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Publisher |: TechCrunch

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Business,; Entrepreneurship,; Interview,; Startups,; Technology

Categories Via RSS |: Business,; Entrepreneurship,; News,; Tech News,; Technology

How do you build a company from scratch? How do you take an idea and turn yourself into a founder? Find out from those who’ve already taken the plunge and are in the weeds of entrepreneurship.

Every Tuesday, hosts Becca Szuktak and Dominic-Madori Davis interview founders on their origins, product roadmaps, funding efforts — and how they grow from failures. Found is produced by Maggie Stamets

People |: Jordan Crook (@jordanrcrook),; Darrell Etherington (@etherington),; Kell Keller,; Yashad Kulkarni (@helloyashad),; Grace Mendenhall (@gracedenhall),; Maggie Stamets
Country Of Origin |: Canada /; USA
Produced In |: San Francisco, CA /; Brooklyn, NY /; Toronto, Ontario
Premiere Date |: 2021-03-31
Related Hashtags |: #TCdisrupt,; #TCDisrupt,; #TechCrunchDisrupt2021,; #Webbys
Frequency |: Weekly
Explicit |: No

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164 Available Episodes (164 Total) / Average duration: 00:44:27

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164 Available Episodes (164 Total)Average duration: 00:44:27

Apr 16, 2024

00:43:57

In order to get drivers to convert from gas-powered cars to electric, there needs to be reliable charging infrastructure. Today on Found, Dom and Becca are joined by Louis Tremblay, the CEO and founder of FLO, a company that manufactures electric vehicle charging stations and has been creating charging infrastructure in the US and Canada for the last 15 years. Tremblay also talked about how he intentionally built this company to be a rewarding and fun place to work and what advice he has for new founders trying to do the same.

In this conversation they cover:

The components that go into creating superchargers for public use and why these isn’t just one kind of EV plug
The process of working with cities to design charging stations that reflect the character of the city
The importance of developing the hardware alongside the software to create the best customer experience possible

Found posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcasts: Equity and Chain Reaction. Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each

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Apr 09, 2024

00:43:33

If you’re not in construction or in the middle of a renovation, you might not think much about wood waste but in 2018 alone landfills in the US received 12.2 million tons of wood. Most of this is useful material that could be reused, but the lack of infrastructure means the wasted wood can't always reach the developers, woodworkers, and creators who need it. This week on Found, we're talking to a founder who has a SaaS solution for this broken supply chain. Ben Christensen is the founder and CEO of Cambium, a company that is reimagining the wood supply chain and reallocating previously wasted wood to be used in new building projects.

In this conversation they cover:

Learning to navigate the logistics of sourcing, selling, and shipping wood to customers
Building a team culture based on the individual and avoiding a one size fits all approach
Onboarding customers who may be adverse to technological solutions
How AI can help create a more efficient lumber supply chain

(0:00) Introduction

(1:42) What Cambium is all about

(5:01) Climate change and wood recycling

(11:36) Developing the software

(15:54) Sourcing sustainable wood

(18:41) Going from grad school to founder

(20:01) Fundraising journey

(23:59) AI and supply chains

(25:49) Building the team

(30:15) Learning from logistics mistakes

(32:30) Staying grounded while building climate solutions

(36:40) Host conversation

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Apr 02, 2024

00:46:37

Between the rising cost of groceries and the all too common food desert, access to healthy and affordable food in America is getting harder to find. Today’s guest, Nick Green is the co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market, a membership-based online grocery store that focuses on natural and organic food and household products. Thrive Market isn’t just focused on offering healthy options, they want to ensure everyone has access to them so they’ve become the first online grocer to accept SNAP and EBT benefits. In this episode, Green discusses how it’s possible to build a business that is a shareholder-driven business and a business that cares about the stakeholders.

They also talked about:

The logistics of running a grocery company sustainably from the beginning
Their unusual path to funding
How they organized the leadership team with four co-founders

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Mar 26, 2024

00:42:44

Every wildfire season seems to be getting more intense than the last but today’s guest is here to tell us that wildfires actually have a good side. Today on Found, we’re joined by Allison Wolff, the co-founder and CEO of Vibrant Planet, a cloud-based planning and monitoring tool for adaptive land management. Wolff discusses why the wildfires we’re seeing today are hotter and spreading more quickly than we can contain and how proper land management can help create the environment needed for the lower, slower burning fires forrest need.

They also talked about:

How Wolff’s previous experience working with leaders at tech giants like Facebook and Netflix helped shape her leadership style
The importance of working with indigenous groups to learn how people have been managing the land for centuries
The key role AI places when it comes to monitoring land management and creating adaptive planning

(0:00) Introduction

(2:07) Vibrant Planet is modernizing land management

(11:31) Adapting land management to climate change

(16:45) Scaling nature-based climate solutions

(20:16) The benefits of a for profit company

(30:00) The importance of Indigenous knowledge in land management

(35:01) Host discussion

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Mar 19, 2024

00:38:18

Of all the work tasks you could automate with AI, submitting expenses would probably be high on the list. Today on Found, we’re talking to Eric Glyman, the CEO and cofounder of Ramp, a spend management platform that is building AI tools to make financial workflows easier for employees and employers. In this episode they talk about what Glyman and his co-founder learned from their first startup and how they see AI changing fintech forever.

They also talked about:

What Glyman and his co-founder learned from their first startup and from their time working at Capital One
The white space that still exists in fintech
How Ramp is implementing security measures while ramping up their use of AI

(0:00) intro

(2:20) SImplifying financial processes

(8:41) Automation expense management

(13:46) AI could take over tedious work tasks

(19:10) Security and privacy with financial data and AI

(23:45) Taking a lower valuation

(31:54) What's next for Ramp and fintech

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Mar 12, 2024

00:46:10

Recycling is one facet to solving the climate crisis, but most of us are doing it wrong. Today on Found, Becca and Dom are talking with Rebeca Hu, the CEO and cofounder of Glacier, an AI robotics company that is building robots to accurately sort recycling. They talk about how many of us are wish-cylers who hopefully throw non-recyclables into the bin and how Glacier’s robots are sorting the recycling and making sure all of our recycling mistakes are corrected.

They also talked about:

What it takes to train an AI-powered sorting robot
What the reception has been like in recycling facilities
How the robots are tracking the kind of waste we’re creating as they sort
How Rebecca told this story to fundraisers who have very likely never stepped foot in a recycling center.

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Mar 05, 2024

00:41:16

Applying for government benefits is a slow, tedious process that often leaves applicants in limbo for several months. Advocate looks to help. Today on Found Becca and Dom are talking with Advocate’s founder Emilie Poteat, the company that helps Americans engage with federal benefits programs through its technology-enabled services platform. In this episode they discuss how the Advocate team is using AI to automate advocacy and get the wait time for people seeking aid to nearly nothing.They also talked about:

Where Poteat ultimately found fundraising success
How the government has reacted to a small startup seeking to automate such an embedded bureaucratic process
Why AI is the best tool in the technological shed to work with the mass amounts of rules and data required to navigate the social security system
How the team is implementing the security measures needed when dealing with such sensitive information

(0:00) Introduction

(4:16) the status quo of applying for government aid

(8:56) Automating government services

(13:13) using AI to automate advocacy

(18:29) Finding the right investor fit

(24:13) Hiring for a social impact company

(30:00) Collaborating with government agencies

(32:00) Host discussion

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Feb 27, 2024

00:33:42

Do you know what brand your bedsheets are? Probably not. Today’s guest Ariel Kaye has been working to change that with Parachute, a DTC bedding and home goods company. Kaye started Parachute in 2013—the hayday of DTC brands. She joins Dom to talk about what it was like building as a solo founder while she’s established a well-known brand and expanded beyond bedding.

They also talked about:

Why parachute hasn’t raised as much capital as you might think
How Kaye’s branding expertise has driven the company’s identity
Kay’s best advice to avoid burnout and be the best leader possible as a solo founder

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Feb 20, 2024

00:47:12

This episodes dives into the massive web of the wedding industry with Shan-Lyn Ma, the co-founder and CEO of Zola. Ma talked about why she decided to launch the business after trying to buy a gift for a friend and realizing that wedding registries were still living in the past. Ma spoke about how the company navigated changes in the digital and competitive landscapes over the last decade and how the company powered through the pandemic's impacts on the industry.

(0:00) Introduction

(3:33) Creating a better wedding planning experience

(8:45) Building in the wedding industry

(13:45) Inclusivity in the wedding space

(18:35) Personalizing wedding planning

(23:11) Adapting to the pandemic

(33:08) AI-generated thank you notes

(43:00) What's next

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Feb 13, 2024

00:49:51

Is it time for the resume’s reign to come to an end? Tigran Sloyan is the co-founder and CEO of CodeSignal, a skills assessment platform used by many tech companies to hire engineers based on their engineering chops rather than their keyword-packed resumes. In this episode, Becca, Dom, and Tigran talk about how traditional resume-based hiring perpetuates biases and limits opportunities for individuals without extensive networks or prestigious credentials and how skills assessment lead to more equitable hiring. They also get into the CodeSignal team’s plans to go beyond assessment to skills development, how AI will play a role in building out these courses, and the way Tigran thinks about equitable hiring on his own team.

(1:32) Solving the "talent problem" in hiring and skill development

(4:55) Math competitions to MIT

(10:42) Resumes, skills assessment, and AI in the job market

(14:50) AI's impact on jobs and learning

(20:05) Personalized learning with AI tutoring

(24:47) AI tutoring platform for education and career development

(28:57) Personal growth as an entrepreneur

(32:42) Strategic hiring

(37:08) Company culture, transparency, and AI development

(40:35) AI tutoring platform and its potential impact on job requirements

(42:34) Tech industry skills training and apprenticeships

(44:16) AI-powered tutoring and personalized learning

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Apr 16 | 00:43:57

Building EV charging infrastructure that lasts with Louis Tremblay from FLO

Apr 09 | 00:43:33

Giving old wood new life with Ben Christensen from Cambium

Apr 02 | 00:46:37

Making healthy food accessible to everyone with Nick Green from Thrive Market

Mar 26 | 00:42:44

Only AI can prevent forest fires with Allison Wolff from Vibrant Planet

Mar 19 | 00:38:18

Finding longevity in Fintech with Eric Glyman from Ramp

Mar 12 | 00:46:10

Training AI-powered recycling robots with Rebecca Hu from Glacier

Mar 05 | 00:41:16

AI could be the solution for bureaucracy with Emilie Poteat from Advocate

Feb 27 | 00:33:42

Building in the DTC hayday with Ariel Kaye from Parachute

Feb 20 | 00:47:12

Bringing the wedding industry into the 21st century with Shan-Lyn Ma of Zola

Feb 13 | 00:49:51

Closing the talent gap and mitigating bias in hiring with Tigran Sloyan from CodeSignal

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