{"podcast":{"title":"Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology","slug":"riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693","podcast_index_feed_id":3057693,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1620178.rss","website_url":"https://linktr.ee/ridingunicorns_","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/jf3ttbi3zp9fmtxbjspym1v9vxum?.jpg","author":"Riding Unicorns","episode_count":242,"summary":"Riding Unicorns is a podcast featuring the world's best minds from venture and startups. Hosted by VCs James Pringle and Hector Mason, the show explores what it takes to build and back successful tech unicorns. Each episode features conversations with top founders, operators, and investors unpacking the strategies, challenges, and insights behind scaling category-defining companies. From fundraising and product-market fit to hiring, growth, and beyond, no topic is off-limits. Whether you're a founder, VC, angel investor, or just curious about the world of startups, you’ll find valuable takeaways in every episode.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T14:21:27.851790+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693"},"episode":{"title":"Building the \"Spotify of Textbooks\" with Gauthier Van Malderen, Founder @ Perlego","slug":"building-the-spotify-of-textbooks-with-gauthier-van-malderen-founder-perlego","published_at":"2025-11-05T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693/building-the-spotify-of-textbooks-with-gauthier-van-malderen-founder-perlego","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1620178/episodes/18081273-building-the-spotify-of-textbooks-with-gauthier-van-malderen-founder-perlego.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1620178/episodes/18081273-building-the-spotify-of-textbooks-with-gauthier-van-malderen-founder-perlego.mp3","summary":"Hector is joined by Gauthier van Malderen, Founder and CEO of Perlego, the “Spotify for textbooks” and one of Europe’s leading edtech scale-ups. Gauthier shares the remarkable journey of building Perlego from a personal frustration with expensive university textbooks into a global subscription platform transforming access to educational content. He reflects on early failures, the turning points that led to success, and how COVID accelerated the company’s growth. The discussion dives deep into...","meta_description":"Hector is joined by Gauthier van Malderen, Founder and CEO of Perlego, the “Spotify for textbooks” and one of Europe’s leading edtech scale-ups. Gauthier…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2617,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693/episodes/building-the-spotify-of-textbooks-with-gauthier-van-malderen-founder-perlego/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693/building-the-spotify-of-textbooks-with-gauthier-van-malderen-founder-perlego.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}