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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This Week in Startups
We asked 3 VCs: would you invest in Elizabeth Holmes’ next startup? | E2353
Oct 22 · 101 min
Modern Wisdom
Positive Psychology Founder: How To Stop Your Negative Thoughts - Martin Seligman - #1167
Oct 24 · 81 min
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
SpaceX’s AI Business Up 830%, OpenAI Agents Lie, and Startup Turns Mercury Into Gold | EP #305
Oct 23 · 145 min
In Our Time
Particle Accelerators
Oct 22 · 52 min
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🥗 “Sultans of Salad” — Sweetgreen Co-Founders Jonathan Neman & Nicolas Jammet
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Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein
Aug 2734 min
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⚾ "Burn the Boring" — REPLAY: Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole
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Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339
Sep 18, 202693 min
This Week in Startups
The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336
Sep 11, 202672 min
My First Million
How we scaled to $100M in under a year (ft. IM8 co-founder Danny Yeung)
Sep 7, 202654 min
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin
Oct 9, 202669 min
Foundr
714: From $0 to $5 BILLION - The Blueprint for Building Billion-Dollar Startups | Marc Lore
Oct 8, 202641 min
Masters of Scale
Kalshi vs. Everyone: Co-Founder Luana Lopes Lara on the lawsuits and the long game
Oct 6, 202634 min
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Re-Founding Incumbents for the AI Era with Sequence Holdings Co-Founder and CEO Michael Lee
Sep 24, 202642 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: "Anti-Data Centres is a Chinese Psyop" | How Many Planned Data Centers Will Actually Get Built? | Is Energy AI's Biggest Bottleneck? With Thomas Sohmers, Co-Founder @ Positron
Sep 19, 202671 min
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon
Sep 18, 202638 min
The Full Ratchet
Investor Stories 493: Founder CEO Removal, Acquisition Pressure, and Co-Founder Conflict — Lessons from Investors at Volition, Notable, and Fika (Cheng, Solomon, Chen)
Sep 17, 20266 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World: Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots Buying Cybercabs and more with Matteo Franceschetti, Co-Founder @ Eight Sleep
Sep 12, 202675 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
This Week in Startups
We asked 3 VCs: would you invest in Elizabeth Holmes’ next startup? | E2353
Oct 22, 2026101 min
Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 854 | How to Find Startup Ideas (Sneak Peek Chapter from My New Book)
Oct 13, 202623 min
This Week in Startups
Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345
Oct 3, 202653 min
This Week in Startups
Becki DeGraw on spinouts, IP licensing & clean exits | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics
Sep 3, 202617 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
Foundr
704: How One Pivot Turned My FAILING Startup Into a $300M Brand
Sep 10, 202648 min
Modern Wisdom
Positive Psychology Founder: How To Stop Your Negative Thoughts - Martin Seligman - #1167
Oct 24, 202681 min
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
SpaceX’s AI Business Up 830%, OpenAI Agents Lie, and Startup Turns Mercury Into Gold | EP #305
Oct 23, 2026145 min
20VC (20 Minute VC)
20VC: Horizontal vs Vertical Agents: Who Wins | Model Routing: Commodity or Increasing in Value | The Future of the Inference Market | Why Founders Should Take Discounts for Tier 1 Firms with Harrison Chase, LangChain
Oct 17, 202661 min
Masters of Scale
Rich Roll’s ‘crash course’ in entrepreneurship
Oct 15, 202635 min
a16z Podcast
What Makes a Great Entrepreneur? | Ben Horowitz on Vintage x Vintage
Oct 10, 202651 min
Equity
After selling to P&G and Lululemon, these founders are building for life beyond the screen
Oct 7, 202627 min
The Full Ratchet
Investor Stories 495: Perseverance at Roofstock, Speed at Zero, Discovery at Anduril — Why These Founders Stand Out (Black, Chen, Fubini and Patel)
Oct 1, 20266 min
Venture Stories
Builder, Inventor, or Operator? The 0-1-2 Framework for Evaluating Founders| Andre Charoo (MapleVC)
Sep 24, 202686 min
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Luca Ferrari, Bending Spoons CEO: The $40K Origin Story, Buying Product-Market Fit & Why Private Equity Can't Compete
Sep 23, 202625 min
The Sales Evangelist
Is It You or Your Product? The Truth About Product-Market Fit | Collin Stewart - 2039
Sep 21, 202631 min
Masters in Business
At The Money: Should You Invest in Companies Led by Founders?
Sep 16, 202615 min
Equity
Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids
Sep 16, 202627 min
a16z Podcast
What It Takes to Build a Startup | Andrew Chen & Matt Perault
Sep 11, 202638 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
This Week in Startups
The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349
Oct 12, 202680 min
This Week in Startups
Jason Reacts To Japanese Founder Pitches + Fireside Chat With Yuki Shirato
Oct 10, 202684 min
My First Million
Whatnot founder: This is the future of e-commerce
Sep 21, 202662 min
This Week in Startups
Becki DeGraw on founder vesting, advisor equity & the 4-term-sheet play
Sep 10, 202622 min
My First Million
How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)
Aug 26, 202669 min
In Our Time
Particle Accelerators
Oct 22, 202652 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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