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He spent $150K on brand before he had a product—closed $1.5M ARR in 1 month. | Endra
- ▶ 2:50 Niklas Lindgren We did that in very creative ways, not only through sort of the conventional ones, but we were out on Reddit.
- ▶ 18:23 Niklas Lindgren On, like, I think the most of our conversations early on was on Reddit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:40 Pablo Srugo One of them is brand and using Reddit, but you spend, like you said, three, 400,000 dollars on building a brand at inception, which is not a thing that you normally do. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:17 Niklas Lindgren I did it on Reddit.
He churned 100% of his revenue on purpose—then grew 10x to $2M ARR in under 12 months. | Ali Khok... · PMF Show
- ▶ 39:32 Pablo Srugo In order to drive traffic, it's easy enough to go on Reddit. 2 times in the scene
He built for 2 years before raising a dollar—then hit $13M ARR and a $40M Series B. | Alex Hallid... · PMF Show
- ▶ 17:14 Alex Halliday So we would have a couple of agents that would spend their time looking at, um, startup conversations, the Hacker News, Reddit, really understanding what is the evergreen questions that people are asking and the discussions people are… 2 times in the scene
She bet on a consumer app when every VC wanted B2B—then grew to $10M ARR. | Anada Lakra, Founder ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 26:52 Anada Lakra I was joining Reddit groups where people were talking about this and commenting. 2 times in the scene
She got rejected by 22 VCs—then built 6sense to $100M+ in revenue. Now she's back for AI. | Amand... · PMF Show
- ▶ 28:55 Pablo Srugo It's like, everybody knows, I was just talking about this to another founder, like Reddit, for example, like I know everybody knows there's all these black hat methods that Reddit today. 2 times in the scene
He raised $41M in one year to replace enterprise accountants with AI. | Yogi Goel, Founder of Maxima · PMF Show
He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Air... · PMF Show
- ▶ 26:17 Michel Tricot In the case of data, there is so many, there is a lot of very big community on Reddit, for example. 2 times in the scene
His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
- ▶ 27:16 Russ d’Sa You guys buying the repo or, 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…
- ▶ 29:02 Russ d’Sa And, uh, and then there was Reddit who was trying to use us for Reddit talk. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:02 Russ d’Sa And, uh, and then there was Reddit who was trying to use us for Reddit talk. 4 times in the scene
At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza... · PMF Show
- ▶ 24:15 Matt Espinoza You can do like tons of blog posts or tons of Reddit attribution towards your product.
- ▶ 25:31 Matt Espinoza We'll do Reddit posts. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:13 Pablo Srugo To drafting the cold email to actually posting on that Reddit thread.
- ▶ 36:04 Matt Espinoza And so with SEO, what we do is we do a lot of blog posts, a lot of, like, Reddit posts, a lot of Reddit comments, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:45 Pablo Srugo What it takes to create a new Reddit post, a new Reddit thread, a new blog post that you have to assume some of this stuff at some point is like the black hat, you know what I mean?
He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex S... · PMF Show
- ▶ 36:43 Alex Sherman Like maybe ChatGPT is pulling heavily from Reddit. 2 times in the scene
He quit his job, went all-in on AI agents—then grew to 100K users & a $30M Series A in a year. | ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 33:49 Soham Ganatra It went, like, viral on Reddit.
He thought his startup would fail—then grew to $100M ARR. | Rick Song, Co-founder of Persona · PMF Show
He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tana... · PMF Show
- ▶ 46:12 unnamed speaker It was me on, you'd find me on Reddit, on LinkedIn, on Twitter, sharing my story, sharing, like, the story of, of our users, sharing how we're thinking about this, and that brought a lot of people on board who resonated with it, and…
May Startup News: Elizabeth Holmes Returns, Billion-Dollar Frauds, & the End of Tech Jobs w/ Jack... · PMF Show
- ▶ 6:02 unnamed speaker Do you know how many, you've seen all these like photos of people on Reddit being like, my only friend is OpenAI.
He went from 0 to a $210M exit in 3 years—without inventing anything new. | Kazi Ahmed, Founder o... · PMF Show
- ▶ 15:27 Kazi Ahmed It's sort of people figuring it out themselves, and a lot of, think about a lot of Reddit
1st-time founder grows AI headshot app from $0 to $10M ARR in 2 years—with no funding. | Wesley T... · PMF Show
- ▶ 35:37 Wesley Tian And, um, I basically, like, went on Reddit, and I had this idea to, like, pretend I got a date by using Eragon to create photos for my dating app. 2 times in the scene
Why new Carta data shows bridge rounds might be worse than you think. | Peter Walker, Head of Ins... · PMF Show
- ▶ 30:05 unnamed speaker What's funny is if you look at like, you know, the names I think about that are, I guess they're not that recent anymore, but like Duolingo, Reddit are two names that come out, you know, in my head at least, and they're crushing it.
How Gusto’s $10B founder raised $6M, built a team of 5—& hit $5M ARR in just 2 years. | Josh Reev... · PMF Show
- ▶ 45:27 Josh Reeves We started kind of answering questions inside Quora and Reddit, you know, that type of stuff to, to be a part of the conversation.
24 ways to get your first customers—based on real examples from the last 100 episodes. · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:25 Pablo Srugo The second one, and this is a pretty known story, but Reddit, Reddit needed to hack a way to create a community.
He grew to $90M ARR, was about to exit for $1.5B—and then, it all fell apart. | Yanni Giannaros, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:22 Yanni Giannaros I had, like, we were doing, like, a lot on just, like, building communities online when it was on Facebook pages back in 2011, 20 12, and I was doing a lot there, and I'm, and I was, like, super fascinated about the internet in general,…
- ▶ 9:45 Yanni Giannaros We posted this when we launched into the Bitcoin forum, Reddit forum, and it just, like, day one just blew up.
- ▶ 14:07 Yanni Giannaros We, we, we bootstrapped it for the first bit, and then we, we launched it on Reddit, and then immediately, uh, reached out to Boost, uh, they were the, like, one of the only, like, crypto accelerators at that point, um, and then we got…
He hit $40M ARR, exited for over $100M—& raised only $1.5M. Here's how | Ian MacKinnon, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
- ▶ 26:03 Ian MacKinnon It also kind of contributes to Google being what it is now, where it's almost really hard to get an unbiased answer to stuff from, you know, like, if people had the word Reddit in there, but at the time especially, it was really good to…
1st-time AI founder grows from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 8 months. Here's exactly how he did it. | Jaspa... · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:49 Jaspar Carmichael-Jack Um, and the first thousand signups that we got were from rage baiting posts on Reddit, where we were just like, uh, emphasizing that we didn't have any products and that we'd raised like a funding round. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:22 Pablo Srugo Like, I feel like, you know what, I would say LinkedIn, Reddit are probably the two, like, least, most underutilized channels these days. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:34 Pablo Srugo Talk to me more about Reddit. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:06 Jaspar Carmichael-Jack If you have a broad ICP, I would say do things that we did, like post on LinkedIn, post on Reddit, do SEO content, like build up some buzz.
He got rejected by 60 VCs—then grew to $100M ARR. | Kyle, founder of Huntress · PMF Show
- ▶ 32:40 Kyle Hanslovan I just did an event yesterday in San Francisco with my Series D partner, Kleiner Perkins, one of the biggest venture capital companies in the world, and they said on the podcast that we did together, it was that crazy partner conviction of…
Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
- ▶ 0:06 Chris Slowe One story we've heard over and over again for users that end up sticking around and becoming like Redditors is, I noticed Reddit, like it kept coming up in search results, or I started seeing it in here, or I'd ask a question and it would… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28 Pablo Srugo Reddit is, you know, a world-known brand now. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:40 Pablo Srugo And so walk me through, like, I guess my question is like when, when you join, what was like the MVP of Reddit? 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 Chris Slowe We had the opposite happen where it's like, you know, yeah, only post content to like peer reviewed scientific articles in r slash science. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:14 Chris Slowe We barely had advertisement on Reddit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:42 Chris Slowe Trying to get the same advertisers to advertise on Reddit is extremely difficult. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:08 Chris Slowe It was, it was, you know, it's like we were making, we were, um, I, I do remember, I do remember in 2010, we launched, um, we launched Reddit Gold, which was our first attempt at doing something like, like a subscription model on Reddit.
- ▶ 32:14 unnamed speaker That had been the story with Reddit. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:01 unnamed speaker Like, cause I'm, I'm interested obviously in the transition back into Reddit. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:49 Chris Slowe You go to the front page, you're gonna see the good and the bad Reddit based on popularity. 6 times in the scene
COVID nearly bankrupted him. Then with AI he grew from $0 to $25M ARR in 4 years. | Andrew Lockhe... · PMF Show
- ▶ 12:36 Andrew Lockhead And we're like, if we want to keep in that field, either we're going to do Reddit promoted polls.
5 months in, Snapchat had only 127 users. Here's how Evan Spiegel found product market fit w/ Jer... · PMF Show
- ▶ 36:54 Jeremy Liu I think Reddit's really the only big social media example that started with a primarily male audience, right? 2 times in the scene
He gave up on chasing unicorns. Now he earns $500K+/year from his 3-person startup. | Rand Fishki... · PMF Show
- ▶ 45:27 Rand Fishkin Like, most companies don't do, don't try and figure out, oh, which podcast do my customers listen to, and what videos they watch on YouTube, and which channels they subscribe to, what subreddits are they on, and which, which sources of…
How to Build Hype | Solon Angel, Founder of MindBridge · PMF Show
- ▶ 18:28 Solon Angel The Gassim Rewind, like, they, they were on Reddit. 3 times in the scene
How to Launch an SMB Product | Jay Myers, Founder of Bold · PMF Show
Myles Shedden, Founder of Chroma | How to NOT Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
- ▶ 20:32 Miles Shedden We did, like, primary research with friends and, and, uh, renters from Reddit.