Founder Real Talk
By Wisdom Partners
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Episodes: 74
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A podcast for founders, by founders. We explore the real journey of building and growing a company. Each episode, we go beyond the highlight reel to unpack the strategies, decisions, and hard lessons that shaped successful businesses, revealing the good, the bad, and the ugly behind the growth.
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Your Chocolate and Beer Are Polluting the Water — Ben Slotnick on Lillianah Technologies | Ep. 74
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Oct 23, 2026 |
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His Startup Almost Died the First Yar. Morgan Moncada on Neru Health | Ep. 73
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Oct 22, 2026 |
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Why 99% of Founder News Is Bad News (And How to Survive It) with Malur Narayan | Ep. 72
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Oct 16, 2026 |
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Google, Amazon, Microsoft — Now Startup #4. David Aronchick on Building Expanso | Ep. 71
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Oct 09, 2026 |
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How a Hurricane Forced Shane Parreco to Rebuild Aktiga | Ep. 70
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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He Expected 75 Clients in Year One. He Got 9. — Rich Benci on Building Omega Benefits | Ep. 69
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Oct 02, 2026 |
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Why One Hacker Now Does the Work of an Entire Team with Brett Ewing | Ep. 68
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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Giving People Who Have No Voice a Voice — Maheen Adamson on Building Soof Solutions | Ep. 67
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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Putting Ads Inside Fortnite: How a $100 GameStop Prize Turned Into an AI Ad-Tech Startup | Ep. 66
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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Your Time Is Worth $2,000 an Hour — Adam Spector on Building Chore | Ep. 65
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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Why Over-Hiring Nearly Killed His Startup with Jeb Dunkelberger | Ep. 64
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Sep 16, 2026 |
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"Martyrdom Doesn't Help Anyone." — Breanna Hughes on Building Bird & Be Without Burning Out | Ep. 63
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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11% Instead of 30-50%: Joy Curth on Building a Fairer Marketplace for Small Business | Ep. 62
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Anyone Can Vibe Code a Prototype. That's Not the Hard Part. — Arun Krishnaswamy on Mool AI | Ep. 61
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Our Most Limited Resource Is Energy — David McCombie on M&A and Founder Wisdom | Ep. 60
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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He Staged a Protest Outside a HubSpot Event. It Went Viral — Ben Gusberg on Building CAPE | Ep. 59
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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From $0 to $200K in 65 Days. Then His Body Broke Down. — Michael Barnes on Viva Benefits | Ep. 58
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Aug 28, 2026 |
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From Emotional Leader to Cutthroat CEO — AJ Goyal on the Cost of Scaling Fibr AI | Ep. 57
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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She Fired Herself From Marketing Her Own Marketing Company — Dana Marxer on AyeQ | Ep. 56
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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He Used His Own Company to Save His Father's Life — Ardy Arianpour on Seqster | Ep. 55
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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He Opened a Meditation App and His Worst Thoughts Showed Up. — Yash Ghanekar on Moksha | Ep. 54
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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He Asked for a Free Tour. He Left as CEO — Dan Koukol on Building Digit | Ep. 53
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Fundraising Is Fundamentally Broken. Jeff Fidelman Is Fixing the Incentives. | Ep. 52
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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I Wage War on the Word "Fail" — Justin Abrams on Building Cause of a Kind | Ep. 51
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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50 Episodes In — What We Have Learned From 49 Founder Stories | Ep. 50
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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He Reallocated $2 Billion Away From Fossil Fuels in Year One — Scott Ryan on Investature | Ep. 49
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Fundraising. Sales. Hiring. — Kirill Lopatin on Building xAID | Ep. 48
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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First Assumption Was Wrong. The Revenue Followed the Pivot. — Aspen Buckingham on Overture | Ep. 47
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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He Went Through a Divorce. Then He Built the Product He Wished He'd Had: Hans Guntren | Ep. 46
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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"Riches Are in the Niches": JR Butler on the Lesson That Reshaped Shift Group | Ep. 45
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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100% of Zero Is Still Zero — Cosimo Spera on Building Minerva CQ | Ep. 44
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Someone Snored During My First Pitch — Daphne Pariser on Building Heron AI
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Downsized 80% at Peak Revenue — Amodhi Weeresinghe on Rebuilding Coura
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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Quantum Computer Will Break Bitcoin — David Pollak on Building Spice Labs
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Manage Your Board or It Will Manage You: Abhi Yadav's First-Time CEO Lesson
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Stop Pitching. Start Listening. James O'Connor on Customer Discovery Done Right
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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From Lawyer to AI Founder: Amanda Lukoff on Winning the ASU GSV Global AI Challenge
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Chewing Glass and Looking Into the Abyss — Jose Bulatau on Building Venueconex Solo
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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Building the Airlock for AI — Stephen Calhoun on SASI
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Building The First Continuous Hormone Monitor for Women — Jenny Duan & Abhinav Agarwal
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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5 Startups, 1 Success, Still Building — Ali Ahmed on RoboMart
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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60 No's Before a "Maybe": Chelsie Hall on Building Viral Moment
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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"Time Kills All Deals" — Jonathan Festejo on Modernizing B2B Sales
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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The Misaligned Incentive Behind Every Dating App with Eric McHugh
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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From 9/11 Tragedy to Building AI Marketing with Harjiv Singh
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May 27, 2026 |
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Transforming Alcohol Addiction Treatment with Jonathan Hunt-Glassman
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May 26, 2026 |
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Redefining Mentoring and Career Development with Anita Balaraman
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May 22, 2026 |
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How AI is Disrupting Education and Personal Development with Andrew Mao
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May 20, 2026 |
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Buying a Company and Rebuilding It Six Times with Erynn Petersen
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May 18, 2026 |
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How Founders Can Navigate Cyber Risks and Growth with Aaron Warner
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May 13, 2026 |
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The AI Solution for Government Procurement with August Sun Chen
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May 11, 2026 |
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From Selling His Car to Selling Out Events with Adam Goldstein
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May 06, 2026 |
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Building the World's First Floating Hydrogen Ports with Sumer Daou
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May 01, 2026 |
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The 90-Day Test: How to Validate a Business with Brian Schopfel
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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How To Find Product Market Fit. LIVE @EF San Francisco
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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How AI is Solving the Mental Health Crisis with Tanuj Sharma
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Scaling a Food Brand with Alex Nguyen and Tram Huyhn
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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From His Car to Fintech: Ronnie Green on Building Wealth from Zero
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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How AI is Transforming Group Communication with David Petrou
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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How to Build a Team That Wins: Lessons from Matt Hudson
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Revolutionizing Construction with Robotics and AI: Edgar Munoz's Vision
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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The Importance of Execution in Startups with Saeid Makhmali
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Revolutionizing Pediatric Care with Ricardo Berrios
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Lessons Learned from Fintech with Ashley Parekh
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Navigating the GovTech Landscape
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Empathy-Driven Innovation: Inside Foqal's Success
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Transforming Cinema: Giulia's Journey as a Female Founder
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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AI and Open Source Intelligence with Chris Fitzgerald
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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The Evolution of Hiring in the AI Era with Pablo Estevez
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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How Top Founders Spot Real Opportunities Amid the Noise of AI
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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The Art of Storytelling with Luke Miller
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Transforming Finance with PowerPoint Automation with Connor Engelsberg
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Innovating Fire Prevention with Nafaa Haddou
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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The Journey of Revolutionizing News with Kira Shishkin | EP 1
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Feb 07, 2026 |