Joel Di Trapani

DO AS I SAY

Business EN ↓ 73 episodes

An advice show about the real problems in startups.

Author

Joel Di Trapani

Category

Business

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joelditrapani.com

Latest episode

Dec 28, 2025

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Episodes

23: Using AI to improve your startup (with 2x unicorn founder Jason Cohen @asmartbear) 01.04.2024

THE GUEST Jason Cohen is just insanely good at building businesses. Jason has built four technology startups with more than $1M in revenue; he has sold two and is currently working on his 4th business, WP Engine, which has 200,000 customers and 1200 employees. 2 of the businesses Jason started are worth over $1B. On top of all of this Jason is very active in the startup community, as an angel inve...

22: Why are investors obsessed with scaling? (with Shark Tank Shark Steve Baxter) 02.03.2024

THE GUEST Shark Tank Shark Steve Baxter has had incredible success as a founder and has since transitioned to starting and running one of the top investment funds in Australia. Outside of the fame, the success, and the 1000’s pitches, Steve also ran Australia’s top accelerator, River City Labs. In 2017, I went through that accelerator, which is why we survived and grew as a business. I will always...

21: How can I meet new people? (with Nick Gray) 25.02.2024

THE GUEST Best-selling author Nick Gray wrote one of the most influential books I read last year, “The 2-Hour Cocktail Party,” which is essentially a formula and guide to hosting small gatherings or parties. This book aims to help you meet new people, strengthen existing relationships, and make YOU the person everyone wants to know. I read this book the first week I moved to the US and threw a par...

20: Are startup accelerators worth it? (with Michael Batko) 13.02.2024

THE GUEST Michael Batko is the CEO of Startmate, Australia's most ambitious accelerator. Michael started as a business student following the traditional path into consulting and corporate life (Amex, PwC, KPMG) … but then fell in love with the startup world growing two start-ups from a team of 2 to 50+, including a $ 13M Series B capital raise. Then he joined Startmate, Australia's most am...

19: Getting started with sales (with Talia Jacqueline) 04.02.2024

THE GUEST Talia Jacqueline is the CEO and Founder of Visceral, a training and consulting company that works with executives and sales teams to transform their verbal communication skills so they really shine in the meetings that matter most. After studying psychology at university, Talia dedicated her life to truly understanding how people think, and she is working to help people communicate effec...

18: How to announce the death of my startup (with Danny Miranda) 28.01.2024

THE GUEST Danny Miranda is the host of the Danny Miranda podcast! A podcast with the ambition of selling out Madison Square Garden and one of the most incredible guest lineups you could imagine, Danny has interviewed Alex Hormozi, Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, and over 400 others! What I admire most about Danny is that he is an independent thinker; throughout his life and career, his deep curiosity...

17: LinkedIn outreach (with Clay Mosley) 02.12.2023

THE GUEST Clay Mosley is the Founder and CEO of Dripify, a company founded to help businesses build their entire marketing system internally so they never have to rely on agencies again. Dripify’s tagline is ‘WE HATE MARKETING TOO,’ which I absolutely love. Before this, Clay had a wild business life; he spent the first eight years of his career bouncing from one job to another, being fired eight t...

16: My startup is crushing me (with Jordan Allen) 26.11.2023

THE GUEST Jordan Allen is a very successful multiple-time founder. In 2011, Jordan founded and scaled Stay Alfred, a next-generation hospitality platform, to over $100M in annual revenue, which served over 1M guests across 40 markets with a team of more than 300 people. After this, Jordan founded Doorsey, a platform that makes buying a home 100x easier. He sold it this year to Auction.io. While Jo...

15: Product roadmaps (with ex-Google product lead Mike Knapp) 19.11.2023

THE GUEST Mike Knapp is an incredibly smart product thinker. Currently, Mike is building Mottle, a platform that lets you build a chatbot in 10 minutes with no coding. Before this, Mike was a product lead at Google and co-founded the experimental Google product Task Mate. Mike also co-founded Shoes of Prey, a startup he helped scale MASSIVELY to a valuation I can only imagine. In the middle of all...

14: Co-founder issues (with CEO Coach Regina Gerbeaux) 12.11.2023

THE GUEST Regina Gerbeaux, is a CEO and Executive coach at Coaching Founder where she helps top-tier CEOs, operators, and investors put structure to chaos. Previously, Regina was the COO at Mochary Method, Chief of Staff to Matt Mochary, Head of Operations at On Deck, and founder of a profitably-bootstrapped startup (sold in 2019). Regina is passionate about helping people of the highest integrity...

13: Does TikTok marketing work?? (with 1B+ view creator/founder Michael Sikand) 05.11.2023

THE GUEST Michael Sikand is one of the co-hosts of the Out Future podcast, the entrepreneurship podcast for young people. Before this, and while he was in college, Michael co-founded a TikTok' business media' business aimed at Gen Z also called Our Future, that he sold to Morning Brew this year as a 22-year-old. Michael is obsessed with business and what makes people win, which is where hi...

12: How do you launch a new feature? (with ex-Amazon Product Manager Tanmay Jain) 30.10.2023

THE GUEST Tanmay Jain is the founder of Qwokka, the first stop for movies & tv shows combining the powers of social and AI. Tanmay is a really smart product thinker, so smart in fact he has the most insane product resume I could imagine. Before Qwokka, Tanmay worked at Atlassian, Amazon and Canva building and leading product teams - and we have all used those platforms so we know Tanmay knows...

11: Finding good software engineers (with Lauren Peate) 23.10.2023

THE GUEST Lauren Peate is the founder & CEO of Multitudes, a startup born out of New Zealand that helps organizations provide engineering effectiveness metrics (minus the creepiness). Multitudes shows engineering teams what conversations they need to have to deliver well without burning people out. After studying at Stanford, Lauren has spent her career trying out consulting and venture but ha...

10: Does AI live up to they hype? (with Alexa Lead Polly Allen) 16.10.2023

THE GUEST Polly Allen is an AI product coach, an AI advisor, and the founder of AI Career Boost. Ai Career Boost is the world’s first AI-focused career accelerator, helping leaders thrive in business roles for AI and Machine Learning projects. Before this, Polly worked in software and product roles at a range of incredible companies but most notably led the development of the first generative AI u...

9: Radical Candor (with NY Times Best Selling Author Kim Scott) 09.10.2023

THE GUEST Kim Scott is the NY Times best-selling author of Just Work and Radical Candor! She is also the CEO & co-founder of Candor, a company that helps people put the ideas from her books into practice. Before becoming an author, Kim was also a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other major tech companies, helping executives become exceptional leaders. On top of this already incre...

8: How much do founders pay themselves? (with Early-Stage Investor Zaz Floreani) 02.10.2023

THE GUEST Zaz Floreani is an early-staged operator turned investor, she is currently a Partner at FirstMile Ventures and is the Entrepreneur In Residence at UT Austin, where she helps mold the next generation of innovators. Zaz is a powerhouse in the Austin startup scene, known for her keen eye for potential and her commitment to nurturing new ideas. Outside of work, Zaz is a gourmet food enthusia...

7: Bad product strategy (with HealthTech Founder Suf Patel) 25.09.2023

THE GUEST Suf Patel is just really freaking good at product. Suf runs a truly end-to-end consultancy for health businesses, Orbit29, where he continually creates incredible products that help people. On top of this, he is currently working as the Head of Product at my scale-up Vygo and is constantly challenging me and my business to build a better product. We debate a lot, and I leave every conver...

6: Our startup will fail (with Stedman Blake Hood) 18.09.2023

THE GUEST Stedman Blake Hood is the CEO and one of the co-founders of Dispatch, a priority inbox for Slack, and one of my favorite products. Before Dispatch, Stedman built and sold a startup in the Bay Area, which most founders dream of, AND took a completely different startup through Y Combinator. Stedman builds great products and is an exceptionally good people leader & team builder.  THE QU...

5: Creating your inner circle (with 2x unicorn founder Jason Cohen) 10.09.2023

THE GUEST Jason Cohen is just insanely good at building businesses. Jason has built 4 technology startups to more than $1M revenue, he has sold 2 and currently working at his 4th business, WP Engine which has 200,000 customers and 1200 employees. 2 of the businesses Jason started are worth over $1B. On top of all of this Jason is very active in the startup community, as an angel investor and write...

4: Half a business (with Cory McKane) 03.09.2023

THE GUEST Cory McKane has built an incredible platform in the fitness space called WeStrive to help gyms and PT's build their own businesses. Cory has done this as a solo founder, so every problem he has come across from day one has been shouldered alone. In his pursuit to learn everything for his own business, he started the "Why We Strive" podcast, where he interviews Seed and Seri...

3: Multipliers (with Liz Wiseman) 27.08.2023

THE GUEST Liz Wiseman is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to top organizations worldwide. She wrote the New York Times bestsellers Multipliers, The Multiplier Effect, and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Rookie Smarts and Impact Players. She is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Some of her recent client...

2: Mentor fail (with Corey Hiben) 20.08.2023

THE GUEST Corey Hiben is the host of the Health Hustle podcast. In both his personal and business lives, Corey is the king of consistency; whether it's posting on LinkedIn every day for years or exercising for 1400 days in a row, he doesn't half do anything. Outside of the podcasting world, Corey built and runs the Andro Bands agency, which helps health & fitness professionals build th...

1: Bad ideas (with Kyle Brastrom & Greg Sarafian) 13.08.2023

The guests Kyle Brastrom and Greg Sarafian are the co-founders & founding designer of dive.chat, a really cool spin on an events platform that is built on the top of chat. I think dive.chat is a cool product, but their design and UX is out of this world. Kyle and Greg are experts at building really beautiful products and they deeply understand startup challenges in the consumer world. The ques...

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