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**Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership**

In-depth, one-on-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers. The journey, lessons learned, and the struggles. Let’s do this! Host Adam Stacoviak dives deep into the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures of industry leading entrepreneurs, leaders, innovators, and visionaries.

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After Founders Talk #39 Aug 07, 2012

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Adam and guest Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar after Founders Talk #39.

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Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2 Aug 07, 2012

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Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar joins Adam Stacoviak to share more details about the rise of Cheddar, its revenue, metrics, numbers and more. Sam shares lessons learned, his dreams as well as his thoughts on those who build with only the hope of winning what he calls “the acquisition lottery” as their goal - plus so much more.

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Listen to After Founders Talk #39 for another extended chat with Sam
Developer & Designer
Boredom & Change
Hello Internet: Nexus 7
Acquisitions
Retiring at 25
How To Learn
Learn iOS
What was the rationale for open sourcing Cheddar? - Cheddar (app) on Quora
Cheddar (app) on Quora

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Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 1 Jul 14, 2012

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Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar joins Adam Stacoviak to share all the details of his wild ride as an indie software developer and designer. Sam has worked at Hipstamatic, built YouTube ripoffs, gotten offers from some of the most respected names in the business (some accepted and some turned down) all to circle back around to start Nothing Magical and build his own products. He shares the highs, the lows and all the things he’s learned along the way - plus so much more. And, check out “After Dark” for a short extended chat with Sam.

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After Founders Talk #37 Jul 05, 2012

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Adam and guest Sarah Hatter the founder of CoSupport after Founders Talk #37.

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Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 2 Jul 05, 2012

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Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam for part 2 of 2 to go back in time and dig deep into her history, we learn about “the early days” and how she got started, her passions for TV and her podcast TVBFF, the early days of blogging and “dramaville”, what inspires her, being a crafts-person, how she learned that “you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do”, how TM meditation changed her life, as well as the challenges she’s faced as a female founder - plus so much more.

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After Founders Talk #36 Jun 28, 2012

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Adam and guest Sarah Hatter the founder of CoSupport after Founders Talk #36.

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Sarah Hatter / CoSupport - Part 1 Jun 28, 2012

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Sarah Hatter the Founder of CoSupport, joins Adam for part 1 of 2 to share her passion for great customer support for web products, being a woman in a man filled industry, her thoughts and history with potentially selling her company and getting aqui-hired, how Allan and Steven of LessEverything have become partners in CoSupport - plus so much more.

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After Founders Talk #35 Apr 11, 2012

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Adam Stacoviak and guest Steve Espinosa after Founders Talk #35.

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Steve Espinosa / AppStack Apr 11, 2012

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Steve Espinosa, the Founder of AppStack, joins Adam to tell his story of hustling his way to the top, gaining the trust and friendship of Jason Calacanis, Dave McClure, Eric Schmidt and the awesome team behind Google Ventures, what it means to focus and much more. This is a jam packed episode with tons of energy and lots to learn from Steve. Also, check out “After Dark” for an extended chat with Steve.

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