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Hosted by Yaniv Bernstein and Chris Saad · business · EN
Advice for founders and entrepreneurs who want to build disruptive startups like they do in Silicon Valley.Not another interview podcast: concrete tips and masterclasses on what founders need to know: raising Venture Capital, strategy, product, marketing, growth, and more.A guide to the unique mindset and approach that drives Silicon Valley style disruption. Hosts Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein share practical advice based on decades of experience at Google, Uber, and their own startups.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAdvice for founders and entrepreneurs who want to build disruptive startups like they do in Silicon Valley. Not another interview podcast: concrete tips and masterclasses on what founders need to know: raising Venture Capital, strategy, product, marketing, growth, and more.A guide to the unique mindset and approach that drives Silicon Valley style disruption.
The Startup Podcast is hosted by Yaniv Bernstein and Chris Saad. The show has published 315 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Where humans still matter when agents write the code" (31 October 2026, 51 minutes), "OpenRouter Head of Insights on how to choose the right model" (24 October 2026, 56 minutes), and "Applied Wizardry: Cutting AI coding token costs, with Dave Slutzkin" (16 October 2026, 60 minutes).
The Startup Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 315 episodes.
Booking probability for The Startup Podcast is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Startup Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Startup Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Yaniv Bernstein and Chris Saad hosts The Startup Podcast, a business podcast with 315 episodes published.
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The traditional GitHub-style pull request review is a waste of opportunity cost for most code changes in the agentic era. Yet simply removing it without a replacement invites complexity death spirals and unbounded...
The Startup Podcast
Companies now use an average of 12 models per month, yet the biggest hidden variable isn't which model you pick—it's the inference provider serving it and whether your cache hit rate stays above 85%. Peter Walker from...
The Startup Podcast
Follow Applied Wizardry on its new feed to keep getting every episode. Dave Slutzkin, co-founder of Antiburn, joins Yaniv to break down what actually drives token costs in agentic development and how to bring them down...
After nearly 300 episodes of The Startup Podcast, Chris Saad is bringing everything he's learned about building world-class products and product strategy into a single tool: ScaleStudio. In what may be our final episode...
A few weeks ago, Rob Snyder came on the pod to introduce his PULL framework for identifying real product-market fit. Now, Yaniv turns the tables and subjects his own startup, Vera, to the same scrutiny. Yaniv and Rob...
This is a remastered Replay of one of our most popular episodes, "What Startups Can Learn From Poker", which was originally published on 21 December 2022. Enjoy! Original description: All season, Chris and Yaniv have...
Is hiring a person still your default answer to a problem? For a growing number of startups, it shouldn't be. In this episode, Yaniv Bernstein is joined by returning guest Matt Cook, co-founder of Scouut, one of...
Every startup pitch deck has a "why now" slide. Most of them are nonsense, barely considered, and only there to tick a box. But timing is more than a slide, it can make or break a company. It’s the difference between...
You’ve done all the research, implemented every startup strategy you could find, but your product just isn’t selling. Where do you start looking for the problem? And how do you identify and implement the solution? In...
Founders are told that if they work hard, build the right product and hire well, the outcome will follow. It's motivating. It's clean. And according to today's guest, it's mostly wrong. Mike Grossman has been CEO of six...
The Startup Podcast is back for its 300th episode – and it’s an absolute doozy. In today’s Reacts, hosts Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein break down how Anthropic became the new industry leader in AI, and why betting on...
Every founder gets a version of the same advice: don't pick a fight with an entrenched industry. The incumbents have the relationships, the regulatory cover, the deep pockets - you'll bleed out trying. But some of the...
What if writing software became as easy as taking a selfie? This episode, Yaniv Bernstein sits down with Gary Lo - founder of OpenBA and one of the sharpest AI-and-startups thinkers Yaniv knows - to discuss the concept...
Most founders set out to build something that matters: a company that’s aligned with their mission, now and forever. But what if the very systems we use to build ‘real’ companies are the thing that corrupts them? In...
This is a bonus feed drop from Dan Blumberg's podcast 'Future Around and Find Out' (FAFO), winner of the 2026 Webby Award for Best Technology Podcast. If you like what you hear, check out FAFO at...
Most founders treat 'scale' like a switch you flip after raising a round: hire 14 reps, 10x the ad spend, and pray. About half scale too early and burn the runway, while the other half scale too late and get caught by a...
Episode #14
In 2026, startups age like milk. Josh Foreman's solution is a radical one - step down as CEO, go back to basics, and refound the whole company. Yaniv Bernstein discusses this decision with Josh, founder and (for now)...
Many AI startups funded in the last 18 months won't last three years - so what makes a business durable today? Yaniv Bernstein is joined by Marlon Nichols, co-founder and managing general partner of MaC Venture Capital...
Episode #12
Being a founder has always meant dreaming big while keeping a close eye on potential trip-ups, and in the age of AI, finding and maintaining that balance is more important than ever. Today, Yaniv Bernstein talks about...
Episode #11
Between AI shaking up the industry, geopolitical upheaval, and unpredictable capital, being a founder has never been more confusing. So what advice, if any, is still relevant? In this episode, Yaniv Bernstein is joined...
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Head of Insights and Data Storytelling, Boughton Riverview Consulting
multiple-time startup founder and Fellow at Harvard Innovation Labs, Path to Product Market Fit
Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility, largest alt health online university
Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Marshall Greif Incubator at USC, USC Incubator
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