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Founders in Motion with Thea Ngo — 32 episodes
Second-Doubting Everything to Eight Figures | Nathan Yun, Paire
Dating Apps Are Designed to Keep You Single | Celeste Amadon, Known
How He Turned 3 YC Rejections into a $4M AI Governance Company | Nam Nguyen, TruthSystems
I Lost the Interview in 15 Seconds
5 Invisible Mistakes That Got Me Rejected
The 25-Year-Old Who Raised $6M From Early Facebook Investors | Finnlay Morcombe, Fluency
The Networking Strategy That Actually Gets You Hired
What Harvard Didn't Know: I Was Building an 8-Figure Startup | Stephen Turban, Lumiere Education
How to Stand Out Without Experience
1000 Oversold Orders at PE Nation Led to This AI Startup | Jevon Le Roux, Keeyu
Mass Applying Is a Dead Strategy in 2026
Building a Cult Food Brand: The Umami Papi Story
How He Built a $50M Beer Brand… With 0% Alcohol | Heaps Normal
When AI Breaks in Production: VibeFlow’s Big Bet (YC S24)
Inside the Collapse of Australia’s $70M “Theranos” | Joe Zhou, StrongRoom
The $4 Million Bet on Fraud Detection AI | Satya Tumati, Socratix AI (YC S25)
He Built a Shopify App for MrBeast, Now It's Doing $2M ARR | Hamish McKay, Order Editing
$600M AI Robots Powering the Future of the Physical Economy | Jason Ma, Dyna Robotics
The Friendship App Helping 10,000 Adults | Sam Richardson, Butter
3 Friends. Asian Flavors. A Sold-Out Alcohol Brand | Sip Hrd
Early-Stage Founder Lessons from YC’s $600B Startup School | John & Vivek, Affil.ai (YC S24)
How We're Building a Founder Podcast We Can’t Quit | Behind the Camera
Stanford to Vietnam’s Hottest EdTech Startup Founder Story | Hung Bui, AIducation
I Sold My Car & Built a Cult Haircare Startup Founder Story | Floriye Elmazi, Sisterwould
This Founder Replaced Physical Loyalty Cards Forever Founder Story | Brian Pham, Litecard
$20M Valuation to Zero: A Startup Failure Story | Robert Huynh, Nook
Turning Scrap Into a Creative Startup Founder Story | Ben Wood, WipWrk
How She Built One of Vietnam’s Fastest-Growing Fintechs Founder Story | Nhi Nguyen, MaiMoney
From Private Equity to Yogurt Startup Founder Story | Kiki & Elan, Sourmilk Yogurt
Raising Venture Capital Funding for My AI Fashion Tech Startup | Nate Spiteri, Shopfront
How Open-Source LLMs Are Shaping Software Development, an AI Startup Story | Selina Li, gymii.ai
Inside the GenZ Marketing Agency that's Changing Influencer Marketing Founder Story | Abby Huang, Dime.Inc