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The Peel with Turner Novak

Exploring the world’s greatest startup stories. Get a behind the scenes look into the founding stories of your favorite companies. Learn how the industries they operate in actually work, and learn playbooks and tactics you can use to launch and scale your own business.

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01:23:57

Garry Tan on the Past, Present, and Future of YC

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2026/02/19

Gary Tan is the President and CEO of Y Combinator.YC is the startup accelerator behind companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Reddit, Twitch, and thousands more. According to Garry, they’ve invested in 20% of all startups worth $5B or more started since 2012.Gary has lived every side of the YC ecosystem. He went through YC as a founder, later became a partner, started Initialized Capital where he backed companies like Coinbase and Instacart, and then returned to lead YC.We walk through the

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01:34:32

Building the Wearable That Gets You Stronger |...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2026/02/13

Miranda Nover is the Co-founder and CEO of Fort Health. Fort builds wearables that automatically track strength training for people who care about longevity.This is a new format I’m experimenting with. It’s the first time I’ve had a Banana portfolio company founder on the show while they’re still at the pre-seed stage. When I surveyed my subscribers a few weeks ago, you were most interested in more early stage VC-backed founders, and I’d love your feedback on what you think of this.Miranda is still

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02:08:32

How Duo Security went Zero to $1B ARR in Ann Arbor |...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2026/02/05

Dug Song and Jon Oberheide are the co-founders of Duo Security.If you’ve never heard of Duo, it might be one of the most underrated software stories of all-time.Starting in 2010, they burned only $14 million to hit $100m in ARR, were acquired by Cisco for $2.35 billion in 2018, and now rumored to be doing over $1 billion in ARR inside Cisco 16 years later.We talk about how they built one of the most capital efficient SaaS companies ever from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and how their focus on the customer

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01:26:55

Building Real-Time Data Streaming for AI | Jacqueline...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2026/01/28

Jacqueline Cheong is the Co-founder and CEO of Artie.Artie moves data across your systems in real-time, and we talk about why that’s so important in the age of AI.It’s a lot harder than you’d think, as less than 5% of real-time data streaming projects are successful.I talked to a dozen people to prepare for this conversation, including Jared Friedman who worked with Jacqueline during YC, her sales coach Ras, and numerous Artie employees like A-nee-rud, Ryan, Sarah, Shangbing and Jacqueline’s

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02:23:22

The State of AI: Rise of Reasoning, Surge in Chinese...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2026/01/22

Nathan Benaich is the founder of Air Street Capital and author of the State of AI report. On its eighth year, the report is a year-long effort on the biggest things happening in AI, across research, industry, politics, and safety.This episode covers the biggest takeaways from the latest report, like the rise in reasoning, the surge in China’s open source models, where AI is working in practice, the rise of sovereign AI, where he thinks value will actually accrue over the long-term, if we’re in an AI

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01:52:16

Building the $3B API That Didn’t Exist, Europe’s...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2026/01/15

Marcelo Lebre is the Co-founder and President of Remote, the payroll and international employment company.Remote is one of today's most underrated software companies. We get into why payroll is such a hard problem, why most of the industry still runs on spreadsheets, the edge cases of software meeting government, and a diagnosis of Europe’s regulation problem.We also talk through the journey trying 8 different startup ideas before Remote, how COVID changed the business overnight, and what he’s

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01:27:54

Kevin Hartz | Backing Teen Founders, Lessons from the...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2026/01/08

Kevin Hartz, Co-founder of A*, Eventbrite, Xoom, and Sauron.Kevin has been building and investing in technology companies for 30 years, and we talk about how the industry’s evolved, why he calls AI the Mother of All Bubbles, why we’re still early, and lessons today’s breakout AI companies can learn from those that survived the Dot Com Crash.Kevin is a big proponent of backing young founders. A significant percentage of his latest fund at A* is invested in teenagers, and he shares how he identifies

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01:43:20

Inside the All-In Podcast: Lessons from Elon, Trump,...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/12/18

Jason Calacanis is the host of the All-In Podcast, This Week in Startups, co-founder of the Launch Accelerator, and the “3rd or 4th investor in uber”.We go inside the origins of All-In, how they decide what to talk about each week, and if Jason thinks it helped swing the election.We also talk lesson from starting 7 media companies over the past three decades, what he's learned from studying the world's best interviewers, joining Sequoia’s first scout program, his investing strategy at Launch, the

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01:37:21

Why the Future of Software is AI and Human...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/12/11

Steven Fabre is the Co-founder and CEO of Liveblocks.Liveblocks builds ready-made AI copilots and collaboration for your product, and Steven is one of my smartest friends on how people are actually using AI on a day-to-day basis.We talk about what most people get wrong when trying to build AI-native software, how to treat it as more than just a copilot that sits on top of your product, and what he’s learned about how large enterprises are actually buying and using AI right now.We also talk through

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02:32:14

Building Flex, the AI Private Bank with CEO Zaid Rahman

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2025/12/04

Zaid Rahman is the Co-founder and CEO of Flex.Flex is the AI native private bank for high net worth middle market business owners, headlined by it’s 60-day interest free credit card for businesses.Flex just announced their $60 million Series B, as well as their new consumer product, Flex Elite, which pits it head-to-head against Amex for the consumer spending of some of the wealthiest people in America. It's products now spans from when a business owner first generates revenue, all the way to

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00:53:03

Inside Eight Sleep | Using AI to Sleep Better | CEO...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/11/25

Matteo Franceschetti is the Co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep.Eight Sleep created one of the original breakout consumer health products in 2014, quietly building a business that’s raised over $300 million dollars and was reportedly free cash flow positive in the first half of 2025.But things weren’t always easy, and Matteo shares the challenges of starting a hardware company, why hardware has stronger moats, and the fundraising mindset he adopted that eventually got Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund

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01:39:39

Inside the New Superhuman: $700M ARR, 40M Daily Users...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/11/20

Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO of Superhuman Mail.Rahul sold his company to Grammarly in July of 2025, which had just acquired Coda in 2024. Following the acquisitions, the combined companies rebranded to Superhuman in October of 2025.And it’s quietly one of the most underrated businesses that no one is talking about, with over $700 million ARR and 40 million Daily Active Users. Grammarly spent 15+ years building integrations with over a million other products, that they’re now layering more AI

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01:36:08

Inside Stripe: Stablecoins, AI, and (not) Going...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/11/13

Will Gaybrick is the President of Technology and Business at Stripe.Stripe builds financial infrastructure for the internet, and if you’ve ever purchased a product online, you’ve probably used Stripe.We talk about what Stripe’s doing in crypto and stablecoins, how AI is changing commerce and payments, how they’re thinking about going public, how they build products internally, and interesting data they’re seeing around AI-native companies, like how they’re growing 3.5x faster than SaaS

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01:31:09

Roger Ehrenberg | Investing in Sports, 10x Funds,...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/11/06

Roger Ehrenberg is the Co-founder of Game Changers Ventures and IA Ventures.We talk about the current Seed stage venture environment, what he learned investing in sports teams, how COVID changed sports, what he’s investing in today, characteristics of the top founders, advice for emerging managers, and his real estate and consumer brand projects in Detroit.Thank you to Michael Kim, Jon Oberheide, Jesse Beyroutey, James Fitzgerald, Dan Feder, Sarah Smith, Marc Weisser, and Charles Hudson for help

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01:55:10

Why AI Coding Will Never be 100% Autonomous, How...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/10/31

Daksh Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO of Greptile, the AI code reviewer that understands your entire code base.Greptile just closed a $25M Series A led by Eric Vishria at Benchmark, and we get into their long and winding journey to build one of the fastest growing AI companies.Thanks to Suds at SF1 for helping brainstorm topics for the conversation.Thank you to Numeral and Hanover Park for sponsoring this episode.Numeral: The end-to-end platform for sales tax and compliance. Try it here:

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01:18:39

From Pivot to Fortune 10 Customers, Lessons Doing...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/10/23

Sign-up here to get weekly episodes + transcripts in your inbox: https://www.thespl.it/Adit Abraham is the Co-founder and CEO of Reducto. Reducto’s product takes PDFs and physical documents, and extracts all the data, just like a human would if they were reading it.At the time of recording, they’ve processed over 1 billion pages, grew 6x over the past five months, and are fresh off a $75 million Series B led by a16z. And Adit told me they’ve only burned $1 million of capital so far to get here.And

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01:41:14

Building AI-Native Infrastructure for Developers |...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/10/16

Erik Bernhardsson is the Co-founder and CEO of Modal, building high-performance AI infrastructure.We talk about building what is essentially a new cloud provider, created from the ground up, optimized for AI. We also talk about what actually happened with the great GPU shortage, how Modal fixes the inference problem in AI, and why he thinks AI will lead to 10x more developers.He also shares lessons on culture from joining Spotify as the 40th employee, treating hiring like a prediction problem, what

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01:39:50

Howie: The AI Secretary | Austin Petersmith,...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/10/09

Austin Petersmith is the Co-founder and CEO of Howie, the AI secretary.We talk about why AI assistants are so hard to build, why they decided to build Howie super narrow, and everything that went into their brand, name, and viral launch.Thank you to Adam D’Augelli, Sophia Amoruso and Alex Cohen for help brainstorming topics for the conversation.Thank you to Hanover Park for supporting this episode. Try the modern, AI-native fund admin at https://www.hanoverpark.com/TurnerTimestamps:(3:35) Howie: The

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01:16:44

Stop Coding Emails: Loops Co-founder and CEO Chris...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/10/02

Chris Frantz is the Co-founder and CEO of Loops, the email platform for software companies.We get into why sending emails is still a big problem, his hilariously simple framework for building products, getting in to YC with a last minute application, and why they skipped raising a Series A.Chris spent many years working in marketing and growth, and a good portion of our conversation is thinking through when to lean into product led growth vs hype, the early stunts they did to get their first users,

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02:06:15

Untold Startup Lessons from Dozens of Academic...

The Peel with Turner Novak ·

2025/09/25

Dan Gray is the Head of Insights at Equidam.If you’re a tech and investing nerd like us, you’ll love this conversation. We cover everything Dan’s learned reading dozens of academic research papers on startups and venture capital, debunking many popular narratives of the industry.We talk about the dangers of pre-mature startup scaling, the importance of origination stage investing, the concept of startup catering and why so many startups look the same, and the role of mega funds play in the

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