Early Days

Fredrik Thomassen is the founder and CEO of Superside, a fully distributed and remote design operations platform. Fredrik explains how he and his co-founder got Superside off the ground by manually hacking together an MVP without any tech or teammates who knew how to code. We also hear Fredrik's insights on prioritizing his scope of product offerings, fundraising, and running a truly global company.

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Book recommendations from Fredrik: Hunger by Knut Hamsun

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Jake Gibson, co-founder of Nerdwallet, shares the story of how messing around with a friend to fix a problem getting a credit card, scales into a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ. 

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Sacha Michaud, co-founder of Glovo shares the story of how this once humble delivery company grew into a billion dollars logistics platform in Europe.  You can check our Glovo at glovoapp.com and follow Sacha on Twitter.

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People Sacha follows:

• Bill Gates
• Larry & Sergei (Google)

Books on Sacha's shelf:

• The Road Ahead - Bill Gates
• No Rules Rules - Reid Hastings &  Erin Meyer
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

Harpaul Sambhi dives into how he built Magical, a company focused on reducing monotony and pain in everyday tasks through simple, effective automation.   At the time of recording, Magical had just raised $41m in funding and automated over 1 billion tasks for more than 10,000 companies globally.

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People Harpaul follows for inspiration:

• Shahed Khan - Founder of Loom.
• Jeff Weiner - Founder of LinkedIn.
• Neil Patel - NYT best seller.

Books Harpaul recommends:

• Letters From a Stoic - Seneca.
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius.
• The Courage to be Disliked - Ichirou Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

Avi Meir, Founder and CEO of TravelPerk shares his story of becoming a serial entrepreneur, and how his latest venture, TravelPerk, is changing the game in corporate travel.

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Andrew Ofstad, Co-founder of the world's largest no code platform, Airtable, shares how three friends from college built an $11bn dollar no code empire that more than 80% of the Fortune 100 use day to day.

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Rahul Vohra, Founder and CEO of the your favorite email client, Superhuman, shares how he first came up with the idea, and how he has successfully competed with one of the world's most powerful companies, Google.

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Mark Gainey, the Co-founder and Chairman of Strava shares the story of how he built the worlds largest online athlete community.

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