A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders
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A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders

by Mistral.vc

Every founder has 1 goal: find product-market fit. We interview the world's most successful startup founders on the 0 to 1 part of their journeys. We've had the founders of Reddit, Gusto, Rappi, Glean, Cohere, Huntress, ID.me and many more. We go deep with entrepreneurs & VCs to provide detailed examples you can steal.  Our goal is to understand product-market fit better than anyone on the planet. Rated one of the world's top startup podcasts.

101 episodes
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1
He moved to the US with nothing. Now he does $750M ARR. | Mateo Marietti, Founder of CookUnity
56:24 Mar 16, 2026
2
This 3x founder hit $1M ARR in 5 months. Here's his playbook. | Roy Moussa, Founder of GetVocal
44:13 Mar 12, 2026
3
He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine
56:43 Mar 9, 2026
4
He built heads down for a year. Then landed a $1M contract. | Sam Jones, Co-Founder of Method Security
45:13 Mar 5, 2026
5
He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Airbyte
42:59 Mar 2, 2026
6
He failed for 5 years. Then hit $20M ARR with 100% outbound. | Didi Gurfinkel, Founder of Datarails
38:28 Feb 26, 2026
7
His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founder of LiveKit
55:18 Feb 23, 2026
8
He pivoted at $1M ARR—then raised $120M. | Kevin Tian, Co-Founder of Doppel
36:21 Feb 19, 2026
9
He sold his first startup for $100M. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves
55:54 Feb 16, 2026
10
He sold his first 2 startups. His 3rd grew to $1M ARR in 3 months. | Chaz Englander, Founder of Model ML
49:44 Feb 12, 2026
11
He fired all his customers. Then built a $1B startup in 2 years. | Jay Madheswaran, Co-Founder of Eve
52:16 Feb 9, 2026
12
He wrote the book on Account Based Marketing. Here are his GTM secrets for enterprise. | Bassem Hamdy, Founder of Briq
39:17 Feb 5, 2026
13
He got rejected from YC—then grew to $1.8B in under 2 years. | Max Junestrand, Founder of Legora
52:15 Feb 2, 2026
14
He sold dog food from his condo. Now he does $100M+ a year. | Russell Breuer, Founder of Spot & Tango
51:45 Jan 29, 2026
15
He made 100 cold calls a day. Now his startup is worth $600M. | Harman Narula, Founder of Canary Technologies
52:03 Jan 26, 2026
16
He got 100k signups in 30 days. They all churned. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR. | Rich White, Founder of Fathom
42:32 Jan 22, 2026
17
He grew his startup to $150M ARR & an IPO. Now he's back for the AI wave. | Bob Tinker, Founder of MobileIron & BlueRock
41:00 Jan 19, 2026
18
How his AI-enabled Services startup hit $1M ARR in just 3 months. | Shahar Peled, Founder of Terra Security
53:00 Jan 15, 2026
19
He hit $1M ARR with just 2 people. 2 years later, he's worth $1.5B. | Ashwin Sreenivas, Co-Founder of Decagon
48:00 Jan 12, 2026
20
His 1st startup failed. His 2nd became a unicorn in just 18 months. | Jake Stauch, Founder of Serval
50:59 Jan 8, 2026
21
It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway
56:38 Jan 5, 2026
22
Solo Episode: B2B SaaS is dead. Here's what the best AI founders are doing instead.
21:01 Dec 29, 2025
23
He got rejected by 60 VCs, burned all his savings—then grew to $100M ARR & a $2B valuation. | Kyle Hanslovan, Founder of Huntress
58:31 Dec 22, 2025
24
He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer
42:50 Dec 18, 2025
25
Solo Episode: The Five Steps to Product Market Fit
30:45 Dec 15, 2025
26
He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia. | David Paffenholz (Juicebox)
51:58 Dec 11, 2025
27
Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder of Scribe
1:05:09 Dec 8, 2025
28
He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Founder of Higgsfield AI
45:40 Dec 4, 2025
29
How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex
1:11:43 Dec 1, 2025
30
Q3 2025 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta
45:37 Nov 27, 2025
31
He added AI to parking lots—then raised $3.5B. | Alex Israel, Founder of Metropolis
39:30 Nov 24, 2025
32
He left a $2B ARR company to build AI agents—then hit $1M ARR in < 6 months | Amit Shah, Founder of Instalily
40:37 Nov 20, 2025
33
He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure
50:02 Nov 17, 2025
34
At 21 he made his 1st million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza, Founder of Clover
51:57 Nov 13, 2025
35
He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. | Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin
46:44 Nov 10, 2025
36
He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Founder of Deliverr & Augment
52:12 Nov 6, 2025
37
He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix & DevRev
49:07 Nov 3, 2025
38
He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskildsen, Founder of turbopuffer
53:27 Oct 30, 2025
39
He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | Guy Podjarny, Founder of Snyk & Tessl
50:43 Oct 27, 2025
40
5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. | Amar Varma, Founder of Mantle
42:18 Oct 23, 2025
41
He "kind of" had PMF for 8 years—until, after a rebuild, he raised $100M | Ben Alarie, Founder of Blue J
40:43 Oct 20, 2025
42
They failed every POC—then grew their cybersecurity platform to $100M ARR in 5 years. | Dean Sysman, co-founder of Axonius
48:37 Oct 16, 2025
43
He tested his pitch on Uber drivers—then built a cybersecurity platform to $180M raised. | Casey Ellis, Founder of Bugcrowd
49:19 Oct 13, 2025
44
He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod, Founder of Warp.dev
49:14 Oct 9, 2025
45
He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex Sherman, Founder of Bluefish AI
44:39 Oct 6, 2025
46
A drug dealer threatened to kill him—then he grew 50x in 3 Years to $50M ARR. | Brett Carlson, Found of ServiceUp
33:28 Oct 2, 2025
47
He pitched 100 VC and spent 3 years building— then grew to $7B AUM. | Doug Scott, Founder of Ethic
45:14 Sep 29, 2025
48
PMF Observations: Speed is the only startup moat—& why most founders lose it.
11:01 Sep 25, 2025
49
He spent 5 months working with customers before building—then grew to $10s of millions ARR. | Aviv Leibovici, co-founder of Buildots
48:10 Sep 22, 2025
50
She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge
40:16 Sep 18, 2025
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