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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Jan. 8, 2026

His 1st startup failed. His 2nd became a unicorn in just 18 months. | Jake Stauch, Founder of Serval

Jake founded Serval in April 2024— by Dec 2025 he'd raised a $75M Series B from Sequoia at a $1B valuation. He didn't look for a "wedge" or a "niche." He looked at ServiceNow—a $160B, 20+ year-old incumbent that everyone IT team relies on—and rebuilt it from the ground up in a YEAR. In this episode…
Jan. 5, 2026

It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway

Siqi was the CEO of a hot startup doing $20M a year. Then COVID hit. Overnight, revenue went to zero. He had to lay off 95% of his staff. In the chaos of trying to save the company using broken spreadsheets, he found his next...
Dec. 29, 2025

Solo Episode: B2B SaaS is dead. Here's what the best AI founders are doing instead.

The startup game has completely changed. If you are still building with the 2018-2022 B2B SaaS playbook, you are already behind. In this episode, we break down exactly how the GenAI shift has altered value creation, competiti...
Dec. 22, 2025

He got rejected by 60 VCs, burned all his savings—then grew to $100M ARR & a $2B valuation. | Kyle Hanslovan, Founder of Huntress

For the holiday break we are resurfacing some of our best episodes so far. Here is the best episode of season 3. Kyle left his job as a hacker at the NSA to launch Huntress. He bootstrapped for 3 years and burned all his savi...
Dec. 18, 2025

He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer

They were building a Segment competitor. It was working—customers were paying. But every sales call, prospects kept asking about the backend tech instead of the product. So they killed the roadmap and pivoted. It took them 18...
Dec. 15, 2025

Solo Episode: The Five Steps to Product Market Fit

For the holiday break we are resurfacing some of our best episodes so far. Here is the best episode of season 2. Here are the key lessons from the past 60 episodes that we've released to date. Each of the 5 steps to Product ...

Recent Blog Posts

Dec. 10, 2025

The Startup Revenue Acceleration Playbook: $0 to $43M in One Year

Eric Foster built his first computer in 1989. By the mid-90s, he was fighting cybercriminals over dial-up modems. Thirty years later, he sold his cybersecurity company CYDERES to private equity in a deal that created a billion-dollar merged entity w…

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Nov. 25, 2025

The Startup Acquisition Strategy That Built a $5B Parking Empire

Alexander Israel sat in a Venice parking lot in 2018, staring at his phone. The first Stripe notification pinged. Someone had just paid for parking through Metropolis without tickets, credit cards, or any friction whatsoever. The technology was so s…

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Nov. 25, 2025

How Instalily Hit $1M ARR in Months by Building AI That Actually Does…

When Amit Shah left his role as president of 1-800-Flowers after eleven years of scaling the company from $500 million to over $2 billion, he wasn't looking for another comfortable executive position. He had spent two decades watching talented teams…

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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.

Reviews

Tactical

"Excellent questions and speed or hits. Bang bang bang bang keep em coming."

TravelingA | Feb. 28, 2025

Super helpful!

"This is one of the best podcasts I’ve found thus far. Super helpful for me as an early / planning stage non-technical founder. Thank you, Pablo and team!"

Shawng6am | April 23, 2025

Invaluable Resource

"Love this podcast! As a founder working toward PMF, I’m incredibly grateful for the insights and inspiration this show provides. Keep up the excellent work, Pablo!"

Diane P 🤗 | April 24, 2025

Founders need to listen

"One of the best podcasts for founders! Really enjoy listening and it’s been immensely helpful in my journey."

Seanbmccarthy | May 20, 2025

World-Class Startup Lessons, Every Episode

"This is the best startup podcast I’ve ever listened to relevant for founders at every stage. I have over 13 years of experience across both startups and corporate environments, from early-stage to hi…"

Martin Farre | Dec. 15, 2025