The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Hear the stories, learn the proven methods, and accelerate your growth and future through entrepreneurship. Welcome to The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan. 

About the show: 

For over a decade, The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan has been a leading entrepreneurship podcast for open-book conversations with, by, and for founders. Whether you're starting, building, or dreaming about your business, The Foundr Podcast is where you can access experienced founders who've been in your shoes to learn their proven methods, lessons from failure, and inspirational stories. 

Past guests include Emma Grede, Mark Cuban, Neil Patel, Kendra Scott, Alex Hormozi, Trinny Woodall, Tim Ferriss, Sophia Amoruso, Simon Sinek, Tony Robbins, Amy Porterfield, Ed Mylett, Michelle Zatlyn, Reid Hoffman, Scooter Braun, Dany Garcia, Marc Lore, Ariana Huffington, Pat Flynn, Lewis Howes, Jordan Harbinger, and many more. 

About the host: 

Nathan Chan is the CEO of Foundr and the creator of The Foundr Podcast. Chan literally started from knowing nothing. He was just an average guy working in a 9-5 job he utterly hated. He knew nothing about entrepreneurship, nothing about startups, nothing about marketing, and nothing about online or how to build a business. In the past decade, Chan's built Foundr into a global leader in entrepreneurial education, helping tens of thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs start and scale their businesses. 

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1
722: How a $700 Pair of Glasses Led to a $2.89B...
They started with a lost pair of glasses and $120K in savings, sold out in weeks with a 20,000-person waitlist, and spent nothing on ads for 3 years.
35 min
2
721: Raquel Does $300K/Month - and Says it’s th...
A solo mum of four built Luna + Luca into a $3-4M children’s clothing brand with no loans, no debt, and one part-time helper - this is her honest account of two years not paying herself, a flat year with ads off, and scaling to a $300K month on her own terms.
53 min
3
720: (Solo) How do You Know When It's Time to F...
Firing someone is the part of building a business nobody prepares you for. Here are the five signals it’s time, and how to do it with dignity.
10 min
4
719: The NEW Creator Playbook That Took Me from...
He posted his $80K-in-debt bank account online, then scaled to six figures a day and built a creator platform now used by 16,000 brands.
54 min
5
718: (Solo) Why Your Profitable Ad Account Isn'...
Founders get on calls with a 5 or 6x return, printing money, and refuse to scale. Here's the principle behind it, and why understanding it earlier would have made me millions.
8 min
6
717: We Started Dad Gang with $750 and One Hat ...
Three best friends turned $750 into a $40M hat brand with zero employees, no ads for 8 months, and a Gary Vee equity deal.
55 min
7
716: Ryan Spent 13 Years Without a Single Break...
A 25-year restaurateur built a craft distillery in Vail, Colorado and navigated the bizarre regulatory maze of shipping spirits across state lines - growing 10th Mountain Whiskey from $20-25K to a $40-50K monthly average through slow, brick-by-brick improvement.
32 min
8
715: (Solo) How to Stop Overcomplicating Hiring...
When I looked back at every hire that actually moved the needle, they had one thing in common. Here's the dead-simple rule I follow now.
8 min
9
714: From $0 to $5 BILLION - The Blueprint for ...
He sold diapers.com to Amazon, Jet.com to Walmart for $3.3B in under two years, and now he's building a city for 5 million people.
38 min
10
713: (Solo) The Black Friday Profit Trap and Ho...
One founder did $1 million on Black Friday and barely broke even. Here's the profit trap most brands walk into, and the framework to avoid it this year.
9 min
11
712: The Near-Death Experience That Built a $40...
46 min
12
711: Natasha Quit Her 9-To-5 In June - Her Drin...
A graphic designer on maternity leave took a drink bottle almost straight off the shelf and turned a single $3,900 press release into an estimated $400K of exposure - growing Mode & Opal to consistent $15K+ months as a solo operator.
39 min
13
710: (Solo) I Asked 10 Billionaires The Same Qu...
I asked 10 billionaires the same question: if you lost everything tomorrow, what would you do first? Their answers were wildly different, but underneath was the same thing.
13 min
14
709: AI Agents: The Only Skill That Matters in ...
He runs 32 AI agents across six companies and replaced an entire customer service team - cutting costs from $20K a month to under $4K.
51 min
15
708: (Solo) What Nobody Tells You About Scaling...
Nobody warns you which thing is about to break at each stage of growth. After building to eight figures, here are the three revenue walls and how to get through each one.
10 min
16
707: How Two Aussies Took On Samsonite & Rimowa...
50 min
17
706: Jay Hated His Plumbing Job - Now He Sells ...
A plumber who hated his job sewed his first beach pool on his mother-in-law's machine and pushed through a year of fabric failures and three supplier disasters to build a seasonal brand that hit a $50K month.
35 min
18
705: (Solo) How Success Made Me Neglect the Thi...
For four years I took my eye off the one thing that built my entire business, and I didn't even notice. Here's how "fine" cost me years of growth.
9 min
19
704: How One Pivot Turned My FAILING Startup In...
Her first company sold for $100M in cash two weeks before the Nasdaq crash - the one she nearly shut down now does $300M a year.
47 min
20
703: (Solo) If I Had to Start Over in 2026, Her...
If I lost everything tomorrow, the team, the audience, the network, here's the exact tactical playbook I'd use to build back to $1 million from scratch.
8 min
21
702: Mark Cuban Calls Us His BEST Shark Tank De...
Four childhood friends turned a $30K bet on butt wipes into $220M in retail sales - with just 20 employees and Mark Cuban's only check.
59 min
22
701: Trieu Doubled His Brand To $200K/Month In ...
A practising dentist invented ergonomic loupes to fix his own neck and back pain, launched one month before the pandemic, and scaled Hero Loops from $5K to $200K a month - all while still working full time in the chair.
26 min
23
700: (Solo) The Ambassador Strategy - How to ge...
How does a cookware brand land Gordon Ramsay with no ad budget? I break down the exact playbook I've used for a decade to get respected names to endorse a brand for free.
11 min
24
699: A Pizza Oven Saved My Life - Then It Built...
He built a brick pizza oven in his garden to stay sober after rehab - it became a $100M brand that did $8.5M in the first four hours of a launch.
71 min
25
698: (Solo) She Worked 7 Hours a Day & Made Zer...
A founder in our community had the perfect product and zero sales. I told her the problem in one sentence, and it's the same thing holding back most brands.
10 min