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5 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 1, 2022 by Laura McGee · said 32 times in 12 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2026 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years—with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of Render · PMF Show
- His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
- He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
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2025 21 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
- He hit $1M ARR in 10 months—after doing of a full, 180 pivot. | Merrill Lutsky, Founder of Graphite · PMF Show
- He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
- He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder · PMF Show
- He quit his job, went all-in on AI agents—then grew to 100K users & a $30M Series A in a year. | ... · PMF Show
- He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
- He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod,... · PMF Show
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2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about GitHub, oldest first
Nov 1, 2022
McGee: Academic R&D partnerships saved Diversio three years of product development
“One thing that we really like, though, is, like, with the Turing Institute, like, we never would have built the kind of technology that they had spent three years building, which is a plugin that sits on Slack and GitHub and identifies bias in real time.”
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Composio acquired its initial users through viral technical posts on Reddit
“What we did was we basically wrote a really nice blog and like some,
Code structure and, like, some examples out there on GitHub.
we put it out, and we said, like, hey, here's, like, some good ways you could improve tool call.
And, like, it just hit the right…”
Oct 27, 2025 positive
Snyk drove viral growth by automating fix PRs on open-source repos
“We reached out to open source libraries, and we got them to install it. And that was a big deal because it created this sort of viral loop of people seeing that this is possible. Every time you're You know, you open a fixed pull request on a repo that someone …”
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
d'Sa: LiveKit hit GitHub's top 10 repos within two weeks of launch
“And so then like in the first two weeks, it was like trending across all of GitHub top 10 repo across every language and Spotify and Oracle and Reddit and X and these like large companies were starting to deploy it and start the repo.”
Mar 2, 2026 positive
GitHub vanity metrics are essential for establishing trust with open-source developers
“Initially we're very focused on Vanity metrics on GitHub. Those, especially for open source, are very important because these vanity metrics, I don't care about how many stars I have, but I know that whenever I look at a project, whenever I look at the library…”