/Archive — 9 episodes

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Browse the complete archive. Filter through founders, exits, failures, fights, and the kind of advice you can't find on Twitter.

EP. 042Apr 22, 2026 · 58 min

I Fired My Co-Founder. Twice.

w/ Maya OkaforFounder, Tilt

What happens when the person you started everything with becomes the thing breaking it. Maya tells the whole story — including the parts her PR team begged her to cut.

EP. 041Apr 15, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

We Burned $4M and Learned Nothing

w/ Diego SalinasEx-CEO, Honeycomb Labs

A post-mortem on a Series A that should never have closed. Diego walks through the cap table, the lies, and the Slack message that ended it.

EP. 040Apr 08, 2026 · 47 min

The YC Rejection That Saved Me

w/ Priya RamanFounder, Northstar

Priya was rejected from YC three times. Then she built a $30M ARR business without a single VC dollar. Here's the playbook.

EP. 039Apr 01, 2026 · 55 min

Selling for $1 to Walk Away Whole

w/ Jordan MehtaFounder, ex-Loop

The acquisition nobody wanted to talk about. Jordan on why a $1 deal can sometimes be the best exit you'll ever sign.

EP. 038Mar 25, 2026 · 42 min

Ramen Profitable Is a Lie

w/ Sam WhitfordFounder, Plainspoke

We're tired of the indie hacker fairy tale. Sam breaks down the actual math of bootstrapping in 2026 — and why most 'profitable' founders aren't.

EP. 037Mar 18, 2026 · 1 hr 04 min

I Faked Traction for 18 Months

w/ AnonymousSeed-stage Founder

A voice-altered confession from a founder who manufactured every metric on their pitch deck. How they did it. Why they stopped. What happened after.

EP. 036Mar 11, 2026 · 51 min

Building in Public Almost Killed Me

w/ Lena AokiFounder, Quietline

The mental cost of shipping your life on Twitter. Lena on logging off, losing followers, and gaining a company.

EP. 035Mar 04, 2026 · 49 min

We Didn't Talk to Users for a Year

w/ Marcus WebbFounder, Forge

Everyone says talk to users. Marcus did the opposite — and built a product that scaled to 100k. Hear why he might do it again.

EP. 034Feb 25, 2026 · 1 hr 02 min

The Email That Cost Me My Company

w/ Tessa BrandEx-Founder, Stak

One reply-all. Eight figures gone. Tessa reads the email on air for the first time.