The Founder-Led Marketing Show

By Finn Thormeier

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Episodes: 141

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In this podcast, Finn Thormeier, Founder of Project 33, shares the best Founder Branding and Executive Thought Leadership strategies & playbooks. Prior guests include Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Henry Schuck, Megan Bowen, Guillaume Moubeche, Josh Braun, Todd Busler, Peter Caputa, Chris Walker, Greg Head, Adam Robinson, Gal Aga, Alina Vandenbergh, Alec Paul, Melissa Kwan and many more. Key Topics: Demand Gen, SaaS Growth, B2B Marketing, B2B Content, Linkedin, Personal Branding, Founder Branding and Executive Branding.

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Episode Date
How Semrush’s ex-VP of Brand Builds a Founder Brand From Scratch w/ Olga Andrienko (CMO at Foxtery)
Dec 11, 2025
How ZoomInfo Scaled their Creator Program to 40+ Influencers & Millions in Revenue
Dec 04, 2025
An Introduction to B2B Influencer Marketing w/ Limelight’s CEO David Walsh
Nov 27, 2025
How This B2B Tech CMO grew to 60,000 LinkedIn Followers (Executive Thought Leadership Playbook)
Nov 20, 2025
How to Turn a B2B Tech Brand into the #1 News Source in Your Industry
Nov 13, 2025
LinkedIn's VP of Brand & Content Strategy on How the Best B2B Brands Use LinkedIn & Video to Grow
Nov 06, 2025
Exec Comms Lessons from Salesforce, Toast and Wellhub & the Future of PR
Oct 30, 2025
Gong's Executive Content & LinkedIn Thought Leadership Playbook w/ Udi Ledergor
Oct 23, 2025
How SentinelOne’s ($1B ARR) CMO Uses LinkedIn to Drive Brand & Pipeline
Oct 16, 2025
Sales, Life, and Career Lessons from Owner.com CRO Kyle Norton
Oct 09, 2025
lemlist CEO’s LinkedIn Playbook ($33M ARR, 10:1 LTV/CAC)
Oct 07, 2025
DHH: How to Make F*ck You Money, Writing, US vs EU, Building Basecamp, 37signals & Ruby on Rails
Oct 02, 2025
The Modern Executive’s Communications Playbook
Sep 30, 2025
The Founder Brand Playbook Behind Recall.ai’s $38M Series B
Sep 26, 2025
The 95–5 Marketing Playbook to Build Future Demand w/ Kandji’s CMO
Sep 24, 2025
Adam Frankl: How to Launch & Scale a DevTool Startup (3x VP Marketing at Unicorns)
Sep 17, 2025
How this VP of Comms Built ZoomInfo’s $1.2B CEO Brand on LinkedIn
Sep 10, 2025
The Man Behind Adam Robinson & Gal Aga's Top CEO Brands
Sep 03, 2025
Lessons from Bootstrapping to $7.5M ARR with 15 People in 9 Years
Aug 28, 2025
How to Break into Enterprise & Go Upmarket from a 2x Startup CRO turned SaaS CEO
Aug 21, 2025
Kevin "KD" Dorsey: How this SaaS CRO leverages LinkedIn and grew to 137K Followers
Aug 14, 2025
Hootsuite CEO’s Linkedin Approach (3.5M Views/Mo) while Running a 1,500+ People Company
Aug 07, 2025
How incident.io Scaled from First Users to 10M+ ARR in 4 Years (Selling to Engineers)
Jul 31, 2025
Peter Caputa: How the ex-VP Sales of Hubspot uses Linkedin to grow his 10M ARR SaaS company as CEO
Jul 24, 2025
How to Do Cold Email for SaaS in 2025 - Playbooks from RB2B, Fyxer AI & Directive (8M Emails/Month)
Jul 17, 2025
Peter Walker: How to build an Insights Function & Add 130K Linkedin Followers w/ Carta’s Head of Insights
Jul 14, 2025
James Hawkins: PostHog CEO on How to Build a Product Developers Love, Maximize Shipping Speed & Sh*tpost on LinkedIn
Jul 06, 2025
Santosh Sharan: 500k/Month LinkedIn Views, How B2B Buying is Changing, Lessons from RB2B & ZoomInfo
Jun 27, 2025
Gal Aga: LinkedIn Playbook That Drives 3M Views/Month for This SaaS CEO
Jun 20, 2025
Jason Fried: AI, Hiring, FOMO, Taste, Prioritizing, Writing & Growth
Jun 12, 2025
How to Launch a LinkedIn Employee Advocacy Program with Dreamdata’s CMO Steffen Hedebrandt
May 22, 2025
Amos Bar-Joseph: This SaaS CEO is scaling to $10M ARR per FTE using AI Agents & Founder-Led Content
May 14, 2025
Rand Fishkin: Calm Growth, Brand Power & Life After Moz
May 08, 2025
Garrett Mehrguth on $15M from LinkedIn Ads, Gift Cards, and Building the #1 SaaS Marketing Agency
Apr 18, 2025
Darren McKee: This Approach to LinkedIn Allowed Him to Get 133k Followers and a 50K/MO Solo Business
Apr 10, 2025
Jason Fan: Lessons from Growing a 200-people SaaS in the HR Tech space
Apr 04, 2025
How Michael Maximoff Scaled Belkins to $15M: Retention, Pricing & Profitability
Mar 28, 2025
How This SaaS CEO Built a $3M ARR Ecosystem in Just 12 Month Without a Sales Team
Mar 20, 2025
The LinkedIn Allbound Playbook Generating 250+ Demos & 1,000+ Signups/Month for this SaaS Founder
Mar 18, 2025
Is Founder-Led Marketing Setting Your Company Up for Failure?
Mar 14, 2025
How this B2B Founder Generated 1.6M Views and $1M+ ARR from LinkedIn in 2024 for his Ecom SaaS
Mar 11, 2025
Dave Gerhardt’s Top Advice on Building a Founder Brand in 2025
Mar 06, 2025
From VP at Twilio to AI Founder: Mark Gilbert’s Lessons on Product Management, Growth, and Fundraising
Mar 04, 2025
Justin Rowe: $100K/Month LinkedIn Ads Strategy
Feb 27, 2025
The Viral Product Launch Template for LinkedIn (How to Do PR in 2025)
Feb 25, 2025
The LinkedIn Post Format This SaaS CEO Used to 5.5x Revenue in 2024
Feb 21, 2025
How to 10-100X Your Leads From LinkedIn: The Direct Response Post Framework
Feb 18, 2025
10M+ Linkedin Impressions per Year: Gal Aga’s Head of Content Shares BTS Insights
Feb 14, 2025
Why This Founder’s #1 GTM Channel Is a Book Launch
Feb 11, 2025
Case Study: 4 Enterprise VP Leads ($500K ACV) With 1 LinkedIn Post
Feb 05, 2025
Jacco van der Kooij: 3 Ways SaaS Founders Need to Implement AI in Their GTM in 2025
Jan 30, 2025
How This 1M+ Arr SaaS Founder Made LinkedIn Their Biggest Lead Channel
Jan 23, 2025
How This SaaS Founder Used LinkedIn to Double ARR to $2.8m in 2024
Jan 21, 2025
LinkedIn Performance 2024: Lessons from 1.5M Impressions
Jan 16, 2025
Chris Walker’s 0-10M ARR Content Playbook
Jan 14, 2025
Adam Robinson’s Advice to Build a LinkedIn Founder Brand From 0 to 1
Jan 09, 2025
How This B2B Founder Built a 50,000+ Community With LinkedIn
Jan 07, 2025
The Fletch $100K/Month Linkedin Content Playbook w/ Anthony Pierri & Robert Kaminski
Jan 02, 2025
Founder-Led Sales & Marketing: Rob Snyder on Lessons Learned Scaling to $1M ARR
Dec 27, 2024
Peep Laja: What It Takes to Do Founder-Led Marketing & Differentiate Your SaaS Startup
Dec 18, 2024
A Marketing Director’s Playbook to Getting Her CEO Posting on LinkedIn
Dec 11, 2024
The HockeyStack Playbook Generating $150K+ ARR and 3M LinkedIn Impressions Every Month
Dec 04, 2024
Why This Early-Stage SaaS Founder Is So Bullish on Founder-Led Marketing
Nov 29, 2024
Godard Abel: Lessons from Scaling to $100M+ ARR (CEO of G2)
Nov 20, 2024
This SaaS CEO’s GTM Insights After Analyzing $57B of Sales Pipeline
Nov 13, 2024
How this B2B Founder Got 26M Impressions with 1 LinkedIn Post —and Keeps Going Viral
Oct 31, 2024
Gaetano DiNardi: Top SaaS Growth Advisor Shares His LinkedIn Playbook
Oct 24, 2024
How ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck ($1B+ ARR) Would Scale a New SaaS Startup in 2025
Oct 08, 2024
How this SaaS CEO is growing by 3,750+ LinkedIn followers EVERY MONTH
Oct 04, 2024
Bootstrapped to $26M ARR: Guillaume Moubeche's FLM Secrets
Sep 27, 2024
How this B2B Founder closes $350k ARR per Month with LinkedIn content
Aug 05, 2024
Josh Braun: B2B Sales, Marketing, LinkedIn, Copywriting and Stoicism
Jun 21, 2024
Megan Bowen: The CEO LinkedIn Playbook
Jun 11, 2024
How to Get Your CEO to Post on LinkedIn
Jun 07, 2024
Alina Vandenbergh: How Chili Piper’s CEO uses LinkedIn & Being a Woman in SaaS
Jun 04, 2024
Early-stage SaaS GTM with GTMfund's GP Max Altschuler
May 31, 2024
Sam Levan: The new Signal-Based Selling Playbook
May 28, 2024
How to Get your CEO Posting on Linkedin with Champify's Head of Growth
May 24, 2024
Chris Shutts: From selling to Oracle for $400M+ to Running his next SaaS Startup
May 17, 2024
Sold His Last SaaS for $10-140M, Now Launching His Next SaaS Helping Enterprise Go PLG
May 15, 2024
A primer on GTM Ops with CS2’s Crissy Saunders
May 09, 2024
How This SaaS Founder Barely Avoided the Series B Trap
Apr 28, 2024
Todd Busler: How Champify’s CEO Nails LinkedIn Founder Content
Apr 23, 2024
How this CEO runs a $40M ARR SaaS with 40% Operating Margins
Apr 18, 2024
The Secret LinkedIn Consultant behind Top B2B CEO Brands
Apr 13, 2024
Building a $1M+ SaaS around B2B Podcasting
Apr 05, 2024
The State of ABM with N.Rich's CEO
Apr 02, 2024
2x $100M+ Exits, 1 Failure, Now on his 4th SaaS Startup
Mar 29, 2024
How this Founder is building a Consumer SaaS (at $1m+ ARR)
Mar 27, 2024
Tom Kieley: Scaling SourceDay to $10M+ ARR
Mar 24, 2024
How to align Marketing & Sales with Laura Erdem
Mar 21, 2024
Bootstrapper’s Guide to Scaling a $1M+ “Lifestyle” SasS Startup
Mar 14, 2024
How this CEO gets 2M Impressions on LinkedIn every Month
Mar 11, 2024
Nathan Latka’s CMO Reveals Founder-Led Marketing Secrets
Mar 09, 2024
From Head of Operations to SaaS CEO
Mar 07, 2024
Greg Head: How to Build a Valuable Software Company without Big Founding
Mar 01, 2024
How He scaled this SaaS beyond $10M ARR in 4 Years
Feb 27, 2024
Mike DeVries: How Enterprise SaaS Marketing and GTM Has Evolved
Feb 23, 2024
Steven Charlap: How to Build a B2B SaaS Company in the Healthcare Space
Feb 19, 2024
Chris Walker: How to Run an Executive Thought-Leadership Program
Feb 06, 2024
Max Greenwald: 4 Steps to Go From Founder-Led Sales to a Repeatable Sales Process
Jan 15, 2024
Peter Caputa: 7 Ways You Need to Tweak Your Marketing Strategy in 2024
Jan 12, 2024
Kevin Bobowski: How B2B Marketing is Changing in the New Era of Efficiency
Jan 12, 2024
Finn Thormeier: How to Start a CEO Thought Leadership Program in 2024
Jan 08, 2024
Finn Thormeier: How to Grow Your B2B SaaS Business in 2024
Dec 25, 2023
Patrick Trümpi: Why Is the CSO at Unique Posting on LinkedIn?
Dec 18, 2023
Kevin Indig: Is SEO the Right Lever for Your B2B SaaS Startup?
Dec 11, 2023
Udi Ledergor: How Gong Established & Designed Their Own Category
Dec 05, 2023
Philipp Ströhemann: How to Bootstrap SaaS to $10M
Nov 27, 2023
Justin Rowe: How to Fuel Your LinkedIn Ads and Scale Efficiently
Nov 23, 2023
Jason Fried on Bootstrapping vs VC and Profit vs Revenue
Nov 16, 2023
Peter Caputa: How Databox Is Generating 6K Product Signups/Month Using LinkedIn
Oct 23, 2023
How to Repurpose Your LinkedIn Posts
Oct 17, 2023
Anurag Gupta: Lessons from AWS & How to get Past the $1M ARR Hurdle
Oct 09, 2023
How to Overcome Common Problems When Implementing Founder-Led Marketing
Oct 05, 2023
How to incorporate Founder-Led Marketing on Linkedin into your Marketing Strategy
Sep 23, 2023
Aleksandr Yampolskiy: Lessons From Scaling SecurityScorecard from $1M to $10M in ARR
Sep 19, 2023
B2B vs B2C: What BMW, Olive Garden and a Local Shoe Store in Berlin Can Teach B2B Companies About Marketing
Sep 14, 2023
Cutting Google Ads: Unlocking Loxo's $100k Google Ads Savings Strategy with Sam Kuehnle
Sep 09, 2023
Navigating Growth: Founder-Led Marketing vs. Founder Branding
Sep 05, 2023
The Power of Founder-Led Marketing: Lessons From Founderpath, SaaStr & Refine Labs
Aug 30, 2023
How we Generated $102K Revenue From 1 Ad | The Founder-Led Marketing Show
Aug 23, 2023
How to Gain Credibility as Software Startup & Why Founders Need to Be Involved in Their Marketing | The Founder-Led Marketing Show
Aug 19, 2023
How Nathan Latka is leveraging founder-led marketing, How to shorten your marketing cycles, Facebook Ads vs LinkedIn Ads | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #18
Jul 29, 2023
Linkedin Ads Masterclass with Justin Rowe & Finn Thormeier — Live Q&A 6 | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #17
Jul 22, 2023
How to Implement Founder-Led Marketing, The #1 Benefit of Founder-Led Marketing, How Founder-Led Marketing Makes Sales Easier | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #16
Jun 18, 2023
When Is Founder-Led Marketing the Most Effective, Why Your Marketing Is Not Performing, Running Ads Is Not Demand Gen | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #15
May 24, 2023
How to Stand Out on LinkedIn in 2023, The Most Important Content Metric to Track, Understanding Marketing Cycles | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #14
Apr 13, 2023
What Is Demand Gen, Main Ingredients of a Good B2B Podcast, 4 Content Pillars for Successful Founder Branding, What Can B2B Learn From B2C? | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #13
Mar 20, 2023
Tracking the ROI of Content, How We Help B2B Software Companies Grow, How to Run Cost-Effective Marketing, 5 Reasons Why B2B Content Fails | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #12
Feb 09, 2023
What is Founder-Led Marketing? — Live Q&A 5 | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #11
Feb 02, 2023
Content Is Networking at Scale, Why Personal Branding Matters, Why ChatGPT Will Not Take Over Copywriting, 5 Reasons Why Video Is Superior | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #10
Jan 22, 2023
The most important B2B marketing channels in 2023 — Live Q&A 4 | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #9
Jan 17, 2023
What I Would Do in My First 3 Months as a New VP/Head of Marketing at a B2B Software Company — Live Q&A 3 | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #8
Dec 22, 2022
B2B Marketing During a Recession, How to Cut Out Bad Marketing to Save Cost, How to Get Exponential Growth in Marketing | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #7
Dec 20, 2022
Breaking down Refine Lab's and Chris Walker's Content & Marketing Strategy — Live Q&A 2 | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #6
Dec 15, 2022
Project 33's Founding Story, B2B Marketing for Startups, and Founder Branding — makeitwork Podcast | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #5
Nov 22, 2022
How to Start Posting on Linkedin, the 7 Hour Rule, Serving the B2B Side for a B2C Company, and More | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #4
Nov 17, 2022
How B2B Marketing Has Changed, Avoiding Marketing Silos, and More — Live Q&A 1 | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #3
Nov 09, 2022
Performance Marketing vs Content Marketing, LinkedIn Pages vs Personal Profiles, and Common Beginner Mistakes When Posting Content | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #2
Oct 13, 2022
Increasing Win Rates, Ideal Video Length, and The Simplest Content Strategy | The Founder-Led Marketing Show #1
Sep 16, 2022