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  • How do you build a company from scratch? How do you take an idea and turn yourself into a founder? Find out from those who’ve already taken the plunge and are in the weeds of entrepreneurship. Every Tuesday, hosts Becca Szuktak and Dominic-Madori Davis interview founders on their origins, product roadmaps, funding efforts — and how they grow from failures. Found is produced by Maggie Stamets
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  • AI that actually makes your job easier with Arvind Jain from Glean
    May 28 2024

    When someone starts two incredibly successful enterprise companies, they must really understand the issues enterprises face and how to solve them. This week on Found, Becca and Dom talk with Arvind Jain, the CEO and co-founder of Glean, an AI-powered work assistant that connects and understands enterprise knowledge. The idea for Glean was born out of Jain’s experience at his previous startup Rubrik.In this conversation they cover:

    • How Jain knew it was time to start a new company and why it didn’t make sense to build Glean inside of Rubrik
    • The importance of building a self-sufficient leadership team and the downside of micromanaging
    • Why cybersecurity is top of mind when working with enterprise data at an AI company

    Found posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcast: Equity . Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each

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    38 mins
  • Creating the 'food as medicine' category with Ashley Tyrner from FarmboxRX
    May 21 2024

    Food is medicine. This week’s guest on Found is Ashely Tyrner, the CEO and founder of FarmboxRx which helps their customers manage their chronic diseases through bespoke grocery boxes In this episode, Becca, Dom, and Ashley get into the logistics of delivering fresh produce to their member and how they have become profitable while accepting SNAP/EBT and partnering with health plans.

    In this conversation they cover:

    • How Ashley’s experience living in a food desert inspired this company
    • The struggle to fundraise despite growing and increasing revenue
    • How the company is using behavioral science to help their members take actions that will improve their health.

    (0:00) Introduction

    (2:12) Food as medicine

    (7:07) Grocery logistics with fresh produce

    (9:27) Working with health plans

    (15:13) Bootstrapping a capital-heavy business

    (20:48) Distribution and logistics

    (22:48) Ashley’s leadership style

    (28:15) COvid’s impact on online grocery

    (31:49) Fundraising challenges

    (35:48) Host discussion

    Found posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcast: Equity . Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each

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    39 mins
  • Why a16z-backed Wonderschool is acquiring EarlyDay (Equity Interview)
    May 14 2024

    This week we're bringing you a conversation from our friends over at Equity. Alex Wilhelm caught up with EarlyDay’s two former CEOs, Emma Harris and Melissa Tran, and their new boss, Chris Bennett at Wonderschool, to chat through the deal, what’s ahead for their sector, and more.

    Wonderschool is a startup that works with individuals and local governments to spin up more childcare businesses by providing software and other support and they have acquired EarlyDay. EarlyDay, another venture-backed startup, operates a early childhood educator marketplace.

    Found posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcast: Equity . Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each

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    34 mins

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