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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.
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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
Show notesJason 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
Show notesIn 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
Show notesJonathan 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'
Show notesElevenLabs 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
Show notesIn 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
Show notesMost 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
Show notesMost 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
Show notesMost 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
Show notesJoin 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
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