Give First
Hosted by Brad Feld and David Cohen · Techstars
4.9from 44 ratings
- 114
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 44
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Give First
In the startup world, Give First means simply trying to help anyone—especially entrepreneurs—with no expectation of getting anything back. It's the pay-it-forward principle that builds strong startup networks. Hosts David Cohen and Brad Feld—Techstars cofounders, lifelong entrepreneurs, and startup investors—talk with mentors and founders about what giving first looks like in action, and how it makes great entrepreneurship possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Techstars
- Category
- business · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 May 2019
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 114 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Unicorn Reinventing How Healthcare Reaches You with Jon Lensing
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Unicorn Giving Parents Peace of Mind with Kurt Workman
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
From a Mall Booth to a Billion-Dollar Unicorn featuring Matt Oppenheimer
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The Unicorn Reinventing How Healthcare Reaches You with Jon Lensing
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so when I started digging in more and more of this, it really became this notion for us that that health care's fundamental problem is a convenience problem. It's inconvenient to the average person to access the American health care system. And so OpenLoop was founded on this ambition to reimagine health care in the most convenient way possible for the people that actually have to interact and use it. Amazing. And I think about, I don't know, a couple of years in, I guess, COVID comes along and you had the original concept, which was about convenience. And in the new book that you were kind enough to participate in that I wrote with Amir Higazi called Chasing Unicorns, we interviewed you and you really talked a lot about this kind of moment during COVID where basically the business was kind of stalling overnight because of what was going on there, like many businesses. […]
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- Jon Lensing
- Kurt Workman
- Matt Oppenheimer
- Etosha Cave
- James Oliver Jr
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 1,725,025
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 41 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 35
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 90
Contact Give First
- Guest appearances
- Does not typically book guests
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Who hosts Give First?
Brad Feld and David Cohen host the show. Published by Techstars.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Give First take guests?
The show does not typically feature guests, based on episode analyses.
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