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Founder Mode: Jen Herbach, Founder & CEO, Adventris Pharmaceuticals
In the latest Social Radars, we talk to Jen Herbach of Adventris, which is working on a cancer vaccine. She was in the audience of Brian Chesky's famous founder mode talk, and immediately went home a…
Published on 10 hours ago
Founder Mode: Andy Lapsa, Founder & CEO, Stoke Space
In this episode we talk to Andy Lapsa of Stoke Space. This startup is literally doing rocket science, because they're building fully reusable rockets. Anyone who meets Andy is struck by the depth of …
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
Founder Mode: Emmett Shear, Founder, Softmax & Twitch
In this Social Radars episode we talk to Emmett Shear, who told us about an interesting founder mode technique he developed when he was running Twitch. He wanted people there to be able to answer the…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Founder Mode: Christina Cacioppo, Founder & CEO, Vanta
In today’s episode, Christina Cacioppo gives us her take on founder mode, which is becoming more important now that Vanta has 1000 employees around the world. She told us about a new variant of the i…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Founder Mode: Kashish Gupta, Founder and co-CEO of Hightouch
In this episode we talked to Kashish Gupta of Hightouch, who made an important point about founder mode: one of the most important things founders can do that employees can't is to take big risks.
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Founder Mode: Paul Gross, Founder & CEO of Remora Carbon
In this episode we talk to Paul Gross of Remora Carbon, a startup that does carbon capture right out of the exhausts of trucks and trains. Paul has a unique take on founder mode: once a quarter he de…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Founder Mode: Chris Best, Founder & CEO, Substack
In this episode, taped in front of a live audience, Chris Best tells us the story of Substack. He reminisces about his adventures with Elon Musk, and explains how he persisted in bringing to market a…
Published on 1 month ago
Founder Mode: Jake Heller, Founder & CEO, Casetext
In this episode, Jake Heller talks about how he and his cofounder discovered the perfect product in a weekend of intense experimentation after GPT4 was released, and then changed the whole direction …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Founder Mode: Garry Tan, President & CEO, Y Combinator
We spoke with YC president & CEO Garry Tan about the Founder Mode event he organized for YC alumni. He talks about why founder mode matters and how the concept is evolving the the age of AI.
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Founder Mode: Brian Chesky, Founder & CEO, Airbnb
At YC's first Founder Mode event, we talk with Brian Chesky, whose legendary talk last year was the origin of the concept. Unless you were one of the lucky founders in that audience, this interview i…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago