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The New Build

Bubble
Bubble
Artificial Intelligence
The Turing App
Youtube
Pro Studio Time
Rapiddev
Makko
Entrepreneurship
Software Development
App Building
Pet Longevity
Pet Wellness
Veterinary Health Care
Google Sheets
Slack
Notion
Elita
Education Technology
Wash-Dry-Fold POS
Laundromats

Software is changing. Builders are changing. The playbook is changing.

The New Build breaks down exactly how today’s solo founders and small teams are building and shipping apps that reach millions of users — faster, leaner, and without traditional dev teams.

Hosted by Bubble co-founder Emmanuel Straschnov and producer Abhinav Narain, we have candid conversations with founders building with modern... more

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Latest Episodes

For our Season 1 finale, we did something different: three founders, three industries, and one bet they all made independently—that mobile had to be the anchor for their business.

In this episode, host Abhinav Narain sits down for three shorter conv... more

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Scott Belsky has spent two decades at the center of how creative and technical work gets built, shipped, and scaled — and almost none of it followed a conventional path.

In this episode, Emmanuel Straschnov sits down with Scott Belsky — founder of B... more

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Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup, the book that gave a generation of founders the MVP, the pivot, and the build-measure-learn cycle. He's also an early Bubble investor who believed in the democratization of building before most of Silicon Valley took... more

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Most founders build software first and a business second. Clément Llehi did it the other way around — and that sequence might be exactly why Makko works.

In this episode, Abhinav sits down with Clément, the bootstrapped solo founder of Makko, a faci... more

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Recent Guests

Andrew Haarsager
Founder
Land
Episode: Obsess Over the Problem, Not the Solution: 3 Mobile-First Playbooks | Season 1 Finale
Onyi Chukwuma
Co-founder and COO
Mmara
Episode: Obsess Over the Problem, Not the Solution: 3 Mobile-First Playbooks | Season 1 Finale
Obi Chukwuma
Co-founder and CGO
Mmara
Episode: Obsess Over the Problem, Not the Solution: 3 Mobile-First Playbooks | Season 1 Finale
Scott Belsky
Product and storytelling leader; founder of Behance; former Adobe executive; investor
Behance; Adobe; A24
Episode: What Behance, Adobe, and A24 Have Taught Scott Belsky About Art & Tech
Eric Ries
Founder, thought leader and New York Times bestselling author
Lean Startup author; Incorruptible
Episode: The Lean Startup Author on Why Building Fast Isn't Enough | Eric Ries
Clément Llehi
Founder and CEO of Makko
Makko
Episode: Bootstrapping a 300-Person Company Without Raising a Dollar | Clément Llehi (Makko)
Joey Zwillinger
Entrepreneur and renewables expert, co-founder and former CEO of Allbirds
Allbirds
Episode: Allbirds' Former CEO Talks $4B IPO, Starting Over, and His New Playbook | Joey Zwillinger
Giselle Gonzales
Founder and CEO of EqualReach
EqualReach
Episode: Building a Marketplace Where Doing Good Pays the Bills | Giselle Gonzales (EqualReach)
Olena Voloshyna
Product Lead at EqualReach
EqualReach
Episode: Building a Marketplace Where Doing Good Pays the Bills | Giselle Gonzales (EqualReach)

Hosts

Abhinav Narain
Video producer and host of the podcast; producer and host with Bubble involvement
Emmanuel Straschnov
Co-host and Bubble co-founder; discusses product and strategy

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 9 ratings
  • Awesome podcast!!

    Loved the episode with Fuzzy from Notion. looking forward to more episodes!! And the voice of one of the co-hosts is sooooo nice!!

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    theo_goldberg
    United States6 months ago

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The Lean Startup Author on Why Building Fast Isn't Enough | Eric Ries
Q: How does governance play into the sustainability of a company's mission?
Governance acts as a design problem that protects the company's mission from being eroded by internal or external pressures, embedding mission-centered practices into the charter and board responsibilities.
The Lean Startup Author on Why Building Fast Isn't Enough | Eric Ries
Q: What are the two broad paths you outline for building a mission-driven company?
The two paths are the path of ethos, which ensures alignment among people, structures, and resources; and the path of integrity, which ensures the organization can reliably keep its promises through strong governance and accountability.
What Behance, Adobe, and A24 Have Taught Scott Belsky About Art & Tech
Q: Has the content of the advice you give to founders changed over the last five years with technology developments?
There is greater paranoia about moats and competitive advantages due to rapid AI progress; focus on what areas remain resilient and on software opportunities expanding as capabilities grow, while emphasizing curiosity and learning in founders.
What Behance, Adobe, and A24 Have Taught Scott Belsky About Art & Tech
Q: And you were there when Adobe was getting into the AI space with Firefly; what should builders be thinking about with respect to what tool to use and how to think about it?
Developers should consider model-agnostic approaches, recognizing that leading models shift over time; they should design products that can leverage different models for different purposes and evaluate trade-offs between commercial safety and creative control.
What Behance, Adobe, and A24 Have Taught Scott Belsky About Art & Tech
Q: So, when did you start Behance, like what were the years?
Behance started in late 2006, with an initial launch in 2007, and later joined Adobe seven years after its founding.

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The show features solo founders and small teams building apps with modern, accessible tools, often highlighting no-code platforms, rapid iteration, and pragmatic go-to-market tactics. Conversations span mobile-first product playbooks, AI-assisted product design, and industry-specific deployments (pet health, climate risk, health tech, marketplaces). A standout throughline is building with speed and trust: focusing on real problems, partnering with communities, and leveraging lightweight tech stacks to ship impactful products. Notable is the emphasis on practical frameworks, candid founder stories, and ecosystem bets around Bubble and no-code as accelerants for startup velocity and user growth.

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1. Andrew Haarsager
2. Onyi Chukwuma
3. Obi Chukwuma
4. Scott Belsky
5. Eric Ries
6. Clément Llehi
7. Joey Zwillinger
8. Giselle Gonzales

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