From Start-Up to Grown-Up

Alisa Cohn
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Booking Overview

A leadership-and-growth startup show where Alisa Cohn interviews founders and operators about what it really takes to mature a business—from identity and leadership to sales, community, and scaling. Great booking value for PR teams targeting credible startup executives who can share practical, high-signal lessons from scaling stages.

Metrics

Episodes: 119, Frequency: Irregular, Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k, Gender skew: Female, Location: USA
Instagram: 29.0k followers
30s Ad: 45 - 54, 60s Ad: 52 - 62, CPM Category: Business

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Description

Host

Alisa Cohn - Startup coach and author of From Start-Up to Grown-Up, focused on helping founders and builders grow from early-stage ventures into mature, sustainable companies. Leads interviews with founders, cr...

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Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Technology and venture founders/CEOs (often with meaningful traction such as exits, category leadership, or widely discussed AI/product companies), plus senior operators/advisors/investors who have scalable frameworks to share about growth-stage challenges.
Required Achievements:  
Founder/CEO of a scaling startup or established venture-backed company, Notable product/platform recognition (e.g., widely discussed AI companies or community platforms), High-impact outcomes such as acquisition/major fundraising or durable growth/retention results, Published frameworks, books, or public thought leadership on scaling and leadership

Recent Guest Discussions

Jyoti Bansal - Founder Identity After Exit; Ai-driven Competitive Strategy; Sales And Go-to-market Scaling; Leadership And Operating Frameworks. Gina Bianchini - Community Vs Audience/content; Retention And Engagement Frameworks; Community Structure And Leadership Energy. Tanay Kothari - Leadership Under Pressure; Vision Vs Execution; Decision-making Frameworks; Managing Layoffs And Trust; Scaling Teams In Ai-first Environments.

Recent Topics

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Startup Growth, Scaling, Go To Market, Community, Sales, Product Strategy, Investing, Organizational Behavior

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
From Start-Up to Grown-Up
:

118: Josh Reeves, Co-Founder and CEO of Gusto, The 3-Part Alignment Framework Every Founder Needs Before Their Next Hire [ENCORE]

May 18, 2026

What if you have been hiring wrong this entire time?In this episode, Josh Reeves, Co-Founder and CEO of Gusto, a $10B people platform serving over 300,000 businesses, joins Alisa Cohn for one of the most practical and deeply human conversations about building teams that actually work.This is not a generic leadership talk. This is a masterclass in how to hire people who genuinely care, how to scale a values-driven culture without losing it, and how to lead through the kind of uncertainty that ...

117: Jyoti Bansal, Two-Time Founder, How to Win the AI Race Before Your Competitors Catch Up

May 04, 2026

What happens after you “make it”… and realize money was never the point?In this episode, Jyoti Bansal, Founder & CEO of Harness and founder of AppDynamics (sold for $3.7B), sits down with Alisa Cohn for a conversation that cuts deeper than typical startup playbooks.This is not just about building companies. It’s about what happens when the finish line disappears… and you have to decide who you are without it.Jyoti shares the unexpected identity crisis that hit after his exit, why he chose...

116: Gina Bianchini, Founder of Mighty Networks, Stop Building an Audience. Build Community Instead [ENCORE]

April 20, 2026

What if the thing you’ve been told to build… isn’t the thing that actually creates results?In this encore episode, Gina Bianchini joins Alisa Cohn to break down why community, not content, not audience size, not algorithms, is the real driver of transformation, retention, and long-term business growth.This conversation goes far beyond theory. It’s a masterclass in how communities actually work, why most founders get it wrong, and what it really takes to build something people don’t just follo...

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