Something New

Nov 12 2024 35 ep. 60 mins 5
Something New Podcast artwork

Hosts Steph Mui (Founder and CEO @ PIN) and Leeor Mushin (Cofounder and GP @ Formation) are obsessed with the process of starting "Something New". From Andy Dunn to Corporate Bro, and everyone in between, join them as they learn about the tips, tricks, and tactics from the people who make it happen. Think "How I Built This" but less "Guy Raz" and more "Guy Rizz."

  Business  Technology
RSS feed Share
Copy RSS


Subscribe on Podcast Addict


#35 From Small-Town Dreamer to Silicon Valley Disruptor: Andrej Safundzic’s Journey with Lumos

Nov 12 2024 67 mins  
Ever wondered how someone goes from hosting festivals in a tiny German village to making waves in Silicon Valley’s tech scene? Golden Retriever energy. Ok not entirely, but still. This week on Something New, Steph and Leeor chat with Andrej Safundzic, the visionary founder of Lumos. With a life motto of “Screw it, just do it,” Andrej has built a career defined by bold decisio

#34: Building a Social App for the AI Era with Michael Sayman

Oct 29 2024 62 mins  
What if social media interactions were exclusively powered by AI? This week on Something New, Steph and Leeor talk with Michael Sayman, a social media prodigy and founder of Social AI, an innovative platform where AI personalities engage users in place of traditional social connections. Michael, who started his career at Facebook as a teenager, shares how his journey through the te

#33: Supporting Youth Mental Health Through Peer Mentorship with Patrick Gilligan from Something

Oct 22 2024 69 mins  
What happens when peer mentorship meets mental health care? This week on Something New, Steph and Leeor sit down with Patrick Gilligan, founder of Somethings, a mental health startup aimed at providing peer support to teens. Patrick shares his personal journey of overcoming mental health challenges and explains how it led him to create a platform that offers teens a relatable and a

#32 How to build mission first: an app for 2 billion Christians

Oct 15 2024 62 mins  
What happens when tech meets spirituality? This week on "Something New," Steph and Leeor talk to Alex Jones, the founder of Hallow—an app changing how millions of people connect with their faith. Hallow started as part of Alex's personal journey to reconnect with his faith but quickly became the world's leading Christian app. Alex explains how he realized that a startup was the p

#31: Building a Coffee Empire with Jacob Jaber of Philz Coffee & Viral Stunts with Joel Lowinger of Human Fountains

Oct 08 2024 64 mins  
What do the Bellagio fountain, America’s Got Talent, and spitting into each other’s mouths have to do with coffee? Well, apparently a lot. In this week’s episode of Something New, we kick things off with a special appearance from Joel Lowinger, Leeor’s former co-founder and the founder of Human Fountains, who shares how his quirky, viral act landed him on America’s Got Ta

#30 From Film to Tech: Mike Rosenthal on Storytelling, Travel, and Building a Startup

Oct 01 2024 64 mins  
Get ready for a fascinating episode of Something New, where we sit down with Mike Rosenthal, co-founder of It’s Good, and learn about his unconventional journey from director and photographer in the film industry to founding a travel-tech startup. Mike’s story is full of twists and turns, from working on America’s Next Top Model to building a platform that curates personalize

#29 How to build defense tech companies: Zane Mountcastle Talks Picogrid, Defense Tech Innovation, and the Rise of "The Gundo" in El Segundo, California

Sep 24 2024 68 mins  
Strap in for this week’s episode of Something New as we head behind the scenes with Zane Mountcastle, CEO of Picogrid, who’s transforming how the military integrates technology. Zane’s team is developing platforms that make sure different systems can actually work together, and they’re about to launch an open API that could reshape the future of defence innovation. Zane als

#28: How even your biggest critics can become your greatest allies with Niels Hoven

Sep 17 2024 69 mins  
Few things are more satisfying than turning lemons into lemonade, and Niels Hoven is here to spill the tea on how even your biggest critics can become your greatest allies. In March 2024, a mysterious “Emily” attempted to cancel Niels’ company, Mentava, with a tweet that ultimately got 1.4M impressions. However, to Niels’ credit, that ultimately motivated him and his team t

#27: How to Turn Crisis Into Opportunity with Don Muir

Dec 04 2023 56 mins  
Few people have made the leap from traditional investment banking and private equity to fintech in recent years as well as Don Muir, the co-founder and CEO at Arc. Founded in 2021 as a digitally native corporate banking platform, Arc has been on mission to disrupt the the traditional financial services space for the tech ecosystem, persevering through the Silicon Valley Bank meltdo

#26: How to Survive 531 Investors' No's with Mateo Vega-Sanz

Nov 27 2023 57 mins  
Mateo Vega-Sanz learned from an early age that he needed to be scrappy to be successful. As a student at Babson College in Massachusetts he taught himself to code and then dropped out of school to co-found LULARides, a peer-to-peer car sharing app for college students that picked up members on more than 500 campuses nationwide within the first five months. When the COVID-19 pandemi