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Official ask-me-anything conversations with notable guests
Waseem Daher

30d ago

Founder Salary Confessions: How Much Should You Pay Yourself? AMA with 3x Founder Waseem Daher

Hey Product Hunt! I'm Waseem Daher, co-founder of Pilot, the largest startup-focused accounting company in the US. I'm a 3x founder (my previous ventures were acquired by Oracle and Dropbox) who's raised over $120M from Sequoia, Stripe, Jeff Bezos, and more.

Today we're releasing our 2025 Founder Salary Report with data from 1,800+ founders, and the findings might surprise you:

  • Founder salaries dropped 43% in the past year

  • AI founders are bucking the trend (paying themselves more)

  • Bootstrapped companies jumped 57%

  • Only 5.4% of founders pay themselves nothing (down from 9% last year)

We founders talk endlessly about burn rates, runway, and valuations but no one talks about what they pay themselves. It's time to change that.

Gabe Perez

2mo ago

I decide what's featured on the leaderboard - AMA w/ Gabe from Product Hunt

Hi everyone, Gabe here! I lead curating Product Hunt's leaderboard.

First thing I will say is that if I could feature every single product that works, I would. I love supporting makers and demoing products. I actually try to test every single thing that gets hunted every day... which is A TON.  But I view our job as to surface the most interesting, novel, useful, and innovative products - daily. Now we may not always get it right, the process isn't perfect, but we're trying to do right by the community.

Sameer Al-Sakran

1mo ago

-- You're doing analytics wrong -- AMA w/ CEO of Metabase

Hey everyone -

I m the founder and CEO of Metabase and I m here to shill our upcoming launch of our Embedding versions. 

Troy McAlpin

1mo ago

The customer is not always right - AMA w/ CEO of atono

Hey all - Troy McAlpin, CEO and co-founder of atono here.

In our last $70M ARR SaaS venture, we learned the hard way: the customer is not always right.

Tanay Kothari

2mo ago

How to make your launch go viral - AMA w/ CEO of Wispr Flow

LIVE March 13th at 12:30pm PT
Hey everyone, CEO of Wispr here.

We did two product launches over the last five months, both went viral on X, LinkedIn, and ProductHunt, and helped us build a large audience in a short period of time.

James Hawkins

2mo ago

AMA w/ James & Tim (founders of posthog)

hey! we run posthog, the toolkit for building successful products - a single platform for building products, talking to users and shipping new features. we are 5 years old, have 140k customers and are making multiple $10s of millions of revenue.

no question's too weird. we're super transparent so will probs overshare anyway. plg? fundraising? yc? working with your cofounder? why we publicly document all our bad decisions? our allergy to enterprise sales? we've an open book so ask us anything!

Merrill Lutsky

2mo ago

You're doing code reviews wrong - AMA w/ CEO of Graphite

THIS AMA WILL GO LIVE AT 9am PST March 19
Hey Product Hunt!

I m Merrill Lutsky, co-founder & CEO of Graphite, the code review platform for the age of AI.

levelsio

3mo ago

🇪🇺 eu/acc AMA: How can we save Europe?

Hi Product Hunters!

I'm here today not to launch a product, but in a way for something much more interesting: to talk about eu/acc

Justin Kan

2yr ago

I’m Justin Kan, former co-founder of Twitch, co-founder of Fractal, and now co-founder of Rye! AMA!

I cofounded and recently launched Rye - an eCommerce API that lets developers add new revenue streams for their products by adding eCommerce and checkout into any app or website. Ask me anything about Rye, entrepreneurship, eCommerce, and crypto. I'll be answering questions on Friday, the 14th of October!

Mati Staniszewski

2mo ago

I'm the ElevenLabs CEO - what do you want to do with voice AI but can't? (AMA)

Hi Everyone!
Solving AI audio end-to-end means tackling both generation and understanding - from text-to-speech to speech-to-text and everything in between. At ElevenLabs, we re working on breakthroughs in AI audio that bridge research and real-world use.
Ask me anything about what we re building, the challenges of scaling AI speech models, and where this space is headed. Also keen to hear what you ve built with ElevenLabs! 

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