Firsthand lessons on building companies, products, and teams from startup founders.
In this interview with Alain Readman Valiquette, CEO and Founder of Accelerator App, we learn about his journey as a founder, how he started Accelerator App and what's next for the company.
In this From the Founders feature, we talk to Naushad UzZaman of Blackbird.AI. Read on to learn about Naushad's journey to starting Blackbird.AI, the team behind the scenes, and the company's mission to empower trust, safety, and integrity across the information ecosystem.
In this From the Founders interview, we hear from Jake Brooks, CEO & Co-Founder of Triumph, a gaming monetization platform provider. Hear about Jake's story of going from dropping out of college in the midst of the pandemic, to staying in airbnbs throughout the US with other aspiring entrepreneurs, to starting Triumph (which just raised its series A).
In this special edition of our "From the Founders" interview series, we hear from Christie Kim, who is employee #3 and COO at Persona. Read on for more about her journey of joining Coursera at 75 people and LinkedIn at 15K+ employees, before going back to startup land with the decision to join Persona (now at 200+).
In this From the Founders interview, we talk to Kristy Kim from TomoCredit about her passion to open credit markets for young generations and immigrants like herself. Kristy shares her journey from first-generation American with no credit score, to investment banker, to startup founder, now leading one of the most diverse teams in fintech.
In this From the Founders interview, we talk to Joseph Malandruccolo from Compa, a company dedicated to pay transparency for everyone through making compensation data more accessible. Joe shares about his journey going from being an EMT to a pilot to a consultant to an engineer... to Co-Founder and CTO of Compa. Read on below.
"I knew if I was going to work hard, then I might as well work hard for myself - doing something I truly believe in." In this From the Founders session, we talk to Lisa Love, Co-Founder of Tanoshi, an edtech startup that builds computers for kids aged six to twelve, with a mission of serving underserved communities in particular. Learn more about Lisa’s upbringing with a mom as an educator and a dad as an engineer, and how that led her to co-founding an ed-tech startup from a pitch competition.
"I’ve always chafed at the fact that I go into some companies and want to do crazier, broader things, and it just doesn’t get prioritized. That’s a lot of what led me to realizing there’s no way to get the leverage and the level of freedom you want without doing it yourself." In this From the Founders session, we talk to Nathan Clark, Co-Founder of Ganymede, a fast-growing Series A biotech company. Read on to learn about how Nathan went from being a bond trader, to a PM, to a founder.
"It became really clear to me that we needed to do something now. That it’s fundamentally going to impact the quality of life — that I’m going to have when I’m older, but also that of my kids. It’s the thing that drives us as a company." In this From the Founders interview, we hear from Mark Wong of Kopperfield. Hear about Mark's journey from growing up with two parents as entrepreneurs, to one particular day in California that motivated him to start Kopperfield.
"I’ve always been a nerd — just an unrepentant, incorrigible nerd. I've always loved to build things." From growing up on a farm and making coats for sheep to Google, Oculus, and now being a CTO of the Series A healthcare tech startup, Sprinter Health, Cameron Behar shares his story in our latest From the Founders interview.
