Fortune
company on 41 shows · 11 statements across 10 episodes · said 267 times in 202 episodes since 2013
20VC 38 
Top Founders 36 
How I Built This 24 
Founders 15 
Acquired 14 
Capital Allocators 14 
the Knowledge Project 12 
My First Million 12 
the MAD Podcast 12 
the a16z Podcast 12 
Big Technology 10 
TBPN 10 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 8 
Lenny's Podcast 7 
All-In 6 
Invest Like the Best 5 
the Pitch 3 
Innovators & Investors 3 
We Live to Build 3 
American Optimist 3 
Founder's Journal 2 
BG2 Pod 2 
BigDeal 2 
David Senra 2 
the Neon Show 2 
No Priors 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
A Product Market Fit Show 2 
In Depth 1 
Startups For the Rest of Us 1 
Sourcery 1 
the Green Blueprint 1 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Startup Acquisition Stories 
Mixergy 
Another Podcast 
Cheeky Pint 
Masters of Scale 
Latent Space 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
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20VC 38Top Founders 36How I Built This 24Founders 15Capital Allocators 14Acquired 14the MAD Podcast 12the a16z Podcast 1224 more shows
2026 28 mentions in 23 episodes 1 per episode
- Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
- Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- No Priors Live: Is the SaaS "Bear Thesis" Overblown? MongoDB CEO Answers
- Shipping Enterprise AI Agents with the CPOs of Rubrik, Glean, and Harvey
- What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- Leopold Stays in the Game, Big Tech Earnings, OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Prices | Diet TBPN
- 15 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 56 mentions in 39 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- The Life Story of Michael Dell
- Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- 20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- 20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
- Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- 31 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 40 mentions in 28 episodes 1 per episode
- An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
- Jared Kushner - The Mechanic · Invest Like The Best
- Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
- Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
- The Container Store: Kip and Sharon Tindell
- How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- 20 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 16 mentions in 14 episodes 1 per episode
- Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
- Ep 50: Troy Carter on Discovering Lady Gaga, Future of Music, and Speaking Out on School Choice · Joe Lonsdale
- Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- 3 Business Ideas You Should Start in 2024 (ft. Pomp) (#524)
- Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
- Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)
- He Has Two Modes: Seducing You or Destroying You
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 27 mentions in 19 episodes 1 per episode
- Enron · Acquired
- William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Reade Griffith – Managing Assets and Partnerships at Tetragon (Capital Allocators, EP.276)
- Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- How Roger Federer Became The First Tennis Billionaire (#367)
- 3 Lessons from Building a Marketing Engine to Grow Pipeline from Millions to Billions | Samsara CMO
- University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)
- Leveraging People Data at Scale | ADP Chief Data Officer, Jack Berkowitz
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 11 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Metaverse, Gaingels, Companies that Don't Advertise, and More
- Recruiter.com $20m ARR at $40m Market Cap: Most Under-Priced Public SaaS Ever?
- The 2021 State of Marketing Technology with Marqeta CMO, Vidya Peters | SaaStr Software Community
- Hyperscaling At Scale with PagerDuty's CEO, Jennifer Tejada | SaaStr Software Community
- How to Get a Slice of Harvard's Billion Dollar Case Study Industry | My First Million #222
- Live From The HIBT Summit: Brené Brown
- Live From The HIBT Summit: Gary Vaynerchuk
- Jeremy Grantham – GMO (Manager Meetings, EP.01)
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 18 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- #85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- Khan Academy: Sal Khan
- AlgoPix Hits $2.4m Revenue Helping CPG Brands Monitor Competitors Pricing
- 20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com
- Big brands, manufacturers with raw material (oil plastic) where going factory to warehouse.
- BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
- 20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 17 mentions in 16 episodes 1 per episode
- 1337 How RedisLabs Scaled to $60m+ in ARR More Efficiently than MongoDB
- Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018)
- #72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- 20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- Eric Ries – Lean Start-Ups and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (Capital Allocators, EP.107)
- 1462 With $10m in TTM Revenues, Are You Missing Out on Opt-In Advertising?
- Teach For America: Wendy Kopp (2017)
- 20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 10 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- 895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue
- 1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend
- Going to Market When No Market Exists
- 1162 Pittsburg Placed Niche.com Passes 10m Uniques/Mo, $3m in SaaS Revenue
- Winning Founders & Influencing Everyone: Margit Wennmachers at Startup Grind Europe
- 1096 How TapClicks is Managaing 60% yoy Growth in Marketing Dashboard Space
- Anthony Scaramucci – It's Called a Mooch (Capital Allocators, EP.60)
- Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 29 mentions in 21 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales
- 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
- 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
- 798: Mobile Ad Tech Passes $100m in Revenues
- 771: $320M King of Mobile App Installs
- 20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson
- 827: VC: $140m FinTech, InsurTech Fund on How They Invest
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 10 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- EP 461: $2m Raised, SpokenLayer Turning Blogs Into Audio Content with CEO Will Mayo
- 20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- 20VC: Science Inc's Peter Pham on Why The Battle Between Entrepreneurs & VCs Is Unfair, How To Even The Playing Field & How To Tell When A VC Really Is Interested
- EP 337: How'd he Sell 12,000,000 Books and What About "The Other"?
- EP 315: Mom Just Had Baby, $100 Million Raised Augmented Reality, 65 Million Users
- 20VC: Will LPs Replace GPs with Chris Douvos, Managing Director @ VIA
- How to Quit Corporate for a Startup with Kristi Zulkhe Episode 181
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
2015 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
- 20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank
- 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
- every mention in 2015, scene by scene →
2013 1 mention in 1 episode
every mention on every show, scene by scene, with the transcript →
11 statements about Fortune, every show
The Container Store Achieved Sub-10% Turnover Versus Triple-Digit Industry Rates
“You know, later on Fortune Magazine's running around saying we're the best company to work for in America, but the way we measured that was by having single digit, less than 10% employee turnover in an industry that had triple digit turnover.”
Kahn: Fortune prohibits journalists from using AI to write articles
“Again, in, at Fortune, we don't, we're not actually allowed to use them to write articles for us.”
Kantrowitz: Erasing Nvidia's 2024 gains would drop S&P 500 by 4.5%
“If NVIDIA were to lose the gains it has made this year overnight, the S&P
500 would have to come down approximately 4.5%.”
Sam Parr: Internet Activism Founder Will Be on Forbes Cover Within 5 Years
“He is so impressive that I was, I, this guy's going to be on the cover of fortune or Forbes, I think in the next five years.”
Enron won Fortune's Most Innovative Company award six consecutive years
“It was even named Fortune Magazine's most innovative company six years in a row.”
Rosenthal: McLean's 2001 Fortune story questioned Enron without alleging fraud
“It's not that bad of an article from Enron's perspective. Like, the biggest question it raises is not one of fraud. It's exactly what you said, Ben. It's like, Enron is a black box. Nobody can figure out what's going on here. But there's no accusations of frau…”
McLean: Subjects Always Learn Every Unflattering Claim Prior to Publication
“We always at Fortune, and I still today have a belief, I'd always, if I'm writing something about you will know everything in the piece that is unflattering before it goes to print, so that we'll, we'll have it out before it's in print.”
Kopp secured seven corporate meetings by cold-writing to CEOs
“So I wrote letters to everyone quoted in the article and a few others, by the way, I would pick out like, you know, Delta Airlines and write to the CEO. I mean, this is, you know, the advantage of inexperience. But believe it or not, I got seven meetings off t…”
Contently exceeds 90% gross retention in its Fortune customer cohort
“Getting it to be the kind of customers where we do really well, Fortune, and when you look at that cohort we're at 90 plus percent gross retention and then net negative on the MRR churn side.”
Wendy Kopp secured seven executive meetings by cold-writing to CEOs
“So I wrote letters to everyone quoted in the article. And a few others, by the way, I would pick out like, you know, Delta Airlines and write to the CEO. I mean, this is, you know, the advantage of inexperience. But believe it or not, I got seven meetings off …”