The 5-Minute Founder

Ed Petersen is the Co-Founder & CEO of Wrench, which provides an on-demand app for car maintenance and repairs.

In the interview, Ed explains how Wrench acquired their first customers as well as the challenges of managing a remote workforce.

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Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Stefan Kalb is the Co-Founder & CEO of Shelf Engine, which buys back food waste from grocery stores and manages their orders using AI.

In the interview, talks about acquiring Shelf Engine's first customers and learning the importance of growth during their time in Y Combinator.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Mike Grabham is the Founder and CEO of Package Guard, which makes a device that helps prevent package thefts.

Mike tells the story of how the unfortunate theft of a package led him to start Package Guard.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Matt Ehrlichman is the Co-Founder & CEO of Porch, a home services marketplace.

In the interview, Matt discusses how they acquired their first customers, the challenges of creating a marketplace from scratch, and what investors look for in companies at different stages in growth.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Matt Hammersley is the Co-Founder & CEO of Novel Effect, which creates an app that ads music and sound effects to the book reading experience with children.

In the interview, Matt talks about his passion for storytelling and the importance of focus when starting a company.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Rajeev Dutt is the Co-Founder & CEO of DimensionalMechanics, a company that makes AI to build AI.

Rajeev talks about the challenges of raising too much early on, and how that could prevent an early stage startup from focus.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Aaron Suzuki is the Founder & CEO of SmartDeploy, a disk imaging software company.

In the interview, Aaron discusses his greatest challenge with the business as well as how developing a good marketing plan was crucial to his company turning the corner to profitability.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

This is a clip from my other show, Stories, which is similar to The 5-Minute Founder in that I'm interviewing company founders. However, Stories is a much longer format, where we really dive into the founder's story and also a more detailed story on how they built their company.    This clip is from serial entrepreneur and angel investor Mark Montgomery. Mark is the founder of Flo Co, which develops and incubates startups.   If you'd like to listen to the full interview, you can do so at thestoriespodcast.com or just search my first and last name, Shawn Ketcham (both names spelled correctly of course) in your podcast app, and Stories will pop up right next to the 5-Minute Founder. This clip is from Season 1, Episode 16.   -----

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ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Prosper Gowork – Prosper Gowork is a shared work space with multiple locations across Brooklyn. For less than $100/mo, you can have 24/7 access to all of Prosper’s locations. Listeners of the show get $50 total off their first 3 months of membership, and then 10% off the normal monthly rate after that (you’ll only pay $89/mo). Sign up today at ProsperGowork.com/Founder.

David Shadrack Smith is the Founder & Creative Director of Part2 Pictures, an Emmy-award winning production company based in Brooklyn.

In the interview, David talks about getting discovered by National Geographic early in his career, traveling the world, and eventually starting his own production company and working for client's such as Oprah Winfrey, CNN, Showtime, National Geographic, among others. David also discusses the importance of setting goals for yourself and creating a life structure that helps you achieve those goals.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Prosper Gowork – Prosper Gowork is a shared work space with multiple locations across Brooklyn. For less than $100/mo, you can have 24/7 access to all of Prosper’s locations. Listeners of the show get $50 total off their first 3 months of membership, and then 10% off the normal monthly rate after that (you’ll only pay $89/mo). Sign up today at ProsperGowork.com/Founder.

Henry Gordon-Smith is the Founder of AGRITECTURE, a global urban-agriculture consulting firm based in Brooklyn.

In the interview, Henry discusses how they originally started as a blog nine years ago before transitioning to a consulting firm, and also the importance of thought leadership in growing their business.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Prosper Gowork – Prosper Gowork is a shared work space with multiple locations across Brooklyn. For less than $100/mo, you can have 24/7 access to all of Prosper’s locations. Listeners of the show get $50 total off their first 3 months of membership, and then 10% off the normal monthly rate after that (you’ll only pay $89/mo). Sign up today at ProsperGowork.com/Founder.