Episodes
David Haber of a16z: Building a Firm vs Fund + What a16z is focused o…
In this episode, Tyler and Sterling sit down with David Haber from a16z. David shares many important insights and tactics for both investors and operators, as well as his groundbreaking idea on the concept of "Firm over Fund"...
Why The Second Decade Is The Best For Startups — A convo w/ Spenser S…
In today's episode, Tyler and Sterling sit down with Spenser Skates, Founder and CEO of Amplitude Analytics, the digital Analytics platform that helps thousand of businesses find ways to grow and improve. Spenser shares how h...
Ex Navy SEAL: When To Quit Vs Persevere In Business + How I Started A…
A question every startup founder has is, "When do I know when to keep going or throw in the towel?" Today, Tyler and Sterling sit down with ex Navy Seal and Olympian, Larsen Jensen, to talk about just that. Larsen is the foun...
Zero To $1 BILLION In Payments In Just One Year: How To Crush Product…
Usually small startups fail when trying to take on big companies. Rainforest, however, is a different story. In the payments space dominated by Stripe and PayPal, founder Joshua Silver saw a gap no one was paying attention to...
$500M Founder: Avoid These Critical Mistakes When Competing With Incu…
Are you a small startup trying to compete with the big dogs? Well then this episode is for you. Tyler and Sterling sit down with Daniel Simon, co-founder of Bread (sold for $500M) who is now working on his next big startup: C...
Kapital: The Future of Latin-American Banking With Mexico’s Best Star…
If you need some motivation as an entrepreneur, then this is the podcast episode for you. In today's video Tyler and Sterling sit down with Rene Saul, the CEO and co-founder of Kapital, the $1.3 billion-dollar startup from Me...
Lessons From Building Utah's Next $10B Company — A convo w/ Adam Edmu…
If you haven't heard of Entrata yet, then you need to listen to this episode. Entrata is a sleeping giant of a company that has quietly been growing in the background...and is on track to be the biggest company to ever come o...
Leading a $1B Revenue Startup AND $1.8B VC Firm – A convo w/ Arjun Se…
Hands-down, Arjun is the most interesting man in venture capital. He thinks differently than everyone else, and as a result, his VC Firm, Tribe Capital, and his startup, Kraken, are completely unique. In this episode, he shar...
How The BEST Founders Go From Seed To Series A - a convo w/ Brett Ber…
What are the questions founders and VC firms should be asking when raising a Series A? How will AI impact things? What are the common pitfalls for Seed-stage startups? In this episode, Tyler and Sterling sit down with Brett B...
From whiteboard idea to $7 BILLION…How Flock Safety catches 20% of US…
How on earth do startup founders with zero experience in the security industry sell millions of dollars in contracts to police stations around the US? In this episode of Exceptional Startups, Garrett Langley, founder and CEO ...
How Benchmark Capital finds EXCEPTIONAL startups in the age of AI — A…
With so many AI startups these days, how do you identify which will be home-runs and which will be flops? In this episode of the I/O Podcast, Tyler and Sterling sit down with Eric Vishria, a General Partner at the legendary B...
How Great Founders SELL Before They BUILD — An Exceptional Startup Ch…
How do you get paying customers...before you've even built your product? Time to find out! In this episode of Exceptional Startups, Tyler sits down with John Andrew Entwistle, Founder and CEO of Wander, the platform that's tr...
The Simple Tricks Founders Need To Build WINNING Teams — An IO Interv…
In this episode of the IO Podcast, Nakul Mandan (founder of Audacious Ventures) shares his tips and tricks for recruiting top talent, the most critical assets for successful companies. He also shares his story of how he becam...
His Company Went Public At $1.8 BILLION...And His Next Idea Is Even B…
In this episode of Exceptional Startups, Brandon Rodman (founder of Weave and now Previ) breaks down how he’s quietly building a Costco for the modern workforce — one that’s already grown from 300K to 1.5M users in 3 months, ...
Building the Sales Machine with Pete Kazanjy, Author of Founding Sale…
In this episode, Pete Kazanjy—author of Founding Sales and a veteran sales leader—joins hosts Tyler Hogge and Sterling Snow to share a crash course in founder-led sales, explaining why early-stage founders must take charge of...
The Best Podcast For Early Stage Founders - Season 2 of the I/O Podca…
How do early-stage founders break through and build exceptional companies? In this upcoming season of the I/O Podcast, hosts Sterling Snow and Tyler Hogge unveil a new approach—combining insights from the Exceptional Startups...