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Success doesn't start with a headline. It starts with a first win.Very First Win takes you inside the exact moment top founders, investors, and operators realized they could actually make it. Each episode unpacks the deal, decision, or breakthrough that changed everything, and what that moment taught them.Hosted by Rob Hilmer of Goanna Capital, with guests spanning founders, investors, and industry leaders shaping what comes next.New episodes weekly.
Goanna Capital hosts Very First Win, a business show with 15 episodes published.
Chris Farmer got banned from casinos for counting cards. That same obsession with statistics and risk turned into SignalFire, the data-driven venture firm he founded in 2013. In this episode of Very First Win, Chris tell
Chaz Englander has built and sold two companies before most people figure out what they want to do. First was Fat Llama, a peer-to-peer rental marketplace that got into YC and sold for $45M. Then a last mile grocery deli
Andrew Parker is the founder and CEO of Papa, the companion care platform pairing older adults with vetted "pals" who help with rides, tech, paperwork, and the thing nobody puts on a care plan: loneliness. In this episod
What happens when the internet's "Queen of Shitty Robots" decides she wants to build something that outlasts the joke? In this episode of Very First Win, Rob Hilmer sits down with inventor, YouTuber, and founder Simone G
Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron, joins Robert Hilmer on Very First Win to talk about building AI silicon for frontier inference workloads, coexisting with Nvidia, and the two challenges that define the chip game: talent
Jason Fried, founder of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY), joins Robert Hilmer on Very First Win.Jason has built one of the most well-known bootstrapped software companies of the last 25+ years. 27 years of profitability, ~60 pe
In this episode of Very First Win, Robert Hilmer sits down with Samir Vasavada, founder of Vise AI and the youngest tech unicorn founder in history. Samir started Vise at 15 years old in Cleveland, Ohio, dropped out of h
Jonathan Bush is the co-founder of Athena Health and the co-founder and CEO of Zus Health, a national common patient record and medical record API. He ran Athena for 21 years before the company was taken private, and he'
ElevenLabs is now an $11B company. Three years ago, a16z's Bryan Kim flew from San Francisco to London on 90 minutes notice to win the Series A. He packed in a minute, got his assistant to book the flight, landed, met th
In 2017, Andrew Antos founded Klarity AI, an artificial intelligence company built years before ChatGPT, before the AI boom, and before most people believed AI could actually work in production. Then he waited. For 7 yea
Most entrepreneurs’ first wins are overlooked - but for Delian Asparouhov, it was a life-changing internship at Square that set his entire trajectory. Imagine going from a rejection just minutes before — only to have you
Most social media icons will fade out—and often fade fast. But what if your biggest asset isn’t your followers, but your ability to build a real business?Nuseir Yassin, founder of NAS Company and NasDaily , reveals how h
Most real estate stories end with a closing; @RyanSerhant's Very First Win begins with a prank call, a last-minute Paris trip, and a deal that seemed impossible - yet changed his entire career. His willingness to follo
Join us as we dive into the pivotal first win of Gary Vaynerchuk's entrepreneurial journey. Discover how a simple baseball card trade at age 14 shaped his mindset towards unlimited potential and minimal downside. Learn a
Jason Fried
Founder of Basecamp · 37signals
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan Bush
co-founder and CEO · Jonathan Bush for Governor
1 appearance on this show
Delian Asparouhov
co-founder of Varda Space Industries and principal at Founders Fund · Varda Space Industries
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Serhant
Real Estate Mogul · Million Dollar Listing New York
1 appearance on this show
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