INDIE AUDIO
Episodes
Idea Maze or Insanity? with Anjan Katta, Founder of Daylight
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I had never met Anjan Katta before entering his apartment a few months back. It was some combination of office, shrine, and looney bin plucked from t...
The Modern Startup Playbook with Grant Lee, CEO of Gamma
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miss us?Feels like it's been a few weeks since we’ve had something new to share. This week, we’re excited to share a video we recorded just before...
A Process for Having it All with Jason Jacobs
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Jacobs wants it all. As a father to young children, he wants to be active in their lives, but as an ambitious founder, he’s compelled to buil...
Riding an AI Rocketship with Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mikey Shulman is having a great time. He’s running a rocket ship of a company, has $100M+ in funding from some of the top VCs, and is working on an ...
Discovering What Your Company Wants to Be with Mike Salguero, CEO of ButcherBox
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s conversation with Mike Salguero went in a direction I really wasn’t anticipating. Initially, I was interested in talking to Mike because h...
From First Meeting to Funded in One Week
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Skipping from Pre-Seed to Series A with Dreadnode
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Would you be mad at us if we raised more money?"That was the text I got late one night from Will Pearce, co-founder and CEO of Dreadnode, a company w...
Where Are They Now with Scott Heiferman, Founder of Meetup
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is incredibly rare to have your startup become a verb. Google and Uber immediately come to mind. But what about when a group of strangers or friend...
Getting off the VC Treadmill with Brandon Arvanaghi, CEO of Meow
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a spicy one! 🌶️ This week we sat down with Brandon Arvanaghi from Meow.com to discuss his journey from money burning crypto company to pr...
How to Fix the Founder Mental Health Crisis with Eric Ries of the Lean Startup
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Late last year, we sat down with Eric Ries, who fundamentally changed how we think about building startups through The Lean Startup. Only Eric can mak...
Stargate, Deep Seek and the Futility of Making Predictions about AI in 2025 with @jacsrice, CEO @tribe.ai
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Making any kind of time bounded predictions about where AI will be in the year of our lord 2025 is a fools errand. But, we’re suckers for this stuff...
Terminal NYC with Reggie James
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On my flight to NYC last week, I casually asked if there were any events happening in the city while I was there. Reggie, who you may remember from h...
Drones, Defense Tech, and The Consumer Hardware Trap with Chris Anderson
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Anderson can’t talk a lot about what he is up to these days. At least on camera. His LinkedIn profile says he’s currently an Engineer at “...
Cults & Culture with Soleio
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Soleio Cuervo is more than a chin on the internet. He’s more than an early design leader at Facebook and Dropbox. And he's more than an epic angel i...
Closing The Chapter
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the first year of indie’s return, I’ve felt a real sense of tension.That tension sat at the intersection of what indie was and what ind...
Where Are They Now with Joshua Schachter from Del.icio.us
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time, when MTV played music videos, their more mature sister channel, VH1, had a show called “Where Are They Now”. The idea behind the...
Post-AI Entrepreneurship with Rahul Sonwalkar of Julius AI
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a section of our website that generates more reaction than any single piece of content I’ve ever written. It says:We’re obsessed with th...
Startup Confessionals Vol. 1 — Ben Kaufman (Camp), Harper Reed (Galactic), Finbarr Taylor (Shogun)
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks back in this very email, I put out a request for a new content format we wanted to experiment with that we called “Startup Confessionals...
Going Bananas with Turner Novak, Founder of Banana Capital
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As someone who entered the venture industry in the wake of the Dot-com crash, I have a deep appreciation for new managers, their entry point into the ...
From $250k Raised to a $1.25B Exit with Shegun Otulana
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks back, I was the morning speaker at an event hosted by David Senra of FoundersPodcast (one of my favorite podcasts and people). The afterno...
In the Are.na Trying Things with Charles Broskoski
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When I reached out to Charles Broskoski, co-founder of Are.na, it was largely because I kept hearing mention of the service he'd built increasingly ...
Why Tech wants DEI to DIE with Y-Vonne Hutchinson, Founder of ReadySet
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After wrapping this week’s conversation with published author and ReadySet’s CEO, Y-vonne Hutchinson, I stepped out of the studio, opened my phone...
Career Transitions for High Achievers with Steve Schlafman
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Walking through Madison Square Park a year ago, @schlaf talked about transitions, something he knew a lot about. I first met Steve when he was a junio...
Stepping into The Shade Room with Angelica Nwandu
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2015, I read an article that elicited a reaction I’d only had a few other times prior. We had just closed applications for our first round...
At Home with Karri Saarinen, Cofounder of Linear
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few years back, I got a DM from a founder wanting to meet and swap stories about adventures in entrepreneurship. Despite being backed by some of the...
Born Again Bootstrappers — An Interview with the co-founders of Wistia
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation we unpack their journey of building a “lifestyle business”. Some takeaways:— Chris and Brendan emphasize the importance of ...
At Home with the Asparouhovs
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
— Shift in Funding Landscape:There has been a significant shift in the funding landscape, with a decrease in year-over-year growth rates for SaaS co...
Founder-Led Sales with Jen Abel of Jjellyfish
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Product-market fit requires both customers willing to pay and stay. It’s not just about initial sales, but also retention. Early-stage sales should ...
Venture Capital Curmudgeons Club with Eric Paley of Founder Collective
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
— Capital has no insightsEric argues that venture capital alone doesn’t solve business problems, and having more capital doesn’t necessarily lea...
The Current State of AI with Jaclyn Rice Nelson from Tribe AI
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some takeaways:— There’s a significant gap between the hype around AI and its actual implementation in businesses. Many companies are still in the...
Current State of Crypto with smac from Compound
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few takeaways from this conversation:— Early crypto applications were challenging to use and primarily attracted tech enthusiasts and speculators....
Reading the Comments on The End of Software with Chris Paik, Partner at Pace Capital
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When you end an essay with a line like:"Majoring in computer science today will be like majoring in journalism in the late 90’s.”You’re bound to...
Unpacking The Slow PhD with Will Quist, Partner at Slow Ventures
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is really one you should watch on our YouTube. Like, all of them are. But this one has Will going to a White Board.What if we could know whether ...
Intersection of INDIE & Deep Tech — A Conversation with Michael Dempsey, Compound Managing Partner
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My friend, Michael Dempsey, Managing Partner at Compound, and I have an ongoing thread about the intersection of indie ideals and his areas of focus i...
New Hardware Soapbox with Reggie James, Founder & CEO of Eternal
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We invited our friend, Reggie James, to help unpack what's happening in hardware and break down what's behind many of the recent negative viral produc...
Influencers Aren't Going Anywhere — A Conversation with James Nord, Fohr Co-Founder & CEO
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most frequent requests we get is to hear directly from indie founders. Today's conversation is just that. And we did it in style. James Nor...
Building Vanta — A Conversation with Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder & CEO of Vanta
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I had the opportunity to know Christina Cacioppo early in her time at Union Square Ventures. Always whip-smart and ever curious, we found ourselves dr...
Building GitHub — Live Event with Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub Co-Founder
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks back, we had the unique opportunity to sit down with Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder and former CEO of Github. We met in a church he recent...