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Hosted by Phil Carter · business · EN-US
Subversive is a podcast dedicated to sharing stories from the best consumer subscription apps in the world. We'll bring you lessons for how to grow your consumer subscription business, including insights and inflection points that led to exponential growth from leaders at category-defining companies and innovative startups.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSubversive is a podcast dedicated to sharing stories from the best consumer subscription apps in the world. We'll bring you lessons for how to grow your consumer subscription business, including insights and inflection points that led to exponential growth from leaders at category-defining companies and innovative startups.
Subversive is hosted by Phil Carter. The show has published 47 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "How Rise Turned “Sleep Debt” Into a 10M+ User Sleep App" (29 October 2026, 60 minutes), "How Tolan 3X'd Subscriber Conversion after Shifting to Freemium" (19 October 2026, 62 minutes), and "DoorDash's Playbook for Scaling DashPass to 35M+ Members" (1 October 2026, 56 minutes).
Subversive publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 57 minutes across 47 episodes.
Booking probability for Subversive is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Subversive requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Subversive's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Subversive are Software and IT Services & Software Development. Subversive has a business audience.
Phil Carter hosts Subversive, a business podcast with 47 episodes published.
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Episode #48
“Sleep is a waste of time.” That was Leon Sasson’s mindset in college until he partnered with classmate Jeff Kahn to start researching sleep with Northwestern’s sports teams and saw what it did for performance. Other...
Episode #47
“We weren’t giving the user a real reason to upgrade.” That’s how Ajay Mehta, cofounder and president of Tolan, describes the first version of the free tier for his company’s AI companion app. Freemium opened up the top...
Episode #46
DashPass has stayed at $9.99/month since its launch back in 2018, a choice the person who built it believes is exactly right: Jimmy Liu, the original creator of DashPass. He joined DoorDash in 2016 to run the San...
Episode #45
As AI-generated content floods the internet, how do you know what's still human? Weeks after ChatGPT's release, Edward Tian built the first version of GPTZero from a cafe in Toronto over New Year's, tweeted it out, and...
Episode #44
In the crowded subscription app economy, building a great product is no longer enough. As AI has made software significantly faster, easier, and cheaper to build, the primary bottleneck has shifted from product...
Episode #43
Every single person alive has asked themselves the same question: "What should I do with my life?" Tomas Hoyos, cofounder and CEO of Apt, is building an AI-powered career mentoring platform to help millions of people...
Episode #42
When Melissa Cash and her cofounders looked at children's apps, they saw two extremes: addictive games designed to maximize screen time and educational apps built around rote memorization. So they built something...
Episode #41
"If you wait until it's perfect, you're too late." This was Tyler Denk’s attitude when he took the growth engine he had built as employee #2 at Morning Brew - the newsletter he helped scale to >3M subscribers and a $75M...
Episode #40
Most AI coaching apps are just ChatGPT wrapped in a personality. Raj Singh and Mark Manson built Purpose to prove there's a better way. Raj, cofounder and CEO of Purpose and previously the founder of GoMoment (acquired...
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Sam Chaudhary is the cofounder and CEO of ClassDojo, an education platform used in roughly 95% of US K-8 schools and by tens of millions of children across 180 countries around the world. Born in the UK and raised in...
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Esan Durrani is the cofounder and CEO of StudyFetch, an AI-native learning platform used by more than 7 million students worldwide. Esan launched StudyFetch in 2023 with his cofounder and childhood friend Ryan Trattner...
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Eugenia Kuyda is the founder and CEO of Wabi, an AI-powered personal software platform that lets anyone create, share, and remix mini apps in minutes. Before Wabi, Eugenia founded Replika, one of the world’s first AI...
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Daniel Heintzman is Head of Product at Cal AI, an AI-powered calorie tracking app that grew to over $50M ARR in under two years before being acquired by MyFitnessPal in December 2025. Before Cal AI, Daniel was a product...
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Mikey Shulman is the cofounder and CEO of Suno, an AI music generation platform that allows anyone to create full songs with lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation from a simple text prompt. Prior to founding Suno, Mikey...
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Francesco Polizzi is the former Head of Core Experience at Discord, where he led a complete overhaul of the company’s mobile apps. He has also held roles as the Head of Product at both Outschool and Photomath (acquired...
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Jack McDermott is a growth lead at ElevenLabs, where he leads growth for its mobile products — including the ElevenLabs app and ElevenReader, a consumer app built on top of the company’s cutting-edge voice AI platform...
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Rik Haandrikman is the VP of Growth at RevenueCat, the world’s largest SaaS platform for subscription apps that need help powering in-app purchases, managing customer data, and growing revenue. Prior to joining...
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Casey Winters is the cofounder and CEO of SuperMe, an AI-native company that is designed to be the professional network for the AI era by connecting users with AI avatars of professional thought leaders. He is also one...
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Sameer Ahuja is President of GameChanger, which he originally joined as VP of Finance and Analytics in 2017 before being promoted multiple times. He is also an SVP of Dick’s Sporting Goods, which acquired GameChanger in...
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Connor Zwick is the cofounder and CEO of Speak, a billion dollar app that is reinventing digital language learning by getting users into real conversations with AI-powered voices. Connor started Speak in 2016 with...
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