Startup Success: A Podcast for Founders & Investors

Kate Adams

jhui@burklandassociates.com

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Booking Overview

This show connects startup founders and investors with practical, current strategies across fundraising, hiring, go-to-market, and operations. It’s especially valuable for AI and capital-stage guests who can share hard lessons on what investors look for and how to scale responsibly.

Metrics

Episodes: 147

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 135 subscribers

Instagram: 125 followers

Contact Information

jhui@burklandassociates.com

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Host

Kate Adams - Host who interviews startup and investor guests. The episodes include a callout to “Stay connected with our host, Kate Adams, here on LinkedIn,” but no additional bio details are provided in the su...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Founder and/or investor leaders with firsthand experience in scaling companies, especially in technology/AI; may include growth equity partners and people with startup ecosystem credibility (e.g., operating background, prior investing/advisory experience).
Required Achievements:  
Founded and scaled a technology startup, Closed funding or advised/partnered in venture/growth investing, Held senior roles at major tech firms or in prominent professional environments (e.g., investment, consulting, research/academia, policy)

Recent Guest Discussions

Ahmed Rashad - Building And Selling An AI Startup; The AI Data Gap; Importance Of VC Partner; Founder Delegation; Keeping Investors Engaged

Jonathan Aberman - AI Bubble Impact On Fundraising; Fundraising Vs Validation; Signal Collapse; Measuring Original Intelligence

Jim Ferry - What Investors Look For In The AI Era; Pitch Deck Mistakes; Fundraising Bar Changes; Building Defensible Moats

Recent Topics

Venture Capital, Fundraising, Entrepreneurship, Startup Finance, Personal Growth

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Startup Success: A Podcast for Founders & Investors
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Lessons From the Front Lines of Building an AI Startup

June 16, 2026

Ahmed Rashad started his career on an oil rig, taught himself to code, and went on to build and sell a company. After stops at Oracle, MIT, McKinsey, Amazon, and Scale AI, he founded Perle to solve a problem he kept running into: the AI data gap.Perle builds specialized training data for AI models in fields like medicine and linguistics — the niche areas where general AI struggles.Despite the anxiety around AI, Ahmed believes the upside far outweighs today’s disruption. Faster development doe...

Beyond the AI Bubble: What Founders Need to Know Now

June 02, 2026

Jonathan Aberman has seen the startup world from nearly every angle: VC lawyer, investor, business school dean, and innovation policy advisor. Now he's a founder himself, building Hupside, an AI company focused on measuring "original intelligence."That 360-degree perspective of the startup ecosystem makes his take on the current AI moment especially valuable. The market is noisy. Capital is concentrating. Investors are excited, skeptical, and cautious at the same time. AI tools are making it ...

What Investors Look for in the AI Era

May 19, 2026

What does it actually take to be investment-ready in today's market? In this episode, Kate sits down with Jim Ferry, Partner at Volition Capital, a growth equity firm known for backing high-growth, founder-owned, capital-efficient businesses.Jim reveals what he looks for in a founding team, the most common mistakes he sees in pitch decks, and how the bar for raising capital has changed in the age of AI. He also explains how his firm is building AI fluency internally — and why the "defensible ...

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