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Startup Dad

Adam Fishman

Adam Fishman (author of a top business newsletter on Substack with 11K+ subscribers) interviews executives, entrepreneurs, and company leaders in technology companies who are also fathers. They discuss the tough aspects of work, parenting, family, the mistakes made and lessons learned along the way. All episodes at www.startupdadpod.com.

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165 episodes

  1. What Is Maternal Gatekeeping? | Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan (Mom of 1, Ohio State) 1:25:31
  2. I Quit My 7-Figure Job To Take Back My Time | Peter Yang (Dad of 2, Behind The Craft) 1:02:54
  3. Build an AI-Powered Parent OS | Aakash Gupta (Dad of 2, Author/Podcast Host) 1:08:37
  4. Why I Stepped Down to Spend More Time With My Son | Ankit Gupta (Dad of 1, Founder of Bicycle Health) 1:20:52
  5. Why Dads Want to Do More at Home—but Still Don’t | Brad Harrington (Dad of 3, Work-Family Scholar) 1:23:56
  6. He Trained a Trillion-Parameter Model on Dad Jokes for $200 | Adam Grenier (Dad of 3, AI Matey) 1:13:17
  7. Our Screen Time Fear Misses the Evidence | Jackie Nesi (Mom of 3, Brown Professor, Techno Sapiens) 1:05:11
  8. The Founder Habit That Backfires At Home | Harry Roegiers (Dad of 3, Founder of Stuntpony) 1:01:45
  9. What Happens When Parents Stop Hovering | Dirk Doebler (Dad of 1, Parento Leave) 56:53
  10. Your Kids Are Smarter Than You. Let Them Govern Themselves. | Matt Fairbanks (Dad of 4, CMO at Island) 1:08:36
  11. The New Fatherhood: What Modern Dads Need Instead | Kevin Maguire (Dad of 2, Author) 1:15:20
  12. AI Has Changed The Summer Job Playbook | Ghazi Masood (Dad of 2, CRO of Replit) 53:15
  13. We Drove Through the Night to Meet Our Daughter | Matt Korn (Dad of 4, Founder of Dad Esquire) 1:16:29
  14. Did I F*ck Up Already?” My First 24 Hours as a Dad | Zach Jaffe (Dad of 1, Create Music Group) 1:16:11
  15. From TBS’s My Boys to Stay-at-Home Dad | Jamie Kaler (Dad of 2, Actor and Comedian) 1:20:11
  16. Cotopaxi Founder: How I Built A Values-First Company And Family | Davis Smith (Dad of 4) 48:26
  17. Science of Reading: Teach Any Kid to Read | Matt Pasternack (Dad of 3, Once) 1:07:38
  18. 40 Kid Emails a Week. So I Built a Bot | David Reich (Dad of 3, Founder/CEO of Fambot) 1:14:29
  19. The Bar for 'Involved Dads' Is Embarrassingly Low | Richard Petts (Dad of 2, Associate Dean at Ball State University) 1:11:31
  20. Everything Is Trivial After Infant CPR | Ben Norment (Dad of 3, Founder/CEO of Stork Exchange) 55:19
  21. Dad Bods, Brains and Testosterone | Darby Saxbe (Mom of 2, Author and Professor at USC) 1:30:40
  22. I Use Hostage Negotiation Tactics With My Daughter | Walter Velazquez Taboada (Dad of 2, Architect at Winning by Design) 1:01:02
  23. What 7 Kids Taught Me About Letting Go | Nate Quigley (Dad of 7, Co-founder/CEO of Chatbooks) 53:54
  24. “Kids Expose Wasted Motion” | Gabe Larsen (Dad of 5, CRO of Atonom) 52:45
  25. My Mom Interviews Famous People; Dad Coaches Baseball | Jonathan Stull (Dad of 4, COO of Handshake) 52:21
  26. “Stop Making Kids Your Trophy” | Ashish Kundra (Dad of 1, CEO of Conceptual) 46:34
  27. AI Is Failing Kids and This Founder Will Fix It | Robert Whitney (Dad of 1, Co-founder/CTO of Stickerbox) 1:01:09
  28. Either the Kids Suck or the Parents Suck | Caleb Avery (Dad of 3, Founder of Tilled) 1:02:30
  29. How to Not Raise Entitled Kids | Sam Yagan (Dad of 3, OkCupid & Match Group) 53:21
  30. New Dads: Stop Fighting The Change | Rex Gelb (Dad of 1, Summit Chase) 48:36
  31. Family First Is Harder Than It Sounds | Jesse Randall (Dad of 5, Sweater Ventures) 1:02:21
  32. Parenting Through Projectile Vomit | Mike Rome (Dad of 3, moonwater) 1:09:54
  33. This Working Mom and Stay-At-Home Dad Flipped The Script on Parenting | Amy and Chris Winther (Parents of 3, Square, Stay-at-home Dad) 1:05:08
  34. Startups Are BETTER for Parents Than Big Tech | Jacob Bank (Dad of 3, Founder at Relay.app, ex-Google) 1:07:37
  35. Move the Ball Forward: A COO Dad's Framework | Amit Shah (Dad of 2, Virta Health) 58:34
  36. Being a Dad at Two Hypergrowth AI Startups | Lee Robinson (Dad of 1, Cursor) 1:00:21
  37. Stop Being A Boring Dad | Pranav Piyush (Dad of 2, Paramark) 58:01
  38. Building Meaningful Connections | Jason Smith (Dad of 2, Klue) 1:05:41
  39. Finding Peace in the Dopamine Desert | Dr. Emilio Galán (Dad of 2, Founder turned Stay-At-Home-Dad) 1:05:57
  40. Homeschooling My Kids Across 21 Countries | Michael Goodbody (Dad of 2, Robinhood) 1:07:38
  41. Founding A Company As A Single Dad | Andrew Song (Dad of 2, Make Sunsets) 52:36
  42. What 46 Dads Taught Me About Modern Fatherhood | Best of 2025 (Startup Dad Recap) 56:40
  43. The Hidden Benefits of Raising Kids in NYC | Dan Borok (Dad of 2, nvp capital) 48:59
  44. 10,000 Independent Decisions | Oji Udezue (Dad of 2, Author, Typeform, Calendly, Twitter) 54:37
  45. The Mental Workload of Family Life | Allison Daminger (Mom of 1, Author & Sociologist) 1:31:34
  46. 12 Parenting Rules and Frameworks | Jamie Nacht (Dad of 2, Co-founder & CEO of Havium) 1:05:29
  47. Modern Parenting Rules with David Simnick CEO of Soapbox | Dad of 1 48:33
  48. Parenting in face of Technology with Tech CEO Chet Kittleson at TinCan | Dad of 3 59:13
  49. Learning the Hard Way as a Single Parent with Colin Anawaty, CPO | Dad of 2 59:11
  50. How to Make Screentime Actually Work for Your Family with Chad Pytel | Dad of 2 46:04