Found
165 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHow do you build a company from scratch? How do you take an idea and turn yourself into a founder? Find out from those who’ve already taken the plunge and are in the weeds of entrepreneurship.
Every Tuesday, hosts Becca Szuktak and Dominic-Madori Davis interview founders on their origins, product roadmaps, funding efforts — and how they grow from failures. Found is produced by Maggie Stamets
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Aditi Shekar, Zeta
July 23, 2021 17:30 - 55 minutes - 51.4 MBAditi Shekar's childhood ambitions included literal world domination, but she ended up as an unstoppable entrepreneur instead. She's the co-founder and CEO of Zeta, a new kind of financial services company that's designed from the ground up for "multiplayer" banking — be it with a spouse, a trusted partner or anyone else. Aditi tells us all about how she's revolutionizing money management thanks to her drive and focus. Links for this episode: Zeta What should banking look like for modern ...
Ashley Sumner, Quilt
July 16, 2021 17:59 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBAshley Sumner's original concept for Quilt was all about meeting up in person — almost an Airbnb for conversations. But shortly after launch, the universe threw a wrench in the works, as a global pandemic shut down or severely limited in-person interaction almost everywhere, particularly among strangers connecting for the first time. Quilt made a pivot into the suddenly crowded social audio space, but Ashley explains how it kept its core focus and differentiation in the process. Links for t...
Rob Schutz, Ro
June 28, 2021 13:52 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBRob Schutz didn't expect to be working on a startup addressing the need for reliable, direct-to-consumer erectile dysfunction therapeutics, but that's where he ended up at Roman. The company has since pivoted to become 'Ro,' with a focus on digital health and telemedicine more broadly, as well as pharmacy services, but we talk to Schutz about how he went from Bark Box to human health, and what the experience of building his startup alongside his two cofounders was like. Links for this episo...
Sara Spangelo, Swarm
June 19, 2021 11:18 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBSara Spangelo's startup Swarm now has nearly 100 of its satellites in orbit, but the journey to get here has had plenty of challenges. After a track record that included working at Google X, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and plenty more, Sara realized with her co-founder Ben that including low-bandwidth network capabilities on tiny satellites was not only possible, but offered massive cost-savings vs. the usual way of doing things. But our talk focuses on the challenges of being a first-t...
Cory Siskind, Base Operations
June 11, 2021 15:31 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBCory Siskind founded Base Operations after realizing that the enterprise operations security market lagged behind its equivalent information security departments in terms of tech and innovation. She tells us how she went from being dropped into a heap of responsibility for assessing street-level threats in Mexico City right out of school for large global companies, to creating a scalable, tech-powered solution that finally brings the industry out of the 70s. Links for this episode: Base Op...
Roslyn McLarty, The GIST
June 04, 2021 15:43 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBAfter realizing there was a serious lack of options for sports fans who happen to be women, or who just don't fit the typical mould addressed by the existent industry, Roslyn McLarty and her two co-founders created The GIST, a sports newsletter that has since grown into a podcast and a website, too. The GIST doesn't shy away from the human side of sports, nor does it treat sports like a secret club you need years of specialized knowledge to access. Links for this episode: The GIST Women-l...
Leigh Honeywell, Tall Poppy
May 28, 2021 15:30 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBLeigh Honeywell has spent her career trying to prevent bad things from happening to people on the internet. She’s spent time at Slack, Heroku, and Microsoft, and is well-versed on both the technical and human sides of online harassment, and has seen first-hand how it can escalate to hacking or worse. That’s how she came up with Tall Poppy, a platform that helps organizations with a public-facing workforce, like media orgs, actively prevent this type of escalation. The Tall Poppy model turns ...
Lindsay Tjepkema, Casted
May 21, 2021 14:42 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBAs a career marketer, Lindsay Tjepkema was used to trying a lot of different strategies and seeing what works. She started to see one type of marketing consistently paying off, however — particularly for B2B brands. That's how she came up with the idea for Casted, a B2B podcast platform that makes it easy technically and in tiers of content for enterprise companies to create their own podcasts to reach their clients and potential customers. Links for this episode: Casted Casted raises $7M...
Courtne Smith, NewNew
May 14, 2021 14:01 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBAfter starting her career as part of Drake's management team, founder Courtne Smith has gone on to create a couple of different apps aimed at capitalizing on new and emerging behavior in online social interaction. Her latest venture, NewNew, is a bit like a stock market mixed with a crowdsourcing platform for the decision-making of creators, artists, and even just everyday, ordinary people. We talk to Courtne about her path to entrepreneurship, and what's happening in social that's changing ...
Kathy Hannun, Dandelion
May 07, 2021 14:00 - 49 minutes - 48.5 MBWe're joined by Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun on this week's show. Kathy tells us how her time at Google X led her to creating Dandelion, a startup focused on making geothermal energy accessible to all. She shares what it's like to work at Google's famous moonshot factory, how she came to pursue a moonshot of her very own, and how she grappled with the realization that her startup needed to significantly change gears to serve its target market. Links for this week's episod...
Hana Mohan, MagicBell
April 30, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBThis week, our guest is Hana Mohan. Hana is the co-founder and CEO of MagicBell, a startup tackling the monumental task of solving notifications for other software products. We spoke to Hana about her path to entrepreneurship, being labelled 'a high-maintenance employee,' taking part in Y Combinator, and what it's like transitioning in the startup world, and being a proud transgender woman founder. Links for this week's episode: Hana's blog on entrepreneurship and being a transgender woma...
Earl Cole, The SMART Tire Company
April 23, 2021 17:00 - 48 minutes - 47.7 MBOn this week's show, we welcome Earl Cole, winner of Survivor: Fiji, but more importantly, the CEO and co-founder of The SMART Tire company. His startup is working with NASA to commercialize metal tire technology first developed to provide future Mars rovers with nearly indestructible wheels for tackling the toughest terrain, and Cole tells us all about how his background as a serial entrepreneur, and the first unanimous Sole Survivor, helped him navigate NASA's bureaucratic network. Links ...
Brie Code, TRU LUV
April 16, 2021 17:00 - 50 minutes - 49.1 MBThis week's guest is Brie Code, founder and CEO of TRU LUV. In Brie's own words, TRU LUV is building "ritual and emotionally-conscious AI," which sounds ambitious and potentially world-changing because it is. Brie's background as a game developer led her to explore alternate types and motivations for game-like experiences, and that resulted in constructing AI in a mobile app that espouses a "tend-and-befriend" approach. Links for this week's episode: Mobile developer Tru Luv enlists invest...
Iman Abuzeid, Incredible Health
April 09, 2021 14:00 - 48 minutes - 47.9 MBIncredible Health coverage on TechCrunch: Incredible Health updates its healthcare career platform to help nurse hiring cope with COVID Incredible Health’s hiring platform for nurses gets $15M led by Andreessen Horowitz Have feedback about the show? Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/found Found posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcasts: Equity and Chain Reaction. ...
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March 31, 2021 20:00 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBJoin us weekly as we talk to founders from around the world, about why they took the leap into starting a company, what kinds of problems they ran into, and how they solved them — or maybe didn’t! We cover everything from pitching VCs, to focusing your product development plans, to what surprised people most about the founding experience. Subscribe now, and come back to hear our first full episode on April 9!Found posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to po...