Forged in America
Hosted by Al Goldstein and Ravin Gandhi · Ravin Gandhi and Al Goldstein
4.8from 64 ratings
- 60
- Episodes
- 29
- Transcribed
- 64
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Forged in America
Forged in America is a conversation between longtime friends & entrepreneurs Ravin Gandhi (GMM Nonstick Coatings) and Al Goldstein (Avant, Stoic Lane, Pangea) who have founded, built, and exited numerous businesses in addition to investing in dozens of successful startups. This podcast is about how consequential decisions actually get made under pressure—across business, investing, and the institutions shaping the USA. We break down how capital gets allocated, how leaders think in moments of uncertainty, and where smart systems—markets, companies, or political movements—develop blind spots.
- Publisher
- Ravin Gandhi and Al Goldstein
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Dec 2025
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
29 of 60 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
E60: a16z's Alex Rampell: Why the Best Founders Are Sociopaths
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
E59: I Worked Inside DOGE...Here's What Really Happened.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
E58: Fintech Unicorn Dave: From $4B to $60M—and Back
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E60: a16z's Alex Rampell: Why the Best Founders Are Sociopaths
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You can't buy alcohol. You can't buy cigarettes. So it doesn't run on Visa MasterCard rails. So if you're in line at Safeway about to buy something, you actually don't even know if you can buy it because you don't know what the balance is on the card. So anyway, so he built this product for this, gets about half a million users very, very quickly with almost no marketing. And there's a saying that I use a lot, which is the battle between the startup and the incumbent is whether the startup gets the distribution before the incumbent gets the innovation. The emphasis here is it's really, really hard to get customers. […]
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- Alex Rampell
- Tyler Hassen
- Jason Wilk
- Michele Tafoya
- Shane Neman
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 13 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 51 ratings
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Al Goldstein and Ravin Gandhi host the show. Published by Ravin Gandhi and Al Goldstein.
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