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Top Founders 62 
20VC 28 
How I Built This 24 
Another Podcast 12 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 9 
Catalyst 9 
the Knowledge Project 8 
All-In 7 
We Live to Build 6 
Startup Acquisition Stories 5 
Founders 3 
Lenny's Podcast 3 
the Neon Show 3 
Capital Allocators 3 
Acquired 2 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 2 
the a16z Podcast 2 
Innovators & Investors 1 
Startups For the Rest of Us 1 
Cheeky Pint 1 
BigDeal 1 
My First Million 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
Sourcery 1 
the Green Blueprint 1 
the MAD Podcast 1
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2026 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Two Pharma Giants Who'd Never Met | Mankind & Dr. Reddy's | WTF is Pharma? · Nikhil Kamath
- Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- SemiAnalysis, Altimeter, Nebius, Glean.. 12 Hot Takes From Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Ep4: Digital Identity - Agents vs Humans ft. Rebecca Port, Okta
- How Arnold Schwarzenegger Won
- Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
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2025 24 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Over Capacity Built the Internet. Vijay Says AI Is Next
- NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- Michele Ferrero's $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
- AI Expert: Automate or Be Automated
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2024 31 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Startup Acquisition Stories with Dani Parra ibanez and Drilon Sqn, Founder of TrustApps
- What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting U.S. energy
- Ai eats the world
- NDA Vs UPA, Tax System, Kolkata's Fall, GDP Growth & More ft. Former CEA: Ashok Lahiri | Neon Show
- How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO
- IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
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2023 19 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- 23 year old launches SaaS for hotels, hits $250k revenue in under 12 months
- LLMs, links, and the death of links
- Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Spikeball: Chris Ruder
- How We Bootstrapped to $50k MRR with Team of 2
- Suitsupply: Fokke de Jong
- The cost of nuclear
- The 5 levels of great customer analytics experience
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2022 27 mentions in 21 episodes 1 per episode
- Dogfish Head Craft Brewery: Sam and Mariah Calagione
- What’s holding up hydrogen in Europe?
- Typeform Breaks $75m Revenue, How the Founder Structures R&D Team of 2 To Build Fast, Launch new Products
- Can Europe quit Russian fossil fuel by next winter?
- Ukraine
- Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How we bootstrapped to $2m ARR, $800k in Profits, and what we plan to do with extra cash
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2021 17 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?
- E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- Creativity and Optimism
- Why SaaS Founders Use Them as SDR's, First Sales Hire
- Backing the best D2C companies with Debt & Equity Funding | Ashvin Chadha, Anicut Capital
- Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
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2020 18 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- 1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR
- 1625 How $31M ARR CEO Profits $500k/mo and Cracked SMB Net Retention of 110%
- 1695 How He Used Video Ads To Get First 450 Customers, $1k in MRR
- Mathieu Chabran – Good Deals Have No Wheels at Tikehau Capital (First Meeting, EP.23)
- F1 - the plane that never takes off
- 20VC: Are VCs Still "Open For Business", How VCs Attitude To Risk Has Changed & The 2 Most Valuable Assets To Founders Today with Fred Destin, Founding Partner @ Stride VC
- 1664 Travel Expense App Hits 6500 Customers, but ARPU data makes no sense
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2019 22 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- 1589 How This Pilot Using Freemium To Get First 300 Drone Software Customers
- #71 Esther Perel: Cultivating Desire
- "Early Gains, Early Pains: 5 Lessons for Surviving Hypergrowth" Harry Stebbings and Robert Vis
- 1594 The Main Reason He Took $1.5m Government Loan at 4% Instead of VC
- Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal (2017)
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 8 | Sandeep Aneja, Founder and Managing Partner, Kaizen Private Equity
- a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
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2018 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Live Episode! New Belgium Brewing Company: Kim Jordan
- 1122 Sales Tech CEO "We've Passed $30m in ARR", 70% yoy growth
- Live Episode! RXBAR: Peter Rahal
- 1252 Typeform Now At $19m ARR, 50m Forms Each Month, 40,000 Customers
- A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
- 1038 How Prezly Bootstrapped To $1.6m+ in ARR
- SaaStrPRO AMA with Jason Lemkin
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2017 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- 673: Getting Your First 100 Customers with Salesflare CEO Jeroen Corthout
- 683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele
- Virgin: Richard Branson
- Samuel Adams: Jim Koch (2017)
- AI, Big Data, and Data Governance // Stan Christiaens, Collibra (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal
- Santorini Wine with Panayiota Kalogeropoulou
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14 statements about Belgium, every show
Ladjevardian: Delphi's first hire was a 17-year-old who designed entire app
“Our first hire was a 17 year old kid from Belgium who now has a visa. Now he's in San Francisco and he has designed Everything in our app”
Pinckaers' student art marketplace sold more items monthly than eBay Belgium
“Yeah, I was selling more objects than eBay.be. So, 15,000 art per month at the time. I was working with auction houses, antique dealers, art market, art place. And I started to be big, one of the biggest of Belgium actually.”
Parra Ibanez Sold Trust Reviews to Fund Belgian Real Estate
“We sold it because we had a big opportunity in real estate here in Belgium. We needed some cashflow, some liquidities. So we were thinking like, which is the business that is the most ready to be sold at that moment. And it was Trust Reviews. So that's the rea…”
Jim Koch: America replaced Europe as the global center of brewing innovation
“The place where brewers from all over the world look for inspiration and innovation is not Germany. It's not Belgium. It's not England. It's America. We are teaching the rest of the world how to make great beer.”
Jenkins: Belgium is delaying planned nuclear reactor retirements by a decade
“Belgium had several reactors that was scheduled to close this year. They're going to push that back by a decade.”
Sachs: Starlink is faster than fixed broadband in seven major countries
“Now it's reported that Starlink is faster than the fixed broadband average in Belgium, Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, New Zealand, and France.”
Spotify expanded its Starred usage from two countries to twenty
“For instance, Spotify, we first signed them in the Netherlands and Belgium, and they're now using it in like 20 countries.”
Verbruggen: Idronect leads Belgium market, charging 20 euros per month
“We are market leader in Belgium, and there our customers pay 20, 20 euros, so let's say 24 dollars a month.”
Verbruggen: Idronect has 1,500 users, all based in Belgium
“Well, at the moment, we are at 1500 users. They are all in, in Belgium.”
Idronect has saturated the Belgian drone market and must expand internationally
“In Belgium, we have reached a little bit our limit. There are so, only so many drone pilots that there, that are there in Belgium.”
Raz: New Belgium awards bikes at one year, Belgium trips at five
“At your one year anniversary, you get a brand new cruiser style bike, and some of the models have built in bottle openers. And after five years at the company, you get an all expense paid trip to Belgium.”
Van De Maele: Collibra raised an initial seed round of €800K in Belgium
“And we raised a seed round of about 800,000 euros which at the time was a pretty big deal, especially in Belgium, which didn't really know, doesn't really know venture capital as we have, as we know it here in the US.”
Ruggiero: Prospect.io raised a $60k angel seed round in Belgium
“We just raised a very small seed round with one of my friends and an entrepreneur here in Belgium. They just put, you know, 60 K 66 zero at the beginning.”