The Founder Initiative
A podcast by Adam ODonnell
194 Episoade
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Real Pitch of a $2B VC, Cybersecurity Founder, Ajay Gulati & Sierra Ventures's Partner Vignesh Ravikumar
Publicat: 10.09.2025 -
a16z Invested; $231M Raised Sub 2-years; Decagon's Founder, Jesse Zhang & Amex Ventures's Managing Director, Kevin Weber; Building & Funding Unicorns
Publicat: 09.09.2025 -
YC S24 -Accepted After 3:00am Interview, Hitting PMF Via Onboarding Research?
Publicat: 02.09.2025 -
Accepted to YC, no product, website, or co-founder: Coval's CEO, Brooke Hopkins; PMF & funding journey
Publicat: 26.08.2025 -
a16z & Sequoia Invested in Rillet; Nic's Journey to PMF & Closing $100M+ In Funding
Publicat: 21.08.2025 -
[$50M+ Raised] From 4 Weeks To Shutdown To Round Closed; Metadata's Funding & Growth Story
Publicat: 20.08.2025 -
Stanford Dropout Raises $42M; Teddy Solomon, Founder of Fizz
Publicat: 19.08.2025 -
[VC Pitch] YC Founder Pitches NEA ($25B AUM) Partner in San Francisco
Publicat: 14.08.2025 -
Uber's Former Head of AI; Now Founder of Proshort; PMF Journey & Landing First Customer
Publicat: 13.08.2025 -
[$200M VC] How To Cold Email A VC, Importance of Founder Evangelism; Urban Innovation Fund's Julie Lein
Publicat: 12.08.2025 -
Harvard Dropout Builds Fastest Fintech App To Hit 1M Downloads, Raises $47M; Steven Wang, Co-Founder of dub
Publicat: 24.07.2025 -
MasterClass's Pre-Revenue Investor, Alex Gurevich, Managing Director, Javelin Ventures; Top Changes In Early Stage Investing, Investment Decisions, etc
Publicat: 22.07.2025 -
[Stealth Founder] $7.5M Round, Blok's Co-Founder, Tom Charman; First Customers, Closing Round, & Moving to San Francisco
Publicat: 21.07.2025 -
[Real VC Pitch] $5B Lux Capital Partner, Shaq vs. ex Google/Apple Engineer, Founder Hoa
Publicat: 16.07.2025 -
0-600 Customers: How Dan Bladen, Hit PMF After A Massive Pivot - and Landed Intel & Porsche
Publicat: 15.07.2025 -
(YC W21) Indian Startup Denied 3x by YC, Accepted 4th; Sarthak Goel, Founder of Invoid
Publicat: 15.07.2025 -
Small Town Founder, Got Into YC Without Pedigree; Joseph Johnson, CEO, LedgerUp
Publicat: 09.07.2025 -
[$25M Raised] Getting Into YC, Top Fundraising Learnings & Hitting PMF, Matthew Watts, Co-Founder, Lendflow
Publicat: 08.07.2025 -
From Rejection to $2.5B GMV: The Product-Market Fit Playbook
Publicat: 01.07.2025 -
[$4B VC] Greycroft's Partner, Mark Terbeek, Behind the Curtain - intros, top sectors, etc
Publicat: 24.06.2025
Helping founders hit PMF, get funded & drive durable growth through podcasting & buyer events (Formerly TheTop.VC)
