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What's it like getting acquired by Spotify? (Dave Zohrob from Chartable)

Jun 14, 2022

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Spotify - What Are You Excited About Doing With Chartable?

02:01

The Greatest Gift You Can Give a Free Market Economy

01:55

How Do You Model Growth in Your Business?

02:10

Introduction

2min

What Is the Culture Shift With Spotifi?

2min

Megaphones - Is That Right?

2min

How Did You Work for Smaller Companies?

2min

How Did You Find Chartable?

2min

I've Always Been a Computer Guy, or Are You Still a Computer Guy?

3min

Are There Records That Are Unspotifid?

2min

Entroprentership

2min

You Can't Just Run on to the Court During an Nba Game, That's Right?

3min

10.

Podcasting - What's Your Personal Objective?

2min

11.

'Tis the Season to Make Money, Right?

3min

12.

The Right Side Project vs Bootstrap

4min

13.

The Path That We Chosen

2min

14.

You Know, I'm Putting All My Time and Energy Into Transister

2min

15.

Do You Think Raising Money Made the Personal Side Less Stressful?

2min

16.

The Greatest Gift You Can Give a Free Market Economy

2min

17.

Are You Having Anxiety With Your Bootstrap Company?

4min

18.

The Transition From Small Company to Big Company

3min

19.

Are You Sleeping Better?

2min

20.

How Do You Model Growth in Your Business?

2min

21.

Spotify - What Are You Excited About Doing With Chartable?

2min

22.

Spotify

3min

23.

What Are You Not Seeing as an Indy Bootstrapper?

2min

24.

Podcast Toasting

2min

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 🔥 for the best stuff):

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

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