Founder Reality
By George Pu
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Episodes: 53
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Founder Reality with George Pu
AI is eating jobs, companies, and entire industries. Most people are watching it happen. This show is for the ones who refuse to.
Every week, George and his team break down what's actually changing - from the $285B market selloffs to the career decisions nobody's talking about - with unfiltered takes from someone who's built a $10M+ portfolio with zero VC and zero exits.
No startup theater. No productivity hacks. Just the real decisions behind building businesses you own 100%, in a world where AI is commoditizing everything except judgment, relationships, and risk.
If you're a knowledge worker wondering what's next, a founder navigating the AI shift, or anyone who'd rather own than be owned - this is your show.
New episodes weekly.
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E53: Anthropic Says 2027. Their Researchers Walked Away from $1 Million. Then Their AI Started Writing.
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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E52: Three Playbooks Dead, $1 Trillion Gone, and the Identity Crisis Nobody's Talking About
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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E51: The Career Ladder Broke. 2.2 Billion People Were Standing On It. And My First Boss Lied to My Face.
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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E50: $21 Billion Gone in 60 Minutes, the Creator Economy Is Dead, and Why I Faked My Voice for 3 Years
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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E49: The Five Stages of AI Grief: Identity, Market Meltdowns, and What's Left When Your Playbook Dies
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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E48: We're Back: 3 Months of AI Changes, a New Co-Host, and Why I Don't Want to Be a Billionaire
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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E46: Why Liquidation Preferences Are Founder Slavery (And What to Do Instead)
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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E45: The Three C's That Actually Matter in 2025 (And Why "Machine, Platform, Crowd" is Dead)
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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E44: I Failed 6 Times This Morning (And Finally Learned React)
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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E43: How I Lost 80% of My Revenue Twice (And What I'm Building Instead)
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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E42: Why I Can't Read Business Books Anymore (And Why That's Actually Good)
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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E41: The VC Market Has Split Into Two Different Games (And Most Founders Are Playing The Wrong One)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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E40: I Wasted 6 Years Building in Stealth Mode (Here's Why You Should Start Creating Content Today)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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E39: Why Learning How to Learn Is Your Only Competitive Advantage Left (And My 5-Step Framework)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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E38: My Worst Hires Almost Destroyed Us (Here's What I Learned About Building Teams in 2025)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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E37: Why I Changed My Mind About Multiple Products (And You Should Too)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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E36: The AI Exercise That Almost Destroyed Me (In the Best Way Possible)
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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E35: When to Stop Consulting and Build a Product: The $200M Basecamp Question
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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E34: Three Expensive Lessons About Money That Changed How I Think About Wealth
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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E33: Why Everyone's Chasing the Wrong Thing (And It's Making Them Replaceable)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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E32: Why I Wrote a 350-Page Free Ebook Against Everything Silicon Valley Teaches
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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E31: 3 Thoughts That Changed How I Run My Companies
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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E30: How to Know When to Pivot vs. Shut Down Your Startup (The 8am Text That Saved My Company)
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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E29: The AI Performance Gap Is About to Become Permanent. Here's Which Side You're On
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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E28: Infrastructure Owners Are Killing Middlemen. Here's How to Know If You're Next.
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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E27: Junior Jobs Are Disappearing and Nobody's Talking About It.
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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E26: Governments Are Giving Away ChatGPT for Free (Your Startup Should Too)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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E25: AI Will Copy Your MVP in Three Weeks: Why I Never Build Single Product Companies Anymore
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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E24: Why My Friends Making $500K at Google Regret Their Careers (And What I Learned About Freedom)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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E23: The Startup Playbook Just Changed: Three Stories That Reveal How to Build in 2025
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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E22: The $60 Million GitHub Move That Just Killed Startups (And Why That's Perfect for Bootstrap Founders)
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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E21: Zero Meetings: How I Run Two Companies Without a Single Recurring Meeting
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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E20: Why I Ignored 60% of My Customers for 5 Years (Why Every Startup Should Go Global from Day One)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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E19: How I Learned to Learn (And Why It's Your Best Business Skill)
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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E18: Why I'm Shutting Down My 5-Year Startup (Hard-Learned Lessons for Founders)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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E17: Why I Stopped Checking My Metrics 20 Times a Day (And Everything Started Working)
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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E16: Why I'm Worried About My Friends' "Successful" Acquisitions
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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E15: Stop Taking Advice From VCs Who've Never Built Anything
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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E14: How Guaranteed Payment Turned My Best Partner Into My Worst Nightmare
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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E13: The Three Stages of Founder Loneliness (And Why Stage Two Almost Broke Me)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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E12: Why Your Health is Your Most Important Business Asset (And How a Mentor's Passing Changed Everything)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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E11: Why I Built a Business That Can't Scale (My $500K Distribution Mistake)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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E10: Why I 'Fired' 9 People and Made More Money (The Small Team Advantage)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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E9: Why Distribution is the Only Moat Left in the AI-First World (And How to Build It)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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E8: Building in Public vs. Building in Private (The Truth About Transparency)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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E7: Stop Learning About Startups and Just Start One (Why I Failed 3 Times Before SimpleDirect)
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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E6: I Tried Vibe Coding for 6 Months and Nearly Destroyed My Products (Why AI-Assisted Development Is Not What You Think)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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E5: Why Simple Always Beats Sophisticated (And How I Wasted 2 Years Building Complex BS)
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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B1: Weekend Bonus: Hit 25K Followers (And Why I Barely Try)
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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E4: Work Shouldn't Feel Like Work (And Why I Just Said No to $5 Million)
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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E3: Why Remote Work is Killing Your Startup (And Your Sanity)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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E2: Why Co-founders Are Overrated (And AI Changes Everything)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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E1: Why I'm Starting This Podcast (And Why Most Founder Content is BS)
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Aug 09, 2025 |