Todays guest is the Founder and CEO at zencastr.com where he helps podcasters create and successfully find and grow their audience. Josh bootstrapped Zencastr to profitability while traveling the world.
Josh is now a father of two amazing girls. His personal interests are gardening, woodworking, snowboarding, guitar, synthesizers.
Josh Nielsen shared in this episode:
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His journey as a founder, emphasizing geographic independence as a driving factor due to visa restrictions and family circumstances
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The power of Zencastr for podcast hosts
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Zen.ai helps you find an audience for your podcast.
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Demonstration of Zen.ai and how to make content quickly
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How Josh turned Zencaster into a successful business without raising external funds initially but focusing on achieving financial goals instead
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The need for geographic independence and quicker route to revenue was a driving force to start the business and resolve issues for podcasters.
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Why he gave the tool for free for 2 years and then added a paid function and got to $17k MRR
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How he found 100 users through twitter, by identifying people who were getting challenged on the quality of their podcast
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He reflects on his journey of starting a business and the challenges he faced
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As his business grew, he took on a co-founder (Adrian Lopez) to help scale the business, which led eventually to VC funding.
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Why VC funding is not the path for everyone.
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Insights on leadership and why Josh was not passionate about managing people, and got stuck doing everything himself, anyhow things changed when he
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His life changing question: What can I make to make a difference in the world?
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Steve Jobs quote that inspired his life and journey in business: “LSD shows you there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
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And much more…
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