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18:18

Julian Weisser | The Solo Flippening: How 1-in-3...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/12/20

The script has been the same for decades: find a co-founderInvestors demanded it. Accelerators screened for it. The narrative became so entrenched that founders started pairing up out of obligation, not alignment.Julian Weisser, founder of SOLO and ODF, has a name for this phenomenon: co-founders of convenienceAnd he's proving they're not just unnecessary-they're often the reason companies fail.This week, Julian released 'The State of Solo Founding' report: "Today, solo founding is

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15:05

Nate Matherson | Set It, Forget It—Scaling to 2,000+...

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2025/12/19

Nate Matherson has spent 10+ years as a founder. He's built companies and even exited. After that first exit, he started angel investing in dozens of companies, then launched a fund.Numeral was one of his early bets. He sent Numeral's CEO Sam an email. By the end of the day, he was working there as Head of Growth. Now he's helping scale the YC-backed sales tax platform serving over 2,000 customers.Nate's seen what happens when founders don't think about sales tax. "They actually found out

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10:38

🎧 Startup Growth Podcast, Ep. 32 Jayden Clark |...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/12/18

Jayden Clark didn’t abandon music. He re-scored it for distribution. After music school, a hedge fund tour, and a B2B SaaS sprint, he launched MOTS—short, sharp episodes designed to be both of the moment and built to last a quarter. His north star isn’t “go viral.” It’s “be clear.”The insight is disarmingly pragmatic: structure is not the enemy of creativity—it’s the amplifier. Lists compress cognition. A beginning–build–end gives every clip a runway and a landing. When a five-replies-deep

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12:44

Sky Yang & Neo Lee | Content-Market Fit Product-Market ...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/12/16

Sky Yang (CEO) & Neo Lee (CTO) are Co-founders of Imagine AI, an AI-powered content engine that clones B2B founders—replicating their voice, context, and backstory to create scalable personal brands. Before Imagine AI, Sky was elected student body president at UCSD by 32,000 students at age 19, then secured $150 million in state funding for university housing through coalition-building and advocacy in DC, Sacramento and at the UC Board of Regents. He co-founded "Break the Outbreak," a

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32:36

Rebecca Medina & Jeff Phillips | How Talent Cheetah...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/12/11

Rebecca Medina and Jeff Phillips built an AI-powered talent marketplace that's disrupting recruitment with transparent pricing, direct negotiation, and same-day PM hires for SMBs.Rebecca Medina had the network. She had decades of Big Tech experience. She had the credibility. But when she needed project management help on a client engagement as an independent consultant, none of it mattered."Even with my network of project managers, I couldn't find the right person fast enough," Rebecca

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42:53

Julian Weisser | 'The Flippening': Why Solo Founders...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/12/04

Julian Weisser is the Founder and CEO of Solo Founders, a three-month residency program in San Francisco where founders live and work together while maintaining full authorship of their companies. He's also the CEO of On Deck Founders (ODF), a program that over seven years and 26 cohorts has helped over 1,000 people start companies that have collectively raised more than $2 billion. As an angel investor with more than 150 portfolio companies including Levels, Astroforge, and MagicSchool,

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19:37

Allen Naliath | Sam Altman + Garry Tan Cold Asks, Win...

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2025/12/02

Allen Naliath is the Founder and CEO of Friday, a Chrome extension that integrates AI email management directly into Gmail. Two years ago at Stanford, he struggled with the confidence to ask for what he wanted. So he engineered a solution: a 30-day rejection challenge where he had to hear "no" once per day or start to ask for increasingly audacious requests. The problem: people kept saying yes. He escalated strategically—waiting by a golf cart to ask Sam Altman to sign his laptop, and

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39:13

Lindsay Amos | Old vs. New Media, Exclusive vs....

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/11/26

Lindsay Amos is the Founder of Amos Communications, a boutique firm for founder-led marketing and PR. From 2018 to 2024, she ran communications at Y Combinator, where she coached thousands of startups and wrote YC's handbook on startup PR. Before that, she worked in comms at Square and Meta, giving her a 360° view of how stories move from boardrooms to bylines to buyer behavior. Today, she advises founders on landing real news (not ads), building durable founder brands, and operating across

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37:51

Joe Holberg | Bootstrapped, Beat 30x-Funded Rivals,...

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2025/11/24

Joe Holberg is the Founder & former CEO of Spring, a workplace financial wellness platform that began D2C, pivoted to employer-paid, and became a top-rated U.S. offering for three consecutive years, serving 25,000+ users. He bootstrapped from 2015 to 2018, raised a $1M seed, and sold Spring to Mariner Wealth Advisors in 2023, remaining through early 2025. Before Spring, he taught with AmeriCorps on Chicago’s West Side and built CS education at Google. A first-generation college graduate

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22:01

Jay Ram | Beyond Evals: Build Environments That Make...

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2025/11/19

Jay Ram is Founder & CEO of Hud, the evaluation and RL platform for AI agents. Hud helps startups build RL environments, run fast reward loops, and plug into any RL backend—so teams can cut costs and push last-mile accuracy once they've hit PMF. Before Hud, Jay left a lucrative quant career, shipped an AI prank-calling app that briefly hit #1 on the App Store (≈500k calls), and decided he wanted harder problems and smarter customers. He's a YC W25 alum; Hud is already used by

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38:03

Kevin Xu | From $35K to $10M: The Alpha Behind Your...

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2025/11/17

Kevin Xu is Founder & CEO of Alpha AI, your “AI money friend” that plugs into real-time markets and your portfolio to explain what just happened—and what matters next—inside a simple chat. Before Alpha, Kevin became a WallStreetBets folk hero as turning $35K in a 401(k) into $10M through high-conviction swing trades. He previously founded Fan Hero (YC S13), worked at Stripe (~#300) and Google/YouTube, and appeared in MSNBC Studios’ Diamond Hands on Peacock.Kevin’s catalyst was realizing

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37:52

Daivik Goel | From Bootstrap to Batch, Last-Minute YC...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/11/01

Daivik Goel is Co-founder & CEO of Shor, a global payroll platform for startups. Traditional EOR providers charge around $7,000 per year to manage an employee earning $20,000 per year. Shor uses automation to reduce costs and embeds payroll actions into Slack and WhatsApp through AI agents, so founders can request tax documents or payment updates without opening another dashboard.Daivik and co-founder Avi Konduru submitted their YC application at 7:59 PM, one minute before the deadline

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23:55

Cody Schneider | Growth Flywheels, Underpriced...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/10/24

Cody Schneider is the Founder & CEO of Graphed, an AI agent for marketing analytics. Graphed plugs into common data sources, manages the data warehouse, and lets marketers chat with their data to generate on-demand visuals—“stacked bar of new vs. total users week over week,” “add a line of best fit,” and similar prompts. It’s built to handle scale (Cody mentions onboarding ~25M rows of Facebook data) and to avoid rate limits and sluggish queries by owning the warehousing layer.In this

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31:04

Craig J. Lewis | 750K Contractors Paid, $25M Raised,...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/10/24

Craig Lewis is the Founder & CEO Ogentic AI, builder of Zing—an AI-native enterprise browser that turns intent → action in a secure, workflow-native workspace. Before Ogentic, he founded Gig Wage (750k contractors paid, ~$1B moved, $25M+ raised) and learned payroll inside ADP. That operator muscle fuels Ogentic’s pace: incorporated in June, alpha in July, beta in August. He also serves on the governing board at MassChallenge and angels actively.In this episode, Craig shares velocity

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27:37

Grace Gong | Lessons on Building Founder–Investor...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/10/17

Grace Gong is the Founder & CEO of Smart Venture Media, podcast host, angel investor, and author. She’s interviewed 500+ founders, investors, and operators on her podcasts, then parlayed that network into a high-signal community: curated founder–VC dinners, conferences (including the Smart AI Summit), and rooms where intros turn into customers and checks. The flywheel started during the pandemic with 5 pm Friday Zooms—and evolved into tightly curated IRL events supported by sponsors and

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44:48

Collin Wallace: Inside venture funds, why...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Collin Wallace is a partner at Lobby Capital with 20+ years as an engineer, inventor, operator, and investor. Before Lobby, he was Managing Director of Techstars Silicon Valley, launching the first two Bay Area accelerator programs with JPMorgan and eBay. He founded FanGo (Techstars S10)—acquired by Grubhub in 2011, where he became Head of Innovation (OrderHub + pre-IPO patents)—and later co-founded ZeroStorefront (YC W19), acquired by Thanx in 2022. Collin advises the Roelof Botha &

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33:42

Alessandro Chesser: Turn Founder Shares into Tax‑Free...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/10/09

Alessandro Chesser is the founder and CEO of Dynasty, a startup focused on making Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) trust stacking accessible to founders. Before launching Dynasty, he led sales at Carta from the early days to roughly $300M in ARR, gaining hands-on insight into equity workflows, 409A dynamics, and how distribution is built around real, recurring needs. Dynasty offers a subscription service—$1,500 per year for up to four family trusts—that includes trust creation, annual

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35:54

Jeff ‘Jiho’ Zirlin: From 300 Users to $4B+ in Trading...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/10/03

Jeff ‘Jiho’ Zirlin is a co-founder of Sky Mavis, the team behind Axie Infinity and the Ronin blockchain. At the forefront of Web3's most groundbreaking experiments, Jeff helped transform Axie from a small crypto-native community into a cultural phenomenon that onboarded millions to blockchain technology. With over $4 billion in NFT trading volume - earning a Guinness World Record - Axie didn't just talk about bringing people to crypto; it actually did it. Beyond Axie, Jeff pioneered the

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31:16

Parthi Loganathan: Beyond Cold Outbound - How...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/09/23

Parthi Loganathan is the founder and CEO of Letterdrop, a Y Combinator-backed startup that helps B2B companies build pipeline by focusing on the warmest leads and people who are actually in market. Since launching Letterdrop, he's helped companies move beyond saturated email and cold calling tactics to identify prospects who want to talk and send them highly tailored messaging. The platform analyzes public conversations, CRM data, and sales calls to segment buyers and enable personalized

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21:03

John Paul Mussalli: How One EMT's Scrappy Prototype...

Startup Growth Podcast ·

2025/09/16

In this episode, I sat down with John Paul Mussalli, the co-founder and COO of CareSwift, a Y Combinator-backed startup building AI-powered software to streamline documentation for EMT workers. JP and his cofounders brings a unique blend of technical expertise and entrepreneurial drive to the healthcare technology space, having previously worked across diverse fields from real estate automation to web development. Since co-founding CareSwift, he's helped scale the platform to serve over

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