Smash Notes | Today in podcasts

To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language | Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 02:30:30 +0000

To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language | Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi

017 - Taking the Better Together Pledge with Jonathan Sposato

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 02:30:12 +0000

Women in Business & Technology Episode 17

#100 – From Aspiring Billionaire to Indie Hacker with Sahil Lavingia of Gumroad

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:30:14 +0000

After leaving his post as employee #2 at Pinterest, a teenage Sahil Lavingia (@shl) raised millions in funding from high-profile Silicon Valley to build a unicorn startup that could change the world — Gumroad. Today he lives in tiny Provo, Utah, spends much of his time learning to write and oil paint, and runs Gumroad as an indie business with the goal of making himself happier. In this episode we talk about what happened in between, and the lessons Sahil learned that can help every indie hacker create better lives for themselves by building more "successful" businesses.

Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/100-sahil-lavingia-of-gumroad

Drew Wilson. In an RV around the world. 🚍🌎

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:30:35 +0000

One day, needing a break from his entrepreneur endeavors, Drew rented an RV and took his entire family on a trip around the United States, for a whole year. This is his story.

Vlad Magdalin. Webflow and the future of software on the internet.

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:30:29 +0000

Can you have a family, a successful company making millions of dollars in annual revenue, and do it all at your own pace, with a remote office company, while having a life that you want to live? Vlad sure can, and we think you can too. Life is too short to live someone else’s dream. The story of Webflow and life advice from Vlad, in this episode.

11 - EXTREME HEAT

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:30:15 +0000

Can you drink your own urine? Run yourself to death?

The Fear of Doing Something Insignificant

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 02:30:27 +0000

It’s very common for people to feel that their ambitions are not big enough and then beat themselves over it. This shouldn’t be the case, because of how big a goal or ambition is a very subjective issue. Today on The Startup Chat, Steli and Hiten talk about the fear of doing something insignificant and what to do about it.

Jason Schuller. Press75 and how a WordPress theme set an entrepreneurial journey in motion.

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 02:30:18 +0000

Jason Schuller is a dad, a husband, and the founder of Press75, a WordPress theme company that he started in frustration, when a consulting client decided to skip paying the bills. That incident caught fire and set Jason on an entrepreneurial journey full of joys and setbacks. His company, and his lessons enabled him to be a successful founder, an engaged father and a thoughtful husband.

The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live | David Brooks

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 02:30:13 +0000

Our society is in the midst of a social crisis, says op-ed columnist and author David Brooks: we're trapped in a valley of isolation and fragmentation. How do we find our way out? Based on his travels across the United States -- and his meetings with a range of exceptional people known as "weavers" -- Brooks lays out his vision for a cultural revolution that empowers us all to lead lives of greater meaning, purpose and joy.

Matt Shobe. Feedburner 2 Google and Beyond.

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 02:30:13 +0000

Matt Shobe is a father of 3 boys, a serial entrepreneur, a private pilot and a rad dad, who came to the Rad Dad podcast to talk about startups and what it takes to have a happy family while you are busy building a rocket ship.

18 - FOOD POISONING

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 02:30:13 +0000

Every year, 1 in 6 people get food poisoning. But, what is food poisoning?

#11 — Sahil Lavingia — Solo Journey

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:30:28 +0000

Sahil Lavingia is the CEO and Founder of Gumroad, a platform to help creators create more through simple e-commerce and audience tools. He is also known for insightful and refreshing points of view on Twitter and Medium. To round it out, he’s also a designer, painter in addition to being a technology CEO and writer. Sahil and I have had similar paths in creation, from tech to design to art, as well as being a founder that has seen almost everything. From being employee #2 at Pinterest to starting his own company, to coverage in just about every magazine, every investor in Silicon Valley wanted to be a part of what he was building to layoffs, then more layoffs, to then being the only person running his company, bordering on depression for a long stretch of time, and now back to a tight-knit team and a business that will bring in over $5m in revenue this year, profitable and actually growing faster than ever. In addition to the experience he’s had, he’s begun to articulate what it has been like as a creator, and his tweets and essays on the topic, up there with Justin Kan, Eric Ries and a handful of other guests have given people some of the most realistic glimpses of what it’s truly like, and I can’t wait for you to hear this behemoth of an episode.