Founder Chats

Welcome to Founder Chats, the show where I, Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics, hop on a call with my founder pals and get the stories of how they started and grew their businesses.

This week I talk with James Smith of BugSnag, where they do application error monitoring. We talk about breaking computers as a kid, using open source as a way to get initial traction, marketing to developers, the role of data in decision making a bunch more. Hope you enjoy it!

Welcome to Founder Chats, the show where I, Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics, hop on a call with my founder pals and get the stories of how they started and grew their businesses.

This week I talk with Jesse Mecham of YouNeedABudget, where they help people get out debt and get control of their money. We talk about how he majored in accounting on whim, sold downloadable spreadsheets to pay rent, switching from a one-time payment setup to subscription and so much more. Hope you enjoy it!

Welcome to Founder Chats, the show where I, Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics, hop on a call with my founder pals and get the stories of how they started and grew their businesses.

This week I talk with Colin Nederkoorn of Customer.io, where they help companies automate customer lifecycle emails and campaigns. We chat about growing up in Singapore, watching his dad run an international shipping logistics company, working nearly a dozen different jobs before founding Customer.io, and biking across the country. Such an interesting story. Hope you enjoy it!

This week, I chat with Spencer Fry, founder and CEO of Coach.

In this episode we talk about starting businesses while in college, being a non-technical co-founder, the pros and cons of having co-founders and the appeal of entrepreneurship!

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This week, I chat with JD Graffam, founder of SimpleFocus and serial buyer of small SaaS companies.

In this episode we talk about building an agency and transitioning in to buying up smaller SaaS products and turning them in to money making machines!

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This week, I chat with Todd Garland, founder of BuySellAds.

In this episode we talk a whole lot about advertising on the web, the ad industry as a whole, ad blocking, niche ad networks and growing a bootstrapped business!

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This week, I chat with Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier.

In this episode we talk about the business impact of features, how to make use of partnerships, the benefit of Y Combinator, managing a huge fully remote team, content marketing, and more!

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This week, I chat with Natalie Nagele, co-founder of Wildbit, makers of Beanstalk, Postmark and Deploybot.

In this episode we talk about Wildbit’s 15-year history, building a remote team, shunning the traditional “open” office space, juggling multiple products, profit sharing, building a family business and a whole pile of other things!

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This week, I chat with Aaron Epstein, founder of Creative Market, which is a online marketplace for design assets (icons, photography, illustrations, etc).

In this episode we talk about Creative Market’s origin, growth and acquisition, building communities, Y Combinator, design and more!

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Welcome to Founder Chats! A show where I, Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics, give my founder pals a ring to talk shop and stick my nose in their business!

This week I chat with John O’Nolan, Founder of Ghost, a publishing platform for professional bloggers.

John’s got a really interesting origin story for Ghost (it was a crowdfunded on Kickstarter). Ghost is a startup, but operates as a non-profit incorporated in Singapore with their entire team spread across the globe.

In this episode we talk Kickstarter, building open-source software, running a non-profit software company and much more. Enjoy!