Knuckle Up with Nakul

Q: How do I get in touch with Knuckle Up with Nakul?

Knuckle Up with Nakul is hosted by Nakul Mandan. Its publicly listed email is admin@supermix.io. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.

Q: What is the email for Knuckle Up with Nakul?

The publicly listed email for Knuckle Up with Nakul: admin@supermix.io.

Q: How many listeners does Knuckle Up with Nakul have?

Podseeker estimates Knuckle Up with Nakul reaches fewer than 100 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Q: Who is an ideal guest for Knuckle Up with Nakul?

Knuckle Up with Nakul typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Founders and CEOs of highly scaled, venture-backed technology companies, typically with substantial funding, significant valuations, major customer traction, or a distinctive record of building and operating companies. Common among recent guests: Building companies valued in the billions of dollars; Raising major venture-capital rounds; Scaling technology companies from early stage to hundreds or thousands of employees. Recent guests include David Paffenholz, Arvind Jain, and Guillermo Rauch.

Q: How hard is it to get booked on Knuckle Up with Nakul?

Very high. It mostly books well-known names.

Q: What topics does Knuckle Up with Nakul cover?

Recent episodes cover Business, Entrepreneurship, Scaling, Leadership, and Recruiting. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

Nakul Mandan

Booking Overview

This is an interview show focused on company building, founder psychology, recruiting, culture, and operating practices, featuring high-profile technology founders and CEOs. Credible candidates include founders and senior operators of highly scaled, venture-backed companies—especially in AI, enterprise software, recruiting, infrastructure, and other technology sectors—but the caliber of recent guests makes booking difficulty very high.

Metrics

Episodes: 15

Frequency: Every two weeks

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: < 100

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

admin@supermix.io

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Host

Nakul Mandan - General partner at Audacious Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

very_high

Typical Credentials:

Founders and CEOs of highly scaled, venture-backed technology companies, typically with substantial funding, significant valuations, major customer traction, or a distinctive record of building and operating companies.

Required Achievements:

Building companies valued in the billions of dollars, Raising major venture-capital rounds, Scaling technology companies from early stage to hundreds or thousands of employees, Developing notable products or infrastructure used by major companies, Leading significant company transformations or new business launches

Recent Guest Discussions

David Paffenholz - Ai-native Recruiting, Employee Retention, Intense Company Culture, Autonomy, Organizational Design, And Scaling From A Three-person Startup To Roughly 90 Employees.

Arvind Jain - Enterprise AI, Context And Intelligence Layers, AI Agents, Workforce Transformation, Product Strategy, And Operating An Ai-native Company At Scale.

Guillermo Rauch - Founder-led Management, Recursive Founder Mode, Hiring, Company Culture, AI Agents, Engineering Leadership, Urgency, And Scaling A Technology Company.

Will Bryk - Building AI Search Infrastructure, Company Culture, Hiring, Process Avoidance, Shipping Velocity, Founder Intensity, And Competing With Major Technology Companies.

Garrett Lord - Refounding A Company, Launching A New Business Inside An Established Company, Organizational Change, Hiring And Retention, Operating Intensity, And Rapid Scaling.

Recent Topics

Business, Entrepreneurship, Scaling, Leadership, Recruiting

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Knuckle Up with Nakul

How Railway says no to 90% of ideas and keeps winning | Jake Cooper (Founder, CEO)

October 13, 2026

Jake Cooper never set out to start a company. After leaving Uber in 2020, he put together a box of databases for his own side projects, kept coming back to it, and eventually posted it on Twitter asking who he should talk to about a job working on it. He got no job offers, just a few angel checks. That side project became Railway, the cloud platform now used by millions of developers, and Jake still runs it as a solo founder.Railway is run by around 40 people and is closing in on $100 million...

How Juicebox is building for the AI talent war | David Paffenholz (CEO)

September 22, 2026

David Paffenholz says Juicebox has not lost a single employee in two years, at a company that has grown from three people to ninety. He credits it to a formula: independence, visible impact, and real equity, what he calls the preconditions for a place where someone feels they can do their life’s work. That formula sits inside a deliberately intense culture: five days a week in the office, no exceptions, but explicitly not 996.Paffenholz co-founded the company in 2022 with Ishan Gupta, first a...

$7B AI founder: "AI is not capable of replacing you right now"

September 09, 2026

In 2024, OpenAI asked its own investors to avoid funding five companies it saw as competitive threats: Anthropic, Elon Musk's xAI, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, the search engine Perplexity, and one enterprise AI company, Glean. Arvind Jain built Glean after a decade as a distinguished engineer at Google and after co-founding the data security company Rubrik, starting it in 2019, years before most of the world had heard of generative AI.–Glean is now valued at $7.2 billion, generat...

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Frequently asked questions

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Knuckle Up with Nakul

How do I get in touch with Knuckle Up with Nakul?

Knuckle Up with Nakul is hosted by Nakul Mandan. Its publicly listed email is admin@supermix.io. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.

What is the email for Knuckle Up with Nakul?

The publicly listed email for Knuckle Up with Nakul: admin@supermix.io.

How many listeners does Knuckle Up with Nakul have?

Podseeker estimates Knuckle Up with Nakul reaches fewer than 100 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Who is an ideal guest for Knuckle Up with Nakul?

Knuckle Up with Nakul typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Founders and CEOs of highly scaled, venture-backed technology companies, typically with substantial funding, significant valuations, major customer traction, or a distinctive record of building and operating companies. Common among recent guests: Building companies valued in the billions of dollars; Raising major venture-capital rounds; Scaling technology companies from early stage to hundreds or thousands of employees. Recent guests include David Paffenholz, Arvind Jain, and Guillermo Rauch.

How hard is it to get booked on Knuckle Up with Nakul?

Very high. It mostly books well-known names.

What topics does Knuckle Up with Nakul cover?

Recent episodes cover Business, Entrepreneurship, Scaling, Leadership, and Recruiting. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

Publicly listed emails

admin@supermix.io

Looking for the right person? Join Podseeker to find direct host and producer contacts and manage your podcast outreach.

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