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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Dec. 1, 2025

How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex

Eric spent 30 years in cybersecurity. Built and sold an MSSP to private equity for hundreds of millions. Then he started Tenex and hit $43 million in revenue in ONE YEAR. This isn't theory. This is a founder who's done it mul...
Nov. 27, 2025

Q3 2025 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta

Carta's Peter Walker is back with the freshest data on what's actually happening at the early stage—and it's not what you're reading on X. While headlines scream about record-breaking rounds, the reality on the ground tells a different story. Seed deals are down. Time between rounds is stretching. …
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...
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 1st 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...

Recent Blog Posts

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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Nov. 25, 2025

10 Years to Build a $550M InsurTech: How Sure's Wayne Slavin Pivoted …

In 2015, Wayne Slavin had a crazy idea on a flight to Vegas: sell life insurance to people freaking out during turbulence. One weekend later, he built a prototype. No actual insurance product. Just a landing page, some Google ads, and a fake paymen…

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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.