"1 to 100" | Hypergrowth Startups Worth Joining

By: Turpentine Why You Should Join
  • Summary

  • Welcome to 1 to 100, where every week Usman Hanif, the co-author of Why You Should Join, sits down with the founder of a hyper-growth company you should consider joining. Our goal is to give you the inside story behind breakout, early stage companies potentially worth betting your career on. Coming up on this season of 1 to 100, discover how the founders of Modal Labs, Clay, Mercor, and more built their products, cultures, and companies. 1 to 100 is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.co
    2024
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Episodes
  • 1 to 100: Sapien
    Dec 11 2024
    This week, Usman Hanif is joined by Sapien co-founders Ron Nachum, Pranav Ravella, and Arya Grayeli to talk about their journey from college dropouts to securing $8.7M in seed funding, creating the first fully autonomous "shadow CFO" for enterprise teams, and attempting to revolutionize financial decision-making for major companies using AI. — 🙏 Help shape our show by taking our quick listener survey at https://bit.ly/TurpentinePulse. — RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Check out Modern Relationships, where Erik Torenberg interviews tech power couples and leading thinkers to explore how ambitious people actually make partnerships work. Founders Fund's Delian Asparouhov and researcher Nadia Asparouhova kick off the series with an unfiltered conversation about their relationship evolution. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1786227593 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5hJzs0gDg6lRT6r10mdpVg YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ModernRelationshipsPod Unpack Pricing Dive into the dark arts of SaaS pricing with Metronome CEO Scott Woody and tech leaders. Learn how strategic pricing drives explosive revenue growth in today's biggest companies like Snowflake, Cockroach Labs, Dropbox and more. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg — Highlights from the episode: Sapien is building an AI "shadow CFO" that can proactively analyze company data and surface insights, transforming how financial decisions are made The team has developed proprietary technology to parse and understand complex financial data across multiple sources, creating a unified "company representation" Their early success includes catching a $10M error for a major manufacturer, demonstrating the immediate value their system can provide — SPONSORS: 📑Discover Carta, the innovative end-to-end accounting platform revolutionizing private fund management with streamlined operations and on-demand insights. Experience the new standard at https://carta.com/investors/ GiveWell GiveWell spends 50,000 hours every year doing deep-dives into different charitable programs to try to find the ways to do the most good for your dollar. GiveWell has now spent over 17 years researching charitable organizations and only directs funding to a few of the HIGHEST-IMPACT opportunities they’ve found. Visit https://www.givewell.org to find out more or make a donation. Select PODCAST and enter Econ 102 at checkout to make sure they know you heard about them from us. — LINKS: Sapien: https://getsapien.com — FOLLOW ON X: @RonNachum (Ron) @pranavravella (Pranav) @AryaGrayeli (Arya) @getsapien (Sapien) @usygoosy (Usman) @why2join (Why You Should Join) @turpentinemedia (Turpentine)
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • 1 to 100: Foundry
    Nov 26 2024
    This week, Usman Hanif down with Jared Quincy Davis, Co-founder and CEO of Foundry, an AI cloud platform designed to orchestrate the world's compute capacity, to discuss the challenges of GPU utilization, the economics of AI infrastructure, and how Foundry is making cutting-edge AI capabilities more accessible, while also exploring the future of AI democratization and cloud infrastructure. For full show notes, visit: https://highlightai.com/share/d3441594-c9c9-4068-be6e-4ad136aac346 — 🙏 Help shape our show by taking our quick listener survey at https://bit.ly/TurpentinePulse. — RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Check out Modern Relationships, where Erik Torenberg interviews tech power couples and leading thinkers to explore how ambitious people actually make partnerships work. Founders Fund's Delian Asparouhov and researcher Nadia Asparouhova kick off the series with an unfiltered conversation about their relationship evolution. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1786227593 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5hJzs0gDg6lRT6r10mdpVg YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ModernRelationshipsPod Unpack Pricing Dive into the dark arts of SaaS pricing with Metronome CEO Scott Woody and tech leaders. Learn how strategic pricing drives explosive revenue growth in today's biggest companies like Snowflake, Cockroach Labs, Dropbox and more. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg — SPONSORS: 📑Discover Carta, the innovative end-to-end accounting platform revolutionizing private fund management with streamlined operations and on-demand insights. Experience the new standard at https://carta.com/investors/ — LINKS: Foundry: https://mlfoundry.com — FOLLOW ON X: @jaredq_l (Jared) @mlfoundry (Foundry) @usygoosy (Usman) @why2join (Why You Should Join) @turpentinemedia (Turpentine)
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • a16z leads Braintrust's $60M Series A
    Nov 13 2024
    In this episode of 1 to 100, Usman Hanif speaks again with Ankur Goyal, Founder and CEO of Braintrust, about the company's Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, its product development strategy, and hiring needs. For full show notes, visit: https://highlightai.com/share/75dc81b1-1320-4809-80b0-4b0bb28b085b — 🙏 Help shape our show by taking our quick listener survey at https://bit.ly/TurpentinePulse. — RECOMMENDED PODCAST: Unpack Pricing Dive into the dark arts of SaaS pricing with Metronome CEO Scott Woody and tech leaders. Learn how strategic pricing drives explosive revenue growth in today's biggest companies like Snowflake, Cockroach Labs, Dropbox and more. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg — SPONSORS: 📑Discover Carta, the innovative end-to-end accounting platform revolutionizing private fund management with streamlined operations and on-demand insights. Experience the new standard at https://carta.com/investors/ 📝Notion offers powerful workflow and automation templates, perfect for streamlining processes and laying the groundwork for AI-driven automation. With Notion AI, you can search across thousands of documents from various platforms, generating highly relevant analysis and content tailored just for you - try it for free at https://www.notion.com/product/ai?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=upstreampod — LINKS: Martin Casado from a16z: Investing in Braintrust: https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-braintrust/ Braintrust: https://www.braintrust.dev/ — FOLLOW ON X: @ankrgyl (Ankur) @braintrustdata (Braintrust) @usygoosy (Usman) @why2join (Why You Should Join) @turpentinemedia (Turpentine)
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    16 mins

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