Jun 11, 202620 min
Luke Mercado built Daybreak Health from zero to Series B, got angry and bitter about the US healthcare system, and walked away eleven months after the raise. Then he co-founded Foam AI, a debugging agent that figures...
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No Fixed Route
Hosted by Girum Tihtina · business · EN
About this Podcast:
No Fixed Route is a podcast about the nuanced route founders take to get to Series B...for founders tired of generic advice. We talk about the stuff nobody has time to write blog posts about yet incredibly important: hiring, GTM, scaling your team, surviving the messy middle.No Fixed Route is also the very first podcast to record inside a moving Zoox Autonomous Vehicle.It is hosted by Girum Tihtina, CEO of Doctours, ex-meta engineer, 2x founder, professional startup enthusiast. Girum has lived the Series A/B grind and knows where generic advice falls flat.
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What is No Fixed Route about?
No Fixed Route is a podcast about the nuanced route founders take to get to Series B...for founders tired of generic advice. We talk about the stuff nobody has time to write blog posts about yet incredibly important: hiring, GTM, scaling your team, surviving the messy middle.
Who hosts No Fixed Route?
No Fixed Route is hosted by Girum Tihtina. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
What has No Fixed Route covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Luke Mercado on Foam AI, Debugging Agents and the B2B Sale Nobody Talks About" (11 June 2026, 20 minutes), "Priyanka: Why She Chose to Give Up Her Startup and Has Zero Regrets" (25 May 2026, 30 minutes), and "She Made a Daily Game. Someone Broke Up Over It. Then a VC Called About His Wife." (16 May 2026, 38 minutes).
How often does No Fixed Route publish?
No Fixed Route publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 13 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on No Fixed Route?
Booking probability for No Fixed Route is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. No Fixed Route requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. No Fixed Route's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch No Fixed Route?
The strongest fits for No Fixed Route are Business & Management Consulting and IT Services & Software Development. No Fixed Route has a business audience.
About the host
Girum Tihtina hosts No Fixed Route, a business podcast with 13 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- May 25, 202630 minS0
<p>Priyanka co-founded Galen AI, a personal health intelligence platform that connected your lab results, wearables, genetic testing and EHR data into one reasoning layer that gave you proactive personalized health...
- May 16, 202638 minS0
<p>Helen Huang, founder of Trove and former PM at Microsoft, GitHub, and Zynga, sat down with us in a Zoox autonomous vehicle in San Francisco. Someone emailed her to say they broke up with their girlfriend over her...
- May 14, 202638 minS0
<p>Helen Huang went from digging through 800 job applications with zero offers, to building Trove — the AI-powered daily personality game backed by Betaworks, the studio that incubated Giphy, Bitly, Hugging Face, and...
- May 4, 202618 minS0
<p><br></p><p>Six years ago Oliver Hull was digging clams on the coast of Massachusetts with an anthropology degree. Today he is building Memo, a VC-backed hardware company backed by NVIDIA giving 2.7 billion frontline...
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- Apr 22, 202635 minS0
<p></p><p>It takes nine years on average to be diagnosed with a chronic illness. During those nine years most people are seeing dozens of doctors, waiting months for appointments, and largely not being heard. Marshall...
- Mar 30, 202623 minS0
<p></p><p>Mark Pothen cancelled his lease, moved everything to his parents house, and went to work unpaid at a primary care practice for six months. No salary. No product. No investors. Just him and his co-founder...
- Mar 23, 202638 minS0
<p></p><p>Most businesses send out an invoice and assume the money is coming. It is not. The gap between billing and actually collecting is where millions of dollars quietly disappear every single month and Jerry Shu...
- Mar 19, 202633 minS0
<p>A founder who arrived in San Francisco knowing two people, pivoted her company mid accelerator when OpenAI changed everything, and has sat through ten days of silent meditation twice sits down inside a moving...
No Fixed Route
How Abrar Rahman Sold His Startup Using a Jay-Z Line
Mar 16, 202636 minS0<p>A former founder who was publishing AI research in high school sits down inside a moving driverless Zoox to unpack one of the most honest startup stories you will hear this year. Abrar Rahman built Dorsal FYI to...
Mar 8, 202635 minS0<p>Discover the surprising story of Ryan Benmalek, an AI entrepreneur who skipped high school and entered college at 14. What will you learn from his journey in building robot companions and designing innovative...
No Fixed Route
Microsoft Word is KILLING Your Brain Cells (And We Fixed It) | No Fixed Route Podcast Ep. 7
Mar 6, 202635 minS0<p>In this episode, we sit down with Andrea, founder of Donna, a revolutionary document editor designed to replace the outdated "single page" interface of Google Docs and Microsoft Word.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are a...
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Avant Health CEO & Co-Founder, Sid Sinha: 70% of Employees Don't Know Who Pays Their Healthcare
Feb 12, 202642 minS0<p>Sid Sinha is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Avant Health, an AI-native third-party benefits administrator reinventing employer-sponsored healthcare. Founded in January 2024, Avant has partnered with 3 of the top 10...
Feb 11, 202619 minS0<p>Ben Warren is the CTO & Co-Founder @ Mesa, an AI-native code forge built for AI agents and autonomous coding systems. Mesa runs agents in sandboxes mounted to your repo, so reviews happen with full codebase context...
Feb 11, 202625 minS0<p>Ayush Garg is the CEO & Co-founder @ AnswerThis, a YC-backed AI research platform that helps over 250,000 researchers accelerate scientific discovery. Built by a two-person team, AnswerThis went from $800 MRR to...
Recent guests
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Helen Huang
Associate Professor, Wear Yellow Proudly
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Ben Warren
CTO & Co-Founder, Tumwater Wealth Management
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Priyanka
Galen AI
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Jerry Shu
Daylit
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