Founder's Story

In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Jerry Lopez, one of the most impactful philanthropy innovators of the digital age. Jerry—born in Puerto Rico, raised in poverty, and self-made by 25—shares the raw, deeply personal story behind his rise from hardship, why Bitcoin changed his life, and how he built the world’s first philanthropy-driven blockchain ecosystem with Philcoin and PhilSocial.

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In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Parker Olson, the creator of PodPitch—the fast-growing platform now responsible for 4–5% of all weekly English-speaking podcast bookings. Parker breaks down the exact zero-to-one steps behind building software without code, finding product-market fit, securing early revenue, and surviving the mental collapse moments that nearly ended his career.

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In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Dan Novaes, the visionary behind Mode Mobile. What began as a $1,000 project at age fifteen evolved into a company now valued at over $300 million—with more than 57,000 shareholders. Novaes opens up about the brutal realities of scaling, the crash that nearly ended it all, and how a bold pivot into crowdfunding changed everything.

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In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Dr. Cali Estes Founder of Sober on Demand and The Addictions Academy, to uncover her extraordinary journey—from being homeless and broke to building a multi-million-dollar global addiction recovery empire. Cali opens up about how she started her business with just $300 and rent due, why she was forced to take on an industry that tried to destroy her, and the personal...

In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Dr. Tara to explore how technology, intimacy, and human connection are colliding in ways we’ve never seen before. From sex robots and AI partners to ethical non-monogamy and the myth of “natural” sexual skill, Dr. Tara challenges the biggest assumptions about love, relationships, and pleasure. Her new book, How Do You Like It?, gives people the tools to discover thei...

In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Monika Sundem to explore how Adventure Life has built a reputation for journeys that go beyond sightseeing—offering connection, transformation, and purpose. From navigating the unpredictable waters of Antarctica to witnessing the wildlife of the Galapagos, Monika shares the magic of destinations that change travelers forever. She also reveals how her team survived th...

In this episode of Founder’s Story, Daniel Robbins sits down with Jonathan Kaufman Iger to uncover how Sage has thrived for more than a century in one of the most competitive real estate markets in the world. Jonathan shares the company’s journey from its founding in 1924 by his great-grandfather to becoming a multigenerational force in NYC real estate, and how Sage is redefining office buildings through innovation, hospitality, an...

In this episode of Founder’s Story, Ben Glinsky uncovers the truth about the supplement industry — an opaque $150 billion market where overpriced products and shady “proprietary blends” have become the norm. Ben shares how LiveGood is flipping the script by making premium-quality, fully transparent supplements available at a fraction of the cost, creating a model that already attracted millions of customers in record time.

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In this episode of Founder’s Story, Ken Boyce to discussed why CyberGlobal USA is tackling one of the fastest-growing threats of our time—cybersecurity for small businesses. With the global cybersecurity market projected to hit $500 billion by 2030, Ken explains how his company is bringing enterprise-level protection to the 33 million small businesses that remain largely unprotected.

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Prepare for a paradigm shift! Chad unpacks why you can't earn your way to financial freedom – you have to invest your way there. This isn't just about money; it's about building a 'Fully Invested' life where you win in business and at home.

In this deep dive, you'll discover:

• The Investment Imperative: Why disciplined investing, not just higher income, is the true engine of lasting wealth.
• Challenging Entrepreneurship: Whe...

In this episode of Founder’s Story, Alejandro Cuauhtemoc-Mejia joins to discuss how Silicon Valley Certification Hub (SVCH) is bringing standards and trust to AI adoption worldwide. From his perspective inside Silicon Valley, Alejandro reveals why executives—not technology—are the primary reason AI fails within organizations, and why SVCH’s certification is becoming the gold standard for responsible, strategic AI use.

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Pavitra describes commuting from New Jersey to New York before remote work existed, holding client meetings while deciding whether to miss a school play, and starting her first company in 2008 when Wall Street was on fire. She didn’t set out to be a CEO; clients from a collapsing firm pulled her into entrepreneurship, and a former CFO wrote the first check. Years later, COVID grounded her flights and exposed how fragile main street...

As an NYU student, Anthony mined ETH until the dorms “asked him not to come back,” collected early NFTs, and—after a lucky GameStop options win—bought a $95K Banksy print with two friends for one reason: to burn it and sell the moment as an NFT. The plan was part dare, part experiment, not a get-rich scheme. What followed was a week of whiplash: Vice photos, Forbes first coverage, BBC calling for comment and publishing a slam thirt...

We begin with the question people rarely ask an artist directly: what does an artist’s life actually look like? Charles Edelman answers with a life-in-stories—New York studios, MoMA walkabouts, and a candid aside that meeting Andy Warhol was “boring.” He frames his practice at Charles Edelman Masterpieces as a “mental gym,” a place where discipline, curiosity, and play keep boredom at bay and skill compounding. His book Crashing Wa...

We open with the question everyone secretly asks: can a life really change that much? Dr. Stoyana Natseva answers with names and outcomes, not platitudes. Through Happy Life Academy, she’s watched Tatiana Markova move multiple sclerosis into remission, rebuild family bonds, and buy her first home, and Tsetsa Dimitrova outlive a one-month cancer prognosis to become a holistic therapist who now mentors others. Those stories anchor he...

We open by challenging a midlife myth: “you’re getting old, expect decline.” Dr. Hosen Kiat counters that aging is plastic—biology is modifiable—illustrated by his ninety-six-year-old mother’s daily hour-long walks after hip surgery and his own “mind overdrive” routine that gets him training on days he least feels like it. The conversation locates prevention where he believes true healing lives: at the meeting point of modern cardi...

We open on a cultural moment: the practices once dismissed as “woo” are becoming mainstream because burnout, information overload, and deep fakes are eroding trust in everything but lived experience. Lindsey grounds that shift in her own story—sobriety in September 2015 as the catalyst—and explains why she built Spirit Vigilante and Haven 101 Wellness Studio to help people move from conditioned scripts to conscious authorship. Draw...

We begin with the myth of becoming a billionaire and land on Naveen Jain’s first principle: wealth is a byproduct of helping a billion people. From there he traces the mindset behind Viome—naming the company and mission directly—arguing that healthcare should move from clinics to homes, guided by AI and deep molecular readouts. Instead of DNA, which doesn’t change when you gain weight or get depressed, Viome measures RNA to see wha...

We start with a maze analogy that makes quantum tangible, then move into the arms-race reality: nation-states are funding quantum as a weapon, timelines are sliding from the 2030s toward the late 2020s, and boards waiting for regulation risk being caught flat-footed. Eric explains why EntroKey Labs is betting on software-only entropy generation and keying—a configuration-level upgrade designed to raise security today while preparin...