First Builders
Hosted by Amber Illig and Rachel Tsui · The Council
5.0from 13 ratings
- 40
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 13
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About First Builders
The First Builders Podcast from The Council dives into the stories of those who go first—founders, funders, and early operators who helped build category-defining companies before they were household names. Hosted by General Partner Amber Illig and Partner Rachel Tsui, each episode brings a candid, practical conversation with someone who has helped shape companies before there was a playbook.
- Publisher
- The Council
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Jun 2025
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 40 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026
Collective X Health Launch: Dr. Stacy Sims & Lindsey Abramo on Venture Scale Women’s Health
4 Aug 2026
First Builders - End of Season 1
20 Jul 2026
Summer Bonus Session: Amber and Rachel on AI's Reckoning, Women's Health, and America's Industrial Moment
Inside a recent episode
Creator Path to Venture Scale: Kristina Subbotina on Legal Automation and Social Distribution
Published 22 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Even before LLMs with software, there was space to automate certain things like document generation. but definitely not to the extent that now we have agents, sub-agents, specialists in different areas, specialists in each type of the document. And it's truly life-changing. I think that there is no better time to be a lawyer than now. And my experience working for a federal judge, two startups, law firm, and representing multiple startups, but also venture investors investing in startups, allowed me to see a bigger picture, life cycle of a company, How first it's a founder, then it's employees, then it's an in-house counsel, how different stakeholders come in, whether it's venture investors or private equity. […]
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- Stacy Sims
- Lindsey Abramo
- Georgia Rust
- Kristina Subbotina
- Wyatt Stokesberry
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- 13 ratings
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Questions about First Builders
Who hosts First Builders?
Amber Illig and Rachel Tsui host the show. Published by The Council.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does First Builders take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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