Landon Sanford is a serial entrepreneur, an ex-YCombinator/Sequoia backed founder & ex-Googler who joins us to talk about his love of building things, launching ventures, his experience with raising funds and failure.
Show Notes:
0:35 - Landon’s viral LinkedIn post about launching 8 startups in 6 years
1:52 - Landon talks about some of the industries he’s worked in
3:00 - Shamsiya introduces Landon
5:26 - Landon’s advice for raising funds
7:45 - Raising money vs bootstrapping
8:55 - Being a non-technical founder
10:15 - Classic entrepreneurial mistakes and finding product market fit
12:55 - Landon’s experience being the first hire at Maven
15:28 - Validating startup ideas
16:30 - Experience with failure and mindset
20:20 - Skill set for overcoming failure
24:18 - Landon talks about his podcast and interviews with senior citizens and terminally ill patients
28:00 - Landon’s experience at YCombinator
29:23 - Founder houses
32:51 - Personal branding and building credibility in the startup community
35:52 - What mistakes Landon is seeing among new entrepreneurs
39:00 - Pitching to investors and differentiating yourself
41:14 - What Landon is working on currently
43:19 - Where you can find Landon on social media
Links:
Follow Landon Sanford on Linkedin & Twitter
Current venture: Arwen
Personal portfolio
Failure Decoded
Failure Decoded Instagram
Your Hosts:
Shamsiya
Rachel
