The Peel with Turner Novak

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Every guest on The Peel with Turner Novak

158 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Ryan Hoover

   Ryan Hoover on Growth Flywheels, Building Communities, Helping Founders, LP Investing · Aug 2025

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   Sam Blond

   The AI-Native GTM Playbook | Sam Blond, Monaco · Jun 2026

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   Samir Kaji

   How to Raise a VC Fund Today, Traits of Top Emerging Managers, Why Everyone is Selling Secondaries, Triple-Layered SPVs | Samir Kaji, Co-founder and CEO of Allocate · Jun 2025

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   Sanjit Biswas

   Samsara’s Journey to $26B Public Company | Sanjit Biswas, Co-founder and CEO · May 2025

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   Semil Shah

   How Semil Shah Built Haystack · Sep 2023

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   Sheel Mohnot

   Sheel Mohnot on All Things Fintech, Starting Better Tomorrow Ventures · Jan 2025

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   Spenser Skates

   Scaling Amplitude to $300M ARR with Co-founder and CEO Spenser Skates · May 2025

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   Tomasz Tunguz

   Inside the AI Sprint, Understanding Anthropic's Strategy | Tomasz Tunguz, Theory Ventures · May 2026

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   Vlad Magdalin

   Bootstrapping Webflow to $10M ARR, and scaling to a $4B Valuation with Vlad Magdalin (Co-founder & CEO) · Oct 2023

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    Wade Foster

    Zapier’s Secrets to Product Market Fit with Wade Foster (Co-founder and CEO of Zapier) · Nov 2023

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    Waseem Daher

    Lessons From Scaling Pilot to a $1.2 Billion Valuation with Co-founder and CEO Waseem Daher · Oct 2023

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    Austin Rief

    How Morning Brew Grew to 6 Million Subscribers and $70 Million Revenue in Six Years | Austin Rief, Co-founder & CEO · Dec 2024

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    Bill Shufelt

    Zero to $90M Revenue in Five Years, How Athletic Brewing Created the Non-Alcoholic Beer Category with CEO Bill Shufelt · Apr 2024

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    Chris Bakke

    Chris Bakke on Selling to Elon, Small Exits, and Using Memes for Marketing · Mar 2024

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    Craig Fuller

    The Great Media Arbitrage: How Craig Fuller Built FreightWaves · Feb 2024

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    Dan Porter

    🏀 How Overtime Grew to 85 Million Fans | Dan Porter (Co-founder and CEO, Overtime) · Aug 2023

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    Jonathon Barkl

    Secrets of the $131 Billion Parking Industry with Jonathon Barkl (Co-founder and CEO of AirGarage) · Nov 2023

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    Kevin Espiritu

    Epic Gardening's $100+ Million YouTube Playbook with Kevin Espiritu, Founder and CEO · Feb 2024

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    Nathan Benaich

    The State of AI: Rise of Reasoning, Surge in Chinese Open Source, Sovereign AI , How to Invest in AI Today | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital · Jan 2026

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    Nirav Tolia

    How Nextdoor Grew to 100M Neighbors + Why Founding CEO Nirav Tolia Returned Six Years Later · Nov 2024

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    Sean Frank

    🧪 The Einstein of Ecommerce: Bootstrapping to 9-Figures in Revenue with Sean Frank (CEO, Ridge Wallet) · Aug 2023

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    Siqi Chen

    Siqi Chen on How To Go Viral, Secrets to Storytelling, and Forgetting Best Practices · Feb 2024

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    Sophia Amoruso

    Sophia Amoruso on Bootstrapping Nasty Gal to $120M Revenue, Turning Down $400M, Declaring Bankruptcy, Public Failure, Starting Trust Fund to Back Other Founders · Apr 2026

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    Tyler Denk

    Inside the beehiiv Playbook with Tyler Denk, Co-founder and CEO · Sep 2024

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    Will O’Brien

    The Ocean: Earth’s $2.5 Trillion Last Frontier | Will O’Brien, Co-founder of Ulysses · Aug 2025

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    Anatoly Yakovenko

    Inside Solana's Plan to Replace Wall Street | Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana · Jul 2026

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    Eric Newcomer

    Eric Newcomer on Scaling to 80,000 Newsletter Subs, How to Pitch Reporters · Mar 2024

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    Rahul Sidhu

    Govtech + Drones Crash Course, Lessons From 2 Exits | Rahul Sidhu · Jan 2025

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    Ankur Goyal

    How the Smartest Companies Use AI | Ankur Goyal, Braintrust · Jun 2024

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    Filip Kaliszan

    Building Verkada, the $4.5B Physical Security Company | Filip Kaliszan, Founder and CEO · Apr 2025

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    Frank Rotman

    Frank Rotman | Building Capital One ($58B) and QED Investors ($4B AUM) · Aug 2024

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    Will Gaybrick

    Inside Stripe: Stablecoins, AI, and (not) Going Public | Will Gaybrick, President of Technology and Business at Stripe · Nov 2025

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    Joseph Nelson

    Unlocking AGI With Visual AI Agents | Joseph Nelson, Roboflow · Dec 2024

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    Mike Smith

    Footwork’s Secret Sauce | Mike Smith and Nikhil Basu Trivedi · Mar 2026

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    Aaron Rubin

    ShipHero’s Journey to $12B | Aaron Rubin, Founder and CEO · Aug 2024

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    Adit Abraham

    Inside Reducto: YC to Series B in 18 Months, From Pivot to Fortune 10 Customers, Lessons in Founder-Led Sales | Adit Abraham, Co-founder and CEO of Reducto · Oct 2025

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    Alamin Uddin

    Healthcare Skipped The Internet And Went Straight To AI | Alamin Uddin, NexHealth · Jul 2026

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    Alan Feld

    Lessons From 21 Years of VC Fund Investing | Alan Feld, Vintage Investment Partners · May 2024

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    Albert Azout

    How To Generate Alpha in Venture Capital | Albert Azout, Level Ventures · Sep 2025

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    Alex Israel

    The $5B Venture Growth Buyout Playbook | Alex Israel, Metropolis · Apr 2026

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