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Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

In-depth, one-on-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers. The journey, lessons learned, and the struggles. Let's do this! Host Adam Stacoviak dives deep into the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures of industry leading entrepreneurs, leaders, innovators, and visionaries.

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9/14/2018

BONUS: Growing a successful sales team at Sentry artwork

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BONUS: Growing a successful sales team at Sentry

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Here's a bonus segment from episode #57 of Founders Talk with David Cramer, co-founder and CEO of Sentry. Check the feed for the full length episode (later today). We talked about sales in the full length episode, but this BONUS segment is a completely isolated conversation that's not included in the full length episode — so don't gloss over this thinking it's just a teaser.

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8/28/2018

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Eric Berry is funding open source with CodeFund

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Eric Berry started Code Sponsor a year ago because of his passion for finding ways to sustain and fund open source developers. He ultimately had to shutdown due to potential legal issues with GitHub, but was given new life as CodeFund when he went to work for ConsenSys and Gitcoin. We talked through the backstory of this idea, why he's so passionate about funding open source, ethical advertising, being unapologetically focused on your mission, the value of honesty and openness, and the future direction of CodeFund.

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8/17/2018

Side hustle to $35M ARR at Zapier artwork

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Side hustle to $35M ARR at Zapier

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Bryan Helmig, Wade Foster, and Mike Knoop started Zapier in 2011 as a side hustle. They ultimately applied to Y Combinator, twice. And this year they hit $35 Million dollars in annual revenue. I talked with Bryan Helmig (CTO) through the backstory of starting this company, being 100% distributed, the flexibility as well as the constraints of being remote-only, how they reached product market fit, growth, scaling their teams, and how they bring everyone together for company wide retreats.

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7/6/2018

From side project to $7.25M for Unsplash artwork

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From side project to $7.25M for Unsplash

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

When Mikael Cho started Unsplash from its small beginning as a Tumblr blog and side project, he had no idea it would have such a huge impact and ultimately disrupt the photography industry. In this episode, Mikael shares the backstory of Unsplash, how it got started, keeping things focused, levers of growth, flipping the marketing funnel, turning free into a business, raising $7.25 million to build a new economy for photography, and the impact of an API.

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6/28/2018

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Starting over from zero

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Danielle Morrill joined the show to talk about how she's starting over from zero after the recent acquisition of Mattermark to FullContact where she held the role of CEO and co-founder who walked away with "zero dollars and a job". We talked through the details of the company, the acquisition process, the deal — which she brokered herself — as well as her outlook on the startup grind and silicon valley today, and what she's planning to do next.

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6/15/2018

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Growing Open Collective

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Pia Mancini joined the show for the first episode back from a nearly 5 year hiatus. We talked about her work at DemocracyEarth, being a mother, her new role as CEO of Open Collective, their focus, supporting ad-hoc community formation all around the world, their revenue and growth plans, and their path to sustainability.

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6/15/2018

🔥 Founders Talk is back! artwork

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🔥 Founders Talk is back!

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

It's been just shy of 5 years since I've published a new episode to this podcast. The break was planned actually. Long story short, I had to focus. If you want to hear the slightly longer explanation, you should listen.

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9/11/2013

Sam Soffes / Onward artwork

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Sam Soffes / Onward

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Could this be Sam's final appearance on Founders Talk? Only time will tell. Sam says he's moving onward. New things await. The future is bright and he's wearing shades. Follow along.

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7/22/2013

Kevin Delaney / Charity Hack artwork

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Kevin Delaney / Charity Hack

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam talks with Kevin Delaney, the founder of Charity Hack - a simple concept that takes 5 amazing charities and the most talented people you can find to create innovative fundraising campaigns for those charities.

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6/27/2013

Tim Smith / The East Wing artwork

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Tim Smith / The East Wing

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam talks with Tim Smith, the creator of The East Wing, Tim Likes to Teach, Lustra and more. Tim is a master of the art of design and UX and loves hacking on front-end web codes.

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6/13/2013

Drew Strojny / Memberful artwork

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Drew Strojny / Memberful

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam talks with Drew Strojny the founder of The Theme Foundry and Memberful. Drew is back again to talk about his latest product, Memberful - a membership as a service site that lets you create a membership in minutes and start selling monthly or yearly subscriptions.

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6/7/2013

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Dalton Caldwell / App.net - Part 2

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net. Since we barely scratched the surface of the planned conversation around what he's doing with App.net in part 1, Dalton agreed to come back on the show for a part 2 to discuss the back story of App.net!

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5/30/2013

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Robert Sha / CAPSULE + Minimalist

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam talks with Robert Sha, the founder of CAPSULE and the maker of Minimalist - a super slim wallet for minimalists popularized by its successful project on Kickstarter.

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5/23/2013

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Daniel Genser & Jamie Smyth / TypeEngine

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam talks with Daniel Genser and Jamie Smyth, the makers of TypeEngine, to talk about their "beautifully simple" solution to publishing a magazine to Newsstand and the future and democratization of digital publishing.

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5/16/2013

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After Founders Talk #42

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam Stacoviak talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net after Founders Talk #42.

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5/16/2013

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Dalton Caldwell / App.net - Part 1

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam talks with Dalton Caldwell the Founder of App.net. This is a hefty part 1, mainly focusing on the road traveled by Dalton to get to App.net. We barely scratched the surface of the planned conversation around what he's doing with App.net. We end this call by teeing up the topic of discussion for part 2.

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5/10/2013

Garrett Dimon / Sifter artwork

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Garrett Dimon / Sifter

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Garrett Dimon the Founder of Sifter and writer of Starting + Sustaining joins Adam to share his history with becoming a founder and the wisdom he's gained by bloodying his knuckles over the years with lessons learned.

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12/6/2012

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Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and NOW the VP of Engineering at Seesaw joins Adam Stacoviak to share some of the most recent details and changes for him in the finale part 3 show. Core take away? **Embrace risk.** _Stay focused._

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