Ep37: Venture Studios & Conscious Leadership; w/ Jesse Pujji Founder & CEO @ GatewayX — Product Market Fit podcast

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If you aren’t familiar with Jesse Pujji, he co-founded Ampush, building it into one of the largest facebook marketing agencies. That company was acquired last year by Tinuity. Jesse also started GatewayX, a venture studio based in St Louis which has spun up a number of companies including GrowthAssistant, Unbloat and Kahani.

Jesse shares his experience across those companies and we dive into the business model of a venture studio. We also talk about Meta’s recently released Threads app, conscious leadership and the importance of coaching.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(02:13) Meeting Mark Zuckerberg

(05:41) Meta's new Threads app

(09:14) GatewayX and the Venture Studio model

(14:35) Key qualities of successful CEOs

(17:38) The Venture Studio role

(18:19) On finding product-market fit with Kahani

(22:25) Are Shopify plugins different from standard SaaS businesses?

(24:10) E-Commerce and performance marketing

(27:45) What to change in the venture world?

(29:46) What is it like to sell your business?

(33:20) Conscious leadership (coaching vs. therapy)

(39:35) How will AI change the digital advertising field?

(42:32) Lightning round

Guest Contact Info:

⁠⁠Website⁠⁠

twitter.com/jspujji

⁠linkedin.com/jessepujji

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