Founders Uncensored \\ Unfiltered startup founder stories

Peter Day -- General Partner @ super{set} 1 Episodes Oct 5, 2026

Founders Uncensored is a podcast about the unfiltered realities of building a startup. Host Peter Day, a general partner at super{set}, talks with founders of AI-first companies about the messy behind-the-scenes moments: failed hires, pivots, dry stretches, and the calls that finally worked. The show is aimed at founders, founding-team engineers, and anyone considering the leap, offering peer-level honesty instead of polished fundraising narratives or highlight reels. It is produced by I Hear Everything.

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Why This Founder Keeps Going Back Into the Fire Oct 5, 2026 00:37:10 Kris Beevers sold one company and immediately started another. Kris Beevers is the co-founder and CEO of NetBox Labs, previously co-founder of NS1 (acquired by IBM in 2023), and he's started four companies total, including a failed wood products business. He explains why he'd rather kill a company than lose a friendship, why he built in New York instead of San Francisco, and why he never

The Problem Meta Couldn't Solve Became His Startup Sep 21, 2026 00:40:19 Meta's Integrity team had 1,000 people and still couldn't keep up with bad actors. Brett Levenson, CEO and co-founder of Moonbounce, led that team before realizing human review can't scale against non-deterministic AI, so he built the control layer instead. He walks through the moment he understood AI had made application security non-deterministic overnight, why 75% of his engineering re

How Knowing When to Pivot Built a Better Company Sep 7, 2026 00:26:50 A pivot most founders never admit to considering out loud. Caitlin Leksana is CEO and Co-Founder of Fazeshift, an AI platform for accounts receivable backed by Gradient and Y Combinator, and she's lived the failed startup that made this one work. She and her co-founder killed their crypto marketing startup after a false-positive revenue signal, fired a Japanese conglomerate client mid-shu

Why Founder Conviction Beats Funding Aug 24, 2026 00:33:02 A competitor raised 25 times more capital and still isn't winning. Steve Ancheta, Founder and CEO of Zig.ai, spent 16 years carrying quota before betting on a sales execution platform built to close the gaps that burn reps out. He explains why he benchmarks his messaging against AI labs instead of competitors, why the first customer signed on a working but ugly prototype over a polished o

The Founder Lessons Tom Chavez Learned Building Four Companies Aug 12, 2026 00:36:42 What separates founders who scale from founders who burn out? For the launch of Founders Uncensored, host Peter Day sits down with four-time founder and super{set} General Partner Tom Chavez to unpack the hard lessons of building companies and evolving from founder to CEO. Tom shares why founders need to move faster when a business model isn’t working, delegate real authority, master the

Founders Uncensored \\ Unfiltered startup founder stories

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