Top 10 Entrepreneur Podcasts to Listen to Now

How I Built This with Guy Raz

In this program, host Guy Raz probes those who have founded some of the biggest movements in the world today such as Sara Blakely of Spanx, Brian Chesky of Airbnb, and Ben Silbermann of Pinterest and the story of their creation. His speaking mannerism puts the listener right at the table as these businessmen discuss their setbacks, personal losses, and victories while striving for success. 

$100 MBA Show with Omar Zenhom 

If you’d like the essence of a business school degree crammed into podcasts, Omar Zenhom’s The $100 MBA Show should be of interest. He covers primary business aspects of marketing, sales, branding, accounting and other topics and supports them with examples, successful stories and practical steps that you can apply from now on. I mean it is like getting an MBA but without having to return to school to undertake the programme.  

The Tim Ferriss Show

If you should like to get the strategies, rhythms and principles of the top performers, avoid missing an episode of the Tim Ferriss Show. He breaks down routines and current practices of athletes, investors, artists and other marquee professionals, so you can mimic the wheel. His interviews reveal things you can experiment with yourself.

Smart Passive Income is a leading personal finance and lifestyle Blog by Pat Flynn

Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income shares how he migrated his audience to his other site – where he dropped the name “Smart Passive Income” but increased his affiliate marketing, niche sites, podcasting, audience building, and other business modeling. The fact that he openly posted information about his income and visits’ rates and etc, he established community of ‘student entrepreneurs’ where people study from one another. Tune in for practical tips.  

The Pitch

This fun programme is hosted by Josh Muccio from Gimlet media; it is a podcast involving real business owners pitching their companies to a team of actual VC investors. But part of the fun of the show is that you pretend to be a judge questioning business owners on the feasibility of their ideas, the business model, the progress, etc. Apart from the thrilling feat of counting the verdict you have a first look at various startup ideas.  

Masters of Scale on PodcastONE 

LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman’s goal for Masters of Scale is to learn what makes some companies much better than others through interviews with successful CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, Whole Foods’ John Mackey, and VMware’s Diane Greene. He reveals the seemingly irrational actions and processes that made these companies expand at an astonishing rate.

The GaryVee Audio Experience 

When it comes to positivity and motivation, get the last few episodes of Audio Experience with the serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk. He dispenses raw uncut tips on everything from mindset, content, networking, branding, social media marketing, speaking, and anything else you need to know if you’re building companies and investing pre-IPO in things like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, etc..  

The Founder Hour  

Tune in to The Founder Hour where Jeremy Abrams delivers specific guidance to early stage startup founders on topics that range from coming up with a company idea to growing a business in a series of interviews with founders. Previous speakers are leaders from the such innovative companies as Calendly, PandaDoc, MindBody and other who share the major lessons learned during the starting stages that allowed them to achieve success.

Business with Alex Blumberg and Lisa Chow

Alex Blumberg of public radio share restarting tales, successes, failure, hurdles all in StartUp where he engages in live conversations with the guests. From Gimlet Media to Food Delivery App Zippy Meals to the Dating App Bumble you get a raw look at the people behind the start-ups, beyond the glamorous façade. 

Creating a Unicorn with Cass Phillipps

Final reminder for female founders at scaling a high-growth business or anyone managing a team – don’t miss Building a Unicorn with Cass Phillipps! She dig deeps into the mentality, affirmations, lack of confidence and other things rarely spoken about when it comes to building a business, with powerful guests like Amy Porterfield, Emily Williams Zakes and other successful female founders.