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Sold $10M business to bet on a side app—grew it to $20M ARR | Within
- ▶ 32:29 Andrew Antos So whether it's a Zoom meeting or Google Meet meeting or whatever that is, like there's some kind of like recording, typically gang or something else.
- ▶ 47:41 Andrew Antos For example, we don't run any Google ads.
He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
- ▶ 2:05 Colin Zima I had spent eight years at a company called Looker that got acquired by Google.
- ▶ 11:25 Colin Zima Looker got acquired by Google, and it was a great acquisition.
- ▶ 33:40 Colin Zima There are gigantic tech partners like Snowflake and Databricks and Google and Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:08 Colin Zima And it's, I mean, part of this is because Looker sold to Google and like people, people were there post acquisition and either like love the big company atmosphere or didn't. 2 times in the scene
Fired almost everyone, kept 2 engineers—grew 12x, raised $30M Series A | Notch
- ▶ 42:12 Pablo Srugo I mean, you've got to actually get somebody to listen to you, to hear you, which you can't do through, you know, Google AdWords or Facebook ads, or the sort of things that might work in SMB or bid market.
Solo founder does 90 interviews in 90 days—raises $25M Series A | Nebulock · PMF Show
- ▶ 22:38 Damien Lewke I don't really know what we're going to do today, but like, you know, tinker around and do some Google searching.
Tries 1,000 ideas & kills most—how X built Waymo & Google Brain | X (Alphabet) · PMF Show
- ▶ 0:21 Astro Teller Google glass. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:20 Astro Teller So we were set up 16 years ago and we were set up because Google at the time was already starting to imagine Alphabet, though Alphabet hadn't been named. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:58 Astro Teller Google brain is the most famous example where we started, and then it turns out to be so important to Google that we move it back to Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:22 Astro Teller Which of the things that we're currently looking at might be a Waymo might be a Google brain.
- ▶ 22:17 Astro Teller Google glass.
- ▶ 32:16 Astro Teller You better believe in it because you're about to start getting paid in illiquid stock now, instead of, you know, paid like a Googler, then it's an independent business and you guys are off to the races.
- ▶ 40:36 Astro Teller If it's really a Waymo Google brain size thing, if it happens to work out.
He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years—with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of Render · PMF Show
- ▶ 23:55 Anurag Goel and it all comes down to organizational DNA and organizational incentives and where the money is coming from for these people and for AWS and GCP and Azure, all the money
- ▶ 25:49 Pablo Srugo But a lot of times, you know, these kind of, why wouldn't Google do it? 2 times in the scene
He quit his $50M ARR startup to work as a paralegal—then raised a $60M Series A. | Dan Mishin, Fo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 23:24 Dan Mishin They know how to spin out Google ads.
- ▶ 41:24 Dan Mishin And what's best for the reader is usually not what's best for Google
He churned 100% of his revenue on purpose—then grew 10x to $2M ARR in under 12 months. | Ali Khok... · PMF Show
- ▶ 8:38 Ali Khokhar So I started my career at Google, spent time there, and then went to a company called Upwork.
Q1 2026 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta · PMF Show
- ▶ 33:09 Peter Walker You know, I think that the best alternative used to be work at Google, whatever, and now it's start your own thing.
- ▶ 35:12 Pablo Srugo Is not one, one of the, you will make more money at Google, more easily doing less. 2 times in the scene
Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 1:32 Pablo Srugo See, you've got a pretty crazy, uh, resume VP at Google, your chief product officer at Coinbase, EIR at A-sixteen Z, and now you've started EMMA, which is in the AI agent for enterprise world.
- ▶ 5:08 Surajit Chatterjee Uh, Google Drive, Database, wherever it is, Data Warehouse.
- ▶ 11:54 Surajit Chatterjee So 14 years at Google, I built and led mobile ads for that entire time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:48 Surajit Chatterjee That was the genesis, and got together with a few other, you know, ex-colleagues of mine from Google. 2 times in the scene
How this 1st-time founder went from closing customers for $500 a month to $300,000 a year. | Sean... · PMF Show
- ▶ 29:43 Pablo Srugo It's not a thing, again, unless you're Google or Microsoft.
He built for 2 years before raising a dollar—then hit $13M ARR and a $40M Series B. | Alex Hallid... · PMF Show
- ▶ 1:14 Pablo Srugo So you just raised a forty million dollar Series B from Greylock not too long ago, and you're in this world of which there's a few players, so we're actually going to talk about what you do differently, and even just maybe broadly about…
- ▶ 6:02 Alex Halliday We released a little Chrome extension on Product Hunt.
- ▶ 15:25 Alex Halliday You know, Google's going at AI first with AI overviews and AI mode.
- ▶ 16:54 Pablo Srugo I want to rank on all the chat apps and on Google and all this stuff.
- ▶ 17:46 Alex Halliday And so you would put all of the transcripts that you've ever had on the show with a definite bias to the most recent ones into Aerox or into a system like Google Drive or wherever they live and you connect them to us.
- ▶ 21:14 Alex Halliday So if it's, for example, a page you want to have ranking in Google search, or it's a particular question for chat GPT, before you even start writing, we understand every single page that it's in competition with.
She bet on a consumer app when every VC wanted B2B—then grew to $10M ARR. | Anada Lakra, Founder ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 36:28 Anada Lakra I think we try at the early days, some Google search ads. 2 times in the scene
He raised a $10M seed with no revenue—then grew 30x to $30M in year two. | Bobby Samuels, Founder... · PMF Show
- ▶ 15:11 Pablo Srugo The Google data and the Facebook, like, selling your data, and, like, really, they just kind of leveraged their data to just bring ass to your face.
- ▶ 30:42 Pablo Srugo And video is just, it's the same sort, like, you know, if you think about something like Google, who has crazy access to like all their YouTube library, you're just providing that kind of video.
He ran Prime fulfillment for Amazon—then raised $20M to replace e-commerce with AI. | Maju Kuruvi... · PMF Show
- ▶ 12:29 Maju Kuruvi I mean, it could be Instagram, it could be Google, now it's ChatGPT, it could be agents, it could be browser agents, whatever.
- ▶ 24:53 Maju Kuruvi Or you're coming from Google, just seeing a Google result, you come here, it looks different.
- ▶ 31:43 Maju Kuruvi But again, if you, it would be easier if you have an AI model that can always represent you everywhere and can always be ready to respond to a buyer agent, a human, whether that's in a physical store, in e-commerce, they're coming from…
He raised $41M in one year to replace enterprise accountants with AI. | Yogi Goel, Founder of Maxima · PMF Show
She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta · PMF Show
- ▶ 12:44 Helen Hastings Uh, I think a metaphor I like to use is, for the internet, you had to go to the library to answer any history question, but now you can just Google it. 2 times in the scene
He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
- ▶ 4:31 Ryan Anderson It was basically a big Google spreadsheet and I had some basic interactions, you know, really simple automations I had built between my email and Gmail and a Google sheet. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:42 Ryan Anderson Let's buy a bunch of Google ads.
- ▶ 21:39 Pablo Srugo Cause you, I know you're doing Google ads and I assume Facebook ads, like, was it just a pricing thing that all of a sudden makes sense?
- ▶ 29:33 Ryan Anderson I mean, the best thing is somebody clicks a Google link or maybe now like a, you know, an AI link that says they're interested in buying.
He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:53 Michel Tricot So it can be Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, you name it.
- ▶ 11:47 Michel Tricot But what you care about also is Google ads.
- ▶ 23:53 Michel Tricot Well, they go on Google, and they say, oh, how do I get my Salesforce data into Snowflake?
His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
He pivoted at $1M ARR—then raised $120M. | Kevin Tian, Co-Founder of Doppel · PMF Show
- ▶ 28:04 Kevin Tian TD bank right on Google search, what comes up there as potential phishing sites and scams.
He exited for $100M+. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:11 Dileep Thazhmon So if you think about what Google does on the web, we did something similar in email. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:35 Dileep Thazhmon Facebook ads, Google ads, like they're, those are the big categories.
How I grew my AI startup to $3M ARR in 3 months. | Chaz Englander, Founder of ModelML · PMF Show
- ▶ 22:38 Chaz Englander Also, I remember, we literally hooked up the items database to a Google Sheet, and even the image of the item was being pulled from, like, an image URL on the Google.
- ▶ 22:38 Chaz Englander Also, I remember, we literally hooked up the items database to a Google Sheet, and even the image of the item was being pulled from, like, an image URL on the Google.
How I grew to $3M ARR in 6 months—& to a $1B valuation in 2 years. | Jay, Founder of Eve Legal · PMF Show
- ▶ 30:58 Jay Madheswaran They can't even Google it today.
It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway · PMF Show
- ▶ 28:04 Siqi Chen And their tool today is Google Sheets, right?
- ▶ 30:40 Siqi Chen It could be a Google sheet.
- ▶ 31:12 Siqi Chen So at some point, all of these pains become so painful that you go on Google and you're looking for some kind of software that to, to solve for these pains.
- ▶ 35:03 Siqi Chen I have some of the muscle memory of using Google Sheets and Excel.
He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
- ▶ 28:10 Viraj Parekh He was a former Googler and he said like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:12 Viraj Parekh Hey, yeah, like, I had heard from my former Google colleagues that Airflow is a tool for this, like, I just need my data loaded into BigQuery every day, so I can focus on data science, and I don't want to have to think about that.
Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder o... · PMF Show
- ▶ 8:11 Jennifer Smith They would visit, you know, Google, whomever they had a bunch of relationships with.
- ▶ 27:41 Jennifer Smith He was like, he was at Google. 2 times in the scene
He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Found... · PMF Show
- ▶ 5:47 Alex Mashrabov Around that time, uh, you probably remember that's a Google acquired company called Tenor.
- ▶ 28:42 Alex Mashrabov And I think today, when it comes to the, like, Hicksfield Quarry's case, we found a way to drastically differentiate, let's say, from OpenAI and from Google, so.
- ▶ 40:45 Alex Mashrabov People use models like our recent popcorn models, or maybe a Google Nano Banana model, or maybe ByteDance model to do, to edit image with prompts.
- ▶ 42:03 Alex Mashrabov We see that major companies like Bydance, Google, and OpenAI, they care about that space. 3 times in the scene
How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
- ▶ 20:26 Eric Foster They're on Google maps.
- ▶ 1:09:28 Eric Foster I'll give one like really tactical example that a lot of people are sleeping on, which is Google. 2 times in the scene
Q3 2025 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta · PMF Show
- ▶ 22:07 Peter Walker You know, it's the age old, like, will Google build this is now, will Gemini build this, or will OpenAI build, so I guess still Google. 2 times in the scene
He added AI to parking lots—then raised $3.5B. | Alex Israel, Founder of Metropolis · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:13 Alex Israel We invented a technology called real-time parking that told consumers all over the world where parking was available and licensed that data into most of the largest navigation companies globally from Waze to Google to Tele Atlas and to…
He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:27 Wayne Slavin You know, better best, but we didn't even know if it was going to be, you know, 50,000 dollars of insurance or five million dollars of insurance, and put that, you know, entire enrollment flow together, and spent some money, didn't have a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:10 Wayne Slavin Trusting the guys at Meta, trusting the guys at Google to target those folks.
- ▶ 21:55 Pablo Srugo Like, you'd get them on an ad, let's say, Google Ad, and then they'd download the app to sign up? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:46 Wayne Slavin Didn't have that same acquisition channel of Google and Facebook at the time.
At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza... · PMF Show
- ▶ 25:32 Matt Espinoza We'll like essentially organically hack and guarantee the number one post on Google for, you know, X amount of keywords that you want, which is practically unheard of, I think. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:37 Pablo Srugo First product does for SEO and like Google search queries. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:04 Pablo Srugo Everybody wants to rank on Google and rank in chat GPT. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:18 Matt Espinoza Uh, it takes about 14 days to index on Google and or SEOs.
He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. | Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin · PMF Show
- ▶ 0:24 Russ Fradin Look at what Google is today versus what Google was in 96.
- ▶ 19:36 Russ Fradin Look at what Google is today versus what Google was in 96. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:49 Russ Fradin Whoever's listening can Google it, but it's called DX.
- ▶ 36:10 Russ Fradin And our perspective is like, much like Omniture, much like Google Analytics.
He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Found... · PMF Show
- ▶ 29:09 Harish Abbott And they would have these things where they would translate our English into their local language, like a little widget or a Chrome extension.
He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of N... · PMF Show
- ▶ 7:03 Dheeraj Pandey That's the way Google and Facebook, Amazon, they're all using lots and lots and lots of just servers and software on top of it.
- ▶ 35:49 Dheeraj Pandey And remember, this is just awesome search, and this is why I take you back 20 years ago, 25 years ago, there were 20 search engines, and then was Google. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 29:38 Guy Podjarny It's like with Google's kind of intent moment, like some point in which you own this, you've just added a vulnerability.
- ▶ 46:48 Guy Podjarny Uh, yeah, it was, but I got great investors, you know, I got Bold Start and GV, Tom Hima GV, it was great, and I got Carlos at Index, and, you know, got some Excel backing from Philippe, and so very good investors, an amazing team that I…
5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. | Amar Varma, Fo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 10:17 Amar Varma It was kind of the era where mobile and social were fusing together and hits came early and often to electronic arts, Salesforce, Facebook, Apple, Google, kind of list kind of goes on and on.
He tested his pitch on Uber drivers—then built a cybersecurity platform to $180M raised. | Casey ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 8:51 Casey Ellis The other thing that was going on at the time was that, you know, I think it was, um, Google PayPal and eBay.
- ▶ 11:06 Casey Ellis And at that point, I'd start asking questions about, you know, have you heard about what Google's doing with trying to crowdsource this stuff? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:34 Casey Ellis Cause I wasn't framing it as a, do you want to be like Google?
- ▶ 21:22 Casey Ellis We did a deal with Google in the first like four or five months, which was insane. 6 times in the scene
He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod,... · PMF Show
- ▶ 0:06 Zach Lloyd I've seen people get promoted to Google for doing things that like failed.
- ▶ 1:31 Pablo Srugo I mean, you told me you were at Google for a while 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:01 Zach Lloyd I built a lot of Google's spreadsheet product, which was cool, and then by the time I left Google, I was a principal engineer, and I was leading engineering for the whole, uh, Google Docs team, which was pretty cool.
- ▶ 4:35 Pablo Srugo So walk me through, I mean, 10 years at Google, obviously you've kind of grown into the company. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:18 Zach Lloyd So, there were, like, a bunch of ex-Googlers who were starting companies.
- ▶ 23:06 Zach Lloyd We spent so much time debating this stuff and wasting time on it at Selfmade and like also at Google.
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