A podcast featuring insightful conversations with diverse digital product industry leaders from around the world who share key lessons from every stage of their business journey. Listen to compelling stories from bootstrapped and VC-funded founders, C-suite executives, and developers across SaaS, software, video gaming, and mobile apps. Discover actionable growth strategies to elevate your own business.
This podcast is brought to you by FastSpring. As the leading merchant of record payment platform for digital products, FastSpring delivers an all-in-one solution for payments, subscriptions, and automated tax compliance—enabling digital businesses to expand globally with reduced complexity and lower costs.
The Incredible Untold Story of Open Commerce in Mobile Apps & Games
You’re likely familiar with global efforts to open up app stores, to allow app and game developers to monetize directly and provide choice for users. But how did we get here, and what can lessons about the past tell us about where open mobile commerce will be in the future?
In this episode of Growth Stage, open access veteran and FastSpring CMO David Vogelpohl shares his thoughts on the incredible untold history of open mobile commerce, how things have changed over time, what is happening in today’s world, and what lessons from the past can tell us about the future of open commerce.
If you’re looking for the chance to zoom out and understand what’s happening in mobile commerce — to help you imagine what you might do to take advantage of this trend toward open commerce — don’t miss this episode of Growth Stage. Watch or listen now!
This podcast is brought to you by FastSpring (https://fastspring.com/). As the leading merchant of record payment platform for digital products, FastSpring delivers an all-in-one solution for payments, subscriptions, and automated tax compliance — enabling digital businesses to expand globally with reduced complexity and lower costs.
7 Jul 2026
Getting the Most Out of Web2App with FastSpring + FunnelFox, with Andrey Shakhtin
In order to grow your app in an increasingly competitive landscape, you'll need to master a variety of strategies to stand out and maximize your chances of success. One of the key ways to maximize your chances of success is to take advantage of web2app to increase your profitability and the conversion rates of your UA ad campaigns. But how do you go about launching web2app in a way that won't upend your product roadmap while still delivering material results for your business?
In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Andrey Shakhtin, the CEO and Co-Founder of web2app platform FunnelFox, about his thoughts on:
What the top challenges for growing a mobile app business are in today's landscape.
How web2app is opening up new opportunities for app publishers.
What is allowed / not allowed with direct monetization.
What you can do to take advantage of this trend, including leveraging the newly accounted FastSpring + FunnelFox integration.
If you're thinking of adopting web2app, or you already have and are looking for tips to bring your campaigns to the next level, don't miss this episode. Watch or listen now!
This podcast is brought to you by FastSpring (https://fastspring.com/). As the leading merchant of record payment platform for digital products, FastSpring delivers an all-in-one solution for payments, subscriptions, and automated tax compliance — enabling digital businesses to expand globally with reduced complexity and lower costs.
30 Jun 2026
Cold Outreach in the Era of AI: What Actually Works With Kseniia Skobelska of Snov.io
Most SaaS founders have sent cold emails, but between AI-generated noise, spam filters, and domain reputation pitfalls, getting a reply in 2026 is harder than ever. How can digital product companies build outreach that actually reaches the inbox, earns a response, and scales without burning their domain in the process?
In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Kseniia Skobelska, Growth Market Strategist at Snov.io. With over 3 million users on their platform, Snov.io has a unique window into what separates outreach that works from outreach that wastes everyone's time, and Kseniia is here to share what the data actually shows on:
• Why open rates are misleading and what metric you should actually be optimizing for.
• What's really triggering your emails to land in spam and how to fix it.
• How to build a cold outreach system from scratch that's deliverable, human, and worth replying to.
If you're a founder doing ad hoc outreach or a small team trying to build a repeatable pipeline motion, don't miss this episode of Growth Stage. Watch or listen now!
This podcast is brought to you by FastSpring (https://fastspring.com/). As the leading merchant of record payment platform for digital products, FastSpring delivers an all-in-one solution for payments, subscriptions, and automated tax compliance — enabling digital businesses to expand globally with reduced complexity and lower costs.
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