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Knuckle Up is about the HOW of building iconic companies. Recruiting, culture, intensity, the inner game of being a founder CEO. The stuff that actually separates great companies from good ones. Hosted by Nakul Mandan (GP, Audacious Ventures), each episode goes deep with founders who’ve done it at the highest level. Not highlight reels. Operating playbooks, straight from the best of the best.
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How Juicebox is building for the AI talent war | David Paffenholz (CEO)
September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 22 minDavid Paffenholz says Juicebox has not lost a single employee in two years, at a company that has grown from three people to ninety. He credits it to a formula: independence, visible impact, and real equity, what he calls the preconditions…
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$7B AI founder: "AI is not capable of replacing you right now"
September 9, 2026 · 47 minIn 2024, OpenAI asked its own investors to avoid funding five companies it saw as competitive threats: Anthropic, Elon Musk's xAI, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, the search engine Perplexity, and one enterprise AI company, Glean…
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Inside Vercel's AI-era playbook: "Recursive Founder Mode"
August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 30 minGuillermo Rauch’s kindergarten teachers had a question for his parents: “What do you guys give this kid? He’s a freaking ball of energy.” Today Guillermo is at the gym every morning, has five kids with a sixth on the way, does Vercel’s…
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How a first-time CEO is taking on Google: No process, no NPC hires, and extreme shipping velocity
August 4, 2026 · 59 minWill Bryk was working as one of the first engineers at Cresta, writing a book about the history of civilization on the side, when the research started to feel absurd. “Google is great for surface-level investigations,” he says. “But it is…
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0 → $1b in a year: The remarkable story of Handshake's refounding
July 21, 2026 · 1 hr 25 minAt a Christmas party in December 2024, Garrett Lord met a researcher who told him about the challenges with model training. This researcher was working at a frontier AI lab. Two weeks later, Garrett’s company Handshake was recruiting STEM…
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The new marketing playbook: “Marketing Engineers” and agents as the audience
July 7, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minJames Cadwallader and his co-founder Dylan Babbs were working six days a week in an office before they had a company, or even an idea. James would drag Dylan into their coworking space on Saturdays, ban laptops, and fill a whiteboard with…
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Building a $5b company without 996
June 23, 2026 · 1 hr 19 minMost founders get more stressed as the company gets bigger. Immad Akhund has spent years engineering the opposite. “I’ve tried to make it so that the pressure kind of goes down as success goes up, which I think is relatively rare,” he…
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Startup lessons Silicon Valley won’t teach you | Cameron McCord (Co-founder of Nominal)
June 9, 2026 · 1 hr 26 minCameron McCord spent 484 days underwater. As a submarine officer in the US Navy, he learned to run a reactor in a space where the crew sees you 24/7, even brushing your teeth, and where there is no "later" to sort out a disagreement. He…