What Works for Startups Like Yours?

All the Hacks is a top-tier business podcast launched by Chris Hutchins, a former PM and founder who left Wealthfront to pursue content creation full-time. The podcast explores financial optimization, travel hacks, and life improvement through interviews with interesting people. In 18 months, it reached top 5-10 in business podcast rankings through authentic content, guest curation, and consistent weekly releases.

First customers: Kevin Rose's podcast announcement and organic audience from existing newsletter

Founders is a solo-hosted biography podcast launched in 2016 by David Senra that has grown to over 100,000 unique listeners per episode in 7 years. The podcast breaks down biographies of successful entrepreneurs, artists, and historical figures to extract patterns and lessons. Growth has been driven primarily by word-of-mouth recommendations from influential figures like Patrick Bet-David and Rob Moore.

The Slow Hustle is a long-form interview podcast launched in January 2015 by Peter Awad, who juggles podcasting alongside three other businesses (Import Auto Performance, Mission Meats food brand, and a previous failed startup). The show generates approximately 8,000-10,000 downloads per month with around 2,000 downloads per episode, and recently landed on the iTunes Podcasts homepage through authentic relationships rather than gaming the system. Peter has secured two sponsors (Iowa Startup Accelerator and a law firm) charging $3,000 per 16-episode package, generating roughly $187 per episode, covering costs while maintaining the show as a labor of love.

First customers: Personal relationships and networking (Iowa Startup Accelerator through mentoring connections)

Million FM is a podcast hosted by Sam Parr and Shaan Patel where they discuss entrepreneurship, financial goals, and lifestyle topics through Q&A formats. The show grows through word-of-mouth referrals and has built a community of thousands of entrepreneurs in their private Facebook group.