as stated

ClassDojo is currently used in 90% of US schools

“If you look now, Dojo's used in nine out of 10 schools in the country, and maybe two or three times as many as that internationally.”

Sam Chaudhary Sep 3, 2025 ▶ 39:57 Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)

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