A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for Founders

He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tanay Kothari, Founder of Wispr Flow


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Tanay started coding at 10, built a product with millions of users by 11, and never stopped. In this episode, he shares how he created Wispr Flow—one of the fastest growing AI startups today. He's built the world's best voice to text app. I use it myself every single day. And he just raised a $30M Series A from Menlo Ventures 

This is a must-listen for any founder obsessed with building something users can’t live without.

Why You Should Listen

  • How Tanay built one of the world’s first voice assistants at 11—and what it taught him about startups.
  • Why most founders get product-market fit wrong 
  • The critical mistake that almost killed Wispr AI
  • The one thing Tanay wishes he’d known about building a startup team five years ago.

Keywords
product market fit, AI startup, Wispr Flow, Tanay Kothari, founder stories, startup pivot, voice interface, building teams, hyper-growth startup, deep tech startup

00:00:00 Intro

00:07:22 Learning to Code in Secret

00:13:27 From New Delhi to Stanford and Silicon Valley

00:17:34 Feather X—Tanay’s First Big Startup Exit

00:24:33 The Original Moonshot Vision of Wispr AI

00:31:19 Why Wispr AI Had to Pivot

00:38:32 The Power of Incremental Change Over Radical Shifts

00:43:00 Achieving Explosive Growth and True Product-Market Fit

00:49:01 The Most Important Lesson—Building the Right Team

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