A podcast for founders, investors, and the people building what comes next.

Every episode is a conversation with someone leading an organization in AI, robotics, biotech, energy, finance, healthcare, manufacturing and more, usually while the work is still ahead of mainstream attention. They run venture-backed startups, national nonprofits, third-generation family manufacturers and single-location neighbourhood businesses. These are people worth knowing before everyone knows them, talking to other founders about what they are actually building.

The subject underneath all of it is growth. How an emerging brand earns authority in its market, what that takes in practice, and the one thing each guest needs most right now to get there. Hosted by Caleb Pedosiuk of 79 Development. Every episode below carries a full, readable transcript.

34 EPISODES

• EP. 035 Why This VC Runs Fourteen Small Funds Instead of One Big One Andrew Batey · Beatdapp and Side Door Ventures · Sep 2026 For emerging fund managers and LPs, music industry and streaming platforms, and founders raising from a fund built differently.
• EP. 034 How 3D Bioprinting Replaces Animal Testing in Drug Discovery Stephanie Willerth · Axolotl Biosciences · Sep 2026 For biotech and life sciences founders, drug discovery researchers, and academics commercializing their own work.
• EP. 033 How to Buy and Run a Manufacturer Through a Tariff Shock Liohn Sherer · Ideal Security · Sep 2026 For manufacturers, search fund and acquisition buyers, and operators running a business through a trade shock.
• EP. 032 How Many Real Decisions a Leader Actually Makes in a Year Derek Wilder · Hallmark Homes · Sep 2026 For CEOs and senior leaders who want to spend their judgment on the handful of decisions that actually carry the year.
• EP. 031 Why Booking a Speaker Is a Behaviour Change Problem Martin Perelmuter · Speakers' Spotlight · Aug 2026 For professional speakers, event and conference organizers, and experts building a platform around a message.
• EP. 030 Why Meetings Are the Work, and How to Fix Them Mark Barbir · earmark · Aug 2026 For product managers, enterprise SaaS teams, and founders putting AI agents into workflows people already use.
• EP. 029 How to Decide Which Growth Work Deserves to Be Done Laura Patterson · VisionEdge Marketing · Aug 2026 For B2B marketing leaders and CMOs, and founders deciding which growth work is actually worth funding.
• EP. 028 What Survived the Clean Tech Collapse Ben Klepacki · WestGen Technologies · Aug 2026 For energy and clean tech founders, investors reading the market after the correction, and defence and dual-use technology teams.
• EP. 027 What Combat Sports Teach Founders About Emotional Control Max Reck · Sylo · Aug 2026 For health tech and consumer app founders, athletes and coaches, and leaders who perform under real pressure.
• EP. 026 How Lenders Actually Assess Small Business Risk Juana Attieh · AMLOK · Aug 2026 For lenders and credit teams, fintech founders, and small business owners who want to understand how they are actually underwritten.
• EP. 025 How Class Action Settlements Actually Reach People Scott Hardy · Top Class Actions · Aug 2026 For legal marketers, publishers whose business depends on organic search, and consumer advocates reaching people who are owed money.
• EP. 024 How Bitcoin Fits Into Generational Wealth Planning Brandon Karpeles · Sovreign · Aug 2026 For bitcoin and digital asset holders, financial educators, and families planning wealth that has to survive a generation.
• EP. 023 How to Keep AI-Generated Content Sounding Human Matt Blumberg · Markup AI · Aug 2026 For marketing and content leaders, enterprise AI buyers, and brand teams governing voice and compliance at scale.
• EP. 022 How a Physical Product Startup Gets Into Retail Sean Rana · BagEZ · Aug 2026 For solo founders and consumer product builders trying to get a physical product onto a retail shelf.
• EP. 021 How to Turn Professional Services Into a Repeatable Pipeline Dave Anderson · EvenFlow AI · Aug 2026 For professional services and automotive retail operators, and founders turning expert work into something repeatable.
• EP. 020 How Canadian Farmers Get Paid to Produce Nature Bryan Gilvesy · ALUS · Aug 2026 For farmers and agricultural producers, conservation and rural development leaders, and people building regional food systems.
• EP. 019 Why Scaling an Impact Business Can Undo the Impact Sam Hasty · Active Impact Investments · Aug 2026 For climate tech founders, impact and venture investors, and anyone raising capital for a business with heavy physical assets.
• EP. 018 Five Estate Documents Every Family Needs Bryan Walley · Forward Inheritance · Aug 2026 For financial advisors, estate and legacy planners, and anyone in the sandwich generation with both parents and children to protect.
• EP. 017 How Veterans Navigate Systems That Were Built to Help Them Ryan Hawley · Odin Industries · Aug 2026 For healthcare and workers compensation operators, veteran-serving organizations, and founders whose customers sit inside government systems.
• EP. 016 Why Your Organization Behaves Like Weather, Not a Machine Derek Wilder · Hallmark Homes · Aug 2026 For CEOs and senior leaders running complex organizations, and family businesses working through succession.
• EP. 015 How to Scale a Company Without Losing the Culture Ramon Estrada · High-Frequency Founder · Jul 2026 For founders and executives scaling a team past the point they can hold it personally, and the coaches and operators keeping culture intact through growth.
• EP. 014 Why Automating Your Sales Relationships Backfires Craig Klein · SalesNexus · Jul 2026 For sales leaders, CRM and revenue operators, and founders deciding where AI belongs in a customer relationship and where it does not.
• EP. 013 How Much Growth Is Enough for a Small Business Daniel Biro · Rapids End Coffee Roastery · Jul 2026 For speciality food and craft product founders, and any owner deciding how big the business actually needs to get.
• EP. 012 How Measuring Neck Strength Prevents Concussions Kim Brouzes · Kinmetrix · Jul 2026 For sports medicine and athletic therapy teams, pro sports organizations in the NFL, UFC and Formula One, and hardware founders creating a category that does not exist yet.
• EP. 011 Why Agentic AI Still Runs on Human Trust Graeme Barlow · Jun 2026
• EP. 010 Why Soil Is the Infrastructure of a Local Food System Josh Blank · Jun 2026
• EP. 008 What It Takes to Scale a Brand in Agentic Search Steve Ward · Apr 2026
• EP. 007 How to Build Brand Authority for AI Search · Apr 2026
• EP. 006 How Systems Thinking Explains Tariffs and Growth · Mar 2025 For founders reading macro pressure like tariffs, and operators building internal systems that have to survive second-order effects.
• EP. 005 How to Tell If Your Motivation Can Sustain Your Goals · Feb 2025 For founders running on the wrong fuel, and anyone whose output no longer matches the motivation underneath it.
• EP. 004 How Founder Energy Compounds Into Business Results · Feb 2025 For founders treating energy as a soft topic, and leaders who suspect their strategy problem is a resource allocation problem.
• EP. 003 Why Founder Purpose Shapes What Gets Built · Dec 2024 For founders questioning what the building is for, and operators who want purpose to hold up as strategy rather than sentiment.
• EP. 002 Why Pressure Is What Produces Clarity · Dec 2024 For founders making decisions under constraint, and leaders who want a more honest read on what their team actually prioritises.
• EP. 001 When Niching Down Is the Wrong Advice · Dec 2024 For founders being told to niche down, and anyone deciding how narrow a brand should get before it stops being true.

FEATURED ON

Caleb as a guest on other people's shows.

• FEATURED ON How AI Decides Which Brands Get Shortlisted Edward Buchi · The Superlative Podcast · May 2026 For founders and brand leaders who want to understand what happens before a buyer ever runs a search, and who gets named when it does.
• FEATURED ON Running a Family Business While Raising Kids Around AI Charles Cormier · Founder Wisdom · Apr 2026 For founders building a company at family scale, and parents deciding what fluency with these tools should look like for their kids.