5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 23, 2021 by Rand Fishkin · said 87 times in 39 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Rob Walling (61), Rand Fishkin (5), Tracy Osborn (4), Noah Kagan (3), Laura Roeder (3), Matt Wensing (2), Dr. Sherry Walling (2), Courtland Allen (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2024 22 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 695 | Ideal Customers, Moving from B2C to B2B, and More L...
- Episode 744 | Bluesky, TinySeed is Raising, YC Backs Competitors,...
- Episode 698 | How to Launch a Million Dollar Business (With Noah...
- Episode 715 | Best Uses of the Internet, a Book about Selling You...
- Episode 711 | Finding Early Customers, Horizontal vs. Vertical, P...
- Episode 738 | Encouraging Word of Mouth, Educating a Market, and...
- Episode 736 | Founder Regrets, DIY vs. Hiring, Defining your ICP,...
- Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adve...
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 31 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
- Episode 674 | SparkToro Pays Back Investors, When to Raise Fundin...
- Episode 693 | Building a Mid-Six-Figure SaaS in Less Than 3 Years
- Episode 657 | Concierge Onboarding, Building a Great Brand, and M...
- Episode 692 | Learn the Rules Like a Pro So You Can Break Them Li...
- Episode 687 | An 8th Thing You Should Never Do, Things That Don't...
- Episode 650 | Building vs. Buying a SaaS, Day Job Constraints, an...
- Episode 642 | The Pros and Cons of Building a No-Code MVP
- Episode 690 | When Opt-in Email Could Be Spam, Collecting Custome...
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 17 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Episode 560 | When to Hire, Square Business Banking, and More Bootstrapper News
- Episode 537 | On Launching, Funding, and Growth with Serial SaaS Founder Rand Fishkin
- Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More
- Episode 545 | The Value of Learning 80/20 Design Fundamentals
- Episode 542 | 10x in Two Years, Past $3M ARR with SquadCast
- Episode 532 | The Art of Selling Your Business with John Warrillow
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 527 | From Agency to SaaS, Equity Splits, and More Listener Questions with Courtland Allen
- Episode 491 | Episode 491: Hard Lessons Learned, Reaching High-Touch Prospects, Finding
- Episode 492 | From Zero to $55k MRR to Exit (in 2 Years) with Feedback Panda
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Instagram, oldest first
Feb 23, 2021 bearish
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Jan 21, 2025 negative
Roeder: Startups should ignore Bluesky and market on established social platforms
“Don't market on blue sky. It just launched. You know, like, hang out there for fun if you want to. Like, mark it on LinkedIn, on Instagram, on Reddit if that's where people are, YouTube, lots of people on YouTube. Like, just don't overthink it. Go for the most…”
Feb 24, 2026 neutral
Clouse: YouTube Shorts and Long-Form Audiences Are Completely Distinct
“The short form viewers on YouTube are not the same as long form viewers on YouTube, and short form vertical video that performs on Instagram probably won't perform the same way on YouTube shorts, and the viewers of shorts are, Like I said, distinct from YouTub…”
Jul 7, 2026 positive
Walling: Paid search traffic is not too expensive for pre-product validation
“I actually don't think Google traffic is too expensive. I think if Facebook or Instagram traffic isn't converting, I would probably spend more time trying to optimize those. I don't need to make money on the Google traffic. Even if I'm overpaying, I mean, unle…”