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Founders and Empanadas — 65 episodes
Why He Wants His Employees to Question Him | Tonner Jackson @ Rare Days
95% of AI Pilots Die for One Reason | Brian M. Green, Health Vision AI
Why He Thinks the Big AI Labs Don’t Survive to 2030 | Alok Aggarwal @ Scry AI
Why He Thinks the AI Labs Are Playing the Wrong Game | Rishi Bhatnagar @ Quaeris
What Entrepreneurship Cost Him and Why He Calls It His Best Investment, with Marco Benitez @ ROOK
How to Thrive in the AI Age as an Outsourcing Business Built on Humans | Matt Narciso @ SuperStaff
How to Learn Any Field From Zero, According to a Founder Who's Done It 5x | Yusif Gurbanli
Why This AI Founder Refuses to Use OpenAI with Hilary Mason @ Hidden Door
Why This Founder Stopped Hiring Specialists (and Who She Hires Instead) with Dr. Myra Ahmad
How to Stay Customer-Obsessed and Never Investor-Obsessed in Running Your Business with Rand Fishkin
Why Storytelling Is the Last Moat You Have Left, with Jenna Reback
Why Gaming is 10x Better for Human Connection Than Social Media Ever Will Be | Sanjay Guruprasad
The 2x YC-Backed PhD Founder Who Learned Why Great Technology Is NOT Enough | Andrea Mazzocchi
10,000 Hours of Play: Stop Grinding, Start Playing | Yu-kai Chou
What Conflict Zones Taught This Founder About Building a Gaming Startup with Jessica Murrey
Two Exits, 180 Angel Investments, and Why 90% of Jobs Are Gone with Serial Entrepreneur Sahin Boydas
Why Your Authenticity Is Your Best Marketing Asset with Renee Gittins
From IGN Acquisition at 11 to $100M Exit Insights: Adam Lieb on What It Actually Takes to Win in Gaming
Building a Global Game Studio with Former Blizzard Exec Tim Morten @ Frost Giant
The Secret to Building a People-First Agency (and Paying Yourself as a Founder) with Alex Stewart
Beyond Age Gates: Building a Safer Internet for Kids with Kieran Donovan
Fire Yourself From Every Job (and More Founder Frameworks) with Wilian Iralzabal
How To Keep A-Players (Without Perks or Ping-Pong), with Brianna Carney
From Zirtual’s Overnight Collapse to Adios: How Maren Kate Rebuilt and Bet on Reuse
Why Denis Lussault Still Builds in the Real World (While Everyone Else Stays in Figma)
From $100K Deals to Rewiring Burned-Out Founders: Why Korneel Desmet Walked Away
From $0.17 to $100K: How Thomas Geib Built a Business Out of Loneliness
From Doctor to $700M Healthtech Founder: How Alexi Nazem Scaled Nomad Health During the Pandemic
How to Build the Right Thing: Christie Kaplan on UX, Founder Psychology, and PMF
From Loom to Leads: How Bethany Stachenfeld (Co-founder and CEO @ Sendspark) Built a Video Engine for Customer Creation
Why Most Wearables Are Lying to You: Mitchell Leshchiner on Health Data, AI, and Performance
The Invisible Friction Killing Your Deals with Gal Aga, co-Founder and CEO at Aligned
Will Allred @ Lavender on AI SDRs, Content That Actually Works, and Keeping Your Company Fun
What Founders Get Wrong About Mindfulness, with Tom Coburn @ Waking Up
From Kyrgyzstan to Kodif: Building Agentic AI for the Future of Customer Experience
From Burnout to Systems Thinking: A Doctor’s Guide to Founding Right, with Dr. Osama Hashmi @ Impiricus
Firing, Fake Resumes, and the Future of Offshore Work, with Omer Bloch @ Remote Latinos
Why Teens Trust Mentors More Than Therapists (And What That Says About All of Us), with Patrick Gilligan @ Somethings
Scaling Food Waste Solutions: Smarter AI, Smaller Footprint, with Adam Bailey, Co-Founder & CTO @ Topanga
Building Games, Battling Burnout, and Betting on Global Talent, with Max Albert, CEO of Adrenaline Interactive
Innovation Isn’t a Brainstorm: How to Build When the Playbook Breaks, with Michigan Labs’ Mark Johnson
Tied Up in Brazil, Broke in Sri Lanka, and Evan Cassidy Still Built a 7-Figure Agency
Support Is Not a Cost Center: How to Scale CX Without Losing Your Soul, with Susana De Sousa
The Founder's Status Limbo, AI Anxiety, and the Art of Clear Communication
How To Maintain Your Company’s Culture During a Period of Rapid Growth, with Melissa Rosenthal
Why Most Leaders Miss Their Team's Genius Zone: Unlocking Hidden Talent, with Dawn Eidelman, PhD
How To Manage A Cross-Cultural Team Like a Pro with Joshua Eidelman, Founder of NeoWork
The Founder-Parent Myth: Fluvio's CEO, Devon O’Rourke, on Why Having Kids Isn't What You Think
How You Can Succeed in Business with No Safety Net, with Azure Printed Homes Founder, Gene Eidelman
Unexpected Mistakes Founders Make When Raising and How You Can Avoid Them, with Aaron Schwartz
The Realities of Parenthood and Startups: Lessons from Jessica Bell van der Wal
The Marathon of Founding and Health: Insights from Monji Dolon
Alison Campbell’s Burnout Story and How it Led Her to Create her Company, UnBurnt
How Brett Doyle Grew Mosaic by Embracing Filipino Culture
Dante DiCicco’s Recipe for Founder-Market Fit
How Our Immigrant Fathers Shaped Us as Second Generation Founders
Failure as Fuel: A Conversation with Serial Entrepreneur Samantha Rose
How To Pivot Your Business Without Losing Your Mind
BPO Essentials You Can't Afford to Ignore
How to Survive the Dark Side of Startup Fundraising, with Santi Jaramillo
How To Not Destroy Yourself While Building Your Company, With Ryan Vaughn, CEO of Inside Out Leadership
A Deep-Dive Q+A With Joshua Eidelman, The Founder of NeoWork
From Writer to $1M Closer: The Sales Tactics That Saved Rob Hoffman’s Career
Inside the [Hive] Mind of beehiiv’s CEO, Tyler Denk
Product Launches & Sustainable Business Practices Through the Lens of Crowdfunding Expert Mark Pecota