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#057 Startup To Scale, What CEOs Learn - Austen Allred (Bloomtech) and Al Doan (Missouri Star Quilt Co)

Feb 14, 2023

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How Can We Solve This Tomorrow?

04:37

Is Your Advice Fake?

04:23

How to Make Sure That Applications Are Coming In

04:47

Introduction

2min

Investing in Early Stage Tech Companies

5min

Austin, Are You in St. George Now?

2min

Southern Utah Is Enchanting You Right Now

4min

The Bloomtech World Is Really Good, Right?

4min

How Much Did It Affect Your Business?

4min

Are You Looking for a Great VP?

4min

Is There a Blue Door?

4min

How Do You Get Oriented to That?

4min

10.

You Know, I'm a Darling in the Press, Right?

4min

11.

Is Your Advice Fake?

4min

12.

How Can We Solve This Tomorrow?

5min

13.

How to Make Sure That Applications Are Coming In

5min

14.

Is There a Profile Behind That?

4min

15.

Is There a Red Flag in the Startup to Tech Transition?

4min

16.

Is Your Product Team Doing the Job?

3min

17.

Why SpaceX Will Be the Biggest Company of All Time?

6min

18.

Is AI Changing Anything for Lambda?

6min

19.

The Biggest Bottleneck to Growth for Bloomtech?

3min

20.

Is 1,000 X the Number of Students a Month?

4min

21.

I've Lost 65 Pounds, I'm a Loser, I Want to Be Healthy

2min

22.

Investing in a Lambda Fund

4min

23.

The New Form of Leverage

3min

Links:

Austen on Twitter

Al on Twitter

Bloomtech (Formerly Lambda School)

Becoming Trader Joe by Joe Coulombe

Rolling.fun

Rolling Fun Podcast episodes:

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Sponsors:

Athenago.com

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Topics:

(6:29) - Warming up & Austen escaping San Francisco

(13:35) - Catching up on Bloomtech’s growth

(24:34) - Hiring horror stories and strategies

(37:02) - A lot of advice is bullshit

(50:10) - How to deal with hypergrowth

(1:00:05) - Will VR be a real thing?

(1:05:43) - AI’s early investment in Bloomtech

(1:13:32) - Bottlenecks for future growth

(1:18:09) - Work/Life… balance?

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