The Startup Podcast

Apple on your face, or a big disgrace? 🤔 On the 5th of June, an auditorium sat patiently waiting for Apple’s 2023 Worldwide Developer Conference. Rumours had been floating for a while that there was a new product under development. Over the past few years, Apple had been gaining patents, buying companies and hiring people in the augmented reality (AR) space. Much to the wonderment of the crowd, Tim Cook presented the first-look of the Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s AR product and first major product introduction since the Apple Watch in 2015. Ever since, there has been a tsunami of content released around the Apple Vision Pro. From Marques Brownlee review to tech pundits pontificating on what this new product release means for the future of tech.   This week’s episode, Chris and Yaniv go back to their roots and go one-on-one over the Apple Vision Pro. There’s been a lot of predictable reactions to this new product but is it really worth it? Should you as a startup founder be considering a pivot into the AR space with this potentially revolutionary product? Listen to this 🔥🔥🔥 to find out! Episode Links Checkout the Apple Vision Pro: https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/?afid=p238%7CsMvRJFrna-dc_mtid_209256hr42481_pcrid_661147233482_pgrid_149559740549_pexid__&cid=wwa-au-kwgo-avalanche--slid---product----Announce-  The Pact  Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Follow us on YouTube Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following  Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by UntilNow, a next-generation agency and venture studio https://www.untilnow.com.au/  Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg  Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A The Startup Podcast website: https://tsp.show  Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/  Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

🚨WARNING: Controversial topic alert!🚨 Historically, startup culture has forced people to create a professional facade. A facade that inhibits the ability to reveal any kind of distraction or humanity that might weaken your position or your professionalism in a corporate setting. Challenging that trend is Amy Sun. Amy is CEO and Founder of Briefly AI and also a new mother. Before running her own startup, Amy has a storied career including such roles as Partner at Sequoia and Product Manager at both Facebook and Uber where she worked with Chris. They discuss the difficulties and opportunities of being a new mother while also being a founder and running your own startup. The logistical challenges, the implicit and explicit biases and even the counterintuitive benefits. This episode is sure to provide some 🌶️🌶️🌶️ discussions. Episode Links Checkout Amy’s startup Briefly AI at: https://www.brieflyai.com/  Connect with Amy on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunamy/  Follow Amy on Twitter: @amysundae Amy’s Linkedin post on her experience of motherhood and being a startup founder: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sunamy_my-son-recently-celebrated-his-first-birthday-activity-7056281037928087552-CBVG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop  The Pact  Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Follow us on YouTube Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following  Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by UntilNow, a next-generation agency and venture studio https://www.untilnow.com.au/  Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg  Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A The Startup Podcast website: https://tsp.show  Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/  Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/  Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

Have you built products and no matter what you worked on it didn’t matter, the business metrics didn’t improve nor did the user experience? You are not alone! Fortunately, we have special guest Itamar Gilad– Former Product Manager at Google turned startup coach, author and speaker here to help change your product mindset from data-driven to evidence-guided. Like many of you, Itamar developed and launched products that did not impact business metrics. From this, he investigated what makes the difference between successful and unsuccessful projects and how companies can repeatedly generate success.  What Itamar uncovers leads him to develop the “Product Idea Confidence Calculator”, a tool that can help your team switch mindsets and generate evidence for your product. Itamar is a true deep-thinker and this episode is sure to be thought-provoking for the entire team! Episode Links Visit Itamar’s website: https://itamar.gilad.com Product Idea Confidence Calculator: https://itamargilad.com/resources/confidence-meter-calculator/  The GIST Framework https://itamargilad.com/gist-framework-slides/ and GIST Board https://itamargilad.com/resources/gist-board-template/  The Pact  Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Follow us on YouTube Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following  Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by UntilNow, a next-generation agency and venture studio https://www.untilnow.com.au/ Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A The Startup Podcast website: https://tsp.show Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

We’re all storytellers. It’s the way we first begin to learn and it's the way we have communicated important information for thousands of years. However, it is the skill we practice the least. As startup operators, if you were a better storyteller imagine what you could accomplish. You would be able to engross and inspire potential investors and employees in any situation and be able to explain features better to your teams and get more work done.  How, you ask? Today we say “F*ck the Slides” with special guest, author of the upcoming book, storytelling expert and passionate salesperson - Nir Zavaro. In this episode Nir and Yaniv explore the importance of storytelling for founders. In doing so they delve into the “trailer” and “toilet” pitches, when to use them and how crucial they are for a founder to get right. Nir’s knowledge and experience is on show in this one, don’t miss it! Episode Links Watchout for Nir’s new book “F*ck the Slides” releasing in September Nir’s website: https://nirzavaro.com/ Follow Nir on Instagram: @nzavaro The Pact  Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Follow us on YouTube Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following  Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by UntilNow, a next-generation agency and venture studio https://www.untilnow.com.au/ Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A The Startup Podcast website: https://tsp.show Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

Good plans often make the difference between success and failure. Yet so many organisations are filled with time-consuming, ineffective, demoralising planning processes that have everybody muttering “waste of time” under their breath. Fear not! We have very special guest Oliver Heckmann—Head of Engineering at Silicon Valley darling Coda and former Google VP—to help set you up for good planning! In this episode, Oliver talks through his “Ten Commandments of Good Planning”. These commandments have been honed through years of hands-on work helping organisations deliver value. Oliver is one of the very best… you don’t want to miss this one.The Ten Commandments of Good Planning Thou shalt plan both top-down and bottom-up Thou shalt not plan for the future without reflecting on the past Thou shalt not blindly copy someone else’s tool or process Thou shalt not spread planning information across different places Thou shalt not plan in a separate place than you execute Thou shalt not confuse Goals with Stretch Goals Thou shalt not waste time on success metrics when success is obvious, or rush success metrics when success is not obvious Thou shalt not etch your plans in stone Thou shalt spend no more than 10% of your time planning Thou shalt not confuse OKRs with strategy or vision Episode Links Oliver Heckmann on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-heckmann-a173082/ Email Oliver to talk planning and OKRs at your organisation: oheckmann@coda.com Oliver’s template for hackathons, ideations, awards, and more: https://coda.io/@oliverheckmann The Pact  Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Follow us on YouTube Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following  Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by UntilNow, a next-generation agency and venture studio https://www.untilnow.com.au/ Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A The Startup Podcast website: https://tsp.show Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episode. Yaniv and Chris are fired up about bad VC investors, and they can't hold it in any longer! Good Venture Capitalists help founders make the impossible, possible. They are the fuel that allows rocketships to defy gravity. But bad VC investors will take a founder's dream and grind it into dust. In this episode, Chris and Yaniv share the ways in which bad investors often undermine a founder's ability to pursue their vision. They then share tips how as a founder to look out for and defend against this type of "dumb money" investor, and how to show traction that is beyond just revenue. The Pact  Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Follow us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg. Do it right now! It takes less than a minute. Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following  Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by UntilNow, a next-generation agency and venture studio https://www.untilnow.com.au/ Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A The Startup Podcast website: https://tsp.show Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

A startup’s most precious and limited resource? No, it’s not money. It’s time. And so many founders and operators allow their precious time to be eaten away by all sorts of distractions. Distraction can and does kill startups. The opposite of distraction is traction, which is what every startup craves and needs. In this episode Chris and Yaniv are rejoined by friend-of-the-pod Nir Eyal (best-selling author of Hooked and Indistractable) to talk about how to apply simple techniques to avoid distraction at all levels in your startup, and regain traction on the things that matter to your startup’s success. Episode Links Indistractable Book: https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/ Nir Eyal’s website: https://www.nirandfar.com/ Nir on Twitter: @nireyal The Pact  Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Follow us on YouTube Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following  Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by UntilNow, a next-generation agency and venture studio https://www.untilnow.com.au/ Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A The Startup Podcast website: https://tsp.show Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

About The Episode All of a sudden, AI is everywhere. But how do you pick through the hype to understand the real impact? And importantly, as a founder how should you react to the rapid emergence of LLM-based AI? Chris is joined by two leaders in the AI space, AI analyst and prolific investor Jeremiah Owyang and Ben Parr (co-founder Octane AI) to give you actionable insight and advice on how AI affects startups, from the macro-societal level all the way down to the micro. No matter how much you've been reading and listening on AI, there are new perspectives here that will add to your understanding. Episode Links AI Classification Framework: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/the-ai-revolution-has-outgrown-the-turing-test-introducing-a-new-framework/ Ben Parr: https://benparr.com The AI Analyst newsletter: https://benparr.substack.com/ Ben on the socials: @benparr Jeremiah on Twitter: @jowyang The Pact  Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Follow us on YouTube Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following  Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by UntilNow, a next-generation agency and venture studio https://www.untilnow.com.au/ The Startup Podcast is sponsored by Google Cloud, the best cloud for startups. Get all the good stuff, including up to USD200k in compute credit, at https://goo.gle/tsp Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

About The Episode In this episode, Chris Saad and Jack Bloomfield discuss the pros and cons of moving to the US to accelerate and amplify the success of your startup. They discuss topics like.. Is the US really that great? Isn't moving to a big city pointless after Covid? Isn't it unpatriotic to leave your country for the US? And more... The Pact Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please:*Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app *Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by Google Cloud, the best cloud for startups. Get all the good stuff, including up to USD200k in compute credit, at https://goo.gle/tsp Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/

About The Episode Chris has had to watch from the sidelines for the last four episodes while he rested his voice, and it almost killed him! This week he is BACK and can’t wait to share his spicy takes on everything we discussed during his convalescence. If you ever wondered what Gogglebox crossed with TSP might be like, this one is for you. The Pact Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please:*Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app *Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by Google Cloud, the best cloud for startups. Get all the good stuff, including up to USD200k in compute credit, at https://goo.gle/tsp Follow us on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/ Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/