The Revamped Founder

Follow Chris: https://twitter.com/chrishlad About Chris: After graduating from Yale university and working at Goldman Sachs for more than a year, Chris quit his job at Goldman Sachs in order to join a startup. He joined Meow as the 9th employee in the company and is currently serving as the Chief Revenue Officer at Meow. In this episode, we talk about why do people really join startups, what compe...

Follow Polina: https://twitter.com/polina_marinova About Polina: Polina Marinova Pompliano is the founder of The Profile, a new media company that features longform profiles of successful people and companies each week. Previously, she spent five years at FORTUNE where she wrote more than 1,300 articles and earned the trust of prominent investors and entrepreneurs. As the author and editor of Term...

Follow Andrew: https://twitter.com/romansventures/ About Andrew: Andrew is a venture capitalist, and the founder and GP of 7BC VC. He is a successful VC-backed entrepreneur, author of Masters of Blockchain, Digital Assets & the New Capital Markets, Masters of Corporate Venture Capital, and The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital: Inside Secrets from the Leaders in the Startup Game, former...

Follow Manan: https://twitter.com/mananm Manan's father immigrated to the United States in the 90s from India and Manan is practically one of the first generation of immigrants in the country as of now. Now, Manan is the co-founder and General Partner at Unshackled which is a pre-seed fund dedicated to investing in and unlocking opportunities for immigrant entrepreneurs. In this episode we tal...

Follow Amber: https://twitter.com/AmberIllig The Council: https://thecouncil.co/ In this episode we talk about Investing as an Operator, What do Operators Invest in, Why Should Founders Raise Money from Operators, Raising a VC fund as an Operator, Building Enough Trust to Get Peoples’ Money, Building Trust with LPs, How should Founders Prepare for Fund Raising, Preparing Pitch Decks as a Founder +...

Follow Dereck: https://twitter.com/dereckwpaul In this episode, we talked about What is Y Combinator?, What is an accelerator? What makes Y Combinator better?, Getting Accepted into Y Combinator, The Biggest Lesson from Y Combinator, How to Pivot? Building a Healthcare Startup, Current State of the Healthcare Industry, Use of AI in Everyday Medical Practices and so much more! Enjoy!

Follow Joseph: https://twitter.com/JosephJacks_ In this episode we talk about What is Open Source, The philosophy of Open Source, Open Source AI vs Closed Source AI, What is a COSS company, How to build a COSS company, How to practically manage a COSS company, Why should founders build “Open Source companies” What is COSS, What is FOSS + so much more Enjoy!

Follow Charles: https://twitter.com/choppen5 In this episode we talked about what was J. Robert Oppenheimer like, How the atomic bomb came into existence, What did J. Robert Oppenheimer think about during the Manhattan project, How to create something innovative, How to spot innovative founders, How does he invest in innovative companies and so much more! Enjoy!

Follow Alexandra: https://twitter.com/a_zatarain In this episode, we talked about the importance of sleep in a founder's life, why are people bullish on sleep, what is a brand, how did EightSleep build it's brand, how to define people whom you have to target with your brand and so much more! Enjoy!

Follow Carmen: https://twitter.com/calfonsorico In this episode we touched upon the economics of a VC fund, What should founders expect from VCs, What do VCs expect from founders, what happens after a company raises money, What are investor updates and so much more! Enjoy!

Follow Jeff: https://twitter.com/jeffseibert In this episode, we talk about the story of the Crashlytics acquisition, a $100M acquisition, what is the difference between an acquisition and selling a company, how the equity of each team member changes after an acquisition, building a world-class team, finding incredible co-founders, what is an incredible product, how to build an incredible product...

Follow Sharath- https://twitter.com/5harath In this episode, we talk about how can early stage startups build their communities, what is a community, is it even important to create a community, how can you create your community as an early stage startup, how to build a community practically and so much more! Enjoy!

Follow Anthony- https://twitter.com/APompliano In this episode, we talk about what leadership lessons Anthony learned in the army which more founders should inculcate in their lives, what makes a great leader, how to become a winner founder, how to build a winner team, the art of communication as a founder! We talked about so much more! Enjoy!

In this episode, we talk about how Jason built a company which has created one of the best project management tools on the internet such as Basecamp which is used by millions of people worldwide, what did they learn from Jeff Bezos after he invested in Basecamp, how they build revolutionary products, his thoughts on mentors. We also talked about the popular book he co-authored, "Rework"...

Follow Danielle- https://twitter.com/DStrachman In this episode, we have Danielle Strachman joining us. Danielle is the co-founder and GP of 1517 fund, which is one of the few funds in the world focusing on people who are just starting out. In this episode we talk about Why Danielle invests in young people, how can young people build something big, what are some things which she thinks are importa...

In this episode, we have Michael Kim joining us. He is the founder of Cendana Capital, which is a very well known Fund of Funds (FoF). In this episode, we talk about, what is a Fund of Funds, How do VC funds raise money, what should founders know about VC funds and so much more! I hope you enjoy! Cheers, Advik

Follow Martin- https://twitter.com/martingtobias In this episode, we talk about how Martin spots founders who have the potential to build billion dollar companies, how do VC funds work?, how does he make his angel investments, his love for poker and how it corelates with investing + so much more! ENJOY! Cheers, Advik

Follow Chris- https://twitter.com/_cturner Moonrise- https://moonrise.com/ In this episode we talk about the future of learning, homeschooling, education, what is wrong with the education system, how to improve the education system with Chris Turner, who is the founder of https://moonrise.com/

In this episode we talk about improving the education system and learning new things as a founder with Michael Strong Follow Michael- https://twitter.com/flowidealism

Follow Steph- https://twitter.com/StephNass In this episode, we talk about everything a first time startup founder needs to know to raise funds with Steph, who is the founder of OpenVC. Enjoy

In this episode, we talk with Zack Anselm, the founder of therr.app. We talk about social media, virtual reality, metaverse, AR in metaverse and so many more cool things! Enjoy!

Follow Manuel - https://twitter.com/supermanuelsaez In this episode we talk about industrial design, Manuel's journey of building a subscription based biking company, founders' mental health and becoming the best version of yourself. This is a truly incredible episode! Enjoy

Follow Maxime- https://twitter.com/maximehugodupre/ In April 2023, Twitter increased the price of the Twitter API to $42000! This caused Maxime's business to shut down operations. He did not give up and kept at it! Maxime is one of the best indie hackers I know and this is an incredible episode! ENJOY!

Follow Marcus- https://twitter.com/BielMarcus1 Maildroppa- https://maildroppa.com/ An incredible conversation with Marcus Biel, the founder of maildroppa.com. In this episode we talk about how to email marketing, AI, development and an incredible conversation! ENJOY

Follow Matthias- https://twitter.com/bohlenlabs An incredible conversation with Matthias Bohlen, the founder of 2quiet2market. In this episode we talk about how to market something as an introvert ENJOY