What Is Founders Speak
Founders Speak is a long-form podcast and video series built around honest conversations with founders and builders. Each episode goes beyond outcomes and milestones to explore the thinking, uncertainty, and lived experience behind real decisions.
These are not motivational talks or rehearsed success stories. The conversations are reflective, unhurried, and grounded in reality — covering doubts, failures, turning points, and the moments that quietly shape a founder’s journey.
The series brings together voices from across the ecosystem — first-time founders, operators, side-hustlers, and builders at different stages — creating a growing archive of real experiences that others can learn from and relate to.
How the Conversations Are Shaped
Founders Speak is designed as a long-form, unhurried conversation. Each episode creates space for founders to think out loud — to revisit decisions, question assumptions, and reflect on what the journey has taught them so far.
Episodes typically run longer than traditional interviews, allowing conversations to evolve naturally rather than being forced into highlights or soundbites. The focus is not on performance, but on presence.
Conversations are recorded in a video-first format, with audio versions made available across podcast platforms. Over time, each episode also contributes to a growing library of clips, excerpts, and reflections that can be revisited and shared.
Rather than chasing frequency or virality, the series prioritises depth, clarity, and relevance — allowing each conversation to stand on its own and remain useful long after it is published.
What These Conversations Offer
Founders Speak is not designed to provide answers or prescriptions. Instead, it offers something more enduring — perspective. By listening to how others have navigated uncertainty, trade-offs, and change, founders begin to recognise patterns in their own journey.
Over time, these conversations help normalise the struggles that often feel personal or isolating. They remind founders that doubt, confusion, and recalibration are not signs of failure — they are part of the work.
Listeners come away with a clearer sense of how decisions are actually made, how paths evolve in non-linear ways, and how progress often looks messier than it appears from the outside.
Together, the episodes form a growing archive of lived experience — one that founders can return to at different stages, finding relevance in different moments.
The Themes We’re Exploring
Founders Speak is being shaped around a set of themes that help bring diversity, depth, and relevance into the series. These themes are not rigid categories — they are conversation lenses that help us curate voices and stories meaningfully.
Each theme represents a recurring moment in the founder journey — where reflection often matters more than advice.
1. The First Leap
2. Failures that Taught More than Success
3. From Local to Global
4. Women Breaking Barriers
5. The Side Hustle that Became a Venture
6. The Next Wave – Startups Beyond Tech
As the series grows, these themes will expand — guided by the conversations that emerge and the founders who join in.
An Invitation to Speak
Founders Speak is being built around real voices — people who are willing to reflect honestly on what the journey has felt like, not just what it has achieved.
If you’d like to be considered as a guest, share a little about what you’re building and the story you want to speak from. We’re not looking for polished pitches. We’re looking for clarity, honesty, and lived experience.
We’ll review submissions carefully and reach out when there’s a strong fit for an upcoming conversation.