BIG IDEAS BY NEW ECONOMIES
Big Ideas by New Economies is a podcast that explores how iconic founders turned challenging moments into global companies. Hosted by Ollie Forsyth, each episode shares insights into entrepreneurship, resilience, and business building. The show aims to inspire aspiring founders by revealing the mindset and strategies behind successful ventures.
Episodes
Fiverr
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Micha Kaufman, co-founder and CEO of Fiverr, joins us to explain why anyone who has worked in their profession for more than five years is now “a dinosaur.” He has spent 17 years building Fiverr into a global marketplace connecting millions of freelancers with businesses, and took it public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2
Fireworks AI
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Lin Qiao, co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, joins us to explain why “a lot of companies will build AI into bankruptcy” this year. She previously led PyTorch at Meta, and her company now powers every major coding company, including Cursor, which it began working with at $2M ARR and has watched grow a thousandfold. Lin also s
Coinbase
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Rob Witoff, CTO of Coinbase, joins us in his first interview since returning to the crypto company. He explains why 98–99% of Coinbase’s code is now written by agents, how his engineers went from writing code by hand to supervising 3–10 agents each in a single year, and why a Friday-morning “spicy feedback” agent may be givin
Axios
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Jim VandeHei, Co-Founder and CEO of Axios and Co-Founder of Politico, joins us to explain why he believes the open web will largely die within 2 to 5 years as LLMs become the main way people get their information, why unique, human-created content will soar in value once everyone has access to Einstein-level AI, and how his S
Andreessen Horowitz
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Josh Elman has shaped products at some of the biggest consumer platforms in tech. He helped lead product at LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, invested in startups at Greylock, and took senior operating roles at Robinhood and Apple. Now a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he joins us for his first external podcast interview since
Webflow
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Linda Tong, CEO of Webflow, joins us to explain how she's leading Webflow's transformation from a $4 billion website builder into an agentic marketing platform, why she believes the internet is filling up with AI-generated "garbage" from people who never asked what's worth building, and how she thinks about winning in a marke
Pegasystems
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Alan Trefler, Founder and CEO of Pegasystems, joins us to unpack how a 40-year-old, $6 billion public company is thinking about AI, why he refuses to charge customers for tokens, and what it actually takes to survive five generational shifts in technology without losing your edge.You might not know this about Alan, but Pega’s
Felicis Ventures
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Aydin Senkut, Founder and Managing Partner at venture firm Felicis, joins the podcast at a pivotal moment in tech to unpack what’s happening across venture, whether LPs are concerned, and how to win as a firm in the current environment. You might not know this about Aydin, but he was actually one of the first employees at Goo
Bebo
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Our latest podcast guest is one incredible founder: Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo, who shares how he started and scaled the social network into one of the most popular sites of its time before selling it to AOL for $850 million in 2008, how he reinvented himself after Bebo, and what he’s building now that Bebo is closed f
Lambda
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Will GPUs become a new asset class? Our latest podcast guest may have some answers.Stephen Balaban, co-founder and CTO of Lambda, joins us to explain why a $40,000 monthly AWS bill was the best thing that ever happened to the company in its early days, why he recently handed over the CEO title after fourteen years at the helm
Superhuman
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Superhuman, joins NEW ECONOMIES to explain why he renamed a 16-year-old company mid-flight instead of just adding a new label on top, why he built his own board by ranking every past boss he’s ever had instead of chasing famous names, and why the real threat to a legacy SaaS category isn’t a faster co
Europe Is Catching Up
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Saul Klein, co-founder and Managing Partner of Phoenix Court, joins the podcast to make the case that the UK is quietly the third biggest innovation economy in the world after the US and China, why capital has become a commodity, and what real venture value-add looks like when every fund says “we have money.” Saul also walks
Xero
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, CEO of Xero, joins NEW ECONOMIES to explain why cracking the US took twenty years and an acquisition despite Xero being the more open, cheaper alternative to Intuit, why she treats “respected vs. liked” as a false choice a new CEO has to reject on day one, and why the biggest threat to a twenty-year-o
Circle
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Sid Yadav, co-founder of Circle, joins the podcast to break down what it takes for creators to succeed in 2026 and beyond: building real communities, capturing attention through audience-building, and using taste as a creative edge. Sid also shares what creators and platforms should be doing more of, how to actually start bui
Thumbtack
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Marco Zappacosta, co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, joins NEW ECONOMIES to explain why Google search volume has reaccelerated to an all-time high post-ChatGPT, why the customers now converting through AI chat are more qualified and further into their decision than any channel Thumbtack has seen before, and why marketplaces for
Wispr Flow
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Tanay Kothari, founder of Wispr Flow, joins NEW ECONOMIES to unpack why most startups don’t die from bad ideas but from chasing too many good ones, and why matching your number of initiatives to your organizational capacity matters more than simply working longer hours.About Wispr Flow Wispr Flow turns voice into clean text.
Cameron Adams (Canva)
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Cameron Adams, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva, joins NEW ECONOMIES to explain why AI gives creators more options than ever but not more chances to send the right message, and why taste becomes the real opportunity once every tool produces passable designs. Watch now: Cameron Adams - Co-Founder at CanvaWe also g
Justine Moore: Andreessen Horowitz
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Consumers care less about how something was made. Justine Moore is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz investing across AI and consumer, and one of the earliest backers of ElevenLabs. In this episode, she breaks down why AI microdramas are becoming one of the fastest-growing entertainment formats in the world, why China’s microd
$1M ARR in 3 Weeks. $150M ARR One Year Later
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Maor Shlomo, founder of Base44, and Mark Tluszcz, Chairman at Wix, join NEW ECONOMIES to unpack the fastest-moving acquisition story in vibe coding: a solo founder who hit $1M in annualized revenue three weeks after launch, sold Base44 to Wix for $80M within months, and grew the business from roughly $3M to $150M in annualize
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, joins NEW ECONOMIES to explain why we’re still underutilizing AI, why agent management — not individual contribution — becomes the default mode of work within three years, and why the next decade of company-building rewards taste and judgment over raw skill: once AI can draw, code, and wr
Mark Manson
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Mark Manson is someone you've probably heard of before. He's the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, which has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. In this episode, he shares some incredible advice on life, what it takes to become a successful creator, why creators should think more like founders, and what h
The Eventbrite Story | Julia & Kevin Hartz
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.How Eventbrite survived the business apocalypse — and why the internet made real life more valuable than everHusband and Wife duo Kevin and Julia Hartz, co-founders at Eventbrite, join us on the NEW ECONOMIES podcast show to share how they built one of the world’s largest event marketplaces, navigating a leadership transition
How We Access The Best Companies
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Ben Miller, CEO and Co-Founder at Fundrise, joins NEW ECONOMIES to explore the future of investing in an AI-driven world. From democratizing private markets to backing the next generation of technology companies, Ben explains why software is entering a new era of disruption, and how AI could reshape everything from work and h
Why We Sold To Grammarly | Rahul Vohra
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Why email never died — and why Superhuman is betting on voice, AI, and the future of workRahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman and now CEO of Superhuman Mail inside the newly formed Superhuman group, joins NEW ECONOMIES on why email remains the most important layer of modern work, how AI is transforming productivity beyond the i
Replit's President & Head of AI | Michele Catasta
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Why I built the coding tool everyone dismissed — then watched it take over the Fortune 500Michele Catasta, President and Head of AI at Replit, joins NEW ECONOMIES on why vibe coding is no longer just for hobbyists, how Replit went from a side project to having 85% of the Fortune 500 as users, and why 2026 is the year everyone
Inside Mercury's Founding Story | Co-Founder & CEO Immad Akhund
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Why I built banking for America's startups — then rebuilt it around AIImmad Akhund, Co-Founder & CEO at Mercury, joins NEW ECONOMIES on banking one in three U.S. startups, raising $200M without needing a dollar of it, and why the legacy banking system was never going to win.In this episode, we discuss Mercury’s origin story —
Inside Gusto's Founding Story | Co-Founder & CTO Eddie Kim
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Why I built America's most-loved payroll company then reinvented it with AIEddie Kim, Co-Founder and CTO at Gusto, joins NEW ECONOMIES on cracking the small business market, keeping all three co-founders for 15 years, and why he just built the most important product of his career in eight weeks.Watch or listen now on YouTube,
We Had to Reimagine Nextdoor | CEO & Co-Founder Nirav Tolia
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Why I Returned As CEO After 5 Years AwayNirav Tolia, Co-Founder & CEO at Nextdoor, joins NEW ECONOMIES on the company's founding story, why Nirav came back as CEO and the impact of community in the midst of AI. Watch or listen now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and SpotifyDownload the full transcript:Nirav Tolia is the co-founde
Maria Sharapova - Tennis Icon | Entrepreneur | Investor | New Media Creator
Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions.Watch or listen now on… YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and SpotifyMaria Sharapova is one of the greatest sporting icons of our time, having played over 800 matches, won 36 singles titles, and claimed 5 Grand Slams. Since retiring from the sport, she has become an entrepreneur, investor, and more recently, the host of her podcast Pr
Why Startup Valuations No Longer Make Sense | Eric Hippeau
Learn from the greatest technology leaders every week on the NEW ECONOMIES podcast. Subscribe to never miss a future episode.Hey listeners, If you work in tech, you’ve probably heard of Eric Hippeau, co-founder of Lerer Hippeau Ventures, one of the most prominent venture firms focused on the NYC startup ecosystem. With decades of experience in venture capital, Eric joins us to help unpack where we
Will AI Models Ever Compensate Creators?
Learn from the greatest technology leaders every week on the NEW ECONOMIES podcast. Subscribe to never miss a future episode.Hey ReadersIf you work in tech, you’ve probably heard the term “new media” — a new wave of the creator economy where creators are becoming the preferred distribution channels for brands and businesses.To better understand new media, the creator economy, and what the future o
Why Attio Stayed in Stealth for 1,000 Days
Learn from the greatest technology leaders every week on the NEW ECONOMIES podcast. Subscribe to never miss a future episode.As we know, the CRM landscape is undergoing a huge transformation — with incumbents such as Salesforce being slow to move and innovate, newer players are entering the arena, moving faster with better innovation. To help us understand how legacy software is being forced to ev
Why A16Z Is Still Betting Big On Crypto
AI and crypto are merging faster than anyone predicted. We asked the investor with a front-row seat to explain exactly where it’s going. Subscribe to never miss a future episode. As we know, crypto is evolving daily - right alongside AI. We wanted to get to the bottom of where these two fast-moving sectors are truly intersecting, so we sat down with Ali Yahya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowit
AI Is Replacing School Teachers
Subscribe to NEW ECONOMIES to avoid missing future episodes. Hey listeners, Imagine walking into a classroom where there are no traditional teachers - just tablets, robots, and human instructors guiding every lesson.That future isn’t hypothetical. It’s already here.Today’s guest on the podcast is Joleen Liang, co-founder of Squirrel AI, an education startup from China that’s already teaching thous
Yahoo! Is Striking Back
Hey listeners! Do you remember when you set up your first email address? Well it might have been on Yahoo! - remember them? They have been pretty quiet over the years, having gone through a complete turnaround from a public company to a private one, selling off a bunch of assets, but they are now back, and we just interviewed their CEO Jim Lanzone, and SVP Head of Yahoo Research Group Eric Feng fo
Why Hand-Typing Code Will End Your Career in 2026
Dan Shipper is the co-founder of Every — the only subscription you need to stay at the edge of AI which is trusted by 100,000 builders. Before founding Every, Dan was the founder of Firefly, a co-browsing technology that was used by over 5,000 SMBs, and 7,000 financial advisors. Listen on: YouTube, Apple Podcasts and SpotifyThe latest trend: The $0 to multi-product AI empireIn this episode, we sit
The Brutal $1.2B Unicorn Reality
Watch on YouTube —>In this episode, we sit down with Kirill Bigai, founder of Preply, for a deep dive into his journey from a scrappy entrepreneur to leading a global education powerhouse. In a candid conversation, Kirill reflects on the meteoric rise of the world’s leading language-learning marketplace and the hard-won lessons from a decade of pivots and a recent move to unicorn status.For some c
EXCLUSIVE: The Hidden Truth About Builder AI | Sachin Dev Duggal
In this episode, we sit down with Sachin Dev Duggal, founder of Builder AI and Second Brain, for his first public interview since his departure from Builder. In a candid conversation, Sachin reflects on the meteoric rise of one of AI’s most talked-about companies and the hard-won lessons from a turbulent 2025.For some context: You might remember Builder AI — it quickly became one of the most talke
The Mistake That Cost a Founder $1.7B
iRobot was the miracle that almost wasn’t. For 33 years, Colin Angle steered the company from a living room startup at MIT to a global household name. But in early 2024, the story took a dark turn: a $1.7 billion acquisition by Amazon was blocked by regulators, leading to bankruptcy filings and Colin’s departure.This week, we sit down with the legendary co-founder to unpack one of the most controv
A16Z General Partner: Why Capital Is Not Enough (The Venture Firm of 2030) | David Haber
Venture is changing fast — but not in the way most people think.This week, we’re joined by David Haber, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he invests in AI applications and helped build the firm’s presence in New York.David recently wrote a piece that went viral around a single provocative idea:Most investors run funds. Very few build firms.We unpack what that actually means — why “fund
He Built A $1.8B AI Company With No Experience | Max Junestrand
In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Max Junestrand, Co-Founder and CEO of Legora. The company only went through Y Combinator last year, has raised $260M to date, and is already one of the fastest-growing companies across legal AI. Legora is betting that the next decade of law won’t be won by “better PDFs,” but by software that fundamentally changes how legal work gets done.Max takes us from Le
Forget AI: Inside the Meltdown That Made Airalo #1 eSIM Unicorn | Ahmet Bahadir Ozdemir
In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Ahmet Bahadir Ozdemir, the self-described “accidental telecom guy” and co-founder of Airalo, the eSIM marketplace that’s quietly rewiring how travelers get online around the world.Bahadir shares the wild, very human journey that led from hustling ship supplies out of his parents’ home in Turkey — pretending to be “60 different people” across ports worldwide
The Hidden Skill Behind Every Successful Founder | Lindsay Kaplan
In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Lindsay Kaplan, co-founder of Chief, the women’s executive network that became one of the fastest-growing membership communities in the world — scaling from a cold-email experiment to a venture-backed unicorn in just a few years.Lindsay shares the inside story of building a brand that reshaped executive leadership for women, from hacking together the first 2
The Harsh Truth About Building a Startup in the AI Era | Anish Acharya
In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Anish Acharya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, who has spent many years at the frontier of consumer products — from early days at Google to building startups to now backing the founders shaping the next decade of software.We’re living through the fastest product cycle in tech history, and Anish breaks down why right now is the best moment in history
The AI Version of You Will Outperform You — Emad Mostaque
Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES — a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.P.S. When you become an annual paid subscriber, you automatically access these best-in-class AI tools fo
How Solana Survived When Most Other Coins Fell | Anatoly Yakovenko Story
Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES — a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.P.S. When you become an annual paid subscriber, you automatically access these best-in-class AI tools fo
This Is How AI Will Reshape Startups Forever | Henry Ward, Co-Founder of Carta
Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES — a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.P.S. When you become an annual paid subscriber, you automatically access these best-in-class AI tools fo
Spotify’s Early Investor Shares His Blueprint for Outlier Founders | PJ Pärson (Northzone)
Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES — a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.P.S. When you become an annual paid subscriber, you automatically access these best-in-class AI tools fo
Inside YC's Hottest Startups
Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES — a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.P.S. When you become an annual paid subscriber, you automatically access these best-in-class AI tools fo
How He Built AI Apps Insanely Fast with Vibe Coding | Colin Matthews
Hey Readers 👋Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES — a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.P.S. When you become an annual paid subscriber, you automatically access these best-in-clas
The Untold Story About The Female Steve Jobs
Hey Readers 👋Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES — a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.P.S. When you become an annual paid subscriber, you automatically access these best-in-clas
Newsletters Can Make Millions
Hey Readers 👋Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES - a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.P.S. When you subscribe, you automatically access these best-in-class AI tools for free — f
The Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Told Us THIS
Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES - a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.This week’s guest is Lucy Guo, the co-founder behind Scale AI, and more recently founder of Passes which
The Nas Daily Story
Welcome to BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES - a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.This week’s guest is Nuseir Yassin, the creator behind Nas Daily - one of the largest and most famous cr
300 Million Downloads
Welcome to our fourth episode of BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES - a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.This week’s guest is Matt Rouif, co-founder of Photoroom - the largest photo editi
Building A Directory In 45 Minutes By Vibe Coding
Welcome to our third episode of BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES - a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create.This week’s guest is Billy Howell, best known for creating innovative AI apps. This
$16M Net ARR In 2 Years
Welcome to our second episode of BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES - a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Throughout these episodes, we also discover the trends our guests are most excited about, and the types of businesses those trends could go on to create. This week’s guest is Maxime Barbier, co-founder of Timeleft - which you may have
AI Will Reshape Society: Wade Foster (Co-Founder, Zapier)
Welcome to our first episode of BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES - a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Our guest on today’s episode is Wade Foster, the co-founder of Zapier which helps companies with software automations and more.Listen now:YouTube // Apple // SpotifyIn this episode we cover the founding story of Zapier and which tech tr
