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Founder Mode: Sajith Wickramasekara, Founder & CEO, Benchling
In today's Social Radars, we talk to Sajith Wickramasekara of Benchling. For Sajith, founder mode means a pervasive feeling of responsibility for eve…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
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 fam…
6 months, 1 week 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…
6 months, 2 weeks 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 Twitc…
6 months, 3 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 t…
7 months 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 ca…
7 months 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…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 1 week 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 w…
7 months, 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…
7 months, 3 weeks ago