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Turner Novak · Business

The Peel with Turner Novak

Exploring the world’s greatest startup stories. Get a behind the scenes look into the founding stories of your favorite companies. Learn how the industries they operate in actually work, and learn playbooks and tactics you can use to launch and scale your own business.

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Why Stripe’s 1st Employee Bought a Bank | Darragh Buckley, Increase

15 Oct 2026
1h 14m
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Increase founder Darragh Buckley explains the necessity of verticalizing banking infrastructure by providing direct API access to US depository functionality. Unlike previous fintech models that built abstractions over legacy bank cores, Increase exposes raw network data—such as FedACH and FedWire specifications—to all...

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Why a Chemist Left $7B to Bet on Physical AI Before Everyone Else | Bilal Zuberi, Red Glass Ventures

08 Oct 2026
1h 38m
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From Nearly Bankrupt to $5B+ Revenue, with Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff

01 Oct 2026
1h 40m
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How Gusto Built a $9.5B Company with Co-founder Tomer London

24 Sep 2026
1h 25m
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Building a Venture Firm Like a Product | Jeff Morris Jr, Chapter One

17 Sep 2026
1h 36m
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Databricks CRO on Going $1M to $7B+ ARR | Ron Gabrisko

10 Sep 2026
1h 42m
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How Athletes Get Into the Top VC Funds | Ryan Nece, Next Legacy

03 Sep 2026
1h 38m
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Leaving Sequoia to Bet on Ohio: Why America is the Best Emerging Market | Chris Olsen, Drive Capital

27 Aug 2026
1h 46m
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Brex’s 1st Employee On Thinking Like a Founder | Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure

24 Aug 2026
1h 27m
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Re-founding a Company for the AI Era | Shensi Ding, Merge

14 Aug 2026
1h 21m
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The 18x Midas Lister Betting $3B on AI (and calling most of it fake) | Navin Chaddha, Mayfield

07 Aug 2026
1h 43m
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Healthcare Skipped The Internet And Went Straight To AI | Alamin Uddin, NexHealth

30 Jul 2026
2h 9m
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Inside Solana's Plan to Replace Wall Street | Anatoly Yakovenko

23 Jul 2026
1h 25m
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The Hidden Layer Every AI Agent Runs On | Tony Holdstock-Brown, Inngest

17 Jul 2026
1h 28m
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Rebuilding a $600M Company From Scratch | Peter Rahal, David

10 Jul 2026
1h 28m
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Lessons from 25 Years + $22B of Secondaries | Hans Swildens, Industry Ventures

03 Jul 2026
1h 45m
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The Past, Present, and Future of Pre-Seed | Charles Hudson, Precursor

25 Jun 2026
1h 42m
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Inside Elbow Grease, NYC's Hands-On Accelerator | Dan Teran, Gutter Capital

18 Jun 2026
1h 48m
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How AI Actually Changed Sales | Sam Blond, Monaco

11 Jun 2026
1h 56m
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Inside the First Quant-Driven VC Fund | Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Chamaeleon

05 Jun 2026
2h 2m
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