The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

725: (Solo) The 5 Traits of Leaders who are Worth 20 Average Employees

Most founders are obsessed with hiring A players, and they should be. But after doing this for over a decade, I have learned the biggest unlock is not just hiring A playe

724: I Started a $1B Company on My Dad’s Credit Card at 15 | GT Dave

GT Dave was a 15-year-old being bullied and failing every class when his mum was diagnosed with breast cancer and given 12 months to live. The fermented tea his parents d

723: (Solo) Time or Money: The Framework That Changed How I Scale

A long time ago, Neil Patel called me out of the blue on Skype after I interviewed him, and the lesson from that conversation completely changed how I think about growing

722: How a $700 Pair of Glasses Led to a $2.89B Company | Warby Parker

Warby Parker started with a simple, infuriating question: why did a pair of glasses cost more than an iPhone? Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa met in the first week of bus

721: Raquel Does $300K/Month - and Says it’s the Least Work She’s Ever Done

Raquel Vasseur never set out to build an empire - she set out to be free. After two retail stores in her early 20s that took out loans and tied her down, she swore off de

720: (Solo) How do You Know When It's Time to Fire Someone

At some point, every founder has to do the thing nobody trains you for and nobody really talks about: letting someone go. It is not easy, it is not fun, and I am not goin

719: The NEW Creator Playbook That Took Me from $80K Debt to $250K/Day | Trybe

Lukas Pakter filmed his bank account and posted it to the internet: $80,000 in debt, $100 to his name, an activewear brand quietly dying. A year and a half later he’s doi

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