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. 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...
Oct. 23, 2025

5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. | Amar Varma, Founder of Mantle

Amar is a 5x founder who helped birth Tinder (it was the 10th project—after the first 9 failed), then sold his next company to Ford for putting a platform in every single vehicle they make. But the wildest part? He got Ford t...

Recent Blog Posts

Nov. 11, 2025

How to Pivot Your Startup to AI: From Nice-to-Have Terminal to $1M AR…

Every founder dreams of building something people can’t live without. But markets evolve faster than most startups can. What separates companies that stall from those that scale is how they adapt—not with another feature, but with a new…

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Nov. 5, 2025

How to Build a Startup Moat: 3 Proven Strategies from a Microsoft Acq…

Do you ever feel like you're doing all the right things to build your startup, but competitors keep eating your lunch? There's a strategy you may not have considered. It's not about moving faster or building more features—it's about building …

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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.