EP. 052
1h 12m
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I knew the pivot was right the moment I stopped being afraid of it. Fear is just the body's way of confirming you're onto something real.
James Whitfield
Co-founder, Driftwood Labs
PivotFundraising
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MARCUS OKAFOR
He fired his co-founder on a Thursday.
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EP. 052The pivot nobody saw coming
EP. 047He fired his co-founder on a Thursday
EP. 039The 3 a.m. call that changed everything
EP. 031She lost the company on a Tuesday
EP. 044The deal we regret passing on
EP. 028Building the company she wished existed
EP. 052The pivot nobody saw coming
EP. 047He fired his co-founder on a Thursday
EP. 039The 3 a.m. call that changed everything
EP. 031She lost the company on a Tuesday
EP. 044The deal we regret passing on
EP. 028Building the company she wished existed
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EP. 047
58m
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You can't fire your co-founder and expect the culture to survive intact. Something breaks. You just decide what gets rebuilt.
Marcus Okafor
CEO, Beacon Health
LeadershipCo-founder
EP. 039
1h 04m
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The 3 a.m. call wasn't from an investor. It was from my mother. She asked if I was eating. I hadn't been.
Elena Vasquez
Founder, Carta del Sol
BurnoutRecovery
EP. 031
1h 28m
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Losing the company was the most clarifying thing that ever happened to me. I stopped performing success and started building it.
Priya Nair
Ex-CEO, Threadline
FailureReinvention
EP. 044
52m
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We pass on 99% of deals. The one we regret most is the one we passed on because the founder was too honest about the risks.
Daniel Sorensen
Partner, Rough Draft Ventures
VCFundraising
EP. 028
1h 18m
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I built the company I wished existed when I was twenty-three and terrified. Turns out a lot of people were that person.
Amara Osei
Founder, Kinfolk Studio
CommunityMission
ORIGIN STORY
"The first recording was in a garage.
The guest was a friend. The mic was borrowed."
52
Episodes recorded
Why these questions.
Why this host. Why now.
Airtime started with a simple frustration: every business podcast sounded like a press release. Polished answers to soft questions. The messy truth — the pivot that almost killed everything, the board meeting nobody talks about — stayed off-mic.
The host, Sebastián Reyes, spent eight years as an operator before he ever held a microphone. He knows which questions make founders go quiet. He asks them anyway.
The first guest said yes because they were friends. The tenth said yes because they'd heard the first nine. Now the waitlist is eighteen months long, and the only rule in the room is: no PR handlers, no talking points.
52
Episodes
2.1M
Monthly Listeners
18mo
Guest Waitlist
01
The Garage
Episode zero. A borrowed Shure mic, a duvet draped over a bookshelf, and a friend who said yes because he owed Sebastián a favor.
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The Moment It Changed
Episode 11. A guest cried on-air about a layoff they'd never spoken about publicly. Downloads tripled overnight.
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The Standard
Episode 20. The first guest who had a handler. Sebastián asked them to leave before recording started. The guest stayed anyway.
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If you only have one hour, make it this one. Priya Nair on losing everything and building it back — differently.
EP. 031
1h 28m
Priya Nair · Ex-CEO, Threadline
"Losing the company was the most clarifying thing that ever happened to me."
Priya built Threadline to a $40M valuation before the board removed her in a meeting she wasn't invited to. This conversation, recorded eight months later, is about what comes after the story ends — and why she wouldn't change it.
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