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Forward Thinking Founders is a founder podcast where we interview high potential founders from networks like Y Combinator, The Thiel Fellowship, Product Hunt, Twitter, etc. and brings to light what they're building for the world.
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Inside CMU's Startup Scene with Bryan Bravo, Founder of 996 Ventures (opens the original)
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In this episode of Forward Thinking Founders, Mat talks with Bryan, a fourth-year business student at Carnegie Mellon University, about what it's actually like to build inside one of the country's most technical campuses. Bryan co-founded 996 Ventures, a student-run effort that helps connect standout CMU founders with VCs — born out of his own frustrating experience trying to raise capital for his first startup. The conversation is as much a tour of the CMU ecosystem as anything else: the Underg
Building a Combat Sports App Empire with AI W/ George Lampropoulos (opens the original)
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On this episode of Forward Thinking Founders, I talk with George Lampropoulos — a 19-year-old non-technical founder who's built a suite of combat sports apps (including WrestleAI , which has crossed 100,000+ downloads) entirely using AI tools like Rork, without writing a single line of code himself.) George breaks down how he went from losing his savings on a failed app at 15 to building FightAI (his first hit, made with an AI coach that analyzes training videos), then WrestleAI, a boxing app, a
Why Dating Doesn't Need Another App, It Needs a Wingman (With Carly Malatskey, Founder of Joey) (opens the original)
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Joey AI wants to kill the dating app — and replace it with a phone call. In this episode of Forward Thinking Founders, Mat talks with Carly Malatskey, founder and CEO of Joey AI, an AI matchmaker that lives entirely in your phone contacts. No app, no swiping, no profile — you call Joey, it gets to know you through an ~8-minute voice conversation about your everyday life (not a highlight reel), and then it texts you a match with context on why. Carly walks through how Joey acts less like a dating
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