Futureproof Founder Podcast
av Jeff Mains
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438 | Why $600 Billion in AI Spending Is the Biggest Inflection…
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Futureproof Founder is the podcast for founders and executive leaders scaling companies from startup to $30M and beyond.
Hosted by five-time founder Jeff Mains, each episode delivers real-world leadership insights, hard-earned lessons, and practical strategies for navigating growth.
Tuesdays feature candid founder stories. Thursdays bring actionable playbooks from top operators and experts on AI, go-to-market, team building, leadership, and more.
Real stories. Real decisions. Practical intelligence for what comes next.
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- 438 | Why $600 Billion in AI Spending Is the Biggest Inflection Point in Human History | Brett Hurt · 1 h 1 min · Avsnitt 438AI could help create unprecedented abundance, or amplify the fear and scarcity already shaping society. The difference won’t come from technology alone. It will come from the…
- 437 | Payment Processing Fees: How Merchants Can Make Processors Compete | Viktor Popovics · 49 min · Avsnitt 437In this conversation, Viktor Popovic shares his journey from being a refugee in Yugoslavia to becoming a successful entrepreneur in the e-commerce space. He discusses the…
- 436 | The Founder's Guide to SaaS Pricing in the AI Era: Seat-Based, Usage-Based, or Hybrid? | Roee Hartuv · 43 min · Avsnitt 436AI didn’t just change the product. It changed the cost structure underneath it. Classical SaaS could run at 85% to 95% gross margins because serving the next customer cost almost…
- 435 | The VC Incentives Every Founder Must Understand Before Taking Institutional Money | Calvin Cooper · 50 min · Avsnitt 435Most founders don’t realize what changes when venture capital enters the business. A $5 million check returning $50 million may sound like a win, but for a large fund, that…
- 434 | Founder Identity Crisis: How to Let Go, Scale, and Build a Legacy That Outlasts You | Hanna Bauer · 49 min · Avsnitt 434Seventy percent of digital transformations fail, and the software usually isn’t the problem. The people, processes, and culture weren’t ready for the change. In this episode…
- 433 | How to Disrupt a Dinosaur Industry: Gun Storage, Creative Conflict, and the Band of Misfits | Tom Kubiniec · 52 min · Avsnitt 433What do you do when your revenue disappears completely? After eight months without a single order, Tom Kubiniec was preparing to sell his house to keep the business alive…
- 432 | How Cross-Functional Alignment Prevents Costly Project Failures | Deborah Kaminetzky · 47 min · Avsnitt 432A software implementation can be delivered on time and on budget, then fail the moment people refuse to use it. In this episode, Jeff Mains talks with Deborah Kaminetzky, founder…
- 431 | The Hidden Work Behind Cross-Border Supply Chains | Daman Grewal · 53 min · Avsnitt 431Daman Grewal grew a logistics company from $1 million to $24 million in four years, working across dispatch, safety, accounts receivable, and sales before he fully recognized the…
- 430 | Revenue Per Employee, Capital Efficiency, and the Future of Startup Growth | Lindsey Mignano · 54 min · Avsnitt 430Are you raising venture capital because your business needs it—or because getting funded feels like proof you’ve made it? In this episode of Futureproof Founder, Jeff Mains sits…
- 429 | AI, Education, and the Decline of Independent Thinking | Jonathan Schaeffer · 58 min · Avsnitt 429Are you using AI to make better decisions—or letting a confident answer do your thinking for you? In this episode of Futureproof Founder, Jeff Mains sits down with AI researcher…
- 428 | Intellectual Property for Founders: Trademarks, Patents, Copyright, and Trade Secrets | James Gourley · 43 min · Avsnitt 428Jeff Mains sits down with James Gourley, a patent attorney and IP litigator who has spent 20 years on both sides of intellectual property disputes — from filing patents and…
- 427 | Customer Outcomes, AI Adoption, and the New Software Economy | Carl Lenocker · 45 min · Avsnitt 427Jeff Mains sits down with Carl Lenocker, a 30-year enterprise software veteran who started in Silicon Valley in the '80s, survived the dot-com bust, and now consults founders on…
- 426 | How Founders Can Turn AI Whiplash Into Strategic Focus | David Fung · 47 min · Avsnitt 426David Fung spent 15 years at Salesforce as a Senior Director before walking away from unvested RSUs to launch Coachful Coaching. He now coaches CTOs and tech leaders on the…
- 425 | Product-Market Fit Starts with Understanding the User | Erin Rollenhagen · 46 min · Avsnitt 425Erin Rollenhagen learned the most expensive lesson in product development the hard way: she spent years building software without ever talking to a single end user—and people…
- 424 | The Truth About B2B Marketing - Why Sales Needs Content | Shiv Narayanan · 46 min · Avsnitt 424Jeff Mains sits down with Shiv Narayanan, founder of How to SaaS, fractional CMO, and advisor to private equity firms, to unpack a fundamental shift in how B2B buyers educate…
- 423 | How I Built A 7-Figure Business From Scratch | Matthew Whyatt · 49 min · Avsnitt 423In this episode of Future Proof Founder, Jeff Mains explores what it takes to build a sales engine that creates predictable growth. The conversation covers why narrow targeting…
- 422 | The Leadership Operating System - Scale Faster With Trust | Jurgen Dauk · 52 min · Avsnitt 422Jeff Mains sits down with Jurgen Dauk to unpack why the org chart that got a company to its first 50 people is often the exact thing choking it at 500. Jurgen argues that most…
- 421 | Why Emotional Intelligence is Your Biggest AI Advantage | Tamara Laine · 49 min · Avsnitt 421Tamara Laine — Emmy-winning investigative journalist turned fintech founder — joins Jeff Mains to unpack how she built Empower, the first policy-bound agentic infrastructure for…
- 420 | Why Wisdom Is Your Last Competitive Advantage in the Age of AI | Pete Sacco · 50 min · Avsnitt 420Pete Sacco has spent 30 years building the physical infrastructure — data centers, power systems, and hardware — that AI runs on. In this conversation, he argues the AI threat is…
- 419 | Why Cold Outreach Is Dead and Events Are the New Pipeline | Asaf Katz · 47 min · Avsnitt 419Jeff Mains sits down with Asaf Katz — founder of LinkedOtter, host of the Risk Takers show, and a veteran of taking a company public on the ASX, building an "Uber for trucks,"…
