How Not to Die as a Company
Problem Solvers8 Sep 2025

How Not to Die as a Company

What do you do when your company is running out of money, your industry has collapsed, and even you think your idea is dumb? That’s the situation Siqi Chen, now founder and CEO of the finance platform Runway, faced in 2016 when he became CEO of Sandbox, a VR startup. Yet through a bold move, Chen managed to get the right people to believe, securing funding for a product that was a stupid good time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Power of Simple and How HelloFresh Increased Customer Retention

The Power of Simple and How HelloFresh Increased Customer Retention

HelloFresh made one counterintuitive change in its business, and it sparked an immediate boost in sales. The result should be a lesson to all entrepreneurs: In business, simple things matter. Simple c...

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How He Convinced 300,000 People To Work With Him, From Malaysia

How He Convinced 300,000 People To Work With Him, From Malaysia

It can be hard convincing others to work with you, especially if your company is new. And yet, you need them: They’re your future suppliers, contractors, partners, and sponsors, which means you must f...

9 Okt 201715min

What To Do When Your Solution Is Actually Creating More Problems

What To Do When Your Solution Is Actually Creating More Problems

Hanson Grant had built a hit product called Think Board, and what seemed like a world-class customer support team. But when his product started getting terrible reviews on Amazon, he scrambled to figu...

2 Okt 201717min

How Increasing Your Prices Can Attract Better Customers

How Increasing Your Prices Can Attract Better Customers

How do you raise prices? It’s not easy, as the cofounders of Motto can attest. For more than a decade, they’ve been raising prices -- while evolving from a little design shop to a full-scale, high-end...

25 Sep 201718min

How To Hire The Perfect Team, With Zapier CEO Wade Foster

How To Hire The Perfect Team, With Zapier CEO Wade Foster

Many entrepreneurs struggle with how to hire the right people. But they don’t always think about when to hire those people. That can lead to disaster, as Zapier cofounder and CEO Wade Foster knows wel...

18 Sep 201719min

How DraftKings Survived And Made Daily Fantasy Sports Legal

How DraftKings Survived And Made Daily Fantasy Sports Legal

How can a company survive a crisis so big, its very future is in doubt? Draft Kings knows the answer. It was a startup on the rise, making millions by allowing fans of fantasy sports to bet online -- ...

11 Sep 201724min

What To Do When Customers Don't Share Your Vision

What To Do When Customers Don't Share Your Vision

What happens when customers don’t share your vision? It can be an emotional blow. Here you poured your heart into a product, only to find that customers want something different. Shira Berk faced this...

4 Sep 201715min

From $50 Consulting Fees to 4m Monthly Uniques with The Points Guy Brian Kelly

From $50 Consulting Fees to 4m Monthly Uniques with The Points Guy Brian Kelly

How do you turn a great idea into a great business? It’s an infinitely complex question. You have to build an infrastructure around that idea -- one that amplifies it and makes it compelling enough fo...

28 Aug 201717min

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