Sidedoor Podcast

About Sidedoor Podcast

Candid stories and lessons about your favorite startups and businesses. The top founders always have to find a side door in.

Publisher

Jesse Bouman

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 May 2020

Latest episode

5 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Nov 2025

   Kevin Mintaraga - Lessons from a 3x Startup Founder

   Kevin Mintaraga is one of the most successful startup founders in Indonesia. His journey started with a digital marketing agency that was acquired by WPP. He then went on to found a bridal business that was acquired by ecommerce giant, Tokopedia. There, as CMO, he guided the company to a successful IPO. Now, he's back at it, building, using AI to change the creator economy. Kevin sits down to chat with Jesse about his journey, what he's building at bythen, lessons he's learned, and thoughts on the current Indonesian tech landscape. Kevin's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmintaraga bythen website: https://bythen.ai/ (https://bythen.ai/)

2. 

   7 Oct 2025

   Mario Gaw - Reimagining Bookkeeping with AI

   Mario Gaw is a YC alum and founder/CEO of Jutsoo. Jutsoo is AI-bookkeeping software, that's designed to save your team hours with its automated tasks, powered by artificial intelligence. Jutsoo is a pivot from Bananas, a quick commerce, grocery delivery app. In this episode, Mario and I discuss his startup journey, building product, pivoting, and getting into YC. Jutsoo: https://www.jutsoo.com/en Mario's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariogaw/

3. 

   26 Sept 2025

   Solo Episode - The Story of How Slice Almost Died

   I'm experimenting with a solo podcast today. No guest. Just me, Jesse Bouman, talking about my journey as a startup founder. Earlier this year, Slice, my company, almost died. This is the story of how we turned it around, lessons I learned, and what you can do to avoid this stressful time with your company.

Who has been a guest on Sidedoor Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mulyono Xu
• startup founders
• Daniel Cahyadi
• Irzan Raditya
• Widijastoro Nugroho

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.1 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

55

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

50

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