{"podcast":{"title":"A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders","slug":"a-product-market-fit-show","podcast_index_feed_id":4671196,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1889238.rss","website_url":"http://www.pmf.show","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/sqkrnwj2lsgfiltxzcil9m3eoibf?.jpg","author":"Mistral.vc","episode_count":283,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show"},"episode":{"title":"180 VCs rejected him—then a $60K billboard got him to $2M ARR in 4 months. | Isaiah Granet, CEO of Bland AI","slug":"180-vcs-rejected-him-then-a-60k-billboard-got-him-to-2m-arr-in-4-months-isaiah-granet-ceo-of-bland-ai","published_at":"2026-04-20T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"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","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1889238/episodes/19026268-180-vcs-rejected-him-then-a-60k-billboard-got-him-to-2m-arr-in-4-months-isaiah-granet-ceo-of-bland-ai.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1889238/episodes/19026268-180-vcs-rejected-him-then-a-60k-billboard-got-him-to-2m-arr-in-4-months-isaiah-granet-ceo-of-bland-ai.mp3","summary":"Isaiah pivoted mid-YC, landed in the bottom 10% of his batch, and watched 180 investors say no—their reason: phone calls won't exist a year from now. Voice AI was not yet a thing. With almost no money left, he and his co-founder bet everything on building AI phone calls from scratch. Bland went from pre-seed to a $40M Series B in a year. In this episode, Isaiah breaks down how a $60K billboard and a strategic influencer campaign generated close to a billion impressions, why he fired 50% of hi...","meta_description":"Isaiah pivoted mid-YC, landed in the bottom 10% of his batch, and watched 180 investors say no—their reason: phone calls won't exist a year from now. Voic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3142,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-product-market-fit-show/episodes/180-vcs-rejected-him-then-a-60k-billboard-got-him-to-2m-arr-in-4-months-isaiah-granet-ceo-of-bland-ai/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"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.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}