Founders In Motion — before the headline
Founders In Motion is where the top 1% of early-stage founders around the world — across Australia, Southeast Asia, and the US — share how they're building their business: what's working, what's not. Hosted by Thea Ngo, an early-stage investor. Think pivots, chaos, scandals, and how to get through it. New episodes weekly.
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What this is
Most founder content is about the outcome. Founders In Motion is about the process — what actually happens between the idea and the exit, and why the messy middle is where everything real gets decided. Each episode is one unscripted conversation with one early-stage founder: no pitch, no PR, just the real story of how they found the problem, built the first thing, lost confidence, rebuilt it, and kept going.
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Founder questions, answered
Real answers from real founders on the questions people actually ask — how to find your first customers, how to raise a pre-seed round without a product, when to quit your job to start a company, how to do customer discovery on a tiny budget, and how to avoid burning out. Browse all founder questions →
About the host — Thea Ngo
Thea Ngo is an early-stage investor who started Founders In Motion because the highlight reel was driving her crazy — nobody talks about the year of nothing, the co-founder breakup, or the term sheet you walked away from. 32 episodes deep, she's interviewed founders building non-alcoholic beer, AI robotics ($120M raised), YC companies, chili-oil empires, and next-frontier dating apps. More about Thea →
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