tech twitter and the media make successful startups seem like they're overnight successes but in reality most startups (even the most successful ones) have had multiple near-death moments founders rarely talk about this openly, but i LOVED how real Mateo Vega-Sanz🦄 (co-founder and

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was the Day the Earth Stood Still in startup land in March of 2023. It was, after all, the 3rd largest bank failure in the U.S. and the largest since the 2008 Financial Crisis. Someone in the middle of it providing these innovating

"May all of you be saddled with similarly competent critics" Someone named Emily was trying to cancel Mentava Reading 🐮 before it really got started The crime? The audacity of trying to teach 2 and 3-year olds how to read On this episode of Something New, we chat with Niels Hoven 🐮

I don’t think I’ve mentioned my time on food stamps publicly before, but I guess it’s out there now. 🤷‍♂️ Leeor Mushin is a great interviewer, thanks for encouraging me to share some personal backstory and some thoughts on accelerating education!

one of my favorite startup stories of all time: how Niels Hoven 🐮 turned a viral twitter post from a hater into enough waitlist sign-ups for his company Mentava Reading 🐮 to become cash flow positive (and launch its product a year ahead of schedule!) Something New Pod is back with season

On this week's Something New Pod, we chat with Zane Mountcastle from Picogrid, which is building the Unified Platform for Autonomous Systems We chat with Zane on: - How to think about building in defense tech - Why pure software companies won't win and Picogrid's

"The mega trend we didn’t see coming… 😂 Check out this week's episode of Something New with Mike Rosenthal! #itsgood #MegaTrends #venturecapital #SomethingNew Steph Mui Leeor Mushin open.spotify.com/episode/6AXga3…

creator co-founders (or celebrity co-founders) are the new technical co-founders -- i.e. recruiting one for the team will be seen as a given for most startups one day we really enjoyed talking about this with Mike Rosenthal, the CEO of It's Good, a Lightspeed-backed restaurant

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the story behind Philz Coffee is incredibly underrated: ✨ started off as a bodega, which father/son co-founders Phil/Jacob slowly converted into a coffee shop after visiting 1100+ coffee shops and restaurants for inspiration/learning ✨ Jacob dropped out of school and took

Hallow (a catholic meditation app that's raised $100M+) is proof that what VCs think of your idea doesn't matter Especially when Hallow was getting started in 2018, most VC's perceived religion as uncool/un-investable (and despite it still not being the hottest industry - aka,

Was one of my favorite conversations! Thanks for having me on 🙏

Excited to have Patrick Gilligan from Somethings this week on Something New Pod Somethings was founded in 2022 with a goal of enabling teens to navigate their difficulties, transition into adulthood, and be confident. The company was founded by Patrick who realized from his own

'@MichaelSayman is the definition of "you can just do things" - he started building iPhone apps at 13 as a way to support his family through financial struggles (and had several hits that were making $12k+ / month) - got recruited to join Facebook by Zuckerberg himself at 17 -

Had incredible time chatting with Michael Sayman My favorite quote: “I was thinking about how we can communicate with the internet and not through it” 🧠

we interviewed Andrej Safundzic, ceo/co-founder of Lumos ($60M+ raised from a16z, neo, scale, and more) for this week's Something New Pod <3 and talk about: ✨ why optimizing for the "right" market when starting a company is overrated ✨ the signals to look for when

IYKYK Steph Mui Leeor Mushin Something New Pod #34 spilling AfterHour tea soon? 👀

from the outside, Tennr seems like an overnight success -- the company raised their seed, Series A, and Series B (announced a month ago lead by Lightspeed) all in 2024 🤯 but what's not as well known is that Trey Holterman and his co-founders spent almost 2 years trying to find