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Every resource founders actually use, in one library.
The essays, videos, podcasts, books and tools behind every answer across eChai's hubs, from starting up to go-to-market, D2C, founder money and AI, each with a note on why it is here.
What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.
- The honest sequel: why the inbound playbook that worked at launch had to be abandoned for outbound and in person selling once... SaaS Scaling Secrets Podcast · About 42 min · GTM Ditching Traditional SaaS Playbooks with Sri Ganesan, CEO of Rocketlane Srikrishnan Ganesan
- Where the motion came from: the Ola number masking call, 350 inbound SMBs at 10 to 15 a month, the rupee pricing experiments,... The Neon Show Podcast · 59 min · GTM Exotel, SaaS startup serving clients like Ola, Swiggy, Zerodha Shivakumar Ganesan
- The useful half is where Simons says the model breaks and enterprise advocates became necessary, which stops this being read as... Inside Intercom Podcast · About 30 min · GTM How Atlassian built a $20 billion company with a unique sales model Jay Simons
- This is the segment selection episode: the rabbits and elephants analogy, fewer than 1,000 merchants at Series A, and why 20... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · Podcast episode with full transcript · GTM Razorpay's Journey From a Small Startup to a Big Brand with Co-Founder and CEO Harshil Mathur Harshil Mathur
- A slide by slide walk through the actual 2014 deck, which had no founder slide and won on problem clarity, useful if you are... SeedToScale by Accel Podcast · Podcast episode · GTM Breaking Down Razorpay's Original Pitch With Harshil Mathur Harshil Mathur
- Figma's first go to market hire walks the whole arc from stealth to monetisation, including how the bottom up motion eventually... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · About 1 hr · GTM An inside look at Figma's unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire) Claire Butler
- Kramer talking through when to hire, why to start with a generalist, and why product marketer and growth marketer are genuinely... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · About 1 hr · GTM How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1) Emily Kramer
- An anti-pattern list is more useful than another list of tactics, and this one includes the 18 month model refresh and the... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · About 1 hr · GTM 10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey) Elena Verna
- Krish names all four pricing mistakes rather than the tidy version, and this is where pricing is your strongest lead filter... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · Podcast episode · GTM SaaS Subscription Billing Lessons from Chargebee's Journey Krish Subramanian
- The contrarian half: he argues public pricing pages are overrated and worth experimenting against, which is worth hearing... SaaStr Podcast · Podcast episode · GTM SaaStr Podcast #203: Krish Subramanian, Founder & CEO @ Chargebee on Why Every Startup Should Bootstrap At Some Stage Krish Subramanian
- The concrete deal sizes behind the theory, and the clearest illustration of domain fluency as a moat: he could speak commodity... The Founder Thesis Podcast Podcast · Long-form interview · GTM From Coffee Trader to $250M VC: Manav Garg, Together Fund Manav Garg
- Two ideas you can use immediately: category names come before company names, and reading acquisition news as the purchase of a... Lochhead on Marketing Podcast · Short episode · GTM 025 Category Creation & Category Design: A New Lens On Business Christopher Lochhead
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Podcast · Long-form interview · GTM
Christopher Lochhead, Friend to the Different, Category Design, Author & Pirate, Arrr
Christopher Lochhead
- It contains the single cleanest proof of the no US sales team claim: the first paying customer was Atwell College in Australia,... Mixergy Podcast · Interview with full transcript · GTM The surprising place to find your business idea Girish Mathrubootham
- The unglamorous version, including two failed ventures first and over 50 investors saying no, which is the context that makes... FactorDaily Outliers Podcast · Podcast episode · GTM How Ritesh Arora learned from failures to bootstrap, then turn BrowserStack into a $60m rocket ship Ritesh Arora
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Podcast · 83 min · GTM
60-min Customer Success Masterclass by Harsh Sanklesha
Harsh Sanklesha
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Podcast · 21 min · GTM
Client Onboarding and Implementation | CS Community India Podcast Series #3
As Far As I Know
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Podcast · 16 min · GTM
How to make QBRs interesting? CS Community India Podcast Series #2
As Far As I Know
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Podcast · 54 min · GTM
Customer Success Programs at Iterable & AutogenAI with Eloise Salisbury
Eloise Salisbury
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Podcast · 8 min · GTM
Should CSMs have CSQL quotas? CS Community India Podcast Series #1
As Far As I Know
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Podcast · 16 min · GTM
Renewal Forecasting in Customer Success: How to Get It Right
CS in 15
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Podcast · 49 min · GTM
Customer Success at Notion: Monica Perez on Product-Led CS
Monica Perez
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Podcast · 33 min · GTM
S8E1 - Impact of Customer Success on Gross & Net Retention ft. Luke Diaz, Director of Customer Su...
Luke Diaz
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Podcast · 57 min · GTM
The $400K Sales Rep: What Top Earners Know That You Don't | Siva Rajamani (Everstage CEO)
Siva Rajamani
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Wealth
Paying yourself, ESOPs, secondaries, and de-risking founder wealth.
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