The Founder Podcast Shelf
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184 episodes
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How @VarunMayya is Building a Content and Gaming Empire ft. AEOS
Last week, we visited @VarunMayya's office in Bengaluru. In 2022, Varun started AEOS - a group of companies united by the problem...
Startups & Building2 founders recommend
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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio)
The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise ever created for monetizing human nostalgia. Today it's the king of global...
Startups & Building1 founder recommends
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How Paytm Finally Turned Profitable?
Register for the personal finance masterclass here: https://finanjo.com/masterclass In FY26, Paytm posted a net profit of ₹552 crore —...
Startups & Building1 founder recommends
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The 4-Step Framework to Build Addictive Products
In this clip, Nir Eyal, the creator of the Hook Framework, explains the 4-step framework behind addictive products and how some of the...
Startups & Building1 founder recommends
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Why Kunal Shah became Whatsapp's new CEO? - Indian Startups News 319
https://ttape.onelink.me/rapp/backwm - Check out Tickertape here 00:00 Intro 00:36 Kunal Shah's new inning 06:12 Invest with...
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The Week | Is Britain America's Future?
George Hahn connects the dots across the week's biggest stories: whether the Iran ceasefire can hold, what Britain's political turmoil...
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How Warp Went From YC to a $60M Series B
Warp (YC W23) recently announced a $60 million Series B and now serves more than 1,000 customers, processing over $600 million in payroll...
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How to Build Your Own AI VP of Marketing Step-by-Step
How to Build Your Own Agentic AI VP of Marketing. Step by Step. SaaStr's CAIO Amelia LeRutte built 10K, SaaStr's AI VP of Marketing,...
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The Many Benefits of Coca — The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use
"Coca is to cocaine what potatoes are to vodka" — Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade Davis on the health benefits, sacred history, and unjust...
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Young People Are Giving Up on Adulthood | John Burn-Murdoch
Scott Galloway speaks with @FinancialTimes columnist and chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch to unpack the forces reshaping modern...
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Latin America's Global Bank
Fernando Terrés is the co-founder and CEO of ARQ (S21), a fintech company building global banking for the growing number of people in...
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She Called Us to Save Her Channel
Join our 5 day Idea Challenge: https://colinandsamir.com/50in5 Glory's Channel: @glorysstories Be on Creator Support:...
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Why Pre-Seed Investing Has Never Been Harder | Charles Hudson, Precursor
Charles Hudson started Precursor Ventures in 2015, and helped create pre-seed as a category. Ten years and hundreds of Day 0 checks...
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Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling”
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. More from Cal Download Cal’s FREE guide to cultivating a deeper life:...
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What It Actually Takes to Deploy a Voice Agent to a Fortune 500
Brooke Hopkins is the founder and CEO of Coval (S24), a simulation and observability platform for voice agents that helps enterprises...
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The College Affordability Crisis: Is a Degree Still Worth It? | Office Hours
Scott Galloway breaks down Democratic Party branding strategy, why university endowments are hoarding wealth instead of expanding access,...
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Easy Way to Get Clients Without Ads or Cold DM's - FREE 2 HOUR MASTERCLASS
📥 Download the Lead Flow Workbook: https://mattessam.kit.com/leadflow ▶️ Build your own lead‑generating scorecard with ScoreApp...
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SaaStr AI Annual 2027 | May 11-12, Bay Area | Launch Tickets on Sale Now
🎟️ Launch Tickets on sale now → https://www.saastrannual.com/buy-tickets SaaStr AI Annual is back. May 11–12, 2027, at the San Mateo...
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The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Every Fortune 500 CEO has told their team that if they are not using AI, they're behind. So now every employee is token-maxing, spend...
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AI Agents Are Killing the Engineering Pyramid — Here's What Replaces It
When electric motors were invented, factories didn't become dramatically more productive overnight. The biggest gains came years later,...
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An Ex OpenAI Researcher on the Real Risk of Frontier Models
Yash Patil is the 23-year-old founder and CEO of Applied Compute, a $1.3 billion company helping businesses train custom AI models on...
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Microbiome Expert: Revealing the Biggest Myths About Your Gut, Diet, and Health
Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician, microbiome researcher, and...
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Hong Kong's AI Crackdown, Lululemon’s Marketing Backlash, and World Cup Fever | China Decode
Alice Han and James Kynge dive into why JPMorgan has cut its Hong Kong employees off from Anthropic's Claude. That comes after Goldman...
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Scott Galloway: Social Security Is Failing Young People | Office Hours
Scott Galloway responds to a listener who argues that Trump Accounts are just another giveaway to the wealthy. Scott breaks down why he...
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Are You Lazy or Just Overstimulated?
Cal Newport explains about if you're lazy or overstimulated in episode 410 of the Deep Questions podcast. More from Cal Download Cal’s...
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Customer-Led Growth: The SaaS Moat That Beats Better Marketing
Customer-led growth is the only durable moat in a saturated SaaS market. Not better features, not bigger ad budgets. In this MicroConf US...
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Why are Bengaluru startups moving to Andhra Pradesh? - Indian Startups News 318
00:00 Intro 01:19 Karnataka vs Andhra Pradesh 06:17 L'Oréal acquires Innovist 08:33 Quick News Updates 09:48 Funding News Bengaluru is...
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The Dashboard Is Dead: What Snowflake's CMO Does Instead
Denise Persson runs a 700-person marketing organization at one of the most data-rich companies on the planet, and she does not start her...
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Elbow Grease: Inside NYC's Scrappiest Accelerator | Dan Teran, Gutter Capital
Dan Teran is the co-founder Gutter Capital, a concentrated seed fund in NYC, and Elbow Grease, the accelerator that puts 15 startups in...
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Inside The AI Race: DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, China, and The Race to Superintelligence
Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a two-time...
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Was the Mythos Ban Justified? (Good Idea. Bad Execution.)
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. More from Cal Download Cal’s FREE guide to cultivating a deeper life:...
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The Kettlebell Exercise Everyone Overlooks
For 101 FREE kettlebell workouts go to http://www.101kettlebellworkouts.com Dan John makes the case for why (spoiler alert!) the...
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Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails
The Agents #007: Our AI Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. But Does He Have Too Many...
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Do I Need a “Brain Gym”?
In the 1960s, doctors avoided people to avoid exercise. Then everything changed. Now physical fitness is a $100 billion industry. What...
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When to Sell Your SaaS Business: How to Get a 5x Better Offer
When to sell your SaaS business is the wrong question. The right one: how do you make sure you're getting the offer your business...
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Training with Ouchies: How to Keep Going Without Making Things Worse
Pat and Aleks break down how to keep training through aches, pains, and minor injuries—without being reckless, wimpy, or stupid. Learn...
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D2C 3.0 - How to build a successful brand in India in 2026: Indian Startups News 317
Check out Zoho Workplace here - ...
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$4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming
The public markets spent the last twelve months telling you B2B software was finished. Stocks down 60 to 70 percent. PE firms buying...
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The AI-Native GTM Playbook | Sam Blond, Monaco
Sam Blond is the Co-founder and CEO of Monaco, the revenue engine for startups. Sam is one of the best sales operators in tech. He spent...
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Are We About to Lose Control of AI? (*sighs*)
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. More from Cal Download Cal’s FREE guide to cultivating a deeper life:...
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The Path from The Soviet Union to Building Multi-Billion Dollar Companies — Max Levchin
Max Levchin is a serial entrepreneur and investor in 100+ startups. He's the founder and CEO of Affirm, the payment network powering...
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Is This The End of the Botez Sisters?
Get our free creator vision guide: https://colinandsamir.com/vision Alex and Andrea's channels: @BotezLive @BotezSisters Come on...
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India's "Dead-Battery Crisis" no one is talking about
https://finanjo.com/masterclass - Register for the personal finance masterclass here. 00:00 Intro 01:23 Personal Finance...
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What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
Everyone's talking about agents. Almost nobody is running them the way Jason Lemkin is. At SaaStr, two AI employees - 10K, the autonomous...
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Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley spent years on Wall Street, built his career as a partner at Benchmark, worked through Uber’s hypergrowth era, and now serves...
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Are You Too Busy to Think? | The Case for Pressing Pause
Sometimes the best way to get unstuck is to press pause on your busy life and take a moment to look toward new possibilities. But how is...
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AI Generated Apps vs SaaS: Which Moats Still Work in 2026
AI generated apps are reshaping SaaS, but not all SaaS moats are dead. Here's which defensible moats still work, and which ones AI just...
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Why are Indian Billionaires not investing in R&D? - Indian Startups News 316
https://ttape.onelink.me/rapp/backwm - Check out Tickertape here 00:00 Intro 00:46 India's R&D Problem 07:34 Tickertape (Sponsor) 09:17...
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This Quant Fund Broke the Power Law
Nuno Goncalves Pedro is the Founder and Managing Partner at Chamaeleon. He won't describe it this way, but I'd call Chamaeleon something...
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