Sharath Kuruganty

The Undefeated Underdogs

Business EN ↓ 78 episodes

The Undefeated Underdogs is a podcast unpacking the underdog stories you never heard of! It highlights the underdog mentality and brings authentic conversations with people who play the long game, take action with a chip on their shoulders, and convert obstacles into opportunities! Buckle up, as I will be bringing some authentic founders, VCs, community builders, and content creators who got underestimated their whole life, and yet they beat the odds and became insanely successful!

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Author

Sharath Kuruganty

Category

Business

Podcast website

undefeatedunderdogs.com

Latest episode

Feb 6, 2025

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Episodes

Louis Pereira - Why prioritizing fun helps you build and grow viral AI products! 20.03.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Louis Pereira (10K+ followers on X!) lives a dual life. During the day, he works with his family to run a traditional, offline first business in Goa, India. At night, he is a creator on the internet where he builds web apps and publishes the occasional article. He is currently building AudioPen , a voice-based note-taking app. Since launch, it has been voted Product Hunt's #1...

Adam Renklint - How should founders navigate through VC and grow a startup with intention! 13.03.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Adam Renklint is the co-founder, CEO, and prev CTO of Pitch (allowing teams to create compelling stories in the blink of an eye). Adam was previously the founder of Wunderlist, and before that, a senior software engineer at Microsoft, where they led a cross-platform team that developed the task suggestion algorithm that powered Microsoft To-Do. Prior to that, they were a full...

Mubashar Iqbal - How to build a career & a name in tech by shipping side projects! 06.03.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Mubashar Iqbal (Maker of the Year on Product Hunt) is a serial maker and the creator of 114+ side projects! He was a Lead Engineer at Founderpath and the ex-CTO of MadGlory Interactive. Legend says Mubs shipped more than 200+ projects in the last decade. He is known for being prolific when it comes to taking an idea to MVP at lightning speed.  👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is...

Nathan Baschez - How AI is revolutionizing the way you write on the Internet! 28.02.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Nathan Baschez is the founder of Lex, a modern word processor that enables a radically new way to write. He also cofounded Every, a writer collective focused on business. Previously, he was the first employee at Substack, the Head of Product at Gimlet Media, and co-created the original version of Product Hunt. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community...

Emuye Reynolds - How to build and scale your engineering teams in startups! 21.02.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Emuye worked as Head of Engineering at Superhuman, where she focused on scaling the engineering team. She joined Superhuman in 2016 to build the mobile team and also managed the customer delight team, becoming an integral member of company leadership. Previously, she worked at Zite Technologies and is an advisor for many startups. Emuye's first gig was at Apple, where she joi...

Katelyn Bourgoin - Unpacking the hidden secrets behind why people buy! 14.02.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Katelyn Bourgoin (190K+ followers across Twitter and her newsletter!) is a marketer by trade and a 4X founder by choice. Her specialty is helping growth-hungry teams figure out what triggers customers to buy so they can market smarter. She's been called an "influential entrepreneur" by Forbes and named as one of the "top 20 wonder women of SaaS marketing and growth." She's ru...

Rob Hope - The science behind building a perfect landing page! 07.02.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Rob Hope is a South African-born entrepreneur and the founder of One Page Love, the leading online showcase of beautiful One Page websites, templates, and resources. He also sends a weekly newsletter and interviews good folk building their own thing on the Yo! Podcast (yo.fm) 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker...

James Brackin IV - How to land your podcast in one of the top 1% popular shows in the world! 31.01.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: James Brackin IV is in the top 1% of podcasters worldwide, hosting "The You Can Too Podcast" where he interviewed Seth Godin, Derek Sivers, Mark Sisson, Evan Carmichael, Bruce Lipton, Case Kenny, Gary Brecka, and so many more. He is also a coach, living by the belief that most people wait too long to demand the best from themselves and subconsciously hold themselves back from...

Noah Kagan - All you need is a weekend to launch a million-dollar business! 24.01.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Noah Kagan (1.5M+ followers across Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter) graduated from UC Berkeley and became employee #30 at Facebook, where he invented status updates, developed the Facebook ads platform, and worked on the very first version of Facebook's mobile app. He was also employee #4 at Mint, and since 2010, Noah has been Chief Sumo of Sumo Group, a $70 million company,...

Arvid Kahl - Lessons from being a bootstrapped founder and a content creator! 20.01.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Arvid Kahl is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and writer. He co-founded and bootstrapped FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company, with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, two years after founding the company. He is also the author Zero to Sold and Embedded Entrepreneur, the bibles for founders who bo...

Arlan Hamilton - On a 10yr mission to empower 1000 underrepresented millionaires! 11.01.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Arlan Hamilton is the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, a seed investment fund that backs overachieving, underrepresented startup founders, breaking barriers in VC and championing diversity and inclusivity. She is also a tour manager with world-renowned artists, an author, a podcast host, and one of 2018's Fortune 40 Under 40. With Rachel L. Nelson, she autho...

Jack Appleby - How to use originality and authenticity to build a social brand on the Internet! 03.01.2024

👉🏼 About the Guest: Jack Appleby is a social media whiz and the founder of Future Social, a newsletter with 60,000+ subscribers. With over a decade of experience in the industry, Jack has worked with multiple well-known companies, such as the NBA, Microsoft, Beats By Dre, Verizon, Spotify, and more.  👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial m...

Chenell Basilio - How to grow a newsletter empire(50K+ subscribers) on the Internet! 14.12.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Chenell Basilio is not just a name, but a powerhouse of knowledge and strategic thinking that fuels the growth of leading creators. With her incredible ability to reverse engineer the growth strategies of top creators, she uncovers the blueprint of creators who amassed over 50k+ subscribers via her Growth In Reverse newsletter. By investing over 20 hours each week in research...

Eric Bahn - Why being a founder of a VC fund is often easier than being a founder of a startup! 07.12.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Eric Bahn who proudly identifies as a 'Minivan enthusiast' is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a VC fund that invests in "hilariously early" founders at the pre-seed stage. With $130M AUM, they invested in over 500 startups including the biggest names like Webflow, Copy AI, and Voiceflow! Before Hustle Fund, Eric spent his career as a product leader at renow...

Alex Friedman - How to be unapologetically authentic and optimist on the Internet! 29.11.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Alex Friedman is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence for Techstars Music. She is also an angel investor and a 3x startup founder who has developed CPG products that have been sold in over 3,000 stores across the nation. She is well-known for building Founder Gigs((part-time gigs for startup founders) using no-code tools and selling it to Hirerunner after 6 months with over...

John Andrew Entwistle - How to make the right decisions in the most crucial times! 22.11.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: John Andrew Entwistle is the founder and CEO of Wander, a startup revolutionizing short-term rental space! So far John and his team have raised over $27M in funding and are on a mission to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers. John was previously a Thiel Fellow and co-founder of Coder, a venture-backed startup that is making strides in moving the development worksta...

Polina M. Pompliano - How to master the art of asking insanely great questions! 15.11.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Polina Marinova Pompliano (131K followers!) is the founder of The Profile, a new media company that features long-form profiles of successful people and companies each week. Previously, she spent five years at FORTUNE where she wrote more than 1,300 articles and earned the trust of prominent investors and entrepreneurs.  As the author and editor of Term Sheet, FORTUNE’s indus...

Bobby Pinero - How to successfully execute big, bold, ambitious bets as a startup founder! 08.11.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Bobby Pinero (CEO at Equals) has been an analyst for the past decade. With 8 years at Intercom, building Finance, Analytics, Biz Ops, and several other functions, he built out functions that took the company from $1M ARR and ~20 employees to ~$200M ARR and ~700 employees.  He then launched Equals in the middle of 2021, raising a total of ~$23M from Kristina Shen at Andreessen...

Danny Miranda - The art, the power and the impact of podcasting! 01.11.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Danny Miranda (The Danny Miranda Podcast, ArtOfInterviewing.com ) is a writer and podcaster, with 420+ episodes on his podcast. His interviews include Gary Vaynerchuk, Alex Hormozi, Robert Greene, Seth Godin, Andy Frisella, Chris Williamson, Kamal Ravikant, and more. His friends introduce him as someone who's always looking at the bright side and at the core, he is a communic...

Neil Patel - Give First philosophy, SEO tactics, how to leverage AI in marketing and brand building! 25.10.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Neil Patel is a New York Times Bestselling author. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, Forbes says he is one of the top 10 marketers, and Entrepreneur Magazine says he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies. He was recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama and a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 35 by t...

Amanda Goetz - On facing fear, choosing abundance, and how to standout as a creator! 18.10.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Amanda Goetz is a 2x founder, 3x CMO, brand builder, and content creator on personal and professional growth and brand building, inspiring over 150,000 people every week through her social insights and weekly newsletter, 🧩 Life's A Game. 👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects usi...

Matthew Kobach - A masterclass on how to do marketing, branding and social media in 2023! 11.10.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: In 2007, Matthew Kobach became one of the first to ever pursue a PhD predicting how people use social media. This led to an opportunity with a social media analytics firm where he was required to accurately code social media sentiment and spot cultural trends.  While working for the New York Stock Exchange, Matthew used the NYSE’s social media profiles in never-before-seen wa...

Sarah Peck - Lessons startup founders should learn from parents! 04.10.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Sarah K Peck ( The New York Times, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, 99U, Psychology Today, Life Hacker, Thought Catalog, and more) is an author, startup advisor, and yoga teacher based in New York City. She’s the founder and executive director of Startup Parent, a media company documenting untold stories of what it looks like to be a woman in leadership, life,...

Andrew Gazdecki - From living on food stamps to being a reason for many founders’ living! 28.09.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Andrew Gazdecki is a four-time startup founder with three-time exits, former CRO, and founder of Acquire.com. Gazdecki has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as prominent industry blogs such as Mashable, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.  👉🏼 About the Host: Sharath is a founder, creator, and communi...

Sarah Stockdale - Lessons from building a diverse community of ambitious marketers! 14.09.2023

👉🏼 About the Guest: Sarah is the Founder and CEO of Growclass , an online growth marketing training company. She is also a copywriting expert, the host of The Growth Effect, and the author of We Need To Talk About This , a popular blog and newsletter for millennial women. Sarah has spent her career working on early-stage technology startups, including Wave and Tilt, and now coaches businesses an...

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