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Published by Peter Day -- General Partner @ super{set}
Every founder circles the same three questions. Is this idea a real business? Who do I hire next? How do I sell something that still breaks? Guess wrong, and you spend wasted time trying to find out. Most of the advice available is either a funding narrative or a highlight reel, and neither one helps at 11 pm on a Tuesday when the design partner goes quiet. Founders Uncensored brings the chaos of building a startup into the light. We sit down with the people building AI-first companies and get the version they would only tell a peer: the pivot, the failed hire, the stretch where nothing worked, and the call that finally paid off. No pedestals. No thesis decks. If you’re a founder, a founding-team engineer, or someone seriously weighing the leap, this is the conversation you have been waiting to hear. Hosted by : Peter Day -- General Partner @ super{set} - https://superset.com Produced by : I Hear Everything - iheareverything.com
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A pivot most founders never admit to considering out loud. Caitlin Leksana is CEO and Co-Founder of Fazeshift, an AI platform for accounts receivable backed by Gradient and Y Combinator, and she's lived the failed startup that made this one work. She and her co-founder killed their crypto marketing startup after a false-positive revenue signal, fired a Japanese conglomerate client mid-shutdown, and found the real idea from a color-coded spreadsheet she'd built just to track invoices. The company has since raised $27 million and grown to 35 people by doing the thing she almost skipped the first time: calling customers before building anything. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
A competitor raised 25 times more capital and still isn't winning. Steve Ancheta, Founder and CEO of Zig.ai, spent 16 years carrying quota before betting on a sales execution platform built to close the gaps that burn reps out. He explains why he benchmarks his messaging against AI labs instead of competitors, why the first customer signed on a working but ugly prototype over a polished one, and the five-minute whiteboard reset an early investor forced on him after funding closed. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
What separates founders who scale from founders who burn out? For the launch of Founders Uncensored, host Peter Day sits down with four-time founder and super{set} General Partner Tom Chavez to unpack the hard lessons of building companies and evolving from founder to CEO. Tom shares why founders need to move faster when a business model isn’t working, delegate real authority, master the less glamorous parts of leadership, and prioritize their health along the way. They also explore how AI is accelerating business velocity, why founders should focus on making new mistakes instead of repeating old ones, and how maintaining a strong sense of agency can help leaders navigate the toughest moments of entrepreneurship. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
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