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.
Choose your favorite podcast player
The Product Market Fit Show
Top 1% Podcast Globally 🎉

The Product Market Fit Show

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

Play Latest Episode
Apple Podcasts podcast player icon Spotify podcast player icon YouTube podcast player icon Amazon Music podcast player icon Overcast podcast player icon Castbox podcast player icon PocketCasts podcast player icon Castro podcast player icon PlayerFM podcast player icon

Recent Episodes

View all
He added AI to parking lots—then raised $3.5B. | Alex Israel, Founder of Metropolis
Nov. 24, 2025

He added AI to parking lots—then raised $3.5B. | Alex Israel, Founder of Metropolis

Alex and his co-founders spent 2018 pitching parking lot owners on computer vision tech. Every meeting ended the same way: "Cute startup, come back in 30 years." So they did something else—they bought the parking operators an...
Listen to the Episode
He left a $2B ARR company to build AI agents—then hit $1M ARR in < 6 months | Amit Shah, Founder of Instalily
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...
Listen to the Episode
He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure
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...
Listen to the Episode
At 21 he made his first million. At 23, he grew his startup to $8M ARR in 6 months. | Matt Espinoza, Founder of Clover
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...
Listen to the Episode
He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. | Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin
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...
Listen to the Episode
He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Founder of Deliverr & Augment
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 ...
Listen to the Episode
View all Episodes

Recent Blog Posts

From $0 to $8M ARR in 6 Months: How 23-Year-Old Matt Espinoza Hacked Distribution with 1,000 Videos Per Day
Nov. 25, 2025

From $0 to $8M ARR in 6 Months: How 23-Year-Old Matt Espinoza Hacked …

Most 23-year-olds are figuring out their first job. Matt Espinoza just scaled his latest company from zero to $8 million ARR in six months. His secret? An almost insane obsession with one thing: volume negates luck. Matt built his first software …

Read the Blog Post
30 Years, 5 Exits: How Serial Founder Russ Fradin Pivoted Dynamic Signal From Influencer Marketing to $50M ARR
Nov. 25, 2025

30 Years, 5 Exits: How Serial Founder Russ Fradin Pivoted Dynamic Sig…

Most founders get one shot at building a company. Maybe two if they're lucky. Russ Fradin has been founding, exiting, and reinventing companies for thirty straight years—from Flycast Communications in 1996 through his current venture, Larridi…

Read the Blog Post
From Amazon Logistics to a $2.1B Shopify Exit: The AI-Driven Startup Growth Framework
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…

Read the Blog Post
View all posts

About the Host

Pablo Srugo Profile Photo

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.