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Hey, I'm Joshua Eidelman, Founder and CEO of NeoWork. Throughout my career, I've explored the hidden challenges founders face. From creating an AR startup to working at Bird during hypergrowth, I've had countless discussions about founders' struggles. I'm now on a journey to share important stories and insights with founders worldwide. I'll explore tech leadership's hidden struggles and triumphs, providing a platform for honest discussions, while eating delicious empanadas.
NeoWork hosts Founders and Empanadas, a business show with 58 episodes published.
At 26, Yusif Gurbanli has already worked at CERN, traded at J.P. Morgan, built aircraft for NASA, and finished a PhD reconstructing human knees with AI. Most people would call that scattered. Yusif calls it the whole str
Dr. Myra Ahmad graduated from medical school in 2022, looked at the system she'd just trained inside, called it dystopian, and decided to build something outside of it instead of starting a residency. Three years later,
Dr. Myra Ahmad graduated from medical school in 2022, looked at the system she'd just trained inside, called it dystopian, and decided to build something outside of it instead of starting a residency. Three years later,
Rand Fishkin built Moz from a struggling web-design agency into a $60 million software company and watched venture capital quietly turn it from a business that served customers into one that served investors. His verdict
Rand Fishkin built Moz from a struggling web-design agency into a $60 million software company and watched venture capital quietly turn it from a business that served customers into one that served investors. His verdict
Jenna Reback can taste words. Her own name tastes like blueberries, which is why she named her company Blueberry. She has synesthesia, a rare neuro-sensory condition that made childhood disorienting and lonely, and force
Most social apps were built to make you feel connected without requiring you to actually be. Sanjay Guruprasad has been building against that assumption for eight years. His thesis: the only online interaction that repli
Andrea Mazzocchi defended her PhD, applied to Y Combinator, and watched the country shut down for COVID all on the same weekend. That was May 2020. By the end of the year, she had a wet lab running, a seed round closing,
Starting in 2003, years before anyone was using the term, Yu-kai Chou began developing what would become the Octalysis Framework: a model of human motivation built around 8 core drives that influence every decision we ma
Jessica Murrey won a Regional Emmy at 24 for an anti-child abuse campaign, then spent seven years training young activists and former extremists in countries recovering from genocide and civil war: Myanmar, Burundi, Nige
Sahin Boydas moved from Turkey to San Francisco in 2012 with no network, no warm intros, and a conviction that remote work was going to change everything, about a decade before COVID made it unavoidable. What followed wa
Renee Gittins didn't take the conventional path. She built her own. She started as a biomedical engineer, then walked away from biotech at 21 to teach herself game development from scratch: moonlighting on her own game w
Adam Lieb sold his first gaming website to IGN at age 11. Before he could drive, he was earning $10,000 a week selling virtual goods in MMORPGs. Before he graduated college, he was running a 25-site gaming network doing
Tim Morten led production on StarCraft II at Blizzard before founding Frost Giant Studios. In this conversation, he breaks down the economic forces reshaping game development: from the oversaturation crisis (20,000+ game
Alex Stewart didn’t raise a round. He didn’t move to San Francisco. He didn’t “grind” 100 hours a week. He built Teamtown, a growing design agency, by doing things differently. This week on Founders & Empanadas, Joshua E
Most kids’ first interaction with the internet is lying about their age. Kieran Donovan is building the fix. Kieran left a top global law firm (he became one of the youngest partners at Latham & Watkins and is the only p
Wilian Iralzabal didn’t leave Google to “be a Webflow guy.” He left because he wanted to design a business he could live with and then built one that ships at enterprise scale. Cuban immigrant at 8. Door-to-door sales at
Brianna Carney runs CrewBloom across 20+ countries and is building Betty, a voice AI that handles outbound qualification so humans can spend more time on higher-value work. Her operating system is disarmingly simple: wor
From Zirtual’s Overnight Collapse to Adios: How Maren Kate Rebuilt and Bet on Reuse At 27, Maren Kate Donovan was running a 400-person remote company doing roughly $1M/month. Then, in a single day, Zirtual shut down. Ins
What happens when a hardcore operator decides to build for the physical world? Denis Lussault has scaled companies where things actually move: robots, vending machines, and industrial systems that keep the real world run
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Founders and Empanadas is hosted by NeoWork. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 58 episodes.
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