Founder Storiez

Ephraim Yarmak

Booking Overview

This is an entrepreneur interview show focused on candid founder journeys, business lessons, technology leadership, and venture investing, typically featuring startup founders, senior technology executives, and investors. Credible pitches include accomplished founders, technology or cybersecurity leaders, and venture capitalists with notable company-building, exits, investments, or personal leadership stories; booking difficulty is high because recent guests have held senior roles at prominent technology companies and investment firms.

Metrics

Episodes: 128

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

ephraimyarmak@gmail.com

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Host

Ephraim Yarmak - Host and interviewer focused on candid conversations with entrepreneurs about their experiences, challenges, decisions, and lessons from building companies.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Startup founders, senior technology or cybersecurity executives, and venture capital investors with substantial operating, investing, or company-building experience.
Required Achievements:  
Founded, sold, or led a technology company, Held senior roles at prominent technology companies, Made notable venture investments, Built expertise in cybersecurity, venture capital, or startup leadership

Recent Guest Discussions

Israel Duanis - Founder Loneliness, Turning Down A Seven-figure Deal, Co-founder Relationships, Family Costs, Motivation, Comparison, And Identity Security For AI Agents.

Erica Brescia - Founder And Investor Decision-making, Venture Capital, Major Technology Deals, Motherhood, Resilience, Trusting Instincts, And Hiring For Emotional Intelligence.

Steve Ward - Cybersecurity, Venture Investing, Ambition, Impostor Feelings, Family, Mentorship, Founder Evaluation, Leadership, And Redefining Success.

Recent Topics

Entrepreneurship, Startups, Venture Capital, Technology, Leadership

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Founder Storiez
:

Israel Duanis (CEO, Linx Security) The Loneliness of Building a Company, Saying No to 7 Figures & the Drive to Prove Yourself

July 21, 2026

Israel Duanis sold his first company, then started Linx Security, an identity security platform for the AI-agent era. This conversation is the honest version of the founder journey: the loneliness of every decision, why he turned down a seven-figure deal, building with a co-founder he's known for 23 years, the family cost, and the restless drive to "prove something to someone." Plus why identity is the security battleground of the AI era.   A raw, personal conversation for anyone building or ...

Erica Brescia: From Founder to GitHub COO to VC | Grit, Guilt & Trusting Your Gut

June 17, 2026

Erica Brescia has done it all in tech: she founded and sold Bitnami, served as COO of GitHub during the launch of Copilot, and is now a Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures, where she decides which startup founders get funded.  In this episode of Founder Stories, Erica shares how she closed a $2.7M deal with Microsoft just days after giving birth, drove to her Y Combinator interview with a two-week-old, and the "chip on the shoulder" she now looks for in every founder she backs. It's an hon...

Secret Service, Wiz & The Money That Was For His Son | Steve Ward, BrightMind

June 04, 2026

Steve Ward has been a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, a Secret Service agent who ran one of the first computer-network wiretaps in U.S. history, the CISO of Home Depot, a partner at Insight Partners, and an early backer of Wiz,  Abnormal and a dozen others . Today he runs his own cyber venture fund, Bright Mind — named after his son.  But this isn’t a victory lap. Steve talks openly about the engine underneath all of it: a relentless feeling that he doesn’t belong and doesn’t deserve what he’s ac...

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