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🎧 START pod: Adil Mania, Founder & Host, Silicon...

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2026/04/16

Tech is the biggest story in the world and its media is somehow the least fun to watchAdil Mania moved from Paris to SF to change thatNow he's building a full media company around one idea: tech doesn't need to be packaged like homeworkA live night show. A print magazine. A weekly newsletter. An animated recapEvery major industry learned how to entertainNow it's tech's turn🎙️ Adil Mania, Founder, Silicon Mania, on Fondo START pod01:48 — Moved from Paris to San Francisco two months before

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🎧 START pod: Liam Karlsson & William Gyltman,...

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2026/03/31

Liam Karlsson had no clue why his SEO clients were losing traffic while rankings heldThen his 57-year-old mom asked ChatGPT for new running shoesNike answer. Bought the shoe. Was super happy. Google was never part of that customer journey...That was the seed of Rankad.aiHe pitched Co-Founder William Gyltman. They went all inTrack and grow brand visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. Enter your domain, 30 seconds later you're in the app. AI agent optimizes your site

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🎧 START pod: Matthew Chen, Founder & CEO, Laurence...

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2026/03/27

Amazon sellers do not have a data problem.They have a decision problem.They already have the clicksThe conversionsThe impressionsThe keyword historyWhat they do not have is a system that knows what to do with it.So brands pay agencies $5,000 to $50,000 a month - and still lose money on adsMatthew Chen built Laurence to change that.A quantitative system for Amazon advertising.Built for continuous decision-making under profit constraints.Using existing ad copy, reinforcement learning, and

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🎧 START pod: Milind Sagaram, Co-Founder & CEO,...

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2026/03/27

Construction doesn't fail on the jobsite. It fails in the drawings. The jobsite just reveals itProject managers spend half their time scanning plans page by page for conflicts between disciplines. Plumbing through steel beams. Electrical into HVACThey still miss most of it. Millions in rework when caught in the fieldMilind Sagaram built Articulate to catch these issues before construction startsAI reads the PDFs. Finds clashes across architectural, structural, and MEP sheets. Generates

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🎧 START pod: Tejas Bhakta, Founder & CEO , Morph...

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2026/03/27

Agents don’t need bigger models. They need better tools.Morph trains coding subagents.Not for humans. For frontier models.Fast Apply edits at 10,000 tokens/sec. WarpGrep handles code and log search.Both keep the main model’s context cleanBecause when context gets too large, performance drops.Now Morph is pushing coding subagents even faster.One newer model runs at 33,000 tokens/sec: https://docs.morphllm.com/sdk/components/compact🎙️ Tejas Bhakta, Founder & CEO, Morph01:30 Fast Apply +

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🎧 START pod: Pamir Ehsas, CEO & Co-Founder, Arcline...

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2026/03/25

Pamir Ehsas spent years as outside counsel serving startups. He saw the same problem on repeatSimple legal work took weeks. Pricing was opaque. Lawyers kept starting from scratch instead of using AISo he built Arcline. AI generates the first draft. Elite lawyers from the best firms, and schools (Harvard, Oxford etc.) do the final revisionUp to 80% of the work gone. Same-day turnaround (Try getting that from a traditional law firm) 50+ venture-backed startups already onboard when this ep was

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🎧 START pod: Naman Ambavi, Founder & CEO, Oximy "See...

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2026/03/25

An employee used his corporate Gemini account to generate fake receipts for reimbursementsNot because he was lying. He just didn't have the real onesThat's when the CISO realized they needed OximyAsk an enterprise how many AI tools they use. They say 10. The real number is probably 40+Most of the risk isn't malicious. People just want to get things done faster. So customer lists end up on free tools with no DPAThe first instinct is to block everything. But people bypass restrictions

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🎧 START pod: Raffi Isanians, Founder & CEO, Mage...

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2026/03/24

Attorneys are trained to spot issues. That’s literally what law school teaches.Show them your product, and the first thing they’ll say is: “the margin is off on this.”Every hour they spend learning software is an hour they’re not billing.Raffi Isanians knows that because he lived it.Kirkland. Gunderson. Years inside private equity and venture work.That’s why Mage Legal has a simple standard: if a lawyer opens the product with no instructions and can’t figure it out, "we’re

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🎧 START pod: Lucas Ngoo, Co-founder & CEO, Cortex AI...

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2026/03/19

The internet was the training set for intelligenceNobody has built the equivalent for the physical worldPreviously, Lucas Ngoo co-founded Carousell, scaled it past $1B Now at Cortex AI he's collecting the data robotics labs need to train foundation modelsCameras, VR headsets, glasses on factory workers, retail workers, everyday people. Recording real-world manipulation work (Maybe tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of hours)Not building the robot. Not training the model. Collecting

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🎧 START pod: Gavin Brennen, Cofounder, Lance "The...

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2026/03/18

Some hotel software is still DOS-based. Sometimes pen and paper (that's why guests are waiting 45 mins to get towels)Gavin's dad has worked at Marriott for the last nine years. When he showed Gavin the old software, that was the sparkLance builds AI agents that answer calls, handle back office operations, run sales workflows & moreStarted with voice, got inside the hotels, and realized how much more they could automateWith coding agents one engineer acts like fiveBig contracts need

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Nikhil Reddy, CEO & Cofounder, Arzule "Gong for...

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2026/03/18

Direct sales reply rates are going down. AI spam is making it worseNikhil Reddy saw the shift early: as trust matters more, partnerships become a real revenue channelProblem is most partnership teams are still running on spreadsheets. They don't know where to focus. Attribution across emails, events, and co-marketing is a messArzule uses CRM data, market signals, and ecosystem signals to help partnership teams discover and prioritize the partnerships that actually drive revenueTwo people

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16:37

JJ Maxwell, CEO & Founder, Pillar (trypillar.com)...

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2026/03/17

Setting up a single trigger in Zendesk takes 30 clicksWith Pillar it takes one sentenceJJ Maxwell built an open source copilot you build into your app. Users talk to it in natural language and it drives the app for themThe problem: products can do a lot but users don't always know what's there. So they ask support. Or they churnBefore Pillar, JJ built a creator ad marketplace with about 40,000 creators. Then spent two years on another product through YC W24. About $30M on the platform, real

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18:18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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