The Launch Accelerator

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The founder of a startup accelerator explains how he and his co-founders learned to communicate more directly. The founders recorded, transcribe and then categorize every question they were asked by investors or customers. They also tried out their ideas in front of teams before going on the stage with them.

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).