Open Threads

Justin Ferriman, founder of LearnDash, talks to me about how he started, grew, and exited from this WordPress business in the LMS space. 

Brian and Justin’s conversation was recorded on  November 10t…

 Jay Clouse, who runs Creator Science, joins me to talk all things creator businesses. 

Brian and Jay’s conversation was recorded on November 8th, 2023 

• (00:00) - The Science Behind a Creator Business
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Adam Gilbert, founder of My Body Tutor, joins me to talk about how he scaled a personal fitness coaching business. 

Brian and Adam’s conversation was recorded on November 3rd, 2023.

• (00:00) - Scaling …

Dru Riley, founder of Trends.vc, returns to the show to talk about his life as a digital nomad for 3+ years.

Brian and Dru's conversation was recorded on November 20th, 2023.

• (00:00) - 3+ Years of Noma…

Aaron Francis, creator of screencasting.com and prolific YouTuber joins me to talk about his “Era of Maximum Effort”. We get into building products businesses vs. creator businesses, and more.

Brian a…

Ian Landsman of HelpSpot joins me to unpack all things Laravel ecosystem.

Brian and Ian's conversation was recorded on November 3rd, 2023.

• (00:00) - The Laravel Ecosystem with Ian Landsman
• (00:34) - Ia…

Colleen Schnettler, founder of HelloQuery, joins me for a wide-ranging discussion around the question of choosing the right product idea to commit to as an entrepreneur. 

Brian and Colleen recorded th…

Dru Riley, founder of Trends.vc joins me to talk about building his Newsletter and Community business and the systems and processes he’s used to grow it.

Brian and Dru's conversation was recorded on N…

Ian Landsman and his team at Userscape work on HelpSpot, a well-established SaaS product for customer support.  And after well over 10 years in business, they decided to embark on a full rebuild of t…

Open Threads is returning!

This is a quick update where I (Brian Casel) give you a preview of what's to come in the upcoming weekly episodes of Open Threads.  Plus a note on some changes to the format…

Hey! Just want to let you know that I’ll be taking a break (for a bit) from recording new episodes of this Open Threads podcast.

But don’t unsubscribe! I promise to come back to this feed with new con…

Lemon Squeezy, the new platform for building SaaS businesses went through quite a few iterations before J.R. Farr and the Make Lemonade crew figured out what it is and who it’s for… And how to make p…

I invited Corbett back on the show when I noticed he’s been picking up steam on his Substack-based newsletter, Starting Things. Clearly, he’s in the exploration phase of his next entrepreneurial chap…

Founder Summit was one of the best conferences I’ve attended because it’s built on the idea that a conference is really about the relationships, not the headline speakers. Tyler Tringas, founder of C…

Harry Morton, founder of Lower Street, is back on the show today to take us inside the creative process behind big brand podcast productions. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill interview shows. This i…

In 2020, after a hugely successful run building and exiting MOJO Marketplace, J.R. Farr announced the formation of a “dream team” new company known as Make Lemonade. What they’re making is truly impr…

After building, selling and exiting Fizzle, a community and content-based business, Corbett Barr decided to hit the reset button. How? By deleting all of his social media and past blog content to sta…

From bootstrapping and selling a SaaS to… Starting a fund for bootstrapped SaaS companies. Tyler Tringas talks about that transition and what he’s learned since starting and growing Calm Company Fund…

It’s strange how little we talk about the code side of building and running a software business. So Benedikt Deicke, technical co-founder of Userlist, joins me to geek out on Rails, front-end framewo…

I’m on a quest to geek out with all my founder friends who are also musicians. Harry Morton shares a love for the combo of tech + creativity in music production. We geeked out about pursuing careers …