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4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2022 by Matt Whitteker · said 92 times in 68 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2026 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- He moved to the US with nothing. Now he does $750M ARR. | Mateo Marietti, Founder of CookUnity · PMF Show
- His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
- She bet on a consumer app when every VC wanted B2B—then grew to $10M ARR. | Anada Lakra, Founder ... · PMF Show
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2025 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia... · PMF Show
- He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
- WebSummit Panel w/ Founders of Glean ($5B) and Huntress ($2B): What it takes to hit $100M ARR · PMF Show
- He invested in 684 AI startups—& realized that quitters always win. | Jack Kuveke, Founder turned... · PMF Show
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2024 63 mentions in 57 episodes 1 per episode
- He got rejected by 60 VCs—then grew to $100M ARR. | Kyle, founder of Huntress · PMF Show
- He built Cohere into a $5.5B AI startup; How to Win in AI; & Why LLMs won't lead to AGI. | Nick F... · PMF Show
- 99% of founders SUCK at storytelling. Here's the pro who taught Slack & Salesforce how to do it. ... · PMF Show
- He built a farming robot that shoots weeds with lasers— then closed $10M in pre-sales before ship... · PMF Show
- 5 months in, Snapchat had only 127 users. Here's how Evan Spiegel found product market fit w/ Jer... · PMF Show
- How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head... · PMF Show
- 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 hit $40M ARR, exited for over $100M—& raised only $1.5M. Here's how | Ian MacKinnon, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
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2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Spotify, oldest first
Sep 1, 2022 bullish
Apr 22, 2024
Dec 11, 2025 bearish
Juicebox's early music app was doomed by its Spotify API dependency
“We were, like, heavily dependent on, like, Spotify's API, so, like, Without that, we couldn't have built the product. It's how we got the short form snippets of the songs, et cetera which is also why it would have never been like a long-term business”
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.”