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Fund/Build/Scale — 129 episodes
How to Get Through a Tech Layoff Without Losing Yourself
Before You Build in Senior Care, Figure Out Who Pays
How to Know If Your Startup Idea Is Worth Pursuing
Why Technical Founders Should Stop Answering Questions
If It’s Not on Paper, It’s Not Real: Canvas Prime's Rebecca Lynn
Why Technical Founders Hire Marketing Too Late
CVC Is Not Your Exit Strategy or GTM Plan
AI Makes Building Easier. Selling Is Still Hard.
The Most Expensive Money You'll Ever Raise
Why Most Startups Shouldn't Raise Money (Even If They Can)
Money Is the Only Customer Validation That Matters
What Hospitals Are Actually Buying in the AI Boom
The 10x Rule: Turning a Research Paper into an AI Company
Your First Marketing Hire Is Probably Not a CMO
How AI-Native Startups Actually Get Built
Why Great Founders Are “Angry at the Problem”
Before There Is Proof: Build a Startup Story That Shows You Can Execute
How to Hire Your First Offshore Team Without Screwing It Up
How Technical Founders Win the First 5 Minutes With Investors
Don’t Wait for the IPO: How Tech Employees Actually Get Liquid
Turning Utility Into Habit: Beyond Basic Gamification
The Day You Raise Money Is the Day You Stop Focusing on Technology
Selling Unproven AI to Skeptical Enterprise Buyers
From Seed to Growth: What African Founders Need to Know
What Investors Actually Look For in the First 18 Months
Is the Defensible Moat a Myth in AI?
Building Against Giants: Turning Insider Expertise into a Startup Advantage
From Scarcity to Scale: Building Startups in Latin America’s Earliest Stages
Why Black Startup Founders Have to Play a Different Game
Building an Enterprise AI Startup from Day Zero
Building in Layers: The Compound Startup Playbook
How to Build in a Market That Won’t Let You In
How to Prove You’re Building a Venture-Scale Company
The "Marionette Threat" of Generative AI with All Tech is Human’s David Polgar
Cyan Banister & Cristian Cibils Bernardes: Early Signals, Founder-Investor Fit, and Trustworthy Consumer AI
From Engineer to CEO: Ryan Wang on Building Assembled and Finding Product-Market Fit
The Starting Five: How to Build a Leadership Team That Can Scale
From Code to Customer: The Strategic Power of a Field CTO
Dead Weight on the Cap Table: Inside the Ugly World of Founder Breakups
An Operator’s Playbook for Monetizing Product-Led Growth
Building a Bridge Across the Valley of Death
Are You *Really* Ready to Raise a Round? Here’s How to Tell
From Side Project to Series B: How Learning Led to Product-Market Fit
Building Hard Tech: Lessons on Funding, Teams, and Timelines
Forget the Spin: Startup Myths That Hold Founders Back
Avoiding Founder Burnout and other Early-Stage Startup Pitfalls
De-Risking Deep Tech: How to Land Seed Capital for Complex Ideas
Execution > Ideas: What Engineers Need to Know Before Becoming Founders
How to Think Like a VC When You’re Building (or Joining) a Startup
Cap Table Strategy: A Playbook for Early-Stage Founders
From D2C to B2B: How to Pivot Without Losing Your Mission
How to Sell Your World-Changing Idea to a Mission-Driven Investor
Why Conviction Matters More Than TAM: The Seed-Stage Litmus Test
How (and How Not) to Pitch a Cybersecurity VC
Deep Tech Without Stealth: Inside Dusty Robotics’ Origin Story
Leveraging Founder-Market Fit to Win Over Risk-Averse Buyers
From Side Project to API Powerhouse: How Postman Went Global
When a Power User Becomes CEO: How Medium Found Its Way Back
Muse Capital’s Approach to Finding Value in Overlooked Markets
Creative Ops at Startup Speed: Lessons from Superside
How to Pitch VCs Like a “Dangerous” Founder
The 5-Year Ramp: How Alcatraz Scaled in Enterprise Security
From Play to Pay: How Soundtrack Uses PQLs to Drive Growth
From ML Engineer to CEO: Brightwave's Mike Conover on Turning Technical Vision into Company Strategy
What Investors Really Want From AI Founders
The Art of the Waitlist: Siqi Chen on Driving Scarcity, Hype, and Feedback Loops
PR Advice for Founders in the AI Era
The Hard Tech Hustle: Building and Selling Industrial AI
Inside a VC’s Playbook for Capital-Intensive Startups
Building a Market from Scratch: Generative Music for Enterprise Customers
How a Broke College Student Co-founded a VC-Backed Edtech Startup
Is AI Compute Broken? Tim Davis on Modular’s $130M Bet
Scaling European Startups: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Changing
What Journey’s Pivot from B2C to B2B Reveals About Enterprise Sales
What Your CEO Won't Tell You About Your Stock Options
Why PR Comes Before PMF
Investor Insights for African Startups with Capria Ventures’ Mobola da-Silva
KarmaCheck CEO Eric Ly on Customer Discovery + Early Product Development
Inside Acceldata: CEO Rohit Choudhary on Building a Leading Data Platform
Vouch CEO Sam Hodges on Mitigating Startup Risk and Maximizing Growth
Navigating Blue Oceans: Key Insights for Emerging Founders from Vectara CEO/co-founder Amr Awadallah
2025 Cybersecurity Trends, Insights and Storytelling Advice from YL Ventures' Andy Ellis
Lessons from Operant AI's Startup Journey: “ We're not wasting time on wheel spinning.”
Mercury Raise 2024 Survey: Founder Challenges, Fundraising Trends, and the AI Hype Cycle
Rusty Ralston and Jay Patil of Swell VC: A Hands-on Approach to Building Startups
Seed-stage Valuation Insights from Lightspeed's Nnamdi Iregbulem
Dan DeGolier: How Fractional CFOs Become a CEO's 'Strategic Teammate'
MaC Venture Capital’s Marlon Nichols Offers Seed-stage Insights for Future CEOs
From PhD to CEO: Sahil Agarwal of Enkrypt AI Shares Essential Lessons for Aspiring Founders
Transforming Practical Wisdom into Iconic Brands with David Placek
From concept to Series A: How Inversion got its space-based cargo platform off the ground
How to run a board meeting in 60 minutes
Starting up in stealth: A conversation with TigerEye co-founder/CEO Tracy Young
“Talent has no ZIP code:” Laura González-Estéfani on building startups outside Silicon Valley
“Cultural fit” is a polite way to say “personal bias”
Shaping the future of work and care: Courtney Leimkuhler + Elana Berkowitz of Springbank
Crafting influence: Early-stage PR strategies from Chikodi Chima of Moonshot
From tech worker to tech founder: Lessons from Naveen Rao of Databricks
Unlocking growth-stage VC: Insights from CapitalG's Jill (Greenberg) Chase and James Luo
How Dovetail CEO Benjamin Humphrey scaled an Australian startup to global success
Startup PR 101: Essential tips from SISU founder Jenna Birch
Navigating the coming Series A crunch with Point72 Ventures' Sri Chandrasekar
Using an AI co-pilot to kickstart your business with Nicholas Thorne of prehype/Audos
Allie Garfinkle of Fortune's “Term Sheet” talks reporting, startups and AI
Lessons for early-stage AI founders from Pryon CEO Igor Jablokov
TDK Ventures President Nicolas Sauvage on building successful deep tech startups
Entrepreneurial insights for tech workers + immigrants with Stoovo CEO Hantz Févry
Understanding product-led growth with Laura Schaffer, VP of Growth at Amplitude
Addressing pain points + exploring early-stage trends with Kevin Weber of Amex Ventures
SnapLogic CTO Jeremiah Stone on overcoming AI adoption barriers
S2 E5: From the ground up: Building startups with Deb Kemper of Golden Seeds Ventures
S2 E4: VAST Data CEO/founder Renen Hallak: “When we started, AI wasn't a thing.”
S2E3: Felicis' Viviana Faga on early-stage AI brand development and investment tactics
S2E2: Capital-efficient growth and discovering diverse talent with Drew Glover of Fiat Ventures
S2 E1: Inside Intel Ignite with VP & GM Tzahi Weisfeld
Fund/Build/Scale season 2: Why I'm doing this podcast (and why you should listen)
Episode 10 | Two repeat founders share long-term strategies for building sustainable startups
Episode 9 | Taking an AI startup from research to reality with Dipanwita Das of Sorcero
Episode 8 | Securiti CEO Rehan Jalil on scaling to $1M ARR (and beyond)
Episode 7 | Communicating your vision with May Habib (CEO, Writer) and Gaurav Misra (CEO, Captions)
Fund/Build/Scale mini-episode | From seed stage to Series A with Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian [Part 2]
Fund/Build/Scale mini-episode | From seed stage to Series A with Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian [Part 1]
Episode 6 | AI compliance and regulation with Laura Bisesto of Nextdoor
Episode 5 | Breaking into enterprise sales with Maria Latushkin (GVP of Technology and Engineering, Albertsons) and Jack Berkowitz (CDO, Securiti)
Episode 4 | Fundraising from both sides of the table with Jorge Torres (CEO/co-founder, MindsDB) and Vijay Reddy (AI Start investor, Mayfield)
Episode 3 | Tapping into the AI Developer Community with Ozzy Johnson (Director of Solutions Engineering, NVIDIA)
Episode 2 | Digging Your Moat: Customer Discovery + PLG for AI Startups with Rodrigo Liang (CEO/co-founder, SambaNova)
Episode 1 | Building Trust with Your Inception Investor with guest Navin Chaddha (Managing Partner, Mayfield)
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