Best Adam Blake & Max Faingezicht Podcasts (2025)

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E7: Semyon Dukach - Immigrant and Entrepreneur: From MIT and Blackjack to founder and investor 1:12:02

8M ago1:12:02

1:12:02

(00:00) Introduction to Semyon Dukach's Journey (02:12) From Immigrant to Entrepreneur: Semyon's Early Years (04:52) The MIT Blackjack Team: Risk and Reward (10:09) Starting Fast Engines: The First Company (20:15) Taking SMTP Public: A Unique Journey (30:09) Transitioning to Investing: The Angel Investor Path (45:55) Leading Techstars: Mentorship a…

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E6: Steve Fredette - The drive, customer obsession, and GTM innovation that built Toast 1:20:23

10M ago1:20:23

1:20:23

(0:00) Intro (5:10) Building a competitor to Facebook while at MIT (10:03) Joining Endeca instead of starting a company (14:40) Deciding NOT to go to business school to get an MBA (16:31) Creating a side hustle with early Apple App Store products (22:50) Becoming an entrepreneur inside Endeca and learning the power of vertical focus (27:28) Launchi…

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E4: Brendan Schwartz - Building Wistia for 18 years to ~200 employees after buying out investors 1:25:06

1y ago1:25:06

1:25:06

(0:00) Intro (1:55) Early entrepreneurial influences (5:20) Starting Wistia (8:11) Shredding business plans and burning thru savings (11:02) The portfolio website for artists that didn't pay the bills (12:44) The first business customer (15:22) Going up against YouTube and Vimeo (18:50) The Starbucks barista healthcare backup plan (21:00) Raising a…

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E3: Mike Salguero - Bootstrapping ButcherBox to $600M in ARR while working 4 days/week... 1:24:56

1y ago1:24:56

1:24:56

(0:00) Intro (3:45) Buying CustomMade - relaunching and making every mistake in the book (7:09) Raising VC for CustomMade and getting on the VC train (11:24) CustomMade failing (17:17) Starting ButcherBox as a hobby business while collecting unemployment (21:56) The 3 core decisions that led to ButcherBox success (28:06) Growth hacking to Go To Mar…

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E2: Art Papas tells Bullhorn Founding Story to Almost $500M in ARR, VC vs. PE & Startup Profitably 1:09:47

1y ago1:09:47

1:09:47

(0:00) Intros (1:50) Growing up in a family of doctors (5:13) Getting his first software job at Thompson Financial during the original internet boom (7:26) Writing software to automate himself and all the interns out of a job (11:40) Building and launching one of the first SaaS products in 1997 (16:09) Making a mistake leaving his first job for mor…

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Larry Kim - Founder Story, Early Google Days with Eric Schmidt, Reverse Engineering to a $130M exit 1:50:36

1+ y ago1:50:36

1:50:36

(0:00) Entrepreneurship as a kid, starting a business in high school that won a $50,000 contract (6:57) Role models: Mom with her home based piano teaching business was earning 4x his father (12:49) Paying for his own college education with the money he earned in high school (15:42) Getting a job in Silicon Valley in the late 90's (17:53) Timing ma…

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Adam Blake & Max Faingezicht Podcasts

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Adam Blake & Max Faingezicht

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E7: Semyon Dukach - Immigrant and Entrepreneur: From MIT and Blackjack to founder and investor 1:12:02

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E6: Steve Fredette - The drive, customer obsession, and GTM innovation that built Toast 1:20:23

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E4: Brendan Schwartz - Building Wistia for 18 years to ~200 employees after buying out investors 1:25:06

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E3: Mike Salguero - Bootstrapping ButcherBox to $600M in ARR while working 4 days/week... 1:24:56

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E2: Art Papas tells Bullhorn Founding Story to Almost $500M in ARR, VC vs. PE & Startup Profitably 1:09:47

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Larry Kim - Founder Story, Early Google Days with Eric Schmidt, Reverse Engineering to a $130M exit 1:50:36

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