10. Cindy Gallop, founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, Episode Debrief
03/11/21 • 45 min
In this episode, show hosts Lolita Taub and Eric Bahn along with show producer Hung Pham break down last week's episode with guest Cindy Gallop, founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, and share their reactions, thoughts, and insights.
In this episode, show hosts Lolita Taub and Eric Bahn along with show producer Hung Pham break down last week's episode with guest Cindy Gallop, founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, and share their reactions, thoughts, and insights.
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9. Making Money by Changing How the World Has Sex with Cindy Gallop of MakeLoveNotPorn
Founders are a rare breed and that’s because It takes a certain kind of person to create a startup.
Not everyone can stomach the financial risk that comes with being a founder, the responsibility of managing employees with an uncertain future, and the constant self-doubt when nothing is going right.
But when you believe you have a truly world-changing startup, it becomes a calling that you can’t ignore.
Our guest this week on First Pitches, Cindy Gallop, has just that. Cindy is the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, a startup making money by changing how the world has sex.
Cindy is also a sought-after speaker on marketing, business innovation, and gender issues and was also voted Advertising Woman of the Year in 2003.
But over 10 years ago, it was a different story.
As accomplished as Cindy was, she could not get a single investor to invest in MakeLoveNotPorn; not because they didn’t believe in Cindy or the business, but because they were worried, “what others might think.”
At one point she almost gave up, but the flood of public emails thanking her for breaking taboos inspired her to carry on.
And in 2018, she was able to raise 2M to continue MakeLoveNotPorn’s mission of disrupting social media by socializing sex and improving our sex lives for the better.
Listen to find out how Cindy is changing the world to fit her mission.
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11. Building a Billion Dollar Startup One Prescription at a Time with Sid Viswanathan of Truepill
Coming up with a viable business idea is hard.
Coming up with the right type of business that aligns with your personality and vision such that you can’t sleep at night is even harder.
We call that “founder-market fit” and when you find it, you increase your chances of building a truly transformative company.
That’s because having founder-market fit keeps you 100% focused on the problem with an obsessive, almost maniacal commitment.
So much so that it may make your product best-in-class.
A perfect example is our guest this week on First Pitches, Sid Viswanathan, co-founder of Truepill, a startup revolutionizing the healthcare patient experience.
Think Shopify for healthcare.
Before Truepill, Sid was the co-founder of CardMunch, a business-card scanning app acquired by LinkedIn in 2011. Under Sid’s leadership at LinkedIn, CardMunch was named one of Time Magazine’s Best Apps of 2012
But after four years at LinkedIn, Sid had a founder’s itch to scratch. The problem? He didn’t know what to do next.
And that’s when a random encounter with a LinkedIn status update changed Sid’s life forever.
You’re gonna have to listen to find out how what happens next.
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