A podcast for people who are actually building

The real stories
behind early-stage
startups.

Fundraising rejections. Hiring mistakes. Pivots that worked. Mental health struggles nobody posts on LinkedIn. New episodes every Thursday.

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Most founder content is written by people who already won.

They tell you about the "overnight success" that took ten years. The fundraising story that ends with a $50M Series B. The pivot that "in hindsight" was obvious.

Founders in Motion is different. We talk to people in the middle of it. The ones who don't know if it's going to work yet.

Because that's where the real lessons live. Not in the memoir. In the mess.

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When AI Breaks in Production

VibeFlow (YC S24)

What happens when your AI product fails in front of real users, and how you rebuild trust.

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Raised $6M With No Deck

Finnlay Morcombe, Fluency

25 years old, two pages, and a conversation with early Facebook investors. The story behind the raise.

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Buying a Company Out of Administration

Joe Zhou, StrongRoom AI

Lawsuits, leadership shifts, and the hard lessons of stepping into chaos to build something new.

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From $600M Robots to Laundromats

Jason Ma, Dyna Robotics

The 800-napkin breakthrough, and why the biggest robotics startup took their AI to the most unglamorous place possible.

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Thea Ngo

Wharton grad. Early-stage investor at Archangel Ventures. Melbourne.

Thea sources deals and stories from the same pipeline. Her day job puts her in front of the founders most shows can't reach: pre-seed builders from Sydney to San Francisco who are too busy shipping to do a media tour.

The result is conversations that sound like the after-hours debrief at a founder dinner, not a polished interview.

Weekly New episodes every Thursday
SYD → SF Founders across APAC and the US
4 platforms Spotify, Apple, YouTube, iHeart

Every founder story is a lesson
someone else needs to hear.

Founders in Motion is building the knowledge layer the startup ecosystem is missing. Not advice from the top of the mountain. Dispatches from the climb.