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You’re fired!
Jack and Paul speak about having to fire a customer for the first time. It was tough, but it had to be done. They also discuss boundaries, tolerance and office politics.
Wealth
We’re not trying to sell you anything right now, we’re only here to share our experiences making money working for ourselves. The techniques discussed in this podcast ...
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). Are you a bad person if you watch YouTube? Are you a wo...
Is Joe Rogan a sell out?
Joe Rogan recently signed an exclusivity deal worth $100M with Spotify which goes into effect sometime after September 2020. Is this a trend towards the end of podcast...
Were we wrong about enterprise customers?
Jack and Paul discuss the pros and cons of supporting enterprise clients, along with a SPECIAL GUEST: Ben Orenstein from Tuple. How are thinking about working with big...
Customer happiness over money
A lot of businesses put money before their customers’ happiness. We’ve all been there: we get a bill for a yearly subscription, but didn’t get any warning about the ch...
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 m...
Why was the first $10k MRR the hardest?
We should have recorded this episode ages ago. Both because it’s been a month since our last confession… we mean episode. And because we hit $10k MRR a while back and ...
Fighting with COVID-19
Paul and Jack get brutally honest about the current pandemic, and it’s horrible effect on small businesses. Oh, and they also get into cruise ship bailouts, the Canadi...
Why do programmers suck at design?
Jack and Paul dive deep into what goes into a design (if you're a designer, like Paul), and talk about the value of design. Jack queries Paul about his process and app...
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
As you know, Jack and Paul are the cofounders of Fathom Analytics, a 50/50 split. What do they think about working as cofounders? Is it better to be a solo founder? Wh...
Every single marketing effort Fathom has used thus far
From content marketing, to paid ads, to social media, Jack and Paul dive into every single type of marketing they’ve done to promote Fathom. They talk about the effect...
How many hours of work is enough?
Jack and Paul ring in the new year with a hearty debate about how many hours you need to work per week. Is it as simple as “no more than 40”, or is this debate more nu...
How to win friends and influence features
Fathom has always held true to being a simple analytics platform with a focus on digital privacy. In this episode Jack and Paul discuss how new features are decided up...
The open-source dilemma
Fathom Analytics started out fully open-source. Now, we have an open-source version and a paid version, where the paid version has more features. Jack and Paul hash ou...
Announcing Above Board, an episode about all future episodes, also known as a trailer
Welcome to the Above Board Podcast. In this podcast Jack Ellis and Paul Jarvis will discuss all things Fathom Analytics (the product they co-own), ethics and business,...