415 | Why 65% of Startups Fail: The People Problem | Logan Yonavjak
Jeff Mains sits down with Logan Yonavjak, a nearly two-decade veteran of impact investing and venture capital, who built the Founder Readiness Institute after watching a promising founding team unrave...
18 Aug 43min
414 | How to Sell in the Age of AI: A Founder's Guide | Bob Kocis
Jeff Mains sits down with Bob Kocis, former President & COO of Aptean and former CRO of Continuum Managed Services, and author of The President's Club Mindset: Inside the Winning Strategies of Tech's ...
13 Aug 48min
413 | How to Enter Flow State for Peak Performance | Steven Puri
Steven Puri has produced Academy Award-winning visual effects on films like Independence Day, Braveheart, and Se7en, climbed the executive ladder at DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox, and built three te...
11 Aug 52min
412 | Are AI Agents Ruining Customer Experience? | Vanitha Swaminathan
Vanitha is a marketing professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Director of their Center for Branding, and author of Hyper Digital Marketing: Six Pillars of Strategic Brand Marketing in an AI-Powere...
6 Aug 44min
411 | Physical Mail: Your Best Sales Weapon in 2026 | Neal Goyal
In a world where 21,883 software companies are all chasing the same narrow pool of buyers, automation isn't a competitive edge — it's the noise. Neal Goyal, who has closed $41M in software revenue wit...
5 Aug 45min
410 | 5 SaaS Onboarding Mistakes Killing Your Growth | Claire Heginbotham
Claire has spent nearly a decade writing emails, fixing onboarding flows, and tightening messaging for enterprise AI security, LiDAR tech, and competitive SaaS products — where a bad first impression ...
30 Jul 48min
409 | Can AI Replace Your Accountant? | Sai Dhanak
In this episode, Sai breaks down why he deliberately chose a services business over pure SaaS, how a human-in-the-loop model creates a defensible moat in a world increasingly disrupted by Claude and C...
28 Jul 48min
408 | 95% of AI Projects Fail: Here's the Fix | Ben Tasker
Ben Tasker joins Jeff Mains to break down the real reason most AI rollouts fail: it's almost never the technology. From his time as Dean of AI at Southern New Hampshire University to building life-sav...
23 Jul 47min
