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6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 8, 2024 by Jack Newton · said 41 times in 25 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2026 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- She bet on a consumer app when every VC wanted B2B—then grew to $10M ARR. | Anada Lakra, Founder ... · PMF Show
- He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
- Sold $10M business to bet on a side app—grew it to $20M ARR | Within
- Fired almost everyone, kept 2 engineers—grew 12x, raised $30M Series A | Notch
- He quit his $50M ARR startup to work as a paralegal—then raised a $60M Series A. | Dan Mishin, Fo... · PMF Show
- He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- He exited for $100M+. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves · PMF Show
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2025 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure · PMF Show
- He started Groupon for SMBs, grew to $36M ARR—then exited for $170M. | Saurav Chopra, Founder of ... · PMF Show
- He got rejected by 50 VCs & had 4 months of runway—3 years later, he's at $150M ARR & profitable.... · PMF Show
- Forget PMF—Neil Patel says to give your product away for free instead. | Neil Patel, Co-Founder o... · PMF Show
- 1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
- 1st-time founder grows AI headshot app from $0 to $10M ARR in 2 years—with no funding. | Wesley T... · PMF Show
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2024 16 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- After I passed, this startup grew 30x in 3 years to $10M+ ARR. Here's how he did it—& what I miss... · PMF Show
- He raised $1.5M, hit $400K ARR in 9 months— but had to Exit Early. Here’s the top 3 lessons he le... · PMF Show
- Jack Newton, Founder of Clio | How to Run a Beta Program · PMF Show
- He hit $40M ARR, exited for over $100M—& raised only $1.5M. Here's how | Ian MacKinnon, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
- He grew to 2M customers & exited—in one of the biggest fintech exits ever. · PMF Show
- He took 3 years to make his 1st sale—then grew 1000x to $10M ARR 3 years later. | Alex Hoff, Foun... · PMF Show
- He grew to $22M ARR in 4 years—but regrets spending so much on growth. | Chris Walker, Founder of... · PMF Show
- Alex sold couches online before IKEA did. He grew to $40M in revenue and exited for millions. | A... · PMF Show
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2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
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Mar 8, 2024 neutral
Clio spent only a few hundred dollars monthly on marketing in 2008
“So our marketing budget for the first year of our launch for over 2008 was basically, you know, a few hundred dollars per month that we were spending You know, on, on some very experimental Google ads and otherwise free you know, just with this PR effort.”
Jun 17, 2024 bearish
Nov 28, 2024 positive
Apr 24, 2025 neutral
Aug 7, 2025 positive
Patel: Giving away average software to sell services beats pursuing PMF
“I think it's easier to build an average product, give it away for free, collect a lot of leads and sell them into something else where people in that space also pay for. And then now you got a cheaper flywheel than spending money on Google ads or trying to do …”