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Arvid & Tyler are Just Getting Started

Arvid Kahl and Tyler Tringas are launching a new podcast aimed at helping entrepreneurs navigate the 'calm company path' and make informed decisions. The podcast will feature behind-the-scenes insights and decision-making processes in their businesses, with a focus on audio content and potential video recording. They are considering whether to limit the focus to SaaS or include other software businesses and exploring the idea of adding a community element to the program. The hosts plan to define the scope, audience, and format, using data to choose resonant topics. They emphasize the importance of feedback and data analysis in decision-making and are open to diverse topics for future episodes. The podcast also serves as an accountability regimen for the hosts, fostering collaborations and friendships through their internet ideas. They are considering outsourcing name suggestions for the podcast and plan to include Arvid's diverse interests in future episodes.

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Arvid & Tyler Find The Right Words

Arvid and Tyler Catch Up podcast, professionalized by episode two, discusses various topics while attracting a large audience. The Silicon Valley Bank experienced a bank run, sparking contrasting reactions on Twitter. The incident served as a unique stress test due to its concentrated customer base, highlighting the importance of staying calm and making contingency plans. The podcast emphasizes the importance of building resiliency into businesses, focusing on sustainability, staying lean, and specificity. It also explores the concept of 'calm business' and aims to include other successful founders to share their insights. Additionally, the hosts discuss the idea of giving credit and amplifying others' work, emphasizing the importance of supporting the entrepreneurial community.

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Books, Antibiotics, and Dealing With Social Isolation

Arvid Kahl, inspired by books like The Pathless Path and The SaaS Playbook, considers writing more books and debates involving a publisher or self-publishing. He explores the concept of building in public and emphasizes the positive impact of sharing personal struggles. Arvid shares his experience of feeling socially isolated while building a successful SaaS business, Feedback Panda, and stresses the importance of community and support. Tyler Tringas also shares his entrepreneurial journey and the challenges of gaining support. Both emphasize the value of unconventional paths and building a supportive community. They discuss the impact of societal narratives on entrepreneurship and encourage questioning traditional norms. Arvid and Tyler highlight the importance of sharing personal journeys, building in public, and seeking inspiration from diverse lifestyles.

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Calm Market Analysis

The episode emphasizes the importance of market analysis for calm SaaS businesses, prioritizing audience-first and validation-centric approaches. It introduces a five-step process for market exploration, including brainstorming potential markets and scoring them based on affinity, opportunity, willingness to pay, and market size. The episode concludes by highlighting proofreaders and podcast sponsors as the most promising markets for calm SaaS businesses.

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Calm Under (Legislative) Pressure with Michele Hansen

Founders are grappling with challenges stemming from tax policy changes, prompting them to take action and explore available options. The conversation underscores the significance of prioritizing mental and business resiliency, seeking support, and focusing on controllable factors. It emphasizes the importance of mindfulness and staying calm in entrepreneurship, with a project aimed at teaching how to build a calm business. There is a push to make business education more accessible, highlighting the value of learning from others' experiences and being part of a community. The SSB alliance.org provides a platform for U.S. founders to advocate for a solution to the uncertainty caused by tax policy changes. Founders are urged to reevaluate business plans, cut non-essential expenses, and explore financial liquidity options while considering potential tax refunds. The conversation stresses the need for founders to take action, explore available options, and consider the broader implications of tax policy changes on their businesses.

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Diversifying Your SaaS When Money Dries Up

Arvid Kahl and Tyler Tringas discuss the challenges faced by founders in sticky financial situations and the struggles of finding quality sponsors for media businesses. They emphasize the evolving nature of SaaS businesses, the importance of balancing automation with human interaction, and the potential impact of AI on society. The conversation also explores the idea of a community-based approach for their podcast content, concerns about the rapid evolution of AI, and the possibility of shifting the podcast format into something that can be reused. They consider monetization, the impact on their bottom line, and the potential of bringing in experts to share specific knowledge. The podcast has around 3,000 downloads and over 100 downloads on the day of release, with approximately 200 listens within the first 30 days for each episode on Spotify. Arvid Kahl expresses excitement about the direction of future conversations and engagement.

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Platform Risk and What to Do About It

Arvid Kahl and Tyler Tringas had a productive week, featuring on podcasts and releasing interview episodes. They discussed communication, sauna benefits, podcasting challenges, and entrepreneurship strategies. Kahl shared his unique writing workflow and the importance of understanding others' circumstances. Tringas talked about his new routine, small apps, and dealing with a nerve issue. They emphasized the value of setting deadlines, shared excitement about an upcoming event, and discussed the challenges of platform dependency. Additionally, they highlighted the importance of finding niche problems and creating unique solutions, as well as the need for early assessments and building interoperable solutions. The conversation also touched on pricing strategies for a program and the benefits of mentorship in entrepreneurship. They expressed enthusiasm for deadlines and discussed the timing and duration of their live podcast. Tringas gave a shout out to MoveBetterSam, a physical therapist who helped him with a nerve issue through social media platforms.

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Prioritizing What to Work On

Arvid Kahl and Tyler Tringas emphasize the challenges of balancing short-term gains with long-term aspirations in entrepreneurship. They stress the importance of reversible decisions, small experiments, and surrounding oneself with supportive individuals. The conversation highlights the need for endurance, experimentation, and not being deterred by failed experiments. They discuss the experimental project CalmNBA to help build a SaaS business and the importance of good sleep, nutrition, and enjoyable tasks for productivity. Additionally, they touch on using Notion for organizing work and encourage listeners to support their podcast. The discussion also includes the significance of prioritization, maintaining mental and physical capacity, and incorporating structure and spontaneity into daily activities.

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Should You Embellish Your Success?

Tyler Tringas and Arvid Kahl reflect on their recent experiences, emphasizing the challenges of imposter syndrome and the importance of honesty and integrity in their work. They stress the significance of building a community based on trust and intimacy, rather than resorting to misleading practices for short-term gains. Arvid shares a personal experience of being approached for a questionable business venture, highlighting the importance of maintaining a good reputation. They discuss the concept of imposter syndrome and the tendency to over-correct by adding excessive disclaimers, aiming to foster empathy and understanding. The conversation also includes plans for the Calm MBA project, running experimental workshop versions, and giving a shout out to individuals in the startup and VC world, particularly Elizabeth Yin. They acknowledge the prevalence of embellished success stories in the online space but emphasize the importance of honesty and integrity in content creation.

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The Final Deadline... Or: A Deadline, Finally.

Arvid and Tyler catch up on their recent activities, discussing investment decisions, mental health conversations, and family preparations. They share their work schedules, with Arvid focusing on content creation and Tyler having a more unstructured schedule. Both entrepreneurs talk about managing high volumes of emails and using video responses for efficiency. They discuss their media work, setting up a studio, and approaches to motivation and goal-setting. They consider creating a project called Calm MBA, involving their audience, and using Notion to organize their work. Tyler has been busy with his Calm Company Fund, making investment decisions and helping portfolio companies navigate the changing investment landscape. Arvid reflects on mental health conversations and imposter syndrome struggles of founders. They discuss their different approaches to motivation and maintaining alignment in their work, and their plans for future projects and deadlines.

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Tyler Tringas of Calm fund with Reilly Chase of hostifi_net, a $6M revenue Ubiquiti services business

Lachlan transitioned from tech support to starting Hostify, reaching $3 million in annual recurring revenue, exceeding goals. Challenges included copycats, platform risk, and investor pressure. Prioritizes health, fitness, and entrepreneur magnet phase. Hostify provides cloud hosting for Unify, UISP, and Omada servers. Challenges with copycats, competitors, and COVID-19 impact. Acquired a business with 400 customers. Negotiated strategic acquisitions and valued businesses. Prioritizing vision over investor expectations. Excited about developing a new app. Emphasizes health, fitness, and proactive steps. Not interested in selling Hostify, focused on long-term growth and delegation.

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What AI Can Do for Bootstrappers

Arvid Kahl and Tyler Tringas discuss the practical applications of AI tools like ChatGPT in their day-to-day activities, emphasizing its use in brainstorming, content structuring, adversarial writing, summarization, and generating tweets and YouTube descriptions. They explore AI's potential in text generation, summarization, and its impact on writing, stressing the need for legislation around AI's impact on others' information. The conversation also touches on the importance of building a business on top of AI, rather than solely relying on it, and the need to synthesize their ideas into a mission statement for the Calm MBA project. They discuss the impact of AI on software development, the size of developer teams, and the unpredictability of technological waves. Additionally, they delve into the definition of a calm business and plan to create a course about building a calm company. The conversation concludes with plans for future episodes and endorsements of relevant courses and topics.

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When Running a Calm Company Means Tough Choices

Tyler Tringas and Arvid Kahl discuss the challenges of fundraising, emphasizing the need for a revenue-centric approach and making tough decisions for long-term sustainability. Tringas shares his company's strategic changes and the impact of layoffs on mental health, highlighting the relief of having an 'infinite runway' for better decisions. They also stress the importance of calmness and not being outcome-oriented in business, while advocating for more support events for founders. Arvid reflects on the prevalence of burnout and mental health challenges among founders, emphasizing the need for more opportunities to share and support each other. Additionally, they discuss the dilemma of transitioning to a pure CEO role and the importance of considering alternative configurations for founders' roles within the company to optimize for personal enjoyment and excitement about the business.

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