SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185
04 Mar 2016
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is The Top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base. You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have.
Chapter 2: What is Blab and how does it differ from other platforms?
I'm now at $20,000 per talk. Five and six million. He is hell-bent on global domination. We just broke our 100,000-unit soul mark.
Chapter 3: What are the unique features of Blab that attract niche audiences?
And I'm your host, Nathan Latka.
Chapter 4: How does Blab engage its audience and encourage interaction?
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Chapter 5: What is Blab's current business model and monetization strategy?
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Chapter 6: What growth goals has Blab set for its user base?
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Chapter 7: How does Blab plan to compete with traditional media?
Coming up tomorrow morning, Top Tribe, you'll hear from Josh Reeves. He's 32 and has raised $136 million in funding, but it's about way more than just money.
Chapter 8: What is the significance of user engagement metrics for Blab?
Okay, Top Tribe, good morning to you. Our guest this morning is Sean Puri. You might know him as the co-founder of Blab, but previously he opened a sushi restaurant, biotech startup, and ran an idea lab in San Francisco. Sean, are you ready to take us to the top? I'm ready, buddy. All right, let's do this, man. So sushi to biotech to Blab, how'd that work?
That worked just as randomly as it sounds. Before that, I was a pre-med student who thought I was going to become an orthopedic surgeon. So the sushi thing came about very randomly to all your listeners who are maybe aspiring entrepreneurs or already entrepreneurs. They will relate to this, which is all it takes is an idea and a lack of awareness of how hard something will be. Yeah.
Dumb enough to go for it, right? Exactly. Dumb enough to go for it. And that's definitely what me and my two friends were when we started that thing. And it was, it had a big dream. It was trying to become the Chipotle of sushi. And we had, you know, a food network chef on board and things look good.
We started winning all these business plan competitions, which gives you, you know, a bit of false hope that your business plan is any good. And it gives you cash, which helps you run the business.
And eventually, we were very lucky, and I'll fast forward through the details, but we were very lucky that there was a guy in Australia who had sold his company, who was looking to start something new, who had been introduced to us and read our blog and found out what we were all about.
And, um, he reached out and flew us to Australia and told us about this new thing he was starting and said he wanted some youth and hustle to make it happen. So, uh, almost overnight we dropped the sushi thing, ended up starting a biotech company in Australia, uh, before coming out to San Francisco and figuring out what Silicon Valley is all about. So, so, okay.
So then let's just jump right into the blab story. So when did it, when did it launch and what are like the key metrics you're tracking on a Yeah, so Blab is still in beta, but we had the idea for it about nine weeks ago. Sorry, nine months ago. So nine months from today, which is mid-January 2016. Exactly. And so that was when we had the idea.
And then we've basically been building the product in public since then. And we've become... you know, the predominant way to have a conversation on the internet. So you're doing this on Skype so that you can record it and then, you know, give it to listeners later in the form of a podcast.
But what people do on Blab is they go, they have a conversation like you and I talking about startups and my journey. And then there's people listening live who can comment, chat, and even call in and join the conversation if they so choose. So it's a live conversation about the things that you're interested in.
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