Hosted by Joe Wear · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 49 episodes
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Founders & Builders is your go-to channel for in-depth conversations with the world's best startup founders and operators.Whether you’re an aspiring founder, a seasoned entrepreneur, or simply curious about the journey of building your own business, you'll find real-world experiences, and candid advice from successful entrepreneurs who have been in the trenches. Join us as we explore the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, uncover the secrets to startup success, and dive into the future of technology and business. Subscribe to be inspired, informed, and equipped to build something great!
Joe Wear hosts Founders and Builders, a business show with 49 episodes published.
Alex Christie is the co-founder and CTO of Attio — the modern, flexible CRM taking on Salesforce, HubSpot, and a $180 billion market. Attio has raised over $116M from investors including Google Ventures, Balderton, and P
If you're building a business with AI, having a great product is only the beginning. You also need to understand infrastructure, distribution, capital, hiring, commercial strategy, and how to build the right team around
Europe doesn’t need more people saying it should build products and start companies. It needs more rooms where people actually do it. We just got back from a live Founders & Builders episode at Project Europe's Barcelona
Joe and David are the founders of Asteroid, a YC-backed startup building AI browser agents that can automate real work inside the tools we use every day. In this episode, we go deep on why browser agents are such a big d
Satellites scan the Earth thousands of times every day, powering AI, defence, and disaster response. But there’s a critical problem that not many people know about, but that our modern world is hindered by.In this episod
If you’re thinking about starting a business in 2026, or you’ve had an idea sitting in the back of your mind that you haven’t acted on yet... this video is for you.Over the last six months, I’ve interviewed 30 founders a
Henrik Djurestal is the founder of Vorker.ai - a deep AI coworker built specifically for the smallest businesses: one to ten-person teams who need leverage, not headcount. Fresh off raising a €700,000 pre-seed round, Hen
Sam Sihvonen is the CEO of Solu - a precision genomics platform helping hospitals and institutions detect, prevent and control infections before they spread.What began as a diagnostics-focused tool has rapidly expanded a
Lars Rasmussen went from being a broke founder after the dot-com crash to co-founding Google Maps, one of the most important products on the modern internet. Today, billions of people use Google Maps every day without th
Ali Parsa is the CEO of Quadrivia - an AI company creating real-time clinical agents that automate 20 to 30 percent of a clinician’s workload. The goal is simple: reduce the global shortage of medical expertise by turnin
James Green went from a small industrial town in Redditch to becoming a General Partner at CRV, one of the oldest and most respected venture funds in the world.In this special episode filmed in San Francisco, we unpack t
Companies that win are the ones who master go-to-market faster than anyone else - even if it feels uncomfortable, risky or counterintuitive.Mirko Novakovic is the co-founder & CEO of Dash0 - the platform helping engineer
In this episode, Lukas opens up about the real story behind W&B’s $1.7B acquisition, what it was like inside early OpenAI, why most founders move far too slowly, and the surprising truth that you’re almost always earlier
We sat down with one of the most forward-thinking leaders in modern biotech!Dr. Dan Wee is the Chief Execution Officer (CEO) at Enveda Biosciences Enveda is challenging the traditional pharma model. Instead of operating
Yanda Erlich is a serial founder, early Weights & Biases investor, and former Coatue GP who’s helped build and back some of the most important companies in AI.In this episode, Yanda breaks down what really gets founders
Tom Wehmeier from Atomico joined us just hours after stepping off stage, where he presented the annual State of European Tech report - now in its 11th year. This year's message was clear: Europe is experiencing a genuine
Yesterday at Slush 2025, we sat down with one of the most seasoned investors in the global venture landscape. Eric Liaw is a General Partner at IVP - the multi-billion-dollar firm behind companies like Coinbase, Supercel
Today, we’re joined at Slush 2025 by someone right at the centre of one of the most influential AI companies in the world. Gabe Pereyra is the co-founder and President of Harvey - the legal AI powerhouse now used by more
Hussein Kanji breaks down exactly how world-class investors spot billion-dollar companies before anyone else - from identifying new categories to understanding when technological, cultural, or regulatory shifts create on
Yaron Inger is a co-founder of Lightricks, the team behind Facetune and LTX Studio, the company that helped make highquality, mobile creative tools mainstream and is now building video foundation models.In this episode,
Ben Richardson
Actor, filmmaker · Not Normal Academy
1 appearance on this show
David
Head of Product · Spirit Chasers UK
1 appearance on this show
Joe
lawyer-dad · Cornerstone City Church
1 appearance on this show
Ali Parsa
Founder and CEO · Quadrivia
1 appearance on this show
James Green
co-founder and General Partner at DQventures · Brown University
1 appearance on this show
Lukas Biewald
co-founder and CEO · Weights & Biases
1 appearance on this show
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