Waqas Ali, Co-founder, Markhor (YC15) & Atoms | EP 194
HackToStart8 Maj 2018

Waqas Ali, Co-founder, Markhor (YC15) & Atoms | EP 194

Waqas Ali is the co-founder of Atoms, one & only shoe for every day. Waqas started building a startups and businesses after discovering the internet and realizing you could sell products online. While there were a ton of insurmountable challenges, Waqas and his co founder Sidra persevered - launching a custom dress shoe company called Markhor. They eventually made it to the US, ran a massive kickstarter campaign and got into YC on their second attempt. Today, Waqas & Sidra are at it again, working on an everyday shoe for the new creatives called Atoms. Waqas joins us to share his story, how he discovered the internet & startups in his home country of Pakistan, all the challenges they had to go through just to start a company, his advice for getting into YC, what really goes into creating a product and story, how they’ve approached launching Atoms, and much more.

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Ben Jabbawy, Founder & CEO, Privy | EP 198

Ben Jabbawy, Founder & CEO, Privy | EP 198

Ben Jabbawy is the Founder of Privy, a suite of tools designed to help marketers and ecommerce businesses increase their marketing conversions. Ben has a background in Industrial Engineering, but mov...

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Kimberly Kalb, Head of Marketing & Growth, Houseparty | EP 197

Kimberly Kalb, Head of Marketing & Growth, Houseparty | EP 197

Kimberly Kalb is the Head of Marketing & Growth at Houseparty, an app that takes the group chat to the next level with group video chat. Kimberly has a background in entertainment media technology, h...

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Joshua Brewer, Co-Founder & CEO, Abstract | EP 196

Joshua Brewer, Co-Founder & CEO, Abstract | EP 196

Josh Brewer is the Co-founder & CEO of Abstract, a platform for modern design teams to work together. Josh’s career in design started off with teaching - but quickly lead to him diving into the emerg...

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Ben Pines, CMO, Elementor | EP 195

Ben Pines, CMO, Elementor | EP 195

Ben Pines is the CMO of Elementor, the most advanced Drag & Drop page builder for WordPress. Design beautiful professional websites faster and without code. Ben shares what it’s been like building an...

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Vibhu Norby, Founder & CEO, B8ta

Vibhu Norby, Founder & CEO, B8ta

Vibhu Norby is the co-founder & CEO of B8ta, a new store designed for discovering, trying, & buying the latest tech products, as well as a new platform called “Built by B8ta”, which aims to power the ...

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Sam Mallikarjunan, Executive Strategist, Hubspot

Sam Mallikarjunan, Executive Strategist, Hubspot

Sam Mallikarjunan is an Executive Strategist at HubSpot. He hustled his way into the organization with a landing page and ads - and ended up leading the Experimental Marketing team, the Ecommerce Mar...

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Asher Hunt is the Founder & CEO of Overnight, a platform to book homes from people you trust. Asher comes from a visual arts and music background, but got into tech through product design and is driv...

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