Startups Decoded
Hosted by Andy Walsh · Andy Walsh
5.0from 134 ratings
- 90
- Episodes
- 56
- Transcribed
- 134
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Startups Decoded
Most startup podcasts are built for founders who've already figured it out. This one's for the founder still in the middle of it.Startups Decoded covers the full founder operating system — from idea to Series A. Brand, fundraising, marketing, operations, finance, culture, storytelling. Everything a first-time founder needs to actually run the thing, not just pitch it.Host Andy Walsh has been in it — 4x founder, 2 exits, bootstrapped $10M ARR. He brings in founders and investors who've built real companies and gets them to talk honestly about how they did it.New episodes weekly. If you're drowning in decisions and need a framework, not a pep talk — this is your show.
- Publisher
- Andy Walsh
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Jan 2025
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
56 of 90 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP#90: Why Most Founders Lose the Room Before They Walk In. Rob D. Willis
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep#89: Why Most Founders Wait Too Long to Think Like a Buyer - Aaron Alpeter
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP#88: Why Most Founders Misread Their Own Traction. Vanessa Larco - Premise VC
Inside a recent episode
EP#90: Why Most Founders Lose the Room Before They Walk In. Rob D. Willis
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And we think we have the same job to show that we understood it, to show that we ticked the boxes. But the people we're talking to are not necessarily paid just to listen to us. In fact, in many cases, an executive is kind of paid not to listen to. Their job is to kind of filter out as much of the noise as possible to get to what's actually important to them. And they may not understand the topic either. Maybe we have a We probably do have a deeper expertise in a topic than the people who we're talking to. So simply showing them that you know as much as possible is not impressive. It just confuses them and bores them. […]
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- Rob D Willis
- Aaron Alpeter
- Vanessa Larco
- Carina Cunha
- Elizabeth Vincent
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 24 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 110 ratings
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- Quality
- 87
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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