The Peel with Turner Novak

Exploring the world’s greatest startup stories. Get a behind the scenes look into the founding stories of your favorite companies. Learn how the industries they operate in actually work, and learn playbooks and tactics you can use to launch and scale your own business.

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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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   Alfred Wahlforss

   Building Got Easy. This Startup Solves What to Build | Alfred Wahlforss, Listen Labs · May 2026

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   Anamitra Banerji

   How to Skip Your Seed, Pre-Seed Lessons Building Afore to $500M+ AUM | Anamitra Banerji · Jun 2025

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   Anu Sharma

   Fixing The Maternal Health Crisis with Anu Sharma at Millie · May 2024

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   Austin Petersmith

   Howie: The AI Secretary | Austin Petersmith, Co-founder and CEO · Oct 2025

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   Bobby DeSimone

   Teen Hacker to Founder, Building an Open Source Security Company | Bobby DeSimone, CEO of Pomerium · Sep 2024

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   Cam Doody

   Why Founders are Moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee to Lock-in | Cam Doody at Brickyard · Feb 2025

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   Charley Ma

   Lessons Building Five Unicorns + Building Pathlight Ventures | Charley Ma & Mahdi Raza · Sep 2024

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   Chris Frantz

   How Loops Fixes Email for Developers with Co-founder and CEO Chris Frantz · Oct 2025

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   Chris Hladczuk

   The Rise of AI-Powered Services + Ultimate Sales Crash Course for Founders | Chris Hladczuk, Hanover · Oct 2024

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    Chris Hulls

    Life360's 17-Year Journey to $3B | Chris Hulls, Founder and CEO · Jan 2025

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    Colin Sidoti

    Surviving Two Seed Extensions, Fixing Auth for AI Agents | Clerk Founder & CEO Colin Sidoti · Apr 2025

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    Cristina Junqueira

    The Story of Nubank, The World’s Largest Neobank with Co-founder Cristina Junqueira · Jan 2024

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    Daksh Gupta

    Why AI Will Never Replace Engineers, Inside the 996 Discourse, and Creative Marketing | Daksh Gupta, Greptile · Oct 2025

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    Dan Feder

    Rethinking Asset Allocation, The Past Present and Future of Venture Capital | Dan Feder, University of Michigan · Sep 2025

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    Dan Gray

    Untold Startup Lessons from Dozens of Academic Research Papers with Dan Gray at Equidam · Sep 2025

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    Dan Lorenc

    Lessons Going Zero to $40M ARR in Two Years | Dan Lorenc, Chainguard · 2 episodes

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    Dan Teran

    Inside Elbow Grease, NYC's Hands-On Accelerator | Dan Teran, Gutter Capital · Jun 2026

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    Dane Atkinson

    SMB Masterclass: Zero to $150M Revenue in Two Years with Dane Atkinson, Founder and CEO of Odeko · Apr 2024

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    Danielle Cohen-Shohet

    Building a $510 Million Personal Care Giant with Danielle Cohen-Shohet, Founder & CEO of GlossGenius · Jan 2024

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    Daryna Kulya

    Startup Marketing Masterclass: How OpenPhone Grew to 100k Customers | Daryna Kulya · Oct 2024

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    Dimitri Dadiomov

    Modern Treasury: How to Move Quadrillions of Dollars, with Co-founder and CEO Dimitri Dadiomov · Aug 2023

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    Dug Song

    How Duo Security went Zero to $1B ARR in Ann Arbor | Dug Song, Jon Oberheide · Feb 2026

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    Ed Lando

    How the World’s Most Active Angel Investor Operates | Ed Lando, Founder of Pareto Holdings · Mar 2025

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    Edwin Dorsey

    The 26-Year Old Exposing $10B Public Companies | Edwin Dorsey, The Bear Cave · Jul 2024

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    Erik Berhnardsson

    Building AI-Native Infrastructure for Developers | Erik Berhnardsson, CEO of Modal · Oct 2025

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    Gaurab Chakrabarti

    How Solugen is Saving the $5 Trillion Chemical Industry (Co-founders Gaurab Chakrabarti & Sean Hunt) · Nov 2023

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    Hans Swildens

    Inside Goldman’s $22B Bet on Venture Capital | Hans Swildens, Industry Ventures · Jul 2026

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    Isaac Medeiros

    How to Build a Content Strategy + CPG Brand Lessons | Isaac Medeiros (Mini Katana, Kanpai Foods) · Aug 2025

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    Itai Damti

    How Unit Operates with Precision, with Itai Damti (Co-founder and CEO of Unit) · Dec 2023

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    Jacqueline Cheong

    Building Real-Time Data Streaming for AI | Jacqueline Cheong, Co-founder and CEO of Artie · Jan 2026

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    Jake Cooper

    Solving the Hardest Problems in Dev Tools | Jake Cooper, Founder of Railway · Jul 2025

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    Jake Stauch

    Inside Serval: Building the System of Intelligence for IT | Jake Stauch · Feb 2026

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    Jenny Fleiss

    Inside Rent the Runway’s Early Days and the Future of Commerce with Co-founder Jenny Fleiss · Nov 2024

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    Jim Belosic

    How a Hillbilly in Nevada Bootstrapped a $140M ARR Manufacturing Company | Jim Belosic, SendCutSend · Apr 2026

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    Jon Oberheide
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    Karthik Duraisamy

    How Agentic AI is Reshaping Science, Education, and the Economy | Karthik Duraisamy at the University of Michigan · Apr 2026

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    Ken Ehrman

    Selling $100 Million in Dog Collars | Ken Ehrman (Co-founder, Halo Collar) · Jun 2023

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    Kendall Baker

    The Business of Newsletters with Kendall Baker, “The Sports Newsletter Guy” · Aug 2023

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    Kevin Liu

    Pricing Lessons from the Fastest Growing Companies with Kevin Liu, Co-founder and CEO of Metronome · Dec 2023

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    Lisa Rapuano

    Beating the Market 15 Years in a Row, Lessons from Jeff Bezos | Lisa Rapuano · Oct 2024

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