Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 821 | How to Do Founder-Led Marketing (with Jay Clouse)

February 24, 2026·33 min·6-min readinterviewbusiness
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Founder-led marketing isn't for every SaaS founder, but for those intrinsically drawn to it, building content around a specific audience niche — not entrepreneurial journey stories — can create powerful leverage. Success comes not from going viral, but from using discovery platforms (like

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Jay Klaus

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