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116 statements across 79 episodes · 37 bullish · 19 bearish · 76 people on the record · first statement Jan 21, 2016 by Scott Voelker · said 1,607 times in 612 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nathan Latka (678), Ryan Moran (21), Trent Dyrsmid (18), Jim McKelvey (17), Max Kolysh (16), Ralph Dangelmaier (15), Scott Wingo (13), Oren Zaslansky (13)
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2026 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's Post-Bankruptcy Pivot to Enterprise Software | Jared Yaman
- Gather AI: $15M Revenue With Drones and 170% Net Retention - Sankalp Arora
- Handwrytten Sends 6 Million Fake Handwritten Notes a Year and Makes $10M
- Flip Reaches $12M ARR with AI Voice Support for 250 Brands
- From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled Through Acquisitions | Gary Guseinov
- He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS
- How Dresma Hit $2M ARR With Usage-Based Pricing & AI-Powered E-Commerce Imagery
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 18 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story
- Lemlist Revenue Hits $40M: CEO Charles Breaks Down $25M Claap Acquisition Deal
- From $500K to $1.5M ARR: Bootstrapping VR SaaS for Trade Skills
- AI Tool Hits $3.2m Revenue in 18 Months Using 7 Growth Tactics (Copy!)
- While Zapier Gets all the Press, Celigo Just Doubled Revenue to $95m, CEO Jan Arendtsz
- NYSE: PAR CEO Savneet Singh Shares How He Great from $200m/yr to $400m/yr
- 3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 31 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
- 51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing
- Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks
- How to Sell your Company for $60m (from a Founder who did it)
- Hootsuite Approaching $400m in Revenue by Throwing out the SaaS Playbook with CEO Irina Novoselsky
- This Software for Doctors hit $51m revenue last year (100% growth). $5m profit.
- 42 year old lawyer convinces 200+ Construction Companies to Pay $4k+ Per Year for his Legal Software
- She invented Gmail Send Later in 2010. Bootstrapping to $10m revenue with Boomerang CEO Aye Moah
- Customer.io Just Hit $70m Revenue - 9 mistakes to avoid with CEO Colin Nederkoorn
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 37 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- How We Bootstrapped Backblaze from $0 to IPO and $87m in ARR
- How he hit $2m ARR in 24 months for Ecommerce Support SaaaS, Raised at $20m valuation
- AI tool hits $2.4m ARR Helping Walmart Generate Thousands of Images
- How He hit $12k monthly revenue building the Zapier for Data
- How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats
- He Sold his First Company for $425m, Here's What He Did Next
- 18 Month Old Startup Already Has 3 Customers Paying $100k/yr. Is AI over valued?
- 22 yo Launches B2B Fraud Prevention SaaS That Will Tell you if the China Steel Company is Real or Not
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 118 mentions in 57 episodes 2 per episode
- How JobPaths Hit $1.2m in Revenue Helping Ex-Vets Get resources and jobs
- This SaaS makes sure your gas station doesnt' run out of chargers. You won't believe their revenue.
- Partnering with an ERP as an OEM VAR-deal terms, code ownership, exit value impact?
- Look Back: Can Outreach beat Vista Backed Salesloft?
- Mini PE firm grow new acquisition to $2m ARR for gov contracting SaaS
- Spiffy Hits $50m Revenue Cleaning Cars with automated software stack and 280 vehicle cleaning fleet
- Flip Your SaaS Playbook: PE firm Acquires $1m ARR MightlySignal for .5-1.5x, Sold 24 months later for $4.5m.
- She Hit $6m Bootstrapped for HR Tool, Will Place 200,000 Candidates This Year
- 49 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 153 mentions in 52 episodes 3 per episode
- Billionaire Co-Founder of Square Joins Latka
- $20m Fund for Amazon Sellers Using Private AI to Uncover Gold Mines
- FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation
- What a 440 Person Amazon Community Looks Like (and its $1m+ in Revenue)
- 20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool
- Gamers contribute GPU To this SaaS Marketplace Raising $15m at $70m Valuation with $5m in Revenue
- They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale.
- He Exited for $600m, Started with 40%, Now Building YC and AngelList for Latin America
- 44 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 243 mentions in 65 episodes 4 per episode
- SellerSEO Gets Booted From Stripe, Now Rebounding and Bootstrapped
- Flowster Hits $10k MRR After eCommerce Brand Hits $3.1m In Amazon Sales
- MyCroft Raises $5m to Ship Home Speaker Echo Competitor That Doesnt' Suck In Data
- 1760 $20m To Build MVP: Does Carbonite Founder Have Another Billion Dollar Idea?
- GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
- FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
- When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
- 1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
- 57 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 310 mentions in 145 episodes 2 per episode
- 1303 Ebay to Amazon Dropshipping Arbitrage CEO Makes $5.4M
- 1534 With $10m in ARR, He Left Amazon to Help F100 Brands Sell More on Amazon
- 1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR
- 1459 He Left Growth At Buffer to Launch Amazon Retargeting Tool PixelMe, $10k in MRR
- 1520 BlueSnap Wants to Help Merchants Compete with Amazon
- 1279 He Does $6m in Event Revenue Annually, now SaaS
- 1504 Outreach Breaks $10m in New Bookings Per Quarter, Targeting $17m by Q4 2019
- 1433 Can You Run 2 $1.5m ARR Companies At Same Time?
- 137 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 226 mentions in 83 episodes 3 per episode
- 1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage
- 1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack
- 1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend
- 1136 Outreach.io CEO: "We'll hit $10m/quarter in 2018" with focus on ARPU expansion
- 967 With $1b+ In Transaction Volume, He Helps Merchants Get Power of Amazon Checkout
- 1160 Convoy, The Uber for Trucking, Charges Avg $4/mile on 100 mile trip, Takes Less Than 20% Per Unit Shipped
- 899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
- 1032 How Indian RetailTech CEO Is Attacking Market with Tags
- 75 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 178 mentions in 82 episodes 2 per episode
- 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
- 753: With His Tool, Mobile Browsing on Spotty Wifi Doesn't Suck
- 743: Will 28yo Privacy.com Founder Replace Credit Cards?
- 691: King of Amazon Pricing Raises $33M, Helping 500 Sellers Make More Money
- 885 Auction Marketplace will Sell $500m This Year, Takes 25% As Revenue
- 771: $320M King of Mobile App Installs
- 748: How to Use Open Source Project As Lead Gen from $3m+ ARR Founder
- EP 579: Organifi Hits $25M 2016 Sales, 150k Customers, Indian Sourced Ashwagandha is Million Dollar Ingredient with CEO Drew Canole
- 74 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 281 mentions in 82 episodes 3 per episode
- How to Make a Fortune Selling on Amazon with Scott Voelker of The Amazing Seller Podcast
- How To Launch Your First Conference with Ryan Moran of Freedom Fast Lane: Financial Freedom, Personal Growth, and Extraordinary Living
- EP 317: New Dad Does $1Million Per Month on Fish Oil and Bernie Sanders?
- How To Mathematically Figure Out Amazon Sales Potential With Michael Devlin
- This Entrepreneur Served 10 Years in The Army, You Won't Believe What Happened Next with Michael Slavin EP 237
- EP 373: $1m+ On Green Contracting Company and Tech Executive
- From Student to $10m Entrepreneur with Nick Kneuper of Electric Threads Ep 4
- EP 311: Memebership Site Secrets with Kat Loterzo
- 74 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
Everything said about Amazon, oldest first
Jan 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016
Voelker: Adding 999 units to Amazon cart tracks competitor daily sales
“The way that you do it is you can just do the nine, nine, nine trick. And what that is, is you go to that person's that, that competitor, you go to their page, you type in that you want to order 999 units. You can't say a thousand. It's gotta be 999. You do th…”
Jan 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 neutral
Jan 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 negative
Jan 23, 2016 neutral
Moran: Amazon sales do not create real customers without direct capture
“And taking a sale on Amazon is neither of those. It's taking a sale. It's not taking a customer. When you buy from Amazon, you don't really know who you bought from. You just bought from Amazon, right? Who says, oh, I bought this thing from this company. No, y…”
Jan 23, 2016 positive
Jan 23, 2016 neutral
Moran: Ranking on Amazon operates like Google SEO in 2009
“So, I mean, the process of Amazon is, is really like Google back in 2009, right? You want to rank for keywords. You want to get good conversion rates so that Amazon sees you as authoritative, and a sale is like a link, and that's how you rank for certain keywo…”
Feb 7, 2016 bullish
Online car retailers must operate at Amazon-like high volumes to succeed
“Most dealers are small cash rich businesses that are local because of the franchise law. So they sell a 102 102 hundred cars, you know, we're selling more than that, but way more than that in order to be successful, you know, we need to be kind of a high volum…”
Mar 29, 2016
Mar 29, 2016
Apr 2, 2016
Ali: Adscend Acquired Slice App Users for a $2 CPA
“So we just finished up a really big campaign with a company called slice and they do like, they're basically like a shopping assistant and package tracker app top rated on the, on, on the app market. And we were acquiring users for them that were linking their…”
Apr 12, 2016 neutral
Apr 15, 2016
Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 positive
Moran: Amazon's 30% fee is cheaper than most customer acquisition costs
“They take about 30%, which sounds ridiculously high on the surface, but at the same time, if you were to pay for customer acquisition somewhere else, you're going to pay an affiliate more than that. You're probably going to pay more than 30 bucks a head for yo…”
Jun 6, 2016 neutral
Jun 6, 2016 neutral
Ryan Moran: Physical products drive 75% of monthly revenue
“Well, in February we did 1.3 million and that was right after a launch because like 300 ish thousand came from a launch of the coaching. So the, my, what I call my real businesses, the businesses that I actually operate and that don't have my name attached to …”
Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 neutral
Jun 18, 2016 neutral
Jun 22, 2016
Jul 31, 2016 positive
Turner: Mine Amazon reviews to quantify pain points and build messaging
“Amazon review mining is, is a thing that is great if you have a product that either has, is on Amazon or has a competitor on Amazon or a similar product or even a book about what you're selling. You can go through large, large numbers of small reviews by peopl…”
Aug 1, 2016 negative
Aug 5, 2016 positive
Oct 10, 2016
Holland: 20% of VideoBlocks customers drive 80% of downloads
“So it is 20% of our customers who drive 80% of the downloads, and we're okay with that, because those tend to be the most engaged, and because of how inexpensive, ah, hosting and distribution is today, thanks to Amazon primarily, ah, it's very difficult. Like,…”
Oct 31, 2016 positive
Jan 6, 2017
Jan 22, 2017 bullish
Feb 23, 2017
Jun 7, 2017 bullish
Van de Maele: Collibra aims to enable 'Amazonification of data' for enterprises
“What we want to get is to get to is that we call it the Amazonification of data, where ultimately users just shop for data like they are on Amazon. They put it in their data basket, so to speak, and then it goes to approval work workflows to actually get acces…”
Jun 15, 2017
Rosenman: Selling on Amazon resembles stock market trading dynamics
“Selling on Amazon is not much different than stock market. So you have a lot of competition, and the competition changes prices, and the competition has certain amount of reviews and the ratings, and they have certain amount of items in stock. Everything impac…”
Jun 15, 2017
Jun 24, 2017 positive
Gillivan: Amazon business netted 5% to 10% profit on $20M sales
“So we make about 20 to 30% gross profit margins off of that twenty million dollars in sales. And then usually net profits end up being between five and 10%, depending on how we actually use the gross profits to pay employees and do other things to grow the sto…”
Jun 24, 2017 neutral
Gillivan: Amazon business generates $1M to $2M annually with 10 freelancers
“So right now, the company still operates. We're doing between one and two million dollars in revenue per year, and we have a team of about 10 people located around the world, just freelancers experts within different aspects of running Amazon stores, who are h…”
Jun 25, 2017 bearish
Dec 13, 2017
Dec 22, 2017 positive
Jan 8, 2018
Feb 10, 2018 positive
Smith: Major tech incumbents are currently out-executing agile startups
“What's happening in tech is you're watching for the first time ever the biggest companies execute better than the smaller companies in a lot of different ways with Amazon and everything else where we haven't seen this kind of juice since probably the Microsoft…”
Mar 18, 2018 neutral
Mar 31, 2018 bullish
May 10, 2018 neutral
Andrews: Traditional retailers have sparse customer-product interaction data
“The challenge that other retailers have, even though they feel as though they have a lot of data, the issue is, is that they actually have very sparse data about an individual customer that And individual products and specifically with those customers interact…”
May 22, 2018 neutral
May 22, 2018 bullish
Jul 21, 2018 negative
Jul 31, 2018 bullish
Sep 3, 2018 negative
Sep 3, 2018
Jeff Bezos ran day-long 'colonoscopy' meetings on every Amazon operational detail
“His Monday morning or a Tuesday morning meetings that will last all day are colonoscopies on the entire business. He will go in and just be all up everybody's things and just understand his business to the very minute level.”
Sep 12, 2018 neutral
Sep 27, 2018 neutral
Oct 1, 2018
Montgomery: Mycroft Targets Any Business Competing with Apple, Amazon, or Google
“So we want our target is any business that views Apple, Amazon, and Google as a potential competitor. And given that Google's making self-driving cars and Amazon is launching spaceships, that's a really broad category of businesses.”
Oct 1, 2018
Oct 13, 2018
Oct 13, 2018
Oct 13, 2018 positive
Kilkka: Power tools created the best arbitrage opportunity due to model consistency
“So with tower tools, you've got great model numbers. It's very consistent. You have like dozens of very high quality sellers on eBay. You have customers who typically are more like power buyers, you know, they, it's not their first power tool they've ever owne…”
Oct 13, 2018 positive
Oct 15, 2018 positive
Nov 10, 2018 bullish
Nov 21, 2018 bullish
Nov 25, 2018 negative
Lee: ProsperWorks is not for sale to Amazon for a quick flip
“I, no. Not, I would not sell the Amazon. This is a massive market. I built this company to help bring prosperity to the world, to usher in the relationship era. And I've built and sold three companies in the past. To me, I'm not looking for another flip. I'm l…”
Dec 10, 2018 positive
Feb 17, 2019 neutral
Feb 17, 2019 positive
Feb 17, 2019 neutral
Feb 17, 2019 bearish
Jun 16, 2019 positive
Sep 22, 2019
Oct 6, 2019 negative
Apr 2, 2020 bullish
Apr 30, 2020 negative
Apr 30, 2020 positive
Booth: Amazon successfully used debt via a negative working capital model
“Amazon borrowed a bunch of money to create real value in their business. And that, and the future cash flows, it was a negative working capital model and the future future cash flows and the growth of creating that platform would easily pay, pay that back.”
Apr 30, 2020 neutral
May 19, 2020 bearish
Jun 3, 2020
Dane Maxwell says beginner entrepreneurs obsess over mechanisms, not customer outcomes
“The fundamentals of a business, as you know, as many know, is a customer that uses a mechanism to get a result. That's really a business in a nutshell. A customer that uses a mechanism to get a result. New people that are looking to start a business obsess abo…”
Jun 18, 2020 neutral
Arnott: Amazon's A9 algorithm rewards keyword stuffing despite official best practices
“The Amazon A nine algorithm is similar to Google was like five years ago. So they're kind of behind the curb. So keyword stuffing is, you know, even though they tell you know, best practice not to do it we've seen over and over again that the companies that ar…”
Jun 18, 2020
Jun 18, 2020 negative
Jun 18, 2020 negative
Jul 10, 2020 positive
Sep 26, 2020 negative
Sep 26, 2020 positive
Sep 26, 2020 bearish
Oct 5, 2020
Human Proof Designs lists a $4K revenue affiliate site for $10K
“If you look right now, we have a niche site in the organic foods market which is really popular nowadays with healthy eating. That site is selling for 10,000. It's a revenue producing site that has made, earned about 4000 dollars in revenue so far this year us…”
Oct 29, 2020 neutral
Oct 29, 2020 bullish
Dyrsmid Predicts More Brands Will Directly Operate Amazon Seller Accounts
“There's a trend in the Amazon marketplace. And that trend is this, the manufacturers of these goods, brand owners, more of them are wanting more control over the Amazon channel. So that means. That they're going to start opening their own Amazon seller central…”
Nov 11, 2020
Dec 10, 2020
Dec 10, 2020 neutral
Dec 18, 2020 positive
Greenberg: Algopix is the only provider of multi-marketplace transactional market share data
“We're actually the only ones who provide market share insights into sales that occur on amazon.com as well as Walmart, eBay, Google Shopping, etc. There are other players that do only one of these platforms, usually it's Amazon, and they're basing their data o…”
Jan 1, 2021 bearish
Amazon will build the world's largest parcel carrier, preventing new entrants
“I don't personally think we're going to see another parcel carrier. Parcel would be like FedEx UPS start ground up like ever. I think what we'll see is, is Amazon come in and build the largest parcel carrier in the world, sort of from the side door or top down…”
Feb 3, 2021 positive
Brands need their own media channels to survive Amazon competition
“Everyone needs to be a media company. Brands need to have their own, like, Media. They need to control it. They need brand safety. They need to be able to tell their story. Consumer product brands right now are like, they're having so many problems. They're ev…”
Mar 19, 2021 positive
Mar 19, 2021 positive
Apr 5, 2021 negative
Apr 5, 2021 positive
Amazon conceded to Square by mailing Square readers to Amazon customers
“What they did was they said, the best thing for our customers is to make them Square customers. So they mailed all their soon to be former customers, one of our Square readers, and said, look, if you like what Amazon is doing, you'll be happy with Square. So t…”
May 13, 2021
Gillett: GAIIFF uses proprietary tool Atium to source Amazon merchant acquisitions
“GAIF is short for the Global AI Internet Freedom Fund. So really we're a micro private equity fund, and we built an API in partnership with our cloud provider to allow Amazon sellers to do demand forecasting, to do pricing analytics. And it's called Atium actu…”
May 13, 2021
Aug 14, 2021 positive
Dec 21, 2021 positive
MedStack differentiates from hyperscalers with enforced, mandatory security defaults
“This is what really differentiates us from, like, an Amazon or an Azure is, you know, for MedStack, firewalls are on by default, and our customers can't turn them off. We encrypt all incoming communications. By default, you can't turn it off. We back up everyt…”
Dec 29, 2021 neutral
Mar 21, 2022
Medina: Public equity allows SaaS companies to cap base salaries
“I want to do what Amazon is doing, which is they pay their salaries fairly, they're fairly low, but the, each employee is capturing the entire upside of their execution because of the market reward. You see what I mean? Exactly. It's a beautiful position to be…”
Apr 14, 2022 neutral
May 28, 2022 negative
Jun 27, 2022
Campbell: ProfitWell used Amazon's backloaded 10/20/30/40 equity vesting for employees
“We actually have profitable. The one thing that we did is we did like backward bending vesting. So it was 10, 20, 3040. It's kind of like how Amazon used to do it. So like you only get a 10% of your shares allocated shares when you get over that one year cliff…”
Aug 6, 2022 neutral
Companion Cabinet transitioned from on-premise to SaaS during 2008 crash
“So that started in the late nineties. Mostly on premise. And then in oh eight, when Amazon just started showing its creds in the cloud is when we actually converted over the market crash of 2008 and nine. And that's how we ultimately became a SaaS company.”
Nov 21, 2022 positive
Nov 23, 2022
Reddy's previous startup MyWash processed one million garments daily before acquisition
“We've raised about a million and a half even at that point of time. And we were one of the largest or the largest laundry business in India. At that point of time, we were crossing close to a million garments a day. And we got acquired by an Amazon funded star…”
Dec 19, 2022
Fanus: JobPaths Powers NYC Veteran Hiring, Partners With Uber and Apple
“So some of our biggest clients, we power the city of New York's initiative to help veterans connect with jobs, both on the global process with civilian positions, but also within the city for some civil service positions within the city. So really working with…”
Jan 16, 2023 positive
Timebolt pays $7 monthly for AWS because processing is handled client-side
“Because we're a downloadable software, it actually sits right there on your computer. So your pot, your computer is what's powering all the algorithms. So, you know, we pay maybe seven bucks a month to Amazon. You know, for the server, just for actually downlo…”
Feb 15, 2023
Amit RG: Product automation should resolve 95% of enterprise support tickets
“They need to do what Uber has done. They need to do what Amazon has done. They need to get to a stage where the product handles. 95% of the issues and only five percent come to them. When the issue is only five percent, then these people will not be somewhere …”
Oct 5, 2023 neutral
Venture Funding Would Have Prevented Backblaze From Building Custom Hardware
“If we had raised a whole bunch of venture funding, we probably would have done it and said, we'll figure it out later. Somehow we'll figure out how to make the math work. But we didn't have any money. So we had to start from first principles and figure out how…”
Jan 7, 2025 negative
Yampolskiy: SecurityScorecard's Worst Hires Were Polished Amazon and Google Execs
“My worst hires were polished executives with Amazon, Google. They would come in, I start micromanaging, they would tell me, I'm a terrible CEO. And then I leave them alone for three months, and they fuck everything up. And then I have to fire them, and I get m…”
Feb 26, 2026 positive
Yaman: A top-20 global retailer chose Spresso over Amazon and Rakuten
“We have a retailer, top-twenty retailer in the world. They looked at everything. They looked at using Amazon, Rakuten, local providers, in-house solution, and they chose the espresso solution because they did see that it's a superior software platform”