Hosted by Sharath Kuruganty · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 78 episodes
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The Undefeated Underdogs is a podcast unpacking the underdog stories you never heard of!It highlights the underdog mentality and brings authentic conversations with people who play the long game, take action with a chip on their shoulders, and convert obstacles into opportunities!Buckle up, as I will be bringing some authentic founders, VCs, community builders, and content creators who got underestimated their whole life, and yet they beat the odds and became insanely successful!
Sharath Kuruganty hosts The Undefeated Underdogs, a business show with 78 episodes published.
👉🏼 About the Guests: Business Insider dubbed Andrew Yeung as The Great Gatsby of startups. Andrew moved to the US as an immigrant in 2020 and after a brief stint at Facebook, Google he founded his events company Fibe,
👉🏼 About the Guests: Julian Weisser is a prominent entrepreneur, investor, and musician, best known as the co-founder and CEO of ODF/On Deck, a platform designed to support startup founders in launching and scaling the
👉🏼 About the Guests: Prakash and Lionello are the co-founders of Defang, a radically simpler way to develop, deploy, and debug production-ready cloud apps. Lionello is CTO at Defang, as well as an engineering lead and
👉🏼 About the Guest: Brett Goldstein is the founder of Micro, an email-CRM blend so you can stay on top of your communications. He is also the co-founder of Launch House, which is a community built to connect and suppor
👉🏼 About the Guest: Chrys is the co-founder at Rosebud, an AI-powered personal growth journal. He is a 6-time founder, founding Curio NFT Intelligence, Ikaria (social wellness), and Secret (social media). Prior to Secr
👉🏼 About the Guest: Charlie Clark is a software engineer, creative coder, & bootstrapped founder who has grown his short links product, Liinks, to $25K MRR just 3 years after it officially launched. 👉🏼 About the Host
👉🏼 About the Guest: Zach Hamed is a design-focused engineer who enjoys designing, building, and selling software. He is currently co-founder and co-CEO of Clay, a beautiful and private home for your personal and profes
👉🏼 About the Guest: Brendan Mahony is the founder of Sunset, a company that helps tech companies shut down, saving founders thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours. He is also the ex-founder of Toybox (YC S18, acqui
👉🏼 About the Guest: Ryan Gilbert is the founder of Workspaces, a newsletter with nearly 14K subscribers, $2K MRR, and 45K subscribers on Twitter, all about the desks of creatives around the world, born during the pande
👉🏼 About the Guest: Yana Welinder is CEO and Founder of Kraftful (YC S19) – an AI assistant that helps product teams build better products by listening to users at scale. Before starting Kraftful, she led product teams
👉🏼 About the Guest: Chris (300K+ followers on Linkedin and Twitter) went to Yale and played in the Men's Lacrosse team, then to investment banking at Goldman Sachs, then joined the tech startup world, and is now the fo
👉🏼 About the Guest: Derek is the founder of Remote Jobs, the world's repository for remote jobs, and the creator of Daily UI, the #1 design challenge, with a combined total of 650K+ email subscribers. Join him in this
👉🏼 About the Guest: Dani Grant is the CEO of Jam, a dev tools startup helping 30K+ improve their bug reporting process, backed by executives from Apple, GitHub, and Pager Duty, and VCs such as Village Global (LPs inclu
👉🏼 About the Guest: Derek Sivers is an author of philosophy and entrepreneurship, known for his surprising quotable insights and pithy succinct writing style. Formerly a musician, programmer, TED speaker, and circus cl
👉🏼 About the Guest: Andrew Rea is the founder of TaxWire which automates SaaS sales tax compliance across your finance stack. He accidentally started Taxwire when he was doing fractional work. Previously he played key
👉🏼 About the Guest: Mehul Nariyawala is the founder of Matic, where he is building fully autonomous home robots. He previously worked at Nest as a Lead PM for Nest Cams Portfolio and founded Flutter, a company that dev
👉🏼 About the Guest: Philip Lakin is the co-founder and CEO of NoCodeOps, a community and automation management platform (Operator) dedicated to supporting operations professionals that are reimagining the future of int
👉🏼 About the Guest: Blake Emal is the CEO and founder behind Pagetear. He is the 10-year marketer behind Marketing Monday and has been an SEO Specialist, agency manager, marketing leader at a $10B tech co, and ex-CMO o
👉🏼 About the Guest: Pritika Mehta is the founder of Butternut AI, an AI-based website builder. After having earned her first dollar on the internet when she was 14, Butternut is her third startup, having built Mindbatt
👉🏼 About the Guest: Hiten Shah (268K followers on Twitter!) has been building and writing about SaaS businesses for 20+ years. He is currently the CEO and Co-founder at Nira and is the ex-founder at CrazyEgg and KISSme
Brett Goldstein
Micro
1 appearance on this show
Charlie Clark
state head of Georgia banking · Empire Virtual Support
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Gilbert
Workspaces
1 appearance on this show
Yana Welinder
co-founder and CEO · Kraftful
1 appearance on this show
Chris Hladczuk
co-founder and CEO · Hanover Park
1 appearance on this show
Derek
Head of Growth · The Family Bankers
1 appearance on this show
Dani Grant
Co-founder & CEO · Jam.dev
1 appearance on this show
Derek Sivers
entrepreneur and author · CD Baby
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Rea
food personality · Capital
1 appearance on this show
Mehul Nariyawala
CEO · Matic Robots
1 appearance on this show
Hiten Shah
Co-founder and CEO · KISSmetrics
1 appearance on this show
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The Undefeated Underdogs is hosted by Sharath Kuruganty. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 78 episodes.
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