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Hosted by Turner Novak · technology · EN · 163 episodes
Exploring the world’s greatest startup stories.Get a behind the scenes look into the founding stories of your favorite companies. Learn how the industries they operate in actually work, and learn playbooks and tactics you can use to launch and scale your own business.
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The Peel with Turner Novak is hosted by Turner Novak. The show has published 163 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Why Stripe’s 1st Employee Bought a Bank | Darragh Buckley, Increase" (15 October 2026, 74 minutes), "From Nearly Bankrupt to $5B+ Revenue, with Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff" (1 October 2026, 100 minutes), and "How Gusto Built a $9.5B Company with Co-founder Tomer London" (24 September 2026, 85 minutes).
The Peel with Turner Novak publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 99 minutes across 163 episodes.
Booking probability for The Peel with Turner Novak is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Peel with Turner Novak requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Peel with Turner Novak's contact route on record: verified email.
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Turner Novak hosts The Peel with Turner Novak, a technology show with 163 episodes published.
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Episode #164
Darragh Buckley was the first employee at Stripe. He’s since started Increase, the banking infrastructure that moves over $500 billion a year. And he just bought a bank. We talk about how to buy a bank, why putting an...
Episode #162
Jamie Siminoff built the first WiFi video doorbell in his garage, got rejected on Shark Tank, and nearly went bankrupt "at least four times" while growing Ring into one of the largest consumer hardware businesses in the...
Episode #161
Tomer London is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Gusto. We go deep on how Gusto builds product, from obsessing over customers to shipping Gusto Cofounder with AI in eight weeks. We also get into what AI is...
Episode #160
Jeff Morris Jr is the founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One. Previously, he was employee 50 at Tinder and started Chapter One from his desk before quitting to go full-time on investing. We talk about running a...
Episode #159
Ron Gabrisko might have the best sales seat in software. He joined Databricks as CRO at less than $1M in revenue, and built it into a $7B+ ARR business over the next decade. Almost no one has built a revenue engine this...
The Peel with Turner Novak
Ryan Nece runs Next Legacy, a $4 billion fund of funds that connects athletes and philanthropists with the top venture capital firms in the world. Ryan is the only player in NFL history to win a Super Bowl as a rookie...
Episode #157
Chris is the Co-Founder and CEO of Drive Capital. Prior to Drive, Chris was a Partner at Sequoia Capital where he helped launch the firm’s first growth fund. Chris left Sequoia in 2012 to start Drive in Ohio on a single...
Episode #155
Michael Tannenbaum is the CEO of Figure, the blockchain lending company he took public in 2025. He was employee #1 at Brex, and before that ran the mortgage business at SoFi. Mike Cagney, who founded both SoFi and...
Episode #154
Navin Chaddha is the Managing Partner at Mayfield. He’s made the Forbes Midas List 18 times, and thinks a lot of the AI revenue everyone's chasing right now is fake. Mayfield is a 56-year-old firm that backs founders at...
Episode #153
Alamin Uddin is the co-founder and CEO of NexHealth. Today, NexHealth’s healthcare infrastructure serves 89 million patients. But at one point, the company had $4,000 in the bank and a maxed-out Amex card. We talk about...
Episode #152
Anatoly Yakovenko is the co-founder of Solana, the fastest scaled blockchain in the world. We start by talking about how non-US residents were trading SpaceX on Solana pre-IPO, and which parlayed into the last 130 years...
Episode #151
Tony Holdstock-Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Inngest, the durable execution platform that quietly powers your favorite AI agents. We get into why agents work in a demo and die in production, building their own...
Episode #150
Peter Rahal is the Founder and CEO of David. Before David, he built RXBAR in his parents' basement with $10k and sold it to Kellogg for $600M. We get into why he basically rebuilt the same company again, how buying his...
Episode #149
Hans Swildens started Industry Ventures in 2000, and this is his first podcast since selling it to Goldman Sachs in 2026. Hans has been buying venture secondaries longer than almost anyone, and the combined business is...
Episode #147
Charles Hudson started Precursor Ventures in 2015, and helped create pre-seed as a category. Ten years and hundreds of Day 0 checks later, few investors have backed as many first-time founders, making him the perfect...
Episode #147
Dan Teran is the co-founder Gutter Capital, a concentrated seed fund in NYC, and Elbow Grease, the accelerator that puts 15 startups in one building and helps build their teams for them. Gutter just announced a $75M...
Episode #146
Sam Blond is the Co-founder and CEO of Monaco, the revenue engine for startups. Sam is one of the best sales operators in tech. He spent four years as CRO at Brex, where he helped scale it to a ~$12B valuation, ran...
Episode #145
Nuno Goncalves Pedro is the Founder and Managing Partner at Chamaeleon. He won't describe it this way, but I'd call Chamaeleon something like "The RenTech of VC." Chamaeleon is built around its proprietary data...
Episode #144
I just attended Allocate’s Beyond Summit in Deer Valley Utah. It was a peek into what the top VC's and LP’s are thinking about right now. Allocate asked me to record an episode of the show, live from the conference. So...
Episode #143
Alfred Wallforss is the Co-founder of Listen Labs, the AI customer research company. Companies like Microsoft use Listen to run AI-powered customer interviews, and Alfred talks about how they first landed them as a...
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