Welcome to a special milestone edition of the podcast, celebrating 8 years of the show!

On this day in 2016, I published the first 6 episodes of this podcast.

Over the last 8 years I’ve sat down with almost 200 successful entrepreneurs and investors to unpack their journey, lessons and insights.

I’m so thankful to all of the great guests who have made the time to come on this show, but I am also incredibly grateful to all of you in the Startup Playbook community who have listened, supported and shared this podcast over the last few years. The success, quality of guests and everything we have been able to achieve over the last 8 years would not have been possible without all of you, so I just wanted to say a quick thank you to all of you!

For this milestone ep, I wanted to do something a little different. So for this episode, my good friend James Harrisson is taking over the hosting duties and I’m jumping on the other side of the table to answer some questions from James and from our community in this AMA edition of the podcast.

In this episode, James and I spoke about lessons from the last 8 years and advice to anyone thinking about starting out on their own podcasting/business journey.

I also answered a number of community submitted questions on podcasting, PR, investing and much more!

Timestamps

• 3:17 The original intention for the podcast and how that’s evolved over time
• 8:28 Whether he would do anything differently if starting over
• 11:32 Why he’s taken two extended breaks from publishing over the last 8 years and how that’s helped the show in the long run
• 19:30 How the topics of the show have evolved over time as he’s evolved as a person, finding his own style
• 35:51 Long term games vs short term games
• 39:08 Should someone start a podcast today?
• 43:35 What would his life be like if he never started the podcast?
• 47:17 How he got initial followers and key initial growth tactics
• 52:35 PR advice
• 56:36 Advice for people starting a podcast
• 59:08 How to get great guests for a podcast
• 1:03:59 Best way to pitch investors and partners
• 1:08:16 How running his own high growth startup affected his approach to podcasting and investing

Our Partners

Our partners

A big thank you to our partners for the show:

Scendar 

Scendar is the OG startup accounting firm in Australia catering to all stages of your business’ life. If you’re busy running your startup, you don’t have time to do your own books and forecast. Instead, fully outsource your finance function, giving you time and resources back to focus on what you do best in growing your business. Find out more at Scendar.com

Vanta

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Join over six thousand fast-growing companies that use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real time.
Startup Playbook Podcast listeners get access to an exclusive offer of USD$1000 off their plans. Head over to vanta.com/playbook to get access to this exclusive discount.

Links mentioned

8 year podcast event:

• Live Podcast event with Leigh Jasper (Registration)

People mentioned:

• Joe Rogan
• David Mcmanus
• Justin Dry
• Tim Mundy
• Shelli Trung
• Iain Dooley
• Nakul Pednekar
• Roohi Kazi
• Marc Orchard
• James Harrisson

Companies mentioned:

• Vinomofo
• Uber
• Playbook Ventures

Feedback/connect/say hello:

[email protected]
@RohitBhargava7 (Twitter)
/rohbhargava (LinkedIn)
@rohit_bhargava (Instagram)
My Youtube Channel

Credits:

Music: Paycheck

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