Here we are with another episode of startups for the rest of us. I'm your host, Rob Walling,

and each week on this show, we cover topics related to building and growing startups using

an ambitious, yet a sustainable approach. We are not willing to sacrifice our health or our

relationships to grow a company. We want to build real businesses with real customers who pay us

real money. Welcome back. Thanks for joining me again this week.

I had a great conversation with the CEO and co-founder of Squadcast.

His name is Zach Moreno, and we'll dive into that.

In just a few minutes, Squadcast is at Squadcast.fm, and they are the highest fidelity

recording available in a web browser to have two,

three, four people remotely meet and record high quality audio and now video, which they just

launched and we talk about it in the show. It's the tool that this podcast has been recorded on

for, I think it's close to two years, 18 to 24 months at some

point. You know, we switched to squadcast and we've never looked back. In fact, when we switched,

our editor said, what did you do differently? Your audio sounds so much better this week. And it

records in multiple tracks. It's just an audio editor's dream. And of course, it is part of,

you know, what increased the production value of this very show.

And one fascinating part of squadcast story is how they 10xed their revenue from 2019,

where they were doing low six figures until 2021.

When Shelter in Place happened, they 10xed.

And Zach talks about how they passed three million in ARR just a few

months ago. As a effectively, they were bootstrapped until just about a year ago. They took

funding from us from Tiny Seed, which is obviously not a tremendous amount of money. I mean,

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