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Hosted by Mash (Michael) Ashley · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 10 episodes
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Most startups don’t fail because the idea is bad.They fail because the journey is harder than expected.Inspiring Founders explores what it really takes to survive and succeed in entrepreneurship. Each episode features honest conversations with founders and startup leaders about customer discovery, risk, resilience, and building companies that don’t just launch — but last.No shortcuts. No startup theater. Just the real work behind innovation.
Mash (Michael) Ashley hosts Inspiring Founders Podcast, a business show with 10 episodes published.
This interview with Mykyta Tretynko, the founder of Billioncore joins us over Zoom to talk about his founder journey, what it's like being a startup in Ukraine, and why he is on a mission to stop fraudsters and chargebac
Handoyo is the founder and CEO of Lyrid, a cloud infrastructure platform he describes as "Airbnb for data centers" — aggregating compute, storage, and networking from local data centers and hyperscalers into one platform
What does it take to bridge the gap for entrepreneurs in overlooked geographies? In this episode of Inspiring Founders, Mash sits down with Natalia Bishop—a serial tech founder and the visionary behind Story and Wild. Or
The One Trait Every Successful Founder Needs (It’s Not What You Think)What does it take to build, grow, and exit multiple companies? For serial entrepreneur Tom Shen, the secret isn't a high IQ or a perfect business plan
AI can generate an answer instantly — but that doesn’t mean it’s answering the right question. In this episode of Inspiring Founders, I sit down with Benjamin Baer of DecideWise in downtown San Jose to talk about “decisi
In this episode of Inspiring Founders, Wayne Fenton shares lessons from decades in big tech, multiple startups, and now founding a deep tech company in Santa Cruz. We explore what it really means to become “default alive
Meet Raymond Cheng, Founder and CEO at Decrypt Compliance, a Silicon Valley Startup providing compliance audits and certifications for small and medium sized businesses. If your startup wants to do business with the gove
Meet Sameer Saran, the CEO and Founder of ParkStash a Parking Management Software for Real Estate used by Apartments, Student Housing, Mixed-use Retail Sites, and even Truck Parking. Sameer has been bootstrapping ParkSta
Welcome to another episode of the Inspiring Founders Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Ashley and today we are heading over to San Jose to learn how SJSU supports Startups and Small Businesses at the south end of Silicon V
Join Michael Ashley, AKA MASH, for an interview with PieFi founder Sol Lipman and learn what Pizza has to do with Startups coming out of Santa Cruz, California.
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