The Undefeated Underdogs

👉🏼 About the Host:

Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generated $30k ARR, which was sold to a UK-based product studio. Prev, Sharath worked for world-changing startups like Product Hunt and On Deck, where he helped build and nurture communities. He also grew his audience on Twitter from 200 to 24,000 using give-first principles and creating high-value content. He recently sold his second SaaS product, GuestLab, and he is working on a startup idea while hosting this show.

👉🏼 Sponsor Corner:

Shoutout to Acquire.com for sponsoring The Undefeated Underdogs podcast! They’re the best online marketplace to buy/sell startups and I know many founders who have sold their businesses there. If you're looking to wind down your business and cash in some of your founder chips, check them out - https://try.acquire.com/sharath/

👉🏼 Description:

Listen in as Sharath and Andrew discuss networking, succeeding in America as underdogs, why NYC is awesome, and more!
 
👉🏼 Timestamps:

• 00:00: Episode Highlight
• 00:46: Shoutout to Acquire.com
• 03:14: Intro to Andrew Yeung - the Great Gatsby of startups
• 04:30: Why Andrew chose NYC and events over San Francisco and product-building
• 09:00: How Andrew entered tech
• 10:47: How Andrew built his network in tech
• 13:34: How to network as a founder vs a VC
• 17:31: Building a network in 2025
• 19:37: Cold Outreach 101
• 21:43: Andrew's favorite cold outreach template
• 24:41: Navigating cultural shock as an immigrant
• 29:10: How Andrew found gaps to build his business around
• 31:07: How to build a business for people's needs
• 34:06: Andrew's playbook on how underdogs can succeed in America
• 36:16: Behind the scenes of Fibe - Andrew's event-hosting business
• 41:12: What's next for Fibe
• 43:55: How to host better events
• 46:28: Andrew's favorite event-hosting format
• 47:15: Outro and closing thoughts

👉🏼 Resources:

• Link to Acquire.com: https://try.acquire.com/sharath/

👉🏼 Where to find Andrew:

• Website: https://www.andrewyeung.co/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyeung
• Twitter: https://x.com/andruyeung

👉🏼 Where to find Sharath:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/5harath
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@5harath
• Website: https://5harath.com/
• Newsletter: https://5harath.substack.com/
• Founder Gigs: https://foundergigs.com/

👉🏼 About the Host:

Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generated $30k ARR, which was sold to a UK-based product studio. Prev, Sharath worked for world-changing startups like Product Hunt and On Deck, where he helped build and nurture communities. He also grew his audience on Twitter from 200 to 24,000 using give-first principles and creating high-value content. He recently sold his second SaaS product, GuestLab, and he is working on a startup idea while hosting this show.

👉🏼 Sponsor Corner:

Shoutout to Acquire.com for sponsoring The Undefeated Underdogs podcast! They’re the best online marketplace to buy/sell startups and I know many founders who have sold their businesses there. If you're looking to wind down your business and cash in some of your founder chips, check them out - https://try.acquire.com/sharath/

👉🏼 Description:

Listen in as Sharath and Julian discuss building for people who make things, building community in 2025, how to work at a hypergrowth startup, and more!
 
👉🏼 Timestamps:

• 00:00: Episode Highlight
• 00:44: Shoutout to Acquire.com
• 03:09: Intro to Julian Weisser - Co-founder and CEO of ODF/On Deck
• 04:51: How Julian fell in love with startups
• 10:43: What founders can learn from musicians
• 15:01: How Julian built his very first startup
• 20:41: How On Deck went from a dinner series to a $20M Series A startup
• 27:07: Lessons from a hypergrowth startup
• 34:49: How can we build community in person in 2025?
• 37:33: Julian's project for people with big ideas: Merge
• 47:11: Julian's project for immigrants: Stamp List
• 51:17: How Julian started a run club in SF
• 55:45: Julian's projects in 2025
• 1:00:44: What should founders focus on?
• 1:06:13: Outro and closing thoughts

👉🏼 Resources:

• Link to Acquire.com: https://try.acquire.com/sharath/

👉🏼 Where to find Julian:

• Website: https://weisser.io
• Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/julianweisser
• Twitter: https://x.com/julianweisser
• Newsletter and Podcast: https://textswithfounders.com/
• On Deck: https://www.joinodf.com/
• Merge: https://merge.club/
• Stamp List: https://landing.club/stamplist
• Builders Who Run: https://weisser.io/runners

👉🏼 Where to find Sharath:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/5harath
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@5harath
• Website: https://5harath.com/
• Newsletter: https://5harath.substack.com/
• Founder Gigs: https://foundergigs.com/

👉🏼 About the Host:

Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generated $30k ARR, which was sold to a UK-based product studio. Prev, Sharath worked for world-changing startups like Product Hunt and On Deck, where he helped build and nurture communities. He also grew his audience on Twitter from 200 to 24,000 using give-first principles and creating high-value content. He recently sold his second SaaS product, GuestLab, and he is working on a startup idea while hosting this show.

👉🏼 Sponsor Corner:

Shoutout to Acquire.com for sponsoring The Undefeated Underdogs podcast! They’re the best online marketplace to buy/sell startups and I know many founders who have sold their businesses there. If you're looking to wind down your business and cash in some of your founder chips, check them out - https://try.acquire.com/sharath/

👉🏼 Description:

Listen in as Sharath, Prakash, and Lio discuss building for builders, how frustration helped them create Defang, growth tactics, and more!
 
👉🏼 Timestamps:

• 00:00: Episode Highlight
• 00:44: Shoutout to Acquire.com
• 03:10: Intro to Lio and Prakash - co-founders of Defang, a radically simpler way to develop, deploy, and debug production-ready cloud apps. 
• 05:29: Why Defang's mission is to help builders move faster
• 09:19: How frustration led to building Defang
• 15:01: Why big brands like AWS don't focus on builders
• 17:02: How to go from idea to MVP for a complex product
• 23:09: How Defang launched in the market and iterated using feedback
• 28:40: Defang's growth tactics to reach users
• 32:33: What made Prakash go from being a technical and engineering lead to a CEO?
• 34:55: Defang's Product Hunt launch
• 38:10: How Defang harnesses the power of AI
• 44:22: How to differentiate yourself from the competition
• 48:00: Important lessons from corporate and startups
• 50:56: Where is the app-creating environment going?
• 53:55: Outro and closing thoughts

👉🏼 Resources:

• Link to Acquire.com: https://try.acquire.com/sharath/
• Defang's Product Hunt Launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/defang

👉🏼 Where to find Defang:

• Product Hunt Launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/defang
• Website: https://defang.io
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/defanglabs/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/DefangLabs
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DefangLabs
• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nNjaJcJ25v
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DefangLabs/
• Github: https://github.com/DefangLabs

👉🏼 Where to find Prakash:

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakashsundaresan/

👉🏼 Where to find Lio:

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lionello/
• Twitter: https://x.com/LioLunesu

👉🏼 Where to find Sharath:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/5harath
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@5harath
• Website: https://5harath.com/
• Newsletter: https://5harath.substack.com/
• Founder Gigs: https://foundergigs.com/

👉🏼 About the Host:

Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generated $30k ARR, which was sold to a UK-based product studio. Prev, Sharath worked for world-changing startups like Product Hunt and On Deck, where he helped build and nurture communities. He also grew his audience on Twitter from 200 to 24,000 using give-first principles and creating high-value content. He recently sold his second SaaS product, GuestLab, and he is working on a startup idea while hosting this show.

👉🏼 Sponsor Corner:

Shoutout to Acquire.com for sponsoring The Undefeated Underdogs podcast! They’re the best online marketplace to buy/sell startups and I know many founders who have sold their businesses there. If you're looking to wind down your business and cash in some of your founder chips, check them out - https://try.acquire.com/sharath/

👉🏼 Description:

Listen in as Sharath and Brett discuss building in a crowded market, the origin of Launch House, blending ambition and relationships, and more!
 
👉🏼 Timestamps:

• 00:00: Episode Highlight
• 00:42: Shoutout to Acquire.com
• 03:09: Intro to Brett Goldstein - founder of Micro, an email-CRM blend so you can stay on top of your communications.
• 04:33: Where Brett found his passion for startups
• 08:40: What inspires Brett to create?
• 10:10: Brett's first projects before Google
• 12:14: Why Brett chose startups and not music as a career
• 16:22: How Launch House turned from a reality show to a hacker house
• 20:28: How Brett went from a random tweet to building a network of founders at Launch House
• 22:43: How Brett pushes founders towards ambition AND relationship-building
• 25:20: How Brett took advantage of the crypto wave
• 27:59: What do most founders miss really easily?
• 33:02: Why Brett is choosing to reinvent email
• 40:12: How to avoid the downsides of a crowded market
• 43:01: Why Micro is creating an email-CRM blend
• 48:30: The problem-solving frameworks Brett used to build Micro
• 50:15: Brett's criteria for finding cofounders
• 52:43: Brett's cheatsheet to building a network in tech
• 54:30: How will AI impact the rise of startups and creative projects?
• 58:30: What Brett would build if not Micro
• 1:00:03: Outro and closing thoughts

👉🏼 Resources:

• Link to Acquire.com: https://try.acquire.com/sharath/

👉🏼 Where to find Brett:

• Micro: https://www.micro.so/
• Launch House: https://www.launchhouse.com/
• Twitter: https://x.com/thatguybg
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgoldstein3/
• Website: brettgoldstein.com
• Newsletter: https://socialstudies.substack.com/

👉🏼 Where to find Sharath:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/5harath
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@5harath
• Website: https://5harath.com/
• Newsletter: https://5harath.substack.com/
• Founder Gigs: https://foundergigs.com/

👉🏼 About the Host:

Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generated $30k ARR, which was sold to a UK-based product studio. Prev, Sharath worked for world-changing startups like Product Hunt and On Deck, where he helped build and nurture communities. He also grew his audience on Twitter from 200 to 24,000 using give-first principles and creating high-value content. He recently sold his second SaaS product, GuestLab, and he is working on a startup idea while hosting this show.

👉🏼 Sponsor Corner:

Shoutout to Acquire.com for sponsoring The Undefeated Underdogs podcast! They’re the best online marketplace to buy/sell startups and I know many founders who have sold their businesses there. If you're looking to wind down your business and cash in some of your founder chips, check them out - https://try.acquire.com/sharath/

👉🏼 Description:

Listen in as Sharath and Chrys discuss building in a saturated market, using AI as a thought partner, designing original apps, and more!
 
👉🏼 Timestamps:

• 00:00: Episode Highlight
• 00:45: Shoutout to Acquire.com
• 03:11: Intro to Chrys Bader - co-founder at Rosebud, an AI-powered personal growth journal
• 07:07: The experience of building a consumer app in mental health
• 11:14: How is Rosebud different from other AI companionship apps?
• 15:43: Where Chrys' love for mobile apps comes from
• 21:45: Why Chrys prefers building for consumers
• 25:43: Chrys' design inspiration for Rosebud
• 30:16: Building Rosebud as a designer and as a founder
• 33:10: How Chrys refuels himself after hard times in startup world
• 47:43: Chrys' advice for founders building consumer ideas and consumer apps
• 56:12: Fundraising vs bootstrapping in 2024
• 1:01:49: How Y Combinator changed Chrys as a founder and why he didn't go back
• 1:05:45: How Chrys went from social wellness to photo sharing to mental health apps as a founder
• 1:08:12: Rosebud's AI origin story
• 1:10:35: Where Rosebud is going next
• 1:14:42: Outro and closing thoughts

👉🏼 Resources:

• Link to Acquire.com: https://try.acquire.com/sharath/
• Tyson Rosage: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-make-design-decisions-tyson-rosage

👉🏼 Where to find Chrys:

• Rosebud: https://help.rosebud.app/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrysb
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrysb
• Website: https://chrysbader.com/

👉🏼 Where to find Sharath:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/5harath
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@5harath
• Website: https://5harath.com/
• Newsletter: https://5harath.substack.com/
• Founder Gigs: https://foundergigs.com/