Founder Chats

Each week we sit down with a different founder to talk shop. Get honest, insightful looks in to how other founders run their businesses.

Founder Chats is a business podcast hosted by Baremetrics, with 83 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #83

  What ACTUALLY Happens After You Launch Your Startup with Claus Enevoldsen

  Mar 26, 202640 minS0

  <p>About Claus Enevoldsen:</p> <p>Claus Enevoldsen is the founder of Elsie AI, an AI-powered business partner built for solo e-commerce founders, operating out of 1848 Ventures, a B2B SaaS venture studio focused on SMBs. Before building Elsie, Claus spent years at Flipboard, where the platform scaled to 145 million active users and became the fourth-largest referral traffic source for publishers ahead of Google News. A self-described builder with a growth mindset, Claus brings both large-scale product experience and a scrappy zero-to-one mentality to everything he builds.</p> <p>About Elsie AI:</p> <p>Elsie AI is an AI-powered business...

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  Episode #82

  Why Your LinkedIn Outreach Fails (And How to Fix It) with Walid Amarir

  Oct 24, 202533 minS0

  <p>About Walid Amarir:</p><p>Walid Amarir is the Co-founder and CEO of WaLead.ai, a LinkedIn automation tool built to solve the scalability problems he experienced firsthand running a LinkedIn marketing agency. At just 23, Walid has an unconventional background—he was a professional eSports player earning his parents' salaries by age 18, then studied Physics and Mathematics in the UK before realizing he preferred building businesses to academia. After identifying critical gaps in existing LinkedIn automation tools while scaling his agency, Walid made the jump from service provider to SaaS founder, building a lean, efficient platform that maintains authenticity wh...

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  Episode #81

  Accidentally Building a Y Combinator-backed Startup with Sachin Jain

  Oct 17, 202534 minS0

  <p>About Sachin Jain:</p><p>Sachin Jain is the Co-founder and CEO of Requestly, the browser-based API mocking and testing platform used by over 300,000 developers worldwide. After transforming a weekend Chrome extension project into a Y Combinator-backed company (one of 414 accepted from 17,000 applications), Sachin led Requestly through a successful acquisition by BrowserStack earlier this year. His journey from Google intern and Adobe engineer to successful founder showcases the power of solving your own problems first.</p><p>About Requestly:</p><p>Requestly is a developer-first platform that simplifies API mocking, testing, and network request interception directly in the browser...

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  Episode #80

  How Submagic grew to $8M Revenue in 3 Years with David Zitoun

  Oct 9, 202534 minS0

  <p>About David Zitoun:</p><p>David Zitoun is the Co-founder and CEO of Submagic, the AI-powered video editing platform that helps content creators generate viral shorts in seconds. Starting from his own frustration editing YouTube content, David bootstrapped Submagic to over $8M in revenue with an ultra-lean team of just 10 people—no sales team, fully self-serve, and 100% remote. Known for his obsessive focus on pricing experimentation, distribution-first strategy, and profitability over growth-at-all-costs, David represents a new breed of bootstrapped SaaS founder winning in the AI era.</p><p>About Submagic:</p><p>Submagic is an AI-powered video editing platform bu...

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  Episode #79

  Why OptinMonster Won the Early Email Marketing Era with Thomas Griffin

  Oct 2, 202547 minS0

  <p>About Thomas Griffin:</p><p>Thomas Griffin is the Co-founder of OptinMonster and Gro-Rite Garden. His software powers over 25 million websites globally, and he pioneered the lead capture space by coining and trademarking the term "exit intent." Thomas built OptinMonster during the early days of modern marketing automation, positioning the company at exactly the right place and time as MailChimp, HubSpot, and Constant Contact created market demand for conversion optimization tools.</p><p>About OptinMonster:</p><p>OptinMonster is a conversion optimization platform that helps businesses capture leads before visitors leave their website. Created to solve the problem that 70...

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