Grit Daily Startup Show Podcast


Startup Show
on July 8, 2026

Tom Sosnoff on Why Knowing Your Worth Changes Your Leverage

The average worker may leave millions of dollars on the table over the course of a career without ever realizing it. Tom Sosnoff believes the problem begins with information. Employers have compensation data, internal pay ranges, hiring teams, and market comparisons. Senior executives have boards and compensation committees studying what comparable leaders earn. The average […]

Startup Show
on July 7, 2026

Abbas Mohammed on Why Better Talent Beats Doing Everything Yourself

Abbas Mohammed built his first million-dollar business by discovering a limit most entrepreneurs eventually encounter: there are only so many hours a founder can work. At 18, Mohammed left college and entered real estate. By 19, he was earning roughly $350,000 a year, but the results came from an unsustainable schedule of 16-hour days, seven […]

Startup Show
on July 7, 2026

Ari Rastegar on Failure, AI, and the Next Investment Era

Ari Rastegar sees the current business landscape as more than a market shift. To him, it is a structural reset. The founder of Rastegar Capital has built his reputation in real estate, investing, and market commentary, earning recognition as Forbes’ “Oracle of Austin.” But his view of the future now extends well beyond one asset […]

Startup Show
on June 25, 2026

Suzy and the Substitutes Bring a Classic Rock Message Into the 21st Century

Suzy and the Substitutes is a name that says a lot about the project before the first note plays. The name came partly from necessity. Suzy originally wanted to record simply as Suzy, but the search results were crowded, and nearly every usable name seemed taken. More importantly, the name reflected the way the music […]

Startup Show
on June 24, 2026

The Human Side of Better Travel with Mimmo Cricchio

Mimmo Cricchio did not enter travel through a traditional agency path. His story began in the restaurant business, where his family operated Da Mimmo Restaurant in Baltimore’s Little Italy for decades and built the kind of community trust that often becomes the foundation for other opportunities. The travel business grew naturally from that world. Guests […]

Startup Show
on June 24, 2026

Vedaprabhu Basavarajappa Is Building the RF Fabric for a More Connected World

Dr. Vedaprabhu Basavarajappa’s work begins with something most people depend on every day but rarely stop to think about: radio frequency technology. RF sits behind much of modern life. It helps phones connect, networks communicate, satellites transmit, and wireless systems function across distance. For Basavarajappa, founder and CEO of Beam Grid, that technology is not […]

Startup Show
on June 2, 2026

Pierre Aurimond Wants Flexmode to Make Networking Feel Human Again

Professional networking has started to feel broken in a very specific way. There are more apps than ever, more events than ever, and more ways to message people than ever, yet many young professionals still find it difficult to build the kind of real relationships that actually last. A lot of the usual spaces feel […]

Startup Show
on May 18, 2026

Janese Murray Is Helping Women of Color Stop Waiting to Be Noticed at Work

For many high-achieving professionals, the old advice was simple: work hard, keep your head down, and eventually someone will notice. Janese Murray knows how limiting that advice can be. As the founder of Inclusion Impact Consulting, Murray works with women of color navigating corporate spaces where performance alone is rarely enough to advance. Being good […]

Startup Show
on May 18, 2026

How Brian Fielkow Built Companies Where Safety Became a Competitive Advantage

Brian Fielkow spent much of his career in industries where mistakes carry immediate consequences. Trucking, logistics, waste management, and risk-heavy operations do not leave much room for theoretical leadership ideas. Failures show up in damaged equipment, injured workers, broken customer trust, and financial losses that move beyond spreadsheets very quickly. But the lesson Fielkow carried […]

Startup Show
on May 5, 2026

Anthony Vinci on Turning Uncertainty Into Decisions With AI Forecasting

Anthony Vinci doesn’t talk about prediction as a crystal ball. He talks about it as a discipline. Before founding Vico, Vinci spent years working as an intelligence officer, collecting information to help leaders make decisions where the cost of being wrong could be severe. Later, as an investor, the stakes shifted, but the core problem […]

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