Podcast Overview
<p>David Rusenko interviews the founders of companies like Airbnb, Y Combinator, and Twitch, alongside the people who first believed in them. A mom. An early boss. A college roommate. Together, they reveal the intimate, unpolished stories of how successful companies actually get built, and why it rarely looks the way you might expect.</p>
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Publishing Since
3/5/2026
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Recent Episodes
July 8, 2026
Season 1: What We Learned
This summer, Leap Forward is a short break. We’ll be back this fall with more episodes. Listen for a look back on Season 1 and a taste of what’s next, including a family crisis over a wiped thesis, and some very big ambitions to change the way we think about energy.
June 24, 2026
The Strange Origins of Live Streaming: Twitch's Michael Seibel & His Co-founder Justin Kan
Live streaming feels inevitable now. But it started as what Michael Seibel called a "dumb idea." In this episode, Michael traces the unlikely path from a post-Yale road trip to a 24-hour streaming experiment called Justin.tv. Years of pivots and spin-outs later, it grew into Twitch and created the $100 billion live streaming market that's now part of daily life. But first, it had to survive: the swattings, the stretches with only weeks of cash left, and a reality show built around one...
June 10, 2026
From Design Thinking to $1 Billion Healthcare IPO: Omada’s Sean Duffy + His Former Boss
When Sean Duffy was a medical student interning at IDEO, he came face to face with a hard truth: millions of Americans with chronic disease weren’t getting the support they needed to actually get healthier. In this episode, Sean tells the story of how an unlikely mix of medicine and design thinking led him to spend a year refining an idea that would eventually become Omada - a company that’s since helped over a million people and gone public. We also talked to his former boss at IDEO, David ...
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<p>David Rusenko interviews the founders of companies like Airbnb, Y Combinator, and Twitch, alongside the people who first believed in them. A mom. An early boss. A college roommate. Together, they reveal the intimate, unpolished stories of how successful companies actually get built, and why it rarely looks the way you might expect.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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