# startup (video feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover startup. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Geothermal Startup That Made It Big](https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/the-geothermal-startup-that-made-it-big-0) _2026-08-15 · Business for Good Podcast_ What if the same drilling technology that powered the shale boom could be redirected to produce clean, carbon-free electricity around the clock? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Tim Latimer, CEO and chairman of Fervo Energy, to explore how a former oil and gas drilling engineer built one of the most celebrated clean energy companies in the country in under a… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/EP_196_Fervo_-_Tim_Latimer.mp3?dest-id=761849) ## [Inside India's Gaming & Microdrama Boom | Salone Sehgal (Lumikai)](https://zencastr.com/z/GD_923nt) _2026-08-13 · Founder Thesis_ India's gaming market crossed $14 billion this year - and it happened right after the real money gaming ban wiped out $2 billion of it overnight. Salone Sehgal, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Lumikai, has been building India's first dedicated gaming and interactive media VC fund since 2020, and every investor she pitched back then said the same thing: Indians will never pay for digital… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a7d5263abb9797b8825eeb7/size/2069231976/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/8bf1efe9-06d6-402e-bdbd-d1f3fc2b50f4.mp4) ## [How Mobile Games Actually Make Money | Anurag Choudhary (Felicity)](https://zencastr.com/z/jOz_ZVy5) _2026-08-05 · Founder Thesis_ Most people assume a gaming company gets built by a gamer. Anurag Choudhary does not play video games, and he has built one of the only mobile game publishing operations in India that funds titles locally and scales them to players in the United States. A decade inside Indian consumer internet gave Choudhary an unusual education, first scaling Swiggy's restaurant network from 5,000 partners to… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a72e6f0878611855525190f/size/2176703864/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/f4fc9054-e7c9-445b-9be8-717256083bf0.mp4) ## [Did America Forget How to Build Nuclear Energy?](https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/did-america-forget-how-to-build-nuclear-energy) _2026-08-01 · Business for Good Podcast_ Nuclear energy was supposed to transform the world. Then came Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima, and public trust collapsed. But for 25 years, engineers across a dozen countries have been quietly designing a new generation of reactors built to fail safely without relying on human intervention or mechanical backup systems. And the target date they set back in 2000 is almost here. In this… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/EP_195_Edward_Friedman.mp3?dest-id=761849) ## [Roby John(SuperGaming) on how the gaming business actually makes money](https://zencastr.com/z/OknGIiuf) _2026-07-29 · Founder Thesis_ Most people still think gaming is entertainment, not an industry bigger than movies and music combined. This conversation is a rare look at building a gaming studio in India that reaches 200 million players, told by the founder actually doing it. Roby John was one of India's first iPhone developers, and after his edtech startup TapToLearn collapsed, he spent two years in the dark before building… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a69aaf47d9cb1f5dafc8dcc/size/1859434466/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/53cea3af-08bf-4463-85ca-90174964d99b.mp4) ## [Akshay Shekhar (Kazam) on the India Energy Stack: UPI for Electricity](https://zencastr.com/z/QCg0pv42) _2026-07-22 · Founder Thesis_ Most founders spend to acquire customers, but Kazam built an EV charging business where customers pay upfront and the cost of acquisition turns positive. Akshay Shekhar breaks down the India EV charging infrastructure playbook, from a broken first prototype to 250,000 charge points and a shot at the country's next open digital network for energy. What makes this story unusual is where it started,… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a60335991e21d2dcdd12fd8/size/1660540559/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/500c17a2-4056-4e15-a4d0-dceb0d35f9bf.mp4) ## [The Lean Startup's Eric Ries on How Good Companies Go Bad](https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/the-lean-startups-eric-ries-on-how-good-companies-go-bad) _2026-07-15 · Business for Good Podcast_ Most founders assume that building a great product and serving customers well will be enough to protect what they have built. Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and the new book Incorruptible, argues that the assumption is dangerously wrong. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Eric Ries to explore why successful organizations are systematically pulled toward… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/EP_194_Eric_Ries.mp3?dest-id=761849) ## [Ajay Jain (SilverX) on How To Pitch A VC](https://zencastr.com/z/RJ9dm0bI) _2026-07-14 · Founder Thesis_ Most founders open their VC pitch with a billion-dollar TAM slide. Ajay Jain, co-founder of Silverneedle Ventures, refuses to look at it, and the bottom-up question he asks instead is the real test that decides who gets funded into his ₹800 Cr Silver X deep tech fund. From his family's money-lending Dukan before grade two, to seven years inside Intel's pre-silicon chip verification team, to… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a55bc808588ad64cc3e42a1/size/1543634684/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/b5f05efb-1760-4220-bfb5-efb8350f6420.mp4) ## [How to Run a Profitable Services Firm in the AI Era | Sridhar Muppidi (ello.ai)](https://zencastr.com/z/1urt_TLI) _2026-07-06 · Founder Thesis_ Most service businesses are adding people to grow. One Hyderabad founder did the opposite and cut his team from 1,000 to 600 with zero drop in revenue, a live case study in AI and the future of work. Sridhar Muppidi, co-founder of \[x\]cube LABS and ello.ai, breaks down exactly how, and what it means for anyone building in the AI era. Few people have built through as many tech cycles as Sridhar… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a4b5e1d91e21ddcdace96c9/size/2048813578/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/cc8fd2bf-199a-475d-93bb-8e77df5d97bd.mp4) ## [How a Biologist Built a Startup to Stop Billions of Bird Deaths with Dominique Waddoup](https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/how-a-biologist-built-a-startup-to-stop-billions-of-bird-deaths-with-dominique-waddoup) _2026-07-01 · Business for Good Podcast_ Every year, roughly a billion birds die from flying into glass windows and buildings. The problem is massive, well-documented, and largely invisible to the public. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro talks with Dominique Waddoup, CEO and Founder of BirdShades, about how she went from studying giant honeybee behavior in Nepal to building a company that makes glass visible to birds… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/EP_193_BirdShades_-_Dominique_Waddoup.mp3?dest-id=761849) ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cHh4RJX72woL) _2026-07-01 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [From Zero to 400 Harbors: Building FreshToHome's $320M Supply Chain](https://zencastr.com/z/eWx-I1E4) _2026-06-29 · Founder Thesis_ Building a supply chain across 400 fish harbors before spending a single rupee on marketing sounds like madness, until you realise it is exactly how FreshToHome became India's largest India D2C food startup in the fresh fish and meat category. In this conversation, Shan Kadavil, the ex-Zynga executive who left Silicon Valley to rebuild how India sources, moves, and delivers protein, walks host… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a4222e0cf8f2b7cc5a8fa98/size/2010052301/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/eb4338cf-eaa6-49b0-9694-0a004e62c5e8.mp4) ## [Rajesh Jain (Netcore Cloud) on How to Bootstrap a SaaS Company to $100M Revenue](https://zencastr.com/z/YUO5clsP) _2026-06-22 · Founder Thesis_ Most founders chase venture capital like oxygen, but the man who pulled off India's first major dot-com exit built a bootstrapped SaaS company to over $100M in revenue without a single growth round. He also argues that $500 billion of global ad spend is being set on fire every year, and that marketing as we know it is quietly broken. The man behind India's first internet portal, Rajesh Jain sold… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a38d2b21ae957f90bf2201b/size/3538710209/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/a1f21510-5056-4249-b704-eec12ec34c47.mp4) ## [Turning Waste Biomass Into Carbon-Negative Buildings with Allison Dring](https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/turning-waste-biomass-into-carbon-negative-buildings-with-allison-dring) _2026-06-15 · Business for Good Podcast_ Right now, roughly 40% of global emissions come from the built environment. Most of those emissions are hidden deep within the materials themselves, in the concrete, steel, and plastics that are mined or extracted from underground at enormous energy costs. What if that model could be reversed entirely? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Allison Dring, CEO of Made of… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/Ep_192_Made_of_Air_-_Allison.mp3?dest-id=761849) ## [The Series A VC Reshaping Indian Startup Funding | Rajeev Kalambi @ Cactus Partners](https://zencastr.com/z/wcHIPveE) _2026-06-12 · Founder Thesis_ Most founders chase the billion-customer dream and the unicorn lottery at the same time. This India VC funding strategy conversation dismantles both, as Rajeev Kalambi of Cactus Partners explains why he deliberately refuses the power law, why there is no single Indian market, and how he targets steady returns instead of moonshots. With 26 years across corporate banking, investment banking, and… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a2c3d215e6f8bcd5efc7115/size/1822669183/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/f13c9b12-42dd-4522-97f3-34c6c43e825d.mp4) ## [Is Venture Capital Built to Break Founders - Amrit Chandan @ Lorefully](https://zencastr.com/z/U_mBnBbi) _2026-06-05 · Founder Thesis_ Most founders pitch VCs without understanding the math that decides their fate, and Amrit Chandan learned this the hard way after raising $19M for his battery startup Aceleron and losing it to a 24-hour boardroom ultimatum. This conversation breaks down the UK venture capital trap, the cap table mistakes that cost founders their companies, and the playbook he is using to build his next AI startup… [Listen](https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a22805200af7c85b3ab0f0c/size/1836182561/video-files/5eabe01f69cfd30074a1c214/dbd3732e-b350-41e0-b606-a0a26f0eec0a.mp4) ## [Rebuilding the Ocean Floor with Clay Castles with Dr. Ulrike Pfreundt](https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/rebuilding-the-ocean-floor-with-clay-castles-with-dr-ulrike-pfreundt) _2026-06-01 · Business for Good Podcast_ Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor but support roughly a quarter of all marine life. They are dying fast, and in many places, the physical structure of the reef itself has already crumbled away. Without that foundation, coral larvae have nowhere to land, and marine ecosystems cannot recover on their own. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro talks with Dr.… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/Ep_191_rrreefs_-_Ulrike_Pfreundt.mp3?dest-id=761849) ## The 2 Founders Building the Company They Almost Didn't Start \[VIDEO\] _2026-05-19 · Money Memories_ Here's a special presentation of one of our recent episodes, now on video! If you're listening in an app that supports video, you can now watch this conversation. Please enjoy! Before David Black and Heather Townsend became co-founders, they were people who almost did something — and didn't. Dave passed on buying a DC bar for $150,000 because he didn't know where to get financing. Heather built an… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20260519100718-MoneyMemoriesThe2FoundersBuildingaCompanyTheyAlmostDidntStart.mp4?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=0c081d10-538c-11f1-b351-0ba8d47b6629) ## [Hannah Ritchie Has Some Uncomfortable Truths About Helping the Planet](https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/hannah-ritchie-has-some-uncomfortable-truths-about-helping-the-planet) _2026-05-15 · Business for Good Podcast_ What if the things you believe are best for the environment are actually making it worse? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Hannah Ritchie, data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World and Clearing the Air, to challenge some of the most widely held assumptions in sustainability. Hannah explains why locally produced food rarely has a… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/Ep_190_Hannah_Ritchie.mp3?dest-id=761849) ## She Earned More Investing Than at Her Job. Then Everything Changed. _2026-05-06 · Money Memories_ Nicole Ingham grew up believing money came from sacrifice. In this episode, she shares how a childhood of bargain hunting shaped her financial mindset, why she struggled with money in early adulthood, and the moment investing transformed her life. We explore why women are still underserved by financial systems, how to start investing even with $10, and what it really takes to build wealth on your… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20260506173822-MM050626_Nicole.mp3?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=e7e958d0-4993-11f1-9249-7b6d4d8f2611) ## [Why Jim Mellon Is Still All In on Alternative Protein After Five Years](https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/why-jim-mellon-is-still-all-in-on-alternative-protein-after-five-years) _2026-05-01 · Business for Good Podcast_ Episode Summary: Five years ago, billionaire investor Jim Mellon came on Business For Good and laid out his thesis that cultivated meat and precision fermentation would transform the food system. Since then, venture capital has fled the space, plant-based stocks have cratered, and many startups have gone under. So why is Jim putting even more money in? In this episode, Paul Shapiro reconnects with… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/V2_Ep_189_Jim_Mellon.mp3?dest-id=761849) ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9ULm7Gxb3qaW) _2026-05-01 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## [Investing in Biodiversity with Venture Capitalist Tom Quigley](https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/-investing-in-biodiversity-with-venture-capitalist-tom-quigley) _2026-04-15 · Business for Good Podcast_ Episode Summary: What if the next great venture opportunity isn't in AI or fintech but in protecting nature itself? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Tom Quigley, Co-founder of Superorganism, one of the first venture funds built entirely around biodiversity protection. With a freshly closed $26 million fund, Tom explains why over half of global GDP depends on… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/Ep_188_Superorganism.mp3?dest-id=761849) ## The Two Founders Building a Company They Almost Didn't Start _2026-04-08 · Money Memories_ Before David Black and Heather Townsend became co-founders, they were people who almost did something — and didn't. Dave passed on buying a DC bar for $150,000 because he didn't know where to get financing. Heather built an earmuff company, had 500 pairs manufactured in China, and watched them arrive at her apartment. Years later, they met at UVA's Darden School of Business, reconnected during the… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20260407150330-MM040826_Cabana_audioonly.mp3?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=778ce840-32b4-11f1-895d-6f5934a37262) ## She Left a Six Figure Salary to Save Lives One Lap at a Time _2026-03-25 · Money Memories_ Paulana Lamounier grew up in a Haitian household in Long Island where money wasn't talked about openly but was modeled constantly, from susu to savings books to tithing. She went on to build Black People Will Swim after a student's offhand comment about buoyancy sent her down a rabbit hole of racist history she couldn't unsee. In this episode, Paulana gets candid about leaving a $95K salary to go… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20260325101422-MM032526_Paulana_BlackPeopleSwim.mp3?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=ebd672f0-2854-11f1-84b2-a312162cc424) ## What My Mom Knew About Business That MBAs Don't _2026-03-13 · Money Memories_ Ray grew up watching his single mother sell homemade dishes poolside during World Cup games in their Silver Lake apartment complex, and never forgot that resourcefulness. After a winding career path from photography to marketing to commercial lending in San Francisco, he returned to LA and found himself more energized by underserved entrepreneurs than by traditional banking. Now a small business… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20260313131026-MM031226_OperationHope.mp3?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=878af3e0-1eff-11f1-92da-2dc911a43cec) ## The Housing Market Nobody Talks About _2026-02-11 · Money Memories_ Jeff Hurst leads Furnished Finder as CEO, working inside a housing market most people never see. Serving traveling nurses and clinicians on short-term contracts, the platform sits where mobility, work, and stability collide. In this conversation, Jeff reflects on how temporary work reshaped housing long before “remote” became a buzzword, why trust outweighs scale, and how health care labor… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20260210115252-MM021125_JeffHurst_FurnishedFinder.mp3?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=f0c8c2d0-06a0-11f1-b7c1-6506e0430ee9) ## From Nigeria to Wall Street: A Journey of Resilience and Financial Freedom \[Archive Episode\] _2026-01-29 · Money Memories_ This episode, we're looking back at our conversation wtih Ehis Akhetuamhen, host and creator of Unmuted Moments, a podcast about finding your voice in work and life. He shares his remarkable journey from growing up in a one-bedroom apartment in Nigeria to building a career in finance in the U.S. After losing his father at 13, he learned that financial success isn’t just about hard work—it’s about… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20260129145109-20250311175017-MM031225_EhisA.mp3?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=db60b530-fd4b-11f0-9afe-4ff27ede1487) ## Why Money You Can Access Immediately Feels More Valuable _2026-01-14 · Money Memories_ University of Oregon Associate Professor of Economics Jonathan Davis says he grew up with a sense of scarcity around money. His family always seemed to have enough, but there was this pervasive feeling that they wouldn’t. “I remember this narrative of, ‘money’s gonna be tight this year, don’t expect as many Christmas presents as last year,’” he says. In this episode, Davis shares findings from his… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20260114122825-MM011425_jonathan_davis.mp3?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=6eeaa990-f16e-11f0-b2c7-09574e0db724) ## From Sunday Shifts to Whole Foods: Building a Cookie Dough Brand _2025-12-18 · Money Memories_ Kathryn Bricken grew up in a family of six where early responsibility and earning her own money shaped how she viewed work and value. Sunday shifts at Publix, paid at time and a half, taught her how to think strategically about income long before she became a founder. What began as a love of food evolved into building Doughlicious, a gluten-free cookie dough brand now sold at Whole Foods, Target,… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20251217172902-MM121725kathrynbricken_doughilicious.mp3?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=ca313b20-db97-11f0-b3e1-2b95cb57a0d2) ## The Instagram Effect and Why You're Probably Doing Better Than You Think _2025-12-03 · Money Memories_ Grant Gallagher grew up watching his parents constantly argue about money, teaching him what not to do with finances. Early in his credit union career, helping a 50-year-old man use an ATM for the first time revealed the massive gap in financial education. Now with over 15 years in the industry, he champions hands-on financial literacy through budget simulations and financial reality fairs, as… [Listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/lpm-od.streamguys1.com/moneymemories/20251125113013-GrantGallagher_Primary.mp3?awCollectionId=money-memories&awGenre=Society+and+Culture&awEpisodeId=04cf5ce0-ca1c-11f0-acd9-41ba835e4313)