The best early-stage founders before the world catches on and how they're building their business today,
Australia, Southeast Asia, the US, and everywhere in between.
Hosted by Thea Ngo (Wharton grad, early-stage investor), each episode is one unscripted conversation with a founder who is still in it, while the decisions are still fresh.
Think
→ Customer discovery hacks to sell before you build
→ Fundraising rounds that nearly didn't close & ones that closed too rapidly
→ Pivots that saved the company, and ones that didn't
New episodes every Thursday
AI Insurance Brokerage: 80 Marathons, Uninsured, Nearly Killed Him | Sean Stuart, Rosella
AI-native commercial insurance is being built by a man who once ran 80 marathons in 80 days with no coverage at all because every policy excluded anything past two.
Sean Stuart is the co-founder of Rosella, an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage working across the US economy. We talk about door-knocking Dallas offices with zero meetings booked, what VCs get wrong about AI-native service businesses, and why people, not code, are the real moat.
For: AI-native service founders, insurtech and brokerage operators, and any Australian weighing up the move to the US.
If this episode helped you, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or follow on Spotify. It takes 30 seconds and it's how the next founder finds us.
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ABOUT FOUNDERS IN MOTION
The founder podcast that catches them before they're famous, when the pivot might not work and the real story is still being written. Hosted by Thea Ngo, a Wharton grad, venture capital investor, and (your new favorite?) interrogator behind Founders in Motion. New episodes every Thursday.
20 Aug 2026
Basketball Stats From One Phone Video: Their $3.5M AI Pivot | Cordelia King, Superstat
Basketball stats used to require a scout in the gym. Now one phone video gives every player full box scores and highlights, and the team behind it is leaving Melbourne for Austin.
Cordelia King co-founded Superstat after her first company, the Herald Sun called it "Tinder for local sport", kept attracting players who lied about how good they were. We talk about the Australian football model that failed before basketball worked, the stretch when nobody took a salary, and why American football is next.
For: sports tech founders, computer vision engineers, and curious sports parents.
If this episode helped you, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or follow on Spotify. It takes 30 seconds and it's how the next founder finds us.
FOLLOW US
https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersInMotion
https://www.instagram.com/thea.yaps/
https://www.tiktok.com/@foundersinmotion
https://linkedin.com/in/theango/
ABOUT FOUNDERS IN MOTION
The founder podcast that catches them before they're famous, when the pivot might not work and the real story is still being written. Hosted by Thea Ngo, a Wharton grad, venture capital investor, and (your new favorite?) interrogator behind Founders in Motion. New episodes every Thursday.
13 Aug 2026
Quibi: How a $1.75B Startup Died in 6 Months
Quibi raised $1.75 billion before it had a single show, hired Spielberg and Reese Witherspoon to make TV for your phone, and shut down six months after launch.
This is a fun new segment where I take apart a company that died and diagnose what actually killed it. We get into the tech that forced every show to be shot twice, the Super Bowl ad that ran before a single episode existed, and why almost no one converted from free trial to paying subscriber.
If this episode helped you, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or follow on Spotify. It takes 30 seconds and it's how the next founder finds us.
FOLLOW US
https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersInMotion
https://www.instagram.com/thea.yaps/
https://www.tiktok.com/@foundersinmotion
https://linkedin.com/in/theango/
ABOUT FOUNDERS IN MOTION
The founder podcast that catches them before they're famous, when the pivot might not work and the real story is still being written. Hosted by Thea Ngo, a Wharton grad, venture capital investor, and (your new favorite?) interrogator behind Founders in Motion. New episodes every Thursday.
Who has been a guest on Founders in Motion
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
Caroline Tran
Will Bodewes
Shakeel Lala
Nathan Yun
Celeste Amadon
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
YouTube views
70,499
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Spotify
4.5 / 5
8 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Quality
35
Social presence
0
YouTube
76
Engagement
32
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