Finding Founders

About Finding Founders

A podcast about vulnerability and entrepreneurship — learn from the life stories of founders 🚀, activists ✊, and even drug lords 💊 Our aim is to inspire you and let's face it... you aren't inspired when you hear about success. Real inspiration comes from hearing someone's lowest moment, and rising with their success. Using music, sfx, and voiceover, we interview the founders of companies, movements, and even drug cartels to reveal vulnerability so you can learn from victory. I’m your host, Samuel Donner, and together with my team we aim to inspire and educate a global community of leaders.

Publisher

Finding Founders

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Mar 2019

Latest episode

18 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

69 of 345 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT

   From $0 to $25M Jewelry Events: Reinvention, Resilience & AI Storytelling w/ Theresa Bruno - #225

   Theresa Bruno, Juilliard-trained concert pianist turned jewelry entrepreneur, discusses reinvention and resilience with the host of Finding Founders, sharing insights on navigating personal loss and business setbacks.

2. 

   10 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT

   From $0 to $25M Jewelry Events: Reinvention, Resilience & AI Storytelling w/ Theresa Bruno - #226

   Theresa Harper Bruno, Juilliard-trained concert pianist turned entrepreneur, discusses reinvention and resilience in her journey from advertising to founding a multi-million-dollar jewelry brand, offering insights into emotional healing and AI storytelling in this interview with the host of Finding Founders.

3. 

   3 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT

   The Joy-Driven Inventor — Kevin Surace on Building 5 Companies, Revolutionizing Tech & AI Video #224

   Host interviews Kevin Surace, legendary inventor and keynote speaker, who shares his journey of revolutionizing tech and AI, offering insights on innovation and leadership

Inside a recent episode

From $0 to $25M Jewelry Events: Reinvention, Resilience & AI Storytelling w/ Theresa Bruno - #225

Published 18 Apr 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Is that true too? No, it's not true, but I did. And that feels like you're just like sinking more money into it. I do that. Some that won a lot of it was driven by the clients I had. I was fortunate enough to land well in Houston with the high end market there. And Houston is still a town where there's a black tie event. I don't know, a few times a week and everybody wants to have a brand new gown and brand new jewelry. And so I started doing a fair amount of bespoke work, one of the kind work. It was very high end work. So that began driving pretty much what people saw for me and then what they wanted for me. […]

Who has been a guest on Finding Founders

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

• Theresa Bruno
• Theresa Harper Bruno
• Kevin Surace
• TheFatRat
• Omar Alvarez

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

391,498

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

136 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

35 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 85 / 100

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

Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

98

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