Founder Mode
Hosted by Jason and Kevin and Jason Shafton and Kevin Henrikson · Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton
4.8from 13 ratings
- 78
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 13
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 90K
- YouTube views
About Founder Mode
Founder Mode is a podcast for builders—whether it’s startups, systems, or personal growth. It’s about finding your flow, balancing health, wealth, and productivity, and tackling challenges with focus and curiosity. Each week, you’ll gain actionable insights and fresh perspectives to help you think like a founder and build what matters most.
- Publisher
- Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Mar 2025
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
19 of 78 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Google's Storyteller Walked Out with Claire Stapleton
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Cage or Release Your Agents? with Viktor Petersson & Alex Finn
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Was Yoda Right About AI? with JJ Zhuang
Inside a recent episode
Google's Storyteller Walked Out with Claire Stapleton
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it was the sort of like executive occasion, the balkanization, really. So you went from having a kind of one team, one dream to having a lot more politics, a lot more people competing for resources. There was also like a lot of inefficiency of just like, you know, I was kind of pointing out in the book, like there were like five different teams working on smartwatches at the same time, because just sort of like the company was so Had so many resources, so few constraints. But I think Larry, yeah, it was really interesting because Larry had a lot of vision. He had a lot of like, you know, techno optimism. […]
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- Claire Stapleton
- Viktor Petersson
- Alex Finn
- JJ Zhuang
- Kiko Zang
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 89,667
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 9 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 32
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- Books guests
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Questions about Founder Mode
Who hosts Founder Mode?
Jason and Kevin and Jason Shafton and Kevin Henrikson host the show. Published by Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Founder Mode take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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