# A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show.md RSS feed: https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1889238.rss Official site: http://www.pmf.show Author: Mistral.vc Episodes: 283 ## Resource 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-product-market-fit-show Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show.md ## Episodes - [How this 1st-time founder went from closing customers for $500 a month to $300,000 a year. | Sean McCarthy, Founder & CEO of BackOps](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/how-this-1st-time-founder-went-from-closing-customers-for-500-a-month-to-300-000-a-year-sean-mccarthy-founder-ceo-of-backops) — 2026-05-04T09:00:00+00:00 - [He built for 2 years before raising a dollar—then hit $13M ARR and a $40M Series B. | Alex Halliday, Co-Founder & CEO of AirOps](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-built-for-2-years-before-raising-a-dollar-then-hit-13m-arr-and-a-40m-series-b-alex-halliday-co-founder-ceo-of-airops) — 2026-04-27T09:00:00+00:00 - [180 VCs rejected him—then a $60K billboard got him to $2M ARR in 4 months. | Isaiah Granet, CEO of Bland AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/180-vcs-rejected-him-then-a-60k-billboard-got-him-to-2m-arr-in-4-months-isaiah-granet-ceo-of-bland-ai) — 2026-04-20T09:00:00+00:00 - [She bet on a consumer app when every VC wanted B2B—then grew to $10M ARR. | Anada Lakra, Founder of BoldVoice](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/she-bet-on-a-consumer-app-when-every-vc-wanted-b2b-then-grew-to-10m-arr-anada-lakra-founder-of-boldvoice) — 2026-04-16T09:00:00+00:00 - [He raised a $10M seed with no revenue—then grew 30x to $30M in year two. | Bobby Samuels, Founder of Protege](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-raised-a-10m-seed-with-no-revenue-then-grew-30x-to-30m-in-year-two-bobby-samuels-founder-of-protege) — 2026-04-13T09:00:00+00:00 - [He ran Prime fulfillment for Amazon—then raised $20M to replace e-commerce with AI. | Maju Kuruvilla, Founder of Spangle](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-ran-prime-fulfillment-for-amazon-then-raised-20m-to-replace-e-commerce-with-ai-maju-kuruvilla-founder-of-spangle) — 2026-04-09T09:00:00+00:00 - [She got rejected by 22 VCs—then built 6sense to $100M+ in revenue. Now she's back for AI. | Amanda Kahlow, Founder of 1mind](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/she-got-rejected-by-22-vcs-then-built-6sense-to-100m-in-revenue-now-she-s-back-for-ai-amanda-kahlow-founder-of-1mind) — 2026-04-06T09:00:00+00:00 - [How this AI founder is on track to hit $50M ARR just 2 years after launch. | Tarek Alaruri, Co-Founder of Stuut](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/how-this-ai-founder-is-on-track-to-hit-50m-arr-just-2-years-after-launch-tarek-alaruri-co-founder-of-stuut) — 2026-04-02T09:00:00+00:00 - [He launched a free product for enterprise customers—then grew to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Bhaskar Sunkara, Founding CTO of AppDynamics](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-launched-a-free-product-for-enterprise-customers-then-grew-to-12m-arr-in-2-years-bhaskar-sunkara-founding-cto-of-appdynamics) — 2026-03-30T09:00:00+00:00 - [He raised $41M in one year to replace enterprise accountants with AI. | Yogi Goel, Founder of Maxima](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-raised-41m-in-one-year-to-replace-enterprise-accountants-with-ai-yogi-goel-founder-of-maxima) — 2026-03-26T09:00:00+00:00 - [How he grew his AI startup from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months. | Omar Haroun, Co-Founder of Eudia](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/how-he-grew-his-ai-startup-from-2m-to-20m-arr-in-12-months-omar-haroun-co-founder-of-eudia) — 2026-03-23T09:00:00+00:00 - [She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/she-raised-20m-from-accel-to-replace-quickbooks-with-ai-helen-hastings-founder-of-quanta) — 2026-03-19T09:00:00+00:00 - [He moved to the US with nothing. Now he does $750M ARR. | Mateo Marietti, Founder of CookUnity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-moved-to-the-us-with-nothing-now-he-does-750m-arr-mateo-marietti-founder-of-cookunity) — 2026-03-16T09:00:00+00:00 - [This 3x founder hit $1M ARR in 5 months. Here's his playbook. | Roy Moussa, Founder of GetVocal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/this-3x-founder-hit-1m-arr-in-5-months-here-s-his-playbook-roy-moussa-founder-of-getvocal) — 2026-03-12T09:00:00+00:00 - [He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-made-0-sales-for-the-first-8-months-now-he-does-200m-arr-ryan-anderson-founder-of-filevine) — 2026-03-09T09:00:00+00:00 - [He built heads down for a year. Then landed a $1M contract. | Sam Jones, Co-Founder of Method Security](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-built-heads-down-for-a-year-then-landed-a-1m-contract-sam-jones-co-founder-of-method-security) — 2026-03-05T10:00:00+00:00 - [He raised $150M with $0 revenue. Then hit $1M ARR in 4 months. | Michel Tricot, Co-Founder of Airbyte](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-raised-150m-with-0-revenue-then-hit-1m-arr-in-4-months-michel-tricot-co-founder-of-airbyte) — 2026-03-02T10:00:00+00:00 - [He failed for 5 years. Then hit $20M ARR with 100% outbound. | Didi Gurfinkel, Founder of Datarails](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-failed-for-5-years-then-hit-20m-arr-with-100-outbound-didi-gurfinkel-founder-of-datarails) — 2026-02-26T10:00:00+00:00 - [His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founder of LiveKit](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/his-startup-powers-openai-s-voice-mode-last-month-they-became-a-unicorn-russ-d-sa-co-founder-of-livekit) — 2026-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 - [He pivoted at $1M ARR—then raised $120M. | Kevin Tian, Co-Founder of Doppel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-pivoted-at-1m-arr-then-raised-120m-kevin-tian-co-founder-of-doppel) — 2026-02-19T10:00:00+00:00 - [He sold his first startup for $100M. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-sold-his-first-startup-for-100m-then-raised-250m-in-18-months-dileep-thazhmon-founder-of-jeeves) — 2026-02-16T10:00:00+00:00 - [He sold his first 2 startups. His 3rd grew to $1M ARR in 3 months. | Chaz Englander, Founder of Model ML](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-sold-his-first-2-startups-his-3rd-grew-to-1m-arr-in-3-months-chaz-englander-founder-of-model-ml) — 2026-02-12T10:00:00+00:00 - [He fired all his customers. Then built a $1B startup in 2 years. | Jay Madheswaran, Co-Founder of Eve](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-fired-all-his-customers-then-built-a-1b-startup-in-2-years-jay-madheswaran-co-founder-of-eve) — 2026-02-09T10:00:00+00:00 - [He wrote the book on Account Based Marketing. Here are his GTM secrets for enterprise. | Bassem Hamdy, Founder of Briq](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-wrote-the-book-on-account-based-marketing-here-are-his-gtm-secrets-for-enterprise-bassem-hamdy-founder-of-briq) — 2026-02-05T10:00:00+00:00 - [He got rejected from YC—then grew to $1.8B in under 2 years. | Max Junestrand, Founder of Legora](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show/he-got-rejected-from-yc-then-grew-to-1-8b-in-under-2-years-max-junestrand-founder-of-legora) — 2026-02-02T10:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.