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