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The Startup Podcast

Advice for founders and entrepreneurs who want to build disruptive startups like they do in Silicon Valley. Not another interview podcast: concrete tips and masterclasses on what founders need to know: raising Venture Capital, strategy, product, marketing, growth, and more. A guide to the unique mindset and approach that drives Silicon Valley style disruption. Hosts Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein share practical advice based on decades of experience at Google, Uber, and their own startups.

Dr. Matthew Jones: Fix your co-founder relationship before it breaks your startup

22 mins; March 30, 2026

How to identify red flags early in your cofounder relationship w/ Dr. Matthew Jones

39 mins; March 23, 2026

Why Claude never stops listening to our meetings (w/ Minikai's Keoki Alexander-Chang)

41 mins; March 16, 2026

Recruiting the best AI engineers w/ Matt Cook of Scouut

57 mins; March 09, 2026

Insiders React: OpenClaw and Claude Cowork have changed everything for startups w/ Gary Lo, Open BA

37 mins; March 02, 2026

Making the most of the founder/investor dynamic (w/ Liz Zalman, author of 'Founder vs Investor')

57 mins; February 23, 2026

How founders can survive 2026 w/ Jess Mah

55 mins; February 16, 2026

Recursive Self-Determination: Why your startup needs autonomy at every layer

44 mins; February 09, 2026

Reviewing Our 2025 Tech Predictions

40 mins; November 13, 2025

Is OpenAI Evil? Reacting to Sam Altman's Latest Announcements w/ Jacob Ward

69 hours 32 mins; November 06, 2025

Replay: Engaging Young Employees - How to Attract the Best & Brightest Minds w/ Dan Brockwell from Earlywork

44 mins; November 03, 2025

Insiders React: Google's 'Quantum Advantage' + MIT's 'Telepathic' Interface, China Leads the Sci-Fi Future

43 mins; October 30, 2025

Trends in Startup Funding w/ Carta's Head of Insights, Peter Walker

66 hours 9 mins; October 27, 2025

Insiders React: Is ChatGPT Atlas The Future Of Browsing? + YouTube's AI Likeness Detection, Apple's New Vision Pro M5

53 mins; October 23, 2025

The 4 Biggest Execution Mistakes Founders Make

43 mins; October 20, 2025

Insiders React: 'Treat Adult Users As Adults' Says OpenAI's Sam Altman + Oura's $900M Raise, NVIDIA's Funding Bubble

53 mins; October 16, 2025

Flow State: The Competitive Advantage You Need, And How To Harness It w/ Film Producer & Founder, Steven Puri

50 mins; October 13, 2025

Insiders React: New ChatGPT Dev Tools Threaten App Store + Sora 2 Launch, Apple Removes ICE Block

47 mins; October 09, 2025

Nailing Your Market Niche w/ Dutch CEO, Joe Spector (Spotlight)

58 mins; October 06, 2025

Insiders React: ChatGPT Pulse: An Overpriced Daily Digest? + Hollywood’s First AI Actress, Amazon’s $2.5B Settlement

38 mins; October 02, 2025

How Being Genuine is a Critical Advantage For Startup Founders w/ Christine Blosdale, Expert Authority Coach (Edu)

50 mins; September 29, 2025

Insiders React: Tech Talent Pool to Be Decimated by New Fee + OpenAI Jobs Platform, $1B for Dishwashing Robots

53 mins; September 25, 2025

Why Every Startup Founder Should Consider B2B SaaS w/ Rob Walling (Edu)

58 mins; September 22, 2025

Insiders React: YouTube's Steady Domination + Oracle's AI Comeback, Sam Altman v. Tucker Carlson

55 mins; September 18, 2025

Startup Persistence: A Masterclass from YC Founder Paul Graham

41 mins; September 15, 2025

Insiders React: Apple's Huge AI Blunder + IPO Market Heats Up, White House Tech Dinner

57 mins; September 11, 2025

Growing a Pre-Seed Startup? This Is The Core Knowledge You Need w/ Ashley Smith

57 mins; September 08, 2025

Insiders React: Google Antitrust: Is The Ruling Fair? + YC’s Latest Request For Startups, Statsig Acquisition

47 mins; September 04, 2025

First Principles: Listen to This Before You Apply to YC

38 mins; September 01, 2025

Insiders React: Google Pixel 10 – Does It Finally Beat Apple at Its Own Game?

35 mins; August 28, 2025

Startup Tech Stacks: Make Your Product Stand Out & Get Used w/ Joseph Ruscio

64 hours 17 mins; August 25, 2025

Insiders React: Meta to Shrink AI Division – Is This the Beginning of the End?

27 mins; August 21, 2025

YC Founder’s 13 Timeless Startup Principles: 'Ramen Profitable’ and More

44 mins; August 18, 2025

Insiders React: GPT-5 Is ‘Fast Fashion’ For Software + Apple’s $600B Commitment, Altman vs Musk (...Again)

41 mins; August 14, 2025

Capital for Founders: Insights From Yaniv’s New Startup Raise

50 mins; August 11, 2025

Insiders React: Cloudflare Catches Perplexity Red-Handed + Wikipedia Adopts Anti-AI Slop Policy, AWS Losing Ground

44 mins; August 07, 2025

Grow Your Startup Fast and Effectively w/ Roblox's Former Tech Chief, Keith V. Lucas

56 mins; August 04, 2025

Insiders React: Microsoft Launches GitHub Spark + US Govt Bans "Woke AI", YouTube to Restrict Kids' Accounts

54 mins; July 31, 2025

Listener Q&A – Should You Use AI to Build Your MVP? Plus: Building Your Perfect Team, Breaking Startup Rules & More (Edu)

39 mins; July 28, 2025

Insiders React: Uber's New Response to Waymo + ChatGPT’s New Super Agent & OpenAI’s Chaotic Company Culture

48 mins; July 24, 2025

Two Simple Principles to Get Your Startup Noticed, and How to Apply Them (w/ Product Hunt CEO Rajiv Ayyangar)

57 mins; July 21, 2025

Insiders React: AI Chaos - Meta & Google Poach Talent from Apple & OpenAI + Elon's Grok-4 Havoc, Intel Admits Defeat

44 mins; July 17, 2025

Unlock Hypergrowth: How Vibe Coding Can Fast-Track Your Startup Success w/ Bolt CEO Eric Simons

58 mins; July 14, 2025

Insiders React: Musk Launches “America Party” + YouTube Declares War on AI Slop, Sequoia's Mamdani Scandal

51 mins; July 10, 2025

Top 7 Mistakes Founders Make in Raising Early Stage VC w/ Amir Shevat (Edu)

53 mins; July 07, 2025

Insiders React: Cloudflare Makes AI Pay + Figma Files For IPO, Grammarly Buys Superhuman

46 mins; July 03, 2025

Master Your AI Prompts and Unlock ChatGPT's Full Potential w/ Jonathan Mast (Edu)

59 mins; June 30, 2025

Insiders React: Anthropic's Huge AI Copyright Win + Speech to Text Better Than Ever, Peter Thiel's Tech Dystopia

34 mins; June 26, 2025

Insiders React: Sam Altman’s 'Gentle Singularity' + Workplace AI at an All-Time High, Meta's $30B Scale AI Acquihire

46 mins; June 19, 2025

Apps Are Obsolete: How Startups Can Leverage the New Era of AI Agents (Spotlight)

46 mins; June 16, 2025

Apple WWDC Breakdown + Musk & Trump's Messy Divorce, a16z's Fresh Take on AI Startups

54 mins; June 12, 2025

Insiders React: Meta's Luckey Military Deal + Google's Plan to Split Itself, Europe Revives AI & Startups

27 mins; June 05, 2025

How the PRFAQ Made Amazon Great (And Can Do The Same for You) w/ Marcelo Calbucci (Edu)

60 hours 14 mins; June 02, 2025

Insiders React: Sam Altman's New $6B Partnership + Klarna's AI Backtrack, Bitcoin Over $111K

44 mins; May 29, 2025

Insiders React: Google Goes AI 'Beast Mode' + Airbnb's Bold Pivot, Microsoft’s Agent Strategy

55 mins; May 22, 2025

From Floorplans to Full Renovations: How Maket's AI Owns the Architectural Stack (Spotlight)

54 mins; May 19, 2025

Insiders React: Death of Google Search? + YC's Startup Wishlist, Trump’s Saudi AI Deals

64 hours 57 mins; May 15, 2025

Replay: Co-Founder Relationships - Avoiding the Big Breakup (Edu)

51 mins; May 12, 2025

Insiders React: OpenAI Bets Big on Vibe Coding + Epic Games' Victory Over Apple, Silicon Valley's Talent Crisis

62 hours 29 mins; May 08, 2025

Finance For Founders - Why 'Playing It Safe' Is Risky w/ Michiel Boere, CFO at Remote (Edu)

52 mins; May 04, 2025

Insiders React: Did Zuckerberg Sabotage Instagram? + Apple’s New Devices, James Cameron on AI

34 mins; May 01, 2025

Replay: Mastering Attention - Your Startup's Secret Weapon w/ Ben Parr (Edu)

51 mins; April 28, 2025

Insiders React: China Retaliates Against NVIDIA Embargo + US Startups in Crisis, Google Faces Legal Heat

39 mins; April 24, 2025

AI and Founders: Startups in the Age of AI (Edu)

53 mins; April 21, 2025

Insiders React: Meta's Whistleblower Bombshell + NVIDIA's $500B AI Investment, OpenAI’s New GPT-4.1

44 mins; April 17, 2025

Replay: Raising Capital at Seed - 5 Ways to De-Risk Your Round (Edu)

55 mins; April 14, 2025

Insiders React: Trump's Tariff Meltdown + Startup Valuations Crash, Shopify Goes Full AI

38 mins; April 10, 2025

Strategic Communications – Why PR Alone Won’t Drive Business Growth w/ Jessy Wu (Edu)

45 mins; April 07, 2025

Insiders React: Google Just Killed SEO + OpenAI’s $40B Raise, AI’s Copyright Crisis

64 hours 51 mins; April 03, 2025

Replay: Scaling Sales - Insider Secrets w/ Rippling's Matt Loop and Matt Plank (Edu)

61 hours 7 mins; March 31, 2025

Insiders React: Google’s $32B Cloud Power Grab + Altman: AI Now Beats Humans, 23andMe Collapses, Fake AI CEOs

52 mins; March 27, 2025

Kill Your Customers – The Doom Funnel That’s Hurting Your Startup (Edu)

42 mins; March 24, 2025

Insiders React: Google's New Robotics Division + OpenAI Tries to Block DeepSeek, Rippling/Deel Corporate Espionage

52 mins; March 20, 2025

Replay: Getting Good At Operations - Optimise Your Startup (Edu)

43 mins; March 17, 2025

Insiders React: Return of Digg + Wall Street Panic, Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, Apple Delays AI

55 mins; March 13, 2025

Product Led Marketing – Where Do Marketers Fit In? (Edu)

26 mins; March 10, 2025

Insiders React: AI Voices Get TOO Real + NVIDIA’s Earnings Drama, Microsoft’s Sneaky AI Move, Alexa’s Big Update

50 mins; March 06, 2025

Venture Capital - What VCs Say (And What They Really Mean)

23 mins; March 03, 2025

Insiders React: Creepy AI Agents Talk in Secret + Claude 3.7 Kills Jobs , Microsoft’s Quantum Leap , Robots Now Collaborate

27 mins; February 26, 2025

Technical Debt: Why It’s Inevitable and How to Handle It (Edu)

46 mins; February 24, 2025

Insiders React: AI Killing Junior Jobs + Apple & Meta's Robot Bet, Grok 3 Flops, Startup Chaos Ladder

42 mins; February 19, 2025

5 Simple Rules for Meetings That Don’t Suck (and Actually Get Sh*t Done)

47 mins; February 17, 2025

Insiders React: Musk Trolls Altman + ChatGPT’s Deep Research, AI's Infinite ROI, JD Vance Gets It Right (...Sort Of)

44 mins; February 12, 2025

Scaling with AI- How AI Will Transform Your Startup w/ Grammarly CEO Shishir Mehrotra

42 mins; February 10, 2025

Insiders React: Trump’s DOGE Disaster + Open Source OpenAI, Bluesky Beats Twitter

47 mins; February 05, 2025

Founder Mistakes – Why Most Founders Fail (and How Coaching Helps You Succeed) w/ Alexis d'Amecourt

58 mins; February 03, 2025

Insiders React: AI's DeepSeek Freakout + Trump's $500B AI Power Play, Elon Plays Footsie With Fascism

47 mins; January 29, 2025

Types of Capital - The Hidden Risks of Bootstrapping That Could Sink You w/Scotty Allen (Edu)

43 mins; January 27, 2025

Insiders React: TikTok Trolls USA + Trump’s Crypto Scam, OpenAI's Agent Strategy, AI VCs

57 mins; January 22, 2025

Startup Funding - VC, Bootstrapping, or Debt? The Funding Spectrum Explained (Edu)

64 hours 32 mins; January 20, 2025

Insiders React- Altman: AGI Almost Here! + Zuck and Bezos Kiss Trump's Ring, Rise of the Robots

50 mins; January 15, 2025

Unforced Errors – Avoiding Mistakes At Every Stage w/ Mona Sabet (Edu)

62 hours 7 mins; January 13, 2025

Best of 2024 #4 – Agile vs. Waterfall: Stop Practicing Agile Theater w/ John Cutler

34 mins; January 06, 2025

Best of 2024 #3 – VC Pitch: PayPal for Agents – Skyfire Powers AI-to-AI Commerce at Scale

62 hours 32 mins; December 30, 2024

Best of 2024 #2 – Mastering Attention: Your Startup's Secret Weapon w/ Ben Parr

51 mins; December 23, 2024

Best of 2024 #1 – 5 Biggest Team Building Mistakes w/ Netflix Legend Patty McCord

66 hours 48 mins; December 16, 2024

Insiders React: OpenAI’s Christmas Announcements + Trump's Plans for Bitcoin & AI, Could OpenAI Buy Chrome?

66 hours 18 mins; December 11, 2024

First Principles Thinking - Don’t Doom Yourself to Mediocrity (Replay)

37 mins; December 09, 2024

Investing & Fundraising - The Truth About VC w/ Nick Crocker (Replay)

54 mins; December 04, 2024

Product-Market Fit – 5 Proven Steps to Exponential Growth w/ Pablo Srugo

52 mins; December 02, 2024

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