The Flywheel by M13
The Flywheel is a podcast for founders, operators and investors building through structural change. M13 partners sit down with the founders reshaping AI, enterprise software, healthcare, commerce, and consumer technology to unpack the hard calls and inflection points as they build category-defining companies. Each conversation is designed to help listeners better understand where the world is changing, what great founders see before others do, and how enduring companies are built.
The Flywheel by M13
Latest Episodes
The Future of Security is Data Security | Lizzy Nammour, founder & CEO, Teleskope
What if the future of security is no alerts at all?Lizzy Nammour started on a three-person data security team at Airbnb, trying to track 10 years of data that engineers kept collecting faster than anyone could map—and she built Teleskope...
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Who Verifies the Agents? | Jonathan Awad, co-founder and CEO, Baselayer
What happens when the software spending your money doesn't have an ID?Jonathan Awad built Baselayer into the identity network one in five US financial institutions uses to verify businesses—more than $1 billion in fraud losses prevented—...
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Tariffs Gave This Shipping Company Its Best Year | Alex Yancher, Founder and CEO, Passport
What if the worst year for global trade in a decade turned out to be your best year ever?Alex Yancher built Passport into the cross-border commerce engine shipping to 150 countries for brands going international, and a year after Liberat...
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How AI Is Rebuilding Payroll and Global Work | Nami Baral, Founder and CEO, Niural
What if "what's the fastest path to $100 million in ARR" is the wrong question entirely? Nami Baral, founder and CEO of Niural, spent two and a half years building an AI-native global payroll stack before going to market because she isn't build...
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The MIT Founder Who Bet on the Market Nobody Wanted | Parth Shah, Polimorphic
What if the most overlooked market in tech is the one every investor told you to run from? Polimorphic founder Parth Shah and M13 Managing Partner Latif Peracha explore how local governments are leapfrogging a decade of technology straight into...
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