Creator Lab - interviews with entrepreneurs and startup founders

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

September 21, 2023 119 mins

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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https://youtu.be/j-he_V_V5nY 

Timestamps: 

  • (00:00:00) - Intro
  • (00:04:14) - Zaid's Creator Journey
  • (00:21:04) - Zaid's Civil Engine...
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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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https://youtu.be/kZwbKcnsdbY

Timestamps: 

  • (00:00:00) - Intro
  • (00:01:49) - Suneel's Backstory
  • (00:03:35) - What is Dharma?
  • (00:17:38) - The Arri...
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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:

  • (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...
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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 & Figur...
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Subscribe & watch on YouTube: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-mail
  • (00:36:53) - Company Orig...
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Subscribe & watch on YouTube: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
  • (00:17:16) - OpenAI vs Goog...
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Subscribe & watch on YouTube: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 learn to code to play with AI?
  • (00:...
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Subscribe & watch on YouTube: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 AI + Generative Art
  • (00:27:42...
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Subscribe & watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/YbEAIBbQA5E

Timestamps:

  • (00:00:00) - Intro
  • (00:00:25) - Start Of Interview
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Subscribe & watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/8HlTDcNCDxI

Timestamps:

  • (00:00:00) - Intro
  • (00:00:26) - Start of Interview
  • (00:01:42) - Starting HVMN (Health Via Modern Nutrition)
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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-L...
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Subscribe & watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/hXHZLKFpTu8

Timestamps:

  • (00:00:00) - Intro
  • (00:00:27) - Sponsor Break: Sendinblue
  • (00:01:17) - Who Is Elijah?
  • (00:07:10) - Sound System Culture
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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...
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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

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    Kathryn Minshew is the Founder & CEO at The Muse

    Subscribe & watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/ZKOgdHTnKc8

    Timestamps:

    • (00:00:00) - Intro
    • (00:00:40) - Sponsor Break: AppSumo
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    Tiago Forte is the creator of Building a Second Brain.

    Subscribe & watch on YouTube:
    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 Chan...
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    Sam Corcos is the co-founder & CEO of Levels Health

    Subscribe & watch on YouTube:
    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
    (0...

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    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 Interes...
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    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
    – ...

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