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/  

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 

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/  

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/ 

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/ 

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/ 

In this episode, I chatted with Mariam Hakobyan, co-founder and CEO of Softr.io, a no-code platform that helps you build websites, web apps or internal tools using simple databases. Softr has over 50,000 users and 1000 paying customers and just closed a $13.5 million Series A funding round from top tier investors across Europe and the U.S. [Full Disclosure: I am a small investor too as I've been a fan of the team and their execution]In our chat, we got to the origin story of Softr, how Mariam's life was transformed from being a software engineer to now building a no-code platform, top lessons from her journey as a founder, how she views community at the center of their growth and future plans to expand the Softr eco-system. I am extremely bullish on the potential of Softr and hopefully you find value in this conversation!  Other links:Softr website: https://softr.io/Mariam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariam_hakobyan

In this episode, I chatted with Raad Mobrem, CEO of Intro, who's building an amazing new platform to book top experts for a video advice. Intro is backed by top funds like a16z and 776 by Alexis Ohanian along with an all-star roster of celebrity investors like Kevin Durant and Kevin Hart. In our chat, we got to the origin story of Intro, how an iconic Raad’s childhood memory with Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea shaped his worldview, the power of learning from the greats & his future vision for Intro. I was blown away by Raad’s humility and passion for this problem. At the end, we talked about why I'm stoked to be joining Intro as an expert too so I can help entrepreneurs with their building in public challenges. Here's my Intro profile if you want book me and get personalized advice. (100% of my fees go to charity)Other links:Raad's TwitterRaad's Intro ProfileIntro Website

In this episode, I chatted with Dave Gerhardt, one of my favorite B2B storytellers who intuitively understands the power of being authentic on the Internet. He's one of the top marketing experts right now, previously led brand and marketing teams at Drift and Privy before going full-time as an independent creator via his popular online community DGMG. In this interview, we chat about Dave's latest book "Founder Brand", what inspired him to write it, his content experiments along with David Cancel at Drift, the other core themes of the book, and his future goals.I had a blast with this interview - hope you all enjoy it too!Follow Dave here on TwitterGet Dave's book "Founder Brand" from Amazon

In this episode, I chatted with Nick deWilde, creator and co-founder of Invisible College which is a one-of-a-kind learning DAO that gives you the skills, network, and opportunities to make an impact in web3.Nick is the fantastic writer behind "Jungle Gym", a popular and thoughtful newsletter for people who want fulfilling careers in tech and startups. Before that, he worked in product marketing at a fast-growing startup called Guide Education, the job he eventually quit to plunge into the web3 space. In this episode, we dig deep into the latest crypto trends, what motivated him to create his own learning DAO and lessons from being a prolific creator. I had a ton of fun with this interview - hope you all enjoy it too! Interested in their latest NFT mint? Learn more here.