Creator Lab - interviews with entrepreneurs and startup founders
Conversations with leading entrepreneurs, non-profit founders, award winning designers, educators, artists and everything else in between. We dig deep into their stories, have honest conversations about how they made their ideas come to life and the lessons learned along the way.
Episodes
Zaid Admani is a creator and part-time Civil Engineer. He creates content on finance and business that is both educational and entertaining. He has built up a following of ~400k people & has generated more than 100 million views across social media.
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Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:04:14) - Zaid’s Creator Journey
- (00:21:04) - Zaid’s Civil Engineering Background ...
Suneel Gupta is a writer and entrepreneur. He studies leaders from around the world to discover and share simple, actionable habits that enhance performance and deepen ones state of well-being.
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Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:01:49) - Suneel’s Backstory
- (00:03:35) - What is Dharma?
- (0...
Kallaway is creator with a passion for producing content centered around tech and cult brands. He has generated over 100 million views and amassed a large following across social media.
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https://youtu.be/etQpm_bQJH8
Timestamps:
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(00:00:00) - Intro
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https://youtu.be/zJBc0-rsnVo
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 - Start
- 00:04:26 - What VCs do & how it overlaps with Mario’s experience
- 00:08:00 - Why Be A Generalist vs. Specialist?
- 00:11:32 - Surprising characteristics of “who becomes an entrepreneu...
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https://youtu.be/c1vgzbouoXY
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:00:24) - Start Of Interview
- (00:06:43) - Selling Companies & Expertise Gap
- (00:15:40) - Expertise Gap in 2023
- (00:20:18) - Selling Company: Strategic vs Financial Buyers
- (00:23:50) - Getting New Clients & Figuring Out Pricing ...
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https://youtu.be/FNCgWJNR9ok
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:00:24) - Start Of Interview
- (00:01:55) - What Is Tongal?
- (00:04:07) - Types of Content: Branded, Original + Advertising
- (00:07:08) - Scale Of Tongal
- (00:12:14) - Background in Hollywood
- (00:24:57) - The Company Before Tongal
- (00:34:54) - Power of Cold E-ma...
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https://youtu.be/2XHlteP32Sc
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:00:24) - Start Of Interview
- (00:02:48) - Zapier + AI
- (00:05:56) - No Code + AI
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https://youtu.be/4PWqRILYz8U
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:00:07) - Start Of Interview
- (00:01:25) - Who Is Danny Postma
- (00:04:04) - Slowmad Lifestyle
- (00:06:54) - Early Indie Hacking
- (00:15:21) - What Is GPT-3?
- (00:18:18) - Training AI
- (00:24:07) - First-Hand Experience
- (00:25:36) - Use Cases
- (00:28:41) - Should we...
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https://youtu.be/K26L7HwTLcU
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:01:06) - What Is Shiny?
- (00:03:48) - Hyperfocused On Being Unfocused
- (00:06:14) - Shiny Object Social Club + Shiny Token
- (00:11:09) - Crypto Sentiment & Price Action
- (00:16:10) - Open AI & What's Driving The Growth in AI?
- (00:22:08) - Image, Video, Podcast A...
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https://youtu.be/YbEAIBbQA5E
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:00:25) - Start Of Interview
- Read more
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https://youtu.be/8HlTDcNCDxI
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:00:26) - Start of Interview
- (00:01:42) - Starting HVMN (...
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https://youtu.be/EtsZ36eaBPc
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:00:37) - Start Of Interview
- (00:01:30) - Annie Duke's Background In Poker
- (00:03:49) - Growing Up
- (00:06:11) - How Games Help Your Life
- (00:09:53) - What Makes A Great Poker Player
- (00:17:52) - Annie Duke's Role At First Round Capital
- (00:22:56) - Knowing When To Quit
- (00:38:39) - Müller-Lyer Illu...
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https://youtu.be/hXHZLKFpTu8
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:00:27) - Sponsor Break: Sendinblue
- (00:01:17) - Who Is Elijah?
- (00:07:10) - So...
Watch on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/dytmn7fcBxo
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:02:34) - How The Phan Family Got To Canada
- (00:07:34) - Trung's Exposure To Writing
- (00:11:28) - Twitter: The Good & Bad
- (00:14:29) - South East Asia To America
- (00:24:42) - Anxiety & Writing Publically
- (00:27:12) - Growing A Podcast
- (00:32:04) - Sponsor: Linkedin Jobs
- (00:33:04) - Sponsor: Justworks
- (00:34:20) - Cringe Te...
Adrian Aon is the founder & CEO of Forward. They've raised more than $225mil from the world's leading VCs to "build an insurance-free healthcare system from the ground-up”.
Before that, he was the Director of Special Projects for Google's CEO & founder of Sidewalk Labs, the startup at Google tasked with re-inventing cities & sold Wavii to Google for $30mil.
Watch on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/IwO12HgtWqw
Timestamps
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Kathryn Minshew is the Founder & CEO at The Muse
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https://youtu.be/ZKOgdHTnKc8
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:00:40) - Sponsor Break: AppSumo
Tiago Forte is the creator of Building a Second Brain.
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https://youtu.be/h04N_6tmMeg
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) – Intro
- (00:00:40) – Sponsor Break: AppSumo
- (00:03:23) - How Second Brain Began
- (00:05:49) - Building a Second Brain
- (00:13:31) - Multi-Million Dollar Live Courses.
- (00:16:23) - What Makes People Have Sustained Behavior Change
- (00:24:15) - 4 Steps of C.O.D.E (Capture, Organize...
Sam Corcos is the co-founder & CEO of Levels Health
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https://youtu.be/iI331lJkPm0
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Preview
(00:00:34) Sponsor - AppSumo
(00:01:02) Intro to Sam
(00:10:23) Problems Caused by Metabolic Dysfunction
(00:15:43) Current Stage of The Company
(00:22:49) Alternative Business Model
(00:28:47) Product Market Fit
(00:39:56) Sponsor: Linkedin Jobs
(00:42:17) 10x in Digital Content
(00:44:34) P...
Colin Sapire is the founder of Beast Health & Nutribullet.
Watch & subscribe on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/lqSfvL7QHRo
Timestamps:
- 0:00:00 - Snippet
- 0:00:39 - Sponsor: AppSumo
- 0:01:07 - Intro + Landing In The US
- 0:07:45 - Origins Of Nutribullet
- 0:11:21 - Finding A Differentiator + Landing On Pricing
- 0:13:17 - Reaching Half A Billion Dollars In Revenue
- 0:15:57 - Transitioning To Beast Nutrition + Getting Kids Interested In Nutri...
Ramon is a Dutch immigrant who dropped out of high school before finding an entrepreneurial path.
Most recently he acquired a DTC dog ramp business (Alpha Paw) for $300k + which he's grown to $35mil+ in sales.
Previously, he grew a soap opera blog to 30mil+ monthly pageviews before selling it for $9mil.
In this conversation you'll learn:
– why buy vs build
– buying a company with little money down
– growth levers to ramp up a DTC ...
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