

Build In Public Podcast
Karthik Puvvada (KP)
The Build In Public Podcast is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders and Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights and lessons.
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Sep 5, 2022 • 45min
How to Get Your Business Go Viral on TikTok (feat. Julia Montgomery aka @itxmejules)
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast.Today's episode features a fun interview with rising TikTok star Julia Montgomery. She has almost 300k followers on TikTok (her account is @itxmejules) and through the app she has built her brand and business in public. She is now also the CEO of her business, Influent.In this episode, Julia shares the backstory of her rise to TikTok fame, and her passion in helping creators with content and business. She also unpacks tons of tips on how to grow your TikTok following, while also growing your brand.Build In Public Podcast is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons.Thanks for listening!Links:Julia’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/itxmejules?lang=enJulia’s Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itxmejules?lang=enKP’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisiskp_KP's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KarthikPuvvadaKP

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Aug 26, 2022 • 19min
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Creators Building In Public
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast.Today's episode is special because it is to celebrate my 35k milestone on Twitter! And I mainly attribute it to none other than my career-long advocacy, which is Building in Public.A little bit about myself: I am a no-code product builder, community leader, Twitter content creator, angel investor and podcast host. I’m currently the Program Director at Day One, a founder school backed by Gary Vee.In this episode, I give a walk through of the habits one should have in order to become a highly effective creator building in public.Build In Public Podcast is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons.Thanks for listening!Links:KP’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisiskp_KP's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KarthikPuvvadaKP

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Aug 19, 2022 • 42min
How To Build A Million Dollar Content Business (feat. Justin Welsh)
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast.Today's episode features an insightful interview with Justin Welsh, founder of The Saturday Solopreneur. He has over 260k followers on LinkedIn and 170k followers on Twitter that witnessed his journey of building two $50M+ ARR companies, three 6-figure digital products for creators, and making $2.5M+ in self-employed income.In this episode, Justin talks about his in-depth knowledge on becoming a successful content marketer. He covers an array of interesting topics such as the hub-and-spoke model, strategies in arriving at a competitive niche and how he found “the solopreneur niche.” Justin also gives tips to increase Twitter and LinkedIn engagements and some announcements on a few up-and-coming courses.Build In Public Podcast is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons.Thanks for listening!Links:Justin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/thejustinwelshThe Saturday Solopreneur: https://www.justinwelsh.me/the-saturday-solopreneur-newsletterKP’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisiskp_KP's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KarthikPuvvadaKP

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Aug 12, 2022 • 43min
The Playbook Of Learning In Public & How To Thought Lead (feat. Shawn @swyx Wang)
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast.Today's episode features an insightful conversation with Shawn Wang, more commonly known as “swyx,” a GitHub Star who ran the React subreddit for over 200,000 developers, grew the Svelte Society from 0 to over 15,000 developers, and is now the Head of DX at Airbyte.Build In Public Podcast is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons.In this episode, Swyx unpacks a wide range of topics, from DevRel vs DevX at Airbyte to amplifying Learning in Public. He also shared comprehensive thought leadership strategies, open source knowledge framework and tips on how to go beyond being a meta-creator.Shawn’s Twitter: @swyxAirbyte: https://airbyte.comKP’s Twitter: @thisiskp_KP's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KarthikPuvvadaKP

Aug 3, 2022 • 46min
Life After One Of India's Biggest Startup Exits (feat. Phanindra Sama)
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast.Today's episode features an in-depth conversation with Phanindra Sama, co-founder, and former CEO of Redbus. Redbus is an Indian online bus ticketing platform with over 180 million trips and $710 million GMV (in 2020). In 2013, redBus was acquired by Ibibo Group."Build In Public Podcast" is an interview show where KP chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs and top Internet creators to unpack their stories, insights and lessons.In this episode, Phanindra delves into how he overcame challenges when starting an Internet-based business in 2000s. Phanindra shares about acquiring customers, raising seed money, networking, and scaling the business to greater heights. He also shares his journey building bip.so, a workspace for web3 communities, and community with Discord-based access management and git-like version control.Phanindra’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/phanisamaRedbus: https://www.redbus.in/Bip.so: https://bip.so/KP’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCznxl7a7q-2zqTVkR9oVvfQKP’s Twitter: @thisiskp_KP’s Website: https://www.buildinpublic.xyz/

Aug 3, 2022 • 50min
Building A Command Center For Communities (feat. Threado Team)
Welcome to another episode of the Build in Public Podcast.Today’s podcast episode features a fascinating conversation with top execs from Threado, the command center for community builders. In this interview our host KP chats with Pramod Rao (co-founder & CEO), Abhishek Nalin (co-founder & CTO) and Sharath Kuruganty (Head of Community). They recount the backstories of their careers and how they came to work on this community-based startup, and share highly anticipated fundraising and product news. Links:Threado's website: http://threado.com/Threado's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThreadoHQ Pramod's Twitter: https://twitter.com/prao24 Abhishek's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhishekNalinSharath's Twitter: https://twitter.com/5harat h

Jul 22, 2022 • 43min
Why The Next Wave Of Startups Will Be Community-Led (feat. Sharath Kuruganty)
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's episode features an insightful conversation with Sharath Kuruganty, founder, community builder, and content creator. “Build In Public Podcast” is hosted by KP, where he chats with ambitious startup founders, CEOs, and top internet creators to unpack their stories, insights, and lessons. In this episode, KP, an angel investor and startup consultant interviews Sharath Kuruganty, Head of Community at Threado, a command center for community builders. He was the "Maker Grant Recipient" awarded by Product Hunt. Previously, he worked at Product Hunt, On Deck and Draftbit. Sharath unlocks his insights on community-led growth and shares his experience working with influential tech leaders like Naval Ravikant and Ryan Hoover.Sharath’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/5harathSharath’s Website: https://5harath.com/KP’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCznxl7a7q-2zqTVkR9oVvfQKP’s Twitter: @thisiskp_KP’s Website: https://www.buildinpublic.xyz/

Jul 10, 2022 • 33min
Building A Silicon Valley Startup As A Scrappy Immigrant (feat. Michelle Marcelline)
Welcome to another episode of the Build In Public Podcast. Today's podcast episode features an in-depth conversation with a special guest, Michele Marcelline, data analyst, passionate entrepreneur, and co-founder of startup "Typedream," a no-code website builder that helps you make a stunning website as easy as writing on Notion and as pretty as Webflow. She shares her inspiring journey, learnings, successes, challenges, and failures in building https://typedream.com /. Before Typedream, she co-founded a cyber security startup, Cotter, a passwordless authentication website. She is a big believer in #BuildInPublic and drops valuable business lessons on her Twitter. I hope this conversation adds value to you. Share your thoughts in the comment section. Thanks for watching this video.Links and resources:Typedream’s website: https://typedream.com/ Connect with Michelle Marcelline on Twitter at https://twitter.com/michwirantonoConnect with KP on Twitter at https://twitter.com/thisiskp_ KP’s website: https://thisiskp.com/

May 31, 2022 • 51min
Interview with Danny Miranda [Host of The Danny Miranda Podcast]
In this episode, I chatted with Danny Miranda, who I believe is the world's most underrated podcaster. On his show, The Danny Miranda Podcast, he produced over 250 episodes within 1.5 years and unpacked the stories of some of the happiest, healthiest, and wisest people in the world. His guest list includes Gary Vaynerchuk, Tom Bilyeu, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Miss Excel Kat Norton, James Altucher, Ariel Helwani, David Perell, Kamal Ravikant, Mike Maples, and many more incredible humans.In this interview, we covered Danny's perspective on Youtube/podcast stats, his daily journaling practice, his all-time favorite podcasters, the future of podcasting as a medium and his vision for his own podcast. Danny is a gifted conversationalist, curious interviewer and more importantly an inspiring creator who is an insanely patient student of the craft of podcasting which is what I admire the most about him. I had a blast with this interview - hope you all enjoy it too!Shownotes:Danny's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/dannymiranda Danny's website: https://dannymiranda.com/ Danny's Twitter: https://dannymiranda.com/

May 16, 2022 • 47min
Episode w Khe Hy (Founder & CEO of RadReads)
In this episode, I chatted with Khe Hy, Founder and CEO of RadReads, an online education company that helps professionals lead productive, examined and joyful lives. Khe is a brilliant creator of the $10K Work productivity method and teaches the popular cohort-based course Supercharge Your Productivity. In this interview, we covered Khe's teenage years, the transformation of his worldview away from just external accomplishments, what inspires him now, his writing routine/regimen, along with some other fun spontaneous philosophical riffs. Khe's energy is a perfect match for mine and this felt more like a coffee convo than a formal interview which you'll notice all along. I had a blast with this interview - hope you all enjoy it too!Shownotes:RadReads: https://radreads.co/ Khe's Twitter: https://twitter.com/khemaridh Supercharge Your Productivity Course: https://radreads.co/courses/