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Season 2

June 10, 2025

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 ...

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May 20, 2025

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...

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May 6, 2025

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...

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April 22, 2025

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...

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April 8, 2025

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, ...

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March 25, 2025

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...

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Feb. 20, 2025

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...

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