We Built a Startup That Died Before It Lived

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Bootstrapped for Cash

Sealambda

33 episodes

2 days ago

This is a podcast about two techies, Iván and Giorgio, who once worked at a startup that got acquired and thought: "Hey, we can do this ourselves!"—only to realize they have no clue what they’re doing. Now bootstrapping their own indie venture, they’re navigating business, marketing, and sales while awkwardly exposing themselves as introverts on social media. Along the way, they’re using AI to build new products because "chatbots are boring, and we can do better". Expect plenty of facepalms, questionable decisions, and the dry, sardonic humor that unites Southern Europeans.

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We Built a Startup That Died Before It Lived

Bootstrapped for Cash

18 minutes 9 seconds

3 weeks ago

We Built a Startup That Died Before It Lived

Ever wondered what really happens behind the scenes of a failed startup?

In this episode, Iván visits ⁠Juan Sanz⁠ and both go all-in on the raw, untold story of GouBlue — a carpooling platform born in an MBA classroom, built with passion, code, and a lot of caffeine… and killed by bad timing, team friction, and COVID! 🦠

They talk about:

📱 How having a superior product doesn't guarantee success.

💥 The painful truth about having too many co-founders.

✅ Lessons on tech, trust, and why most startups die from the inside.

It’s funny, honest, and painfully relatable.

If you’ve ever dreamed of starting a startup, listen to this first.

This episode is the AI-generated English version. Want to hear the original Spanish version? Check out the previous episode — and tell us in the comments what you think of this experiment!