Austinpreneur

About Austinpreneur

Double click on the stories that made Austin, Texas a global startup hub. Listen to startup stories from entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and technologists shaping the Austin startup community. Austinpreneur will give you a glimpse into how Austin made itself a tier 1 city for technology, creativity and startups. Takeaway key insights for building your own success story in topics like fundraising, building products, sales, investing and creating company culture. Austinpreneur is a podcast highlighting Austin’s startups, entrepreneurs, and innovators. Join in on candid conversations with leaders who have built companies from the ground up and visionaries creating the next wave of world-changing technology. Discover the importance of your network, meet the people supporting your journey, and connect with the community making it all happen. Episodes feature topics like: entrepreneurship, technology, startups, innovation, funding, coworking, mentorship, startup accelerators, VC funding, angel investing, innovation strategies, partnerships, and more.

Publisher

Capital Factory

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jun 2023

Latest episode

14 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

79 of 109 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Love Conquers Fear: Brett Hurt on Joshua Baer's Legacy & His USA Today Best Selling Book

   Brett Hurt, founder of Coremetrics and Bazaarvoice, discusses his USA Today bestselling book on technology, humanity, and spirituality with host Nick Spiller, exploring AI's impact and Joshua Baer's legacy.

2. 

   16 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   AI for the Revenue Team: Beyond Engineering and Into the Business

   Seth Halpern discusses how AI transforms marketing, sales, enablement, and customer success, enabling faster onboarding and more confident sellers in complex B2B environments in an interview with Nick.

3. 

   9 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Profit, Burn, and Focus: What Founders Need to Know About Metrics That Matter

   Bart Davis, CEO of 512 Financial, elucidates how startup founders should prioritize key performance indicators that drive outcomes and maintain profitability in a shifting funding environment, interviewed by Nick Spiller.

Inside a recent episode

Love Conquers Fear: Brett Hurt on Joshua Baer's Legacy & His USA Today Best Selling Book

Published 14 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And that was during the height of the times where supposedly we were supposed to hate each other the most, even though there's one humanity and we're 99.9% genetically identical. Love, conquer, sphere. Love, conquer, sphere. Some all the text. And now now you're in this time where a lot of people are afraid of A.I. Only 25% of people in America are positive on A.I. which is a shocking number. But one way to think about it is if you could ask a machine any question that you've ever been curious about, that has all of the spiritual text, all the philosophical text, all the scientific tests since the beginning of the written word, what would you ask it? […]

Who has been a guest on Austinpreneur

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Brett Hurt
• Seth Halpern
• Bart Davis
• Luis Abundis
• Jesse Draper

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

63,613

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

86 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

93

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