Topic

founders

A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of founders - the shows and 121 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Best shows on founders

Best episodes on founders

Tracy Chou (Block Party) - Founding a Mission-Driven Startup
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-05-06
89 / 100
…Um, so the founders of Quora, um, were ex Facebook.…
Harry Tannenbaum (Mill) - Setting the Goal at Delight
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-04-29
86 / 100
…And um, he was one of the founders at Nest.…
Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures) - A People-Centered Journey
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-05-13
80 / 100
…Pre um Seed is often a couple of founders, maybe a light PowerPoint and idea starting to grow and build.…
From CRO to CEO: Nick Turner on scaling Dreamdata and building trustworthy AI
The SaaS Revolution Show · 2026-01-12
77 / 100
…Here we interview SaaS founders from around the world who've been there and done that as they share the ins and outs of how they built their businesses, their operations, their path to securing investment and more.…
Jake Miller (Fellow) - Designing Products Around Customer Experience
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-05-27
72 / 100
…peaker C: Yeah, I think as founders, it's really hard to give up control of certain parts of this business.…
A new cross-sell opportunity
Startup to Last · 2026-10-29
70 / 100
Claude Design
Startup to Last · 2026-07-02
67 / 100
…I think normally when you see this is a CRM for health insurance agents, one of the founders was a health insurance agent.…
Ellen Ochoa (NASA) - Leadership Lessons from Space
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-05-20
61 / 100
Ryan Nece (Next Legacy Partners) - Learning from Achievement and Adversity
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-06-03
54 / 100
…Uh, tell me how you, uh, so what are you looking for in founders as you invest?…
Breaking Barriers to Parenthood: How Jackie Hanson and Sprout Family Are Transforming Fertility Support at Work
foHRsight · 2026-01-08
More mountain: Marcus Ryu on finding the joy in hard work
The SaaS Revolution Show · 2025-05-15
Stressed Out Founders, Building Employee Trust, Customer/Employee Retention - Answering Listener Questions
Diagnosing The Workplace: Not Just An HR Podcast · 2025-03-26
Pre-seed fundraising, pitching investors & dealing with rejection w/ Aaron Erickson & Brian Guthrie
Engineering Founders · 2022-04-07
How 12 Founders Are Using AI To Get Ahead
Shopify Masters · 2026-04-30
Why Your Product Is Scaling Faster Than Your Story Can Handle
Product Management Tech Brief By HackerNoon · 2025-12-16
Engineering Entrepreneurship with Tech Founder, Samy Bahra, Co-Founder and Former CTO of Backtrace I/O
3i Member Spotlight · 2024-05-16
The Story of Capital Allocators with Founder & CEO, Ted Seides
3i Member Spotlight · 2024-02-01
Lessons from Forbes #1 Angel Investor Fabrice Grinda
3i Member Spotlight · 2024-01-11
Entrepreneurial Insights from Stanford Graduate School of Business with Greg Waldorf, Lecturer at Gsb & Former CEO of Eharmony, Invoice2go
3i Member Spotlight · 2024-01-04
The Network Effect with Mark Gerson, Founder of GLG & Co-Founder of 3i Members
3i Member Spotlight · 2023-12-21
The Founding Story of 3i Members with Teddy Gold, Co-Founder & CEO of 3i Members
3i Member Spotlight · 2023-12-14
Kit Rodgers, Ben Jun, and Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) - Complementary Co-Founders in Cryptography
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-04-22
Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-04-15
Sergey Brin (Google & Alphabet) - Google Origins and AI Futures
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-12-12
Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-11-24
Steve Cousins (Stanford University) - Real-World Robotics
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-11-19
Jane Chen (Embrace Global) - Doing the Inner Work
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-11-12
Sanjit Biswas (Samsara) - Making a Real-World Impact
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-11-05
Drew Endy (Stanford University) - A Synthetic Biology Dream
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-10-29
Grant Lee (Gamma) - Finding Early-Stage Energy
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-10-22
Tina Seelig (Stanford University) - Catching the Winds of Luck
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-10-15
Stanley Tang (DoorDash) - Scaling the Unscalable
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-05-14
Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Disrupting the Pink Aisle [ETL Looks Back]
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-02-06
Returning With Real-World Wisdom [ETL Looks Back]
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-11-27
Clara Shih - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship [ETL Looks Back]
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-11-20
Maria Barrera (Clayful) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs [ETL Looks Back]
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-11-13
Gabriel Parisi-Amon (Nebia Shower) - A Burnout Manifesto [ETL Looks Back]
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-11-08
Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs [ETL Looks Back]
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-10-30
Alexandra Zatarain (Eight Sleep) - Getting to Product-Market Fit
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-06-05
Maria Barrera (Clayful) - Mental Health Tech, Mentally Healthy Startups
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-05-29
David Allemann (On) - Exploration in Sports Technology
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-05-22
Margo Georgiadis (Flagship Pioneering and Montai Health) - Deep Tech Innovation
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-05-08
Sam Altman (OpenAI) - The Possibilities of AI
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-05-01
Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) - Radically Pragmatic Insights
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-04-24
Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) - Designing From Values
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-04-17
Clara Shih (Salesforce AI) - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-03-06
Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-02-28
Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-02-23
Ernestine Fu (Brave Capital) - Taking Action for Startup Success
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-02-14
Bonus: ETL’s Emily Ma on Move Fast and Fix the Planet
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-02-07
Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford) - Smart Leaders Understand Friction [EXPLICIT]
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-01-31
Adrian Rodriguez (Dreamlinks) - A Visually Impaired Founder’s Journey
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-01-24
Sarah Lamaison (Dioxycle) - Climate Tech Insights
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2023-11-22
Michelle Lee (Medra) - From Conviction to Company
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2023-11-15
Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2023-11-08
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford) - Strategy for New Companies
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2023-11-01
From Finance Leader to Founder: How Profitual is Democratizing Financial Intelligence for Startups
What The Tech? · 2025-11-18
How a $5,000 Grant Snowballed Into a Dr. Dre Partnership
Shopify Masters · 2026-07-14
John & Tyler: Is Your Startup Idea Actually Good? AI, Vibe Coding, Steve Blank & Idea Validation
Startup Ignition Podcast · 2026-08-06
…We love the stories and we love the founders coming into the room, but at the same time, we think it's also great to just share principles, methodologies, strategies, and things that we're seeing within the startup ecosystem that we're in and out of every day.…
#144 | Directions of Tech Teams Transformation, Meaning of "AI Natives" & Creating Thriving Startups w/ Punit Jajodia @Programiz
Leman Tech Leadership Podcast · 2026-03-19
Productboard COO Greg Strickland on how to balance growth and innovation, collecting mentors and personal development, managing through change, SMB to enterprise shift, and the competitive advantage of startups
Between Two COO's with Michael Koenig · 2024-01-24
The Startups Rebuilding American Industry | The AD50
The a16z Show · 2026-10-29
What It Takes to Build a Startup | Andrew Chen & Matt Perault
The a16z Show · 2026-09-11
Where to host a marketing site in the age of AI
Startup to Last · 2026-04-09
How much to invest in growth
Startup to Last · 2026-03-27
Do custom Notion agents really work?
Startup to Last · 2026-03-12
What’s the difference between a harness and an agent
Startup to Last · 2026-09-15
What to do with extra marketing budget
Startup to Last · 2026-09-03
Affiliates
Startup to Last · 2026-08-13
Attack of the spam bots
Startup to Last · 2026-07-30
Plugging a leaky bucket
Startup to Last · 2026-07-17
Correcting AI when it gets something wrong
Startup to Last · 2026-06-18
HIPAA
Startup to Last · 2026-06-04
It’s a Tyler episode
Startup to Last · 2026-05-19
Where do the humans fit in?
Startup to Last · 2026-04-23
Will these guys please stop talking about AI
Startup to Last · 2025-06-05
Acquisition vs Expansion
Startup to Last · 2025-05-22
Vibe coding
Startup to Last · 2025-04-26
What do all these customers have in common?
Startup to Last · 2025-04-10
Dipping a toe in the AI waters
Startup to Last · 2025-03-27
Consultative sales
Startup to Last · 2025-03-13
Lowering the bar
Startup to Last · 2025-02-20
Line go up
Startup to Last · 2025-01-16
Rating growth channels
Startup to Last · 2025-01-02
2024 Recap
Startup to Last · 2024-12-19
Everybody’s marketing
Startup to Last · 2024-10-10
How’s 2024 going
Startup to Last · 2024-09-26
How AI might impact customer service
Startup to Last · 2024-08-29
The internet isn’t fun anymore
Startup to Last · 2024-08-15
How to raise revenue by 20% in one day
Startup to Last · 2024-08-01
Small bets vs going deep
Startup to Last · 2024-07-05
Pick one thing and max it out
Startup to Last · 2024-06-25
Step on the gas, or pull back?
Startup to Last · 2024-06-06
We ain't talking about zero to one
Startup to Last · 2024-05-16
Forms forms forms
Startup to Last · 2024-05-09
Soft launches
Startup to Last · 2026-02-27
New positioning
Startup to Last · 2026-02-12
Obligatory Claude Code episode
Startup to Last · 2026-01-15
2025 Recap
Startup to Last · 2025-12-31
Can Rick’s optimism defeat Tyler’s pessimism?
Startup to Last · 2025-12-04
Open Enrollment Woes
Startup to Last · 2025-11-20
Does OG inbound marketing still work?
Startup to Last · 2025-11-06
ICP ICP ICP
Startup to Last · 2025-10-09
What to do while you’re waiting for results
Startup to Last · 2025-09-25
Website overhaul
Startup to Last · 2025-09-11
We're profitable, now what?
Startup to Last · 2025-08-14
Tiers, add-ons or standalone products?
Startup to Last · 2025-07-31
User communities
Startup to Last · 2025-07-17
SIP trunks
Startup to Last · 2025-07-04
Add-on product
Startup to Last · 2025-06-19
Different types of hiring
Startup to Last · 2024-12-05
Bluesky is back
Startup to Last · 2024-11-21
How we know if a feature is ambitious enough
Startup to Last · 2024-11-07
Leveling up the team
Startup to Last · 2024-04-25
The first step of a flywheel
Startup to Last · 2024-04-11
Sometimes you need to touch the hot stove
Startup to Last · 2024-03-28
When to outsource
Startup to Last · 2024-02-29
Talk to sales
Startup to Last · 2024-02-15
Learnings from a few days of snowboarding
Startup to Last · 2024-02-01
Profit first
Startup to Last · 2024-01-18
Looking back at 2023 and forward to 2024
Startup to Last · 2023-12-29