In the 25th episode of Cartoon Avatars Logan talks with friend and Braze CEO Bill Magnuson about his start, his success, and the joke stocking stuffer worth 20k. Plus Redpointâs Rashad Assir is back once again to discuss his own background, and how it led to his TikTok success and work with Redpoint.
(0:00) Intro
(0:22) Introducing Rashad
(3:05) Rashadâs background
(5:45) Redpointâs TikTok
(10:45) Introducing Bill Magnuson
(16:27) How big is Braze?
(17:36) Billâs Background
(20:48) Taking college classes as a high school freshman
(25:11) Applying to MIT
(29:32) Building Google android product
(34:14) Bridgewater
(39:42) Founding Appboy
(44:46) Thesis behind Braze
(48:29) The âaha momentâ
(52:05) Throughput vs Deliverability
(55:57) Predicting the future of infrastructure
(1:02:35) Advice for entrepreneurs
(1:05:37) Being on the path of progress
(1:10:31) Taking over as CEO
(1:15:23) Recruiting your team
(1:19:32) Going public
(1:24:35) What keeps you motivated?
(1:27:22) Billâs bitcoin story
(1:30:02) Outro
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https://www.tiktok.com/@corporayshid?lang=en
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky
Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir
Executive Producer: Josh Machiz
Music Griff Lawson
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A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise.
Executive Producer: Rashad Assir
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind todayâs most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks theyâve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.
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