Jaeden Schafer
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The "Founder Built" podcast is a dynamic podcast hosted by Jaeden Schafer that goes deep into the fascinating stories of founders, startups, artificial intelligence and business news as it intersects with our daily lives. Each episode explores a variety of entrepreneur or business topics and the latest news, offering listeners a blend of insightful analysis and engaging discussions similar to what you would hear on your favorite episode of Lex Fridman, Joe Rogan, My First Million or any other business podcast. We are excited to have you along for the ride!
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jaden Schaefer translates AI launches into clear questions about adoption, competition, pricing, and practical business value.
Founder Built turns AI product news into practical business questions. Jaden Schaefer moves between solo walkthroughs and multi-story briefings, examining how new tools work, where they fall short, and what their arrival could mean for companies competing around them.
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A brisk, useful look at AI's platform economics and its more personal fallout.
The episode tracks a turbulent run of AI news, moving from Mark Zuckerberg creating an AI version of himself for meeting questions to Apple's reported smart-glasses tests, Vercel's claim that agents deploy 30% of apps on its platform, and the Molotov cocktail attack on Sam…
A brisk AI news sweep is strongest when it connects drug discovery to the economics of scale.
Jaden Schaefer frames the AI week as a chain of practical consequences, moving from Anthropic's hosted Claude agents platform to Meta's first model built with Alexander Wang, then into energy use, drug development, and policy.
A brisk look at AI funding, agent risk, healthcare, and the state-level rules building around them.
The episode covers a quarter being framed around about $300 billion in startup funding in Q1 2026, with 80 percent flowing into AI, then turns to Meta's rogue AI agent incident and the security alert it set off inside the company.
A sharp tour of AI's money, software mishaps, and chip geopolitics.
OpenAI's private funding round and valuation frame a busy episode about scale, incentives, and where capital might flow next. It starts with who is writing the checks, then moves into Anthropic's difficult public-relations stretch after ClaudeCode source appeared on a public NPM…
A scale story about compute demand and Google's AI bet.
The piece treats Google's AI push as a scale problem with a heavy bill attached. It starts with the company's recent all-hands claim that AI compute must double every six months to keep up with demand, then follows the spikes tied to Gemini 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro.
Google's AI shopping push looks promising, with a built-in caveat about sponsored results.
Google's push into AI shopping is treated as operator news rather than product theater, which keeps the focus on what could change for shoppers and for the companies trying to shape the next step in purchase flow.
A quick read on Nvidia's rise, chip scarcity, and the bubble question.
PlayNext tracks a clean burst of market heat: Nvidia has become the first public company worth $5 trillion, and the discussion stays on GPU chips, AI demand, and the scramble over China sales before a Trump-Xi meeting.
A grounded look at ChatGPT as a company knowledge layer, with real upside and real workflow friction.
The episode treats OpenAI's new ChatGPT connectors for Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, and other company systems as a practical move toward making the app a company knowledge layer.
Startup news with the business logic intact.
Hard tech leadership, without the mythology.
Drinks culture, argued from the inside.
Jaden Schaefer’s Founder Built episode covers Apple testing four display-free smart-glasses designs, Vercel reporting $340 million in annual recurring revenue, and AI agents generating 30% of apps on its platform.
Jaden Schaefer covers Google Gemini 4, OpenAI's proposals for the “intelligence age,” Eli Lilly's Lily Pod, Tufts research, and Meta's Muse Spark.
Host Jaeden Schafer discusses Anthropic's Project Glasswing, an initiative using their new Claude Mythos Preview model to find software vulnerabilities, and promotes his own AI startup AIbox.ai.
Jaden Schafer opens on the Q1 2026 venture funding numbers, and the scale is hard to miss.
The host discusses OpenAI's acquisition of tech show TBPN, speculating on the deal value, public reactions, and strategic implications pre-IPO.
Jaden Schaefer centers the episode on OpenAI's $121 billion funding round, an $852 billion post-money valuation, and the claim that it is the largest private financing in tech history.
This episode analyzes Google's massive $93 billion AI expansion plan, detailing the company's goal to double its AI computing power every six months and achieve a 1000x scale increase within five years.
The host analyzes a draft White House executive order, reportedly backed by President Trump and AI industry leaders like Sam Altman, that would challenge state-level AI laws by creating a federal litigation task force and withholding broadband funds.
The host analyzes breaking news in AI music: Warner Music settled a lawsuit with Udio and signed a licensing deal, while AI music generator Suno raised $200M at a $2.45B valuation.
This episode breaks down the news that Jeff Bezos is coming out of semi-retirement to become co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new AI startup focused on applying artificial intelligence to engineering and manufacturing in computers, automobiles, and spacecraft.
Host Jaden Schaefer breaks down Google's newly launched AI-powered shopping features, including conversational search, agentic checkout, and a standout AI that can call local businesses to check prices and availability.
The host analyzes NVIDIA's historic rise to a $5 trillion market cap, driven by AI chip demand, examining whether it's a sustainable boom or a bubble.
Host Jaden Schaefer breaks down OpenAI's major new feature that allows ChatGPT to access and analyze a company's internal data from tools like Google Drive, Slack, and GitHub.
The host analyzes OpenAI's acquisition of Sky, an AI interface for Mac that can control your computer.
The host provides a detailed walkthrough and review of OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas web browser, focusing on its 'agent mode' that allows AI to automate tasks like podcast editing, scheduling, and contract analysis directly within the browser.
The host runs through the day’s biggest AI headlines fast.
The host breaks down Reflection AI's massive $2 billion funding round, positioning it as America's open-source response to Chinese AI leaders like DeepSeek.
The host analyzes OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation platform, which went viral with 1 million downloads in five days despite being invite-only and limited to North America.
The host breaks down the recent $3 million funding round for SuperMemory, an AI startup building a 'memory layer' API that allows chatbots and other AI tools to remember user context across conversations and apps.
An interview with AI strategist Rajiv Kapoor about his book on prompting techniques for getting better results from AI models like ChatGPT.
An interview with AI strategist Rajiv Kapoor about his book on prompting and making AI accessible for business leaders.
The episode covers the arrest of two individuals for smuggling NVIDIA AI chips to China and the broader US-China AI race.
The host discusses OpenAI's release of open source models, their benchmarks, and Microsoft's announcement of small open models for Windows, while promoting his own AI model aggregation startup.
The host discusses Anthropic's new rate limits for its AI platform, their implications for other AI companies, and future trends in AI compute availability.