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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My First Million
How we scaled to $100M in under a year (ft. IM8 co-founder Danny Yeung)
Sep 7 · 54 min
Masters in Business
From CEO to Startups: Masters in Business with Former Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb
Sep 4 · 82 min
The Product Experience
What I learned from building, and shutting down, a startup — Kirsten Mann (Strategic Advisor)
Sep 9 · 51 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It | How ElevenLabs Leapfrogged Us: What I Learned | The AI Talent War: How Your Hiring Process Needs to Change with Cliff Weitzman, Speechify
Sep 5 · 65 min
Venture Stories
Building Jarvis: The Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible | Tanay Kothari (WisprFlow)
Sep 3 · 30 min
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The Journal
Y Combinator CEO on How AI is Changing What Startups Build
Aug 1026 min
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Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein
Aug 2734 min
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Snacks Daily
⚾ "Burn the Boring" — REPLAY: Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole
Aug 2554 min
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Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
Jul 23, 202649 min
My First Million
How we scaled to $100M in under a year (ft. IM8 co-founder Danny Yeung)
Sep 7, 202654 min
This Week in Startups
How AI splits startups into winners and losers | E2322
Aug 7, 202678 min
Masters in Business
From CEO to Startups: Masters in Business with Former Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb
Sep 4, 202682 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Is Anthropic's Coding Business Worth $2 Trillion? | Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Why 80–90% of Neo-Labs Die in the Next 18 Months? with Eno Reyes, Co-Founder @ Factory
Aug 29, 202689 min
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Screensharing top takes in AI/startups
Aug 25, 202641 min
The Prof G Pod
The Truth About the Entrepreneurship Boom, and and How to Manage Cash Flow as a Founder
Aug 19, 202616 min
Masters of Scale
Know which rules to break, with MTV co-founder Tom Freston
Aug 13, 202631 min
David Senra
Michael Ovitz, Co-founder of CAA
Aug 9, 202666 min
a16z Podcast
Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure
Aug 5, 202675 min
Bankless
What's Next for Vaults? | Steakhouse Co-Founder, Adrian Cachinero
Jul 30, 202664 min
David Senra
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), Co-founder of 37signals
Jul 26, 2026101 min
David Senra
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
David Senra
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
Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 847 | What Second Time Founders Do Differently, Pricing AI Agents, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)
Aug 25, 202628 min
How I Built This
Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
Aug 17, 202679 min
Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 843 | Success Patterns of $1M+ SaaS Founders
Jul 28, 202633 min
The Product Experience
What I learned from building, and shutting down, a startup — Kirsten Mann (Strategic Advisor)
Sep 9, 202651 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It | How ElevenLabs Leapfrogged Us: What I Learned | The AI Talent War: How Your Hiring Process Needs to Change with Cliff Weitzman, Speechify
Sep 5, 202665 min
Venture Stories
Building Jarvis: The Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible | Tanay Kothari (WisprFlow)
Sep 3, 202630 min
The Biotech Startups Podcast
What Rural Indiana Can Teach Biotech Founders About Trust | Philip Borden (1/4)
Aug 31, 202617 min
David Senra
Doug Leone on Sequoia, Fear, Great Founders & Starting Over at 69
Aug 30, 202682 min
a16z Podcast
Inside Cursor: The Anatomy of a Generational Startup
Aug 27, 202639 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee: Lessons from Don Valentine, Doug Leone and Alfred Lin | How the SpaceX and Citadel Deals Went Down | What Sequoia Specifically Looks for in Founders with Julien Bek
Aug 24, 202678 min
The Learning Leader Show
702: Blake Mycoskie (Founder of TOMS) - Hitting Every Goal & Still Feeling Worthless... Gratitude, Mantras, and Hiring Like a Champion
Aug 23, 202655 min
a16z Podcast
How Global Networks Are Reshaping Startup Success
Aug 20, 202645 min
Planet Money
Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School)
Aug 19, 202640 min
The SaaS Podcast
Featherless AI: When Your Weekend Experiment Makes More Than Your Startup
Aug 13, 202647 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses | Why Founders Should Never Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed | Why Triple, Triple, Double, Double is Good Enough
Aug 8, 202685 min
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Saronic Founders: Autonomous Warships, China's 230X Advantage & Swarms of Robot Ships
Aug 5, 202648 min
The Biotech Startups Podcast
🧬 The Outsider Mindset Behind Successful Biotech Founders | David Li Rerelease (1/4)
Aug 3, 202630 min
The Full Ratchet
Investor Stories 486: The Traits of Visionary Founders: Ecosystem-Scale Thinking, Data-Driven Truth-Seeking, and Relentless Customer Experience Design (Blank, Demaree, Cheng)
Jul 30, 20268 min
Equity
‘If this isn't addiction, I don't know what is’: Light Phone's founders get real about screen time and building for the anti-smartphone generation
Jul 29, 202631 min
Marketing School
Ben Affleck Sold His AI Startup to Netflix for $587M (Here's the Real Lesson)
Jul 29, 202624 min
Software Engineering Daily
The Startup Scene in Southeast Asia
Jul 28, 202643 min
BiggerPockets Money Podcast
This ALL OUT Entrepreneurial Approach to FI Got him to $5M by 30
Jul 28, 202648 min
Snacks Daily
🥾“Method footwear” — Uggs’ Odyssey ban. Ford’s custom drops. 65%-off IVF startup. +Olivia Rodrigo’s Man-In-Finance
Jul 28, 202620 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
My First Million
How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)
Aug 26, 202669 min
My First Million
$39B founder says his company could 100x in 5 years
Aug 14, 202662 min
My First Million
Brainstorming business ideas with a billion-dollar founder
Jul 10, 202687 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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