Startup Stories with Fexingo: Conversations About Founders, Funding, and Building Companies from Zero

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Startup Stories with Fexingo: Conversations About Founders, Funding, and Building Companies from Zero

Lucas and Luna sit on a worn leather sofa in a startup loft, whiteboard sketches of growth curves behind them, and talk about the messy work of building a company from zero. Each episode picks a single founder's journey — from garage prototype to Series A, or from pivot to shutdown — and reconstructs the decisions that mattered. Lucas, with a journalist's instinct for the uncomfortable question, presses on the numbers: the seed round that closed at a 28% discount to later valuation, the burn rate that forced a layoff, the customer acquisition cost that took eighteen months to drop below lifetime value. Luna, an entrepreneur herself, pushes back with the human side: the co-founder who walked out, the product-market fit that arrived only after three failed launches, the term sheet they almost signed but didn't. Together, they dissect pitch decks, cap tables, and board dynamics without the usual startup cheerleading. This is not a show about unicorns — it's about the 80-hour weeks, the near-death experiences, and the one metric that actually saved the company. For listeners who want the real story behind the press release, who know that 'blitzscaling' is often just a euphemism for 'we ran out of cash,' and who prefer honest post-mortems to victory laps. What would you have done when the lead investor pulled out on a Friday afternoon?

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23 episodes

How Airbnb Redesigned Trust to Survive the Pandemic

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How Patagonia Proved Purpose Can Scale Profits

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How GitLab Built an Open Source Unicorn Without Leaving the House

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How Rippling Built a Unified HR Platform by Automating the Busywork

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How Superhuman Built the Fastest Email Client

May 29, 2026 · 6:29
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How Chime Built a Neobank for the Fee-Fatigued Middle Class

May 29, 2026 · 10:28
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How Shopify Built an Ecommerce Empire Without Owning Inventory

May 28, 2026 · 5:54
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How Mailchimp Stayed Independent for Two Decades

May 28, 2026 · 8:01
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How MasterClass Built a Celebrity Lecture Empire

May 27, 2026 · 8:46
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How Figma Created a New Category for Collaborative Design

May 27, 2026 · 8:21
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How Calm Built a Unicorn in Meditation

May 26, 2026 · 10:24
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How Loom Changed Workplace Communication With Async Video

May 26, 2026 · 9:51
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How Deel Conquered Global Payroll Without a Bank

May 25, 2026 · 7:52
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How Brex Built a Credit Card for Startups

May 25, 2026 · 7:44
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How Airtable Built a No-Code Business Without Being a No-Code Company

May 24, 2026 · 11:01
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How Gopuff Built a Last-Mile Empire on Impulse Buying

May 24, 2026 · 8:02
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How Figma Won Design Collaboration Without an Undo Button

May 23, 2026 · 7:27
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How Canva Built a Billion-Dollar Design Empire Without Adobe Users

May 23, 2026 · 11:35
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How Duolingo Gamified Language Learning Into a Public Company

May 22, 2026 · 7:44
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How Notion Won the Productivity Wars Without Fighting

May 22, 2026 · 8:49
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How Plaid Built the API Layer for Modern Finance

May 21, 2026 · 9:08
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How ZoomInfo Built a B2B Data Empire on Public Records

May 21, 2026 · 8:24
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How Stripe Processed One Trillion Dollars

May 19, 2026 · 7:21
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