{"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":"#539 Scott Oldford: Was $100M Worth Losing $14M?","slug":"539-scott-oldford-was-100m-worth-losing-14m","published_at":"2026-08-11T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/539-scott-oldford-was-100m-worth-losing-14m","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325","url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.buzzsprout.com/2328218/episodes/19630398-539-scott-oldford-was-100m-worth-losing-14m.mp3","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.buzzsprout.com/2328218/episodes/19630398-539-scott-oldford-was-100m-worth-losing-14m.mp3","summary":"Scott Oldford is a lifelong entrepreneur who built his first seven-figure business at 16, and we spoke about what happened when decades of entrepreneurial instinct collided with an identity he was trying to force. By 2022, he was making roughly $7 million a year at a 70% profit margin while working 15–20 hours a week. Then he chased a bigger identity and a $100 million outcome, losing $14 million across 2023 and 2024. Looking back, Scott says the difference between entrepreneurship as a “beau...","meta_description":"Scott Oldford is a lifelong entrepreneur who built his first seven-figure business at 16, and we spoke about what happened when decades of entrepreneurial…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1537,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/episodes/539-scott-oldford-was-100m-worth-losing-14m/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-6829325/539-scott-oldford-was-100m-worth-losing-14m.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}