Not Another Podcast

Hey, I’m Brennan Pothetes. I’ve raised millions, burned out hard, and learned that most startup advice is toxic BS. Hustle culture isn’t a superpower. It’s a fast track to burnout.So I’m starting Not Another Podcast. Each episode, I’m doing something fun, like building Legos or cooking spaghetti, while having raw, honest convos with founders.It’s part therapy, part teardown. All real talk.If you’re done with the hype and want sustainable success, this is for you.

Not Another Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Infinity Constellation, with 35 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.

Infinity Constellation hosts Not Another Podcast, a business show with 35 episodes published.

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  A 56-Minute Masterclass on Manifestation for Skeptics | Sarah Perl @ Stella

  Aug 18, 202645 min

  Sarah Perl had fewer than 150 followers when a tarot video she posted as a college sophomore went viral overnight. Three years later she'd made over a million dollars in courses, paid off the student debt she took on for a teaching degree everyone told her not to get, and left Brooklyn for LA. This year she shipped Stella, an AI app she designed the front end of herself using Claude Code, on no venture funding. Brennan sits down with her not as the internet's manifestation girl, but as what she actually is: a distribution-first, bootstrapped, AI-native operator with 4.5 million followers and a very specific theory of why founders win. Her framing for this audience is blunt. Manifesting is the For You page. Where you put your attention is where your life ends up going, and belief is the highest-leverage, lowest-effort thing you can work on. They get into the parts she almost never gets asked about: why she'd only hire neurodivergent people, what her ADHD has actually cost her, the Twitter thread full of guys planning to build her app that pushed her to ship, and the launch week when her own users turned on her pricing. In this episode: Why she optimizes for obsession instead of strategy, and how that shapes what gets built The exact origin of "I get paid to exist," said years before it was remotely true How she reframes ADHD and anxiety as an operating system rather than a defect What building the front end of a real app with Claude Code on her phone actually looked like The Twitter thread that made her stop planning and ship Why lottery winners lose the money, and what that has to do with your revenue ceiling The biggest regret of her life, and why she still wouldn't change it Subscribe for new episodes every week. Watch on YouTube, listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Find Sarah at @hothighpriestess and download Stella on the App Store.

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  How a Brain Surgeon Scientist Learned to Spot Fake AI | Afsheen Afshar

  Aug 4, 202647 min

  Afsheen Afshar has one of the strangest résumés in tech: an MD and a PhD who built brain-machine interfaces that helped paralyzed patients type using only their thoughts, then walked away from medicine to become Wall Street's first Chief Data Science Officer at J.P. Morgan. So when he says most of the AI being sold today is "theater," he has the standing to mean it. In this conversation with Brennan Pothetes, Afsheen (Founder Managing Partner of Pilot Wave Holdings) draws a hard line between what's real about AI and what's a very expensive branding exercise. He explains why LLMs are just "the most multidimensional autocomplete ever devised," why AI projects fail on culture and never on the math, and why he's quietly buying boring Main Street companies while everyone else chases the next San Francisco demo. It gets spicy: the pair debate whether trading your data for "free" services is capitalism working or a rigged barter, why the foundational-model labs are losing the public, and what a brain scientist thinks machines still can't copy. Highlights: How to tell real AI from "theater" in under a minute The prompt trick a doctor uses to get expert-level answers from any model Why "data is the new oil" is a warning about who owns your future What Wall Street's first AI chief saw inside the big banks The VC line about small business that sent a chill down his spine Why he says AI is "plenty dangerous" without ever being conscious The one thing the human brain does that no model comes close to Subscribe to Not Another Podcast for unfiltered conversations with the founders and operators actually building the future. Watch on YouTube. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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  How I Launched 8 AI Companies in 1 Year with Infinity | a Q&A with Brennan

  Jul 28, 202612 min

  Brennan Pothetes built eight companies in a single year and just closed a $24M raise for Infinity Constellation. So when listeners flooded him with questions, he did what most founders won't: he answered them straight, including the ones that expose his own contradictions. In this solo AMA, Brennan breaks down the exact first move Infinity makes before anyone writes a line of code, why he no longer believes in tech moats, and what selling his last company (Butter) taught him about ignoring external validation. Then it gets honest. Asked which part of the "toxic" Silicon Valley playbook he still runs, he admits he grinds harder than anyone he knows, emails at all hours, and chases being the fastest to reply, before conceding, one layer deeper, that the whole ethos is a pipe dream. For founders drowning in hustle-culture advice from people who never cop to the cost, Brennan's candor is the point. In this episode: The one-page memo Infinity writes before building anything, and why it beats a business plan What selling Butter taught Brennan that a win never could Why he stopped believing tech moats are durable, and what he trusts instead Whether his AI bill is really cheaper than headcount (and the exact math) His advice to 22-year-olds deciding between a job and going all-in How to run a side company without handing your employer the IP The hustle habit he genuinely can't quit, and the moment he admits it's a pipe dream Subscribe for more unfiltered founder conversations on Not Another Podcast. Watch on YouTube, listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Follow Brennan and Infinity for what's next.

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  The Secret to Hiring People Who Never Leave | Shensi Ding @ Merge

  Jul 21, 202651 min

  Silicon Valley says move fast and break things. Shensi Ding built Merge by doing the opposite: nine months of building with zero users, obsessing over margins while everyone else chased growth at any cost. Today the fastest-moving AI companies in the world, including Mistral and Perplexity, run on the infrastructure she refused to rush. Brennan sits down with the co-founder and CEO of Merge ($75M from Accel, NEA, and Addition) to talk about the unfashionable choices behind the connective layer of production AI. Shensi gets candid about the post-Series B hiring spree that felt like "an organ getting rejected," why she studies competitors like Sherlock Holmes, the stigma around Chinese open-source models, and the fertility numbers that made her rethink founder stress. Highlights: Why building for nine months with zero users meant launching with zero bugs The over-hiring mistake, and the "fewer, better people" rule that came out of it How one rogue AI agent can delete your entire Salesforce, and how to stop it Chinese open-source models, and how American routers put a "surface" on top of them Why model access based on citizenship is coming to your company "You can't fake margins forever": her case against AI financial engineering 20 eggs, one embryo: the honest math of founder stress and fertility Subscribe to Not Another Podcast for more unfiltered conversations with founders building through the hype. Watch on YouTube, listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Find Shensi on LinkedIn and X (@shensi) · merge.dev

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  Why This Stripe Engineer Quit to "Save the Internet” and Give Ownership Back to the Consumer

  Jul 14, 202645 min

  For 25 years, you have been renting. Your photos, your files, your audience, your work… all of it lives on someone else's servers, in formats you can't touch, monetized by a handful of companies that can evict you anytime. Ben Guo thinks that's the great unspoken scam of the modern internet, and he left a nearly nine-year career at Stripe to do something about it. Ben was an early employee at Venmo and the founding engineer on Stripe Terminal. Now he's the co-founder of Zo Computer, a personal cloud computer he describes as "your home on the internet" and pitches, only half-joking, as "AWS for my mom." In this conversation with Brennan Pothetes, he makes the case that the next giant consumer wave isn't AI taking your job, it's AI finally letting ordinary people own a piece of the internet. It gets spicy. Ben argues SaaS needs to die, explains why he spent $9,000 on AI coding in a single month, breaks down "velocity coding" versus vibe coding, and tells the story behind the name Zo and his Pegasus logo. If you're tired of the same recycled AI-future takes, this one cuts in a different direction. In this episode: Why Ben says we've "never owned real property on the internet" and what that actually costs you The "AWS for my mom" test, and how building for a biologist with no coding background shaped the product Why he believes SaaS has to die and individuals become their own software providers "Velocity coding, not vibe coding": how he writes 500K lines in two months and barely reads code The $9,000 Cursor bill, and how he decides whether AI spend is actually working Why he built personal agents before OpenAI made them cool, and how OpenClaw became a tailwind Where the name Zo comes from and why his logo is a Pegasus Subscribe for new episodes of Not Another Podcast with Brennan Pothetes. Watch on YouTube, listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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