{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Luba Show","title":"Hiten Shah: The Batman & Robin Rule: Why Your Business Partnership is Failing","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":8693,"description":"Today I'm talking to Hiten Shah, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, and Nira — which he sold to Dropbox. Hiten has been building SaaS companies for over 20 years and has quietly become one of the sharpest operators and thinkers in tech.\nWe go deep on metacognition, self-improvement, and what it actually takes to understand yourself well enough to build great companies and great relationships. Hiten opens up about his process for \"poking at the world\" to test his own thinking, how he uses Enneagram and Human Design with AI to unlock blind spots, and the mental models that have shaped how he works with co-founders, teams, and his own family.\nWe cover\n- His \"purple bruise\" approach to giving advice — and how he trained himself to go from six-month-delayed feedback to next-day impact\n- The Batman and Robin framework for co-founder relationships, partnerships, and even marriage\n- Why building faster with AI doesn't mean learning faster — and the companies that have figured out the difference\n- \"Trust takes ten years\" — the advice from a relative in India that keeps proving itself right\nHis life philosophy: \"It was all a dream\" — and what that has to do with presence\n- SO much more!\nTimestamps\n00:00 Intro\n01:45 Start Your Year in October\n06:15 The Purple Bruise Method\n12:23 AI as a Thinking Partner\n20:13 Thinking About Your Thinking\n25:06 Find Your Triggers First\n29:32 Decide Fast With Less\n34:50 Entrepreneur Since Age Four\n42:17 Shed Judgment, Stay Curious\n46:09 When Strengths Become Sabotage\n49:56 Batman and Robin Partnerships\n52:43 Finding the Right Co-Founder\n59:53 Trust Takes Ten Years\n1:05:04 Fast Success Hides Lessons\n1:11:57 Build Faster ≠ Learn Faster\n1:21:31 The Lost Craft of Startups\n1:29:38 Follow Energy, Not Goals\n1:36:05 The Crisis Nobody Sees\n1:44:03 Selling at Peak Value\n1:52:00 Know Yourself Through AI\n2:07:15 One Idea, Many Posts\n2:19:20 \"It Was All a Dream\"\nLinks\nHiten Shah \nX: https://x.com/hnshah\nLinkedIn:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/I2NZEo1VpOK6gNlq1ogpu-hfbOWZMEOuC4oDFfuUFGk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zODI0/ZWE4OTEyOGMzODcw/OGI2ODY5ZWY0YTIz/YzQzMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}