StrongRoom AI was once hailed as a healthtech rising star then came the collapse. Joe Zhou stepped in to buy the company out of administration and rebuild from chaos. We dive into the lawsuits, leadership shifts, and the hard lessons behind bringing a broken startup back to life.

A must-listen for healthtech founders, investors, and anyone curious about startup resilience.

What if AI could take over the most painful parts of fraud detection?

In this episode, Satya Tumati, co-founder and CTO of Socratix AI, shares how he went from tuning cars with code to building AI coworkers that automate fraud analysis for banks and fintechs.

We unpack the early MVP that landed his first customers, how they got into Y Combinator with nothing, and why confidence isn’t required to start up.

Perfect for: founders, engineers, and anyone curious about how AI is quietly transforming the financial crime industry.

What if AI could take over the most painful parts of fraud detection?

In this episode, Satya Tumati, co-founder and CTO of Socratix AI, shares how he went from tuning cars with code to building AI coworkers that automate fraud analysis for banks and fintechs.

We unpack the early MVP that landed his first customers, how they raised $4M, and why confidence isn’t required to start up.

Perfect for: founders, engineers, and anyone curious about how AI is quietly transforming the financial crime industry.

Hamish McKay built a Shopify app for MrBeast and turned it into one of Shopify’s fastest-growing startups. In this episode, he shares the scrappy early days, his 3 pillars to hit $1M ARR FAST, and building in public on LinkedIn.

Perfect for founders, personal brand builders and just anyone obsessed with e-commerce growth and startup building.

Jason Ma turned down offers from Google and Meta to build Dyna Robotics, a $600M startup making AI robots that actually work. We cover the 800-napkin breakthrough, taking robots from lab demos to laundromats, and what it means to power the physical economy. 

Perfect for founders, operators, and anyone curious about applied AI beyond the hype

If you want a live demo, check out the full episode on youtube

Making friends as an adult is tough and Sam built Butter to change that. With over 10,000 young adults already using, Butter makes it easy to find new friends through dinners, coffees, runs, and real-world social plans. In this episode, Sam shares her founder story: why existing friend-making apps don’t work, how she shipped fast to build community, and Butter’s bold vision to solve modern loneliness.

Perfect for founders, product builders, and anyone curious about adult friendships.

Ever wonder how a late-night party idea can become a startup that sells out in 48 hours? That’s exactly what happened with Sip Hrd, the Asian-inspired alcohol brand whose lychee vodka seltzer vanished after its first 150 cases.

In this episode, Phung, Daniel and Hanson share how they built from scratch: recipe testing, dodging alcohol regulations, branding and packaging hurdles, and creative go-to-market strategies.

Perfect for founders building physical products, marketers tackling regulated industries, or anyone curious about turning a wild idea into a fast-selling startup.

They got into Y Combinator with an idea that the partners disliked?

In this episode, the Affil founders share what really happens inside YC, the surprising power of doing things that don’t scale, and how they’re solving compliance pain points in financial affiliate marketing with AI.

Perfect for early-stage founders, builders in regulated industries, and anyone wondering if their startup idea sucks

We accidentally started a podcast and now we can’t stop. In this behind-the-scenes episode, we reflect on how a random shower thought turned into a real startup media brand. From perfectionism to metrics obsession, quitting fantasies to growing ambitions, we unpack the chaos of building something from scratch while trying to stay sane. If you're curious how media gets made, this one's for you.

He brought cutting-edge AI from Stanford to Vietnam — and flopped. But after just 3 months of rebuilding, he's now leading one of Vietnam’s most exciting edtechs, with 40,000 users and entering 23,000 schools. In this episode, we dive into how he redesigned the product around students' real stressors and learned to ship unpolished versions without shame. We also chat founder psychology, what it takes to bounce back, and why education innovation must center local context.

🎯 Perfect for early-stage founders, edtech builders, and anyone recovering from a messy launch.