
The best early-stage founders before the world catches on and how they're building their business today, Australia, Southeast Asia, the US, and everywhere in between. Hosted by Thea Ngo (Wharton grad, early-stage investor), each episode is one unscripted conversation with a founder who is still in it, while the decisions are still fresh. Think → Customer discovery hacks to sell before you build → ... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 39 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BusinessEntrepreneurship | |||

Lee Lagdameo crossed over from the other side of the table to build one of the AI companies he used to back — and four months into Shikii Labs, he says most companies aren't AI-ready: their data is a mess, and raising less beats raising more.
Lee La... more
Arjun Agarwal is the founder and CEO of inaam, a flat-fee alternative to funds that take a percentage of your money. We talk about his family's fortune disappearing in South Africa, the watches that helped them survive, and the teenage crypto fund he... more
Rowan McNamee builds AI for lawyers that processes thousands of pages of case documents built so it can never make the final call. His first prototype had 300 ways to turn a transcript into a document. Lawyers used exactly one.
Rowan McNamee co-foun... more
Hayden Smith started Pearler with negative money, medical bills he couldn't pay, surgery coming up. The company he built tells everyday Australians to invest and then leave it alone. He's been running on patience since day one.
Hayden Smith is the c... more
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Founders in Motion features unscripted conversations with early-stage founders who are still actively building their businesses. Episodes center on authentic, real-world challenges such as fundraising hurdles, early product-market fit, customer discovery hacks, and the pivots that can make or break momentum. A recurring thread across episodes is the emphasis on practical decision-making under uncertainty—covering fundraising wins and near-misses, multi-market expansions, and hands-on lessons from building in regulated or capital-constrained environments. The show tends to spotlight founders who blend technical or domain expertise with relentless execution, often sharing personal stories that illuminate resilience, storytelling in sales, and... more
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