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Supercool

Supercool

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Climate companies are winning. Trillions in capital are shifting to solutions that cut carbon, grow profits, and redefine modern life. At the center are CEOs, founders, and operators turning climate innovation into market momentum. Hosted by climate-tech founder and author Josh Dorfman, Supercool goes inside their strategies, execution, and business models to reveal how value is created in the race to decarbonize—and how the future is being built.
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Grown Up Product is the podcast for founders, CEOs, and investors navigating the mess that follows product-market fit. Hosted by Rooted In Product founder and Fractional Chief Product Officer Brian Root, the show dispenses with the platitudes about scaling and gets to the substance: how to build product organizations that don't just survive the short-term, but thrive in the long-term. You won’t hear process theater or recycled frameworks. You’ll get the logic behind the methods: the mistakes ...
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Two Adrians walk into a startup...

Adrian Spataru, Adrian Ispas

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Two entrepreneurs named Adrian with completely different approaches to building companies. One bootstrapped his way to success, the other raised venture capital and navigated the high-growth startup world. Each episode, they share raw, unfiltered conversations about the realities of entrepreneurship from opposite sides of the funding divide. Get insights you won't find anywhere else about what it really takes to build a business.
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FiredUp! is the show for marketers working in early and late-stage startups. Each week, we walk through fresh strategies and tactics to build brand and drive demand for your startup. Featuring interviews with marketing leaders, our take on the latest trends, and practical tips about PR, content marketing and growth marketing, we promise plenty of signal with some noisy fun along the way. FiredUp! is hosted by the team at startup marketing agency, Firebrand. Learn more at firebrand.marketing ...
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I'm a 20+ year veteran in the wine and spirits industry who loves innovation. I'm interviewing those who are creating it from agriculture to glass. We will deep dive into their journey and provide insights to help yours. We will discuss their major industry pain points and outlook for the future. If my guest has an item to drink or eat we will try it throughout the podcast. Come on the journey with us! Now On YouTube!! https://www.youtube.com/@ThirstyThursdaysat3PMEST
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The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show is where visionary founders and smart investors learn how to build wealth with purpose. Hosted by Karen Rands; trusted advisor, finance consultant, author, investor, and digital educator. Episodes features guests: angel investors, VCs, crowdfund and industry pros; with expert insights to share. For nearly a decade, Karen has been providing rich content to her listeners to inspire them to create generation wealth by either being the founder that exits rich, ...
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Startup Survival Podcast

Peter Harrington

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Created and written for people involved in any stage of business start-up, management or growth, the Startup Survival Podcast provides storified expert insight, research-backed theory and practical advice. Presented by Peter Harrington, a serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of business start-up and growth experience, this engaging and fact-filled production drives thinking, imagination and action. This podcast is sponsored by SimVenture - Digital Learning Solutions Bringing Business Learning ...
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This is Product Marketing

Product Marketing Hive

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This is Product Marketing is brought to you by Product Marketing Hive, the product marketing community that gives back. We are a global community with an intellectual center of gravity in Silicon Valley. This podcast dives deep into the world of product marketing, product management, and technology marketing. We will be interviewing thought leaders, marketing and product legends. Join PMM Hive to meet fellow PMMs.All rights reserved. © Product Marketing Hive.
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Chocolate Pill serves up unfiltered marketing wisdom from pros with 25+ years in the trenches—mixing foundational truths with the latest trends, tools, and tactics for CMOs, founders, and scaling teams. No noise, just the real deal (with a side of sarcasm). Hosted by Erin Geiger, Chris Frank, and Sandi Green, the show cuts through jargon to deliver clear, actionable marketing strategies that work at every stage of business growth. From startup scrappiness to enterprise scaling, you’ll hear h ...
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Startup Sandwich Podcast | Entrepreneurship in Bite Sized Lessons

YEDI (York Entrepreneurship Development Institute)

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Welcome to the Startup Sandwich Podcast, powered by YEDI (York Entrepreneurship Development Institute) where the layers of innovation meets success. Startup Sandwich is a podcast for entrepreneurs and innovators who are hungry for real stories and practical insights from startups and growing businesses. In each episode, we dive into the journey of a founder covering early-stage struggles, business growth strategies, product development, funding, and the messy realities of entrepreneurship. H ...
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Welcome to Startup Chats with Ben Parry. We dive deep into the different phases of launching a startup, beginning with pre-launch marketing, planning and growth strategies. As the founder of Hubinto, an early-stage startup planing its own pre-launch marketing campaigns, Ben chats with entrepreneurs who have been there and done it! He shares their stories, successes and failures with you. Check it out...
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Coursebirdie Radio

Abhilasha Chauhan

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Coursebirdie's audio podcast where industry experts share their experiences and wisdom. Hosted by Abhilasha Chauhan, co-founder of Coursebirdie, the podcast covers topics ranging from early stage fundraising and startup building, to startup hiring, UX design and startup growth.
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How many times have you been told “that will never work”? Probably not as often as Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph. The veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor, investor, speaker and best-selling author has founded or co-founded half-a-dozen successful startups and mentored scores of entrepreneurs from first time business owners to established CEOs. Be a fly on the boardroom wall as Marc's podcast opens up the opportunity to entrepreneurs everywhere to gain the benefit of his years of ...
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The CFO Edge

The CFO Edge

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🚀 Welcome to The CFO Edge, the podcast for founders and business owners who want to master their finances and scale with confidence! Hosted by Carol Baghdadi, a seasoned CPA and fractional CFO, we break down complex financial concepts into actionable strategies you can use right away. Learn how to optimize cash flow, raise capital, and make smarter financial decisions, without the overwhelm. 🎧 Subscribe now to gain the financial clarity you need to grow and sustain a thriving business. Let’s ...
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Founder Thesis

ThePodium.in

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Dickens said, it was the best of the times, it was the worst of the times. The words have never been truer. Best because there’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. Worst because the clutter is mind-numbing. Founder Thesis breaks through the noise to bring you stories of success & failure, grit & struggle, bouquets & brickbats from some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs in India.
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Join us for honest, informal conversations with startup and agency founders who are deep in the trenches, actively growing their businesses. Instead of glorified success stories, we share authentic experiences about the ongoing battles, everyday wins, and relatable struggles. Perfect for entrepreneurs navigating the challenging middle stage of growth, this podcast offers real insights and genuine advice from peers who are right there with you.
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Running a Shopify store? You already know success isn't about finding the right app—it's about knowing which strategies actually work at your specific stage of growth. I'm Steve Hutt, and I've lived every level of the ecommerce journey. From eBay Power Seller shipping products from my garage, to co-founding and scaling VisionPros.com (an optical DTC startup) through to a successful exit, then spending 6+ years as a Shopify Merchant Success Manager helping 100+ brands from startup to enterpri ...
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Explore the journeys of today’s most inspiring tech founders on The Engine – Founders Stories, hosted by Donna Owen, founder and fractional GTM leader at The Engine. Discover how visionary entrepreneurs overcame the “founder-led sales” trap to build predictable, scalable revenue engines - and learn how you can do the same for your business. Join Donna as she sits down with C-suite executives, startup pioneers and growth architects behind groundbreaking SaaS and fintech ventures. Each episode ...
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Free Zone Frontier

Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach And Steve Krein of StartUp Health

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What is a Free Zone Frontier? You enter into a Free Zone when you increasingly create unique collaborative possibilities and payoffs that are amazingly free of competition. Join Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach and Steve Krein of StartUp Health as they launch the Free Zone Frontier podcast. Learn the concepts as they relate to their own companies, and how this transformative mindset is the future of entrepreneurial growth.
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Welcome to Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast—the podcast for early-stage founders and startup leaders who know that great companies aren’t lucky… they’re built through smart execution and a bulletproof go-to-market strategy. Hosted by Sage Nye, Managing Partner at Venture Guides, each episode dives into candid conversations with technical founders, investors, and GTM experts. You’ll get real talk, proven playbooks, and no-fluff advice on how to land your first customers, build ...
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Driving Alpha

Alpha Partners

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This is the Driving Alpha, where we feature our friends, the out-performing investors, who demonstrate their path to driving alpha, or out-sized investment returns. We're Alpha Partners, where we partner with a thousand early-stage venture firms as their opportunity capital to invest in their best companies.
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The CEO AI Podcast by Gary Ambrosino is the go-to audio destination for CEOs, founders, board members, and C-level executives navigating the transformative power of artificial intelligence in fast-growth businesses. Each episode is a strategic, no-fluff conversation designed specifically for decision-makers who need to understand and implement AI right now—not in theory, but in practice. Whether you’re an executive at a scaling SaaS startup, a PE-backed portfolio company, or a growth-stage e ...
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CLOUDBREAK

Trilogy Equity Partners

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Welcome to Cloudbreak, where breakthrough innovation meets breakthrough growth. In this podcast hosted by early stage VC firm Trilogy Equity Partners, we sit down with the brilliant minds and leaders building early stage startups to discuss the pivotal stories, insights, and hard-won lessons they've learned from the driver's seat of breaking innovation, company building, and scaling. They'll share what's working, what isn't, and what they'd wish they'd known earlier.
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Product Market Fit

Mosheh Poltorak | grwth.co

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Startup stories & growth tactics with a healthy dose of AI. Product-market fit is a podcast for early-stage founders and operators who are looking to level-up their startup's growth. Join me as I explore the journeys and strategies of successful startup founders, and uncover practical takeaways to help your startup. We'll cover customer acquisition, SEO, product-led growth, funnel optimization, content strategy, branding, hiring, fundraising, sales ops, etc.; and we'll dive into fascinating ...
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Welcome to The Business of Making It Podcast. This podcast focuses on the ones who are still in it—building, growing, struggling, learning, and adapting in real time within their life and business. Each week, I sit down with founders, creators, and entrepreneurs who are in the trenches, those who are building their businesses and brands while simultaneously navigating their own personal growth. If you’re building a brand, business, or life that actually aligns with who you are - and you want ...
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show note ...
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The podcast for sales and marketing teams that tackles the question: How can Cybr Donut grow ARR to $10m by the end of 2025? We talk with cybersecurity CROs, CMOs, CEOs, as well as sales and marketing experts in our movement to Save Cybr Donut. Listen in, and you will get proven strategies to - help you get more leads - win more customers, and, - create your killer go-to-market growth engine. If you are a seller, marketer, leader, CEO, or founder at a cybersecurity company, you are in the ri ...
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The Startup CEO Show hosted by coach and advisor Mark MacLeod, brings you veteran CEOs each week who have collectively had had billion dollar valuations, 9 figure exits, and millions in revenue each week. Subscribe to join the leading podcast produced exclusively for the CEOs of high-growth startups and the VCs who back them. This podcast offers concise, yet deep dives into specific themes within each episode, focusing on providing actionable insights for busy leaders. The format includes in ...
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B2B Revenue Leadership - CEO, CRO, CMO, VC, Sales and Marketing Startup SaaS

Sales Leadership Marketing Startup SaaS expert - Brian Burns

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If you're interested in B2B Revenue Leadership this is the show for you. From the founder of The Brutal Truth about Sales & Selling and The Sales Questions PodCast. This PodCast is Focused on Leadership in the B2B Space to drive revenue by using the most modern and scientific approaches. If you are a CEO, VC, CRO, CMO or want to be one some day this PodCast is for you. If you like Tim Ferriss, Bill Burr, Dave Ramsey, Serial, Reply All, The Art of Charm, HBR, WTF, Startup, Motley Fool, Money, ...
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Startup Scout

Nick Hynes

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Startup Scout is the best place to discover great early-stage startups - before everyone else! Hosted by Nick Hynes, enjoy interviews with incredible founders about their exciting businesses and innovative products. Startup Scout is perfect for you if you’re a business and tech fan keeping on top of the latest trends, an early-adopter looking to try out the newest products on the market, an investor seeking to increase dealflow, a business owner searching for partnerships, or an operator loo ...
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Bowery Capital is an early stage venture capital fund that focuses solely on helping portfolio companies with sales related challenges. This podcast is a discussion between the Bowery Capital team and experienced industry friends in an effort to help a younger generation of startups better understand the issues and pain points they will face when thinking about early revenue generation.
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The Early Stage Podcast

John Valentine

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The Early Stage Podcast is devoted to interviewing top entrepreneurs at the Seed and Series A stages of their startups. This project is a deep dive into the initial challenges and breakthroughs driven innovators endure as they build their MVP, launch, raise funding, grow their teams, and find product-market fit. Early Stage is hosted by John Valentine, Manager of Technology Identification and Communications at Thales, a worldwide leader in aerospace, space, defense, transportation, and secur ...
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The CXChronicles Podcast

Adrian Brady-Cesana

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🎧Tune into our top rated Customer Focused Business Podcast for Founders, Executives, Business Owners & leaders on your favorite podcast player including; Apple, Spotify & Amazon! The reality is most companies struggle with their team management & SaaS utilization rates, averaging 30% & require continued optimization, on-demand support & employee training. Globally companies collectively lose $3.7 trillion per year due to poor customer experiences & insufficient revenue ops & customer intelli ...
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It's not all rapid growth, million dollar investors and global success. Hear the stories of every day tech startup founders, how they got started, the mistakes they made and learnt from, and the bits they got right. Learn what it takes to be a founder and how to last the distance. We are Custom D, web and mobile app developers, and in this series we interview our clients to see what it takes to get an idea from startup through to early stage company.
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Consumer VC takes a look into early-stage consumer investing and venture capital. If you are interested in learning about consumer trends, have a b2c business and interested in learning about the fundraising process at the early stage, you have come to the right place. Mike interviews some of the top venture capitalists in the world that focus on B2C and consumer type companies or have a deep track record investing in these categories such as marketplaces, SaaS, social, CPG and non-tech subs ...
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Funky Flywheels Show – Your Ultimate Podcast for Scaling B2B Startups

Björn W. Schäfer | Entrepreneur, Business Angel & Book Author

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Scaling a B2B startup from 1 million to 10 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) can be very similar to managing a band of rock stars. When Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Product teams work together seamlessly, accelerating growth becomes effortless. However, if they are out of sync, you will inevitably encounter significant challenges—sooner or later, it's guaranteed. Join us on the Funky Flywheels Show, where Björn W. Schäfer, one of Europe’s foremost Go-to-Market (GTM) expert ...
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Business Veda

Malay Damania

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A business weekly to share management tips and growth hacks for startup founders on how they can be more effective and efficient in the day to day life as an entrepreneur. The host Malay Damania, Business Transformation Coach and Mentor, Author of the book Business Champ shares the strategies with which he built a successful accountancy firm, DNV & co. with 75+ employees helping multiple MSMEs and corporate giants increase their profitability and skyrocket their growth. Malay squeezes out fr ...
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Welcome to 'Digital Transformation & AI for Humans' with Emi. In this podcast, we delve into how technology intersects with leadership, innovation, and most importantly, the human spirit. Each episode features visionary leaders from different countries who understand that at the heart of success is the human touch - nurturing a winning mindset, fostering emotional intelligence, soft skills, and building resilient teams. Subscribe and stay tuned for more episodes. Visit https://digitaltransfo ...
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Inovo Podcast

Tomasz Swieboda

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This podcast is aimed to help CEE founders in building global tech companies. INOVO VENTURE PARTNERS is a first-choice VC for ambitious founders from Poland and the CEE region. We back early-stage, post-traction startups with up to €3M of initial investment, and help them build global brands, while driving growth of the local startup ecosystem. We take great pride in being close to top founders who think big. We’re investors in: Booksy, Restaumatic, Sotrender, Infermedica, Spacelift, Tidio, ...
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We talk about startup life, the good, the bad, the insight, the experiences, the mistakes, the failures and everything between. The focus is on practical tips and tools to help you build your company from an idea stage, bootstrapping to investor funded growth companies. We share everyday decision-making knowledge, situation and views so that you as a founder or CEO can avoid some of the mistakes and hardship along the way. You can find more information at www.purposenclarity.com.
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Wamda

Wamda

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Wamda accelerates entrepreneurship ecosystems throughout MENA by joining Wamda Capital, the most active, multi-stage, sector agnostic VC fund investing in high growth technology or tech-enabled startups across the MENA, and the leading knowledge platform offering integrated programs including thought leadership and research, community development, Wamda’s fellowship program Wamda X, as well as corporate and government advisory services to the various stakeholders of the MENA startup ecosystem.
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In high-growth investing, knowing where to place your bets is everything. Fast Growth: The Venture Studio Way is for investors—high-net-worth individuals, angels, and seasoned professionals—and founders who are ready to scale, bringing them the exact tools and insights they need to build and back ventures with serious potential. Each episode delivers sharp, actionable insights into what truly drives value in today’s funding landscape, from tax-efficient SEIS/EIS schemes and venture studio mo ...
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EVs for commercial fleets are increasingly attractive. Battery costs are down, range is up, and in many cases the total cost of ownership already beats gas. The problem isn’t the vehicles. It’s where they’ll charge. Voltera takes on the part of the EV transition most people never see: procuring the right real estate, securing stadium-scale power ca…
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Most e-commerce teams are drowning in manual work that AI should be handling—but there's a massive gap between AI hype and AI that actually works. In this episode, discover: How autonomous agents differ from chatbots and query tools—no more babysitting or constant prompting required for repetitive tasks The exact process one D2C fitness brand used …
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Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #273, we welcomed Varun Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO of Enterpret based in New York, NY. Enterpret provides custom AI to transform how you understand customers – from feedback chaos into clear, confident action. Harness superintelligence that feels like intuition, so your product and CX …
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Glimpse is the all-in-one, AI-powered deductions management platform for CPG brands—automating deduction capture, classification, disputes, and accounting. Recover more revenue while saving time – ⁠https://www.tryglimpse.com⁠Ice cream is supposed to make you feel good — but most of what’s in the freezer aisle doesn’t.In this episode, Mike chats wit…
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What if your first security hire wasn’t a person, but a simple, guided program that made sense to everyone in your company? In this conversation, Sidekick founder and CEO Phil Howie breaks down how SMBs can build a security and privacy practice from the ground up—long before they can afford a full internal team. We cover the reality of compliance v…
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Send me a text (I will personally respond) Are you tired of sales negotiations feeling like a hostile game of poker against procurement pros who seem to hold all the cards? Wondering if there’s a way to maintain your deal’s value without relying on outdated, adversarial tactics? Struggling with year-end deals where buyers expect last-minute discoun…
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#308 Sales Alignment | In this session from Drive 2025 titled “Building Pipeline in the Shiny Object Era”, Jen Allen Knuth unpacks why deals stall even when your product is objectively better, how the explosion of shiny tools and AI noise is making it worse, and why most teams are unintentionally fueling the problem with me-centric messaging. Jen s…
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Join a community of ambitious CEOs who are looking to build market-leading companies without sacrificing health and happiness. Check out: https://limitless.ceo What if the “boring” SaaS backup tool you rarely think about is actually a rocketship, and the CEO behind it refuses to sacrifice his marriage or his health to build it? In this episode, I s…
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Jonathan Siddharth is Founder and CEO of Turing, one of the fastest-growing AI companies advancing frontier models. Jonathan has led the company to an astonishing $350M ARR with just $225M raised and a profitable company. A Stanford-trained AI scientist, Jonathan previously helped pioneer natural language search at Powerset, which was acquired by M…
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When China banned gallium exports, it didn't hurt AGNIT Semiconductors, it made them essential. Hareesh Chandrasekar reveals how geopolitical supply chain wars created a $13 million opportunity and why India's first GaN chip company is competing with billion-dollar rivals on just $5 million. In this episode, Hareesh Chandrasekar, Co-Founder and CEO…
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Erst letzte Woche saß ich mit einem Gründer zusammen. Sein Startup? 1,2 Millionen ARR. Awards gewonnen. Erfolgreich Geld eingesammelt. Von außen: ein Erfolg. Aber dann schaue ich genauer hin: Das Team kämpft. Jeder Kunde ist ein Einzelkampf. Die Churn-Rate? Will er mir gar nicht sagen. Und auf die Frage "Wird es einfacher?" – Schweigen. Der Gründer…
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My Ready Already guest today is Allister Frost from the United Kingdom. Together, we’ll explore The Future-Ready Mindset for Success and take a deeper look at The Antidote to Change Fatigue in the Age of AI. Allister Frost is a world-leading business transformation and growth thought leader and speaker. He has given impactful motivational talks in …
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John McMahon is widely regarded as one of the greatest enterprise-software sales leaders of all time. He's the only person to have served as Chief Revenue Officer at five public software companies: PTC, GeoTel, Ariba, BladeLogic and BMC Software. He helped scale BladeLogic from a startup into a public company — ultimately leading to its ~$880M sale…
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In this episode, Cliff Hawkins, Senior Director of Revenue Operations at Level AI, shares how he’s reimagining RevOps by blending community, experimentation, and automation. Cliff walks through how his team built custom AI workflows to summarise every customer interaction, cutting manual effort while boosting visibility for sales and success teams.…
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AGENDA: 04:06 Anthropic's $30BN Investment from Microsoft and NVIDIA 07:01 Google vs. OpenAI: Sam Altman's "War Mode" Memo 15:27 NVIDIA's Customer Concentration: Bull or Bear 22:12 Is "War Mode" BS: Does Hyper-Aggressive Ever Work? 36:12 Sierra Hits $100M ARR: Justify $10BN Price? 46:14 Implementation is the Biggest Barrier to Enterprise AI Growth …
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#307 Building Community | In this episode Dave joined Ali Orlando Wert (Director of Content Marketing & Brand at Databox) on their podcast called Move the Needle. She did an interview with Dave focused on community building. They cover how Exit Five grew 80 percent by operating more like a startup than a Slack group. Dave gets into the truth of bui…
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Is your content strategy for 2026 ready to go? Or have you created your strategy without looking at updated information? Many content marketers are still prioritizing quantity over true audience value, and the rapid evolution of AI tools is demanding a major pivot. On this episode of FiredUp!, we dive into the core findings of the Content Marketing…
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Scott Ward, host of the HabitStack Podcast, interviews Brian Swan, co-founder with his wife Rhonda of the Unstoppable Branding Agency. Brian shares his unconventional journey from robotics engineer selling actuators to SpaceX to becoming a branding and PR expert. After his wife Rhonda left pharmaceutical sales to pursue affiliate marketing and gene…
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In this episode, Prashant Sridharan, Head of Product Marketing at Supabase, joins Louise Liu to share insights on building trust and winning with developer marketing—from feature‑first messaging and PLG strategies to aligning product, DevRel, and marketing for go‑to‑market success. Prashant also discusses why transparency beats hype and how AI is r…
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Something big is happening inside buildings. They’re getting brains. Schneider Electric is a global giant in energy and building performance—nearly two centuries old, operating across 100+ countries, and already embedded in a million buildings. Manish Kumar, EVP of Digital Energy, joins me to unpack what it means when AI starts running the places w…
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Welcome to The Engine - Founders' Stories Podcast. Host Donna Owen is joined by George Lineker, Co-Founder of YourBusinessNumber. This company provides a second phone number and eSIM to help freelancers and small businesses separate their work and personal lives. George shares his journey from a previous failed app to building a lean, bootstrapped …
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You're paying affiliate commissions on customers who were already buying from you—Josh Kennedy calls this the "$20 billion mistake." In this episode, discover: Why 2/3 of affiliate partnerships drain profit instead of driving growth—loyalty platforms and coupon sites intercept checkout without creating value The search-first framework that generate…
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Send me a text (I will personally respond) Are you struggling to scale your cybersecurity sales team without ramping up headcount or getting drowned in technical complexity? Wondering if AI can really move the needle for high-value, complex sales cycles? Curious how leading founders are reimagining go-to-market operations to win in today’s fast-pac…
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In venture capital, power isn't just about capital, it's about who gets to decide where it flows. Paige Hendrix Buckner, CEO of All Raise, is redefining who sits at the decision-making table. With a background spanning public policy, education, and founder support, she's leading a movement to shift both the culture and the calculus of VC, proving t…
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Scott Ward, host of the HabitStack Podcast, interviews Brett Farmiloe, founder of Featured.com, a platform connecting journalists with vetted experts. Brett also recently acquired and revived HARO, an email newsletter serving the same purpose. They discuss the best practices for expert contributions: be helpful, authentic, relevant, and on time. Ti…
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#306 Executive Insights | This episode was recorded live at our annual event, Drive 2025. I hosted Sylvia LePoidevin (CMO, Kandji), Trinity Nguyen (CMO, UserGems), and Natalie Taylor (Head of Marketing, Capsule) for a leadership panel breaking down what’s working in B2B marketing. They get into events that reliably create pipeline, outbound that st…
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Maor Shlomo is the Founder and CEO of Base44, the AI building platform that Maor built from idea to $80M acquisition by Wix, in just 8 months. Today the company serves millions of users and will hit $50M ARR by the end of the year. Before Base44, Maor was the Co-Founder and CTO of Explorium. AGENDA: 00:05 – 00:10: How Vibe Coding is Going to Kill S…
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9,2 Millionen Euro. Series A. Im September 2025. Angeführt von CommerzVentures, mit Participation von Capnamic, EnBW New Ventures, xdeck und WEPA Ventures. In einem der härtesten Finanzierungsumfelder der letzten Jahre hat Lukas Vogt, Co-Founder und CEO von Sunhat, seine Series A erfolgreich geschlossen. Anfang 2025 durfte ich mit Lukas und seinem …
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Send us a text Discover the 7‑hat framework for entrepreneurs from Yuval Selik on mindset 🧠, health 💪, relationships ❤️, business 💼, investing 📈, giving back 🌍 & purpose ✨. Transform your life + venture! ⁨@ThirstyThursdaysat3PMEST⁩ In this episode of Thirsty Thursdays, Yuval Selik breaks down the 7 Hats every founder must wear for real success: • H…
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Max Altman is Co‑Founder & Managing Partner at Saga Ventures, a US$125 M early‑stage fund. Before Saga Max was an investor with Apollo Projects, Hydrazine Capital and Altman Capital (where he helped deploy over US$500 M) into breakout names such as Rippling and Reddit. AGENDA: 03:55 – Venture Capital Is FULL of Tourists With Single-Digit IQs 06:20 …
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What happens when a RevOps leader takes the leap into running a seed-stage startup? In this episode, Kyle Himmelwright, VP of Strategy and Operations at Luster, joins Jeff Ignacio to talk about building from scratch, from defining focus in a massive TAM to using AI for top-of-funnel efficiency. They unpack what “predictive enablement” really means,…
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Welcome to Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast, the podcast for early-stage founders and startup leaders who know that great companies aren’t lucky… they’re built through smart execution and a bulletproof go-to-market strategy. On this episode, host Sage Nye sits down with Miguel Navarro, Head of Applied Emerging Technologies at KeyBan…
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#305 Influencer Marketing | This episode is a live session from Drive 2025 with Brianna Doe, where she breaks down why influence is now shaping every step of the buying journey, how smart B2B brands are borrowing plays from B2C, and what it really takes to build a creator program that doesn’t flame out on day one. She gets into the messy reality of…
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In this episode, we unpack the $4M-$10M funding gap that's stranded hundreds of Indian startups, why Anand raised $45M during COVID when everyone else froze, and the brutal truth about unicorn valuations in India's tech ecosystem. Anand Prasanna is the Managing Partner of Iron Pillar, a $400M+ venture growth fund that's cracked the code on taking I…
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AGENDA: 04:47 Cursor Raises $2.3BN at $29BN Valuation 11:36 What Gemini 3 Means for Lovable, Cursor and Replit 30:54 Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA: The Bubble Bursting? 48:54 Oracle Credit Default Swaps: The Risk is Increasing 01:07:22 Stripe Does Tender at All-Time High: Why the Best Companies Will Never IPO 01:19:18 Why Retail WIll Cause a…
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In today's hyper-competitive startup landscape, how far is too far to achieve rapid brand awareness? Many founders are embracing controversial, 'rage-bait' tactics or viral marketing stunts to break through the noise of content clutter. The pain point is clear: in highly competitive, "winner-takes-all" markets, the risk of anonymity often feels gre…
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Glimpse is the all-in-one, AI-powered deductions management platform for CPG brands—automating deduction capture, classification, disputes, and accounting. Recover more revenue while saving time – ⁠https://www.tryglimpse.com Retail is tough—but the hidden costs make it brutal. In this episode, Mike chats with Akash Raju, Co-Founder and CEO of Glimp…
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Scott Ward, host of the HabitStack Podcast, interviews Randy Herbertson, president of The Visual Brand (TVB), a branding studio based in Westport, Connecticut. Randy shares his journey from building his first agency to 40 people in New York City, selling it to a media company (which he warns against), and leaving after six miserable months when the…
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There are trillions of dollars of clean energy projects ready to be built—and trillions more in capital waiting to fund them. But the system connecting the two is too slow, fragmented, and expensive. That gap is what Alfred Johnson set out to close. A former Treasury official who helped steer markets through the 2008 financial crisis and later serv…
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The customer acquisition playbook that built your business three years ago is actively bleeding money today. In this episode, discover: Why single-channel strategies are crushing margins as CPMs creep up year over year—and the integrated SEO + paid media approach that's reducing customer acquisition costs by treating channels as complementary syste…
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Hey CX Nation, In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #272, we welcomed Matt Rubright, Chief Customer Officer at Jam.dev based in Seattle, WA. Jam powers the complete software development lifecycle, with AI that eliminates 84% of bug reproduction tasks, so your engineers can ship clean code faster. Jam AI adds the relevant logs and step…
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Most companies still test security long after code is shipped. That delay creates blind spots. In this episode, Rejah Rehim, Co-Founder & CEO of Beagle Security, explains how automated penetration testing gives teams a clearer picture of their real exposure—while keeping the process simple enough for developers to run themselves. Rejah: https://www…
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Scott Ward, host of the HabitStack Podcast, interviews Chris Rodriguez, CEO of iExcel, a digital marketing agency based in the greater DC/Virginia area. Chris shares his unconventional journey from earning a music degree at the University of Virginia and spending 10 years in the music industry to becoming a "30-year-old rookie in tech." They discus…
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Send me a text (I will personally respond) Are you grappling with when, and who, to hire as your first sales leader in your cybersecurity startup? Wondering why sales leadership churn is so high, or if founders should keep selling longer? If you’ve debated hiring account executives versus a VP of Sales, and wrestled with investor pressure on scalin…
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Cash flow isn’t confusing; it’s just been explained terribly. In this episode, I break down the simple, repeatable formula I use with founders to help them predict, plan, and finally feel in control of their numbers. No spreadsheets. No overwhelm. No guessing. You’ll learn: The 3 numbers that instantly reveal the truth about your financial health W…
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Embracing Fear in Business: Lessons from Founders on Personal and Professional Growth In this episode, the two Adrians - one a VC-backed founder, the other a bootstrap founder - approach the topic of fear shaping their life as an entrepreneur. From childhood heights that led to daring parkour moves, to the anxieties of account keeping and the loomi…
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Episode Summary In this episode of Grown Up Product, host Brian welcomes Chris Kincanon, fractional CTO and co-founder of Ready Steady. With a career spanning from Accenture to startups to major corporations like Kohl's and Unity, Chris shares battle-tested insights on building scalable engineering organizations without burning out teams. Key Topic…
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Welcome to The Engine Founders' Stories Podcast. Host Donna Owen sits down with Chris Silvestri, a Conversion Copywriter and Founder of Conversion Alchemy, a company helping B2B SaaS businesses grow through customer-focused messaging. Chris shares how he moved from industrial automation in Italy to building a lean and profitable business in the UK.…
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