The Product Market Fit Show
The Product Market Fit Show
Top startup founders share how they built, scaled, and found product-market fit. From Reddit to Glean—real startup stories from 0 to 1. Available on Apple and Spotify.
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The Product Market Fit Show

The #1 podcast for early stage startup founders finding product market fit.

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Dec. 11, 2025

He killed a viral app with 50k users. 2 years later, he hit $10M ARR and raised $30M from Sequoia. | David Paffenholz (Juicebox)

David had a consumer app with 50,000 users and viral traction—and he shut it down. The retention metrics weren't as good as what he'd seen at Snapchat. That difficult decision cleared the path for Juicebox, AI for recruiting ...
Dec. 8, 2025

Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder of Scribe

Jennifer went from VC to founder and immediately broke every rule in the book. When she pivoted Scribe from an automation tool to a documentation platform, her investors told her she had just killed the company. She ignored t...
Dec. 4, 2025

He exited to Snap for $166M— built an AI video startup, then raised $50M. | Alex Mashrabov, Founder of Higgsfield AI

Alex built the original Snapchat filters-- and sold his company to Snap for $166M. Then he left to start Higgsfield. The company just raised a $50M Series A to help brands create AI-generated video ads at scale. We go deep on...
Dec. 1, 2025

How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex

Eric spent 30 years in cybersecurity. Built and sold an MSSP to private equity for hundreds of millions. Then he started Tenex and hit $43 million in revenue in ONE YEAR. This isn't theory. This is a founder who's done it mul...
Nov. 27, 2025

Q3 2025 w/Carta: What you need to raise a Series A. | Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta

Carta's Peter Walker is back with the freshest data on what's actually happening at the early stage—and it's not what you're reading on X. While headlines scream about record-breaking rounds, the reality on the ground tells a different story. Seed deals are down. Time between rounds is stretching. …
Nov. 24, 2025

He added AI to parking lots—then raised $3.5B. | Alex Israel, Founder of Metropolis

Alex and his co-founders spent 2018 pitching parking lot owners on computer vision tech. Every meeting ended the same way: "Cute startup, come back in 30 years." So they did something else—they bought the parking operators an...

Recent Blog Posts

Dec. 10, 2025

The Startup Revenue Acceleration Playbook: $0 to $43M in One Year

Eric Foster built his first computer in 1989. By the mid-90s, he was fighting cybercriminals over dial-up modems. Thirty years later, he sold his cybersecurity company CYDERES to private equity in a deal that created a billion-dollar merged entity w…

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Nov. 25, 2025

The Startup Acquisition Strategy That Built a $5B Parking Empire

Alexander Israel sat in a Venice parking lot in 2018, staring at his phone. The first Stripe notification pinged. Someone had just paid for parking through Metropolis without tickets, credit cards, or any friction whatsoever. The technology was so s…

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Nov. 25, 2025

How Instalily Hit $1M ARR in Months by Building AI That Actually Does…

When Amit Shah left his role as president of 1-800-Flowers after eleven years of scaling the company from $500 million to over $2 billion, he wasn't looking for another comfortable executive position. He had spent two decades watching talented teams…

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About the Host

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Pablo Srugo

Partner | Mistral

Pablo is a Partner at Mistral, a seed-stage firm based in Canada. Before joining Mistral, Pablo was a founder and COO at Gymtrack, a venture-backed start-up in the FitTech space. Prior to Gymtrack, Pablo founded an online tutoring platform targeting university students, which was acquired in 2014.