Founder Uncovered

In this episode of Founder Uncovered , host Kevin Jurovich talks with Joe Barham , the co-founder of HIFI Labs . Joe discusses his early days in San Francisco radio and his deliberate choice to work across various music technology roles for five years before starting his own business. They explore how HIFI Labs helps artists rebuild their digital infrastructure to connect directly with fans and ma...

The Bubblegum Trader Who Bet on AI Before the World Caught On In this episode of Founder Uncovered, host Kevin Jurovich talks with Mason Swofford, the co-founder of Tenzo AI. Mason shares his path from growing up in Indiana to studying computer science at Stanford and eventually building an AI recruiting company. They discuss his early machine learning projects, why he left a PhD program, and how...

Ashley grew up wanting to be a surgeon since she was eight years old, came from a family of surgeons, and eventually became one. Then she walked away to build a startup. In this episode, Ashley, co-founder of Rue Four, joins Kevin Jurovich to talk about one of the more unconventional founder origin stories you'll hear. After years practicing as a reconstructive hand and burn surgeon, Ashley be...

From $510M Exit to AI Startup: The Founder Who Finally Learned to Stop What does it actually cost to build two companies from scratch and sell one for $510 million? For serial founder CK, the price was 20 years without a real break, chronic sleeplessness, and the constant pressure of pretending to have all the answers in every room. In this episode, we go deep on one of the most honest founder jou...

Sam Gibson left a stable engineering job in Kansas City with $10,000 in his bank account and a plan to build a miniaturized nuclear power plant. Two and a half years later, his company is merging with a publicly traded entity at a $1.2 billion valuation. The story between those two facts is the one worth telling. A Cold DM and a Calculated Leap The first move Sam Gibson made toward building Hadron...