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Ashish Kundra

@akundra

Building something new. Podcaster. Angel. Hypeman

. Prev growth

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San Francisco, CApodcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par…Joined December 2007

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One benefit of getting older is you appreciate how fast time goes by and that all you need to do is appreciate the present. Meals with friends. Walks. The smell of summer. The satisfaction of growth. A billion moments that'll never happen again. That's all life is. Enjoy it.

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Beerud is an incredible entrepreneur, and really generous guest. He shared so many great insights in this episode. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Find it on: - Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6W5trTic7 - Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par - YouTube:

Beerud Sheth, founder of Upwork and GupShup on the grit needed to...

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4. The GupShup story — how India leapfrogged the US in terms of messaging apps, how they grew GupShup into a $250M revenue business, blitzscaling from 200 to 1500 people in the last 1.5 years, and more.

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3. The fundamental characteristics that make a marketplace business successful — specializing vs. going broad, why take rate is so important, how to capture value and more.

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2. The early days and inflection points of the UpWork journey — like raising their Series A from John Doerr and Kleiner Perkins in 2000, pivoting their business model during the dot com bubble, how they grew the network over time, and more.

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1. How to survive the “trough of sorrow” by focusing on profitable growth, staying lean, and positioning yourself to take advantage of shifts in the market (like increased mobile adoption in India, and remote work during Covid)

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The most impressive founders thrive during down markets.

, founder of

($1.5B public co) and

($1.4B valuation), is in the rare breed of founders that has started two generational unicorns. Both emerged stronger from the market downturns (dot com & GFC).

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• YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=C7Sn7Z • Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6W5trTic7 • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par • More: buzzsprout.com/1753569/119029

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We had such a pleasure speaking with Wei and we hope you enjoy this convo. Links:

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3 - The challenges and nuances of running a real-world healthcare marketplace, including: dealing with weather, gas prices, matching supply/demand with very specific skills in micro markets, network effects and more.

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2 - How finding PM fit is a journey, even for the most impressive startups like Clipboard. Although Wei was focused on the mission of enabling fulfilling work from the start, they iterated through several products until they found the winning formula with the marketplace model.

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1 - How you can learn anything by putting yourself out there and being relentlessly resourceful. As lawyer by trade, Wei didn’t have much experience with healthcare marketplaces. So to educate herself, she messaged 400 nurses/day on LinkedIn to learn about their lives & problems.

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Wei is an exceptional founder — one of the most impressive we’ve spoken with — and in this episode it really shows. Some of my favorite takeaways:

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We’re thrilled to release EP34 with Wei Deng, founder/CEO of healthcare marketplace Clipboard Health (valued at $1.3B)! In this episode we discuss how they built a unicorn healthcare marketplace, including the founding story, finding PM fit, and blitzscaling thru Covid.

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Many startups dream of growing 3-5x every 18mo.

@ClipboardHealth

grew *25x* in the 18mo leading up to their $1.3B valuation Series C led by Sequoia 🤯. And they did it with a real-world marketplace, in a heavily regulated industry...

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"OK I'm lowering my desk. Standing meeting over." -

at the end of our pod planning standup 😂😂🤣🤣

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There are more enterprise startups founded every year than consumer startups. It can be an incredibly competitive space. Yet

has been an early team member and exec at three super successful enterprise companies. Literally a perfect record. (1/10)

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This was an incredibly fun conversation and

and I learned a ton from Bryan — hope you enjoy the episode as much as we did! Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6W5trTic7 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par Other: buzzsprout.com/1753569/118257

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Since launching earlier this year, over 2,000 applications have used LayerZero to send 1M cross-chain messages (and growing every day). See their crazy growth here:

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Overall messaging hit an all time high this month for the 3rd month in a row with contracts on Mainnet almost eclipsing 2,000!

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Thrilled to release EP32 with

from

@LayerZero_Labs

! LayerZero operates an cross-chain protocol that makes it easy to build cross-chain applications. They’ve raised $135M from Sequoia and A16z at a $1B valuation.

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Kunal is one of the most insightful and curious founders we’ve spoken with — I know you’ll enjoy this episode! Find it on: • YouTube (new! full video): youtube.com/watch?v=R3oQ_v • Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6W5trTic7 • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par • More buzzsprout.com/1753569/117856

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We covered A LOT in this episode including: his incredible childhood story, the value of philosophy and truth seeking in business, how to build iconic products and businesses, the future of startups in India and way more.

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One of them is the Delta 4 framework — an actionable system founders can use to determine if a product idea is capable of generating explosive, word-of-mouth growth.

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How does a philosophy student, who grew up supporting his family financially, go on to have one the largest exits in India ($450M) and then found $6B fintech startup

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Hope you enjoy it! Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6W5trTic7 iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par Other: buzzsprout.com/1753569/115965

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One common misconception is that mainstream people just don’t care about their internet privacy. But this is clearly wrong — Apple is buying billboards for privacy, WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, and DuckDuckGo has built a household name for privacy in record time.

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Very excited to release EP30 with

of

! Skiff is building private end-to-end encrypted email, docs, and drive. They’ve raised over $14M from Sequoia.

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! Been amazing to see you grow the business 🔥🔥

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Canary Technologies, which offers hotels a guest management system and other tools, raised a $30M Series B led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $45M (Kathryn Walson / PhocusWire) phocuswire.com/canary-technol techmeme.com/221030/p1#a221

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I really love this visualization. A magical MVP is both a complete product in and of itself but also a representative piece of a much broader vision.

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The price of efficiency is soul. (h/t

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When it comes to communication, having something insightful to say is far more important than saying it well.

You haven't lived until you've used an airplane bathroom while holding a toddler swinging their arms like a wild pendulum.

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This podcast with

is pure gold. If you are a founder, investor, or just care to learn how the world operates, give it a listen.

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EP29: Keith Rabois on navigating the downturn, developing good judgement, and building an iconic...

Listen to this episode from Paradigm Shift on Spotify. Keith is a Silicon Valley legend— an accomplished operator, founder, and investor. He started his career as an early executive at PayPal,...

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This was just a fraction of the many actionable and interesting insights in this episode. Listen to the full interview in your favorite podcast player: Apple - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/6W5trTic7 Other -

EP29: Keith Rabois on navigating the downturn, developing good...

Keith is a Silicon Valley legend— an accomplished operator, founder, and investor. He started his career as an early executive at PayPal, LinkedIn and Square, before going on to co-found companies...

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"People systematically undervalue their time."

told Keith this in 2000. Every CEO must treat time as scarce and constantly ask themselves: "Is this the single best allocation of this moment in terms of high leverage return I can create?"

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“I wouldn't confuse the ability to raise a lot of money with the ability with the capital intensive business.” Large rounds are often a result of a company being capital *efficient* vs. capital *ineffecient*. "The money doesn't cause the success it's the opposite.”

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"Capital is like oxygen." Keith points out that capital is just an input into a business. It's the CEO's job to understand the cost of capital, how to invest it intelligently, and the payback period & time horizon per investment opportunity.

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"Can this founder rearrange the world around his or her world will?” Keith's (insanely high!) investment bar in a nutshell. Because it's so difficult and heroic to create a company that transforms the world "founders need to be in the top 1% or top 0.1% of some trait".

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