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10 statements across 9 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Nov 1, 2022 by Laura McGee · said 337 times in 99 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2026 85 mentions in 21 episodes 4 per episode
- He failed for 5 years. Then hit $20M ARR with 100% outbound. | Didi Gurfinkel, Founder of Datarails · PMF Show
- How I grew my AI startup to $3M ARR in 3 months. | Chaz Englander, Founder of ModelML · PMF Show
- It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway · PMF Show
- He raised $75M—but kept his team to 21 people & pays everyone the same salary. | Cos Nicolaescu, ... · PMF Show
- He spent $150K on brand before he had a product—closed $1.5M ARR in 1 month. | Endra
- How this 1st-time founder went from closing customers for $500 a month to $300,000 a year. | Sean... · PMF Show
- He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
- He wrote the book on Account Based Marketing. Here are his GTM secrets for enterprise. | Bassem H... · PMF Show
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 159 mentions in 42 episodes 4 per episode
- Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show
- He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex S... · PMF Show
- He Bootstrapped to $55M in Revenue—without ever having to hit 100% YoY growth. | Stéphan Donzé, F... · PMF Show
- How his $2B startup grew to $10M+ ARR with zero marketing. | Avery Pennarun, Founder of Tailscale · PMF Show
- He spent 5 months working with customers before building—then grew to $10s of millions ARR. | Avi... · PMF Show
- He went 7 years with no revenue— then grew to $100M ARR. | Rob Woollen, Co-Founder of Sigma · PMF Show
- He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder · PMF Show
- Solo Episode: B2B SaaS is dead. Here's what the best AI founders are doing instead. · PMF Show
- 34 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 77 mentions in 28 episodes 3 per episode
- They hit $100M ARR—in a "crowded market". Here's how they got to $1M ARR in just 18 months. | Don... · PMF Show
- YC said his idea "would never work". So he lived in his office for months—then raised $17M from a... · PMF Show
- For 5 years he struggled to get traction. Then with AI he grew 12x— in 1 year | Scott Stevenson, ... · PMF Show
- He raised $11M off a deck. Here's how he launched Clumio & grew 4x to over 8-figures in ARR. | Po... · PMF Show
- He raised $275M in the last 3 years. His 'boring' B2B startup is now a $1B unicorn. | Andrew Butt... · PMF Show
- Why every founder needs to Be Like Knight | Rob & Pablo Series · PMF Show
- He built a $4B unicorn & crossed $100M ARR—here's why it took 10 years of 100-hour weeks. | Marti... · PMF Show
- How to Build Hype | Solon Angel, Founder of MindBridge · PMF Show
- 20 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Nabeil Alazzam, Founder of Forma.ai | How the First Enterprise Sale Leads to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- Adrian Camara, Founder of Athennian | How to do Customer Discovery · PMF Show
- Ron Spreeuwenberg, Founder of HiMama | How Proper Customer Discovery Leads to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- Rodolphe Barrere, Founder of PotLoc | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- Mike Katchen, Co-Founder of Wealthsimple | How to Come up with an Idea that Gets Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about Microsoft, oldest first
Nov 1, 2022 negative
McGee: Bootstrapped startups cannot afford Microsoft partnerships due to slow sales
“I think if you're bootstrapping, you don't have the luxury of trying to partner with Microsoft, frankly. We've explored a few partnerships like that and you're like, okay, it's like a year and a half long sales cycle. So unless you're going to make no money fo…”
Mar 8, 2024 positive
Nike, Microsoft, and Shopify prove steady growth beats massive early funding
“The, probably the most proven way of building a great company is sustainable, consistent growth. You look at Nike, you look at Microsoft, you look at Shopify. These were businesses that what they actually did was they doubled and they doubled and they doubled …”
Dec 5, 2024 negative
Mar 3, 2025
In 2004, Symbian dominated smartphone hardware while developers used Windows Mobile
“At the time you didn't have iOS and Android.
You had Nokia running the Symbian operating system, and you had Microsoft Windows running Windows Mobile.
And there's this very interesting problem where most of the devices in the world that were smartphones and ha…”
Jul 3, 2025 positive
Aug 28, 2025 bullish
Sep 2, 2025 bullish
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Oct 16, 2025 positive
Startup enterprise advantages are limited to deep customization and extreme speed
“You only have two real advantages. One, you can really cater the initial set of value of the product to what they want because you're building it as you're talking to them, right? So you can do the things that they always wanted to get and nobody else would gi…”