{"podcast":{"title":"21st Century Entrepreneurship","slug":"21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325","podcast_index_feed_id":6829325,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2328218.rss","website_url":"https://www.21ce.biz","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/96p5ua0suhv91bd2unl1ckkbnxi5?.jpg","author":"Martin Piskoric","episode_count":544,"summary":"An entrepreneurship podcast that transforms in-depth interviews with founders, CEOs, investors, executives, creators, and business leaders into tightly edited, first-person narratives that distill what matters most from their real-world experience. A four-time Gold Award-winning show with more than 540 published interviews, 21st Century Entrepreneurship explores how businesses are built, funded, scaled, transformed, and sometimes rebuilt from failure. Host Martin Piskoric guides each conversation toward the moments, decisions, lessons, and experiences most useful to listeners, then steps out of the final edit. What remains is the guest's voice—without small talk, unnecessary promotion, or interview clutter—shaped with music and space for reflection. Episodes cover entrepreneurship, leadership, business strategy, growth, marketing, finance and investment, AI and technology, personal development, and the realities of building and leading businesses.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-11T16:18:50.859024+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325"},"episode":{"title":"#509 Rob Braiman: Why do founders block growth past $5M?","slug":"509-rob-braiman-why-do-founders-block-growth-past-5m","published_at":"2026-03-24T22:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/509-rob-braiman-why-do-founders-block-growth-past-5m","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325","url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.buzzsprout.com/2328218/episodes/18903051-509-rob-braiman-why-do-founders-block-growth-past-5m.mp3","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.buzzsprout.com/2328218/episodes/18903051-509-rob-braiman-why-do-founders-block-growth-past-5m.mp3","summary":"Rob Braiman is a serial entrepreneur who has built 10 companies and advised thousands of business owners, and we spoke about why most businesses plateau—and how to break through those ceilings. Over 30+ years, he’s seen the same pattern repeat: founders start strong, but growth stalls as they remain the bottleneck, “wearing too many hats” and keeping control instead of building real leadership structures. His approach centers on four pillars: revenue generation, organizational design, process...","meta_description":"Rob Braiman is a serial entrepreneur who has built 10 companies and advised thousands of business owners, and we spoke about why most businesses plateau—a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1193,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/episodes/509-rob-braiman-why-do-founders-block-growth-past-5m/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/509-rob-braiman-why-do-founders-block-growth-past-5m.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}