Founded & Funded
Hosted by Jon Turow and Karan Mehandru and Matt McIlwain and Tim Porter · Madrona Ventures
4.9from 18 ratings
- 149
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 18
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 198K
- YouTube views
About Founded & Funded
Listen to conversations between Madrona investors and entrepreneurs, founders, and startup personalities who talk about some of the key moments in building a company. Designed to give would-be founders and others interested in working with or for startups a view into the struggle and the lessons learned, these conversations are informal and informative. With more than 25 years of investing in early-stage technology companies, Madrona has worked with founders from day one to help build their company for the long run. We invest in seed and Series A companies in the Pacific Northwest building across the information technology spectrum and in Acceleration (B and beyond) stage companies building with AI, regardless of geography.
- Publisher
- Madrona Ventures
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Oct 2019
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 149 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Legal Decisions Every AI Founder Needs to Get Right
13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is AI a Bubble? What PitchBook's Head of Research Sees in the Data
23 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why AI Made Your Buyers Harder to Sell To
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The Legal Decisions Every AI Founder Needs to Get Right
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The terms of service are not just a legalese document that you go back later to decide who's right, who's wrong. It describes your relationship with the other party. It describes your relationship with the user It reveals how much trust you have in your own product and your own company. And so the things you put in your terms, like do you indemnify? Do you rep and warrant? What will you carve out? What do you not carve out? What risks do you accept? What risks do you push onto your customer? That reveals so much about your company and then how much people can rely on your product or your company. […]
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- Janel Thamkul
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- Sabrina Albert
- David Rubenstein
- Joe Beda
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 198,021
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 13 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- Quality
- 66
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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Jon Turow and Karan Mehandru and Matt McIlwain and Tim Porter host the show. Published by Madrona Ventures.
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