Podcast

DTC POD: How The Best Brands Are Built

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A long-running weekly podcast of founder and operator interviews across the DTC space, useful for hearing how other founders (not just the famous unicorn cases) actually navigated the founder-led-to-systemised transition in their own words.

  • Weekly interviews with DTC founders and operators across categories
  • Covers the practical, unglamorous side of scaling a founder-led brand
  • Large back catalogue - useful to search for founders in a comparable stage or category
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It answers 2 questions

  1. At what point do I need to stop being the one doing all the selling myself?
  2. Are there founder communities I should join to learn this stuff instead of figuring it out alone?

Read with it

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  2. Lays out founder-led growth as a repeatable system (economics, storytelling, focus) rather than a personality trait some... Growthcurve Article The Ultimate Founder's Growth Blueprint For D2C Brands Growthcurve
  3. Directly addresses the question every founder-led brand eventually hits - how do I stop being the bottleneck without losing... Helm Article Building a D2C Brand That Scales Beyond Founder-Led Sales Helm
  4. Started as a single WhatsApp group in 2019 and grew into thousands of Indian D2C founders, enabler founders and investors... D2C Insider Tool D2C Insider - India's Leading Community of D2C Founders D2C Insider
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