Futureproof Founder is the podcast for founders and executive leaders scaling companies from startup to $30M and beyond. Hosted by five-time founder Jeff Mains, each episode delivers real-world leadership insights, hard-earned lessons, and practical strategies for navigating growth. Tuesdays feature candid founder stories. Thursdays bring actionable playbooks from top operators and experts on AI, go-to-market, team building, leadership, and more. Real stories. Real decisions. Practical intelligence for what comes next.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFutureproof Founder is the podcast for founders and executive leaders scaling companies from startup to $30M and beyond. Hosted by five-time founder Jeff Mains, each episode delivers real-world leadership insights, hard-earned lessons, and practical strategies for navigating growth. Tuesdays feature candid founder stories. Thursdays bring actionable playbooks from top operators and experts on AI, go-to-market, team building, leadership, and more.
Recent episodes include "436 | The Founder's Guide to SaaS Pricing in the AI Era: Seat-Based, Usage-Based, or Hybrid? | Roee Hartuv" (29 October 2026, 43 minutes), "435 | The VC Incentives Every Founder Must Understand Before Taking Institutional Money | Calvin Cooper" (27 October 2026, 50 minutes), and "434 | Founder Identity Crisis: How to Let Go, Scale, and Build a Legacy That Outlasts You | Hanna Bauer" (22 October 2026, 49 minutes).
Futureproof Founder Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes.
Booking probability for Futureproof Founder Podcast is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Futureproof Founder Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Futureproof Founder Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #436
AI didn’t just change the product. It changed the cost structure underneath it. Classical SaaS could run at 85% to 95% gross margins because serving the next customer cost almost nothing. With AI, every interaction...
Episode #435
Most founders don’t realize what changes when venture capital enters the business. A $5 million check returning $50 million may sound like a win, but for a large fund, that outcome can still fall short. Before taking...
Episode #434
Seventy percent of digital transformations fail, and the software usually isn’t the problem. The people, processes, and culture weren’t ready for the change. In this episode, Hanna Bauer explains why every system needs...
What do you do when your revenue disappears completely? After eight months without a single order, Tom Kubiniec was preparing to sell his house to keep the business alive. Instead of doubling down on the same market, he...
Episode #432
A software implementation can be delivered on time and on budget, then fail the moment people refuse to use it. In this episode, Jeff Mains talks with Deborah Kaminetzky, founder of De Facto Project Management, about...
Daman Grewal grew a logistics company from $1 million to $24 million in four years, working across dispatch, safety, accounts receivable, and sales before he fully recognized the skills he was building. Now he runs...
Are you using AI to make better decisions—or letting a confident answer do your thinking for you? In this episode of Futureproof Founder , Jeff Mains sits down with AI researcher and entrepreneur Jonathan Schaeffer for...
Episode #428
Jeff Mains sits down with James Gourley, a patent attorney and IP litigator who has spent 20 years on both sides of intellectual property disputes — from filing patents and trademarks to defending companies against...
David Fung spent 15 years at Salesforce as a Senior Director before walking away from unvested RSUs to launch Coachful Coaching. He now coaches CTOs and tech leaders on the pattern he calls "AI whiplash" — the daily...
Erin Rollenhagen learned the most expensive lesson in product development the hard way: she spent years building software without ever talking to a single end user—and people took early retirement to avoid using it...
Jeff Mains sits down with Shiv Narayanan , founder of How to SaaS, fractional CMO, and advisor to private equity firms, to unpack a fundamental shift in how B2B buyers educate themselves. The old inbound playbook —...
In this episode of Future Proof Founder, Jeff Mains explores what it takes to build a sales engine that creates predictable growth. The conversation covers why narrow targeting beats broad messaging, how larger buying...
Jeff Mains sits down with Jurgen Dauk to unpack why the org chart that got a company to its first 50 people is often the exact thing choking it at 500. Jurgen argues that most companies are still built and run like...
Tamara Laine — Emmy-winning investigative journalist turned fintech founder — joins Jeff Mains to unpack how she built Empower, the first policy-bound agentic infrastructure for lending. Tamara explains how she pivoted...
Pete Sacco has spent 30 years building the physical infrastructure — data centers, power systems, and hardware — that AI runs on. In this conversation, he argues the AI threat is overstated, not because it isn't...
Jeff Mains sits down with Asaf Katz — founder of LinkedOtter, host of the Risk Takers show, and a veteran of taking a company public on the ASX, building an "Uber for trucks," navigating a cannabis IPO wave, and doing...
Jeff Mains sits down with Scott Miller — a former truck driver turned top-ranked GE Capital salesperson, "Master of Sales," and founder of M2 Wealth Ventures / Mosa Bella — to unpack why most founders don't have a leads...
Jeff Mains sits down with Elie Bouzaglou, founder of Fish Tank, a video-first crowdfunding platform built for a generation that discovered entrepreneurship on their phone. Elie built an AI voice-call analysis tool as an...
Joshua Altman, founder of Beltway Media and former multimedia journalist at The Hill, joins Jeff Mains to unpack why "volume isn't a strategy" in PR and communications. Drawing on his experience seeing pitches from both...
Jeff Mains sits down with Logan Yonavjak, a nearly two-decade veteran of impact investing and venture capital, who built the Founder Readiness Institute after watching a promising founding team unravel post-investment...
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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Baldrige Examiner, founder of HEARTnomics, HEARTnomics Enterprises
Pastor and President of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in America, The Christian and Missionary Alliance
Former Salesforce Senior Director, Coachful Coaching
Founder and CEO, Entrepreneurial Technologies
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