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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. Angus’ Approach to VC [23:59]. Build Something You’ve Already Sold [33:11].

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. He had a sense for it. He saw something. So, let me walk you through that.

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