Founding Journey
Interviews with world-class startup founders about their unique paths to uncover tactical insights they've learned about how to fundraise, grow, validate, hire, scale, and lead teams while building your startup. Get full access to detailed takeaways on each episode, additional case studies, and more at join.foundingjourney.com
Episodes
Arjun built a $100M startup by helping other founders incorporate and start their own. Along the way he went through Y Combinator and built an audience of over 80,000 people on X and LinkedIn.
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Follow Arjun’s journey:
🐦 X → x.com/ArjunMahadevan
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/mahadevanarjun
🚀 Startup → doola.com
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Stella has worked in startups her entire career. She started previous companies and even got the opportunity to join Trello as an early employee. She scaled with the company all the way through it’s acquisition by Atlassian. She then founded Hoop and raised $5M to solve productivity.
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🐦 X → x.com/startupstella💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/stellagarber🚀 Star...
Sahil Chopra left his medical practice after being trained at Harvard and UCLA to become a startup founder. Now, he's solving the silent sleep epidemic alongside his brother.
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Follow Sahil’s journey: 💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/sahilchopramd 🚀 Startup → empowersleep.com
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Adam Nathan raised $45M at a $150M valuation for his startup, Almanac. But then he realized he needed to pivot… and he pulled it off. He's now on track to go from 0 - $10M in revenue in just 15 months with the pivoted company, Blaze.ai
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🐦 X →x.com/adampnathan
💼 LinkedIn →linkedin.com/in/adampnathan
🚀 Startup →blaze.ai
This is how Luke got a $100,000 investment to drop out of college and turned it into a $27 million startup. He breaks down how to identify and build your own vertical SaaS business too.
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Follow Luke’s journey:
🐦 X → x.com/lukesophinos
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/lukesophinos
🚀 Startup → coursekey.com
📝 Newsletter → newsletter.lukesophinos.com
📔 Vertical SaaS...
Aleksandr helped one person hire an engineer. A few years later, it's turned into a $16 million, largely bootstrapped business.
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🐦 X → x.com/volodarik
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/volodarik
🚀 Startup → lemon.io
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Pujun Bhatnagar dropped out of Stanford, Harved, and MIT to build startups. He decided to build in an unsexy industry and it worked. He doubled Kintsugi’s valuation to $75M in 3 months.
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🐦 X → x.com/pujun_ai
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/pujun
🚀 Startup → trykintsugi.com
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This is how Tibo Louis-Lucas built a new startup every month... until one took off and turned into a $10 million exit.
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🐦 X → x.com/tibo_maker
🚀 Website → tmaker.io
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This is how Adam raised over $3 million for his hiring startup Pangea.app, and why he won’t need to raise again.
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🐦 X → x.com/the_pangean
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/adamalp
🚀 Startup → pangea.app
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Founders who've collectively raised $450 million for their startups explain how their success came from their network and community.
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(02:00) — Michael Houck from Founding Journey: Creating a Community
(03:12) — Tyler Denk from Beehiiv: Encouraging early investors to become customers
(05:50) — Andrew Yeung from Fibe: Creating a sense of community by hosting parties
(09:57) — Steven Gal...
This is how Adam raised $137 million for his startup, Pitch, but then turned it into a cashflowing business instead.
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🐦 X → x.com/adamrenklint
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/adam-renklint
🚀 Startup → pitch.com
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This is how James raised $24 million and reached 20 million users for his startup, Command AI, with contrarian ideas.
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🐦 X → x.com/dazzeloid
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/james-evans-7086b3126
🚀 Startup → command.ai
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This is how Zayd Ali sold his first company in high school and immediately started a new one in AI, called Valley, that has raised over $3 million already.
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Follow Zayd's journey:
🐦 X → x.com/zaydsyedali
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/zayd-syed-ali-4201101a9
🚀 Startup → joinvalley.co
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This is how Dara sold his first startup to build an AI that can clone anyone online, and raised funding from Keith Rabois for it.
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Follow Dara's journey:
🐦 X → x.com/daraladje
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/dara-ladjevardian
🚀 Startup → delphi.ai
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This is how Andrew left his dream job at Google to become the Gatsby of NYC's startup scene, all while securing a permanent visa.
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🐦 X → x.com/andruyeung
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/andyeung
🚀 Startup → https://meetfibe.com
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This is how Sam raised $67M for his startup, Levels, and helped turn one of his co-founders into a successful influencer with nearly a million followers.
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🐦 X → x.com/samcorcos
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/samcorcos
🚀 Startup → levels.com
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This is how Steven scaled his startup, Cameo, to become a $1 billion unicorn and how the company has changed since.
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Follow Steven's journey:
🐦 X → x.com/Mr312
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/stevengalanis
🚀 Startup → cameo.com
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This is how Tyler raised $50 million for his startup, beehiiv, to power the newsletter revolution.
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Follow Tyler's journey:
📝 Newsletter → bigdeskenergy.com
🐦 X → x.com/denk_tweets
💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/tyler-denk
🚀 Startup → beehiiv.com
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Welcome to the Founding Journey podcast!
Each Thursday, Michael Houck will interview world-class startup founders about their unique paths to uncover tactical insights they've learned about how to fundraise, grow, validate, hire, scale, lead teams while building your startup.
Get full access to detailed takeaways on each episode, additional case studies, and more at join.foundingjourney.com.
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