What's it like getting acquired by Spotify? (Dave Zohrob from Chartable)

Episode notes

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?