The Product Market Fit Show
The Product Market Fit Show
Top startup founders share how they built, scaled, and found product-market fit. From Reddit to Glean—real startup stories from 0 to 1. Available on Apple and Spotify.
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The Product Market Fit Show

The #1 podcast for early stage startup founders finding product market fit.

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Recent Episodes

Nov. 20, 2025

He left a $2B ARR company to build AI agents—then hit $1M ARR in < 6 months | Amit Shah, Founder of Instalily

Amit walked away from being President of 1-800-Flowers after scaling it from $500M to $2B because he saw smart people trapped in dumb systems. His insight: half of global GDP is 90% manual work—salespeople entering data inste...
Nov. 17, 2025

He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure

Wayne tested flight insurance over a single weekend with a WordPress site and Google ads. When people tried to pay, he showed a fake error message. The result: 15.9% conversion. That validation led to Sure, now powering insur...
Nov. 13, 2025

At 21 he made his first million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza, Founder of Clover

Matt sold his first company at 19 and made $100K. He sold his second at 21 and made $800K. A couple years later, he launched Clover and grew it to $8M ARR in 6 months. His secret? Insane distribution. His formula is to ignore...
Nov. 10, 2025

He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. | Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin

Russ has started and sold multiple companies over 30 years, but his Dynamic Signal journey will change how you think about product-market fit. They had $5M ARR selling influencer marketing software. Then Russ told investors t...
Nov. 6, 2025

He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Founder of Deliverr & Augment

Harish spent 9 months building Deliver and could barely get 10 customers. The product worked. Merchants liked the fast delivery promise. But nobody was signing up. Then he made two changes—and scaled to $100M in revenue in 2 ...
Nov. 3, 2025

He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix & DevRev

Dheeraj built Nutanix into a $20B public company—then walked away to start DevRev. He just raised a $100M Series A. This episode breaks down why most founders "sell and run" (chase new logos instead of delivering value), why ...

Recent Blog Posts

Nov. 21, 2025

From Amazon Logistics to a $2.1B Shopify Exit: The AI-Driven Startup …

Picture this: You're nine months into your startup. You've raised $7 million. You've signed exactly ten merchants. Your flat pricing model that seemed brilliant in theory? Merchants don't get it. The fast shipping promise you're so proud of? Custome…

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Nov. 19, 2025

From $20B Nutanix to AI Unicorn: How Dheeraj Pandey Built Two Generat…

Picture this: You're the CEO of a multi-billion dollar public company. You've spent eleven years building one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history. Then COVID hits, data centers lock down, and everything you predicted about clo…

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Nov. 15, 2025

How Simon Eskildsen Built TurboPuffer, the Vector DB Powering Cursor …

Have you ever looked at your infrastructure costs and thought, "This can't be right"? That's exactly what happened when Simon Eskildsen discovered vector databases were so expensive that companies couldn't even launch features. After spending nearl…

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About the Host

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Pablo Srugo

Partner | Mistral

Pablo is a Partner at Mistral, a seed-stage firm based in Canada. Before joining Mistral, Pablo was a founder and COO at Gymtrack, a venture-backed start-up in the FitTech space. Prior to Gymtrack, Pablo founded an online tutoring platform targeting university students, which was acquired in 2014.