Founders in Motion with Thea Ngo

AI-native commercial insurance is being built by a man who once ran 80 marathons in 80 days with no coverage at all because every policy excluded anything past two.Sean Stuart is the co-founder of Rosella, an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage working across the US economy. We talk about door-knocking Dallas offices with zero meetings booked, what VCs get wrong about AI-native service businesses, and why people, not code, are the real moat.For: AI-native service founders, insurtech and brokerage operators, and any Australian weighing up the move to the US.If this episode helped you, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or follow on Spotify. It takes 30 seconds and it's how the next founder finds us.FOLLOW US https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersInMotion https://www.instagram.com/thea.yaps/ https://www.tiktok.com/@foundersinmotion https://linkedin.com/in/theango/ABOUT FOUNDERS IN MOTION The founder podcast that catches them before they're famous, when the pivot might not work and the real story is still being written. Hosted by Thea Ngo, a Wharton grad, venture capital investor, and (your new favorite?) interrogator behind Founders in Motion. New episodes every Thursday.

Basketball stats used to require a scout in the gym. Now one phone video gives every player full box scores and highlights, and the team behind it is leaving Melbourne for Austin. Cordelia King co-founded Superstat after her first company, the Herald Sun called it "Tinder for local sport", kept attracting players who lied about how good they were. We talk about the Australian football model that failed before basketball worked, the stretch when nobody took a salary, and why American football is next.For: sports tech founders, computer vision engineers, and curious sports parents.If this episode helped you, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or follow on Spotify. It takes 30 seconds and it's how the next founder finds us.FOLLOW US https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersInMotion https://www.instagram.com/thea.yaps/ https://www.tiktok.com/@foundersinmotion https://linkedin.com/in/theango/ABOUT FOUNDERS IN MOTION The founder podcast that catches them before they're famous, when the pivot might not work and the real story is still being written. Hosted by Thea Ngo, a Wharton grad, venture capital investor, and (your new favorite?) interrogator behind Founders in Motion. New episodes every Thursday.

Quibi raised $1.75 billion before it had a single show, hired Spielberg and Reese Witherspoon to make TV for your phone, and shut down six months after launch.This is a fun new segment where I take apart a company that died and diagnose what actually killed it. We get into the tech that forced every show to be shot twice, the Super Bowl ad that ran before a single episode existed, and why almost no one converted from free trial to paying subscriber.If this episode helped you, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or follow on Spotify. It takes 30 seconds and it's how the next founder finds us.FOLLOW US https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersInMotion https://www.instagram.com/thea.yaps/ https://www.tiktok.com/@foundersinmotion https://linkedin.com/in/theango/ABOUT FOUNDERS IN MOTION The founder podcast that catches them before they're famous, when the pivot might not work and the real story is still being written. Hosted by Thea Ngo, a Wharton grad, venture capital investor, and (your new favorite?) interrogator behind Founders in Motion. New episodes every Thursday.

Lee Lagdameo crossed over from the other side of the table to build one of the AI companies he used to back — and four months into Shikii Labs, he says most companies aren't AI-ready: their data is a mess, and raising less beats raising more.Lee Lagdameo is the co-founder of Shikii Labs, an AI and product partner for founder-owned and PE-backed companies. We talk about starting an AI consultancy from zero network, why his last startup Skybox Technologies raised too much, and what he sacrificed to keep building.For: AI consultants, PE operators, early-stage founders, and anyone weighing the VC-to-founder jump.If this episode helped you, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or follow on Spotify. It takes 30 seconds and it's how the next founder finds us.FOLLOW UShttps://www.youtube.com/@FoundersInMotionhttps://www.instagram.com/thea.yaps/https://www.tiktok.com/@foundersinmotionhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/theango/ ABOUT FOUNDERS IN MOTION The founder podcast that catches them before they're famous, when the pivot might not work and the real story is still being written. Hosted by Thea Ngo, a Wharton grad, venture capital investor, and (your new favorite?) interrogator behind Founders in Motion.New episodes every Thursday.

Arjun Agarwal is the founder and CEO of inaam, a flat-fee alternative to funds that take a percentage of your money. We talk about his family's fortune disappearing in South Africa, the watches that helped them survive, and the teenage crypto fund he wound down before a crash.For: impact investors, fintech founders, and anyone who's been told no more times than they can count.If this episode helped you, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or follow on Spotify. It takes 30 seconds and it's how the next founder finds us.FOLLOW UShttps://www.youtube.com/@FoundersInMotionhttps://www.instagram.com/thea.yaps/https://www.tiktok.com/@foundersinmotionhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/theango/ ABOUT FOUNDERS IN MOTION The founder podcast that catches them before they're famous, when the pivot might not work and the real story is still being written. Hosted by Thea Ngo, a Wharton grad, venture capital investor, and (your new favorite?) interrogator behind Founders in Motion.New episodes every Thursday.