Build Your SaaS · 2022-06-14 · 56 min
Dave Zohrob is the co-founder of Chartable (a podcast analytics startup), talks about selling his company to Spotify in February 2022 . Highlights (go straight to for the best stuff): 1:00 - What's the Spotify office in New York like? 5:24 - Dave's first startup: he started an indie record label ( Tellall Records ) 7:12 - Founding in Chartable in 2017 8:00 - Behind the scenes: talking to Chris Enns (our editor at Lemon Productions ) 9:50 - Dave's first business as a kid: publishing programming tutorials on the internet ( Qbasic.com ) 12:25 - What made you want to make money on the internet? 14:25 - Do all geeks have the intuition to start a business? ( Justin's tweet ) 19:23 - What's your real motivation for building a startup? 24:28 - Side-projects vs Bootstrapping vs Venture Funding (VC) 30:12 - Once you choose the VC-funded path, what's it like? 32:00 - The huge risk/cost for founders with families 34:30 - Public health insurance is the best way to boost entrepreneurship 36:30 - Bootstrappers and VC-funded founders have this same anxiety 40:00 - What it's like joining a massive company as a small 11-person company?
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