Dave Zohrob is the co-founder of Chartable (a podcast analytics startup), talks about selling his company to Spotify in February 2022.
Highlights (go straight to đ„ for the best stuff):
- 1:00 â What's the Spotify office in New York like?
- 5:24 â Dave's first startup: he started an indie record label (Tellall Records)
- 7:12 â Founding in Chartable in 2017
- 8:00 â Behind the scenes: talking to Chris Enns (our editor at Lemon Productions)
- 9:50 â Dave's first business as a kid: publishing programming tutorials on the internet (Qbasic.com)
- 12:25 â What made you want to make money on the internet?
- 14:25 â Do all geeks have the intuition to start a business? (Justin's tweet) đ„
- 19:23 â What's your real motivation for building a startup? đ„
- 24:28 â Side-projects vs Bootstrapping vs Venture Funding (VC) đ„
- 30:12 â Once you choose the VC-funded path, what's it like? đ„
- 32:00 â The huge risk/cost for founders with families đ„
- 34:30 â Public health insurance is the best way to boost entrepreneurship
- 36:30 â Bootstrappers and VC-funded founders have this same anxiety đ„
- 40:00 â What it's like joining a massive company as a small 11-person company? đ„
- 48:10 â What's next in podcast ad tech, analytics, and attribution đ„
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