HeyJaredGUT Podcast
Success doesn't protect you from collapse. Sometimes it causes it.Every transformation has a cost. This show finds it. The grief, the uncertainty, the period without a plan.
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Cam Stajer: The $20 Logo That Became an Olympic Sponsor (opens the original)
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He cold emailed the Olympic committee with no connections and no reply for weeks. Three months later, his company had exclusive rights as Team Canada's official wellness recovery partner through 2028.Cam Stajer started Kala with 5,000 dollars, a 20 dollar Fiverr logo, and a product he found through a podcast because he couldn't afford the real thing. He turned down a deal on Dragon's Den. He bought out his co-founder. He recalled a million and a half dollars of product over a manual printing err
Ilias Anwar: His Company Died in One Night (opens the original)
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Ilias Anwar is the founder New York's startup world can't stop talking about; the one who throws 16 events in a week, treats every room like a king, and once faked a $28 million sale on April Fool's just to get investors to call him back. What almost nobody knew: months before the crowds, he was broke, subleasing from a roommate about to be evicted, and borrowing money from his younger sister, swearing every time it was the last. This is a conversation about what generosity costs when you use it
Brian Schardt: He Killed 250K Users to Bet on Nancy Pelosi (opens the original)
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He was 24, eating at Michelin-star restaurants in New York. He'd never been more miserable. Brian Schardt was Director of Engineering at Warner Music Group; parties, money, everything he thought he wanted. Then he flew to Argentina for a wedding and watched people with nothing laugh harder than anyone he knew in Manhattan. He quit from a dinner table that night. No two weeks notice. Just an email: "This is my last day." He came home and built a stock trading app with his brother. Then in one wee
Why a 'Safe' Job Is the Most Dangerous Bet | Ex-Big Law Founder, Sabih Siddiqi (opens the original)
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Sabih Siddiqi had the golden handcuffs: big law, the prestige, the paycheck, and walked away to build Irys (formerly Iqidis), a legal-AI company he calls "Palantir meets Bloomberg." A cancer diagnosis at 18 blew up the pre-med identity he'd built his whole life around. He rebuilt it as a litigator, spent nearly seven years in the law, then gave up the safe, charted track for the uncharted one. On this episode of FP, host Christianne digs into why staying would've been the real risk, why "trust y
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