Outsider Inc. Trailer

Introducing Outsider Inc., the podcast that dives into the untold stories of visionary leaders from unexpected places and backgrounds who broke the mold of tech entrepreneurship to build generation-defining companies.

In each episode, host Ian Hathaway facilitates a conversation that reveals how founders turned early setbacks into stepping stones, built resilient teams without a prototypical playbook, and transformed entire communities that today produce a lasting impact. 

Get a preview of what’s ahead with highlights from guests like:

✅ Scott Dorsey – His $2.5 billion acquisition of ExactTarget by Salesforce helped birth a thriving tech ecosystem in Indianapolis

✅ Linda Rottenberg – Her non-profit, Endeavor, supports entrepreneurs in over 40 countries worldwide, transforming emerging markets into dynamic startup ecosystems

✅ Wade Foster – Co-founded Zapier, which was hatched in a Central Missouri hackathon and scaled to a more than $5 billion valuation through a fully remote and capital-efficient approach

✅ Michael Praeger – Left Boston to launch and scale AvidXchange, a B2B payments fintech in Charlotte, to a more than $5 billion valuation at IPO

✅ Jason Seats – Bootstrapped an influential startup to an improbable exit from a small office in St Louis before overseeing the investment in thousands of companies as CIO of Techstars

Subscribe now and join us as we prove that great entrepreneurs can come from anywhere. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at outsiderinc.substack.com.