Welcome to "Entrepreneurs Unraveled," the podcast where we take a deep dive into the fascinating stories of successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Each episode, we bring you interviews with inspirational founders and innovators, sharing their unique journeys and the lessons they've learned along the way.
EP.16 The Company Netflix Can't Live Without | IYUNO CEO, David Lee
This is the story of IYUNO, the world's biggest media localization company. IYUNO's primary business is providing multi-language and voice dubbing for global OTT, such as Netflix, Deisney+, AppleTV, and content companies to make content published worldwide on time. It all began with a single person David Lee who was a subtitle part-timer for a living.
00:00 Intro
01:35 Chapter 1: Video Subtitler's Small Business
03:52 Chapter 2: Going Global and Building Openness
07:38 Chapter 3: Optimizing Pricing and Expanding Business to a New Market
11:42 Chapter 4: Believing in What You Do
14:15 Chapter 5: How to be Aligned with the Team
19 Jul 2023
EP.15 The Fastest Growing SaaS Startup in History | Co-founders of deel, Alex Bouaziz, Shuo Wang
This is the story of Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang, who co-found Deel, the fastest-growing SaaS start-up in history. Deel helps companies go global and hire around the world.
00:00 Intro
01:01 Chapter.1 Co-founders with International Background
03:24 Two Co-founders' Startup Experiences
08:09 Chapter.2 How Deel raised $629 million without a Pitch Deck
14:10 Chapter.3 Deel's Principle and Mission
18:50 Outro
12 Jul 2023
EP.14 The Fastest Productivity Tool to Reach 1M Users | Tome Co-founders, Keith Peiris and Henri Liriani
Today's story is about Tome. Tome is the AI-powered storytelling format created by former Facebook and Instagram product leaders. It uses generative AI to create entire visual presentations in seconds. Tome became the fastest productivity tool to reach 1M users in January, and has been growing virally since. It recently secured $43 million in new Series B funding. How will the way we share ideas change in the era of AI? Check out the video to find out!
00:32 Intro
01:20 Chapter 1: Outdated Powerpoint
06:51 Chapter 2: How AI Will Change Work
08:26 Chapter 3: Unlocking Human Collaboration
11:12 Outro
6 Jul 2023
9-Year Hustle to Achieve a Single GoalㅣNotion's Cofounders EP. 13
Notion is one of the most innovative productivity tools worldwide to make every human can to build their own software without coding.
Before co-founding Notion, Akshay built Pulse, which is RSS based news curation app, and Ivan was a designer from Canada just after college graduation.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Exiting $90m startup to Linkedin
03:36 Notion's First Failure
05:50 Finding Product Market Fit
12:21 Notion's Core Value
21 Jun 2023
EP.12 OpenAI bets $30M on this GPT-powered education appㅣConnor Zwick and Andrew Hsu, Co-founders of Speak
00:00 Into
01:45 Chapter.1 Two Founders with Remarkable Teenage Years
05:24 Chapter.2 Three years of hustle to find the Product-Market Fit
13:35 Chapter.3 Three Key aspects for a Successful AI Based App
14 Jun 2023
EP11. How a Soccer Player sold Shoes to 4million Customers | Allbirds Co-founders, Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger
Today we are joined by Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger the co-founders of Allbirds. Allbirds is a footwear brand known for sustainable and comfortable shoes made from eco-friendly materials.
00:00 Intro
00:59 Chapter. 1 The Co-founders
05:35 Chapter. 2 Wool Runners
08:51 Chapter. 3 Sustainability
12:29 Chapter. 4 Team
8 Jun 2023
EP.10 Follow this 2-Week Plan to Build a Great Business | Mmhmm CEO, Phil Libin
In this episode, Phil Libin, the CEO of Mmhmm, shares how he came up with the idea of Mmhmm, and developed into a business.
00:00 Intro
00:44 Chapter.1 How to find a product idea and turn into a Business
04:51 Chapter.2 The Problem Mmhmm is trying to solve
08:18 Chapter.3 The Mindset of a Product Guru
09:39 Chapter.4 Team Building: Who should I work with
12:00 Chapter.5 The Relationship between Success and Luck
6 Jun 2023
EP9. How I built 400 million users app EvernoteㅣEvernote Co-founder, Phil Libin
This is the story about the serial-entrepreneur Phil Libin's journey, one of the world's best productivity note apps.
Phil has founded five startup companies for 25 years, and they were successful. Phil is well-known as an entrepreneur and one of the world's best product guys.
00:00 Intro
01:11 Chapter.1 From a Refugee to an Entrepreneur
02:50 Chapter.2 Lesson Learned from First Two Companies
05:12 Chapter.3 The Story of Building Evernote
09:02 Chapter.4. Don't be Neutral
10:56 Chapter.5 Don't Ask the Customers, Bring Your Product to Them
13:01 Chapter.6 Focus on Your Product's Existing Fans
19 May 2023
EP.8 Life Advice for Future Entrepreneurs, Teens, 20s, 30s | Noom CEO, Saeju Jeong
Saeju, the CEO of Noom, was born and raised in a small South Korean fish town called Yeosu and he dropped out of his university in Korea. He came to US when he was 23 with nothing and built $10 Billion consumer-led healthcare startup Noom.
01:38 Chapter.1 How to Overcome Self Doubt
04:45 Chapter.2 Things to Know Before Starting a Business
06:40 Chapter.3 Life Advice for Teens.
08:25 Chapter.3 Life Advice for 20s
09:27 Chapter.3 Life Advice for 30s
10:43 Chapter.4 True Meaning of Life
16 May 2023
EP.7 How He Built $10B Startup from Nothing | Noom CEO, Saeju Jeong
Today, we are joined by Saeju Jeong, the Co-founder and CEO of Noom. Noom is a health care platform which has raised over $650 million in funding since 2008. In today's episode, Saeju shares stories about his journey from being a college dropout in South Korea to becoming a successful entrepreneur in New York City. Additionally, Saeju shares us his experiences in building Noom into America's leading healthcare platform.
01:56 Chapter.1 A College Drop out from a Fish Town
05:45 Chapter.2 Starting from Scratch in NYC
08:49 Chapter.3 Noom's Two Immigrant Entrepreneurs
10:36 Chapter.4 Noom's Mission driven Journey
12:44 Chapter.5 Noom's J-curve Success
14:55 Chapter.6 Good Company VS Great Company
11 May 2023
EP.6 5 Key Lessons from a 30-Year-Old Unicorn Founder | FiscalNote CEO, Tim Hwang
Tim Hwang is the CEO of FiscalNote, a legal information software company. FiscalNote was funded by startup moguls like Mark Cuban from Shark Tank, and Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo, and went public in 2022.
01:20 Ch.1 High quality people are drawn to high quality CEO
04:54 Ch.2 Good timing opens up Opportunities
06:11 Ch.3 Is now the perfect time to kick off your startup?
09:35 Ch.4 Startup is a Self-Discovering Journey
12:25 Ch.5 Startup as a Lifestyle
9 May 2023
EP.5 The Thrills of Running a Publicly Traded Company at 30 | FiscalNote CEO, Tim Hwang
Tim Hwang is the CEO of FiscalNote, a legal information software company. FiscalNote was funded by startup moguls like Mark Cuban from Shark Tank, and Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo, and went public in 2022.
[Stories in this episode]
00:00 Intro
01:11 Introduction to FiscalNote
03:00 Law school dreamer to Startup Entrepreneur
05:44 first start of FiscalNote
08:11 Funding from Mark Cuban
10:10 Advice on how to impress VCs
12:18 Hustle Hustle Hustle!
18:09 FiscalNote's Vision
19:16 Outro
27 Apr 2023
EP.4 Expert Advice for Startup Entrepreneurs | Plug and Play CEO, Saeed Amidi
Saeed Amidi is the CEO of Plug & Play, a venture capital firm that has invested in over 1000 startups. Saeed Amidi gives advice to entrepreneurs on perfecting elevator pitches, and talks about money's true meaning.
(01:41) "You should know Better than the Investors"
(04:01) How to Impress Investors in 3 Minutes
(09:52) "I Enjoy Making Money"
25 Apr 2023
EP.3 What I learned after investing in 1000 Startups | Plug and Play CEO, Saeed Amidi
Saeed Amidi is the CEO of Plug & Play, a venture capital firm that has invested in over 1000 startups. Amidi is renowned for his ownership of the so called "Lucky Building", building at 165 University Avenue, which has housed many of Silicon Valley's top startups. This prime location allowed Amidi to become an early-stage investor in tech giants like Google and PayPal.
(00:00) Intro
(02:02) Life before Plug and Play
(03:41) Bottled Water business
(04:58) Real estate business
(06:18) Early investment in Google and Paypal
(08:02) Investment tips on startups
(11:24) Startups not to invest in
(14:17) Investment failure with Airbnb
(16:23) How to recognize Unicorn startups
(18:42) How startups make the world better
18 Apr 2023
EP.2 How I Built Three Billion-dollar CompaniesㅣSnowflake CEO, Frank Slootman
Frank Slootman is the CEO of Snowflake, a company that is experiencing rapid growth and is valued in the billions of dollars. He is a renowned expert in the field of data cloud and has a track record of building successful companies like DataDomain and ServiceNow. Slootman has a wealth of leadership experience that he draws upon to guide Snowflake towards success.
13 Apr 2023
EP.1 Best startup lessons from Y CombinatorㅣMichael Seibel
On the first episode of <Entrepreneurs Unraveled>, Michael Seibel, the managing director of Y Combinator shares some lessons he learned from growing Twitch to a $ 970 million worth company and joining YC afterward.
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