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Most startups don’t fail because the idea is bad.
They fail because the journey is harder than expected.
Inspiring Founders explores what it really takes to survive and succeed in entrepreneurship. Each episode features honest conversations with founders and startup leaders about customer discovery, risk, resilience, and building companies that don’t just launch — but last.
No shortcuts. No startup theater. Just the real work behind innovation.
They fail because the journey is harder than expected.
Inspiring Founders explores what it really takes to survive and succeed in entrepreneurship. Each episode features honest conversations with founders and startup leaders about customer discovery, risk, resilience, and building companies that don’t just launch — but last.
No shortcuts. No startup theater. Just the real work behind innovation.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 25 days
Average audio length:
42 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
13 episodes
since Oct. 1, 2025
episodic
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Elizabeth Greenfield spent 25 years as a nurse — 15 of them as a nurse anesthetist — before walking away from a job she loved to build her own functional medicine practice.She was running marathons and triathlons, working 24-hour shifts, and raising two small kids. Her own health was falling apart …
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In mid-2024, Shiven Dave was an aerospace engineering student drowning in wind tunnel test data. So he built a pipeline that let an AI watch his screen and answer his questions. He called it Jarvis — he's a lifelong Iron Man fan — and he had no intention of sharing it. His cousin talked him out of …
"You can either get a job at Google or BUILD Google!"
In this episode Saeed sits down with host Mash to talk about pressure as a prerequisite, why he won't back a founder who has a plan B, what he's building with the new AI Center of Excellence in San Jose, and why he believes the AI re…
This interview with Mykyta Tretynko, the founder of Billioncore joins us over Zoom to talk about his founder journey, what it's like being a startup in Ukraine, and why he is on a mission to stop fraudsters and chargebacks! Check out his startup at https://billioncore.tech/
Handoyo is the founder and CEO of Lyrid, a cloud infrastructure platform he describes as "Airbnb for data centers" — aggregating compute, storage, and networking from local data centers and hyperscalers into one platform, and delivering it to startups and enterprises at 40–60% less than t…
What does it take to bridge the gap for entrepreneurs in overlooked geographies? In this episode of Inspiring Founders, Mash sits down with Natalia Bishop—a serial tech founder and the visionary behind Story and Wild. Originally from Colombia and now a pillar of the Louisville startup scene, Natali…
The One Trait Every Successful Founder Needs (It’s Not What You Think)What does it take to build, grow, and exit multiple companies? For serial entrepreneur Tom Shen, the secret isn't a high IQ or a perfect business plan—it’s humility.In this episode of Inspiring Founders, host Mash sits down with …
AI can generate an answer instantly — but that doesn’t mean it’s answering the right question.
In this episode of Inspiring Founders, I sit down with Benjamin Baer of DecideWise in downtown San Jose to talk about “decision intelligence” — the tools and practices companies use to operationalize AI i…
In this episode of Inspiring Founders, Wayne Fenton shares lessons from decades in big tech, multiple startups, and now founding a deep tech company in Santa Cruz.
We explore what it really means to become “default alive” — surviving the early stages of a startup long enough to reach product-market…
Meet Raymond Cheng, Founder and CEO at Decrypt Compliance, a Silicon Valley Startup providing compliance audits and certifications for small and medium sized businesses. If your startup wants to do business with the government, public universities, health care, or any other highly regulated industr…
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