{"podcast":{"title":"Founder's Story","slug":"founder-s-story-648906","podcast_index_feed_id":648906,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/NVPdHs07","website_url":"https://bleav.com/shows/founders-story/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4454fd97-2647-4bda-918e-0516d45f4964/e4396306-a844-480a-a218-101fba618ece/3000x3000/chatgpt_image_jun_17_2026_085141_pm.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"IBH Media","episode_count":381,"summary":"\"Founder's Story\" by IBH Media isn't a business show. It's the conversation founders don't get to have anywhere else. Think 60 Minutes, but for entrepreneurs. We sit down with the most interesting people in business and go past the highlight reel, past the pitch, past the polished version they give every other podcast. We go into the mud with them. The 2 a.m. doubts. The bet that almost ended everything. The moment they wanted to quit and didn't. You'll hear from household names like Gary V, Codie Sanchez, Rob Dyrdek, and Tom Bilyeu, and just as often from founders you've never heard of who are building something the world needs to know about. Either way, the goal is the same: a real conversation that makes you laugh, makes you think, and sometimes catches you off guard with how much it makes you feel. This is where the story behind the success finally gets told. This is \"Founder's Story.\"","last_synced_at":"2026-09-26T04:23:14.302086+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/founder-s-story-648906"},"episode":{"title":"He Built An $8M Sports Empire With $100 And Zero Funding | Ep. 428 with Suryansh Tibarewal Co-Founder of EssentiallySports","slug":"he-built-an-8m-sports-empire-with-100-and-zero-funding-ep-428-with-suryansh-tibarewal-co-founder-of-essentiallysports","published_at":"2026-08-03T17:31:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/founder-s-story-648906/he-built-an-8m-sports-empire-with-100-and-zero-funding-ep-428-with-suryansh-tibarewal-co-founder-of-essentiallysports","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/founder-s-story-648906","url":"https://bleav.com/shows/founders-story/","audio_url":"https://clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1184/afp-969439-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/a7765f3f-02e4-4ded-bca1-01a20b7f82a5/episodes/51c17519-a0f9-4c41-8d96-85c03956281e/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=a7765f3f-02e4-4ded-bca1-01a20b7f82a5&awEpisodeId=51c17519-a0f9-4c41-8d96-85c03956281e&feed=NVPdHs07","summary":"Daniel Robbins sits down with Suryansh Tibarewal, Co-Founder of EssentiallySports, to unpack how three college students in India turned a $100 domain into a bootstrapped American sports media company doing more than $8 million a year in revenue. Suryansh shares why the company started from pure fandom, how the team discovered the power of U.S. sports audiences, and why the open web became the foundation for their business. The conversation also dives into COVID-era hypergrowth, building a 400-person media organization, the threat and opportunity of AI, audience ownership through newsletters, and why Suryansh now believes building something bigger than yourself is more fulfilling than becoming a solo founder.","meta_description":"Daniel Robbins sits down with Suryansh Tibarewal, Co-Founder of EssentiallySports, to unpack how three college students in India turned a $100 domain into…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1453,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/founder-s-story-648906/episodes/he-built-an-8m-sports-empire-with-100-and-zero-funding-ep-428-with-suryansh-tibarewal-co-founder-of-essentiallysports/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/founder-s-story-648906/he-built-an-8m-sports-empire-with-100-and-zero-funding-ep-428-with-suryansh-tibarewal-co-founder-of-essentiallysports.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}