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A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of founder stories - the shows and 19 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Best shows on founder stories

Best episodes on founder stories

  1. Hassan Fayed (Aydi) on Building AI for Every Farmer on Earth and Why Software Has Failed Agriculture

    FWDstart · 2026-02-24

    96 / 100

  2. Comfi's Sanjar Samiev and Denis Gavrilin on Raising $65M and Building B2B BNPL for MENA's SMEs

    FWDstart · 2026-06-15

    88 / 100

  3. Bayt’s Rabea Ataya on 26 Years of Building and Why the Old MENA Startup Playbook No Longer Works

    FWDstart · 2026-08-10

    86 / 100

  4. Rana Abdel Latif & Deepali Nangia (Speedinvest) on Raising from QIA, EIB, and Mubadala, Why Fintechs Are the New Incumbents, and What Catalytic LPs Actually Do

    FWDstart · 2026-04-22

    86 / 100

  5. Mahdi Yahya (Ori / Radiant) on Getting Acquired by Brookfield, Building the Backbone of Sovereign AI, and Why Intelligence Is Infrastructure

    FWDstart · 2026-04-13

    86 / 100

  6. Djamel Mohand (Governata) on The Rocket Internet Baptism of Fire, Scaling Foodics to 30K Restaurants & Why Your Data Isn't AI-Ready

    FWDstart · 2026-01-26

    86 / 100

  7. ClearGrid's Mohammad Al-Khalili on Building AI for a Trillion-Dollar Debt Market

    FWDstart · 2026-06-22

    85 / 100

  8. How Smart Founders Raise Capital in 2026 (VC Reality Check)

    Ventures from The Valley · 2025-12-10

    81 / 100

  9. Glenn Harwood (AlgoDriven) on the Future of SaaS, Exiting for 8 Figures from Dubai, and Expanding to Fourteen Countries On Only $3M

    FWDstart · 2026-03-10

    81 / 100

  10. Talal Hasan (44.01) on Turning CO2 Into Rock, The Journey From Omani VC to Earthshot Winner, & Why Transportation is Carbon's Real Bottleneck

    FWDstart · 2026-02-03

    81 / 100

  11. Alex Epure (Qureos) on Raising $5M from Prosus, The Future of Hiring in a Post-AI World, and The Truth About Job Displacement

    FWDstart · 2026-03-16

    76 / 100

  12. How Uber’s Playbook Shaped Blockchain.com’s Growth Strategy With Lane Kasselman

    Ventures from The Valley · 2026-01-08

  13. Algebra AI’s Anis Harb on Raising $7M, Leaving Deliveroo After a Decade, and Why Managed AI Services Are Booming

    FWDstart · 2026-07-13

  14. Lean Technologies’ Tewfik Cassis on Launching Pay by Bank, Building the AWS for Fintech, and Why Stablecoins Could Transform Payments

    FWDstart · 2026-07-06

  15. Alina Truhina (Utopia) on Why Copy-Pasting Western VC Fails, The Myth of 2-and-20 Fees in Emerging Markets, & Establishing a Fund in Qatar

    FWDstart · 2026-01-20

  16. Nafez Dakkak (Anara Capital) on Why AI Tutors Will Fail, Is MENA EdTech's "Sleeping Giant" & Solving the Arabic Literacy Crisis

    FWDstart · 2026-01-05

  17. Arya Bolurfrushan (AppliedAI) on Raising $42M for AI Before ChatGPT, The Future of Work & Why AI Needs Human Supervisors

    FWDstart · 2025-12-22

  18. Ibrahim Manna (BRKZ) on Lessons from Careem, Founder Grit & Disrupting Saudi Construction

    FWDstart · 2025-12-15

  19. Mark Kahn (Omnivore) on GCC Food Security, India’s Venture Depth & Agritech Investing

    FWDstart · 2025-12-08