Podcast

🎧🍌 How a Hillbilly in Nevada Bootstrapped a $140M ARR Manufacturing Company | Jim Belosic, SendCutSend

Using software to automate factories, creative ways to bootstrap a sheet metal business, using speed to compete with overseas competitors, and how to…

May 4

🎧🍌 The $5B Venture Growth Buyout Playbook | Alex Israel, CEO of Metropolis

Inside Metropolis AI rollup strategy of parking lot operators, why parking never institutionalized as an asset class, and building "Buy Now" for the…

Apr 24

🎧🍌 The Future of AI, Science, and Learning | Karthik Duraisamy, University of Michigan

Inside Michigan's new partnership with the OpenClaw Foundation, how AI has transformed scientific research, why some academics think AI is a fad, and…

Apr 20 • Turner Novak 🍌🧢

🎧🍌 How US Healthcare Actually Works | Nikhil Krishnan, Out of Pocket

The WWII tax loophole that broke it forever, where AI is seeing real adoption in healthcare today, why most medical software sucks, and the most common…

Apr 9 • Turner Novak 🍌🧢

🎧🍌 Sophia Amoruso | Building Nasty Gal, Turning Down $400M, and Losing it All

Lessons bootstrapping to $28M revenue, downsides to raising at stretched valuations, reflecting on failing publicly, how to build a brand in 2026, and…

Apr 2 • Turner Novak 🍌🧢

🎧🍌 Footwork’s Secret Sauce | Mike Smith, Nikhil Basu Trivedi

37 questions to ask when starting a VC firm, inside Canva's seed pitch in 2014, lessons scaling Stitch Fix from $0 to $1B revenue in five years, how…

Mar 26 • Turner Novak 🍌🧢

🎧🍌 Inside Hanover Park: The AI-Native Fund Administrator | Chris Hladczuk

Building an AI-enabled service business, helping fund CFO's adopt AI, creating the financial infrastructure for $100 trillion in assets, and why you…

Mar 19

🎧🍌 Inside Spellbook: Canada’s Fastest Growing AI Company | Scott Stevenson, Co-Founder & CEO

Launching 100 products in 3 years to hyper growth, why legal AI is so hot today, building network effects in vertical AI, why fine-tuning models was…

Mar 13

🎧🍌 Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta on the Past, Present, & Future of Software

Inside the $2.5B Manus acquisition, lessons from cloud companies beating on-prem competitors, why software incumbents should be making big AI…

Mar 5

🎧🍌 Inside Serval: The System of Intelligence for IT | Jake Stauch

Serval just announced a $75M Series B led by Sequoia. Six months earlier, they didn't know if the company was going to work.

Mar 2

🎧🍌 Garry Tan on the Past, Present, and Future of YC

Inside YC's 20-year evolution, how to ace the YC interview, lessons from Brian Chesky, a 55x DPI Fund 1, tech optimism, and why everyone should care…

Feb 19 • Turner Novak 🍌🧢

🎧🍌 Fixing the Health Metric No One Tracks | Miranda Nover, Fort Health

Building the strength company, how healthcare is consumerizing, building a hardware startup, the launch video industrial complex, how to use social…

Feb 13 • Turner Novak 🍌🧢

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