{"podcast":{"title":"The Heart of Entrepreneurship","slug":"the-heart-of-entrepreneurship-7083654","podcast_index_feed_id":7083654,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-heart-of-entrepreneurship","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/02l3flSFLa4gfg3FzRVy7_APCodRJyzDBANfoAgyRkQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNzcz/NGQxYmUwMmU2ZWQx/YjgxZTVmNGEwYTJi/NjMzOS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Bootstrapped Giants","episode_count":32,"summary":"Entrepreneurship is about more than your income statement.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T20:18:27.699443+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-heart-of-entrepreneurship-7083654"},"episode":{"title":"How to Build Trust Among Co-Founders in Startups","slug":"how-to-build-trust-among-co-founders-in-startups","published_at":"2026-04-24T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-heart-of-entrepreneurship-7083654/how-to-build-trust-among-co-founders-in-startups","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-heart-of-entrepreneurship-7083654","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/d7b13f0c","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/d7b13f0c/4b8546a7.mp3","summary":"Three equal co-founders, no titles yet, all best friends from high school. Jesse Pujji met a founder living that exact setup today, and the conversation they had surfaces one of the clearest frameworks for building a co-founder team that actually holds together. The principles that came out of it apply well beyond that one founder. In this episode of Heart of Entrepreneurship, Jesse and his co-host Dave Kashen work through two parallel questions: how do individual founders build genuine self-awareness from the inside out, and how do co-founding teams build the structure that keeps trust intact over time? Dave reframes the startup itself as a dojo for personal and spiritual growth, arguing that founders who orient around inner development get to win twice. Jesse maps the collective side, from aligning on vision and day-to-day culture to creating the governance structures that prevent resentment from building quietly beneath the surface. - How to deepen self-awareness beyond strengths and development areas, including body intelligence, language cues, and above/below-the-line check-ins - Dave's five concrete steps for building individual self-awareness within the context of running a startup, anchored in the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership - What it means to communicate to reveal rather than communicate to control, and why the shift makes difficult conversations easier and faster - How to align co-founders through separate 10-out-of-10 vision exercises, so differences in ambition and working style surface before they become fault lines - Why observable, rateable behaviors are far more useful than values on a wall, and how to build a culture survey that makes accountability concrete - The withhold-withdraw-project pattern that quietly erodes co-founder trust, and ho…","meta_description":"Three equal co-founders, no titles yet, all best friends from high school. Jesse Pujji met a founder living that exact setup today, and the conversation t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2888,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-heart-of-entrepreneurship-7083654/episodes/how-to-build-trust-among-co-founders-in-startups/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-heart-of-entrepreneurship-7083654/how-to-build-trust-among-co-founders-in-startups.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}