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Hosted by Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 68 episodes
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Founder Mode is a podcast for builders—whether it’s startups, systems, or personal growth. It’s about finding your flow, balancing health, wealth, and productivity, and tackling challenges with focus and curiosity. Each week, you’ll gain actionable insights and fresh perspectives to help you think like a founder and build what matters most.
Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton hosts Founder Mode, a business show with 68 episodes published.
EPISODE 69 Kevin and Jason go solo for an episode that started as a walk-and-talk and turned into a working session on leverage. Kevin opens with the "subject line trick," his habit of dropping an email subject into Clau
EPISODE 68 Jason Cohen has spent decades building companies including WP Engine, and nearly 20 years writing practical advice for founders at A Smart Bear. In this episode, he joins Kevin and Jason to unpack his new book
EPISODE 67 Anthony Ng Monica built and exited a global retail-tech company operating in forty countries, and in this episode he tells Kevin and Jason what that decade cost him and what he learned fixing it. He walks thro
EPISODE 66 No guest this week, just Kevin and Jason locking the door to run a live diagnostic on their own companies. The prompt: name the single bottleneck that sets the speed for everything else, then rethink it from f
EPISODE 65 On this episode, hosts Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton flip to the other side of the ledger: the unsexy operational and financial decisions that actually determine what a founder walks away with. Instead of
EPISODE 64 In this guest-free Founder Mode episode, Kevin and Jason run through five stories from the last thirty days to answer one question: is AI actually making your company better, or just busier? They open on Anthr
EPISODE 63 Kevin and Jason go solo for a no-guest, no-filter breakdown of everything that happened to them in the past week. Kevin recaps the call center conference where one simple question, "What's your stack?", expose
EPISODE 62 Sahib has built from zero, survived chaos, and lived to tell the unvarnished version. In this episode he traces a path from hosting Airbnb guests at his family hotel to building a multi-million-dollar services
EPISODE 61 In this episode, Hampton co-founder and co-CEO Joe Speiser joins Kevin and Jason to unpack the lessons behind a career of 10-plus startups — including the one that cost him a hundred-million-dollar outcome alm
EPISODE 60 In this Best Of compilation, Kevin and Jason revisit the standout moments from the last 20 or so episodes of Founder Mode and surface a clear pattern: the founders breaking through aren't chasing the shiny new
EPISODE 59 Scott Francis spent nearly two decades building BP3 across mobile, cloud, automation, and now AI before stepping back to help other founders navigate the same path. In this episode, Scott unpacks why process o
EPISODE 58 Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup methodology and author of the new book Incorruptible, joins Kevin and Jason for a conversation about what happens after a company starts working — and why success makes y
EPISODE 57 Brent Csutoras has spent nearly two decades inside Reddit, Digg, and the message-board underbelly of the internet - and he joins Kevin and Jason to explain why the human voice is now the most valuable thing in
EPISODE 56 Jose Li, founder and CEO of 71lbs, joins Kevin and Jason to break down how he turned a frustration most companies tolerate, opaque and overcharged shipping invoices, into a 14-year-old business that has saved
EPISODE 55 Kevin and Jason tackle the three things every founder pretends they have under control: sleep, the first 90 days of taking over a company, and the say-no muscle. Kevin explains why sleep is the ultimate perfor
EPISODE 54 Kevin and Jason break down why Anthropic is out of compute, why that's actually a strategy, and what it means for everyone using Claude right now. They dig into the Mythos model as the best marketing moment in
EPISODE 53 In this episode, Kevin and Jason sit down with Shain Noor, co-founder of Silvia, an AI-powered personal CFO built to help people reason through financial decisions, not just track them. Shain explains why the
EPISODE 52 Jason Shafton and Kevin Henrikson unpack where AI is genuinely useful and where it starts to create more noise than leverage, using examples from AI email triage, long chat memory drift, and agentic workflows.
EPISODE 51 Courtney Spritzer breaks down how she built, scaled, and monetized a community-first business by starting with conversations instead of a business model, and why most founders confuse audiences with real commu
EPISODE 50 Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton unpack the reality of working with AI agents, why they feel more “broken” than chatbots when they fail, and what it actually takes to make them useful in real workflows. They
Scott Francis
Former CTO · Fujitsu
1 appearance on this show
Eric Ries
creator of the Lean Startup method, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, author of Incorruptible · Long-Term Stock Exchange
1 appearance on this show
Dennis Pilarinos
Unblocked
1 appearance on this show
Jason Fried
Founder of Basecamp · 37signals
1 appearance on this show
Jose Li
71lbs
1 appearance on this show
Shain Noor
Silvia
1 appearance on this show
Kevin Michaluk
Clicks
1 appearance on this show
Ronke Oyekunle
Neptune
1 appearance on this show
Stephanie Joyce
Attune
1 appearance on this show
Jay Motley
MindWell Health
1 appearance on this show
Allen Berg
Allen Berg Racing Schools
1 appearance on this show
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