Founder's Story

Daniel Robbins sits down with Shane Ginsberg, founder and CEO of Street Poller Media, to unpack how a young founder who dropped out of school after eighth grade turned street interviews into a scalable media and...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, to explore the emotional reality behind building one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic social gaming companies. Mark reflects on childhood, his complicated but...

Daniel Robbins and Kate Hancock sit down with Daymond John, founder of FUBU, investor on Shark Tank, author, and entrepreneur, for a conversation about branding, risk, reputation, personal legacy, and what it really...

Daniel Robbins travels to Detroit to meet Larry Brinker Jr., a mission driven leader, investor, and builder whose family company has helped shape the city’s comeback. What begins as a story about construction becomes a...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Suryansh Tibarewal, Co-Founder of EssentiallySports, to unpack how three college students in India turned a $100 domain into a bootstrapped American sports media company doing more than $8...

In this Founder’s Story episode, Daniel Robbins sits down with Vera Quinn, President and CEO of Cydcor, to discuss why she believes human-to-human sales still matters in an AI-driven world. Vera shares how a summer...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Jamarri J., founder of Klyno AI, to explore why he believes the future of artificial intelligence should be private, personal, and controlled by users—not locked inside one company, one...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Tom Sosnoff, founder of thinkorswim, tastytrade, and LossDog, to unpack the mindset behind multiple massive exits, building companies that buyers still value years later, and why Tom has no...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Raj Toleti, Chairman and CEO of Andor Health, to explore how AI is reshaping healthcare—not by replacing doctors, but by eliminating administrative burden, expanding access to care, and...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Lee Rossey, CTO and Co-Founder of SimSpace, to unpack the new cybersecurity risks emerging from AI agents, cloud coding tools, autonomous systems, and multi-agent environments. Lee explains...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Rana Gujral, CEO of Behavioral Signals, to explore the real frontier of AI: not just what machines can do, but what using them does to human judgment, instinct, trust, and meaning. Rana...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Lukas Kerrebijn, co-founder of RD Dubai, RD Vastgoed, and RD Advisory, to unpack how he went from a 19-year-old intern in Dutch real estate to helping drive more than $750 million in sales...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Brandon Tseng, President and Co-founder of Shield AI, to unpack how a former Navy SEAL turned firsthand combat experience into one of the most important defense technology companies in the...

Daniel Robbins sits down with John Lunsford, founder of Tethral, to explore one of the most overlooked questions in AI: what happens when agents start communicating with the machines around us? John breaks down why IoT...

Daniel Robbins sits down with private investigator Tyler Maroney and filmmaker Tucker Tooley to unpack their four-year global investigation into one of the greatest financial mysteries of our time: who created Bitcoin?...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Oren Barzilai, Co-founder and CEO of Equitybee, to unpack the hidden world of startup equity and why employees may be losing tens of billions of dollars in unexercised stock options every...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Leo Pareja, CEO of eXp Realty, for a raw conversation about ambition, identity, failure, and the real meaning of success. Leo reveals why becoming the number one agent at Keller Williams...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Moe Seye to unpack the rise of the 1099 economy, the future of work, and why millions of people may never return to traditional employment. Moe shares how his time at Coca-Cola gave him...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Daniel Schlaepfer, President and CEO of Select Vantage Inc., to unpack the hidden mechanics of modern trading, from “free” trading apps and off-exchange market making to funded trader...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Jack Doohan to explore the pressure, speed, and sacrifice behind Formula 1, and how that world shaped his move into entrepreneurship. Jack explains what it feels like to drive at extreme...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Steve Salis to unpack the real grind behind building restaurant brands, scaling &pizza to a nine-figure valuation, and surviving the chaos of COVID when his business went from hundreds of...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Mauricio Umansky to unpack the full price of success: from delivering pizzas at 16 to closing more than $5 billion in sales, selling the Playboy Mansion, and building The Agency into a...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Adam Hagaman, Kingdom entrepreneur, minister, and content creator, to unpack his transformation from drugs, alcohol, jail, and dropping out of high school to building businesses, reaching...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Kat Schneider, Founder and CEO of Ritual, to unpack how she built one of the most trusted brands in women’s health after struggling to find a prenatal vitamin she trusted while pregnant...

Daniel Robbins sits down with Clyton Collymore, founder of Sirsi, to unpack the AI hype cycle, the risks of handing over your digital life to agents, and why the current cloud-based AI model may become too expensive for...