How a company graduates from one stage to the next, taken apart with the investor who watched thirty of them try it instead of one.
One email when it drops. Nothing else.
An operator has one graduation told well. A partner has thirty told badly. The show's whole job is to get those thirty told well, which is why every guest in season one is a VC. Each one also gets the same closing question: an old strategy, and its modern equivalent.
01Which stage to which stage, and what the company had at the next round that it did not have at the last one.
02Once from a portfolio company, where the guest has money riding on it and says so on air. Once from a company they admire with no stake at all.
03A channel that worked last quarter is traction. The question is what a competitor with the same budget could not have bought.
04The editorial gate: if an episode leaves you with nothing you could run this week, it does not ship. Every two weeks, no filler episodes.
Season one is being filmed in a batch, so episodes land every two weeks once the first one is out. Put your email in above and you will get exactly one message when it does.
The research behind the questions I ask on air. Every number is sourced and dated.
Your host
Four companies, two exits. I built my first, a physical entertainment center, to 60 employees and $2M a year in my early 20s, grew a media company to an 800K audience on nothing but organic and sold it in 2026, and took an AI startup from zero to $600K ARR in 5 months. I am Founding Head of Growth at Reach AI. This show is my channel, not theirs, and if a guest is a Reach customer I say so on air.
Why the show exists
An operator can tell you how they put theirs up. The investor who backed thirty of them saw which ones came down.
