The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan
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The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan
Hear the stories, learn the proven methods, and accelerate your growth and future through entrepreneurship. Welcome to The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan. About the show: For over a decade, The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan has been a leading entrepreneurship podcast for open-book conversatio...
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619: Airline Charged Me $65 - So I built a $250M Competitor | Adam Ewart
Adam Ewart turned a £50 excess baggage fee into a global bootstrapped
logistics company operating in 145 countries, generating over $250
...
618: (Solo) What 5 World-Class Founders Taught Me This Year
Every year I sit down with some of the world’s most fascinating founders — but this year’s interviews hit me harder than most. Reinvention, resilience...
617: How A Failing Skincare Brand Became An 8-Figure Makeup Empire | Aliett Buttelman
Aliett Buttelman spent eight years grinding in the dark before a single
viral moment with Taylor Swift turned Fazit into an overnight
se...
616: (Solo) 5 Honest Business Lessons I’m Taking Into 2026
2025 has been one of the most eye-opening years of my founder journey — personally, professionally, and strategically. Instead of sharing a highlight...
615: Stop Chasing Sexy Businesses - This Boring One Made Me $500M+ | David Royce
David Royce went from a broke college kid in a door-to-door pest control
job to building and selling four service businesses for nine-figure
614: (Solo) Running on Fumes? Reset Your Mindset Before The Year Ends
If you’re dragging yourself toward the end of the year feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and mentally drained, you’re not alone.
This is o...
613: Why Most Beauty Brands Fail - and How to Beat The Rest | DIBS Beauty Founder
DIBS Beauty went from zero to one of America’s fastest-growing makeup
brands in just four years, with founder Jeff Lee scaling the business
612: (Solo) Funding vs Bootstrapping - The Real Tradeoffs EVERY Founders Needs To Know
Should you raise money or bootstrap your business? It’s one of the biggest questions every founder faces — and the wrong decision can shape the entire...
611: From Homeless to Multi-Billionaire - His Success Habits | John Paul DeJoria
John Paul DeJoria went from being homeless twice to building two global
billion-dollar brands, Paul Mitchell and Patrón Tequila, using nothing...
610: (Solo) The Secret to Finding Agencies That Don’t Burn You
When you’re just starting out, the fastest way to grow isn’t automation, ads, or scaling systems — it’s doing things that don’t scale.
609: From $0 to $20M in 3 Years Selling Suppliments | Damien Fitzpatrick
From professional rugby player to successful entrepreneur, Damien
Fitzpatrick built a sports recovery brand trusted by elite athletes
ar...
608: (Solo) Why Short-Term Wins Can Quietly Kill Your Business
When I first started Foundr, I made a lot of short-term decisions — and most of them hurt us more than they helped. It took years (and a few hard less...
607: How I Built a $120M/Year Cookie Business From My Appartment | Loren Castle
Loren Castle turned a life-threatening cancer diagnosis at 22 into the spark that built Sweet Loren’s, a $120M-a-year clean food brand now sold in ove...
606: (Solo) The Week Before Black Friday: What Smart Ecommerce Founders Are Doing Differently
It’s not too late to win Black Friday. Even if you’re behind, there’s still time to drive serious results—if you focus on the right moves.
605: He Bought an Airline for $0.30 (and made BILLIONS) | Tony Fernendes (Best of Foundr)
Tony Fernandes turned a failing airline into a billion-dollar business
and built AirAsia into one of the most recognized brands in Asia.
...
604: (Solo) What Labubu and Apple Can Teach You About Scarcity Marketing
Think scarcity is just a marketing gimmick? Used properly, it’s one of the fastest ways to increase perceived value, build community, and grow sales—w...
603: He Built a $1B Beauty Brand Selling $1 Makeup | Joey Shamah
Joey Shamah built e.l.f. Cosmetics into a billion-dollar beauty brand by doing the exact opposite of every competitor in the industry.
In...
602: (Solo) What I Learned From Alex Hormozi’s $100M Book Launch
Everyone saw the headlines—but the real lessons from Alex Hormozi’s $100M book launch are in the planning, positioning, and pre-launch.
<...
601: The Couple Who Built a 9-FIGURE Brand While Working Full-Time Jobs | Natalie Holloway
Natalie Holloway turned a $5,000 side hustle into Bala — a globally recognized fitness brand worn by millions and backed by Mark Cuban and Maria Shara...
600: (Solo) How Founders Should Actually Use AI (Without Getting Lost)
AI is the biggest shift since the internet—and if you’re not using it daily as a founder, you’re falling behind.
In this ep...
599: They Rejected Her Idea, She Turned it into a BILLION Dollar Business | Suneera Madhani (Best of Foundr)
Suneera Madhani built Stax from an idea her employer rejected into a $1B
fintech unicorn processing over $25B in payments.
In thi...
598: (Solo) Your Brand Is Not a Logo: Why Most Founders Get Stuck Before They Even Launch
Think your “brand” is a logo, font, and color palette? That’s polish—not branding. Real ecommerce branding makes customers feel understood, builds ins...
597: How She Built a $38M App with ZERO Ads | Tezza Barton
Tezza Barton bootstrapped the Tezza app from a two-person passion
project into a 25M+ download, $33M/year creative-tech brand—with just 15 empl...
596: (Solo) The Most Unexpected Lessons I Learned From Scooter Braun
You might expect my favorite interviews to be with Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, or Barbara Corcoran. But one that surprised me — and stuck with me m...
TRAILER: Welcome to The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan
The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan is where ambitious founders get real playbooks, not theory. Every week, Nathan sits down with the world’s top entr...
595: She Turned $900 Into a $10M Accessories Brand in 3 Years | Pia Mance
Pia Mance started Heaven Mayhem in 2022 with just $900 and scaled it
into a $10M accessories brand in under three years.
In this...
594: (Solo) The Mindset Lessons I’ve Learned From 100+ Founders
Most founders obsess over tactics, hacks, and strategies. But the truth? None of it matters if you don’t have the right mindset.
In this...
593: Phoebe Gates: Building an AI Fashion Startup Backed by Kris Jenner & Sara Blakely
Phoebe Gates went from failed prototypes in her Stanford dorm room to
building one of the fastest growing fashion-tech startups in the world. <...
592: (Solo) The Truth About Originality: What Great Founders Really Do
Most founders think they need a completely original idea to succeed. The truth? Great businesses are often built by borrowing brilliance — and putting...
591: From $0 to $3.4 BILLION Selling Socks | Bombas (Best of Foundr)
David Heath and Randy Goldberg turned Bombas from a scrappy Indiegogo campaign into the most successful Shark Tank investment of all time—now valued a...
590: (Solo) Why You Need to Do Things That Don’t Scale
When you’re just starting out, the fastest way to grow isn’t automation, ads, or scaling systems — it’s doing things that don’t scale.
589 : The Mad Scientist Behind One of America’s Fastest Growing Supplement Brands | Brian Littlefield (Best of Foundr)
Brian Littlefield is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Jocko Fuel—one of the fastest-growing supplement brands in America. But his story did...
588: (Solo) The #1 ROI Move You’re Probably Not Using
Most ecommerce founders think the only way to grow is to get more traffic — but often, the fastest way to increase sales is by making more from the tr...
587: She Built a $1 Billion Brand Selling Other Peoples Clothes | Julie Wainwright
Julie Wainwright, founder of The RealReal, reveals how she built a billion-dollar resale marketplace that transformed luxury fashion. In this exclusiv...
586 : (Solo) How I Solve The Biggest Problems in My Business (and How You Can Too)
Every business has one major constraint holding it back from the next stage of growth — and solving it is the fastest way to scale.
585: The $100K Mistake Most Founders Make with Manufacturers (and How to Avoid It) (Best of Foundr)
Kian Golzari is one of the world’s leading experts in sourcing and product manufacturing—developing over 2,500 products and visiting 500+ factories.
584: (Solo) What 90 Days of Daily Posting Taught Me About Personal Branding
After 12 years building Foundr, I finally committed to something I should have done a decade ago — posting online every single day for 90 days straigh...
583: The Branding Expert Behind Dior, L'Oréal & Mercedes | Camille Moore
In this episode of the Foundr Podcast, Nathan Chan sits down with
Camille Moore — widely known as the internet’s favorite creative
direc...
582: (Solo) 3 Lessons I’ve Learned From Interviewing 100+ Billionaires
After interviewing over 100 billionaires and ultra-successful entrepreneurs, I’ve spotted three lessons that come up every single time — no matter the...
581: How to Build a $100M Brand Without Raising a Dollar | Peach & Lily
Alicia Yoon is the founder of Peach & Lily—the pioneering brand that brought Korean skincare to the U.S. before “K-Beauty” was a buzzword.