Forward Thinking Founders

George Oni is the founder of Ancillary. Ancillary enables anyone to start, raise & manage a fund to trade stocks, crypto, options & more.This episode of FTF is sponsored by Recruit.so. With Recruit.so, hire pre-vetted ex-YC engineers in days, not weeks. ★ Support this podcast ★

Manni Okim is the founder of Locoom. Loocum's cloud-based technology enables healthcare professionals find work they love and healthcare facilities fill vacancies and open shifts easily.This episode is sponsored by Journey.io. Ditch your memo, Loom, and pitch deck and just use Journey to tell your story instead. ★ Support this podcast ★

Laila Chima is the cofounder of Winter. Winter helps businesses sell NFTs with a credit card.This episode of FTF is sponsored by Recruit.so. With Recruit.so, hire pre-vetted ex-YC engineers in days, not weeks. ★ Support this podcast ★

Setsabile Mkhabela is the founder of Boast ID. They make it easier for Brands, Creatives and social impact initiatives to gain access to their markets and the necessary tools to sell their items. This episode is sponsored by Journey.io. Ditch your memo, Loom, and pitch deck and just use Journey to tell your story instead. ★ Support this podcast ★

Emmanuel Ndifor is the founder of Skilbi. Skilbi has made it simple for anyone to intentionally connect with students seeking career guidance.Have a website that doesn't look amazing? Change that by reaching out to Anebi over at Eikon Labs to help make your brand pop and website convert. ★ Support this podcast ★

Liam Gerada is the founder of Krepling. Krepling’s platform empowers your brand to sell online and in-person, powering payments for subscriptions, digital products, marketplaces, and everything the world of e-commerce has to offer.This episode is sponsored by recruit.so. They help you recruit engineers who deliver. ★ Support this podcast ★

Kaben Clauson is a cofounder of Pigeon Loans. Pigeon Loans is a private place to create, import, or keep track of loans you make with friends, family & loved ones. ★ Support this podcast ★

In this video, I do an analysis on the conversation between Jason Calacanis and Del Johnson that happened on April 2nd, 2022. More context in the the podcast. ★ Support this podcast ★

Kojo Osei is a partner at Matrix Partners. A Little More On Kojo (from the Matrix website)I grew up in Accra, Ghana’s commercial capital known for its bustling street markets. My mother was an entrepreneur who ran a small retail business. She was the first entrepreneur I worked with. From her, I learned that doing what you love leads to persistence and ultimately, success.In college, I fell in love with math and computer science. I was drawn to programming as a way to turn imagination into reality. I bought in fully to the promise of technology as a tool to solve hard problems. Espresso-fueled late-night coding sessions were common. That and squash round robins were the twin pillars of my college years.After college, I turned down a corporate job to join a startup called Sirona as the first employee and founding engineer. After building our initial product and early engineering team I took on the challenge of building out a product organization as Head of Product. At Sirona, we built managed cloud infrastructure and machine learning workflows for radiology clinics. Building critical infrastructure and innovating with our users every day was a highlight of my career.My startup experience at Sirona gave me a deep appreciation for the founder journey and influenced how I approach investing. I look for founders who radically challenge the status quo and have the self-awareness to chart a practical path to their vision. ★ Support this podcast ★

Philo Hermans is the founder of Unlock. With Unlock, Set yourself free from billing and logistics so you can focus on building software instead of packaging, versioning, and distributing products to your customers. ★ Support this podcast ★

Elizabeth Dell is the founder of Amorus. Amorus makes delicious relationships more private, more engaged and more inspired! ★ Support this podcast ★

JT Garwood is the cofounder of bttn. bttn helps hospitals, medical offices, dental clinics, home health care, surgery centers, and other healthcare professionals lower their medical supply bills a lot. ★ Support this podcast ★

Andy Cabasso is the founder of Postaga. Postaga’s all-in-one outreach platform helps you build personalized outreach campaigns, with AI-powered tools to connect you with the right people. ★ Support this podcast ★

Tom Ward is a cofounder of Epoch. Epoch Boats is building a new generation of boats that combines innovative engineering and eco-friendly technology with the performance & wow factor that today's boaters want. ★ Support this podcast ★

Derek Osgood is the founder of Ignition. Ignition is the first dedicated GTM platform for PMMs. From customer research, to launch comms & measurement — it has everything you need to get your product to market. ★ Support this podcast ★

Hannah & Nick Ippolito are the cofounders of Squarekicker. SquareKicker is an intuitive no-code design extension which allows you to bring your Squarespace sites to the next level. ★ Support this podcast ★

Bash Jones is the cofounder of Homeplan. Homeplan enables you to put your home on autopilot with a personal home manager - from bill pay to maintenance, their assistants manage your entire home, from a-z. ★ Support this podcast ★

David Abaev is the founder of Databar. With Databar, access hundreds of APIs without writing a single line of code. Download custom datasets on finance, sports, and much more in under 3 clicks. ★ Support this podcast ★

Mekkie Bansil is the founder of Nonfik. On. NonFik, filter the best free business ebooks, read our juicy summaries, and attract engaged readers for your own content. ★ Support this podcast ★

Chase Lee is the founder on Trustpage. Trustpage lets your entire team easily collaborate on and communicate trust. Earn customers' confidence, close deals faster, and give back time. ★ Support this podcast ★

Sebastian Fischmeister is the cofounder of Palitronica. Palitronica has built a next-generation cyber-protection system for critical electronics and computers where existing solutions cannot operate. Their Palisade Suite is a retrofittable, hardware-based security control that enables organizations to add cybersecurity to their most vital, critical assets without recertification. ★ Support this podcast ★

Christian Schultz & Simon Hestermann are cofounders of Masterchannel. Masterchannel is an online mastering service for music producers, powered by Artificial Intelligence and advanced audio technology. ★ Support this podcast ★

Ted Mann is the cofounder of CollX. CollX (pronounced “collects”) is the fastest way to figure out what your cards are worth. Snap photos of them and instantly get the current market price. ★ Support this podcast ★

Jacob Wolf is the founder of Overcome. Overcome tells gaming and esports stories for the masses authentically and independently. ★ Support this podcast ★

Tyson Kunovsky is the cofounder of Autocloud. With Autocloud, maintain visibility into multi-cloud security, compliance, cost, and drift with automated infrastructure diagrams, change tracking, and a GraphQL API. ★ Support this podcast ★

James Sun is a cofounder of Inloop. With inloop, your customer base with a checkout flow that accepts credit cards and onboards users without wallets ★ Support this podcast ★

Danielle is a cofounder and general partner of 1517. She has worked with young entrepreneurs for about a decade. In 2010, during the founding of the Thiel Fellowship, Danielle joined to lead the design and operations. She's worked with some of the most prestigious founders like Vitalik Buterin and Ritesh Agarwal. Previous to her work with Peter Thiel, Danielle founded and directed Innovations Academy in San Diego, a K-8 charter school serving 400 students, with a focus on student-led project based learning and other alternative programs. ★ Support this podcast ★

Michael Marra is the founder of Entre. Entre is a network for founders, investors, and tech enthusiasts to connect, learn, and earn in a virtual environment. ★ Support this podcast ★

Ramin Bozorgzadeh is the cofounder of Carrot. Carrot is an extension that automatically collects your carts as you shop. ★ Support this podcast ★

Caspar von Wrede is the founder of KeepTheScore. Track points for competitions, sports and teams. Share the live results via link. ★ Support this podcast ★

Taylor Crane is the founder of Clubs Poker. Clubs is the new home for weekly home games, poker nights, or virtual company outings. ★ Support this podcast ★

Kshitij Singh, Rahul Bhadoriya, and Balaji Ingole are the cofounders of SuperDMs. With SuperDMs, send bulk Twitter DMs to all your tweet replies within 2 minutes. ★ Support this podcast ★

Vlad Lokshin is a cofounder of Turtle. Turtle is a platform where the world’s best developers, designers, and clients come together to collaborate. ★ Support this podcast ★

Amit Bansal is the cofounder of 91Squarefeet. At 91Squarefeet, they have advanced AI Driven Technological systems to navigate the myriad of possible challenges involved in opening a retail store; a diverse network of reliable and cost-effective suppliers spread across the country, and a proven track record to save you both time and money. ★ Support this podcast ★

Greg Fragin is the founder of Loop. Consolidate your digital focus to simplify your workflow and increase your productivity, creativity, and your time—offline. With just one place to interact with all of your messaging and media, you will always know what’s new, next, and most needed. ★ Support this podcast ★

Christian LaRosa is the founder of Rosotics. Rosotics produces hyper-efficient metal additive manufacturing solutions that address tougher problems in industrial engineering. ★ Support this podcast ★

David Vargas is the founder of RoamJS. RoamJS is the most extensive library of roam research extensions. ★ Support this podcast ★

Aditya Mehta & Oleksii Sidorov are cofounders of Suggestr. Amazon-quality product recommendations for your brand leading to increased conversions and higher AOV. ★ Support this podcast ★

Camille Lehujeur is the cofounder of Work With Data. Explore data in all its forms on 4M+ topics and entities - backed by their knowledge graph combining numerous reliable sources. ★ Support this podcast ★

Zécca Lehn a GP at Responsibly Ventures. Their mission is to back remarkable teams focused on Venture Scale Positive Impacts. ★ Support this podcast ★

Katarina Lotrič is the cofounder of Gentler. Gentler translates raw numbers into meaningful words. It shows your progress, hints when to slow down, step up or rest. Check your daily condition in the morning and plan your day around it! ★ Support this podcast ★

Mathias Nestler is the founder of AccessOwl. AccessOwl simplifies access approval processes using Slack while documenting who has access to what application automatically. Get access reports in minutes using a central web application. ★ Support this podcast ★

Rav Roberts is the cofounder of Medsii. Medsii uses data and AI to predict, inform & prevent future health problems. ★ Support this podcast ★

Ryan Komori is the founder of Savor Lining. Savor Lining partners with businesses and organizations to offer live, online, MindSculpt™ mental fitness classes & listening sessions led by licensed therapists. ★ Support this podcast ★

This episode wis with a former guest, Henry Johnson. We jam on on all things internet entrepreneurship in this podcast. I hope you learn something new by being a fly on the wall in our conversation. ★ Support this podcast ★

Quimby Melton is the cofounder of Confection. We care about collecting, storing, and distributing user data in a way that aligns with your personal preferences and complies with data protection laws like CCPA, GDPR, and LGPD. ★ Support this podcast ★

Dave Goldblatt is the founding GP at Vibe Capital. Dave was employee 180 at Facebook in 2007, was there until 2017. Afterward, he started a company + started angel investing which led to Vibe Capital. ★ Support this podcast ★

In this episode, we interview an operator and early startup sales leader, DeWayne Roy. DeWayne has had stints at Truebill, Lambda School, Panther, and now Pesto. In this episode, we walks us through all things business development for early stage startups. Enjoy! ★ Support this podcast ★

David Levine is the founder of Scoby. Scoby is a Web3 Creator Ecosystem on a live, audio-video centered app where you can share the experience of health, wealth, wisdom and love. ★ Support this podcast ★

Isabelle Gough is the cofounder of Cercula. Cercula is the UK's leading life cycle assessment software for building projects. ★ Support this podcast ★