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Fayl Tales

Hosted by Loveth Ochayi · business · EN-US

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About this Podcast:

"failing" is a normal part of building, especially when you're at the frontier of great innovation. so i sit down with founders and investors and get into the messy version of their story: the pivots, the near-misses, mistakes and everything usually edited out. and i break down jargon and deep dives into the things nobody explains properly.

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What is Fayl Tales about?

"failing" is a normal part of building, especially when you're at the frontier of great innovation. so i sit down with founders and investors and get into the messy version of their story: the pivots, the near-misses, mistakes and everything usually edited out. and i break down jargon and deep dives into the things nobody explains properly.

Who hosts Fayl Tales?

Fayl Tales is hosted by Loveth Ochayi. The show has published 60 episodes to date.

What has Fayl Tales covered recently?

Recent episodes include "three months of cash & $200k burnt ~ Carlos Santini" (26 October 2026, 48 minutes), "uber did not invent ride sharing. here’s who did" (20 October 2026, 58 minutes), and "buzzfeed, facebook and trump. here’s what happened ~ Simon Crerar" (12 October 2026, 34 minutes).

How often does Fayl Tales publish?

Fayl Tales publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 44 minutes across 60 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Fayl Tales?

Booking probability for Fayl Tales is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Fayl Tales requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Fayl Tales's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Fayl Tales?

The strongest fits for Fayl Tales are Business & Management Consulting and Investment Banking & Trading. Fayl Tales has a business audience.

About the host

Loveth Ochayi hosts Fayl Tales, a business podcast with 60 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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    three months of cash & $200k burnt ~ Carlos Santini

    Oct 26, 202648 min

    Carlos Santini grew up in rural Brazil where his mum saved up surgery money to buy him his first computer at 13. He spent his teenage years fixing computers for free at a local shop just to learn. At 23 he landed in...

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    uber did not invent ride sharing. here’s who did

    Oct 20, 202658 min

    Ride sharing. Do you assume that Uber invented ride sharing? Well you would be wrong (as I was). Sunil Paul and Homobiles were the pioneers. Joining me is Kush Patel, one of the most ruthless founders I know. We get...

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    buzzfeed, facebook and trump. here’s what happened ~ Simon Crerar

    Oct 12, 202634 min

    Simon Crerar is the son of a fifth generation printer in Edinburgh. He got his first job at The Times of London in 1999 when they launched their very first website. Moved to Australia for love. Then became the founding...

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    $80k loan at 17, shark tank at 20, vagina on a billboard at 31 ~ Briella Brown

    Oct 5, 202645 min

    Briella Brown started Your Closet at 17 with an $80,000 personal loan from her father. She was making $35,000 a month, dropped out of university, went on Shark Tank, asked for $80,000 for 20% equity and walked out with...

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    how paypal won the first payments war

    Sep 28, 202644 min

    Fayl Safe episode three, PayPal. Specifically, the guy who actually invented online payments and went bankrupt. The startup that began as a Palm Pilot IOU app and accidentally became the biggest payments company in the...

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    six co-founders, no vesting schedules and a $7m hole ~ Patrick Collins

    Sep 21, 20261 hour

    Patrick Collins is a sixth time founder. He pivoted his last company three times, moved it to San Francisco, and then watched a co-founder burn through $7 million in under a year. He took over as CEO, cut the team from...

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    camels. skydiving. fake funeral. somehow its worked ~ Michael McRae

    Sep 14, 202648 min

    Most brands pitch supermarkets with a deck. These two showed up on a camel. Michael McRae was meant to be a lawyer. Instead he ended up selling beer across Tokyo, Singapore and Vietnam with his mate Tom. One morning...

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    your startup will likely fail. here's how to survive it ~ Byron McCaughey

    Sep 7, 202651 min

    Byron McCaughey spent 15 years in Europe working in sports sponsorship, Formula One and advertising. Did an MBA at Imperial College London. Built a fintech startup with his co-founder Henry. Raised £80,000 from 50 MBA...

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    friendster v myspace v facebook

    Aug 31, 202657 min

    Welcome back to fayl safe, the series where I break down startup concepts and history. Episode two. Social media. Specifically why Friendster turned down a $30 million offer from Google, why MySpace sold for $580...

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    turns out hangovers are a business opportunity ~ Tim O'Sullivan

    Aug 24, 202645 min

    Tim O'Sullivan got expelled from his fancy Melbourne private school at 16 for shoplifting on a ski trip. He never went to university. Instead he spent his early twenties throwing parties in Vietnam, bribing police with...

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    two rejections, one pivot, $3.5m ~ Cordelia King

    Aug 17, 202618 min

    The Superstat crew applied to Startmate three times. Got rejected twice. Went from zero to $240,000 in recurring revenue in 12 weeks. And then Blackbird led a $3.5 million pre-seed round. And who are these weapon trio...

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    maggots, robots and australia's most underfunded startup ~ Ryan Woodcock

    Aug 10, 20261h 5m

    Ryan Woodcock joined Goterra as a software developer in a company using maggots and robots to process food waste inside refurbished shipping containers. By the time he left, he was the engineering manager, could...

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    he quit vc to build a city for australia's best founders ~ Akshat Agarwal

    Jul 20, 202626 min

    Akshat Agarwal dropped out of a civil engineering degree, spent four years at Antler watching hundreds of founders try to build companies, helped launch Antler's Middle East fund across Saudi and Dubai, and then walked...

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    the vc pulling back the curtain on why founders fail ~ Nina Wöss

    Jul 13, 202643 min

    Nina Wöss has spent 13 years in VC. She started at SpeedInvest as an intern, became a VC all-rounder, and then left to co-found Female Founders Global and then decided to build a fund on top of that. What could go...

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    first exit at 21, next goal is $10 billion ~ Moritz Lechner

    Jul 6, 202633 min

    Moritz Lechner started his first company at 14 with 100 euros of pocket money. At 15, he pitched on Austria's version of Shark Tank and raised €170,000. At 21, he sold the company he built to 50 people and millions in...

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    €150m raised, failed launches, layoffs and Europe's #1 ~ Kilian Kaminski

    Jun 29, 202647 min

    Hey Crew! Kilian Kaminski was running Amazon's entire refurbished program in Europe. He could see the opportunity. He could see Amazon had no intention of building it. So naturally, he quit and decided to do it himself...

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    blew €1.5M then built a $1.2B fund ~ Oliver Holle

    Jun 22, 202637 min

    Hey Crew! Oliver Holle founded his first company as a PhD student at Columbia in the late 1990s. Raised money. Opened four offices. Hired 20 people. And nearly went personally bankrupt for two and a half years with...

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    d2c is dead. here's what killed it ~ solo ep

    Jun 15, 202631 min

    ★ Do you have a random question or need advice? Pop it into the chat or send them to me!! I get to meet and interview some amazing founders and investors globally, so I'll have it included in an upcoming episode :) ★...

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    go all the way or don't start ~ Daniel Lord-Doyle

    Jun 8, 202633 min

    Hey Crew! Daniel Lord-Doyle started in telemarketing. Taught himself to code on YouTube. Built a laser hair removal e-commerce company during COVID by accident among many other things. And then co-founded Mary...

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    poverty line to APAC hype man ~ Dickie Currer-Ganguli

    Jun 1, 202647 min

    Hey crew, Dickie Currer-Ganguli grew up on the poverty line in Yorkshire with a single mum, joined the army at 20, became a criminal defense and asylum lawyer at 23, moved to Australia at 26, and then found himself...

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