Founder's Fridge

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts211/v4/5c/88/d4/5c88d4eb-95e1-b497-6797-170ad4855881/mza_12119543831387963737.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

Founder's Fridge

Founder's Fridge, LLC

7 episodes

12 hours ago

Send us a text "I stockpile food as a comfort. I'm never out of any type of pasta. Never." Courtney Zaugg, founder of VentureVets—a 501(c)(3) accelerator supporting veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs—and co-owner of The Contractors, a general contracting company in Indianapolis, on why her pantry drawers won't close and why she made thirty different freezer meals in one week to prep for her husband's shoulder surgery. This conversation gets real about what founders actually eat. Courtn...

Entrepreneurship

Business

RSS

All content for Founder's Fridge is the property of Founder's Fridge, LLC and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Entrepreneurship

Business

Episodes (7/7)

Founder's Fridge

Episode 6: Leftovers and Leadership with Courtney Zaugg, Founder of VentureVets

1 week ago

20 minutes

Founder's Fridge

Episode 5: Wild Fruit and the Super App Dream with Arbër Kadia, Co-founder of Patoko

Send us a text What do selling wild fruit in Albania and building a global tech company have in common? In this episode of Founders Fridge, host Heidi Knoblauch sits down with Arbër Kadia, Co-founder of Patoko, to talk about growing up in a resourceful family, learning entrepreneurship through necessity, and turning that same creativity into a company building a “super app” for everyday life. Arbër grew up in communist Albania, where his grandfather taught him how to work with what you have—a...

2 weeks ago

23 minutes

Founder's Fridge

Episode 4: Hot Pot & Product Sprints with Jane Chen, Founder & CEO at Letterly

Send us a text What if staying connected to home means filling your entire trunk with Chinese food and driving it three hours north? In this episode of Founders Fridge, host Heidi Knoblauch sits down with Jane Chen, founder and CEO of Letterly, to talk about what happens when you can't just eat any food. You need the food from your childhood to keep going. Jane grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, five minutes from Flushing, now the largest Chinatown in the USA. As a scholarship kid and elite com...

3 weeks ago

26 minutes

Founder's Fridge

Episode 3: No More Chicken Marsala with Hailee Greene, Chief Everything Officer at GreeneAcres Processing

Send us a text What does startup life look like when your boardroom is a barn and your coworkers are three donkeys named Sassy Ass, Sir Assalot, and Total Ass? In this episode of Founder’s Fridge, host Heidi Knoblauch sits down with Hailee Greene, founder and Chief Everything Officer of GreeneAcres Processing, which aims to become New York’s first full-scale industrial hemp processing company. Hailee shares her journey from working in politics—where she learned that every campaign is basica...

4 weeks ago

26 minutes

Founder's Fridge

Episode 2: Jollof Rice and Burger Celebrations with Sumorwuo Zaza, CEO & Co-Founder at Nicklpass

Send us a text What if the meal you grew up with is what gets you through the hardest parts of building a company? In this episode of Founders Fridge, host Heidi Knoblauch sits down with Sumorwuo Zaza, co-founder of nicklpass, to explore how childhood meals and family traditions can shape the way founders lead and persevere. Zaza grew up in a Liberian household where “food is medicine.” Meals weren’t just for eating—they were preparation. Rice, protein, and greens fueled long days of learning...

1 month ago

30 minutes

Founder's Fridge

Episode 1: Protein Balls and Horse Stalls with Amy Gurske, CEO of Sayhii

Send us a text In our debut episode, I sit down with Amy Gurske, founder and CEO of sayhii, to explore the roots of her entrepreneurial journey. From cleaning horse stalls as a child to selling trained horses to pay for college, Amy’s early ventures shaped the resilient, creative mindset that drives her work today. We talk about the founding of sayhii, her experience with burnout, and the reset that led her to build healthier habits — including protein-packed routines and structured meal prep...

1 month ago

25 minutes

Founder's Fridge

Episode 0: It always comes back to oysters.

Send us a text Nine years ago, host Heidi Knoblauch opened an oyster bar in a small town in upstate New York—fresh off a PhD from Yale and against all conventional wisdom. That leap into entrepreneurship revealed something she has carried with her ever since: food sits at the center of the founder journey. In this introductory episode, Heidi shares her path from running a restaurant to launching a startup, to building a venture readiness program that helps communities activate local risk capi...

1 month ago

3 minutes