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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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 ...
Oct. 30, 2025

He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskildsen, Founder of turbopuffer

Simon spent 10 years at Shopify scaling databases to millions of requests per second. Then he discovered vector databases were so expensive that companies couldn't launch AI features. So he solved it. When Cursor emailed abou...
Oct. 27, 2025

He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | Guy Podjarny, Founder of Snyk & Tessl

Guy spent 2 years and $4M building Snyk to $100K ARR. Thousands of developers loved the product. They just wouldn't pay. Then he figured out the problem: he had product-user fit, but not product-buyer fit. Developers loved Sn...

Recent Blog Posts

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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Nov. 14, 2025

Product-User Fit vs Product-Buyer Fit: How Snyk Spent $4M to Learn th…

Two years in, Guy Podjarny had burned through $4 million and built Snyk to just $100,000 ARR. Thousands of developers were using the product. They loved it. They recommended it to colleagues. They integrated it into their workflows. They just had on…

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Nov. 14, 2025

How to Compete with Billion-Dollar Incumbents: The 5x Founder's Playb…

Five-time founder Amar Varma has a peculiar talent: he keeps finding himself at the exact intersection of emerging technology and massive market opportunity. In 2012, he was running Hatch Labs when the team launched their tenth experiment—a re…

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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.