Startup Field Guide by Unusual Ventures: The Product Market Fit Podcast

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Every overnight success in the world of software happens after years of hard work finding product-market fit. The Unusual Ventures Startup Field Guide is a podcast for early-stage software leaders and aspiring founders looking for help going from 0 to 1. Featuring great conversations between venture capitalist Sandhya Hegde and successful startup founders, you will learn about hiring, product research, go-to-market, fundraising, and more.

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Eightfold AI CEO Ashutosh Garg on managing talent with AI

May 19 2024 36 mins

Eightfold AI is a talent management platform used by hundreds of large organizations like Vodafone and Activision Blizzard. It helps them leverage data to find great people with the skills they need, both internally and externally. Last valued at $2.1 billion, Eightfold was launched in 2016. In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Ashutosh Garg, co-founder and CEO of Eightfold AI

Monte Carlo CEO Barr Moses on data reliability

May 05 2024 39 mins

Monte Carlo is an end-to-end data observability platform that monitors pipelines for missing or inaccurate data. Last valued at $1.6B, Monte Carlo has over 150 customers, including data teams at companies such as CNN, JetBlue, Hubspot, PepsiCo, and Toast. In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Barr Moses, co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo. Join us as we discuss: 00:00 Preview

Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats on AI-powered search

Apr 21 2024 35 mins

Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine that answers user questions. Founded in 2022 and valued at over $1B, Perplexity recently crossed 10M monthly active users and is growing fast. In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Denis Yarats, co-founder and CTO of Perplexity. Join us as we discuss: 00:00 Reactions to Perplexity’s prototype in 2022 1:33 How Arvind and Denis started

Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar on how AI is accelerating legal tech

Apr 07 2024 39 mins

Everlaw is a legal tech company started in 2011 that helps law firms and corporations run what’s called “e-discovery”— essentially a process of investigating often massive piles of documents to find the key pieces of evidence, the smoking gun, and then to construct a narrative from it. Last valued at over $2B, Everlaw has over 1,000 customers over the world. In this episod

Deepgram's CEO Scott Stephenson on Speech AI

Mar 24 2024 41 mins

Deepgram is a voice AI company that has built an incredible reputation in the market for the quality of its speech recognition. Last valued at over $250M, Deepgram has over 500 customers, including NASA, Spotify, and Twilio. In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Scott Stephenson, CEO and co-founder of Deepgram. Join us as we discuss: 00:00 Preview: Fully contextualized speech

Material Security's CEO Abhishek Agrawal on securing enterprise workspaces

Mar 10 2024 38 mins

Material Security is an email security company that protects an organization's users and data particularly across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Last valued at $1.1B, Material has over 100 enterprise customers, including Doordash, Lyft, and Fox. In this episode, Sandhya Hegde and Wei Lien Dang chat with Abhishek Agrawal, CEO and co-founder of Material Security. Join us

Hightouch's CEO Kashish Gupta on activating data for personalization

Feb 25 2024 34 mins

Hightouch is a composable customer data platform. It helps companies collect and sync user data into ad platforms, CRMs, email tools etc. Last valued at over $600M, Hightouch has over 600 customers, including the NBA, Spotify, Plaid, Calendly, and more. In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Kashish Gupta, co-CEO and co-founder of Hightouch. Join us as we discuss: 00:00 Switch

Notion's Akshay Kothari on productivity and embracing AI

Feb 11 2024 41 mins

Notion is a productivity platform that blends all your workplace apps into a single platform, including team projects, wikis, and docs. Last valued at $10bn, Notion’s customers include teams at Amazon, Nike, Uber, Figma, Deel, and more! In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Akshay Kothari, co-founder and COO of Notion. Join us as we discuss: 00:00 Preview: Building Notion 1.

Domino Data's Chris Yang on helping data scientists run AI

Jan 29 2024 44 mins

Domino Data Lab was founded in 2013 and was one of the early innovators in the space known as MLOps. It delivers a unified platform for enterprises to build, deploy, and manage machine learning workloads and provides access to data, tools, compute, models across any environment. Domino enables ML and data teams to collaborate, ensure governance, and reduce costs at scale. In this e

Stytch's Julianna Lamb on the future of passwords

Jan 14 2024 36 mins

In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch. Stytch is a comprehensive tool for identity management. Its auth and fraud prevention capabilities improve both security and user experience. Last valued at $1.0B, the company now works with over 1000 customers. Join us as we discuss: 00:00 Preview: early product surprises for the Stytch team 0