Episode 654 | Shipping Every Day for 10 Years with Tom Merritt

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In episode 654, Rob Walling chats with Tom Merritt, who is the host of multiple shows, including Daily Tech News, Know A Little More, Sword & Laser, Cordkillers, and more. Tom has more podcasts than anyone I know, and this episode will be a little different since Tom is not a SaaS founder or someone who wrote a book for founders. Instead, you’ll learn about the systems, processes, and discipline that Tom has set up so that he can be such a prolific creator. You’ll also learn more about his innate ability to summarize complex situations and then talk about both sides in a fair and balanced way. Topics we cover: 3:13 - Tom’s decision to go into business for himself in 2013 7:10 - Being an early adopter of Patreon 9:29 - Dealing with the emotional aspect in the early days 10:40 - The hardest parts of launching a daily show in the early days 13:01 - Tom’s approach to dealing with public criticism 19:07 - Tom’s process for shipping new content every day for 10 years 24:00 - Has Tom missed a day for recording The Daily Tech News Show in 10 years? 25:01 - Tom’s ability to see and communicate both sides of a story 28:22 - Is Tom using AI in his workflow? 34:10 - The Secret Hidden Track Links from the Show: Tom Merritt I Twitter Tommerritt.com Daily Tech News Show ElevenLabs MicroConf Youtube Channel If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	Welcome back to startups for the rest of us. I'm Rob Walling. Today, you get to hear me have a conversation with Tom Merritt, the host of Daily Tech News Show, Cord Killers, Current Geek, It's a Thing, Sword and Laser, know a little more. He has more podcasts than any five people I know. And this episode is a little different.
0:22.4	Tom Merritt is not a SaaS founder.
0:24.4	He has not written a book for SaaS founders.
0:31.0	But I'm fascinated with people who are able to ship something every day for years.
0:33.7	In fact, decades, as you'll hear us, get into it. And I ask him about his thought process and then like the physical process of how he has
0:38.5	shipped Daily Tech News show five days a week for a decade. Like talk about grind and
0:45.4	discipline to get it out. I also dive in. He's a tech pundit, a journalist slash pundit, but he's
0:51.2	very balanced. And I've always admired his ability to summarize complex
0:57.6	situations and then talk about both sides of them. And he doesn't get so far out in left field or
1:03.5	out and right field like so many pundits do. They do it for the shock value and he doesn't. So if you
1:09.3	know who Tom there it is and you've heard him on one
1:10.9	of these shows, I'm sure this will be fun for you. If you haven't, and you came here today for
1:14.9	some SaaS focused tactics, this is not your episode. And you can obviously feel free to skip this one.
1:21.7	But I really enjoy the conversation and I do think that there is a lot to get out of someone
1:27.3	like Tom Merritt who has been so successful
1:29.0	and shipped so much amazing content into the world.
1:33.5	Before we dive into that, if you're not subscribed to our YouTube channel, we're putting out
1:36.9	really incredible content every week, at least one video, sometimes to recently, Anner Volset
1:43.6	and I did a live stream about the SVB bank collapse.
1:48.7	And then every week I'm recording something to deal with SaaS.
1:51.8	It's almost like 10 to 15 minute Rob's solo adventures,
1:55.1	but you get to see my smiling face on the camera.
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