Biography is a chronological deep dive into the lives of tech founders and builders. No polished origin stories - just raw conversations about obsession, burnout, reinvention, and the slow, uncertain process of building something meaningful. Each episode unpacks the messy truth behind the journey, from broke to breakout. Video episodes on Spotify.
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#001 Daniel Ek: From the Projects to Scaling Spotify to $100 Billion+
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32:58This episode is about Daniel Ek and the lessons I have learned from studying his life and the creation of Spotify. If you want to learn how to apply leverage to your company and life, how to create a product so compelling you turn an entire industry around from losing billions, to new all time highs…. then I think you’ll enjoy this. Follow me on Tw…
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Spotify: The Impossible Success Story
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1:30:50The Spotify Biography is a podcast about the 20 year history, of the unlikely story of how two Swedish founders (Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon) created the most valuable music company in the world, against all odds. Turning Spotify into a $100 Billion Company, and saving the music industry against all odds. This is, the history of Spotify, told in…
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How Nick Sharp Is Disrupting An $80 Billion Market With Attio
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2:26:34In this episode, Wouter Teunissen sits down with Nicolas Sharp to talk about his bold mission to reinvent how companies fundamentally operate. CRMs have been around for years—bloated, slow, and not built for makers. Nick saw the pain firsthand.After working in VC and starting a vertical CRM , he knew the tools meant to drive growth were actually sl…
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How Tyler Denk Grew beehiiv to a $250M Business in 3.5 Years
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1:53:36In this episode, Tyler Denk sits down with Wouter Teunissen to talk about the incredible founder journey he has had starting beehiiv. After graduating college with $120K in student debt, Tyler Denk faced a tough choice: follow the safe path or take a leap of faith. Broke and living in his parents’ basement , he said yes to a freelance opportunity f…
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How Jason Yanowitz Built Blockworks into a $150M Business
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1:22:07Before Blockworks became a $150 million media force, Jason Yanowitz was just a kid flipping baseball cards on eBay - discovering early what it meant to build leverage online. Raised in a countercultural, entrepreneurial family, Jason never saw the traditional nine-to-five as the only path. In 2017, Jason went to an event that'd change his life, as …
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How Ben Wilson Quit His Job and Took Over the Podcasting World
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1:46:50Before launching How to Take Over the World, Ben Wilson struggled with a job that drained him and a question that wouldn’t go away: What does it take to achieve greatness? He nearly failed out of high school, skipped SAT prep to play basketball, and had no grand plan - only a deep desire to stay free, follow his curiosity, and avoid the soul-crushi…
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How Eric Glyman Built Ramp Into a $16 Billion Dollar Company In Only 6 Years
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1:43:44In less than 6 years, Ramp has become many companies go-to tool to help their business run more efficiently. “Time is money. Save both.” is the beautiful Ramp slogan, and that’s a key theme in all of Erics startups. In this episode I sat down with Eric Glyman, CEO and Co-Founder of Ramp, one of the hottest fintechs out there. And I believe, a compa…
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How Andrew Wilkinson Runs a $180M Company Working 4 Hours a Day
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2:34:07The version of Andrew Wilkinson that made his first million wasn’t the same one who could actually enjoy it. Living on the constant desire “to make everything 20% better”, Andrew is a born entrepreneur. But that doesn’t mean he has always had things figured out. At one point, he was running five businesses and was at the end of his rope. Only then …
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Season 1 of Biography goes deep with six founders on the real story behind what they built - not the press release version. From being strategically broke to burning out, reinventing, and finding traction, this trailer previews what’s ahead. Featuring: Andrew Wilkinson, Shaan Puri, Tyler Denk, Ben Wilson, Jason Yanowitz, and Eric Glymann. New episo…
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