Discussing weekly tech news w/ second time venture founders. No investors.
@julien (Breather, Practice)
@kevingibbon (Shyp, Airhouse)
@berman66 (Nanit, Vowel)
@JoeFernandez (Klout, Joymode, newco)
E86 Clash of Fulfillment Innovators: Aaronâs Proven Scale vs. Kevinâs Robotic Vision
57 mins; June 10, 2025
E85 Data-Driven Decisions are Failing Startups: Here's Why
45 mins; May 29, 2025
E84 The Rise and Sudden Fall of DEI: Why Startups Are Pivoting Now
47 mins; May 02, 2025
E83 Corporate Espionage & AI Takeover: Why Startup Competition Just Got CRAZIER
49 mins; May 02, 2025
E82 LinkedIn is the New Press? Going Viral Without Media
48 mins; March 13, 2025
E81 AI Is Changing Everything for StartupsâLegal Fights to Daily Life
48 mins; February 26, 2025
E80 The Death of Lean Startups? Why AI Makes Startups Harder, Not Easier đĄ
48 mins; February 05, 2025
E79 Why Airhouse Failedâand How Cytronic Will Win đ¤
54 mins; January 22, 2025
E78 Slow Venturesâ Willâs on what it takes to be the best venture startup
51 mins; January 15, 2025
E77 How Founders should Use AI from Microsoft Copilot Product lead Raj
54 mins; January 13, 2025
E76 8VCâs Alex Spotted AI & Defense Trends Early | Founders, Motivation & VC Strategies Revealed
43 mins; December 18, 2024
E75 AI vs Junior Engineers and CEO Safety Tips
44 mins; December 11, 2024
E74 Founders: Pay yourself. đ¤ Hereâs why skipping a salary early on could hurt your startup AND your future mortgage dreams. đĄđ¸ #StartupLife #FounderTips
48 mins; November 22, 2024
E73 What this election means for your startup, how you can use AI where incumbents canât, Notebook LM has superpowers
36 mins; October 30, 2024
E72 Company in under invested space hits $1B in revenue while only raising $10M! evaluating AI tools now and how you should use them in your startup
49 mins; October 16, 2024
E71 Founders should prioritize themselves higher than anyone else in their company, are VC events worth it?
49 mins; October 09, 2024
E70 Joe Fernandez shares his 2.5 year journey to find growth w/ allUP against LinkedIn
56 mins; September 11, 2024
E69 How Siqiâs marketing launch of Runway got 1/10th the reach of an Apple launch
46 mins; July 26, 2024
E68 Delian (Varda Space, Founders Fund) on raising / running a cap-ex heavy company, successful founders look different today, working w/ government agencies
53 mins; July 17, 2024
E67 Different exit paths for startups, Software Developer job posting down 40% pre-covid
50 mins; July 03, 2024
E66 Tim Novikoff of Super Teacher making enough money from selling his first company to follow his passion
57 mins; June 26, 2024
E65 Siqi calls out Anthos capital on twitter, founder/vc inappropriate behaviour
56 mins; June 12, 2024
E64 Debate about if AI will live up to the hype from founders in the arena
54 mins; June 05, 2024
E63 Adam Fishman, instrumental in Lyftâs success turned from advisor to interim exec to media empire for Dads
53 mins; May 15, 2024
E62 Sophia Amoruso on the epic rise (and fall) of Nasty Gal, why founders might consider taking secondary, and now what sheâs building at TrustFundVC
47 mins; April 23, 2024
E61 Immad Akhund on founding Mercury, getting it to a unicorn valuation, and how he angel invests as a founder
46 mins; April 17, 2024
E60 Ronak Trivedi who created UberPOOL then started Pietra to help create brands to meeting Kanye West
58 mins; March 26, 2024
E59 Peter Kazanjy created the playbook on founder lead sales and how to scale your sales org
45 mins; March 19, 2024
E58 Siqi Chenâs secrets on how to raise hundreds of millions for your startup
55 mins; March 12, 2024
E57 BREAKING NEWS w/ Mike Knoop of Zapier announcing AI platform Central w/ Vowel
50 mins; March 06, 2024
E56 w/ with Waseem Daher of Pilot on getting Jeff Bezos to invest in your company, successful exits and billion dollar company ideas
56 mins; February 28, 2024
E56 w/ with Waseem Daher of Pilot on getting Jeff Bezos to invest in your company, successful exists and billion dollar company ideas
56 mins; February 28, 2024
E55 We reached 50k views last episode! Kevin Gibbon just got a term sheet and explains how brutal it out there.
52 mins; February 13, 2024
E54 w/ the founder of Intro Raad Mobrem sharing why he started it, how it works and why Nikita Bier makes so much money on it
55 mins; February 06, 2024
E53 w/ 3rd time founder Mike Adams on learnings including AI and choosing to step down from CEO
56 mins; January 30, 2024
E52 w/ Boxâs @levie on how to take your company to IPO, the future of AI, and his best advice for founders
49 mins; January 23, 2024
E51 Artifactâs death, rabbit r1 + building hardware companies, second+ to market has the real startup advantage
55 mins; January 16, 2024
E50 2024 predictions! Everything is đ.AI hype cycle is âdeadâ? Logistics tech is next, is Gen Z too lazy? Lots of dead venture companies will fold.
56 mins; January 03, 2024
E49 2023 from a founders perspectives, AI hype cycle, SVB collapse, profitability is sexy, layoffs arenât catastrophic, tech press has changed, different exit paths
60 hours 57 mins; December 19, 2023
E48 Getting to $100M ARR, cutting your team in half, and 3rd time founder tips with Ryan Denehy from Electric AI
61 hours 20 mins; December 05, 2023
E47 Someone building in stealth on the pod and why you should or not
50 mins; November 29, 2023
E46 LATEST ON OPEN AI!! But mostly how boards work for your startups work.
50 mins; November 22, 2023
E45 Platform risk is real (hello OpenAI), working at big companies suck! Join or start a startup instead
56 mins; November 07, 2023
E44 What we would tell ourselves if we could go back decades + tips on how to integrate AI into your startup
52 mins; October 31, 2023
E43 Debate! Should you incorporate AI into your startup to raise venture right now?
61 hours 10 mins; October 24, 2023
E42 pivoting from PLG to direct sales, are offsites worth it?, benefits + drawbacks of a remote company
47 mins; October 18, 2023
E41 Getting to PMF is all that matters, ignore all the other startup bullshit
47 mins; October 12, 2023
E40 What drives us to create venture backed business
52 mins; October 04, 2023
E39 Is self-care for founders even possible?
58 mins; September 27, 2023
E38 Why founders shouldnât do YC and other accelerators
43 mins; September 20, 2023
E37 Can you make more cash as a founder over 20+ years vs being a senior software engineer at Google making $500k+/yr?
59 mins; September 12, 2023
E36 What are the core foundations to build PMF? Market conditions separate the wheat from the chaff
57 mins; September 05, 2023
E35 Is it a good time to raise a series A or B round yet? People that want their name on the blog post are the worst! PMF is very uncomfortable and may require 10-12 hr days.
59 mins; August 29, 2023
E34 Winnie is profitable! Should a CEO/founder get additional equity grants / salary?
E25 WARTIME CEO time! IS YCombinator pushing companies' valuations up a good thing?
61 hours 23 mins; April 12, 2023
E25 WARTIME CEO time! IS YCombinator pushing companies' valuations up a good thing?
61 hours 23 mins; April 11, 2023
E24 w/ Mikael Cho of Unsplash about all the lows grinding to become top 150 sites on the internet
60 hours 18 mins; April 04, 2023
E23 âHEATED EPISODEâ!! talking VC downturn, SVB impact, layoffs, surviving, thriving and learning during downturns
58 mins; March 28, 2023
E22 w/ Joe Thomas (Loom) 3 pivots on 20k of funding until Loom started to get some traction and explode đđđđđđđđ
59 mins; March 22, 2023
E21 w/ Dan Teran (Managed by Q & Gutter) the on-demand economy hype cycle history (2010-2016)
59 mins; March 14, 2023
E19 w/ guest Amjad Masad (Replit) from Jordan to SV on his journey to create the future of programming and why Peter Thiel doesnât look at product demos
61 hours 40 mins; March 01, 2023
E20 w/ guest Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo) 10 year journey from an ecomm store to a shipping API unicorn
57 mins; March 01, 2023
E18 w/ guest Daryna Kulya (OpenPhone) - how to hire the best people ever and go from $0 to $1M ARR
60 hours 45 mins; February 21, 2023
E17 Creating Founder and Investor Networks, why they matter and how to do it over your career
62 hours 45 mins; February 14, 2023
E16 w/ Sahil Lavingia taking Gumroad off the VC treadmill, increasing pricing was very controversial but ultimately the right move
65 hours 32 mins; February 07, 2023
E15 Fundraising lessons from us who collectively have raised $300M+. Tips / tricks / fake term sheets, everything venture fundraising
62 hours 20 mins; January 31, 2023
E 14 w/ the core crew - burnout happens when you are becoming successful and can be crippling, how to notice it, prevent it and get out of it
60 hours 26 mins; January 24, 2023
E 13 w/ Sidharth Kakkar started Subscript after selling his last company to solve his xls breaking @ $5M ARR, his new company is fully remote and has no meetings
54 mins; January 17, 2023
E 12 w/ Immad Akhundâs 4th company Mercury has been an âovernightâ success, serendipity of living in the bay area (yes still!), making over 300 angel investments
54 mins; January 11, 2023
E 11 w/ Siqi Chen built Runway because of how much building the operating model @ Sandbox VR sucked, is 5 years of runway insane? operating models are different for today's AI, ML
49 mins; January 03, 2023
E 10 w/ William Hockey, Plaid getting their series A term sheet pulled from a tier 1 VC, William buys a bank to build the financial system from the bottom up, founders share everything
48 mins; December 27, 2022
E 9 w/ Adam Nash, growing up in SV and going through 4 tech cycles, building in the bay vs other cities vs remote, working in fintech before it was fintech
56 mins; December 20, 2022
Ep 8 - Our first guest Sara Mauskopf of Winnie, raising VC as a woman, all 5 of us are first borns and need to be CEOs, board dynamics, independent board members, Saraâs windy road building Winnie
50 mins; December 14, 2022
Ep 7 - Taking John Doerr through finding PMF again, AI company raises 500x, Joe shares fake metrics, revenge of the VCs, are investor updates worth it, faustian agreement w/ VC
57 mins; December 07, 2022
Ep 6 - Julien is bffâs with Andrew Mason, Pipe & other grifters, not making payroll, pushing lawyers to close financings, google employees arenât special.
56 mins; November 29, 2022
Ep 5 - topping Finland podcast rankings already, younger billionaires than ever before, launching under pseudonyms, navigating the idea maze, Joe is richer than Julien?
51 mins; November 22, 2022
Ep 4 - twitter haters already, FTX, more confident founders raise more venture capital, Klout was a rocketship, our origin stories, raising at too high valuations, @Suhail founder of Mighty pivots
62 hours 14 mins; November 15, 2022
Ep 3 - tech layoffs, opendoor problems, asset heavy businesses, first hires
61 hours 7 mins; November 11, 2022
Ep 2 - Product launches, marketing your business, & Elon Musk and Twitter
58 mins; November 03, 2022
Ep 1 - intro to our new podcast where we provide a unique and missing perspective from Second Time Founders of venture backed companies.
