Thanks to Marc and his whole team for the effort they put in on these episodes. For those of you who are interested, please find both segments here:Įpisode 4, “ COVID-Friendly and Ready to Rally” – Released March, 2021Įpisode 69, “ Should You Buy or Lease Your Location?” – Released October, 2022 I guess Marc liked how the episode turned out because he reached out a year later to record a second follow-up episode. Sure enough, PingPod was selected and Marc’s team reached out to schedule a recording session.

That same day I composed my pitch and rolled the dice. Marc said if I was interested in having him help me with my idea – and potentially appearing on the podcast – I should send a message explaining who you are, what you’re working on, and (most importantly) what help you are looking for. We will talk through your idea, your progress, and what concerns you might have, and I’ll do my best to help get you unstuck, start you moving in a better direction, or in the best case, give you the confidence you’re already on the right track.” “In each episode I’ll be doing a one-on-one mentoring session, almost identical to the type of session you and I might have were you to come visit me in person.

He described his new podcast project That Will Never Work as follows:

Then one day in October I was surprised to find an email from Marc in my inbox. I had no expectation of receiving an email back. In the same paragraph, in what was almost a throwaway sentence Marc included, “I still have that email and check it from time to time.” I stopped reading and sent him an email on the spot. One night, as I was reading page 96 on paperback, I came across a paragraph in which Marc referenced his original email address. Marc is the co-founder and original CEO of Netflix. One of the books we read was That Will Never Work, by Marc Randolph. Namely, we devoured books ( Super Pumped, Shoe Dog, Infinite Games, Bad Blood, The Ride of a Lifetime, The Everything Store, etc.) and podcasts (lots of How I Built This) in order to learn from other founders’ experiences.

When we first came together to work on PingPod, we allocated time to immersing ourselves in the start-up world. Max and Ernesto had been friends for years, but I was a new face to them. I met my co-founders Max and Ernesto in 2019.

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