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46 episodes · publishes fortnightly · latest 2026-06-24 · ~39 min/episode
Rank
#2155
Substance
66.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
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Across the index
#2155 of 6182
Substance
Top 35%
outscores 65% of the index
The Founder Formula ranks #2155 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 66.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on guest caliber and specificity & evidence. Yoav Landman is a legitimate practitioner - he bootstrapped an open-source project into a publicly traded company over 15 years - and he is not a career podcast guest. However, his answers frequently stay at altitude rather than drawing on the deep operational detail his biography could support.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
A handful of genuinely useful framings emerge - AI's governance deficit creating a binary tsunami, the liquidity-software vision - but large stretches are consumed by naming etymology, recycled founder clichés, and high-level product pitches that add little for a B2B operator. The insight-per-minute ratio is poor for a 28-minute episode.
“AI is very good at generation, it has the iq, but it's really, really bad at governance”
“we are facing a tsunami of binaries. We are creating more source that gets translated to more binaries, more releases”
The governance-gap framing for AI and the 'liquidity software' concept are modestly fresh, but the founding advice section is a parade of well-worn maxims and the supply chain security narrative restates widely-circulated industry talking points without a new angle.
“AI is very good at generation, it has the iq, but it's really, really bad at governance. If you take uh, these characteristics, um, it actually creates a risk that needs to be managed”
“Today we are calling everything, we're calling all these uh, liquidity software”
Yoav Landman is a legitimate practitioner - he bootstrapped an open-source project into a publicly traded company over 15 years - and he is not a career podcast guest. However, his answers frequently stay at altitude rather than drawing on the deep operational detail his biography could support.
“we got the first A round from Gemini. Uh, it was uh, three and a half million back then in 2012”
“Jeffhog today is serving the majority of the Fortune 100, uh, more than 80%, sometimes 100% of the Fortune 10 depending on the sector”
The episode offers a handful of real data points - 20,000 installs in six months, a $3.5M Series A from Gemini in 2012, ~40 supported ecosystems, 80%+ Fortune 100 penetration - but the competitive differentiation section, AI impact claims, and security risk arguments are largely abstract with no named competitors, customer examples, or supporting metrics.
“maybe in six months. There were uh, 20,000 installations of artifactory back then”
“we got the first A round from Gemini. Uh, it was uh, three and a half million back then in 2012”
The hosts ask exclusively narrative, open-ended softballs ('What was the first difficult moment?', 'What are you most proud of?') with zero pushback on any claim, and they spend meaningful airtime on company-name etymology and tagline jokes. When the guest raises the genuinely interesting AI governance point, the host's response is merely to paraphrase it back rather than probe further.
“What's one thing that you think first time founders consistently underestimate?”
“What are you most proud of?”
2026-06-24
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