BUILDERS

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Welcome to BUILDERS — the show about how founders get new technology adopted. Each episode features a founder on the front lines of bringing new tech to market, sharing how they broke into their industry, earned early believers, built credibility, and unlocked real technology adoption. BUILDERS is part of a network of 20 industry-specific shows with a library of 1,200+ founder interviews conducted over the past three years. For the full network, visit FrontLines.io. Brought to you by:  www.FrontLines.io/FounderLedGrowth — Founder-led Growth as a Service. Launch your own podcast that drives thought leadership, demand, and most importantly, revenue.

  1. 6小時前

    How GlobalComix is building a publisher operating system | Henrik Rydberg

    GlobalComix operates a digital comics platform that brings stories from more than 330 publishers and 25,000 independent creators around the world to readers on their phones. In this episode of BUILDERS, we sat down with Henrik Rydberg, CEO of GlobalComix, to learn how the company is building the licensing infrastructure and creator tools needed to bring one of the last major entertainment categories to fully digitize, and why GlobalComix increasingly thinks of itself as a "publisher operating system" rather than a consumer app. Topics Discussed: Why comics are one of the last major entertainment mediums to go digital The licensing complexity behind working with 330+ publishers across countries and languages GlobalComix's shift from a consumer product to a "publisher operating system" Why aggregation, not individual publisher platforms, wins in a fragmented market The role of translation and manga localization in the fight against piracy How movie and streaming releases drive traffic back to source material The 50/50 revenue split between creator content and publisher IP GlobalComix's expansion into merchandise as a new revenue stream GTM Lessons For B2B Founders: Enter through the strategic problem, not the department that mirrors your product. Henrik calls pitching the licensing team directly "the most boring way to enter," and where they see the least success, because the real value is strategic: expanding into an untapped market. With Japanese manga publishers, that pitch becomes a shared fight against piracy, since less than 1% of manga has ever been officially translated to English. Find who owns the strategic problem your product solves, even if it means skipping the department with the matching title. Turn adoption resistance into an ICP filter, not an objection to overcome. Henrik targets publishers confident enough in their own IP to see digital exposure as additive, not cannibalizing: a reader who discovers a story online still buys the hoodie or the movie ticket. Publishers protecting print at all costs are the wrong first customers. In channel-conflict-sensitive industries, qualify prospects by their confidence in their own asset, not by pitching harder to the fearful ones. Your moat might be supply, not software. Publishers found it easy to spin up their own platform, then discovered they lacked enough catalog to make it consumer-compelling alone, which is why an aggregator model wins in a fragmented market. If a customer can clone your interface fast, check whether your real defensibility sits one layer down, in the supply you've aggregated. Give customers proof they can see, not proof you tell them. GlobalComix's tools let publishers and creators watch traffic lift directly off UTM-tagged links, so the link between action and result lives in their own dashboard. In a low-trust industry, a visible feedback loop converts faster than a case study. Compete for the budget line, not the seat at the table. GlobalComix measures itself against every use of a reader's attention, not other comics platforms, the same logic Henrik cited when referencing Netflix positioning against sleep. Define your competitive set by what's actually competing for the customer's time or budget, since the wrong comp set caps how big you let yourself think. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co // Don't Miss: New Podcast Series — How I Hire Senior GTM leaders share the tactical hiring frameworks they use to build winning revenue teams. Hosted by Andy Mowat, who scaled 4 unicorns from $10M to $100M+ ARR and launched Whispered to help executives find their next role. Subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/53yCHlPfLSMFimtv0riPyM

    How GlobalComix is building a publisher operating system | Henrik Rydberg

  2. 2日前

    How Knox turned a blunt SLA into its entire marketing message | Irina Denisenko

    Knox Systems has built a path around one of the most exclusive certifications in enterprise software. FedRAMP, the security standard required to sell cloud technology to the US federal government, has fewer than 500 companies holding it worldwide, versus more than 10,000 apps on the AWS Marketplace. Earning it independently typically takes three years and roughly $3 million. Knox compresses that to 90 days at 90% less cost by letting customers inherit authorization from its own infrastructure, which carries 16 sponsorships across agencies including the Army, Air Force, Navy, DHS, Treasury, and VA. In a recent episode of BUILDERS, we sat down with Irina Denisenko, CEO of Knox Systems, to learn how she built this model and how the government's relationship with Silicon Valley has shifted. Topics Discussed: How Knox lets customers inherit federal sponsorships instead of building authorization from scratch  The acquisition behind Knox's core technology, which hosted Adobe's federal environment for over a decade Why FedRAMP has become a competitive differentiator with commercial enterprise buyers How Knox judged the market large enough despite only 500 existing FedRAMP holders The shift from convincing buyers FedRAMP matters to meeting buyers already sold on it Knox's strategy of partnering with 3PAOs and GRC platforms instead of competing with them How Silicon Valley's relationship with the federal government has shifted since enterprise AI GTM Lessons For B2B Founders: Make your tagline an operational guarantee, not a slogan: Irina turned "90 days for 90% less" into a literal SLA on the homepage. The discipline behind it: "over-index on say what you're gonna do, do it in the time that you said you would do it, and then rinse and repeat." Provocative claims work only if the operating model can satisfy them every time. Prove the moat with cross-industry customers, not hypotheticals: Knox's authorization helped Sierra AI reach FedRAMP High and brought Armis, a company heavily focused on OT cybersecurity, into the federal market through Knox's platform. Track inbound conviction as a market-maturity signal: Irina measures GTM motion by what share of conversations start with buyers already sold on the category. Knox is now at three-in-four, up from the inverse a few years ago, and expects it to flip again at saturation. Track this ratio as a leading indicator of how much market education your sales motion still requires. Become a customer of the incumbents you'd otherwise compete with: Knox didn't build its own GRC tooling or displace 3PAOs. It became a Vanta and Drata customer and works alongside 3PAOs on complex cases, while putting engineering effort into autonomous cloud management instead. In a regulated market, coexisting with established players can open more doors than disrupting them. Let acquired infrastructure define your speed advantage: Knox's 90-day timeline exists because its core technology is 15 years old, built to host Adobe's federal environment before Knox opened it to other applications. When evaluating M&A, weigh whether a target's infrastructure maturity creates a structural edge competitors can't replicate organically. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co // Don't Miss: New Podcast Series — How I Hire Senior GTM leaders share the tactical hiring frameworks they use to build winning revenue teams. Hosted by Andy Mowat, who scaled 4 unicorns from $10M to $100M+ ARR and launched Whispered to help executives find their next role. Subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/53yCHlPfLSMFimtv0riPyM

    How Knox turned a blunt SLA into its entire marketing message | Irina Denisenko

  3. 7月20日

    How Scala tracks every closed deal back to its source before scaling spend | Ardie Sameti

    Scala is reimagining how operators run customer experience and contact center operations, shifting the model from software as a service to what its founder calls intelligence as a service. In a recent episode of BUILDERS, we sat down with Ardie Sameti, Co-Founder and CEO of Scala, to learn how a decade scaling healthcare technology company Accolade shaped his decision to start over and build an AI-native operations platform from scratch. Topics Discussed: Why operational fragmentation at scale, not a single bad decision, created the gap Scala was built to fill Why Scala held off adding headcount even while tracking ahead of its investor-approved hiring plan The shift from software as a service to intelligence as a service, and why proprietary data is the real moat How Scala attributes closed deals back to specific channels before scaling spend on any of them The guardrails Scala applies to AI avatars and outbound to avoid the brand cost of generic AI spam The long-term vision: an autonomous operations agentic platform where humans supervise fleets of AI agents GTM Lessons For B2B Founders: Resist headcount growth even when you're ahead of plan. Ardie's go-to-market and marketing leads were tracking ahead of their investor-approved hiring milestones, but chose not to add headcount anyway, because every new layer between founders and prospect calls dilutes the firsthand signal driving product and positioning decisions. Founders should treat being "ahead of schedule" as a reason to slow hiring, not speed it up Build a per-person output multiplier into headcount planning, not just budget. Scala's internal framework reframes each hire's expected output as a multiple of what the same role would have produced a few years ago, the same way Ardie now expects to operate at several times his own historical output. Founders should use this to decide which roles get automated versus hired for. Attribute every closed deal to its actual source before scaling spend on any channel. Scala tracks which deals originated from warm network intros versus AI avatar-driven inbound versus paid social, and only increases investment in a channel after it has produced enough closed deals to justify the cost. Founders should build this kind of deal-level channel attribution before assuming a new GTM motion is working. Apply explicit guardrails to AI outreach the same way you would onboard a junior SDR. Scala intentionally avoids blasting AI avatars at scale, instead targeting them using intent signals like active buying patterns and in-market status, with guardrails on what the AI is and isn't allowed to say. Founders should define those boundaries before scaling AI-driven outreach volume. Architect around proprietary data and workflow context, not the model layer. Ardie's view is that frontier models are now a commodity anyone can access, so the durable advantage is the specific data, workflows, and context a company accumulates inside its customers' operations. Founders should evaluate moats by asking what data a competitor cannot replicate, not which model they've shipped. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co // Don't Miss: New Podcast Series — How I Hire Senior GTM leaders share the tactical hiring frameworks they use to build winning revenue teams. Hosted by Andy Mowat, who scaled 4 unicorns from $10M to $100M+ ARR and launched Whispered to help executives find their next role. Subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/53yCHlPfLSMFimtv0riPyM

    How Scala tracks every closed deal back to its source before scaling spend | Ardie Sameti

  4. 7月17日

    How Angle Health built a unified data layer to make fully custom SMB health plans economically feasible at scale | Ty Wang

    Nearly half of working Americans and their families get health coverage through a small or medium-sized business — and for most of them, that means choosing from one to three rigid, off-the-shelf plans that may not fit their needs at all. Angle Health is changing that. As the first AI-native health plan and vertically integrated healthcare benefits platform, Angle Health delivers fully customizable health insurance to SMBs through an insurance broker channel — with a median renewal rate increase of just 5.5%, at a time when most small businesses are absorbing 11–20%+ increases year over year. In this episode of BUILDERS, we spoke with Ty Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Angle Health, about the hard-won channel pivot that unlocked their distribution, the unified data infrastructure that makes custom plan design economically feasible at scale, and what it actually looks like to rebuild a broken system from first principles. Topics Discussed: Why going direct-to-employer failed — and what the pivot to broker-channel distribution revealed about the market How Angle Health delivers fully custom health plans to SMBs when no legacy incumbent can do this economically The unified data infrastructure that enables AI to automate plan design, underwriting, eligibility, and claims administration end-to-end How Angle Health is rebuilding care pathways — moving procedures like infusions from hospital settings to in-home settings at a fraction of the cost The discipline of running a deliberately lean team at scale, and how Angle Health decides what to prioritize The long-term vision: a healthcare experience that is seamless, fully transparent on cost, and actually affordable for every American GTM Lessons For B2B Founders: Your initial distribution thesis is a hypothesis — treat it that way. Angle Health launched in 2021 going direct to small business owners and pivoted fast when it became clear the model wasn't working. The problem wasn't product-market fit — it was that SMB owners needed a trusted, unbiased advisor to guide their benefits decisions, and that role already belonged to brokers. Rather than build around that reality, Ty learned it the hard way. The lesson isn't "use channels" — it's to stay lean enough in your early distribution experiments that you can read the signal and change before you've over-indexed on the wrong motion. The dominant access point in your market is almost always the right wedge, even if it's not where you ultimately want to play. Ty is explicit that building a health plan was never the goal — it was the mechanism. The health plan is the primary way the majority of Americans access and pay for care, so controlling that layer is what makes everything downstream possible. Founders disrupting heavily intermediated or regulated industries should map the flow of access in their market and ask: what is the chokepoint everything else runs through? That's usually the right place to start, regardless of where you eventually want to go. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co // Don't Miss: New Podcast Series — How I Hire Senior GTM leaders share the tactical hiring frameworks they use to build winning revenue teams. Hosted by Andy Mowat, who scaled 4 unicorns from $10M to $100M+ ARR and launched Whispered to help executives find their next role. Subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/53yCHlPfLSMFimtv0riPyM

    How Angle Health built a unified data layer to make fully custom SMB health plans economically feasible at scale | Ty Wang

  5. 7月17日

    How Guild AI discovered their real buyers weren't developers — and rebuilt their GTM motion around CIOs and CSOs | James Everingham

    Guild AI is building the infrastructure layer that enterprises need to deploy, manage, and govern AI agents operating inside their systems. Founded by James Everingham — a five-time founder who most recently led developer infrastructure at Meta, overseeing a team of more than a thousand engineers — Guild AI is solving a problem James watched emerge firsthand inside one of the world's most complex technology organizations: what happens when agents stop being prototypes and start taking autonomous action inside your production infrastructure. In this episode of BUILDERS, James shares what he's learned about founding companies across nearly four decades, from writing shareware in central Pennsylvania in 1987 to building developer tooling at Meta to launching Guild AI. He goes deep on why the go-to-market motion for a new infrastructure category defaults tops-down, what enterprise engineering leaders actually respond to from vendors, and the product philosophy he's refined across five companies. Topics Discussed: Why James founded Guild AI after watching agent adoption break at scale inside Meta How Guild AI's go-to-market shifted from developer-led to CIO/CSO/CTO-driven — and what forced that shift Why design partners pushed Guild AI's use cases away from software development and into legal, marketing, HR, and finance What vendors consistently got wrong when trying to sell to James at Meta — and what actually worked GTM Lessons For B2B Founders: New infrastructure categories require a tops-down entry: Guild AI initially assumed a bottoms-up, developer-led motion. Their design partners revealed quickly that CIOs, CSOs, and CTOs were the ones carrying the urgency around agent governance — not individual developers. James frames the dynamic precisely: in early markets where buyers lack a clear starting point, individual contributors won't self-organize around a new tool without leadership buy-in first. The tops-down entry earns executive trust, establishes the governance framework, and creates the conditions for developers to adopt the tooling on their own terms — without a mandate. Follow your design partners, not your original thesis: Guild AI launched with a developer productivity thesis. Their earliest design partners pulled them toward marketing, legal, HR, and finance — areas where, as James noted, there's likely more demand for agentic workflow automation than in software development itself. The team followed the signal rather than defending the thesis. For B2B founders in emerging categories, design partnerships aren't just validation — they're navigation. The customers who show up first will often redirect you toward the higher-value problem you hadn't fully seen yet. Enterprise outreach is pattern-matched and rejected in seconds: James was receiving vendor pitches at Meta at scale. What killed deals before they started: AI-generated emails that reflected his own company's marketing language back at him with light personalization layered on top. His analogy is precise — he compares it to the first banner ads on the internet, effective for about three months before everyone learned to ignore them. What earned attention was evidence of real homework: a vendor who understood the specific friction points inside Meta's infrastructure before showing up to pitch. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co // Don't Miss: New Podcast Series — How I Hire Senior GTM leaders share the tactical hiring frameworks they use to build winning revenue teams. Hosted by Andy Mowat, who scaled 4 unicorns from $10M to $100M+ ARR and launched Whispered to help executives find their next role. Subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/53yCHlPfLSMFimtv0riPyM

    How Guild AI discovered their real buyers weren't developers — and rebuilt their GTM motion around CIOs and CSOs | James Everingham

  6. 7月17日

    How Vibrant Planet turned Congressional testimony into a GTM credibility | Allison Wolff

    The western US faces a trillion-dollar mitigation gap, a policy window that's finally opening, and a wildfire crisis that is accelerating faster than the industry being stood up to fight it. In this episode of BUILDERS, we sat down with Allison Wolff, CEO of Vibrant Planet, to hear how she's built the platform that agencies, utilities, and policymakers use to decide where to put limited dollars before communities burn. Topics Discussed: How Vibrant Planet's ML-trained vegetation structure layer — built on LiDAR and refreshed with satellite imagery — provides the spatial and temporal resolution that makes fine-scale fire modeling possible The statewide Cal Fire contract Allison announced on this episode: deploying across all 21 units and six contract counties to prioritize $1.4 billion in Prop 4 funding How Vibrant Planet functions as the optimization engine for constrained public budgets when treating the entire western US would cost an estimated $1 trillion How Allison testified before Congress after the Altadena fire using her platform's own post-fire analysis: $9 million in strategic forest thinning could have potentially slowed a fire that caused $40 billion in insured losses Why Vibrant Planet invested in a lobbyist — and how that investment shaped Congressional testimony, navigated new federal contracting red tape, and helped position the company for an emerging class of outcomes-driven state mandates How the supply certainty Vibrant Planet's platform produces can unlock private investment in adjacent industries: biochar, cross-laminated timber, prescribed fire workforce Why wildfire is one of the only genuinely apolitical issues in Washington right now, and what that creates for companies in the space GTM Lessons For B2B Founders: Build the optimization layer, not just the data layer. Vibrant Planet's core product isn't a data platform — it's a recommendation engine that answers "where do we put the money to get the most impact" when treating everything is impossible and every dollar has political and scientific accountability attached to it. Allison described customers who were previously allocating treatment budgets based on whoever was loudest in the grant cycle. Vibrant Planet replaced that with objective, reproducible prioritization. In markets where buyers face constrained budgets and high-stakes tradeoffs, the product that owns the decision architecture — not just the data inputs — is the one that becomes structural. Congressional testimony is a GTM channel. Allison testified before the Natural Resources Committee nine months before this episode using Vibrant Planet's own platform outputs: animated fire spread models, community risk profiles, thousand-community comparisons to Altadena. The result was a credibility signal and a demand signal that no case study produces. In infrastructure, climate, and regulated industries, policy engagement isn't separate from sales — it shapes the budget categories your customers are allowed to spend from. Founders in these sectors should treat time in front of legislators the same way they treat an enterprise reference customer. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co // Don't Miss: New Podcast Series — How I Hire Senior GTM leaders share the tactical hiring frameworks they use to build winning revenue teams. Hosted by Andy Mowat, who scaled 4 unicorns from $10M to $100M+ ARR and launched Whispered to help executives find their next role.  Subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/53yCHlPfLSMFimtv0riPyM

    How Vibrant Planet turned Congressional testimony into a GTM credibility | Allison Wolff

  7. 7月13日

    How Insight Health used a free AI scribe to turn EHR companies from competitors into a distribution channel | Jaimal Soni

    Insight Health is automating the clinical work that surrounds the patient visit — from history capture and intake to referrals and chronic disease follow-ups — so that specialty providers can deliver more care with the capacity they already have. The company completed its first fully autonomous patient interaction for an oncology practice on the West Coast and has since surpassed four million AI-powered encounters. In a recent episode of BUILDERS, we sat down with Jaimal Soni, Co-Founder & CEO of Insight Health, to hear how a founding team of engineers and practicing physicians built the credibility, infrastructure, and go-to-market motion to move fast in one of the hardest industries to sell into. Topics Discussed: Why up to half of a first specialty visit is history capture — and why that insight shaped the entire product roadmap How Insight Health chose mid-market healthcare (seven to sixty providers) to close its first paid customer in under four months — while Kaiser-scale enterprises take twelve to eighteen months Why they built an AI scribe, offered it for free, and how that decision turned EHR companies from competitors into a distribution channel How the team built Safe AI — their proprietary real-time and near-real-time evaluation framework — when no off-the-shelf evals solution existed for live patient interactions  The three-stakeholder map required to win any healthcare deal: clinical champion, administrative champion, and economic buyer  GTM Lessons For B2B Founders: Pick your initial segment based on sales cycle math, not just market size. Insight Health chose mid-market healthcare because those organizations close in three to four months. Kaiser-scale enterprises take twelve to eighteen months and require infrastructure Insight Health simply didn't have at the time. Jaimal's framing: "You never want to go out fishing for a whale in a dinghy." The lesson is tactical — run the procurement cycle math for each segment before you pick your entry point, and match it honestly to what your team can actually support and deploy. Post-close is where discovery actually matters most. Jaimal's biggest carry-out from seven years at Segment was that discovery is not a pre-sales activity. Economic buyers change. Deployment scope shifts. Champions lose their internal standing. The teams that treated discovery as a closed chapter after signing were the ones caught flat-footed when accounts churned or contracted. Build a standing cadence for re-qualifying the key stakeholders inside your accounts after the contract is signed. Healthcare deals require three distinct stakeholders — and only one of them needs to be a champion. Insight Health mapped this buying committee directly from their physician co-founders' experience on the procurement side: a clinical champion (often the CMO or a lead clinician carrying the torch internally), an administrative champion responsible for day-to-day operations, and an economic buyer who signs off on spend. Critically, the economic buyer does not need to be a champion — they just need to not block the deal. Conflating these roles wastes sales cycles. Enter every enterprise deal knowing which of the three you have and which you still need to develop. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co // Don't Miss: New Podcast Series — How I Hire Senior GTM leaders share the tactical hiring frameworks they use to build winning revenue teams. Hosted by Andy Mowat, who scaled 4 unicorns from $10M to $100M+ ARR and launched Whispered to help executives find their next role. Subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/53yCHlPfLSMFimtv0riPyM

    How Insight Health used a free AI scribe to turn EHR companies from competitors into a distribution channel | Jaimal Soni

  8. 7月10日

    How Schematic ran a two-step validation to separate problem pain from build/buy intent | Fynn Glover

    Schematic is building the infrastructure layer between the application and the billing system — solving the entitlements problem that quietly kills commercial agility at scaling software companies. In a recent episode of BUILDERS, we sat down with Fynn Glover, Co-Founder & CEO of Schematic, to learn how a lived operator problem and 100 discovery conversations led to a conviction that entitlements management is to monetization what Auth0 was to authentication. Topics Discussed: The entitlements problem: why hard-coding feature access to billing plan IDs creates commercial and technical debt How 100 discovery conversations surfaced product engineering as the true ICP — and why finance and sales couldn't see it The two-sided market thesis: legacy companies forced to re-architect and startups who can avoid the mess Why content was Schematic's primary GTM mechanism before the product existed How Fynn mines transcripts for language shifts and re-runs WTP validation every six months GTM Lessons For B2B Founders: Use your own experience as the discovery opener: Fynn didn't lead with structured questions. He shared his story — six months to change pricing at a high-growth cybersecurity company — then listened for prospects to name the root cause before he did. When they stopped blaming the billing system and started describing the app-to-billing intersection as the problem, he had signal. Finance and sales couldn't see it. Product and engineering could, because they were building the glue. Separate "is this a problem" from "would you buy a solution": Once Fynn had consistency on the problem, he ran a distinct step — asking whether the infrastructure felt core to the company's product or non-core, careful not to bias the answer. The more he heard "none of this is related to our actual product," the more conviction he built that companies would buy it off the shelf. Two questions, sequenced: the first surfaces pain, the second surfaces build/buy intent. Publish before you have a product when creating a category: Fynn knew Schematic would take years to build something enterprises would trust. Content became the mechanism to attract people who believed in the problem before a product existed. His framing: content doesn't need direct ROI — it needs to bring the company energy, reputation, and market utility. Re-run willingness-to-pay every six months: Fynn ran 10-15 WTP conversations before founding Schematic and has continued every six months with new prospects and existing customers. Pricing assumptions drift — recalibration keeps positioning grounded in what buyers actually value now. Treat call transcripts as a language intelligence feed: One of the biggest workflow changes for Fynn has been mining call transcripts to track how buyers describe their bottlenecks over time. As the market shifts from seat-based to hybrid pricing, buyer language shifts too. Transcripts let him track that at scale rather than relying on intuition. // Sponsors: Front Lines — We help B2B tech companies launch, manage, and grow podcasts that drive demand, awareness, and thought leadership. www.FrontLines.io The Global Talent Co. — We help tech startups find, vet, hire, pay, and retain amazing marketing talent that costs 50-70% less than the US & Europe. www.GlobalTalent.co // Don't Miss: New Podcast Series — How I Hire Senior GTM leaders share the tactical hiring frameworks they use to build winning revenue teams. Hosted by Andy Mowat, who scaled 4 unicorns from $10M to $100M+ ARR and launched Whispered to help executives find their next role. Subscribe here: https://open.spotify.com/show/53yCHlPfLSMFimtv0riPyM

    How Schematic ran a two-step validation to separate problem pain from build/buy intent | Fynn Glover
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Welcome to BUILDERS — the show about how founders get new technology adopted. Each episode features a founder on the front lines of bringing new tech to market, sharing how they broke into their industry, earned early believers, built credibility, and unlocked real technology adoption. BUILDERS is part of a network of 20 industry-specific shows with a library of 1,200+ founder interviews conducted over the past three years. For the full network, visit FrontLines.io. Brought to you by:  www.FrontLines.io/FounderLedGrowth — Founder-led Growth as a Service. Launch your own podcast that drives thought leadership, demand, and most importantly, revenue.

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