Biography

In this episode, Wouter Teunissen sits down with Harry Stebbings, founder of 20VC, to explore how he turned a teenage side project into one of venture capital’s most influential media empires. At just 18, Harry launched The Twenty Minute VC from his childhood bedroom. Within a few years, it became the go-to show for the world’s top investors and founders—from Sequoia to Stripe.That momentum...

Netflix shouldn’t exist today. They should’ve been crushed with the 2001 dot-com crash. Yet they survived, even after laying off 40% of the company.Blockbuster Online was minutes away from stealing the entire market-share Netflix had painfully built up. Yet they survived.And after spending $100 Million of the companies $300 Million in cash on launching their own Netflix originals. Netflix...

The Robinhood Biography is a podcast about the 13 year history of how two Stanford Graduates (Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt) created the world's first mobile-first trading app, ushered in the age of retail-investing and slowly built out a super app.Robinhood today is worth over $120 Billion but after going public in 2021 at a $32 Billion valuation, the company stock dropped 80%! This is, the history...

In this episode, Wouter Teunissen sits down with Dylan Fox, the founder of AssemblyAI, to unpack how he built one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies from scratch. For decades, speech recognition was stuck in the past, clunky APIs, outdated models, and enterprise-only access. Dylan saw it up close while working as an engineer at Cisco. The tech was powerful, but it was buried under...

This episode is about Daniel Ek and the lessons I have learned from studying his life and the creation of Spotify. If you want to learn how to apply leverage to your company and life, how to create a product so compelling you turn an entire industry around from losing billions, to new all time highs…. then I think you’ll enjoy this. Follow me on Twitter Read the newsletterThe Almanack of Naval...

The Spotify Biography is a podcast about the 20 year history, of the unlikely story of how two Swedish founders (Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon) created the most valuable music company in the world, against all odds.Turning Spotify into a $100 Billion Company, and saving the music industry against all odds. This is, the history of Spotify, told in a narrative form in under 90 minutes ---- I spent...

In this episode, Wouter Teunissen sits down with Nicolas Sharp to talk about his bold mission to reinvent how companies fundamentally operate. CRMs have been around for years—bloated, slow, and not built for makers. Nick saw the pain firsthand.After working in VC and starting a vertical CRM , he knew the tools meant to drive growth were actually slowing teams down. Most people tolerated them out...

In this episode, Tyler Denk sits down with Wouter Teunissen to talk about the incredible founder journey he has had starting beehiiv. After graduating college with $120K in student debt, Tyler Denk faced a tough choice: follow the safe path or take a leap of faith.Broke and living in his parents’ basement , he said yes to a freelance opportunity from a childhood friend—building early tech for the...

Before Blockworks became a $150 million media force, Jason Yanowitz was just a kid flipping baseball cards on eBay - discovering early what it meant to build leverage online.Raised in a countercultural, entrepreneurial family, Jason never saw the traditional nine-to-five as the only path.In 2017, Jason went to an event that'd change his life, as a result he quit his job, partnered with co-founder...

Before launching How to Take Over the World, Ben Wilson struggled with a job that drained him and a question that wouldn’t go away: What does it take to achieve greatness?He nearly failed out of high school, skipped SAT prep to play basketball, and had no grand plan - only a deep desire to stay free, follow his curiosity, and avoid the soul-crushing conformity of traditional paths.In college, he...