HeyJaredMantle Mondays
Hosted by Amar Varma and Amit Jethani, Mantle Mondays brings you authentic conversations with startup founders every week. We dive deep into their entrepreneurial journeys, from the first spark of an idea to scaling challenges and pivotal moments that shaped their companies.
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Selling Outcomes, Not Software | Robert Saunders (OwnRight) (opens the original)
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Robert Saunders grew up building iOS apps in high school, worked on Shopify's platform and Shop App teams, then left a comfortable job to bet on a problem he'd just lived through: a slow, confusing, paper-based real estate closing on his first condo. That bet became Ownright, a digital real estate law firm that handles residential property closings, sales, and refinances across Ontario. In this episode, Amar Varma talks with Rob about his path from engineer to founder, and the growth journey sin
The Power of Pivoting | Sam Pajot-Phipps (Courtyard AI) (opens the original)
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Everyone romanticizes persistence. Almost nobody teaches founders how to pivot. Last October, Sam Pajot-Phipps and his co-founders (Kirk Simpson and Peter Carrescia of Wave fame) made the call to sunset goConfirm, a peer-to-peer identity verification product used across 600+ communities on Facebook and Reddit. Tens of thousands of people loved it. The metrics looked promising. And they shut it down anyway. In this episode, Sam breaks down exactly how they knew: the milestones that kept getting h
From Steve Jobs to Stealth AI: One Founder's 20 Year Journey Through Every Wave of Tech (opens the original)
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Twenty years ago, Raj was in a room with Steve Jobs and a group of nervous AT&T executives. Jobs ended the tension by offering to hand them a billion dollars in cash on the spot. Raj watched that and spent the next two decades building companies of his own. He co-founded Localytics in 2008, two weeks before Lehman Brothers collapsed, bootstrapped it through the financial crisis, scaled it past $25 million in revenue, raised $60 million, and eventually sold it. Then built a second company acquire
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