Sit Down Startup

Grow faster with tactics/strategies from the best founders in the world. We interview the top founders on all things customer; growth, retention, and expansion. It’s our goal to help you learn from the best by hearing EXACTLY what they did, so you can apply similar approaches to your Seed to Series A company. Boom.

[$200M+ Raised] Self-Doubt & Worry to Thriving Through Startup Challenges; Electric.ai's Founder, Ryan Denehy 08/24/2023

The Founder-led Content Formula; Atrium’s Founder Pete Kazanjy 08/09/2023

[$1.2B Val] Epidemic Sound's Founder, Oscar Hoglund: Overcoming Gov Regulations & Launching A Marketplace 07/26/2023

Tailscale's $113M Success: Developer-Led-Growth 07/13/2023

[$161M Raised] From Series A Struggles to 400 Employees: LinkSquares' Growth Strategies with Founder Vishal Sunak 06/21/2023

Bootstrapped to $100M+ Exit: Pardot’s Founder, David Cummings' Startup Journey 06/07/2023

Instacart's Former Chief Growth Officer; Building a Successful ML Startup: Anomalo's, Founder, Elliot Shmukler 05/24/2023

$0 to 100M ARR in 18-months: Revolutionizing Cloud Security With Base Thinking; Wiz’s Co-Founder, Ami Luttwak 05/10/2023

($155M raised) Glean’s Founder, Arvind Jain: How to close enterprise deals from day one 04/26/2023

Bootstrapped to nearly $100M exit to Citrix; Jesse Lipson; knowing when to ignore the “smart” advisors vs. just building 03/29/2023

[$271M raised] Frubana’s Founding Engineer, now board member, Daniel Bilbao; GTM tactics for $0 - $1M 03/22/2023

Backed by a16z, Virtually Human Studio’s Co-Founder, Chris Ebeling: Building with community, listening vs. letting them lead 03/08/2023

Zapier’s Founder: scalable growth strategies 03/01/2023

[$0 - IPO] Braze’s Founder, Mark Ghermezian; knowing when to pivot & the power of persistence 02/22/2023

Talkdesk & Cleverly Co-Founder: Cristina Fonseca - Product obsessed, 5-min rule & not being distracted by competition 02/15/2023

[$396M Raised] Nailing pitch-market-fit? Eightfold AI’s CEO, Ashutosh Garg 02/09/2023

[0-IPO] Yext’s Founder, Howard Lerman: key to building a lasting company 01/25/2023

[$0-IPO] Shift’s Co-Founder, Toby Russell; knowing when to pivot DESPITE having product-market-fit?! 11/16/2022

[$99M raised] Sweep’s Co-Founder, Rachel Delacour; listening for low signals during customer research to land big logos 11/09/2022

[$600M+ raised] Deel’s Founder, Alex Bouaziz: pivoting with conviction 10/26/2022

[$1.6B val] Mercury’s Founder, Immad Akhund; rapid growth via word of mouth 10/19/2022

[$1.2B val] Pilot’s CEO, Waseem Daher; knowing where to stay in the weeds 10/12/2022

[Acquired by Apple] Beats by Dre’s Omar Johnson on building a brand and standing out 09/28/2022

[$70M+ raised] Origin’s Matt Watson on finding clarity to target problems 09/21/2022

[$70M+ raised] Origin’s Matt Watson on finding clarity to target problems 09/21/2022

[$194M raised] Bizzabo’s Alon Alroy on pivoting early and fast 09/14/2022

[3M+ users] BharatAgri’s Founder, Sai Gole: micro influencers as a GTM channel 09/07/2022

[$98M raised] Paystand’s Founder, Jeremy Almond; meet them where they are > selling a cool tech idea 08/31/2022

[$164M+ Raised] Aisera’s Muddu Sudhakar on fundraising the right way 08/24/2022

[Ukrainian Founder] Fuel Finance’s Alyona Mysko; growth during a war 06/29/2022