Hosted by Sunny Rekhi · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 12 episodes
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Where do great business ideas come from? "Before It Clicked" takes you inside the minds of successful business owners to find out. Join us as we interview entrepreneurs about their "aha!" moment, the origins of their innovative ideas, and the journey of building their products from scratch. Gain insights and inspiration for your own entrepreneurial path.
Sunny Rekhi hosts Before It Clicked, a business show with 12 episodes published.
Raj Suri built Presto after one painfully slow restaurant bill split turned into an obsession. In this episode, he breaks down how he got the idea, why he worked inside a restaurant before building, how he found his firs
Ryan Rzepecki had no hardware background and no software background. But in 2008, he saw the Paris bike share system, thought the $5,000-per-bike infrastructure cost was insane, and started building a smarter alternative
Scott Woody left Dropbox with no idea, no code, and no product. What followed was months of deliberate exploration — a LIDAR startup, a nanny company, workflow software — before a random conversation with HashiCorp unloc
PostHog just raised $75M Series E at a ~$1.4B valuation—but the real story is what happened before it clicked. In this episode, PostHog co-founder James Hawkins walks through the 6 pivots that came before PostHog: why ea
Dover is one of those YC companies that looks “obviously successful” from the outside. But the real story is way messier: they hit PMF with a product called Autopilot, scaled fast, and then the 2022 hiring crash basicall
Genius is an institution on the internet—the go-to destination for anyone wanting to know what a Drake or Bad Bunny lyric actually means. But before it was a global music powerhouse with over 200 million monthly visits,
What does it actually look like to pivot eight times in a single year? In this episode of Before It Clicked, Sunny Rekhi sits down with Alex Danilowicz, co-founder of Magic Patterns, an AI design tool that helps product
Dave Salvant and his co-founder Songe had no technical background, no barbershop experience, and were burning through their seed money. With only $60,000 left in the bank, they made a desperate "all-in" bet: they used 30
Vouch is now a $550M company, supporting 6,000+ high-growth companies. But they did it by rejecting the core tenets of startup wisdom. On this episode of Before It Clicked, we dive into the early, messy days of Vouch wit
Two founders with zero healthcare experience built the first iPad-native EHR app… and found explosive PMF even though they started DrChrono before the iPad existed. In this conversation, Daniel Kivatinos (co-founder of D
When Michel Tricot left his job in 2019, he didn’t have an idea yet — he just knew he wanted to start a company. Over the next year, he and his cofounder cycled through ideas: remote-controlling self-driving cars, fintec
Most founder stories jump straight to the win. This one doesn't. Nikhil Gupta, cofounder and CTO of Vapi, spent 5 years grinding through 12 different pivots before landing on the idea that raised at a $130M valuation. We
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Before It Clicked is hosted by Sunny Rekhi. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 12 episodes.
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