When Mai Vo left her decade long Big Tech career to start Podium, a women's community in Singapore, she made a counterintuitive choice: aggressively seeking brutal feedback from day one. Even sweating with anxiety at her first event, she asked every attendee for honest input.

Result: 150+ events over 1.5 years and hundreds of quarterly paying members 6 months after launching their subscription

In this episode, Mai reveals her exact system for turning feedback into business growth:

• Why she's "still scared" but pushes through anyway
• Specific questions she asks after every interaction with her customers
• How weekly vulnerability updates became her secret weapon
• The Vietnamese saying that saves entrepreneurs from "analysis paralysis"
• An insider VC trick every founder should know before raising money

Perfect for: Early-stage founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, and anyone building their first customer base who wants actionable peer-to-peer insights.

Listen while you work – Each insight is self-contained and immediately actionable.

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