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5 min readWhen three strangers walked into a room and pitched their businesses to Sam Parr and Shaan Puri, the results ranged from a cooking robot that has already shipped 1,000 units to a chocolate bar company doing $40 million in annual revenue to an AI-powered dental billing startup adding $1 million in ARR every month. The episode is the first installment of a new "Shoot Your Shot" format where founders from the host city come in blind to pitch their companies in 15 minutes.
The cooking robot that actually ships
Ragov, a 32-year-old first-time founder from India, brought his company Pasha into the room with a bold claim: his company is among the 1% of robotics companies that are actually shipping real products into real homes. Pasha builds cooking robots for home kitchens, and they have 1,000 real-world deployments. The robot costs $1,500, which Ragov frames as less than a month of takeout for a family of four. Last month alone, Pasha clocked $2 million in bookings.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Main Outline
- 2 (00:00) **Intro: "Shoot Your Shot" Format** - Sean and Sam explain the new blind-pitch format where founders from the host city pitch their businesses cold.
- 3 (01:49) **Founder 1: Ragov & Pasha (Cooking Robot)** - Ragov introduces his cooking robot, Pasha, which has shipped 1,000 units into real homes.
- 4 (04:35) **Pasha's Performance & Business Model** - Ragov reveals the robot’s usage stats and financial traction, including $2 million in bookings last month.
- 5 (10:42) **Pasha's Viral Growth Engine** - Ragov explains the three organic demand drivers: word-of-mouth, content creation, and a "built for the camera" design.
- 6 (13:10) **Advice: Audience vs. Community** - Ragov asks how to leverage community for growth; Sean and Sam give a masterclass on the difference between an audience and a community.
- 7 (20:14) **Founder 2: Nick & Midday Squares (Chocolate Bars)** - Nick introduces his company, Midday Squares, which has sold $40M worth of refrigerated chocolate bars in the last 12 months.
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Show Notes
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Episode 852: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) ask 3 founders to tell them the juiciest number behind their businesses and get advice live.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:31) Raav Gupta, Posha
(20:03) Nick Saltarelli, Mid-Day Squares
(39:48) Shreyas Parab, DayDream Dental
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Links:
• Posha - https://www.posha.com/
• Mid-Day Squares - https://www.middaysquares.com/
• DayDream Dental - https://www.daydream.dental/
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