Founding Journey

Interviews with world-class startup founders about their unique paths to uncover tactical insights they've learned about how to fundraise, grow, validate, hire, scale, and lead teams while building your startup. Get full access to detailed takeaways on each episode, additional case studies, and more at join.foundingjourney.com

Founding Journey is a business podcast hosted by Michael Houck, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Michael Houck hosts Founding Journey, a business show with 19 episodes published.

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  How Arjun Mahadevan Raised $1 Million In 2 Minutes

  Apr 2, 202559 minS0

  <p>Arjun built a $100M startup by helping other founders incorporate and start their own. Along the way he went through Y Combinator and built an audience of over 80,000 people on X and LinkedIn.</p><p><br></p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Arjun’s journey:</p><p>🐦 X → x.com/ArjunMahadevan </p><p>💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/mahadevanarjun </p><p>🚀 Startup → doola.com</p><p><br></p><p>Follow us: </p><p>🔔 Subscribe →youtube.com/@callmehouck?sub_confirmation=1 </p><p>📝 Newsletter → join.foundingjourney.com </p><p>📈 Founder Membership → upgrade.foundingjourney.com </p><p>💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/michael-houck<...

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  How Stella Garber Raised $5M To Build An AI Task Manager

  Mar 15, 202559 minS0

  <p>Stella has worked in startups her entire career. She started previous companies and even got the opportunity to join Trello as an early employee. She scaled with the company all the way through it’s acquisition by Atlassian. She then founded Hoop and raised $5M to solve productivity.</p><p><br /></p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p><br /></p><p>Follow Stella’s journey:</p><p>🐦 X → x.com/startupstella💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/stellagarber🚀 Startup → hoop.app</p><p>Follow us:🔔 Subscribe → youtube.com/@foundingjourney?sub_confirmation=1📝 Newsletter → join.foundingjourney.com📈 Founder Membership → upgrade.foundingjourney.com💼 LinkedIn → linkedi...

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  How Sahil Chopra Went from Doctor to Startup Founder

  Jan 17, 202551 minS0

  <p>Sahil Chopra left his medical practice after being trained at Harvard and UCLA to become a startup founder. Now, he's solving the silent sleep epidemic alongside his brother.</p> <p><br></p> <p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p> <p><br></p> <p>Follow Sahil’s journey: 💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/sahilchopramd 🚀 Startup → empowersleep.com</p> <p><br></p> <p>Follow us: 🔔 Subscribe → youtube.com/@callmehouck?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Newsletter → join.foundingjourney.com 📈 Founder Membership → upgrade.foundingjourney.com 💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/michael-houck</p> <p><br></p> <p>In this conversation we discuss:</p> <p><br></p> <p>Founder Mode</p> <p>(00:00) — Intro (01:12) —...

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  How Adam Nathan Went from $0 to $10M Revenue in 15 Months

  Jan 9, 20251h 7mS0

  <p>Adam Nathan raised $45M at a $150M valuation for his startup, Almanac. But then he realized he needed to pivot…  and he pulled it off. He's now on track to go from 0 - $10M in revenue in just 15 months with the pivoted company, Blaze.ai</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) →deck-database.carrd.co</p><p>Follow Adam’s journey:<br>🐦 X →x.com/adampnathan<br>💼 LinkedIn →linkedin.com/in/adampnathan<br>🚀 Startup →blaze.ai</p><p><br></p><p>Want to hear more from Adam? Get Startup Tycoon in your inbox weekly →startuptycoon.com</p><p><br>Follow us:<br>🔔 Subscribe →youtube.com...

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  Luke Sophinos: From Thiel Fellow to $27M Vertical SaaS Startup

  Jan 2, 202548 minS0

  <p>This is how Luke got a $100,000 investment to drop out of college and turned it into a $27 million startup. He breaks down how to identify and build your own vertical SaaS business too.</p><p>📚 1,800 Pitch Decks (Free) → deck-database.carrd.co</p><p><br>Follow Luke’s journey: <br>🐦 X → x.com/lukesophinos <br>💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/lukesophinos <br>🚀 Startup → coursekey.com</p><p>📝 Newsletter → newsletter.lukesophinos.com <br>📔 Vertical SaaS Bible → verticalsaasbible.com</p><p><br>Follow us: <br>🔔 Subscribe → youtube.com/@foundingjourney?sub_confirmation=1 <br>📝 Newsletter → join.foundingjourney.com <br>📈 Founder Membership → upgrade.foundingjourney.com <br>💼 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/michael-houck</p><p>In...

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