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AI for Founders is where 47,000+ founders learn to build and scale with AI. Hosted by Ryan Estes, a Denver investor, creator, and founder, the show breaks down real strategies from top operators and AI visionaries. AI-ready data, zero-dependency workflows, founder-led distribution, and the tools driving revenue for today’s fastest-growing companies. If you’re a technical or non-technical founder who wants to work smarter, scale faster, and stay competitive, this podcast is your weekly unfair advantage.
aiforfounders.co hosts AI for Founders with Ryan Estes, a business show with 219 episodes published.
Niko Skievaski has been raising venture money since 2013. He co-founded Redox, the healthcare interoperability company that became one of the largest data networks in American health tech, and he watched AI arrive and co
In the beginning, the seeds are everywhere and nothing is talking to each other. That is the exact feeling Jason Katz describes at the top of this What It Do check-in, and if you have ever built anything from zero, your
Brett Hurt has sold companies to IBM, taken one public on NASDAQ, and watched ServiceNow absorb his last one. He is telling you, on the record, that none of it made him happy. That is not a humble brag. It is a warning s
Your best people just got twice as fast. Congratulations. You have a problem. Ross Barnes has seen this movie from the projection booth. Twenty-five years in tech and advertising, ending as Global CTO of a WPP agency he
Necessity Built the Company. Gratitude Kept It Alive. Brad Pitzele was collecting diagnoses faster than he could treat them. Autoimmune arthritis first. Then melanoma, caused by the very drugs prescribed to manage the ar
The Other 8,760 Hours You see the person responsible for your health for somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes, once or twice a year. Netflix gets three hours a day. One of those two relationships has enough data to know y
The Smartest Model on the Planet Will Still Build You a House With No Foundation Mike Vitez has been shipping software since before the word "agentic" meant anything. Ten years leading projects. A computer science backgr
Rob Collie spent 30 years inside the machine, and AI still scared him He was there in 1996, a fresh Vanderbilt grad walking into Microsoft. He led the business intelligence work inside Excel. He was a founding engineer o
Tarun Raisoni built a data center company to roughly $400 million in trailing sales without taking a dollar of outside capital, sold it to a Fortune 500 for $217 million, then walked away from the boat and the fishing ro
Every animal on earth runs on four drives. Humans have a fifth. The question is whether AI feeds it or buries it under a pile of chat windows. That is the cold open Ryan Estes is bringing to a Denver AI panel next Wednes
Your Website Is About to Become a Line Item Matt Hassett spent seven years making byloftie.com beautiful. Now he is fairly sure that beauty is depreciating. Not because the design is bad. Because the customer is changing
Fourteen terminal instances. Fifty-two tabs across three browsers. Six customers, a dozen half-finished workflows, and a Friday morning where your brain simply refuses to boot. That's not leverage. That's a slow-motion c
Trust is the most expensive thing in business, and nobody bills you for it until it is gone. Four nine-figure receivables frauds hit the industry in a single year, and every one of them traces back to the same quiet fail
It is midnight in a mountain town. You have been driving for nine hours, your kids are asleep in the back, and the hotel lobby is empty except for a bell on the counter and a sign that says "ring for service." Nobody com
The happiest day of your founder life might be the emptiest. The wire hits, the champagne pops, and 90 days later the divorce papers get filed, the workouts stop, and you are staring at an earn-out agreement wondering wh
When China cut off rare earth exports, the American car industry came within two weeks of shutting down. Two weeks. That is not a hypothetical, that is the world we live in now, and Jeremy Wrathall saw it coming a decade
Somewhere on a server right now, a striker who does not exist is deciding whether to cut left or right. Nobody scripted the choice. Not even the man who built him. That man is Tal Melenboim, a serial entrepreneur with mo
Your website is lying to you. Right now, while you read this, visitors are hitting a broken form, bailing on a checkout button they can barely see, and bouncing off a page designed for someone else entirely. Eric Schneid
A 6-person team just built in 3 months what took 18 months and $2 million the last time around. That's not a productivity story. That's a story about the ground shifting under an entire trillion-dollar industry. Tim Lidm
Most founders think the endgame is IPO or bust. Todd Furniss built a company that offers a third door: sell to someone who keeps your entire team, hands leadership three to five year employment agreements, and then drops
Tyler Dickerhoof
host of The Tyler Dickerhoof Show podcast · Impact Driven Leader
1 appearance on this show
Ali Hafizji
founder and CEO · Wednesday Solutions
1 appearance on this show
Joris Delanoue
co-founder and co-CEO · Fairmint
1 appearance on this show
Tim Freestone
Chief Marketing Officer · Kiteworks
1 appearance on this show
Jim Ferry
Partner · Volition Capital
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Estes
Kindling Solutions
1 appearance on this show
Jeremy Wrathall
Cornish Lithium
1 appearance on this show
Eric Schneider
Cora
1 appearance on this show
Todd Furniss
AI Squared
1 appearance on this show
Mariam Hakobyan
Softr
1 appearance on this show
Hugo Nordell
Encube
1 appearance on this show
Tom Bachant
Unthread
1 appearance on this show
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