Hosted by Gabriel · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 19 episodes
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On this podcast, we talk with real founders about how they started, the big risks they took, what went wrong, and what actually worked. Honest stories, hard lessons, and practical insights from people building real businesses
Gabriel hosts The Founder's Gambit, a business show with 19 episodes published.
Tibo Maker sold two companies for $8M, then did the opposite of what everyone expected. Today he makes $1M+/month from five small SaaS products, fully bootstrapped, with zero outside funding. In this episode, he reveals
Senior developer Ilija reveals he writes ZERO lines of code anymore and ships 4x faster than before. In this episode, he breaks down exactly how AI transformed his entire development workflow and what it means for the in
Andris Reinman makes $14,000/month with zero employees selling software he gives away for free. In this episode, he reveals exactly how he turned his open source email library into a profitable solo business.What we cove
Taylor Jacobson (10-year CEO of Focusmate, 12M+ sessions across 175 countries) reveals why procrastination isn't laziness, it's your nervous system protecting you, and how he turned this insight into a virtual co-working
Paul Chiappetta (2-time exited founder, Fractional CTO) reveals how OpenClaw transformed his business operations and shares a conspiracy theory about Claude that might explain why security breaches are increasing across
Dan Mindru has shipped 15+ products and found a way to build them in days, not months. In this episode, he breaks down his exact AI workflow that lets him go from idea to deployed product overnight.What we cover:- How he
In this episode of The Founder's Gambit, I sit down with Dennis Mortensen - a serial entrepreneur with 25 years, 5 ventures, and 4 acquisitions under his belt.Dennis breaks down:• Why he thinks of entrepreneurship as a "
After 15 years climbing the ladder at Microsoft, Meta, and Discord, Apurva had everything - a dream job, resources, and a title. Then she left it all to build an AI startup from scratch.In this episode, Apurva breaks dow
Brennan Dunn raised $500K, hired a team of six, and built the wrong product. His SaaS, RightMessage, went from $30K/month down to $8K as both co-founders checked out. Instead of shutting it down, Brennan bought his co-fo
Dmytro quit his engineering job with no product, no idea, and zero plan. He had savings, a wife with a job, and this nagging feeling that he'd regret it if he didn't try.Then... nothing happened. For two years. Almost no
Lukas Hermann built StageTimer as a weekend side project. Click start on one screen, a timer shows on another. That was it. No funding, no team, no marketing budget to start. Today it makes over $20,000 a month, runs at
Denis Yurchak studied international relations, taught himself to code at 22, failed at 15 products, cloned a competitor's idea, and built Yadaphone, a Skype replacement that now makes $17,500 a month. All as a solo found
Julian Wagner started building businesses at 16, from quiz websites and nightlife events in Frankfurt to scaling an online poker school to $5M in revenue in just 18 months. Now he's a technical co-founder running AI agen
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Nico Hessel went from a college soccer goalkeeper with three surgeries, dropping out, getting kicked out by his parents, and sleeping in a 2014 Honda Civic… to scaling a marketing agency to $15,000/month in 4 months usin
Founders complain that developers overpromise, miss deadlines, and disappear.Developers complain that founders are unclear, unrealistic, and chaotic.So who’s actually right?In this episode of The Founder’s Gambit, I sit
Ben Furtado walked away from millions as President of Zendrop, one of the fastest-growing ecommerce platforms in the US, after helping 10x revenue and complete a merger… to start from zero on a pre-revenue startup called
In this episode of The Founder’s Gambit, Gabriel sits down with John Martin, founder of Paid Ads, a Google Ads agency that has managed campaigns generating more than $100 million in client sales. John’s journey started i
In the very first episode of The Founder’s Gambit, host Gabriel sits down with Michael Gardiner, founder of Done For You Meetings, a B2B lead generation agency he scaled to over $2 million in revenue while traveling to m
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