Episodes
Feb. 22, 2023
Strategic communication, purpose of listening, speaking as a sport ft. Matt Abrahams, Stanford University
When was the last time you tried explaining an idea to your friend, co-founder, or teammate? Of course, it happens quite frequently for most of us, but looking back at the experience, at certain instances we spent more time …
Feb. 5, 2023
Building in public, portfolio career, shipping creative projects ft. Karthik Puvvada, Build in Public Studio
If you’ve been sharing stuff and reading through Twitter or LinkedIn, there’s so much buzz around building in public. Especially over the last couple of years, a lot of founders, solopreneurs and enthusiasts who worked on si…
Jan. 21, 2023
Founders journal: Habits & goals, focus paths, decision-making ft. Dr. Julie Gurner, Exec Performance Coach
With a new year setting in, most of us want to plan out our goals, look forward to high performance, and get ready to do our best form of work by either creating or shipping something live. As much as all the enthusiasm is i…
Dec. 25, 2022
The Founder's Foyer 2022 Wrap-up: All about ideas, community, product, creator economy, growth, and mindset
This is a summary episode where Aishwarya looks back at the memory lane and talks about the interesting concepts she got to discuss with 18+ guests on The Founder's Foyer show. For anyone starting afresh and the ones who are…
Dec. 9, 2022
Launching 0-1 products, founders and fundraising, thinking in first principles ft. Aarthi Ramamurthy, Product Advisor | Founder | Host @ Good Time Show
Becoming a first-time founder is definitely fun, challenging, and more than anything a roller-coaster ride. Whether it’s transitioning from being an operator or scaling up a side project to something big, the energy and focu…
Nov. 25, 2022
User experience, design strategy, tipping point, and success metrics ft. Jared Spool, Center Centre
User experience is a huge part of ideating, building, and shipping products. Usability defines not just the value of a software but the way teams and companies are going towards the vision they want to achieve. How do you al…
Nov. 12, 2022
Building better software, running experiments, 'agile' mindset ft. Allen Holub, Software Architect
Building products is so much fun—at the same time, it’s equally exhausting and challenging with so many peers to work with, the market needs to look into, and a lot of processes to go by. While frameworks and techniques can …
Oct. 19, 2022
Remote work, setting team culture, the 'work forward' approach ft. Marissa Goldberg, Remote Work Prep
If there’s one phrase we’ve heard over a thousand times in the last two years is — remote work. Or say hybrid work. From building and iterating on ideas by pulling out chairs, to virtually looking at each other’s faces on ti…
Oct. 4, 2022
Strategic narrative, startup pitches, storytelling for founders ft. Andy Raskin, Silicon Valley storytelling mastermind
Whether it’s meeting a founder friend, a potential hire, investor, customers, or even a bunch of product team leads, there’s one thing that stands out–the ‘narrative’ you want to tell, the story of what you’re building and w…
Sept. 27, 2022
Action plans, growth mindset, high performance, and entrepreneurship ft. Lisa Kostova, CareerClimb
Often as we build our products, we feel stuck and we are on the constant lookout for the next set of action plans. We seek some form of a structure to help us unblock challenges, understand the benchmark of the market we’re …
Sept. 11, 2022
First-time founder experience, fundraising, building side projects ft. John Koelliker, Leland
John Koelliker is the Co-Founder and CEO of Leland, a marketplace for ambitious people to access coaching, classes, mentorship, and community, to reach their career and educational goals. From growing in your career ladder, …
Aug. 26, 2022
Product–founder–channel market fit, launching 0–1 products ft. Emily Tate, Mind the Product
Launching the product you build involves massive effort—not just in terms of shipping, but also figuring out the ways in which your audience finds satisfaction with your product. Do they find value? Of course, it’s important…
Aug. 13, 2022
Product management skills, personal productivity & founder career ft. Shyvee Shi, LinkedIn
Building and shipping impactful products is definitely the enjoyable part of a product manager’s journey. It’s fun to think about what problems to work on, putting on the founder’s mindset from time to time or working with f…
Aug. 6, 2022
Future of builders, founder skills, startup journey ft. Sonia & Blake, Kernal
In today’s Foyer Feature, let’s welcome Sonia and Blake from Kernal, the community platform to connect founders, investors and startup ideas. 15,000+ members, 1,500+ startup ideas, they are doing an amazing work in helping c…
July 29, 2022
Product growth and scaling for founders/builders ft. Casey Winters, Eventbrite (Ex- Pinterest & GrubHub)
As soon as you put your product out in the market, the one major question that gets to you from literally everyone around is - how’s your product growing. “What’s your growth strategy?” “Does your product have network effect…
July 22, 2022
Creator, content economy, and building your voice ft. Grace Gong, Smart Venture Podcast
How to stay consistent with the inputs especially when your interests are versatile? I loved chatting with Grace Gong on this topic, especially because she's been doing some amazing work with her podcast, sharing knowledge a…
July 15, 2022
Product positioning and storytelling for founders and builders ft. April Dunford, Obviously Awesome
So your product is now launched and it's out for customers to try. You know it’s awesome, but do you know whether they know? How do you ensure your potential buyers understand the value you’re providing; do they care? Often …
July 5, 2022
Building community & connections from ground-up ft. Nazuk Jain, Apple & Product Career
So you’ve got a great idea and you’ve been building out your initial version of the product. With a little bit of socializing around, you see that people are starting to gain interest in what you’re building—what next? Obvio…
July 1, 2022
Building early-stage teams, company, and culture ft. Padmini Janaki, Mind and Mom
If building a startup is an arduous journey, finding the right people to grow with you is another mountain to climb. Ideas can meet product, but both of these need to meet the right team to live the vision. But how to find t…
June 21, 2022
Foyer Feature: How to build a product community movement ft. Felix Lee & ADPList
#FoyerFeature—a section that completely focuses on a particular project and how the founder created an impact with it. We’ll be discussing all about their journey, the way they come up with creative ideas, and patterns they …
June 13, 2022
Discovering and validating early-stage ideas ft. Ravi Mehta, Scale
Discovering ideas is definitely an exciting phase—we wake up, walk around, and go to sleep thinking about the best ideas we can build for. But, what happens to all those ideas? Do we really have a tried and tested way to pic…
June 8, 2022
Self-care for founders and builders ft. Amy Young, Redefine Possibility
When was the last time you thought of working on a new project? Choosing between ideas and actually getting to work on it are two different jobs for the ones who build stuff. Often we are left confused, exhausted, and unclea…