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A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of founders - the shows and 55 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Best shows on founders

Best episodes on founders

  1. 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.…

  2. 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.…

  3. 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.…

  4. Ellen Ochoa (NASA) - Leadership Lessons from Space

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-05-20

    61 / 100

  5. 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?…

  6. Breaking Barriers to Parenthood: How Jackie Hanson and Sprout Family Are Transforming Fertility Support at Work

    foHRsight · 2026-01-08

  7. More mountain: Marcus Ryu on finding the joy in hard work

    The SaaS Revolution Show · 2025-05-15

  8. Stressed Out Founders, Building Employee Trust, Customer/Employee Retention - Answering Listener Questions

    Diagnosing The Workplace: Not Just An HR Podcast · 2025-03-26

  9. Pre-seed fundraising, pitching investors & dealing with rejection w/ Aaron Erickson & Brian Guthrie

    Engineering Founders · 2022-04-07

  10. How 12 Founders Are Using AI To Get Ahead

    Shopify Masters · 2026-04-30

  11. Why Your Product Is Scaling Faster Than Your Story Can Handle

    Product Management Tech Brief By HackerNoon · 2025-12-16

  12. Engineering Entrepreneurship with Tech Founder, Samy Bahra, Co-Founder and Former CTO of Backtrace I/O

    3i Member Spotlight · 2024-05-16

  13. The Story of Capital Allocators with Founder & CEO, Ted Seides

    3i Member Spotlight · 2024-02-01

  14. Lessons from Forbes #1 Angel Investor Fabrice Grinda

    3i Member Spotlight · 2024-01-11

  15. 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

  16. The Network Effect with Mark Gerson, Founder of GLG & Co-Founder of 3i Members

    3i Member Spotlight · 2023-12-21

  17. The Founding Story of 3i Members with Teddy Gold, Co-Founder & CEO of 3i Members

    3i Member Spotlight · 2023-12-14

  18. Tracy Chou (Block Party) - Founding a Mission-Driven Startup

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-05-06

  19. Harry Tannenbaum (Mill) - Setting the Goal at Delight

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-04-29

  20. Kit Rodgers, Ben Jun, and Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) - Complementary Co-Founders in Cryptography

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-04-22

  21. Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-04-15

  22. Sergey Brin (Google & Alphabet) - Google Origins and AI Futures

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-12-12

  23. Eric Volmar (Stanford University) - A New Entrepreneurship Playbook

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-11-24

  24. Steve Cousins (Stanford University) - Real-World Robotics

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-11-19

  25. Jane Chen (Embrace Global) - Doing the Inner Work

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-11-12

  26. Sanjit Biswas (Samsara) - Making a Real-World Impact

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-11-05

  27. Drew Endy (Stanford University) - A Synthetic Biology Dream

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-10-29

  28. Grant Lee (Gamma) - Finding Early-Stage Energy

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-10-22

  29. Tina Seelig (Stanford University) - Catching the Winds of Luck

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-10-15

  30. Stanley Tang (DoorDash) - Scaling the Unscalable

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-05-14

  31. Debbie Sterling (GoldieBlox) - Disrupting the Pink Aisle [ETL Looks Back]

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2025-02-06

  32. Returning With Real-World Wisdom [ETL Looks Back]

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-11-27

  33. Clara Shih - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship [ETL Looks Back]

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-11-20

  34. Maria Barrera (Clayful) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs [ETL Looks Back]

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-11-13

  35. Gabriel Parisi-Amon (Nebia Shower) - A Burnout Manifesto [ETL Looks Back]

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-11-08

  36. Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs [ETL Looks Back]

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-10-30

  37. Alexandra Zatarain (Eight Sleep) - Getting to Product-Market Fit

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-06-05

  38. Maria Barrera (Clayful) - Mental Health Tech, Mentally Healthy Startups

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-05-29

  39. David Allemann (On) - Exploration in Sports Technology

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-05-22

  40. Margo Georgiadis (Flagship Pioneering and Montai Health) - Deep Tech Innovation

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-05-08

  41. Sam Altman (OpenAI) - The Possibilities of AI

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-05-01

  42. Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) - Radically Pragmatic Insights

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-04-24

  43. Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) - Designing From Values

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-04-17

  44. Clara Shih (Salesforce AI) - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-03-06

  45. Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-02-28

  46. Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-02-23

  47. Ernestine Fu (Brave Capital) - Taking Action for Startup Success

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-02-14

  48. Bonus: ETL’s Emily Ma on Move Fast and Fix the Planet

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-02-07

  49. Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford) - Smart Leaders Understand Friction [EXPLICIT]

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-01-31

  50. Adrian Rodriguez (Dreamlinks) - A Visually Impaired Founder’s Journey

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2024-01-24

  51. Sarah Lamaison (Dioxycle) - Climate Tech Insights

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2023-11-22

  52. Michelle Lee (Medra) - From Conviction to Company

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2023-11-15

  53. Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2023-11-08

  54. Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford) - Strategy for New Companies

    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2023-11-01

  55. From Finance Leader to Founder: How Profitual is Democratizing Financial Intelligence for Startups

    What The Tech? · 2025-11-18