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48 statements across 39 episodes · 13 bullish · 8 bearish · 36 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2016 by Ben Williamson · said 579 times in 316 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nathan Latka (284), Rob Fugetta (12), Rob Walsh (11), Jake Moore (10), Ben Williamson (10), Zoran Stamer (7), Steve Benson (7), Jim McKelvey (6)
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2024 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Private, Bootstrapped, & Profitable: How Rajesh Jain Scaled to Over $100M As a Solo Founder
- Customer.io Just Hit $70m Revenue - 9 mistakes to avoid with CEO Colin Nederkoorn
- 39 Year Old Public SaaS CEO Doubles Revenue to $400m Over the Last 24 Months - His Genius M&A Playbook
- Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 12 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- He hit $100m Revenue, Built the Zoominfo of China, then quit last month. What happened?
- How he grew from $30k/mo to $120k/mo TTM for his Business Listing Metadata Management SaaS
- From (almost) bankruptcy to $20M ARR / $2M profit within 3 years
- Helping a bootstrapped founder go from Twitter only to omni-channel marketing to grow past $1M ARR
- Tips for Creating a $1m Customer Onboarding Experience
- How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats
- 3 Phases: Get People, Product, and Profit Right at Each Growth Stage
- How He Grew Nutrisense From $12m to $45m ARR Last 12 Months for Health SaaS
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 49 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- Why he raised $150k at $4m Pre Seed Round
- Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
- A SaaS founder makes $1m off those NFL highlight clips you see on twitter
- Zero to $800k in 5 Months, Advertising Attribution Platform Incrmntal Breaks 24 Customers
- How he makes $7k/mo from app the fund his new SaaS tool
- Can This Quantum Compute Startup Get 11 LOI's To Convert to $100k+ ACV's?
- How JobPaths Hit $1.2m in Revenue Helping Ex-Vets Get resources and jobs
- He'd sell this side project for $100,000. Is that the right price?
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 33 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- HealthTech Device Prevents COPD Patients from Hospital Visits, $9m Raised, 50 Devices Shipped
- Billionaire Co-Founder of Square Joins Latka
- Will $80M Mattress King Launch Subscription Next?
- Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
- EstateSpace Grows 200% to $2.2m ARR Bootstrapped Helping You Track Your Physical Assets
- Copy his Playbook: His First $25k in MRR Came From Affiliates
- MedStack Grows 300% TTM, Raises $3.2m Seed at $15m Valuation
- Myr POS SaaS For SMB's hits $1.2m ARR, Raised at $7.5m Valuation with 400 Customers
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 42 mentions in 24 episodes 2 per episode
- MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions
- RedSeal Sold 50%+ For $60m This Year doing $50m in Revenues in CyberSecurity Space
- Albert Wenger on Work After Capital
- Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks
- 1725 SEMRush Broke $100m in Revenues in 2019
- FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
- MyCroft Raises $5m to Ship Home Speaker Echo Competitor That Doesnt' Suck In Data
- 1756 "Ripl Hits $10m ARR Helping 70k SMB's Create Video Content "
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 34 mentions in 29 episodes 1 per episode
- 1520 BlueSnap Wants to Help Merchants Compete with Amazon
- 1613 Can He Build a $100M Company Selling $100k ACV Plans to So Few Customers?
- 1588 Why 450 Enterprises Pay Him $45M+ in ARR To Help With Employee Volunteering and Donation Programs
- 1348 His BlockChain Wallet Will be on 100m Phones by EOY 2018, Does He Make Money?
- 1532 His Hardware + Software Will Reduce Grain Spoilage by 30-50%
- 1529 Will This Company Ever Scale Past $6k/mo?
- 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
- 1513 KeeperSecurity is Profitable, Churning 8-10% of Revenue Annually
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 101 mentions in 53 episodes 2 per episode
- 1177 Then Turn Your Customers into Advocates, North of $12m in ARR
- 897 His Mobile App Was Downloaded 8m Times, Now Builds for Others Doing $9m+ This Year
- 1079 How He's Pivoted 3 Times Since 1996, Moving to Cloud Based SaaS w/ $10m in ARR
- 968 How Tumult Hit $5m in Sales, Handled Co-Founder Leaving for Apple
- 1155 How He's Used Stories to Build a $20m+ SaaS Platform for Scaling Content
- 1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!
- 1027 Finally a $10m+ PR Company Focused on Analytics!
- 1002 How He Makes $10m+ Speaking Every Language on Earth
- 45 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 85 mentions in 47 episodes 2 per episode
- 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised
- EP 560: Badger Maps Does $1.2M in 2016, $120k MRR, Looking to 3x with CEO Steven Benson
- 713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup
- 779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company
- 866 SaaS: Sports Teams Use This $40m+ Company To Manage Communication
- 840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month
- 674: Sumo Logic Passes 1300 Customers, $140M+ Raised, Flirting W/ $100M ARR with CEO Ramin Sayar
- EP 612: Sauce Labs Raises $130M (At Great Valuation!) Helping 3500 Customers Execute Concurrent and Parallel High Fidelity Testing with CEO Charles Ramsey
- 39 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 203 mentions in 110 episodes 2 per episode
- How YoShirt App Went from $0-$1m Fast with Ben Williamson of YoShirt Episode 23
- Why Most Podcasters Lie with Rob Walch of Libsyn, EP 249: Rob Walsh
- EP 328: She Bought 50% for $17k, Now Does $1M Per Year in iPhone Repairs
- From Apple to Raising $250k on Kickstarter For His New Hardware Company with Nils Mattison EP 230
- This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
- The Art of Building Something From Scratch with Shahar Gilad
- EP 499: GetSignEasy Passes $200k MRR and 130k Customers To Help Sign Documents withCEO Sunil Patro
- How Students Can Sell First $6k with Elijah Montecelli of Montecelli Band & Satchel
- 102 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
Everything said about Apple, oldest first
Mar 1, 2016
Jun 2, 2016 neutral
Spivack: SRI incubator invented the technology that became Apple's Siri
“Dice.com went public in oh seven, and then I went and worked with SRI, which is Stanford Research International, to build their incubator which, among other things invented the technology that later became Siri on the iPhone for Apple”
Jun 2, 2016 bearish
Jun 2, 2016 neutral
Walch: iTunes Top Episodes chart reflects weighted weekly downloads after 24-hour delay
“So when an episode is released in iTunes, it won't show up in the top episode list until about 24 hours after it's been released. So if you look at that list, it's again, it's going to be how many new downloads that show is getting in the last week with again,…”
Jun 2, 2016 neutral
Jun 5, 2016 neutral
AstroPrint monetizes via OEM licensing and a 70/30 app store revenue split
“One side is software that goes inside a three D printer that makes the printer very easy to operate. That's free for personal use, but we charge for commercial use and branding typically on a per printer basis. Our main customer there being a printer manufactu…”
Jun 10, 2016
Jun 10, 2016 negative
Williamson: Stanford and Berkeley Grads at Apple Couldn't Fix Production Systems
“When I ended up at Apple, I was working with, you know, all these kids coming out of Stanford and Berkeley that had a lot of theory, but couldn't actually do anything. You know, I'd say, hey, you know, we're doing 360 transactions per second to this MySQL data…”
Jun 17, 2016 neutral
Jun 20, 2016 negative
Holiday: Steve Jobs deserved to be fired from Apple in 1985
“So you look at someone like Steve Jobs, like, look, he was fired by Apple, and he deserved to be fired. He was horrible. If you were John Scully. You would have fired Steve Jobs. Because he wasn't delivering on sales, and he was unmanageable, and he was destro…”
Jun 20, 2016
Jul 8, 2016 neutral
Latka: Autonomous fleets will shift car ownership to corporate balance sheets
“I believe that very soon, you know, the assets of a car is going to live on the balance sheet of a company versus an individual because companies are going to have automated vehicles are going to have Fleets like Google, Apple, and Uber, and people aren't goin…”
Feb 4, 2017 positive
Sep 2, 2017 neutral
Sholom: App Store featuring matters less than spending millions on marketing
“It's at the end of the day, it's not that important if Apple featuring you or not, it's just additional bonus. Anyway, you have to run your marketing activities very heavily and Spend millions of dollars to get on the top of the charts.”
Sep 2, 2017
MobileGo operates non-profit, passing 100% of revenue to developers and gamers
“They are for profit companies. We are a non-profit company. We have only one goal to provide all 100% that are generated by the business to provide it to developers and to gamers. Yes? And a part of it even to charity. Yes? So, no profit we are going to get ou…”
Sep 17, 2017 positive
Oct 9, 2017 bullish
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 19, 2018
Apr 22, 2018 positive
Jack Welde: Tim Cook is transforming Apple into a SaaS-style leasing model
“I actually really think that you know, I really think that Tim Cook is doing a really pretty incredible job at Apple. I think he had some big shoes to fill, and I think that he recognizes that the iPhone still has a lot of life left into it from a growth persp…”
Jul 17, 2018
Aug 5, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 negative
Medina: Microsoft missed the smartphone wave by treating phones as mini PCs
“Microsoft sort of tried to throw, you know, resources at this problem with a grander vision that there will be no sort of winning a foreign factor in terms of size, that the phone is just, you know, one smaller device than a tablet, which is one smaller device…”
Sep 29, 2018 positive
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 14, 2018 negative
Sep 21, 2019
Nusimow: Physicians bought 10% of initial 300,000 iPad pre-orders
“Way back in April, 2010 when the iPad first launched, there were about 300,000 pre-orders for the iPad. And it was limited to, like, two iPads per household or customer. And about 10% of those, 30,000 of those were sold to physicians.”
Oct 4, 2019
Apr 15, 2020 neutral
Latka: Confiscating top corporate cash reserves cannot solve the US deficit
“Even in Q four, two, 19, Microsoft, one hundred thirty six billion Berkshire Hathaway, one hundred twenty eight billion Alphabet one twenty one billion Apple a hundred billion. Even if you took all of that money, it doesn't barely even make a dent. In the 20 t…”
Nov 8, 2020
Nov 14, 2020 positive
Apr 5, 2021 positive
Apr 5, 2021
Jun 19, 2021 neutral
Dec 28, 2021 neutral
Adi Berenson and his technical co-founder split Clair Labs equity equally
“We are we're two co-founders. So my co-founder was working with me in Apple, and he's the brains behind the technology. He's a PhD in computer vision. He's one of the brightest minds in Israel in computer vision... Well, you should, but I'm lucky, so we're fif…”
Dec 28, 2021 neutral
Clair Labs originated from Adi Berenson's digital health work at Apple
“So actually it's all started from our work in Apple which I cannot get too much into it. So my background is coming from consumer electronics, but in my days in Apple, I got to work a bit with them on digital health projects. That was back in 2017.”
Jan 1, 2022 negative
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 26, 2022 neutral
Feb 28, 2022 neutral
Ofosio: Apple cannot effectively target niche chronic disease management
“Apple, for them to move the needle, they have to focus on a larger audience. And we are not focused on a larger, or like, you're not my customer. I mean, I don't know whether or not I'm assuming here, but we're, our customers are the chronic condition patients…”
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…”
Feb 5, 2023 positive
Jun 6, 2023 negative
Oct 8, 2024 negative
Apple acquired Customer.io's database vendor and refused to renew their support contract
“That this database company ended up getting acquired by Apple. They didn't renew our service contract, and so we encountered this issue where we were trying to scale up, and the entire cluster fell over, and we couldn't, you know, it was really hard to get sup…”
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Moore: Apple's Merchant of Record Services Are Worth Around 15%
“Apple is a merchant of record. And Apple deals with, you know, you don't have to deal with chargebacks, you don't have to deal with disputes, you don't have to deal with taxes. You also don't have to deal with involuntary churn. Because I have news for you. If…”
Jun 19, 2025 bullish
Moore: Alternative Mobile Billing Will Create a Venture-Scale MoR Market
“I think that there are going to be tons of new merchant of records that are introduced to the market if the ruling is here to stay. And that's crazy because a huge, you know, it could mint a Completely new market overnight. That's like a venture scale.”