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Vidit Agrawal, founder of GajiGesa, discusses event marketing, associations, social media marketing, and customer interviews. Topics include customer acquisition, challenges faced by employers in salary advances, early customer acquisition strategies using referrals and HR networks, non-scalable strategies, navigating co-founder spouse dynamics, and focusing on growth and stability in 2024.

Lucy Slack, co-founding member of Gaia, talks about de-risking IVF fertility treatment with personalized insurance. The podcast discusses challenges in building a startup, advantages of remote work, and impacts of AI deployment in business transitions.

Noosheen Hashemi is the Founder and CEO of January, who has developed a platform that predicts diabetic patients’ responses to certain foods. January has raised $40 million to date from notable investors such as Felicis Ventures, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, and former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer.“One out of three people in America has pre-diabetes, and 90% of them don’t know it,” said Hashemi. “And one out of nine people has diabetes, and 20% of those people don’t know it. So blood sugar is something we should all be managing, but we just don’t know that we should.”While other companies have made headway in understanding biometric sensor data—from heart rate and glucose monitors, for example—January AI has made progress in analyzing and predicting the effects of food consumption itself.Where to find Noosheen Hashemi:• Website: Blood Sugar Monitoring Without A CGM | AI Health App | January AI• LinkedIn(18) Noosheen Hashemi | LinkedIn Where to find Hadi Radwan:• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedInIf you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).

Sancar Sahin is the founder of Oliva, which is a healthtech platform offering specialist, on-demand mental health and wellbeing support to employees. The Company raised €13 million from notable investors such as Molten Ventures and was joined by existing investors Stride VC and new backers Alumni Ventures. Angels including Kieran Flanagan, CMO at Zapier, also participated.The raise follows a year where Oliva doubled the size of its team, increased its network of therapists from 50 to over 250, and grew revenues by over 300% year-on-year. Oliva is already used in UK and Key European markets worldwide and is currently available in 38 languages, with existing customers including Marshmallow, Maze, and Leapsome.Where to find Sancar Sahin:• Website: Oliva | Employee Mental Wellbeing Platform & Partner• LinkedIn (18) Sançar Sahin | LinkedInWhere to find Hadi Radwan:• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedInIf you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).

My guest today is Jenny He the Co-founder of Ergeon, which uses tech to fundamentally transform the residential construction sector by empowering both the customer and local installers in their construction project. Ergeon has raised to date $53 million from notable investors such  Prysm, DST, Basis Set and Metaprop. Where to find Jenny He:• Website: Ergeon Fence Contractors Installation and Repair• LinkedIn (1) Jiayue (Jenny) He | LinkedInWhere to find Hadi Radwan:• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedInIf you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).

Shani Bocian is the Founder of Allermi, the world's first allergy medication customized online by a physician and delivered to your door. With $4M raised to date and having licensed their product in 50 states, they're well on their way to addressing the U.S,'s worsening allergies caused by climate change and Long COVID. Where to find Shani Bocian:• Website: Allermi - Personalized Allergy Care• LinkedIn Shani Bocian Steinberg | LinkedInWhere to find Hadi Radwan:• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedInIf you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).

My guest today is Erik Allebest, the Co-founder and CEO of Chess.com, the #1 online chess service on the planet with more than 150+ million members and 15+ million games played daily. Erik has scaled the company to over 700 people and $100M+ in revenue with no venture funding.If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).

Ron Gidron is the co-founder and CEO of xtype.io, a technology company that accelerates software development for large companies like Zurich Insurance, Heineken, HP, Abbot Laboratories, and IBM. Xtype has also recorded over 75,000 customer deployments using its product in the past year and has raised $10.8 million to date.If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).

Devin Bostick is the founder of Lucky Truck, a Cincinnati-based company that is seeking to bring together essential pieces of the insurance purchase and management process in an easy-to-use digital platform, that leverages data and automation to remove friction from the customer journey. Lucky Truck has raised a $6.5 million from Candid Insurance Investors with participation from Markd, Draper University Ventures and SiriusPoint.If you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).

Bethany Stachenfeld is the co-founder of Sendspark, a technology that makes it easy for businesses to create and send personalized videos to strengthen relationships with customers at every stage of the buyer journey. Founded in Jan 2019 by Brandon Escalante and Bethany Stachenfeld, Sendspark provides a video outreach platform for businesses to record and send personalized videos to buyers over email. With the platform, users can record videos from their browser, customize video landing pages, and share videos through email or a public URL. Where to find Bethany Stachenfeld:• Website: Sendspark | Record and Share Personalized Videos• LinkedIn (4) Bethany Stachenfeld | LinkedInWhere to find Hadi Radwan:• Newsletter: Principles Friday | Hadi Radwan | Substack• LinkedIn: Hadi Radwan | LinkedInIf you like our podcast, please don't forget to subscribe and support us on your favorite podcast players. We also would appreciate your feedback and rating to reach more people.We recently launched our new newsletter, Principles Friday, where I share one principle that can help you in your life or business, one thought-provoking question, and one call to action toward that principle. Please subscribe Here.It is Free and Short (2min).