Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast
Welcome to Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast—the podcast for early-stage founders and startup leaders who know that great companies aren’t lucky… they’re built through smart execution and a bulletproof go-to-market strategy.Hosted by Sage Nye, Managing Partner…
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How AI Agents Are Breaking SaaS Economics with Ki-youn Jung & Abhishek Singh (opens the original)
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What happens when AI agents scale faster than their economics can support? In this episode of Built Not Born, host Sage Nye sits down with EON co-founders Ki-youn Jung, Co-founder and CEO, and Abhishek Singh, Co-founder and CTO, to explore the infrastructure challenges emerging as enterprises adopt AI agents at scale. They discuss how EON’s experience with escalating compute costs led them from a health-tech application toward building an inference layer designed to anticipate agent behavior, re
How Founders Mistake Traction for Product-Market Fit and Scale Too Soon (opens the original)
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What if the biggest bottleneck to scaling your startup isn't market demand; it's internal alignment? In this episode of Built Not Born, host Sage Nye sits down with Carter Cast, former CEO of Walmart.com and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University, to unpack a hard truth: most startups don’t fail from lack of demand, they fail from lack of alignment. Carter explains why mission clarity must precede growth and how misalignment at the top quietly fractures teams as companies scale
Not All Capital Is Created Equal: Alejandro Diez Barroso on Choosing Investors Wisely (opens the original)
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What if the biggest competitive advantage in emerging markets isn't capital, but the people who know how to operate without it? In this episode of Built Not Born, host Sage Nye sits down with Alejandro Diez Barroso, Managing Partner at Dila Capital, to unpack what it really takes to build enduring companies in emerging markets. Drawing on his journey as both operator and investor, Alejandro challenges the obsession with valuation, arguing that integrity, execution, and team quality are the true
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