Above Board, the official Fathom Analytics podcast - page 9
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Episodes — page 9
Are you a bad person if you use YouTube?
Jack and Paul get into if Fathom should create and post videos to YouTube (which is obviously owned by Google).
Is Joe Rogan a sell out?
Is this a trend towards the end of podcasts being a free and open platform? On this episode we talk about Joe Rogan selling out.
Were we wrong about enterprise customers?
Jack and Paul discuss the pros and cons of supporting enterprise clients.
Customer happiness over money
We’ve all been there: we get a bill for a yearly subscription, but didn’t get any warning about the charge happening.
Capitalism and copycats and communism, oh my!
Jack and Paul talk about the benefits and problems involving taking venture capital for a software company, what we think about competitors copying us, and why “free markets” should potentially have some limits or at least some regulations.
Why was the first $10k MRR the hardest?
Join us as we talk about hitting that milestone and why it mattered as a milestone.
Fighting with COVID-19
Paul and Jack get brutally honest about the current pandemic, and it’s horrible effect on small businesses.
Why do programmers suck at design?
Jack and Paul dive deep into what goes into a design, and talk about it’s value.
Jack is leaving
It’s the end for Jack, as he has a heart to heart discussion about wrapping things up for good.
Being a solo founder sucks
What are benefits of only making half as much (and giving the rest to someone else)?