Build In Public Podcast

In this episode, I chatted with one of my tech heroes Alexis Ohanian (Co-Founder of Reddit and 776 Fund). After his iconic time at Reddit, Alexis became a full-time investor with a portfolio that consists of 9 decacorns (startups worth $10B) and 25 unicorns (worth $1B). In this episode, we talk about the power of building in public, Alexis' own Twitter strategy, how he encourages his portfolio fou...

In this episode, I chatted with Ish Baid, Co-Founder and CEO of Virtually. Virtually is a startup building the easiest way to manage Zoom events for online communities. They were part of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 batch and have recently raised $1.75m in funding from top funds like Tiger Global recently. In this episode, we talk about evolution of online education from MOOCs to Cohort-based-cour...

Link to Hera's Techcrunch article Louise's Twitter   Bruno's Twitter Hera's website

Stilt's website: http://stilt.com/ Rohit's Twitter: @rohitdotmittal Rohit's email: rohit@stilt.com

Sahil's Twitter: @shl Sahil's latest book 'The Minimalist Entrepreneur' on Amazon

Cabal's website: https://getcabal.com/ Brian's contact info: brian@getcabal.com

Show Notes: Thread on Spiky POV: https://twitter.com/wes_kao/status/1449389707385790473?s=20 Blogpost on Spiky POV:  https://www.weskao.com/blog/spiky-point-of-view-lets-get-a-little-controversial The Super Specific How: How to make your cohort-based course more rigorous https://www.weskao.com/blog/super-specific-how The State Change Method: How to deliver engaging live lectures on Zoom https://ww...

In this episode, I chatted with a Kai Han, co-founder and CEO of Pallet, a startup building hiring tools for communities and creators. I've been following Pallet's journey from early days to their recent $7m seed round and personally use their platform for my audience. Kai and I are hyper bullish about the potential for reimagining hiring. In this episode, we go over a bit of his origin story and...

In this episode, I chatted with a truly special guest who has been a shining example of the philosophy of building in public for years. Ruben Harris is the co-founder and CEO of Career Karma, a platform that helps people find a job training program online to break into the tech industry. Previously, he was the founder and a co-host of the very popular podcast "Breaking Into Startups" and Ruben is...

Show Notes: Kat's Substack: https://katcole.substack.com/ Kat's sessions on Bright Live: https://brightlive.com/kat-cole Kat's Course on Maven (upcoming!)

In this episode, I sat down with one of the most influential indie hackers Justin Jackson. He's a co-founder of Transistor.fm (the very platform on which my podcast is hosted!) which is a podcast hosting and analytics tool used by clients like Indie Hackers, the Vegas Golden Knights, and VH1. He also writes a newsletter, hosts a podcast called "Build Your SaaS" and runs a community called MegaMake...

Show Notes: Arvid's home page: The Bootstrapped Founder Link to Zero To Sold on Amazon Link to The Embedded Entrepreneur on Amazon Link to Arvid's latest book: https://buildinpublicbook.com/

In this episode, I sat down with two of the fastest-growing creators on Twitter, Aadit Sheth and Sahil Patel. They built an audience of more than 20,000 followers each at a rapid and despite being remarkably young, they both have a knack of staying authentic and community-first. In our conversation, I invite them to break down their frameworks on consistency, building in public, and content experi...

In this episode, I sat down with Josh Fabian, CEO of Metafy which is a coaching platform for gamers that recently raised an $8.65m seed round from top investors like Naval Ravikant, Alexis Ohanian and funds like Forerunner and DCM. In our light-hearted authentic conversation, we discussed the origin story of Metafy, why Josh has been sharing investor updates publicly, how he adopted the principle...

In this episode, I sat down with a friend and an emerging fund manager Paige Finn Doherty who's building Behind Genius Ventures. BGV is a $5m early-stage fund that invests in product-led growth companies with a focus on GenZ & underrepresented founders. In our conversation, we get into Paige's origin story and what brought her to the venture space, how building in public on Twitter helped her...

Watch the video version of this interview on Youtube here .

In this episode, I sat down with a friend and a VC-backed startup founder Warren Shaeffer who's building Knowable . Knowable is an app to discover fun, 10-min daily audio lessons from top thinkers, experts, and authors + weekly live discussions. In our conversation, we get into the power and limits of transparency as a startup founder, when and how to build in public and geek out about simply dail...

In this episode, I sat down to have a light-hearted conversation with two amazing startup operators who are top-class practitioners of building in public. We chat with CopyA I's CEO Paul Yacoubia n and CMO Blake Emal about the origin story of CopyAI, building a strong community on Twitter, mental models they use while building in public, and some actionable advice for other founders.  --- Send in...

In this inaugural episode of the Build In Public podcast, KP sits down with Alex Lieberman (Co-Founder and CEO of Morning Brew) to discuss the benefits, risks, downsides, and the full 360 of the mindset of building in public. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/buildinpublic/message