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Full Stack Founders

Full Stack Founders

著者： Mike Bledsoe & Ted Phaeton
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For operator-founders building for the AI era. Mike Bledsoe and Ted Phaeton host. Mike's been an entrepreneur for 19 years: Navy veteran, built CrossFit gyms, Barbell Shrugged, a SaaS product for operators, and now consults operators rebuilding their businesses around AI. Ted's earlier on the path. Part of the show is Mike mentoring him through the conversation in public. The rest is keeping the audience up to speed on what AI is actually doing to the game in real time. When there are guests, they're operators worth having in the room. When there aren't, Ted drives the questions. Usually the ones most operators won't ask out loud. They walk through the work together. Most business podcasts are entertainment for operators pretending to build something. This one is for the ones actually building. No guru energy. No performance. Two operators thinking out loud about what ownership actually requires now. New episodes every Tuesday.2026 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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  • Two People. One Billion Dollars. The Org Chart Is Dying.

    Two People. One Billion Dollars. The Org Chart Is Dying.
    2026/07/05
    Two-year-old company, two people, $1.4 billion in revenue. Hims & Hers took 10 years and 2,000 employees to reach $2 billion in revenue. The math has changed. Mike Bledsoe and Ted Phaeton open with the story of Sam Zemurray — the immigrant banana seller who took down United Fruit Company by playing one card: speed. Then they map the same play onto 2026. Why agentic AI is killing the org chart, what Mike found when he scraped one client's project management data (more than 40 hours a week in pure coordination), why ClickUp's CEO just paid his top 10% of engineers $1M a year salaries, and the difference between operators who use AI and operators who say they do. Plus: why most founders' AI "gets lazy" (and the real diagnosis — they're not memory architects), the $10K designer who got fired in three days, why the employee who automates their own job KEEPS it, and the engineer who wired his daughters' iPads to lock until they unload the dishwasher. If you're an operator-founder running $500K to $5M and you can feel the shift but can't name it — this one's for you. Key insights from this episode: From hierarchy to intelligence: why the org chart is dying in 2026The 40-hour-per-week coordination cost Mike scraped out of one client's dataClickUp's CEO cuts 22% of the team and pays the top 10% $1M a year"If you want your team to use AI, you have to be using it yourself"Why your AI isn't lazy — you're a bad memory architectWhy business owners have agency that most employees don'tThe 2026 reality: 2-person companies sweeping 1,000-employee competitorsThe wealthy get everything first — and the founder plays for spotting the gap Chapters: 00:00 The MedV vs Hims & Hers comp 01:00 Welcome to Full Stack Founders 02:37 From hierarchy to intelligence 04:24 The 40-hour-per-week coordination cost 05:35 Agentic teams without a boss 07:23 Why org charts are about to die 1 0:55 The ClickUp CEO restructure 13:50 If you want your team to use AI, you have to be using it 14:52 The soccer-ball analogy 17:07 Spec the build 10x more than you build 19:40 Why subject knowledge still matters (the ACL rehab story) 21:15 "I'm getting a college degree every week" 22:00 Why your AI isn't lazy — you're a bad memory architect 25:48 Building skills the right way (PT books example) 28:30 The $10K designer fired in 3 days 30:48 Business owners have agency. Employees usually don't. 31:36 The 100x organization 32:55 The employee who automates their job KEEPS their job 34:29 False bottlenecks and the agency play 37:15 Two-person companies sweeping the 1,000-employee giants 37:36 MedV vs Hims & Hers ($1.4B in 2 years vs $2B in 10) 40:00 Agents talking to agents (the calendar coordination flow) 42:45 The 100x organization spreading to other industries 43:30 The trash-pickup SEO arbitrage ($20M/year) 46:53 The engineer who wired his daughters' iPads to the dishwasher 48:48 Industries about to be made WITH AI 51:37 New businesses that never existed before 53:29 The wardrobe-that-meets-you-at-your-hotel play 55:34 The "wealthy get everything first" framework (Uber, Waymo) 57:42 Embrace the disruption (and the legal fights) 1:00:33 Recap: hierarchy, coordination, memory architect, agency 1:03:00 Outro This episode focuses on OUTPUT (Business & Leadership). To learn how to integrate this into your daily leadership practice and reclaim your time, take our free training "See The Game" inside the Full Stack community: www.skool.com Follow Ted: Website: www.themodernmanpodcast.com X: TheModernMan8 YouTube: The Modern Man Podcast Instagram: themodernmanpodcast Facebook: TheModernManShow Follow Mike: Website: bledsoe.life YouTube: @MikeBledsoe Instagram: @mike_bledsoe #fullstackpodcast #fullstackfounders #aiforbusiness #operatorfounder #aiforfounders #orgchart #100xorganization #mikebledsoe #tedphaeton #aiagents #leverage #claudecode
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  • Do You Need People, Or Do You Need Leverage?

    Do You Need People, Or Do You Need Leverage?
    2026/07/02

    Do you need people, or do you need leverage? Mike's client was stuck at $3 million for five years. He reduced his team and doubled his profits.

    Mike Bledsoe and Ted Phaeton walk through 8 AI plays they're actually running this week. From the Daily Operations Brief that filters out the 88% of emails that don't matter, to the Brand Architect + CMO skill that replaces a $50K marketing engagement, to the AI Operations Audit that found 45% of one client's tasks could be eliminated or automated, to the CFO skill that drafted a financial forecast a consultant would have charged $50,000 for.

    No theory. No hype. The play operator-founders running $500K to $5M businesses can install this week.

    Key insights from this episode:

    • The single source of truth: why one daily brief replaces 6 dashboards

    • The Brand Architect + CMO skill stack (and the StoryBrand reference behind it)

    •The AI vetting engine: 100+ hours/month → 20 minutes/week

    • The AI Operations Audit: 15% eliminated immediately + 30% automated in 6 months

    • Why nobody talks about AI for operations

    • The speed-to-lead math: 391% conversion lift at the 1-minute mark

    • The customer-health alert system that catches churn 30–90 days early

    • The CFO skill that replaced a $50,000 consultant

    • Bodies vs. leverage: the question Mike asks every founder client

    • GitHub for non-technical teams (and how Mike imported Gary Tan's 27-skill stack)

    Chapters:

    00:00 The leverage question 01:00 Welcome to Full Stack Founders

    01:50 Today's roadmap: marketing, ops, finance

    02:35 Play 1 — The Daily Operations Brief

    06:40 Why one source of truth changes your focus

    10:30 Building the Chief of Staff in pieces

    14:18 Play 2 — Brand Architect + CMO skill

    18:55 Finding the blue ocean (the real estate example)

    22:00 StoryBrand and the CMO agent

    24:18 Play 3 — AI guest and applicant vetting

    26:00 The scoring framework 30:25 Why "set it and forget it" doesn't work

    32:18 Play 4 — The AI Operations Audit

    34:48 15% immediate + 30% in 6 months

    36:46 Why no one talks about AI for operations

    38:06 The atomic-task domino effect

    39:30 Play 5 — Speed to lead and the conversion math

    41:35 The roofer story (boots + AI)

    45:30 Play 6 — Customer health and churn prediction

    48:00 The Target / Atomic Habits pregnancy story

    51:00 Play 7 — The CFO Skill and the $50K consultant

    54:28 Bodies vs. leverage (the $3M client story)

    58:30 Why a CFO skill beats a CFO hire

    1:00:10 Play 8 — GitHub for non-technical teams

    1:02:35 The G-stack: importing Gary Tan's 27-skill stack

    1:05:55 Why your machine is now your asset

    1:07:58 Ted's recap of the 8 plays

    1:11:00 Outro

    This episode focuses on OUTPUT (Business & Leadership). To learn how to integrate this into your daily leadership practice and reclaim your time, take our free training "See The Game" inside the Full Stack community: www.skool.com

    Follow Ted:

    Website: www.themodernmanpodcast.com

    X: TheModernMan8

    YouTube: The Modern Man Podcast

    Instagram: themodernmanpodcast

    Facebook: TheModernManShow

    Follow Mike:

    Website: bledsoe.life

    YouTube: @MikeBledsoe

    Instagram: @mike_bledsoe

    #fullstackpodcast #fullstackfounders #aiforbusiness #operatorfounder #aiforfounders #mikebledsoe #tedphaeton #aiautomation #foundermindset #aiagents #leverage #claudecode

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  • $343 a Month for a Family of 5: The Health Insurance Play Founders Don't Know

    $343 a Month for a Family of 5: The Health Insurance Play Founders Don't Know
    2026/06/10

    Mike Bledsoe paid $80,000 for a hernia surgery. His friend got the same surgery for $5,000 in cash. That's the entire game.

    Michael Caz, founder of ShareWise and producer at Virtuous Benefits, walks Mike and Ted through what most operator-founders don't know about US health insurance — and the alternative that costs a family of five $343 a month.

    The conversation goes deep on why insurance companies want prices to go up, what a "Charge Master price" actually is, why United Healthcare's denial rate is 33% and CrowdHealth's is less than 1%, how Pharmacy Benefit Managers hide 40% of Big Insurance's profits, and the 100x markup on drugs like Ozempic.

    If you're a self-employed founder, a business owner running 6 to 7 figures, or a W-2 employee staying at a job you hate just for the benefits — this one's for you.

    Key insights from this episode:

    • Why the average healthy founder is overpaying $5,000–$10,000 a year on insurance

    • The Charge Master scam: how hospitals anchor a fake $80K price to negotiate with insurance

    • Why insurance companies are incentivized to RAISE healthcare prices, not lower them

    • The denial rate gap: 33% at United Healthcare vs. less than 1% at CrowdHealth

    • What a health share plan actually is (and the two waiting-period rules that make it work)

    • How a family of five can pay $343/month for healthcare instead of $1,800

    Chapters:

    00:00 What the fuck are we even paying for

    01:00 Welcome to Full Stack Founders

    02:20 The health insurance war zone for the self-employed

    04:34 Michael's ACA marketplace nightmare

    07:00 How Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Hospital actually work together

    09:49 The healthcare system isn't broken. It's working perfectly.

    11:18 Why the healthy are subsidizing the sick

    13:00 Why insurance companies want prices to go up

    15:17 The $80K hernia surgery that costs $5K in cash

    16:33 The Charge Master scam: how hospital pricing actually works

    17:32 What a health share plan actually is

    20:08 $343 a month for a family of five

    21:00 The waiting period and the pre-existing condition rule

    27:48 PBMs: how Big Insurance hides 40% of profits

    29:14 The 100x Ozempic markup

    31:44 Why insurance should be like car insurance

    33:36 33% denial rate vs. less than 1% 36:07 Inside CrowdHealth's transparency model

    40:01 The personal responsibility clause

    44:28 What a health share covers (pregnancy, midwives, travel)

    49:09 How to pick the right plan as a founder

    51:08 ShareWise vs. Virtuous Benefits

    54:50 Where to find the marketplace

    55:30 Ted's recap and gems

    Where does this fit in the Stack? This episode focuses on OUTPUT. To learn how to integrate this into your daily leadership practice, take our free training "See The Game" inside the Full Stack community: https://www.skool.com/

    Connect with Michael Caz: ShareWise (the health share marketplace): https://www.sharewize.com/about

    Follow Ted:

    Website: www.themodernmanpodcast.com

    X: TheModernMan8

    YouTube: The Modern Man Podcast

    Instagram: themodernmanpodcast

    Facebook: TheModernManShow

    Follow Mike:

    Website: bledsoe.life

    YouTube: @MikeBledsoe

    Instagram: @mike_bledsoe
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