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Hosted by Michael Houck · business · EN-US
Interviews with world-class startup founders about their unique paths to uncover tactical insights they've learned about how to fundraise, grow, validate, hire, scale, and lead teams while building your startup. Get full access to detailed takeaways on each episode, additional case studies, and more at join.foundingjourney.com
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Founding Journey is hosted by Michael Houck. The show has published 19 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "How Arjun Mahadevan Raised $1 Million In 2 Minutes" (2 April 2025, 59 minutes), "How Stella Garber Raised $5M To Build An AI Task Manager" (15 March 2025, 59 minutes), and "How Sahil Chopra Went from Doctor to Startup Founder" (17 January 2025, 51 minutes).
Founding Journey publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 61 minutes across 19 episodes.
Booking probability for Founding Journey is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Founding Journey requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Founding Journey's contact route on record: verified email.
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Michael Houck hosts Founding Journey, a business podcast with 19 episodes published.
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<p>Arjun built a $100M startup by helping other founders incorporate and start their own. Along the way he went through Y Combinator and built an audience of over 80,000 people on X and LinkedIn.</p><p><br></p><p>📚...
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<p>Stella has worked in startups her entire career. She started previous companies and even got the opportunity to join Trello as an early employee. She scaled with the company all the way through it’s acquisition by...
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<p>Sahil Chopra left his medical practice after being trained at Harvard and UCLA to become a startup founder. Now, he's solving the silent sleep epidemic alongside his brother.</p> <p><br></p> <p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks...
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<p>Adam Nathan raised $45M at a $150M valuation for his startup, Almanac. But then he realized he needed to pivot… and he pulled it off. He's now on track to go from 0 - $10M in revenue in just 15 months with the...
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<p>This is how Luke got a $100,000 investment to drop out of college and turned it into a $27 million startup. He breaks down how to identify and build your own vertical SaaS business too.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks...
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<p>Aleksandr helped one person hire an engineer. A few years later, it's turned into a $16 million, largely bootstrapped business.</p><p><br>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p><br>Follow...
<p>Pujun Bhatnagar dropped out of Stanford, Harved, and MIT to build startups. He decided to build in an unsexy industry and it worked. He doubled Kintsugi’s valuation to $75M in 3 months.</p><p><br>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks...
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<p>This is how Tibo Louis-Lucas built a new startup every month... until one took off and turned into a $10 million exit.</p><p><br>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → https://deck-database.carrd.co</p><p><br>Follow Tibo's...
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<p>This is how Adam raised over $3 million for his hiring startup Pangea.app, and why he won’t need to raise again.</p><p><br>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p><br>Follow Adam's journey: <br>🐦...
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<p>Founders who've collectively raised $450 million for their startups explain how their success came from their network and community.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p>(02:00) — Michael...
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<p>This is how Adam raised $137 million for his startup, Pitch, but then turned it into a cashflowing business instead.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p>Follow Adam's journey:<br>🐦 X →...
<p>This is how James raised $24 million and reached 20 million users for his startup, Command AI, with contrarian ideas.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p>Follow James's journey:<br>🐦 X →...
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<p>This is how Zayd Ali sold his first company in high school and immediately started a new one in AI, called Valley, that has raised over $3 million already.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) →...
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<p>This is how Dara sold his first startup to build an AI that can clone anyone online, and raised funding from Keith Rabois for it.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p>Follow Dara's...
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<p>This is how Andrew left his dream job at Google to become the Gatsby of NYC's startup scene, all while securing a permanent visa.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p>Follow Andrew's...
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<p>This is how Sam raised $67M for his startup, Levels, and helped turn one of his co-founders into a successful influencer with nearly a million followers.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) →...
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<p>This is how Steven scaled his startup, Cameo, to become a $1 billion unicorn and how the company has changed since.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p>Follow Steven's journey:<br>🐦 X →...
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<p>This is how Tyler raised $50 million for his startup, beehiiv, to power the newsletter revolution.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p>Follow Tyler's journey:<br>📝 Newsletter →...
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<p>Welcome to the Founding Journey podcast!</p><p><br>Each Thursday, Michael Houck will interview world-class startup founders about their unique paths to uncover tactical insights they've learned about how to...
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