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Marketing 86 minutes of paid-UGC alpha
Hector Serrano, Wispr Flow
YouTube
Pivoting ChatGPT Should Have Killed His AI SaaS. Instead, He's Nearing $10M
Alon Talmor, Mosaic AI
The SaaS Podcast
Leadership Databricks' Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He's Among the Best
Ali Ghodsi, Databricks
Sequoia
Pivoting He turned off a product with 20M users and went from 70 people to 7—then raised a $47M Series A.
Keith Peiris, Lightfield
Podcast
Building an MVP How we built Grok Bot in a month
Roman Ugarte, SpaceXAI
YouTube
Sales He lost all 5 of his first deals—then built the next Looker and raised $250M.
Colin Zima, Omni
Podcast
Pivoting He fired almost everyone, kept 2 engineers—then grew 12x and raised a $30M Series A.
Rafael Broshi, Notch
Podcast
Exiting He Sold at $3M ARR and Got a 10X+ Exit to a PE Buyer – Eran Galperin
Eran Galperin, Gymdesk
Practical Founders
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Leadership Here's Why You Need to Set Big Goals
Larry Page, Google
YouTube
Sales 18 Essential Sales KPIs: What to Measure and How to Track Everything
Steli Efti, Close
blog.close.com
Founder stories From $0 to $2M in Annual Recurring Revenue
Guillaume Moubeche, Lemlist
YouTube
Company culture No Rules Rules: 5 Lessons from Netflix's Company Culture
Reed Hastings, Netflix
YouTube
Growth 5 Tips From The Customer Code To Grow Better
Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot
YouTube
Company culture Why Company Culture is Crucial
Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot
YouTube
Strategy How To Make It Big In The US As A Non-US SaaS Startup
Timo Rein, Pipedrive
saastr.com
Founder stories Evolution of a role as a Founder CTO
Miguel Carranza, RevenueCat
miguelcarranza.es
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Amjad MasadCo-founder and CEO, Replit 
Eric SimonsFounder and CEO, Bolt.new 
Ali GhodsiCEO, Databricks 
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