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Hosted by Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton · business · EN · 78 episodes
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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFounder 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.
Founder Mode is hosted by Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton. The show has published 78 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Zoo Animals Are Out" (22 October 2026, 26 minutes), "Google's Storyteller Walked Out with Claire Stapleton" (15 October 2026, 35 minutes), and "Cage or Release Your Agents? with Viktor Petersson & Alex Finn" (8 October 2026, 41 minutes).
Founder Mode publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 78 episodes.
Booking probability for Founder Mode is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Founder Mode requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Founder Mode's contact route on record: verified email.
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Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton hosts Founder Mode, a business show with 78 episodes published.
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Episode #79
EPISODE 79 In this solo episode, Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton dig into a turning point for AI. In 2025, agent misbehavior lived in staged lab experiments, but in 2026, at least four labs have admitted their agents...
Episode #78
EPISODE 78 Claire Stapleton spent twelve years at Google and YouTube writing the company's story, from ghostwriting for Larry Page to running YouTube's social media, before she co-organized the 2018 Google Walkout, when...
Episode #77
EPISODE 77 Viktor Petersson and Alex Finn were two of Founder Mode's earliest guests, and they're back with opposite answers to the biggest question in AI right now: how much should you trust your agents? Viktor...
Episode #76
EPISODE 76 JJ Zhuang, co-founder and CEO of Pretty Good AI, returns to Founder Mode to answer for the predictions he made on the show over a year ago. Kevin and Jason had Claude grade all ten, and JJ defends his record...
Episode #75
EPISODE 75 Kevin and Jason go solo on the week AI stopped asking permission. Jason opens with a Claude Code session that sent a Slack message to a client's CEO instead of drafting it, complete with a "sent from Claude"...
Episode #73
EPISODE 73 Mohammad Moahid has operated multiple companies across e-commerce, consumer electronics distribution, and real estate, and competed for Team Canada as an equestrian. He argues the gap between companies...
Episode #72
EPISODE 72 No guest and no notes on Jason's side, so Kevin runs the board for once. The two dig into the question underneath every pricing decision: what unit of value are you actually selling? Jason retraces...
Episode #70
EPISODE 70 Kevin and Jason go guest-free for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when AI starts sounding like you, posting for you, and filling up your inbox. They open by admitting they ran this very episode...
Episode #69
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...
Episode #68
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...
Episode #67
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...
Episode #66
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...
Episode #65
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
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...
Episode #63
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?"...
Episode #62
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...
Episode #61
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...
Episode #60
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...
Episode #59
<p>EPISODE 59</p><p>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...
Episode #58
<p>EPISODE 58</p><p>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...
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