The Breakouts - 20 Minute Startup Stories

By The Breakouts Podcast

Learn the playbooks of extraordinary founders building category-defining startups.

Season 1 is focused on emerging verticals (ex: Web3, HealthTech, FinTech, AI/ML, etc). It features 10 founders that ... more

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The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.

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March 23, 2023 E27: Special Episode - Splitero's Series A
Michael Gifford⁠ recently raised $11.7M in Series A funding for his new startup, ⁠Splitero⁠.
Splitero enables homeowners to quickly access the equity of their home without having to take on additional debt or make monthly payments.
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Host: ⁠Akkshay Khoslaa⁠
Writing & Production: ⁠Akkshay Khoslaa⁠ & ⁠Gokul Kumarresen
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26min
January 12, 2023 E26: Startup Strategies with Starlight - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising
Grey Nguyen recently raised a $5M seed round to build Starlight — an app that lets businesses set up their company wallet, onboard their team and track their spending with one secure tool.
Starlight is an all-in-one solution for companies to manage their crypto assets. They offer everything a company needs to operate in the crypto economy from setting up wallets, to buying crypto, to tracking expenses. Starlight helps you manage the details - so you can focus on running your business.
Podcast Twitter
Discord Community
YouTube Channel
Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)
TikTok
Host: Akkshay Khoslaa
Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen
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23min
January 10, 2023 E25: Startup Strategies with Risc Zero - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising
Brian Retford recently raised a $14M seed round to build Risc Zero - a startup creating scaling solutions using Zero Knowledge Proofs which will make blockchains faster, cheaper and more accessible.
Risc Zero provides a platform enabling users to trust programs run anywhere while allowing developers to use the tools they already know. The company was founded by a team of Seattle-based hackers committed to enabling users to control their experience on the internet through the creation of privacy-enhancing decentralization technology.
Podcast Twitter
Discord Community
YouTube Channel
Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)
TikTok
Host: Akkshay Khoslaa
Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen
...more
23min
January 05, 2023 E24: Startup Strategies with Jupe - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising
Jeff Wilson recently raised a $9.5M seed round to build a universal autonomous housing platform for 1.5 billion humans. with his startup, Jupe.
Wilson is also known as ‘Professor Dumpster’ for the year he lived in a 33 sq. ft. modified trash dumpster as part of an environmental education and minimalist housing experiment. Wilson’s work on startups, minimalism, and social experimentation has been featured in Forbes, The Atlantic, NY Times, and The Washington Post.
Podcast Twitter
Discord Community
YouTube Channel
Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)
TikTok
Host: Akkshay Khoslaa
Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen
...more
23min
January 03, 2023 E23: Startup Strategies with Renee - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising
Nick Desai recently raised an $8.2M seed round to build a patient-centric personal health concierge app, Renee.
Nick started this company with his wife, Renee. In the past, the 2 of them founded Heal — a HealthTech company that pioneered home-centric patient care and raised over $200M.
Discord Community
YouTube Channel
Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)
TikTok
Host: Akkshay Khoslaa
Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen
...more
26min
December 29, 2022 E22: Startup Strategies with Splitero - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising
Michael Gifford recently raised $5.8M in seed funding & $1B in debt financing for his new startup, Splitero.
Splitero enables homeowners to quickly access the equity of their home without having to take on additional debt or make monthly payments.
Podcast Twitter
Discord Community
YouTube Channel
Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)
TikTok
Host: Akkshay Khoslaa
Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen
...more
23min
December 27, 2022 E21: Startup Strategies with Commons Clinic - Product, Distribution & Fundraising
Nick Aubin recently raised an $11M seed round to build Commons Clinic - a startup providing seamless specialty care programs for pain & orthopedics.
In this episode, Akkshay chats with Nick about strategies, tactics, & hacks that Nick is using to build his business.
Podcast Twitter
Discord Community
YouTube Channel
Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)
TikTok
Host: Akkshay Khoslaa
Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen
...more
28min
December 22, 2022 E20: Startup Strategies with Ramper - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising
Sisun Lee recently raised an $3M PreSeed round to build a developer-first on-ramp to Web3 with his new startup, Ramper.
Ramper is building an SDK that empowers developers to easily integrate web3 authentication and NFT checkout into their mobile applications.
Sisun is a 2nd-time founder — before Ramper, he had founded a nootropics beverage company called More Labs and raised over $20M for it.
Discord Community
YouTube Channel
Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)
TikTok
Host: Akkshay Khoslaa
Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen
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30min
December 20, 2022 E19: Startup Strategies with Zephyr AI - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising
Jeff Sherman and David Morgan recently raised a $18.5M seed round for Zephyr AI - a startup advancing precision medicine using ML-powered predictive analytics.
Imagine a world in which you could enter data about a type of cancer you want to cure, and an AI could tell you how to make the most effective medicine possible — a world in which drug discovery happens in days, not decades. That’s the world Zephyr AI is trying to build
Podcast Twitter
Discord Community
YouTube Channel
Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)
TikTok
Host: Akkshay Khoslaa
Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen
...more
23min
December 15, 2022E18: Startup Strategies with Ness - Product, Distribution, & Fundraising
Derek Flanzraich recently raised a $15.5M seed round to build a health & wellness first credit card through his startup, Ness.
Ness is Derek’s second company. His first company, Greatist, got acquired by Healthline — one of the largest health information sites on the internet.
With Ness, Derek is hoping to drive consumers to take more and better healthy actions by rewarding them for health & wellness purchases with points and exclusive perks.
In this episode, Akkshay chats with them about strategies, tactics, and hacks that they’ve used to build their startup. They discuss product, distribution, fundraising, tokenomics, and much more. Here are some of the questions we cover:
Product: What was your process for building conviction in this problem before pursuing it?

Distribution: What’s your current acquisition strategy?

Fundraising: What is 1 unconventional fundraising tip that you have for founders? Something unique that you think other founders on the pod may not have already said.
Podcast Twitter
Discord Community
YouTube Channel
Newsletter (The Ultimate Founder's Playbook)
TikTok
Host: Akkshay Khoslaa
Writing & Production: Akkshay Khoslaa & Gokul Kumarresen
...more
25min

FAQs about The Breakouts - 20 Minute Startup Stories:

How many episodes does The Breakouts - 20 Minute Startup Stories have?

The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.