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The Entrepreneur Podcast improves your odds of entrepreneurial success by sharing the stories and lessons learned of world-class entrepreneurs.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Founder interviews connect entrepreneurial ambition with the legal, financial, operational, and personal decisions that determine what survives.
The Entrepreneur Podcast turns founder histories into practical conversations about building companies and careers under pressure. Faculty interviewers move from origin stories to consequential choices, asking how guests funded growth, handled uncertainty, protected intellectual…
A vegan cheese maker names the bad days, and your launch fantasy gets a useful reality check.
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A grounded look at product-company tradeoffs, distribution pressure, and the hard choice between making the thing and selling the brand.
Mark Healy's arc is straightforward and useful: an early entrepreneurial start during an Ivy MBA in 2005, then marketing and consulting work, then the messier job of buying a horseradish brand during the pandemic.
A clear argument for preparing well enough to recognize luck when it shows up.
Shane Skillen makes a plain argument: luck is not purely random, and people can tilt it their way by preparing and staying open when chances appear.
Three Western University student founders talk through early-stage entrepreneurship with practical candor.
Three current Western University students in the Summer Entrepreneurial Internship Program talk through early-stage entrepreneurship with Ivy Entrepreneurship faculty member Janice Byrne.
A solid portrait of Canadian investing that opens into a frank discussion of productivity policy.
This episode sketches Kevin Sullivan as a founder investor with a long place in Canada’s entrepreneurship story, and it follows that path through the early BlackBerry bet, the start of GMP Capital, and his later work as president and CEO.
A grounded founder conversation about partnership, funding, and refusing the default.
The conversation makes a straightforward case for women entrepreneurs as central to the entrepreneurship story, then gets into Bryn Davis-Williams and Jessica Bossman and their company, Double, in the women's undergarment industry.
A brewery origin story shaped by music, art, and brand identity.
Matt Phillips tells Phillips Brewing's origin as a matter of timing and identity. The company started when other doors were closing, and the strongest thread here is how the people inside shaped its character.
How gaming became a global business.
The episode follows how a once niche video game business grew into a global one through Michael Schmaltz's experience at Digital Extremes. The useful part is the working detail: publisher advances, milestone payments, recoupment math, Ontario tax credits, and the move from boxed…
A practical conversation about learning, momentum, and how one project can lead to the next.
Scott Young takes a familiar school complaint and turns it into something practical. Eric Jansen keeps the conversation steady and lets the main idea land: learning projects, public proof, and small milestones can open the next door.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
This episode features entrepreneur Naveen Kamanulo and investor Scott Kaplanis discussing their five-year partnership, including raising capital, building Indus AI, and navigating an acquisition by Procore.
Rory Capron keeps coming back to entrepreneurship.
Janice Byrne sits down with Christine Beasley to talk about the gender wealth gap and why it matters.
Ray Sharma, a former top-ranked investment banker turned venture capitalist, discusses his career shift, the impact of AI on startups, and the rising importance of sales over tech.
Eric Jansen talks with Scott Young about how people learn to learn.
Kevin Sullivan looks back on a long career in Canadian investing.
Eric Morse welcomes Shane Skillen back to Western and opens with a plain business question.
Entrepreneurship is more than business in this episode.
Eric Brass traces Tequila Tromba back to a Guadalajara exchange trip, where he says he first tried good tequila after believing it was only a bad shot at a late-night bar.
Horseradish gets complicated fast.
Christopher Misch did not always expect to become an entrepreneur.
Janice Byrne opens the series by asking where women are in entrepreneurship storytelling and why women entrepreneurs deserve more of the microphone.
Eric Morse interviews banking pioneer Arkadi Kuhlmann, who founded ING Direct, about his entrepreneurial journey from Royal Bank to multiple startups.
This episode explores the future of entrepreneurship research, featuring insights from multiple scholars on emerging areas like scale-up cognition, global trends, sustainable startups, diversity, and the intersection with religion.
Three student founders share the messy first stretch of building.
Video games went from niche culture to a huge business.
Eric Jansen talks with Scott Stirrett about career uncertainty and the path that led to Venture for Canada.
Matt Phillips looks back on how Phillips Brewing got started at a time when other craft breweries were shutting down.
John Wyers walks founders through startup law without losing the thread.
Margaret Coons, founder of Nuts for Cheese, shares her journey from a vegan chef at farmers markets to leading Canada's top plant-based cheese company, now the second best-selling in the US.
Chris Barnard shares his journey from uncertain graduate to co-founder of Points.com, discussing how he evolved into entrepreneurship, navigated the dot-com bubble and 9/11, and built a successful loyalty points business.
This episode explores the landscape of entrepreneurship research, featuring Ivy faculty discussing topics like cognition, location impacts, social enterprises, gender issues, and resilience during crises.
Mona Sabet shares her entrepreneurial journey from Canada to Silicon Valley, discussing her roles in tech deals and acquisitions, including User Testing's $1.3 billion exit.
Jonathan McCain discusses his family's entrepreneurial legacy, including McCain Foods and Maple Leaf Foods, and his own journey from consulting to leading family enterprises.
A podcast sharing stories and lessons from world-class entrepreneurs to improve listeners' odds of success.
This episode features interviews with DJ duo Loud Luxury, a former gaming executive, and a venture capitalist, sharing entrepreneurial insights and lessons.
Interviews with successful entrepreneurs sharing their stories and lessons learned in business.
An entrepreneur shares their experience pitching on Dragon's Den, including preparation and challenges.
An interview with Sarah, founder of The June Motel, discussing her entrepreneurial journey and lessons learned.
An interview with founders of a startup, discussing their entrepreneurial journey and how they got started.
An interview with Scott Butler, founder of High Street Ventures, discussing his entrepreneurial journey in real estate development.
An interview with a digital marketing entrepreneur discussing his journey from Army to MBA to founding a marketing agency.
Host Eric Jansen interviews Emily Linetto, founder of GrowthTO, about her journey in startup growth and marketing.