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5 Minute Guided Meditation for Busy Founders - Tabula Rasa Morning

2026-09-1705:55

Send us Fan Mail Meditation and mindfulness is an incredibly helpful practice, especially for busy founders feeling overwhelmed by the challenges of running a growing business. But it can be challenging to find a short meditation to calm you down, relieve stress, and center your purpose for the day. (I know because I just tried to find one!) So, this morning I created a short meditation centered around grounding your energy, traveling into a blank slate environment to set your int...

What 640 Oxford Founding Partner Adam Gartenberg Learned on 400 Factory Tours| Ep. 97

2025-07-1519:06

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Paige Doherty sits down with Adam Gartenberg, co-founder at 640 Oxford and former Head of Product & Ops at Uber Rider Innovation. They discuss Adam's 400 factory tours to build unique investment insights, how to build with urgency, the psychology of early-stage execution, and Adam’s unique lens on product strategy, shaped by startup experience and scaling inside Uber. Watch the full episode for: Early-stage speed & decision-making Leading ...

Alex Bean on Selling Divvy for $2.5B, Early Hustles, & Building Factory for Good | Ep 96

2025-06-1843:58

Send us Fan Mail Alex Bean, co-founder of Divvy (acquired by BILL.com for $2.5B), joins us to share his founder journey - from teaching ski lessons at 16 to starting multiple scrappy businesses, to scaling Divvy into a fintech giant. In this episode, we talk about the lessons learned from both early failures and billion-dollar success, what not to do when launching a company, and how he's now building Factory to support other founders. This episode includes: • His earliest business ide...

James Evans’ Lessons Learned Building a >$50M YC-Backed Business & Selling it to a Public Company | Ep 95

2025-05-1435:02

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, James Evans, co-founder of Command AI (acq by Amplitude), shares his entrepreneurial journey- from childhood ambitions to launching a startup in college and scaling it through YC. He talks about turning a side project into a venture-backed company, navigating the startup grind, and eventually getting acquired by Amplitude. James breaks down the realities of startup life, including hiring, sales vs. product-led growth, and the psychological weight of being a f...

Lessons I Learned Writing and Self-Publishing a Children's Book About VC | Ep 94

2025-05-0624:02

Send us Fan Mail Hi everyone! In this episode, I’m doing something a little different — walking you through the three phases of self-publishing my first book, Seed to Harvest, a children’s book about venture capital. I’ll share the full behind-the-scenes: how I came up with the idea, what the writing and publishing process looked like, how much money I made (real numbers!), and how this book helped launch Behind Genius Ventures. In this episode, I cover: How to validate book ideas like a star...

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