What are your favorite business and startup podcasts?
I genuinely love listening to podcasts. It's one of the best ways I've found to stay on top of new trends, pick up strategies I wouldn't have discovered otherwise, and come across founders and operators I'd never stumble on through regular reading.
So I'm always on the lookout for new ones worth adding to the rotation.
Right now my two favorites are Lenny's Podcast and Greg Isenberg's show. Both go deep" not surface-level takes, but real conversations with real depth. The kind where you finish an episode and immediately want to apply something to what you're working on.
Lenny tends to go deep on product, growth, and what actually moves the needle for startups. Greg brings a sharp lens on trends, community, and the business of building in public. Both feel current in a way that a lot of podcasts don't.
So I'm curious:
Which business or startup podcasts are you listening to right now?
Any hidden gems that don't get enough attention?
And is there a specific episode that genuinely changed how you think about something?
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ZeroHuman.
@moh_codokiai Yeah, I have that problem too. The ideas repeat way too often. That’s why I’m looking for hidden gems.
I love the Podcase by Raj Shamani he has really cool guests, the insights there are quite intensive!
ZeroHuman.
@nayan_surya98 never heard of this! Will take a look!
Thank you Nayan!
I enjoy listening to the UpFlip Podcast (very interesting stories on smaller companies and successful founders) and Acquired (cool, detailed breakdowns on large companies that have already made it).
ZeroHuman.
@rohan_108 never heard about the UpFlipPodcast! Seems really interesting!
Аctually, do you know any podcasts focused on buying and selling digital businesses? It would be really cool if there are ones specifically about startups that launched on Product Hunt and then sold their business thanks to the launch (I mean months later).
@byalexai Check out Empire Flippers too - good podcast on buying / selling online businesses.
I used to listen to My First Million a lot. Then like all podcasts, it starts to make me feel that I have more than I need to know - I just need to spend more time building. haha.
Solid picks, but Acquired is on another level. The depth they go into on companies like Nvidia or LVMH is unmatched. If you haven't listened to it yet, you are leaving serious knowledge on the table.
Most business podcasts are just noise… but a few actually shift your mindset.
For me: My First Million & The Diary of a CEO
What’s one podcast that made you think differently about money, startups, or life?
For anyone building dev tools or AI products, these are the ones I keep coming back to:
Lenny's Podcast — best product/growth content. His interviews with founders who actually built things (not just raised money) are gold.
Latent Space — if you're in the AI/ML space, this is required listening. Deep technical conversations about what's actually working vs. what's hype.
The Changelog — open source and developer ecosystem. Great for understanding where the industry is heading.
Indie Hackers Podcast — real numbers, real struggles, real revenue. No vanity metrics.
The pattern I've noticed: the best podcasts for builders are the ones that focus on decisions and trade-offs, not just success stories. Learning why someone chose X over Y is way more useful than hearing "we grew to $1M ARR."
Not a podcast person, honestly. But I have been getting a lot from build-in-public YouTube channels lately. Watching founders document the actual process, mistakes included, teaches differently than a polished interview.
Hidden gem: founders documenting their journey on YouTube before they have an audience. The early episodes are usually the most honest.
Tabstack
definitely @jackbridger's Scaling DevTools, featuring the founders of @Supabase, @Vercel, @WorkOS and 100 more...
Hello Aria
Big fan of My First Million for the idea generation energy, and Lenny's Podcast for the product and growth depth. For AI-specific thinking, I have been listening to No Priors a lot lately - really sharp guests. One underrated one: Invest Like the Best when they do founder episodes. As someone building Hello Aria (AI daily assistant via WhatsApp and iOS), I also find a lot of value in older Tim Ferriss episodes with operators - the founder mindset stuff ages well. The problem is I have more podcasts in my queue than I have walks or commutes. Curious if anyone has cracked how to actually finish episodes without letting the queue grow 3x faster than you consume.