Willam is the co founder and ceo of ecommas startup, s m b. The company charges 15 to 35 dollars a month for small and medium sized businesses. They're trying to get the big d to c merchants out there as customers. Willam talks about how he came up with his business idea in just two hours.
First, Jason covers Square's corporate renaming to Block to reflect their broader ambitions (2:11), breaks down the genius of Spotify wrapped (13:15), and gives a nod to Grab's public debut (16:41). Then, Jason is joined by 3 founders who went through the Launch Accelerator, to extract the lessons from the early days of running a company. First is Paul Bloch of Fathom, an AI-enabled podcast search platform (23:03), then Zach Hudson of Deft, a E-commerce search engine (41:58) and finally Liam Gerada of Krepling, a no-code e-commerce platform (54:19).