I interviewed the co-founder of Google AdSense and he said something that will make a lot of founders uncomfortable. "Don't be stuck on being the number one person. Be number three. Be number four. Be number five." Eytan Elbaz said this. The guy behind a $102M Google

16x founder. $1.5B raised. His advice to every founder? "Ship baby ship." Get it off PowerPoint. Get it into code. Get it into people's hands. Eric Pulier said it directly: you don't know what you're building until you're building it. With AI cutting MVP costs dramatically,

Darren Berkovitz built a $230M company and never waited for an inbound lead. "Everything we hunted. Every single one." His warning to founders who think social media is a sales strategy: "People think, I'm gonna post a video on TikTok and all of a sudden I'm gonna get all

She built a $3 billion platform starting with $3,100 👀 Jessica Jackley co-founded Kiva — $3B in micro loans, 99% repayment rate, 90 countries. "It's gotta be tech, gotta be a unicorn, gotta be done in a certain way. I find it to be a little bit ridiculous." You don't have to

"Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled." No money. No network. No perfect timing. Just keep moving forward. From Episode 5 → link in bio #startups #founders #entrepreneurship #venturecapital #mindset

Google came in with an acquisition offer. Their CEO said no on the spot. 😳 Eytan Elbaz (Google AdSense co-founder, $5B Scopely exit): "I was kicking Jason under the table. Dude, he's not doing it right." They spent the next hour trying to walk a hard no back to a soft no.

A $5B founder told me his biggest wins came from just saying yes. 🤯 Eytan Elbaz (Google AdSense co-founder, $5B Scopely exit) read a book called The Surrender Experiment. It changed how he operated. Opportunities get presented for a reason. Stop trying to control everything.

I interviewed one of the top VCs in the world — Forbes Midas List 4x, led PayPal's first institutional round. He told me SaaS is dying. Every VC he knows is panicking. This is going to radically change how startups get funded. If you're a founder you need to listen up. The

A 16x founder told me his best companies didn't come from brilliant ideas. They came from conversations. From listening. From being in the room with people who actually know what they're doing. Stop trying to invent the next big thing. Start listening for it. → Link in bio

"Two and a half years ago, the machine woke up and said hello." 🤖 Fred Krueger — Stanford PhD, 10 exits, $500M+ — has caught every major tech wave since the 80s. He says AI is the only one that actually matters. "Spend all your time on AI right now. That is the only thing."

He got offered $10M for his company. Said no. 💰 Fred Krueger has 10 exits and $500M+ in value. They offered $10M. He said no. They asked what it would take. He said $20M. They walked out of the room. Three weeks later, they came back at $15M. He took it. Stock doubled. Real

My boss told me at 26: everybody poops. Every CEO and investor you're intimidated by has the same fears and anxieties as you. Stop performing. Start connecting. → Link in bio

I interviewed one of the top VCs in the world — Forbes Midas List 4x, led PayPal's first institutional round. He told me technology keeps every industry permanently off balance — and that's exactly where startups win. This is going to change how you pitch your company. If

f you're pitching investors you're already doing it wrong. A 16x founder told me the best fundraisers aren't selling. They're expressing. The difference is certainty. You're going to do this with or without them. The difference is certainty. You're going to do this with or

Your best friend will screw you over $10 million. Not because they're a bad person. Because money reveals sides of people you've never seen before. The $330M founder told me: memorialize everything in writing. Especially equity. Have you had that conversation with your

I interviewed one of the most prolific founders in tech — 10 exits, $500M+ — and he told me we're already in the golden age of AI. This is going to radically change how founders build. Your MVP costs are dropping. Your time to market is shrinking. The moat you thought you had is