Sam Bakker Podcast

Sam Bakker
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Marketing strategy, growth, and building businesses that actually work. Sam Bakker is the founder of Daom, a strategy and growth firm based in New Zealand. After a decade operating inside SaaS companies, managing teams, and consulting on 60+ projects, he shares the lessons most people learn too late — on marketing that stands out, taking risks, building proof from zero, and why the safe idea is almost always the wrong one. No scripts. No fluff. Just what actually works.

Episodes

  1. Mar 7

    05. Audit Marketing by Finding the One Thing That Matters Most

    A practical breakdown of how to audit a company’s marketing by stripping away assumptions, studying what buyers actually care about, and finding the one message that will make the brand stand out. It covers customer research, competitor analysis, message testing, and how to turn those insights into a clearer sales and marketing foundation.

    19 min

  2. Mar 5

    04. Rebuilding a Live SaaS With 40,000 Members

    A live SaaS changed hands overnight, the team turned over, and 40,000+ members kept using it without pause. In this episode, I break down the reset: what the product is, why it’s positioned differently from other community platforms, and how I’m approaching stability, roadmap, and growth during a full transition. I also share a real operational lesson from the handover and how AI is accelerating diagnosis and decision-making as we rebuild week by week.

    19 min

  3. Mar 4

    03. What AI Can’t Copy...

    AI is collapsing the cost of building and shipping software faster than most founders realize. In this episode I break down what I’m seeing in real workflows, how this changes competition, and the parts of a business that will matter more as everything else gets easier to replicate.

    16 min

  4. Mar 3

    02. Business Exposes What You Avoid

    In this episode, I break down the foundation I think most founders skip: knowing your patterns, telling the truth early, and building clarity before strategy. I share how my habit of avoiding difficult conversations — and entering partnerships without clear structure — created predictable pain, and I lay out the simple rules and a practical checklist I now follow to stop repeating it.

    20 min

  5. Feb 26

    01. Go Towards the Fear

    This is the first episode of my podcast. I share the story of a panic attack on a flight in Siberia that changed how I approach every decision in life and business. From selling Coca-Cola at school at 15, to building multi-million dollar businesses, to being unable to leave a state of fear for days — this episode is about what happens when you stop running from fear and start moving towards it. If you are a founder sitting on a decision you are scared to make, this one is for you.

    14 min
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Marketing strategy, growth, and building businesses that actually work. Sam Bakker is the founder of Daom, a strategy and growth firm based in New Zealand. After a decade operating inside SaaS companies, managing teams, and consulting on 60+ projects, he shares the lessons most people learn too late — on marketing that stands out, taking risks, building proof from zero, and why the safe idea is almost always the wrong one. No scripts. No fluff. Just what actually works.

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    Sam Bakker
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