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Founder Mode

Founder Mode

著者： Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton
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Founder Mode is a podcast for builders—whether it’s startups, systems, or personal growth. It’s about finding your flow, balancing health, wealth, and productivity, and tackling challenges with focus and curiosity. Each week, you’ll gain actionable insights and fresh perspectives to help you think like a founder and build what matters most.Kevin Henrikson and Jason Shafton マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 経済学
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  • 13 Agents Watching 76 Agents

    13 Agents Watching 76 Agents
    2026/09/03

    EPISODE 72

    No guest and no notes on Jason's side, so Kevin runs the board for once. The two dig into the question underneath every pricing decision: what unit of value are you actually selling? Jason retraces underpricing his agency in the early days and the shift from billing hours to building productized services with near-zero marginal cost, while Kevin walks through losing a deal to a competitor selling raw phone minutes, where the buyer admitted the product was worse and bought it anyway. From there they get into using AI to reconcile invoices against vendor spend down to the penny, a sweep that turned up 23 fraudulent charges and an education in BIN enumeration. They cover the strange state of the market, where a public company doing $275M gets taken private at 2x forward revenue while venture-backed startups raise at 100x. And they close on the AI back office: Kevin's 76 scheduled agents, the 13 supervisor agents he built to watch them, and the eight days of automations that reported success, success, success while quietly writing results to a directory that didn't exist.


    CHAPTERS

    00:32 – No guest, no notes: a solo episode

    00:51 – What unit of value are you actually selling?

    02:24 – "I did what most people do and I underpriced"

    04:26 – Losing a deal to phone minutes

    08:50 – Letting AI reconcile your invoices and vendor spend

    12:41 – 23 fraud charges and BIN enumeration

    15:02 – Weave goes private: 2x revenue vs. 100x rounds

    17:09 – The private and public markets dance

    19:21 – 76 agents, 13 supervisors, and "successfully failing"

    21:57 – Most people are bad managers

    25:34 – DHH's Linux distro and talking to your OS

    26:50 – Founder Mode top five


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    28 分
  • SaaS Made Her Love Services with Jess Chan

    SaaS Made Her Love Services with Jess Chan
    2026/08/27

    EPISODE 71

    Jess Chan built Longplay from an email and SMS agency into a strategic growth partner that has helped more than a hundred e-commerce brands generate hundreds of millions in revenue, and then she handed over the CEO title. In this episode she explains why, and makes the case that the hardest decisions in business are the ones nobody claps for. She talks about letting lucrative client relationships drift on purpose, taking pay cuts, and flatlining revenue for two years to fix the foundations, because a hockey stick for one year often means out of business in three. She breaks down her diagnostic approach to lifecycle marketing and why most people are solving the wrong problem extremely fast and extremely well, describes what she learned building a seven figure agency during the least profitable stretch of her business, and shares the moment she realized a company is like a kid who eventually has to stand on its own. Kevin and Jason open with Kevin's first startup, an embroidery business run out of a one bedroom apartment near UCLA, and the navel gazing loop every early founder falls into. Jess also gets into why she thinks she is better off than Elon Musk, why hurt people hurt people applies to founders more than anyone, the real trade-offs between agency and SaaS after building both, and how she uses AI to buy back space instead of running yesterday's playbook faster.


    CHAPTERS

    00:00 – Cold open: the founders whose companies become their jobs

    01:05 – Henriksen Embroidery, LLC and the navel gazing trap

    04:46 – What playing the long game actually means

    06:26 – Turning down money on purpose

    07:54 – Handing over the CEO title

    10:52 – Why email was never the real problem

    12:55 – Most people are solving the wrong problem

    14:34 – The seven figure agency that wasn't profitable

    17:04 – Success, balance, and why Elon sounds miserable

    18:35 – Hurt people, hurt people, and that includes founders

    20:15 – Agency vs SaaS: choose your hard

    23:03 – What AI is great at and what still needs humans

    25:37 – Using AI to buy back space

    27:46 – The Founder Mode Top Five


    LINKS

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    Longplay • LinkedIn • X/Twitter


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    29 分
  • The Internet Isn't Dead

    The Internet Isn't Dead
    2026/08/20
    EPISODE 70Kevin and Jason go guest-free for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when AI starts sounding like you, posting for you, and filling up your inbox. They open by admitting they ran this very episode through an AI video podcast generator and got back a 31-minute clip where neither of them blinked once, then dig into the dead internet theory and why Kevin's real objection isn't that the internet is dead but that it was never trustworthy to begin with — including the moment he discovered more than half of what Perplexity was feeding his research agent came from scraper sites. From there they get practical: why founder thought leadership almost always fails on time rather than talent, the four ways to run it without writing every post yourself, why going viral off a Sam Altman hook produces friends texting you instead of pipeline, and the uncomfortable truth that your actual buyer may be a physician standing at a hot desk logged in under somebody else's name. The back half turns to the mess AI leaves behind — the rise of the "agent inbox," an agent that apologized for taking the weekend off, and why both of them default to the most expensive model available and treat the bill as tuition rather than overhead.CHAPTERS00:00 – The $200 brain00:40 – We made an AI version of this podcast02:39 – The dead internet theory04:39 – When Perplexity poisons your own research05:49 – Watermarks, fingerprints, and who owns your writing06:55 – Founder thought leadership: worth the time?09:26 – Four ways to do it without doing it all yourself12:00 – The rise of the course boi14:31 – Fish where the fish are17:11 – The agent inbox20:49 – Token maxing25:01 – Founder Mode top fiveLINKSStay Connected with Founder ModeSubscribe to our newsletterConnect with KevinLinkedIn • X/TwitterConnect with JasonLinkedIn • X/TwitterEPISODE 70Kevin and Jason go guest-free for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when AI starts sounding like you, posting for you, and filling up your inbox. They open by admitting they ran this very episode through an AI video podcast generator and got back a 31-minute clip where neither of them blinked once, then dig into the dead internet theory and why Kevin's real objection isn't that the internet is dead but that it was never trustworthy to begin with — including the moment he discovered more than half of what Perplexity was feeding his research agent came from scraper sites. From there they get practical: why founder thought leadership almost always fails on time rather than talent, the four ways to run it without writing every post yourself, why going viral off a Sam Altman hook produces friends texting you instead of pipeline, and the uncomfortable truth that your actual buyer may be a physician standing at a hot desk logged in under somebody else's name. The back half turns to the mess AI leaves behind — the rise of the "agent inbox," an agent that apologized for taking the weekend off, and why both of them default to the most expensive model available and treat the bill as tuition rather than overhead.CHAPTERS00:00 – The $200 brain00:40 – We made an AI version of this podcast02:39 – The dead internet theory04:39 – When Perplexity poisons your own research05:49 – Watermarks, fingerprints, and who owns your writing06:55 – Founder thought leadership: worth the time?09:26 – Four ways to do it without doing it all yourself12:00 – The rise of the course boi14:31 – Fish where the fish are17:11 – The agent inbox20:49 – Token maxing25:01 – Founder Mode top fiveLINKSStay Connected with Founder ModeSubscribe to our newsletterConnect with KevinLinkedIn • X/TwitterConnect with JasonLinkedIn • X/Twitter
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    27 分
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