All Episodes

Ep#91: Burnout Isn't a Workload Problem. It's a pattern. James Oliver Jr.

EP#90: Why Most Founders Lose the Room Before They Walk In. Rob D. Willis

Ep#89: Why Most Founders Wait Too Long to Think Like a Buyer - Aaron Alpeter

EP#88: Why Most Founders Misread Their Own Traction. Vanessa Larco - Premise VC

EP#87: Founders Obsess Over the Raise. Investors Care About This More. With Carina Cunha

Ep#86: Early Decisions That Define Your Startup Forever. With J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Ep#85: The Finance Skill Most Founders Never Learn - Brett Turner, Trovata

Ep #84: Why Most Founders Get Their Angel Round Wrong. With Vadim Gordin.

Episode #83: Why Founders Don't Actually Know Their Customer with Bryan Alston

Ep#82: AI Was Supposed to Kill the Chief of Staff. It Made Them Indispensable. With Clara Ma.

Ep#81: Where Did $18.8 Billion in AI Robot Investment Go in 2026? John Frankel - ff Venture Capital

EP#80: Why Smart Founders Keep Making the Same Bad Call. Owen Fitzpatrick - Inner Propaganda

Ep#79: The Startup Dream That Wasn't Hers - Ella Cook

Ep#78: The Real Playbook for Scaling from $1M to $50M with Jordan DiPietro - Hiring OS

EP#77: The People Decisions That Built a $1B+ Sales Machine. Chris Lee — Deel

EP#76: Your Network Has a Revenue Problem with Kyle Kane.

Ep#75: The World Is Your Talent Pool. Here's How You Thrive. Brad Bowery - Deel

EP#74: Your Brand Is Worth Stealing. Is It Protected? With Maria Sinatra (Venable) and Allison Luvera (Juliet)

Ep#73: The Digital Twin for Work — What Founders Don’t Understand with David Shim

Ep#72: Your Cap Table Is the Story of Your Company — Joris Delanoue, Fairmint

Ep#71: Launching at 21 With No Money and No Plan. Now 4 companies & 2 exits. With Taryn Williams.

Ep#70 - Eric Ries. He wrote the rules. Now he's rewriting them.

Ep#69: The VC Who Got Rejected by YC — Then Built a $300M Company. Rachel ten Brink

EP#68: Why We're Lonelier Than Ever, And How to Fix It - Michelle Parsons

Ep#67: Stop Renting Attention — Why Founders Need to Own Their Platform. Nathan Gwilliam

Ep#66:Why Every Founder Is Already a Generalist — Milly Tamati

Ep#65: The Identity Problem Behind Most Startup Brands — Jill Smith.

#64: She Started a Brand Before She Started a Career — Sophie de Haën

#63: Burn the Script — Alicia Teltz on Leaving the “Perfect” Life.

#62: AI Predicting the Future. What Happens Next? With Vanja Josifovski

#61: VCs Don’t Take Power. Founders Hand It Over. With Itamar Novick

#60: Raising Smart Capital in 2026 — Discipline, Data & Control with Roei Samuel

#59: Early-Stage GTM And The Modern Growth Engine with Brendan Tolleson.

#58: “Founder” is a status; “CEO” is a skill you’re ignoring - Alisa Cohn.

#57: AI Without the Lawsuits - How to Build Without Burning Your IP.

#56: The Diligence Mirror: Truth, Data, and Post-Acquisition Reality with Dr. Denise Bronner.

#55: Built, Sold, Burned Out. What Comes After a $60M Exit? With Xaver Lehmann.

#54: Specialists Optimize. Operators Build Companies. With Casey Woo (FOG Ventures + Operators Guild)

#53: The Intro Economy: How Trust Moves Deals — With Mike Adams

#52: Advice Before Money: The VC Model Founders Actually Want — With Mike Ma.

#51: Stop Running Your Startup Like a Hobby. Build It to Sell. With Luke Tobin

#50: Nervous to Become a Founder? Start Here (Before You Quit) — With Niluka Kavanagh

#49: Angel Money Isn’t ‘Play Money’. It’s a Major Advantage - with Katie Dunn.

#48: We Need To Scale Angel Investing — with Cheryl Kellond, Play Money.

#47: When AI Chases Invoices Better Than You Do – Mihir Deo, Founder - Invoice Butler.

#46: From Fundraise to Exit: What Every Founder Needs to Know — Jennifer Lewis, Exited Founder - Lex

#45: There Is No Perfect Pitch Deck - What You Actually Need, with Robert Harary, CEO and VC - Decko

#44: Use Banks, Not VCs: Non-Dilutive Capital for Founders with Ashley D. Bell & Redemption Bank.

#43: The FemTech Edge: Build and Train by Your Menstrual Cycle - Lizzy Palmer (Founder, SyncN).

#42: From Peter Thiel’s Fellowship to 1517 Fund — The VC Who Funds Rebels (Michael Gibson)

#41: Founders: The Easy Way to Land Angels, Fast - Jaclyn Johnson, CEO - Cherub

#40: Boards That Raise, How to Turn Advisors into Capital (with Breen Sullivan)

#39: AI Meets Medicine — Personalized Care You’ll Actually Use with Dr. Erik Reis

#38: How AI Agents Ran Our Business, While I Went To Burning Man (with Adam Robinson)

#37: The Startup Security Playbook: AI That Keeps Up with AI — with Francesco Piccoli (Almanax).

#36: Crack the LinkedIn Code: How to Hit 100,000 Followers with Charlie Hills

#35: Own the Audience or Lose the Game. Nick Humphreys - Linktree.

#34: How Billion-Dollar Companies Get Built. Mike Jones - Liquid Death, Dollar Shave Club, Science Inc.

Ep#33: The Real Cost of Venture Capital in the AI Era - Joseph Lee.

Ep#32: A Logo is Decoration. A Brand Is Survival. Startups Fail When They Ignore It. With Malcolm Buick.

Ep#31: Your Digital Strategy Is Already Obsolete! Here’s How to Fix It with Jay Erickson.

Ep#30: Future-Proofing Products in 2025: Startup Lessons from Orgo’s Zoya Lehrer

Ep#29: The Post-Product Market Fit Playbook: Scaling, Systems, and Survival - with Adrian Fagerlund - Linkby

Ep#28: How Great Founders Build Trust: The Startup Advantage You Can’t Fake - David Homan

Ep#27: The Secret to Raising Capital? Tell Your Story, Don’t Sell - Dr. Ankur Pathak.

Ep#26: Why Your Startup’s Culture Sucks (and How to Fix It) - Michael Landers

Ep#25: Scale or Shatter? Why Founders Break - Leila Lahbabi

Ep#24: Why Venture Studios Are the Future of Startups - Matthew Burris

Ep#23: From The NFL To The Ultimate Pivot with Kevin Jurovich

Ep#22: Founders, Build Your Startup in Public with Cory Blumenfeld

Ep#21: How To Secure An Angel Investor with Tony Kula

Ep#20: Founder-Investor Fit with Chris Tottman - Notion Capital

Ep#19: The AI Playbook: How Founders Must Adapt - Mark S. McNally

Ep#18: Building the VC Firm Founders Choose First with Jason Shuman

Ep#17: The Art of Networking for Founders with Madelaine Czufin

Ep#16: The Founder’s Blueprint: Building Startups in 2025 with Majd Alaily

Ep#15: Why Founders Follow the Crowd — What VCs Look For Instead with Mike MacCombie

Ep#14: Venture Studios vs. Traditional Startups with Ben Yoskovitz

Ep13: Is Early-Stage VC Broken? The Future with Jeff Becker - Antler

Ep#12: The Green Skills Revolution - Neil Yeoh

Ep#11: Launching a Non-Alcoholic Beer with Andy Miller - Heaps Normal

Ep#10: What’s Next For Product Design in 2025? With Nick Sgobba

Ep#9: Mastering Go-To-Market Strategy with Carol Malakasis

Ep#8: The Power of Brand for Startups with Danish Chan

Ep#7: Legitimizing Venture Studios with Neal Ghosh

Ep#6: The Evolving Role of VCs: Why Platform Teams Matter with Joel Connolly

Ep#5: Founders: Are You Investing in Yourself? With Rachel Hamlin.

Ep #4: Demystifying Tech Storytelling: Bridging Complexity to Clarity - Cindy Skalicky

Ep#3: How Can Founders Scale High-Performance Teams? - Crystelle Desnoyer

Ep# 2: Founders: The Secret to Hiring the Right Marketer at the Right Time - with Lucy Woolfenden

Ep #1: Does Climate Tech Need a Rebrand? Insights with Helena Wasserman.