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On Build Mode, TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield Editor Isabelle Johannessen cuts through the startup mythology to uncover how founders survive the brutal early days, navigate impossible funding landscapes, and somehow keep their companies — and sanity— intact. Each season, Isabelle is joined by founders, investors, and operators to dig into specific aspect s of the startup journey, from creative go to market strategies to founder mental health. The interviews are full of candid startup wisdom—think cap table drama, co-founder breakups, and pivot panic. So , if you’re starting a company or or...

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Earl Cole, The SMART Tire Company 23.04.2021 48:21

On this week's show, we welcome Earl Cole, winner of Survivor: Fiji, but more importantly, the CEO and co-founder of The SMART Tire company. His startup is working with NASA to commercialize metal tire technology first developed to provide future Mars rovers with nearly indestructible wheels for tackling the toughest terrain, and Cole tells us all about how his background as a serial entrepreneur,...

Brie Code, TRU LUV 16.04.2021 50:17

This week's guest is Brie Code, founder and CEO of TRU LUV. In Brie's own words, TRU LUV is building "ritual and emotionally-conscious AI," which sounds ambitious and potentially world-changing because it is. Brie's background as a game developer led her to explore alternate types and motivations for game-like experiences, and that resulted in constructing AI in a mobile app that espouses a "tend-...

Iman Abuzeid, Incredible Health 09.04.2021 48:36

Incredible Health coverage on TechCrunch: Incredible Health updates its healthcare career platform to help nurse hiring cope with COVID Incredible Health’s hiring platform for nurses gets $15M led by Andreessen Horowitz Have feedback about the show? Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/found Found posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted...

Introducing TechCrunch’s new podcast 31.03.2021 1:50

Join us weekly as we talk to founders from around the world, about why they took the leap into starting a company, what kinds of problems they ran into, and how they solved them — or maybe didn’t! We cover everything from pitching VCs, to focusing your product development plans, to what surprised people most about the founding experience. Subscribe now, and come back to hear our first full episode...