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Panic With Friends with ME (Howard)....A Look Back at My Wallstrip Journey

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Howard Lindzon
January 12, 2023

Panic with Friends – Investing for Profit and Joy

No, you haven’t entered the Twilight Zone. Yes, I’m the host of Panic with Friends, but in today’s episode, I’m the guest. My producer Knut Jensen has turned the tables and put me in the hot seat. I get a lot of questions from people that follow me on the blog, Stocktwits and Twitter about how and why I started Wallstrip back in 2006. Hopefully this answers a lot of those questions.

We cover the good, the bad, and the funny times building my first internet company – and how those lessons carried over when I started Stocktwits – lessons like finding the right mentor, the benefit of domain experience, and some key ingredients: product, team, recruiting and timing. It’s a different spin on Panic with Friends ...going back and telling founder stories, which I will be doing more of in the future.

You can listen to the podcast here on Spotify or Apple podcast and now all the episodes are on my YouTube channel as well. You can click subscribe on any of these channels and get the podcast alert each week.

You can also listen right here on the blog:

Howard Lindzon - The Wolf of Wallstrip (EP.236) by Panic with Friends - Howard Lindzon

No, you haven’t entered the Twilight Zone. Yes, I’m the host of Panic with Friends, but in today’s special episode, I’m the guest. My producer Knut Jensen has turned the tables and put me in the hot seat. With so many questions about how and why I started Wallstrip, I felt it was time to lay it all out. And hopefully this answers a lot of those questions. We cover the good, the bad, and the funny times building my first internet company – and how those lessons carried over when I started Stocktwits – lessons like finding the right mentor and having domain experience around an idea, and the three key ingredients: product, team and timing. It’s a different spin on Panic with Friends where we’re going back and telling these types of stories with our best founders, so you’ll be seeing more episodes like this in the future. And of course, the big question on Wallstrip, would I do it again? You’ll have to listen to find out!

https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/STKT8917579627

For more details on today’s conversation read on below…

Guest: Howard Lindzon

Profile: Entrepreneur & Investor, GP at Social Leverage

Where to Find Him: LinkedIn, Twitter

What's Howard About? I'm panicked about 2023.

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Show Notes:

  • Introduction (00:27)

  • Coming up with Wallstrip (01:42)

  • Starting with GolfNow (07:55)

  • YouTube becomes a thing (10:27)

  • Cold pitching Fred Wilson (11:59)

  • Raising funds (15:08)

  • Finding the team (18:34)

  • The formula (22:36)

  • Gaining traction (25:13)

  • Would I do it again? (27:09)

  • My ‘growth hack’ (30:24)

  • The ‘moment’ it’s successful (31:10)

  • Now the pressure is on (32:36)

  • The right kind of attention (31:54)

  • Dealing with haters (33:56)

  • Sell or grow (38:14)

  • The Jim Cramer spoof (39:21)

  • My Costanza moment (41:04)

  • CBS acquires Wallstrip (41:30)

  • The right people and domain experience (44:29)

  • Wrapping up (46:35)

  • Closing thoughts (46:56)

© Panic with Friends, 2022. All rights reserved.

Host: Howard Lindzon | Producer: Knut Jensen | Researcher: Pete Weishaupt Disclaimer: All information provided is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment, legal or tax advice, or an offer to buy or sell any security. For full disclosures: https://howardlindzon.com/disclaimer/

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