#2229 How Kift capitalized on a social media trend

If you look on Instagram or YouTube or TikTok, you’ll people who are living out of their vans. These vans are usually beautiful and these van-lifers travel the country and live and work wherever they want. But the challenge with vanlife is that it could be pretty lonely. At some point, you do want a

#2228 The $70,000,000 Exit Story of GrowFlow

Joining me today is someone with multiple exits on his record. I thought his story was success, success, success but turns out that there was one big setback in there that knocked it all out and put him in the hole for a million dollars. He came out of it with his latest business, which

#2227 How Justin Jackson built Transistor

I thought today’s guest was making a mistake by getting into podcast hosting. I thought, why does the world need another one of these platforms? I was wrong. Find out why in this interview. Justin Jackson is the founder of Transistor, podcast hosting and analytics. Justin Jackson is the founder of Transistor, podcast hosting and

#2226 Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work

Today’s guest is a systems guy. He founded Leverage, a growth agency that also does operations, which means they do all the stuff that you think about for growth– SEO, paid social, et cetera. But they also help teams organize their Slack channels, their CRMs, and even get to Inbox Zero. I invited him here

#2225 The story of IFTT (and how to get the most out of automation)

Linden Tibbets is the founder of IFTTT, which runs online digital automation platforms it offers as a service. It makes all your tools more powerful by creating automations between them. I want to find out how he built it and how to get the most out of automation. Linden Tibbets is the founder of IFTTT,

#2224 Overlooked brick-and-mortar startups

Usually I interview software founders but today’s guest created an in-person experience. Erik Anderson is the founder of Scissors and Scotch. It’s basically a 1920s style barbershop, modernized with a cocktail bar in it. I just discovered it here in Austin and so I invited him here because I’m fascinated by how the business has

#2223 Is the 100 year startup possible?

Joining me is one of my favorite entrepreneurs. His name is Phil Libin. He was the head of Evernote which was a phenomenal company and I remember hearing Phil say he was building a hundred year startup. I really was excited about that idea and so I invited him here to ask him why he

#2222 How to win with TikTok

I actually signed up for Hulu just to watch today’s guest on Shark Tank. His company sells freaking shirts; How is he so successful? I’m going to find out in this interview. Justin Baer is the founder of Collars and Co, a menswear brand. Justin Baer is the founder of Collars and Co, a menswear

#2221 How to build a financial service platform

Today I’m talking to Edrizio De La Cruz, the founder of Arcus Financial Intelligence. He late sold that company to MasterCard. I want to find out how he did it. Edrizio De La Cruz is the founder  of Arcus Financial Intelligence, which was sold to MasterCard. Sponsored by Origami – If you’ve heard about DAOs

#2220 Pseudonymity in Web3 explained

Joining me is a person whose real name I don’t even know. He goes by the pseudonym Artorias. He’s not exactly running a company; he’s running a DAO, which means that he and a group of other people got together and they decided to do something that they couldn’t do on their own.   Cult