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🚀 Real Founder Stories. Real Startup Lessons.🎙 1 Podcast for early stage foundersHosts: @mariarotilu + @yvonnebajelaFrom idea to first product, first hires, investors and everything in between.Our socials 👇🏽Instagram: @thestartupleappodTwitter, Youtube, and TikTok:…
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She Had a Bestseller, then Walked Away to Build an App | Elizabeth Uviebinené of Storia (opens the original)
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Elizabeth Uviebinené was a five-time author with a Financial Times column and a sold-out personal brand — then she left it behind to build a consumer app with no technical background, pre-AI-wave, in a category she'd never touched. In this episode, she breaks down the "toilet test" for consumer products, why she bet on taste over a technical co-founder, the real reason well-funded AI therapy apps have quietly shut down, and what she wishes someone had told her about the emotional toll of buildin
Diversify Your Career Like Your Finances | June Angelides, Founder, MyPholyo (opens the original)
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One job. One income stream. One identity. That model worked yesterday. This week on The Startup Leap , June Angelides explains why tomorrow belongs to people who intentionally diversify their careers the same way they diversify their finances. She shares how an unexpected opportunity became the Portfolio Method, why burnout is often a design problem rather than a workload problem, and how AI helped her validate a startup before writing a single line of code herself. It's an honest conversation a
AI Broke Startup Growth, Here's How to Fix It | Sandy Diao (Pinterest, Meta, Descript) (opens the original)
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Growth isn't dead—but the playbook might be. In this episode of The Startup Leap , former Pinterest, Meta, and Descript growth leader Sandy Diao shares practical lessons from building growth at some of the world's most influential technology companies. From why viral loops fail to how founders should rethink monetization, retention, and AI-first distribution, this conversation offers a fresh perspective on what it takes to grow a startup today.
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