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Pat Walls

Founder, Starter Story

Search every verified Pat Walls interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Pat Walls, founder of Starter Story, appeared on the My First Million podcast in February 2026, where he discussed the pending acquisition of his company by HubSpot. At the time of recording, Walls stated the deal was not yet closed and expressed nervousness about the process, noting that he could not fully celebrate until the transaction was signed and wired. He also described experiencing burnout and said his solution involved simplifying his work rather than taking extended time off. During the episode, Walls shared observations from his work interviewing founders, stating that six out of twelve founders he speaks with weekly are succeeding with iOS apps. He cited examples such as an app that requires users to do push-ups before accessing social media, which he said generates $30,000 per month. Walls attributed the recent growth in simple iPhone apps to AI coding tools, arguing that these tools reduce the need for a full development team and allow individuals to build apps with minimal resources.

Recent appearances

  • Inside the YouTube strategy that turned Starter Story into a $2M+ media brand

    March 10, 2026 · 📺 Simon Owens

    My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2q92MEm... Pat Walls didn’t originally set out to build a media company. In 2017, he was simply interviewing founders as a side project while working a full-time job, hoping the conversations might spark his next startup idea. But those interviews—published as detailed case studies on a blog called Starter Story—slowly evolved into something much bigger. Over the next eight years, Pat bootstrapped the site into a media business built around thousands o…

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  • Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)

    February 24, 2026 · 📺 My First Million

    Get Pat's guide to find a $1M business idea: https://clickhubspot.com/evn Episode 799: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to the Starter Story founder Pat Walls ( https://x.com/thepatwalls ) about selling his company + business ideas he’s seen lately. — Show Notes: (0:00) Being pre-close (2:11) Starter Story (5:49) Pushscroll (10:12) Puffcount (12:31) 5-0 Scanner (14:23) Cal.ai (16:10) B2B Video (30:30) Busyness is for losers (33:57) EOS (39:56) I am my own biggest obstacle — Links: • Starter Story -    / @starterstory   • Starter Story…

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  • Pat Walls: Opens Up About The Truth Of Entrepreneurship | The Danny Miranda Podcast 364

    June 05, 2023 · 📺 Danny Miranda

    Pat Walls is an entrepreneur, creator, and writer. In this conversation, we spoke about his internal dialogue, how his energy levels have changed, what he's most proud of, and what it's like to have a YouTube channel blow up. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Pat’s $500 Gift To Me 4:33 YouTube Channel Blowing Up 7:23 Scared To Fail 9:51 Conducting 4,000+ Interviews 13:21 Getting Bullied In High School 23:45 Internal Dialogue 29:30 Impact of Writing 34:12 Not Drinking Alcohol 38:29 Energy Levels 46:31 Quitting Job 55:22 Challenge Pat's Links Starter Story: https://www.starterstory.com/ Personal Website: https:…

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  • Pat Walls on Founding Starter Story and His Mission To Help 1 Billion People Make Money Online

    May 04, 2023 · 📺 STICK TALK PODCAST

    On this episode of STICK TALK, the boys sit down with Pat Walls to talk about road tripping around the US during COVID, leaving a startup job to start a blog from scratch, scaling his blog from 0 to 1 million in revenue and 100k daily page views, and a funny story about a strange chocolate brand. CONNECT WITH PAT Twitter:   / thepatwalls   Website: https://www.starterstory.com/ YouTube: ​​   • How To Make $30K/month With Cooking   ABOUT THE GUEST: Pat is the founder of Starter Story, a database of more than 4,000 entrepreneur case studies and interviews. Pat started the site from scratch in…

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  • How Pat Walls made $20k in 2 weeks from his SEO course - Pat Walls, Starter Story

    September 26, 2021 · 📺 Indie Bites

    In this episode, Pat Walls, founder of Starter Story is sharing how he made 20k in pre-sales on his new SEO course in just 2 weeks. Indie Bites Episode 15 December 16, 2020 ★ Episode details: https://share.transistor.fm/s/91c982ae ★ Additional episodes: https://indiebites.co

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  • Pat Walls: Using SEO to Build Start Story into a Worldwide Brand

    September 03, 2021 · 📺 Copyblogger

    In today’s episode, we speak with Pat Walls, the founder of Starter Story. (https://www.starterstory.com/) Story story has huge huge success over the last few years, and Pat credits most of that success to good SEO that leverages user-generated content. Pat’s brand and his method in creating his business are one of a kind. One of the things I love about Pat is that he is a scrappy entrepreneur. In this episode, we talk a lot about the mistakes he has made along the way, the experiments he has done, and the lessons he has learned. We also talk about how he has built a team of employees and a…

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  • How to turn a side-project into a full-time gig. Pat Walls - Starter Story. S2E29

    December 19, 2018 · 📺 DULO Wear

    Listen to our podcast on ALL major podcasting platforms - https://weardulo.com/podcast Follow us on: Instagram -   / weardulo   Twitter -   / weardulo   Facebook -   / weardulo   Check out our performance dress shirts at https://weardulo.com/ --------------- On today's show, we talk to Pat Walls, Founder of Starter Story - a digital hub where successful entrepreneurs share their experience of how they built a business. In fact, we first connected with Pat when we were asked to share the DULO story earlier in the year. The stories on the platform are inspiring and also provide specific adv…

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