Dave Zohrob is the co-founder of Chartable (a podcast analytics startup), talks about selling his company to Spotify in February 2022. Highlights (go straight to ? for the best stuff):
1:00 – What's the Spotify office in New York like?
5:24 – Dave's first startup: he started an indie record label (Tellall Records)
7:12 – Founding in Chartable in 2017
8:00 – Behind the scenes: talking to Chris Enns (our editor at Lemon Productions)
9:50 – Dave's first business as a kid: publishing programming tutorials on the internet (Qbasic.com)
12:25 – What made you want to make money on the internet?
14:25 – Do all geeks have the intuition to start a business? (Justin's tweet) ?
19:23 – What's your real motivation for building a startup? ?
24:28 – Side-projects vs Bootstrapping vs Venture Funding (VC) ?
30:12 – Once you choose the VC-funded path, what's it like? ?
32:00 – The huge risk/cost for founders with families ?
34:30 – Public health insurance is the best way to boost entrepreneurship
36:30 – Bootstrappers and VC-funded founders have this same anxiety ?
40:00 – What it's like joining a massive company as a small 11-person company? ?
48:10 – What's next in podcast ad tech, analytics, and attribution ?
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