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Indie Hackers Podcast Courtland Allen & Channing Allen

Long, honest interviews with bootstrapped founders about exactly how they got their first customers and to profitability.

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My First Million Sam Parr & Shaan Puri

Rapid-fire business ideas, trends and 'I'd build this' brainstorms. Great for idea generation and spotting opportunities.

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Startups For the Rest of Us Rob Walling

The original bootstrapped-SaaS podcast. Tactical, no-hype advice on building a software business without VC.

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The SaaS Podcast Omer Khan

Deep-dive interviews with SaaS founders on how they found product–market fit, priced and scaled.

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The Bootstrapped Founder Arvid Kahl

Audience-building, productized businesses and the indie path to a sustainable company. Calm, thoughtful.

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Lenny's Podcast Lenny Rachitsky

Product, growth and career deep-dives with top operators. Skews bigger-company but the growth tactics transfer.

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Acquired Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal

Epic, well-researched stories of how the great companies were built. Strategy education disguised as entertainment.

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Build Your SaaS Justin Jackson & Jon Buda

Two founders building Transistor in public — real numbers, real decisions, episode by episode.

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Software Social Michele Hansen & Colleen Schnettler

Two bootstrappers talk weekly about the actual day-to-day of running tiny software businesses.

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How I Built This Guy Raz (NPR)

Origin stories of well-known companies and the messy early days behind them. Inspirational fuel.

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Tropical MBA Dan Andrews & Ian Schoen

Location-independent entrepreneurship and small, profitable businesses — building a life and a company on your own terms.

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Bootstrapped Web Brian Casel & Jordan Gal

Two SaaS founders talk through the real, in-progress decisions of running and growing bootstrapped products.

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ZenFounder Dr. Sherry Walling

The one about the founder, not the funnel — mental health, burnout and staying sane while you build.

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