If you're a bootstrapped or indie founder
For founders running capital-efficient or independent software businesses. Indie Hackers and Default Alive for the explicit bootstrapped lens; SaaStr and Lenny's Podcast for the broader B2B SaaS operating playbook when it's applicable; The Knowledge Project to keep the thinking sharp.
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Indie Hackers
Courtland Allen
Interviews with bootstrapped and indie founders, the antidote to venture-backed-only podcast diets.
Listen if you you're a bootstrapped or indie founder and want peers on the mic, not VCs.
interviewirregular30–60m - 02
Default Alive
Mike Vacanti · Tyler Tringas
Capital-efficient founder conversations, the explicit anti-blitzscaling pitch told from the operating chair.
Listen if you you're building a capital-efficient SaaS and want peer conversations.
interviewweekly30–60m - 03
SaaStr
Jason Lemkin · Harry Stebbings
B2B SaaS-specific founder and operator conversations from the SaaStr conference team, longer-running and tighter on B2B than the general founder shows.
Listen if you you're an operator or founder at a B2B SaaS company.
interviewweekly30–60m - 04
Lenny's Podcast
PickLenny Rachitsky
Long, structured interviews with operators about the craft of building product.
Listen if you build product or growth at a venture-backed SaaS company.
interviewweekly60m+ - 05
The Knowledge Project
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish interviews thinkers about mental models, decision-making, and applied wisdom rather than industry mechanics.
Listen if you you read Farnam Street or are interested in mental models and meta-cognition.
interviewbiweekly60m+