Engineering Founders
By The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)
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Episodes: 52
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The show for engineering leaders making the leap to start their own company! We dive into the stories, pivotal moments and critical insights from former eng leaders turned founders, that helped them take those early leaps to launch their own company!
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Early team building and pivoting to competitive advantage as a solo founder w/ Tony Dong @ Propel
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Building insight engines, emotionally intelligent AI products & blending PLG / enterprise GTM w/ Aiswarya Sankar @ Entelligence.AI
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May 29, 2025 |
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The Startup Epoch: Rethinking Company Building & Defensibility in an AI World w/ Craig McLuckie @ Stacklok
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May 01, 2025 |
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Building platforms, ecosystems & open-source communities: Lessons from Viam & MongoDB w/ Eliot Horowitz @ Viam
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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From early days to IPO: Scaling leadership, enterprise growth, product ownership, & outgrowing your failure modes w/ Jon Hyman @ Braze
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Shifting from founder-led sales to repeatable GTM, differentiating on responsiveness/customer support & the art vs. science of product building w/ Stephen Whitworth @ incident.io
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Pricing is the API Between Your Business Model and Customers & Great Product Experiences are Made in the Margins w/ Michael Grinich @ WorkOS
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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GTM Insights from Top DevTool companies w/ David Mytton @ Arcjet & Console
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Inspiring BIG ideas and deconstructing ambitious projects into smaller questions, core tech, and POCs w/ Ivan Poupyrev & Jamie Lien @ Archetype AI
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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De-risking the co-founder relationship & experiments to stress-test your partnership w/ Jake Schwartz @ Endorsed
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Scaling costs & being enterprise ready from day 1 w/ Nancy Wang
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Why you SHOULDN’T become a founder w/ Travis McPeak @ Resourcely
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Leveraging distribution & community to accelerate your startup w/ Mariane Bekker @ Founders Bay
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Building a mission-driven, bootstrapped business & transitioning from side-gig to full-time: w/ Darian Shimy @ FutureFund
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May 30, 2024 |
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Exploring the differences of hardware & software startups w/ Jessie Frazelle @ Zoo
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May 16, 2024 |
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Testing venture-scale ideas, identifying your competitive edge & devtool trends w/ Lee Edwards @ Root Ventures
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Finding your wedge: enterprise go-to-market & product building strategy w/ Vidya Raman
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Scaling yourself ‘down’ as an engineering leader w/ James Everingham @ Lightspark
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Rapidly operating early-stage engineering at global scale, mapping eng workflows to personas & pivoting pricing / business models w/ Scott Woody
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Execution strategy, proof of concepts & intermediate value-creation steps at deep tech startups w/ Quinn Jacobson
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Cold outreach & strategically expanding your business model into services w/ Jon Perl & Scott Wilson @ QA Wolf
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Your eng background is your founder advantage w/ Jorge Torres @ MindsDB
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Finding opportunity in areas w/ poor implementation, shaping tech innovation into products & creating fast time to value w/ Gaurav Oberoi @ Lexion.ai
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Solving the right problems and competing on execution risk w/ Varun Mohan @ Codeium
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Capturing & synthesizing unbiased insights from users, your open source community & yourself w/ James Campbell @ Great Expectations
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Assessing emerging trends and why your product should go broad vs. narrow w/ Karan Talati @ First Resonance
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Open-source to commercial product, repeatable sales models + making your 1st marketing hire w/ Ramiro Berrelleza
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Overcoming product bias, embracing specificity, growing your user-base & developing extroverted qualities w/ Roni Dover
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Early-day founding & funding decisions, choosing ideas + using community tools to build a dev-tool company w/ Paul Dix
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Becoming a better strategic contributor & business leader w/ Jessica McKellar
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Company building in highly competitive industries w/ Rick Song @ Persona
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Lessons co-founding and operating an AI/ML company during massive market shifts w/ Jared Roesch
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Prioritizing & ignoring fires, mastering pivots, unexpected barriers to scale and scaling human-centric elements of your product w/ On Freund
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Identifying your internal champion & finding the right data/stories to sell into companies w/ Buchi Reddy Busi Reddy
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May 25, 2023 |
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Gaining early-design partners, converting your first customers, identifying your ICP & default delegating w/ Mahima Chawla
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May 04, 2023 |
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Lessons from building in public & re-discovering product-market fit w/ Charley Ho & Alexander Embiricos
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Company building with 3 co-founders, delineating roles & finding repeatable sales channels w/ Dylan Etkin, Don Brown & Michael Knighten @ Sleuth
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Navigating the new fundraising environment, idea-mazing, relationship pipelines, and overcoming pattern-matching bias w/ Lizzie Matusov
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Product primitives, pre/post PMF strategy & co-founder surveys w/ Arya Asemanfar
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Google form MVPs, Leveraging Maslow’s Hierarchy in product, & customer acquisition strategies w/ Tri Ahmad Irfan
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Pre-Seed Fundraising Strategy w/ Ihar Mahaniok
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Building a vertically integrated Saas business from day 1 w/ Sean Stavropoulos @ Boulevard
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Pitching & consumer-based go-to-market lessons from ComicCon w/ Chris Pruett @ Jam
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Developer experience & building a developer-first company w/ Sagar Batchu @ Speakeasy
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Top-down / Bottoms-up sales strategy, pricing, and enterprise product adoption w/ Abi Noda
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Clarity on product building, business strategy, and activating your network (if you’re anti-networking) w/ Adam Oliner
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Pre-seed fundraising, pitching investors & dealing with rejection w/ Aaron Erickson & Brian Guthrie
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Market validation, making demos work at all costs & designing impossible shapes w/ Bradley Rothenberg
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Co-founder trust & making major pivots w/ Daniela Miao & Khawaja Shams @ Momento
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Finding founder-fit, invalidating ideas & startup success factors with Michel Tricot
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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AI/ML Start-up Trends with Anna Patterson
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Welcome to Engineering Founders! The show for engineering leaders making the leap to start their own company!
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Jan 26, 2022 |