Full Stack Founders
The podcast Ted Phaeton and I host every Tuesday.
Full Stack Founders is a weekly podcast for operator-founders building for the AI era.
Ted Phaeton and I host it every Tuesday. I've been an entrepreneur for 19 years. Ted's earlier on the path. Part of the show is me mentoring him through the conversation in public. The rest is us keeping the audience up to speed on what AI is actually doing to the game in real time.
When we have guests, they're operators we want in the room for the conversation. When we don't, Ted drives the questions. Usually the ones most operators won't ask out loud. We walk through the work together.
No guru energy. No performance. Me and Ted working through the AI shift in real time, with one of us further down the road than the other.
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Recent episodes
One AI Agent Replaced My $50,000 Team — The Architecture of Sovereign Scaling
Most founders are running 9-figure output on broken human hardware.
The Biology of Belief — Dismantling Mental Models for Sovereign Founders
Most founders are trying to scale a 9-figure business on "Human Operating System" software that hasn't been updated since childhood.
Why Your Hard Work Is a Software Bug — The Protocol for 14-Day Mastery in the AI Era
99.9% of founders are running a deprecated operating system.
The hosts
Mike Bledsoe
Navy veteran, built CrossFit gyms, Barbell Shrugged, and a SaaS product for operators. Consulting operator-founders since 2013.
MoreTed Phaeton
Two-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and Strategic Architect. Helps overstretched founders running $500K–$5M businesses transition from "Chief Everything Officer" to sovereign leader through AI Stack Implementation and life-architecture work. Husband, father, hybrid athlete.
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