Startups Podcast Episodes
The best startup podcasts feature founder stories, lessons from building companies, and insights on achieving product-market fit. Popular shows include How I Built This, This Week in Startups, and Indie Hackers. SignalCast summarizes these episodes so you can learn from successful founders without spending hours listening.
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No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
Jul 23 · 49 min
David Senra
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), Co-founder of 37signals
Jul 26 · 101 min
Equity
Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says the lesson for founders now is that a great model isn't enough
Jul 22 · 33 min
How I Built This
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
Jul 20 · 51 min
How I AI
How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman
Jul 20 · 42 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Are OpenAI and Anthropic Overvalued? The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10x And Usage Will Explode 100x | The Future Is Not One AGI; It's Millions of Specialised Models with Lin Qiao, Founder and CEO @ Fireworks
Jul 20 · 77 min
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No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
Jul 2349 min
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No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Biohub: The Future of Biology is Open-Source with Co-Founders Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Head of Science Alex Rives
Jun 1056 min
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The Full Ratchet
510. The Hyper-Scaler CEO Whisperer and Founder of the Lean Startup Movement on Incorruptible Startups, Building to Thrive and Survive, and Creating a Governance Fortress (Eric Ries)
Jun 857 min
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Jeff Zalaznick, Co-founder of Major Food Group
Jul 19, 2026107 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: $5BN in Revenue, 7 to 7,000 Employees in 9 Months, 206,000 Tests in a Single Day: The Craziest Story in Startups: Curative with Fred Turner
Jul 18, 202687 min
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Eric Glyman, Co-founder of Ramp
Jul 12, 202658 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Teams Will Get Bigger Not Smaller in a World of AI | Why AI Removes Incumbents Advantage of Bundling | China vs America: Who Wins the AI War with Arvind Jain, Co-Founder @ Glean
Jul 11, 202654 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Why Now is the Time for the Application Layer | Why OpenAI & Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Why VCs Should Reduce Weighting on Price & Ownership in an Age of AI with Mike Mignano, USV
Jul 6, 202669 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need | Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Clay Bavor, Co-Founder of Sierra
Jul 4, 202668 min
Odd Lots
Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier
Jun 19, 202666 min
Snacks Daily
🍦 “Banana Split” — Interview with Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Ben Cohen
Jun 19, 202650 min
David Senra
Ed Catmull, Co-founder of Pixar
Jun 14, 202694 min
The Full Ratchet
Investor Stories 479: Startup Lessons from Steve Blank, Seth Levine, and Ben Orthlieb: Hubris, Influence, and Founder Selection (Orthlieb, Levine, Blank)
Jun 11, 20266 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | The Real Impact of Open Source on OpenAI & Anthropic | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute | Could Nebius Sell 10x More Compute If They Had It & more with Roman Chernin
Jun 8, 202666 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20Product: Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups with Jacob Lauritzen, CTO @ Legora
Jun 6, 202654 min
This Week in Startups
The Startup Building the First Hotel on the Moon…
Jun 15, 2026100 min
This Week in Startups
The Startup Turning Space Into a Logistics Network
Jun 3, 202661 min
Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 835 | The Right Way to Use AI in Your Startup Marketing
Jun 2, 202632 min
This Week in Startups
This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295
Jun 1, 202666 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR | Lovable Hits $500M ARR | Founders Revolt Against VCs: The Fundraising Horror Stories Going Viral
Jun 11, 202673 min
Equity
Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says the lesson for founders now is that a great model isn't enough
Jul 22, 202633 min
Equity
Inside Ode with Anthropic, the private equity-backed startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Jul 15, 202631 min
Equity
Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup
Jul 8, 202626 min
The SaaS Podcast
How Danny Jenkins Bootstrapped ThreatLocker From $150K Debt to $200M
Jul 2, 202654 min
The Full Ratchet
Investor Stories 482: Key Advice from a Top Investor and Two Unicorn Founders: Why Companies Pick Investors, Authentic Leadership, and Loving the Game (Austin, Schlacks, Demaree)
Jul 2, 20266 min
The Amy Porterfield Show
Why Six-Figure Founders Stall Before Seven
Jun 30, 202615 min
The Full Ratchet
Investor Stories 480: The Traits of Visionary Founders: Customer Obsession, Self Disruption, and Why Love Can Be a Competitive Advantage (Dillon, Patnam, Ries)
Jun 18, 20267 min
Conversations with Tyler
Dave Baszucki on Roblox, Teen Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Play
Jun 17, 202653 min
a16z Podcast
Jack Altman on Product-Market Fit
Jun 16, 202629 min
The Diary of a CEO
Death of the Middle Class: Billionaire vs Entrepreneur DEBATE - Daniel Priestley v Nick Hanauer
Jun 8, 2026151 min
Equity
The 'together tech' wave might be the most intriguing startup bet of 2026
Jun 5, 202633 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Anthropic Files to Go Public | Token Budgeting Panic Hits Corporate America | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | Apollo Warns PE Software Returns Will be Disastrous | The 9-9-6 Work Ethic: Performative Theatre or Startup Reality?
Jun 4, 202695 min
Equity
Every defense startup wants to be the next Anduril. Here's what one of its earliest backers is looking for now.
Jun 3, 202638 min
The SaaS Podcast
Eric Ries on How Founders Quietly Lose Their Company
May 28, 202646 min
In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen
Prosus CEO: From Startup to Global Scale, Innovation and AI Transformation
May 27, 202634 min
Product School Podcast
The Lean Startup Author on New Book Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great | Eric Ries | E297
May 26, 202654 min
My First Million
Brainstorming business ideas with a billion-dollar founder
Jul 10, 202687 min
How I Built This
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
Jul 20, 202651 min
How I AI
How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman
Jul 20, 202642 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Are OpenAI and Anthropic Overvalued? The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10x And Usage Will Explode 100x | The Future Is Not One AGI; It's Millions of Specialised Models with Lin Qiao, Founder and CEO @ Fireworks
Jul 20, 202677 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Wix's Founder on What Wall St Gets Wrong About AI and Wix | Will Base44 Win the Vibe Coding Wars | The Truth About the Economics of Vibe-Coding | The Buyback Disaster: Lessons Learned with Avishai Abrahami
Jul 13, 202657 min
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
2005: Own Your Time, Choices and. Happiness (Actually) with Andy Hill, Founder of Marriage, Kids and Money
Jul 6, 202640 min
David Senra
Jonathan Ross, Founder of Groq
Jul 5, 202671 min
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
Jul 2, 202661 min
Marketing School
Founder Mode Is Real (And Airbnb, Flexport & Apple Prove It)
Jul 2, 202618 min
Foundr
678: (Solo) The First Hire Mistake That Trips Up Almost Every Solo Founder
Jun 29, 20269 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong | Why 1-1s are BS and What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Equity | Why Taste Beats AI But How AI Kills Org Charts with Paul Erlanger, CEO @ fomo
Jun 27, 202657 min
The School of Greatness
Break the Cycle of Toxic Love for Good | Sheleana Aiyana
Jun 26, 202670 min
The James Altucher Show
Zynga Founder Mark Pincus: Why All New Fails + How to Copy to Millions
Jun 25, 202681 min
Frequently Asked Questions About Startups Podcasts
What are the best startup podcasts for founders?
Top startup podcasts include How I Built This for founder origin stories, This Week in Startups for current startup news and interviews, Indie Hackers for bootstrapped businesses, My First Million for business ideas, and Startup School for Y Combinator-style advice. Each offers unique perspectives on building companies.
What can I learn from startup podcasts?
Startup podcasts teach product-market fit, fundraising strategies, hiring and team building, growth tactics, pivoting, and lessons from both successes and failures. Many feature interviews with successful founders who share their journeys and the mistakes they made along the way.
Are there startup podcasts for bootstrapped vs. VC-backed companies?
Yes. Indie Hackers and Startups for the Rest of Us focus on bootstrapped businesses. This Week in Startups and The Full Ratchet cover VC-backed startups. How I Built This features both models. Choose based on your funding approach and business goals.
How often should I listen to startup podcasts?
Most founders benefit from 1-2 episodes per week to stay current without overwhelming their schedule. SignalCast can help by providing weekly summaries of the key insights from multiple shows, letting you scan quickly and deep-dive on relevant topics.
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