# 🎧 START pod: Adil Mania, Founder & Host, Silicon Mania: “Make Tech Fun Again”

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Published: 2026-04-16T22:31:04+00:00
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Tech is the biggest story in the world and its media is somehow the least fun to watch Adil Mania moved from Paris to SF to change that Now he's building a full media company around one idea: tech doesn't need to be packaged like homework A live night show. A print magazine. A weekly newsletter. An animated recap Every major industry learned how to entertain Now it's tech's turn 🎙️ Adil Mania, Founder, Silicon Mania, on Fondo START pod 01:48 — Moved from Paris to San Francisco two months before the recording 02:47 — Built a startup media company in France, then stopped when it became "boring" 04:00 — Silicon Mania began as a new, "bigger, better, bolder" media idea 05:23 — His philosophy: treat life like an experiment; iterate instead of chasing final wins 11:00 — The recap format started as an iteration on old YouTube-style yearly recaps 11:38 — First recap went from ~2K views to 50K overnight, then kept climbing 12:40 — Weekly recaps validated the format with roughly 250K+ impressions 13:40 — His thesis on media: people don't need automated slop; people need trust 16:14 — Expanding the format into a newsletter with frame-by-frame context 17:00 — Bringing back the monthly format in print through Silicon Mania magazine 18:16 — The night show is his favorite product: live, interactive, and built around the human side of founders 19:54 — His ambition: make tech media mainstream enough that "my mom" can enjoy it 23:03 — The long-term vision: build the "NBC for tech"

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