13 Companies Started in 2015
Learn from founders and CEOs who launched their businesses in 2015

Sam Altman
Co-founder & CEO
In this interview, Sam Altman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI, explores the practical trajectory toward artificial general intelligence and the imperative of human agency in governance. He discusses scaling compute infrastructure, recursive model self-improvement, and structural economic shifts across global labor markets. Altman shares candid perspectives on leading frontier AI development, organizational resilience under public scrutiny, and why enduring cognitive thinking skills remain indispensable for tomorrow's leaders.

Sam Altman
Co-founder & CEO
In this interview, Sam Altman discusses the accelerating pace of artificial intelligence, the realities of preparing OpenAI for a public offering while preserving its nonprofit mission, and navigating civilizational safety risks. He reflects on executive departures during hypergrowth, international non-proliferation cooperation, and the urgent necessity of mental health guardrails. Altman shares personal insights on public scrutiny, fatherhood, and maintaining grounded conviction while steering unprecedented technological progress toward broad human benefit.

Jason Cozens
Founder & CEO
In this interview, Jason Cozens, founder and CEO of Glint Pay, joins Andy Schectman on Little by Little to discuss the resurgence of physical gold and silver as legal tender currency across the United States. He explains how state-level constitutional initiatives in Texas and Florida are revitalizing sound money, how fintech bridges allocated vaulted bullion with everyday debit card transactions, and why global debt pressures are driving economic resilience.

Kai Yu
Founder & CEO
In this interview, Dr. Kai Yu, founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, sits down with Nicolai Tangen, CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, to break down China's leadership in autonomous driving. He explains how his company powers one out of every three intelligent passenger vehicles in China, outlines his strategic roadmap toward hands-off, eyes-off, and mind-off driving by 2035, and shares why high-barrier automotive computing creates defensible, enduring business models.

Guillermo Rauch
Founder & CEO
In this interview, Vercel founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch discusses recursive founder mode, scaling product portfolio autonomy, and the transition toward agentic software factories. Rauch explains Vercel's internal AI agent V, details the evolution of cloud infrastructure for spatial agents, and outlines how coding is a misnomer since everything is code. He also shares insights on recruitment, energy optimization, and the future of small businesses.

Kenny mendes
Chief People Officer
In this interview, Superhuman Chief People Officer Kenny Mendes discusses rebuilding corporate culture and identity following the acquisition of Coda by Grammarly and the subsequent rebranding to Superhuman. Mendes shares frameworks for shifting employees from fish to pond thinking, details the mechanics of voluntary equity swap programs, outlines the optional return to office model, and explains why he centralized compensation decisions away from managers.

Wayne Cartmel
Founder & CEO
In this interview, MyNewTerm founder and CEO Wayne Cartmel discusses the challenges of building a bootstrapped applicant tracking system and job board for the education sector. Cartmel shares the company's origin story, explains the complexities of England's multi-academy trusts, and details the go-to-market strategies that helped MyNewTerm secure forty-five percent market share. He also reflects on managing technical setbacks, balancing entrepreneurship with professional football refereeing, and the future of EdTech.

Sean Henry
Co-founder & CEO
In this interview, Stord co-founder and CEO Sean Henry explains the architecture of the cloud-based supply chain and the physical intelligence layer for commerce. Henry shares his early entrepreneurship journey on eBay, details the logistics challenges faced by billion-dollar manufacturers, and discusses the advantages of a shared distribution network. He outlines the cultural integration of software and physical operations, analyzes the limitations of selling through third-party marketplaces, and details Stord's Series F capital allocation.

Allison Ellsworth
Co-founder
In this interview, Poppi co-founder Allison Ellsworth shares the journey of building a prebiotic soda brand from a kitchen counter experiment to a 1.95 billion USD acquisition by PepsiCo. Ellsworth discusses the dynamics of the modern soda wars, the execution of influencer equity deals, and the creation of a viral digital marketing strategy. She details early financial hardships, explains how fun fuels corporate culture, and reflects on the emotional transition of exiting her startup.

Sam Altman
Co-founder & CEO
In this interview, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman discusses the shifting dynamics of startup creation, the trajectory of model scaling laws, and the geopolitical battle between AI liberty and authoritarianism. Altman shares internal trade-offs, such as pausing Sora to prioritize coding agents, and details his collaboration with Jony Ive. He reflects on managing organizational chaos, aligns incentives through historic economic structures, and examines physical bottlenecks like transistors and energy.

Soham Chokshi
Co-Founder & CEO
In this interview, Shipsy co-founder and CEO Soham Chokshi discusses the transition of global supply chains from just-in-time to resilience amidst geopolitical disruptions and rising costs. He details the labor shortages in logistics and explains how AI can optimize carrier operations, improve address lat-long accuracy, and reduce quick commerce delivery costs. Chokshi highlights Shipsy's strict architectural guardrails, emphasizing that humans must remain in the loop for critical decision-making.

Dan Martell
Founder
In this interview, Dan Martell discusses the principles behind building scalable SaaS businesses and helping entrepreneurs create companies that support their ideal lives. He shares insights on time management, leadership, founder development, and the importance of systems-driven growth. The conversation highlights delegation, personal performance, long-term thinking, and how entrepreneurs can increase their impact by focusing on high-value activities while avoiding burnout.

Luca Martini
Founder & CEO
In this interview, the founder of a YouTube marketing agency shares how he built the business from scratch and grew it into a team of 15 through SEO and content marketing. He discusses client acquisition, scaling a service-based business, building systems, hiring the right people, and the strategies that helped generate consistent growth in a competitive digital landscape.