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17 statements across 8 episodes · 10 bullish · 1 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2022 by Dan Hockenmaier · said 97 times in 32 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (40), Ethan Smith (9), Adriel Frederick (8), Alexander Embirikos (7), Jessica Livingston (5), Ryan Hoover (3), Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (3), Lauren Ipsen (3)
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 36 mentions in 4 episodes 9 per episode
- The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
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2024 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
- The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)
- Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)
- Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome anxiety | Tristan de Montebello
- Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)
- The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 24 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)
- The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)
- Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)
- Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (Author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, more)
- M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)
- Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)
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2022 24 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
- Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, GC)
- How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
- How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts
- Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
- How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary
- How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
- Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier
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