Found

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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

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Found episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Found for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Found episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Mitigating AI biases in healthcare with Amy Brown from Authenticx

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06/13/23 • 41 min

This week we hear from Amy Brown, the co-founder and CEO of Authenticx, a Midwestern startup that helps insurance companies and medical organizations extract data from their call centers using AI. Amy told Becca and Dom about how her background working in the same call centers inspired her to foray into entrepreneurship. She also talked about the sacrifices and very human side of being an entrepreneur and how they were very intentional when building their AI model.

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Found Live ft Jordan Taylor and Edith Cooper, Medley

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02/21/22 • 53 min

Listen in to the first-ever episode of Found Live. We were joined by the mother-daughter duo Jordan Taylor and Edith Cooper who co-founded Medley—a group coaching platform focusing on personal and professional growth. They talked with Jordan and Darrell about what it’s like to start a business with a family member amidst a pandemic, what it takes to foster community in a virtual space, and the importance of vulnerable, honest communication. Those who joined us live were able to participate in the conversation in real-time. If you missed this live episode, don’t worry, we’re going live on Hopin every other Thursday. On March 3, Toyin Ajayi from Cityblock will join the found crew at 10am Pt/ 1pm ET

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Hilary Coles, hims & hers

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09/20/21 • 51 min

Hilary Coles co-founded telehealth startup hims & hers back in 2017, and the now-public company has expanded its focus considerably since then, including adding a full vertical dedicated to women's health. We talked to Hilary about building a healthcare brand focused on individual customer experience, with a brand designed to appeal to a new generation of healthcare recipients that haven't felt catered to by existing models.

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Rebranding egg donation with Lauren Makler from Cofertility

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04/11/23 • 46 min

On today’s episode, Lauren Markler comes on to talk about how her company Cofertility aims to rebrand egg donation by making the process less transactional and much more affordable. She talks with Darrell and Becca about scaling while maintaining a personal touch, building a company remotely, fand inding cofounders that align on the company mission and prioritizing motherhood while building a company.

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Getting people to try new things IRL with Sarah Peterson from The Nudge

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04/04/23 • 46 min

This week Becca is joined by special guest co-host TechCrunch reporter Amanda Silberling to talk with Sarah Peterson, COO and co-founder ofTthe Nudge which is a text-based app that helps you make the best plan in your city. They get into the benefits of a sibling/co-founder relations, how to build trust with a user, and why everyone needs that planner friend in the friend group.

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Jelani Memory, A Kids Company About

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09/24/21 • 54 min

Jelani Memory's 'A Kids Book About...' series began with just one title he created because he wanted to answer a question one of this own kids had. Through that process, Jelani realized that not only was there a need for a lot more similar books that deal frankly with difficult, important issue, but also an opportunity to change the publishing industry from the ground up.

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

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03/26/24 • 42 min

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.

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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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A social platform to map the way we think with Ida Josefiina from Sane

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08/29/23 • 41 min

Have you ever thought about all of the experiences, shows, books, people, places, and other pieces of media that have all been mixed together to make your unique personality and interests? Do you think you could build a multi-media map to visually show all of these elements? On today’s episode of Found, the co-founder and CEO of Sane, Ida Josefiina is explains how they’re breaking social networking as we know it to find a solution for collective reasoning and even mitigate existential risk.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How Josefiina accidentally became an entrepreneur in the tech industry
Why New York is the best place for a company like Sane and the argument for having an in-person work culture.
How spatial mapping can visually represent the way we think to better explain difficult concepts.

Today’s episode dives into the mind of Ida Josefiina, the co-founder and CEO of Sane, a social knowledge-sharing platform. Josefiina talked about how her foray into existentialist ideas and the power of collective intelligence put her on a journey to start this company. She spoke about how she thinks about hiring for the mission-driven company and how it could scale. Plus, she talked about why she doesn’t consider Sane to be a social media platform.

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Trusting your gut microbiome with Cheryl Sew Hoy from Tiny Health

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12/13/22 • 47 min

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When Ceryl Sew Hoy had her first child, she discovered the importance of the infant gut microbiome. As a research-driven entrepreneur, she learned everything she could about gut health and how to help infants avoid the chronic health issues that occur if they don’t receive the essential microbiomes from the mother. Tiny Health was started to fill a gap in OBGYN care and provide the first-ever gut health test for babies and toddlers along with educational materials needed to course correct and set up infants for optimal gut health. Darrell, Becca, and Cheryl also talk about being a product-focused founder, building customer trust, and Darrell’s constant tummy aches.

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Your data isn’t ready for AI with Prukalpa Sankar from Atlan

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09/17/24 • 40 min

Finding order in chaotic datasets is key for companies to be able to implement AI solutions that actually work. This week’s guest is Prukalpa Sanka, the co-CEO and co-founder of Atlan, a platform designed to help data teams build trust, streamline workflows, and collaborate more effectively. Atlan emerged from the challenges of managing complex data projects and is now empowering organizations to scale their data operations while maintaining transparency and trust. In this episode they discuss how Atlan has maintained a fun company culture despite the stress and how her and her co-founder have maintained a great working relationship for the past 12 years.

00:00 - Introduction

02:31 - Founding story and early challenges

06:19 - Overcoming high-stakes data issues

08:45 - The evolution of data and AI

13:31 - Building a product to solve key problems

16:13 - Adapting to technological change

19:21 - The growing role of AI in business

21:05 - Preparing data for AI integration

24:27 - Addressing bias and ethics in AI

26:52 - Fundraising and fun marketing

31:34 - Maintaining a strong co-founder relationship

33:47 - Final thoughts and reflections

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FAQ

How many episodes does Found have?

Found currently has 195 episodes available.

What topics does Found cover?

The podcast is about News, Entrepreneur, Startup, Tech News, Podcasts and Technology.

What is the most popular episode on Found?

The episode title 'Mitigating AI biases in healthcare with Amy Brown from Authenticx' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Found?

The average episode length on Found is 44 minutes.

How often are episodes of Found released?

Episodes of Found are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Found?

The first episode of Found was released on Mar 31, 2021.

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