$0 to $4M: Inside the Bootstrapped Rise of Whippy with David Daneshgar

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Episode 356: Justin Gordon (https://x.com/justingordon212) interviews David Daneshgar (   / david-daneshgar-a47474b   ), Co-Founder and CEO of Whippy (https://www.whippy.ai), about how he went from pro poker player winning the World Series of Poker to startup founder doing more than $4M/year in revenue.

Show Notes:
00:00 What’s coming in the episode…
1:21 Introduction
2:15 The present state of Whippy
3:18 David’s background
6:26 From poker to business school
8:34 Early days of BloomNation
11:45 What makes David a good salesman?
13:12 Events as a growth strategy
15:49 Growing BloomNation
18:06 Starting Whippy
25:21 The start of Whippy’s revenue
27:35 Product development at Whippy
33:14 The first million in revenue
34:54 Where is Whippy going
41:37 David on hiring
43:44 The distributed team at Whippy
46:39 Next big challenges
50:05 David as a founder
54:03 Keeping Whippy on top of the AI world
57:09 Who is Whippy for?
58:42 How to contact David

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