{"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":"How this 1st-time founder went from closing customers for $500 a month to $300,000 a year. | Sean McCarthy, Founder & CEO of BackOps","slug":"how-this-1st-time-founder-went-from-closing-customers-for-500-a-month-to-300-000-a-year-sean-mccarthy-founder-ceo-of-backops","published_at":"2026-05-04T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"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","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-product-market-fit-show","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1889238/episodes/19026079-how-this-1st-time-founder-went-from-closing-customers-for-500-a-month-to-300-000-a-year-sean-mccarthy-founder-ceo-of-backops.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1889238/episodes/19026079-how-this-1st-time-founder-went-from-closing-customers-for-500-a-month-to-300-000-a-year-sean-mccarthy-founder-ceo-of-backops.mp3","summary":"Sean was spending four days a week inside customer warehouses at Amazon Shipping when he noticed the same thing everywhere: back-office admin staff churning every six months, buried under the same repetitive claims and reshipping tasks. He talked to eighty-five warehouse owners, quit Amazon in July 2024, and cold emailed his way to a pre-seed round within weeks. In this episode, Sean breaks down why he paused all sales to rebuild BackOps as an enterprise-grade platform, how an SOP recorder th...","meta_description":"Sean was spending four days a week inside customer warehouses at Amazon Shipping when he noticed the same thing everywhere: back-office admin staff churni…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3346,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-product-market-fit-show/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/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/how-this-1st-time-founder-went-from-closing-customers-for-500-a-month-to-300-000-a-year-sean-mccarthy-founder-ceo-of-backops.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}