Phoebe Gates & Sophia Kianni

The Burnouts with Phoebe & Sophia

Business EN ↓ 52 episodes

As former Stanford roommates and now business partners, Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni share their experience as startup founders and the complexities of being young professionals—from financial literacy, social impact, and navigating networking (ever been hit on through LinkedIn?). With exclusive access to top experts, they offer an inside look at their chaotic lives alongside career insights from their network of thought leaders. Watch The Burnouts pursue their dreams while trying to keep their lives from going up in flames. Will they burn out? We’ll find out.

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Phoebe Gates & Sophia Kianni

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Everything We Learned at Stanford in 29 Minutes (Phoebe Gates & Sophia Kianni) 01.04.2025 29:43

Bluetooth tampons, fake assistants, and maxing out on LinkedIn mail credits? That’s entrepreneurship for ya. Phoebe and Sophia are best friends who turned their Stanford dorm room conversations into a business partnership. They’re here to share the good, bad, and ugly parts of founding a company together. Chapters 0:00 - welcome to The Burnouts 0:36 - how we became friends 2:37 - the Stanford c...

Welcome to The Burnouts 28.03.2025 0:55

Burnout is real—and building your career while figuring out who you are? Even harder. Enter The Burnouts: Join best friends Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni as they try to launch their first company and make sense of the chaos that is a career in your 20s. They’re not pretending to have all the answers—but they’re asking the people who just might. Sophia and Phoebe sit down with guests who’ve actua...