The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

718: (Solo) Why Your Profitable Ad Account Isn't Scaling (It's Not Your Ads)

I do a lot of enrollment calls for Foundr Operators, and I keep seeing the same pattern. A founder gets on a call doing a 5 or 6x return, literally printing money, and th

717: We Started Dad Gang with $750 and One Hat - and did $40M in 4 Years

Three best friends put in $250 each - $750 total - printed 100 hats in a garage, and sold out in 36 hours. No following. No ads. No business plan. Four and a half years l

716: Ryan Spent 13 Years Without a Single Breakout Moment - Then Doubled His Whiskey Brand In 6 Months

Ryan Thompson ran a restaurant for 25 years, sold a couple of quick-serve spots, built a financial services company, and even ran a motel before he noticed the craft dist

715: (Solo) How to Stop Overcomplicating Hiring (My Biggest Mistakes)

Hiring is tough, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. But I was reflecting on this past year, and I have had a much better strike rate lately because of one basic shi

714: From $0 to $5 BILLION - The Blueprint for Building Billion-Dollar Startups | Marc Lore

Marc Lore walked into his boss's office with a newborn at home, a huge salary, and no business idea - and quit anyway to become an entrepreneur. That instinct built one o

713: (Solo) The Black Friday Profit Trap and How to Avoid It This Year

We are all gearing up for Black Friday Cyber Monday, and if you have not started planning yet, you need to. Here is a story that will stop you in your tracks: a founder i

712: The Near-Death Experience That Built a $400M Year Business

Matt Pohlson was clinically dead for four and a half minutes. His heart had stopped, the doctor had already called it, and 40 ICU staff had gathered at the window like a

711: Natasha Quit Her 9-To-5 In June - Her Drink Bottle Brand Now Does $15K/Month

Natasha was on maternity leave with a newborn who cried until he was five months old, permanently thirsty, and completely fed up that the one drink bottle she owned had g

710: (Solo) I Asked 10 Billionaires The Same Question - Here's What They Said

Over 12 years of interviewing more than 100 billionaires, I started asking every one of them the same question: if you lost everything tomorrow, the money, the brand, the

709: AI Agents: The Only Skill That Matters in 2026 (Masterclass)

Ari Meisel spent 15 years teaching founders to do less. He's worked with over 300 assistants and once ran his business on a single hour of work a day after Crohn's diseas

708: (Solo) What Nobody Tells You About Scaling Past $1M, $5M, and $10M

Every stage of business breaks you in a different way, and nobody warns you which thing is about to break. So it always feels like you are the only one who cannot figure

707: How Two Aussies Took On Samsonite & Rimowa - and Won ($100M+)

Athan Didaskalou had bet everything on a one-year-old suitcase brand called July. Then Covid wiped out travel and nearly took the business with it. What happened next tur

706: Jay Hated His Plumbing Job - Now He Sells Beach Pools and did $50K in a Month

Jay Haddad hated being a plumber. He lived for the weekends - free diving, waterfalls, surfing, the beach - and when he and his wife had their first daughter at 23, the o

705: (Solo) How Success Made Me Neglect the Thing That Built Everything

I am going to tell you about the dumbest thing I have done in 12 years of building Foundr. It is not a bad hire or a failed launch. It is something far more dangerous, be

704: How One Pivot Turned My FAILING Startup Into a $300M Brand

Mariam Naficy sold her first company for over $100 million in cash - two weeks before the Nasdaq crashed in 2000. Then she did something harder. She built Minted, a crowd

703: (Solo) If I Had to Start Over in 2026, Here's How I'd Make My First $1M

If I lost everything tomorrow, the team, the audience, the network, here's the exact tactical playbook I'd use to build back to $1 million from scratch. If I lost everyt

702: Mark Cuban Calls Us His BEST Shark Tank Deal Ever ($200M+)

Four childhood friends pooled $30,000 in a Chicago apartment to make wet wipes for men. Everyone told them dudes would never use them. Thirteen years later, Dude Wipes

701: Trieu Doubled His Brand To $200K/Month In 5 Months - Whilst Still Working Full Time

Trieu became a dentist because he liked working with his hands and helping people - he got into UCSF's dental school as the very last student accepted, number 81 in a cla

700: (Solo) The Ambassador Strategy - How to get Famous People to Sell Your Brand for Free

I interviewed the founder of HexClad about a year ago. Cookware, pots and pans, not the sexiest category in the world. But their ambassador is Gordon Ramsay, one of the m

699: A Pizza Oven Saved My Life - Then It Built a $100M Company

Tom Gozney hit rock bottom with addiction at 21 and spent nearly a year in a South African rehab facility. What saved him back home wasn't a business plan - it was a br