Gimlet 1: How Not to Pitch a Billionaire

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Gimlet 1: How Not to Pitch a Billionaire

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Apr 6, 2014

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This is a series about what happens when someone who knows nothing about business starts one. It's called StartUp. In episode one, Alex Blumberg botches his pitch to Silicon Valley billionaire Chris Sacca.

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Apr 6, 2014

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A series about what it's really like to start a business.

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Gimlet 10: Mixing Art And Business: Lessons on outgrowing your business plan by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 4: Startups are a Risky Business: StartUps are a risky business, but there's lots o… by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 2: Is Podcasting the Future or the Past?: Dreaming big is harder than you'd think. by StartUp Podcast
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Dating Ring 6: Profiled: In online dating, love is not blind by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 8: Our New Show: Welcome, Reply All by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 7: How Listeners Become Owners: Are you ready to invest in Gimlet Media? by StartUp Podcast
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Dating Ring 8: Til Debt Do Us Part: Lauren and Emma visit the CEO Whisperer by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 3: How To Divide An Imaginary Pie: How much of your company should you give up when … by StartUp Podcast
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Dating Ring 2: Grow Big Or Go Home: Inside the Startup School Y Combinator by StartUp Podcast
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Dov Charney 3: Photos: In order to understand the present, we take a look at the past. by StartUp Podcast
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Dating Ring 5: Playing With Matches: Inside Dating Ring's Matchmaking System by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 6: How To Value Your Startup: It's all about your story. by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 9: We Made A Mistake: Gimlet Media addresses a company mistake. by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 11: Know Your Customer: Lessons on building an audience While working o… by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 1: How Not to Pitch a Billionaire: This is a series about what happens when someone … by StartUp Podcast
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Introducing Season 3: StartUp Podcast Returns by StartUp Podcast
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Dating Ring 7: Survival's a Pitch: A golden opportunity sows seeds of doubt by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 14: Where We Are: An end and a beginning by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 23: Shadowed Qualities: What you don’t know won’t hurt you, but it could hurt your company. by StartUp Podcast
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Twitch 2: Gaming the System: It takes 2 percent to make a thing go right. by StartUp Podcast
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Dating Ring 10: 116 Men and a Baby: Lessons learned in business and love by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 12: Burnout: Recovering from a breaking point by StartUp Podcast
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Dear Music Fans...: Business ain't Yeezy. by StartUp Podcast
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Dating Ring 3: Another Side Of The Story: Welcome to fundraising by StartUp Podcast
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Alex Talks to an Early Facebook Insider: How Dave Morin fell in and out of love with Silicon Valley by StartUp Podcast
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Alex Talks to a Cold Case Investigator: The decades-long hunt for the Golden State Killer by StartUp Podcast
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Alex Talks to an HR Maverick: Patty McCord invented a new kind of work culture at Netflix, and then it came for her by StartUp Podcast
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Alex Talks to a Wall Street Outcast: How Henry Blodget got banned from the industry that made him a star. by StartUp Podcast
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Gimlet 1: How Not to Pitch a Billionaire

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