Jacob Bozarth is the founder of Resound, a podcast editing platform that automates the production process using AI. Resound was founded out of Jacob’s previous company, Resonate, after he identified the problem of long editing time decreasing the number of people who see their podcast past the first couple episodes. “Edit your podcast in minutes, not hours”, says the founder who has edited podcasts for over 35,000 podcasters and 13 Apple #1 podcasts. Jacob also gives general advice about founding a startup. “You need to distill your company down to the main problem. If you focus on too many things you’ll be stretched too far and be OK at a bunch of things instead of the best at all”, he tells us. Jacob also encourages bootstrapping your company before taking venture funding. This will make it easier to raise and give you a higher valuation. Jacob walks us through his experience testing with his first customer. Following a good market validation process, they put in the effort to scope out pain points and needs before building, so when they launched beta they knew it was going to be something podcasters needed. Filling up his beta waitlist was easy because he attended podcasting trade shows in addition to leveraging his network in the podcasting industry he had built up at his last company.