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Hosted by Andy Walsh · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 80 episodes
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Most startup podcasts are built for founders who've already figured it out. This one's for the founder still in the middle of it.Startups Decoded covers the full founder operating system — from idea to Series A. Brand, fundraising, marketing, operations, finance, culture, storytelling. Everything a first-time founder needs to actually run the thing, not just pitch it.Host Andy Walsh has been in it — 4x founder, 2 exits, bootstrapped $10M ARR. He brings in founders and investors who've built real companies and gets them to talk honestly about how they did it.New episodes weekly. If you're drowning in decisions and need a framework, not a pep talk — this is your show.
Andy Walsh hosts Startups Decoded, a business show with 80 episodes published.
Clara Ma was chief of staff to the CEO of Hugging Face back when it was a Series A company, years before most founders could spell LLM. She watched the role from the sharpest seat in the building, then built Ask a
John Frankel has been funding this stuff since before it was fundable. He founded ffVC in 2008 after 21 years at Goldman, has backed more than 200 seed companies, and sits on over sixty boards. This year robotics p
Owen Fitzpatrick has interviewed people in North Korea, Iran, and Afghanistan, trying to answer one question. Why do we believe what we believe? Ten books and thirty years later, his answer is uncomfortable for founders.
Andy Walsh sits down with Ella Molony Cook, exited founder turned investor and Founder of Time Rich, a community of ambitious women thriving in the new world of AI. One exit. Seven figures raised. Three companies she sti
Most founders obsess over the first million. The real fight starts after it. Jordan DiPietro has scaled from every seat. Growth at The Motley Fool through several hundred million in revenue, The Hustle through its HubSpo
Chris Lee joined Deel when it was doing $1M ARR. Today it's past $1B+. He didn't just watch that happen, he made hiring, firing, and org design decisions that either cleared the path or slowed everything down. That
Founders do not know how to convert their network. Andy Walsh sits down with Kyle Kane, co-founder of onSpark AI, the world's first AI-powered partnership engine. Kyle Kane built $2B in partnership revenue for some of th
Brad Bowery sat down with Andy Walsh to unpack what founders should be thinking about as they begin hiring, and why the global talent pool is more accessible than most realize. Brad has built local teams as a founder and
Most founders think IP protection is something they'll sort out once the business gets traction. That's exactly backwards. By the time it feels urgent, the work already matters, and you're behind. This conversation cuts
Most companies believe they run on strategy. They actually run on conversations, and those conversations vanish the moment the call ends. David Shim watched this happen from the inside while running Foursquare, sitting i
Every line on your cap table is a promise. Most founders don’t know what they’ve signed. Andy Walsh sat down with Joris Delanoue, founder of Fairmint, to unpack why equity, the core of startup ownership, is still managed
Taryn Williams started her first business at 21 with no experience and no capital. Twenty years later, she’d built four companies and exited twice. Taryn Williams doesn’t talk about the dream. She talks about what it act
Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup , joins Startups Decoded to discuss his new book Incorruptible and why many successful companies slowly drift away from their founding ideals. Andy Walsh sat down with Eric to explor
Rachel ten Brink spent two decades inside Fortune 500 companies — P&G, Estée Lauder, L’Oréal — before co-founding Scentbird and scaling it past $300M in revenue. She got rejected by YC three times. Today, Scentbird is in
We’re more connected than ever. More lonely than ever. Along the way, something broke. Michelle Parsons left ed-tech to build Lora — a platform using astrology as a framework for genuine human connection. The twist? The
Most founders spend years building audiences on platforms they don’t control. Nathan Gwilliam watched a guy go from $96M a year to zero — because Amazon changed its mind. The lesson wasn’t about Amazon. It was about whos
Everyone told Milly her résumé didn’t make sense. She turned that confusion into a global community of 800+ people who felt exactly the same. Turns out, being hard to define is your biggest competitive advantage. Andy Wa
Most founders think branding is about what they look like. Jill Smith says it’s about how you behave , and most brands have no idea who they actually are. Fix that first. Everything else follows! Andy Walsh sat dow
Most founders try to build a company. Sophie de Haën built one by accident. And she did it while she was still in college. Andy Walsh sat down with Sophie de Haën , founder of SDH Paints, to unpack one of the most unconv
Alicia Teltz didn’t reinvent her life overnight. She made one decision. That step led to losing 84 pounds, leaving a 10-year relationship, walking away from a high-paying corporate career, and starting over. In this epis
Taryn Williams
mindset and body confidence coach · Wink Models
1 appearance on this show
Eric Ries
creator of the Lean Startup method, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, author of Incorruptible · Long-Term Stock Exchange
1 appearance on this show
Michelle Parsons
Chief Product Officer · Product School
1 appearance on this show
Nathan Gwilliam
founder and former CEO · Adoption.com
1 appearance on this show
Milly Tamati
generalist.world
1 appearance on this show
Jill Smith
public service professional · Jill Smith Photography
1 appearance on this show
Alicia Teltz
LinkedIn expert and personal branding pro
1 appearance on this show
Itamar Novick
Founder and General Partner · Recursive Ventures
1 appearance on this show
Roei Samuel
CEO and Founder · Connectd
1 appearance on this show
Casey Woo
CEO & Founder · FOG Ventures + Operators Guild
1 appearance on this show
Mike Adams
professor of criminology · Mike Adams at his Honest Weight
1 appearance on this show
Luke Tobin
Unusual Group
1 appearance on this show
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