What's it like getting acquired by Spotify? (Dave Zohrob from Chartable)

Dave Zohrob is the co-founder of Chartable (a podcast analytics
startup), talks about selling his company to Spotify in February
2022.


Highlights (go straight to for the best stuff):


1:00 – What's the Spotify office in New York like?

5:24 – Dave's first startup: he started an indie record label
(Tellall Records)

7:12 – Founding in Chartable in 2017

8:00 – Behind the scenes: talking to Chris Enns (our editor
at Lemon Productions)

9:50 – Dave's first business as a kid: publishing programming
tutorials on the internet (Qbasic.com)

12:25 – What made you want to make money on the internet?

14:25 – Do all geeks have the intuition to start a business?
(Justin's tweet)

19:23 – What's your real motivation for building a startup?

24:28 – Side-projects vs Bootstrapping vs Venture Funding
(VC)

30:12 – Once you choose the VC-funded path, what's it like?

32:00 – The huge risk/cost for founders with families

34:30 – Public health insurance is the best way to boost
entrepreneurship

36:30 – Bootstrappers and VC-funded founders have this same
anxiety

40:00 – What it's like joining a massive company as a small
11-person company?

48:10 – What's next in podcast ad tech, analytics, and
attribution



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