Episodes

Oct. 28, 2025

Episode 5: Wild Fruit and the Super App Dream with Arbër Kadia, Co-fo…

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 nece…

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Oct. 21, 2025

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

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…

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Oct. 14, 2025

Episode 3: No More Chicken Marsala with Hailee Greene, Chief Everythi…

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…

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Oct. 7, 2025

Episode 2: Jollof Rice and Burger Celebrations with Sumorwuo Zaza, CE…

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 f…

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Sept. 30, 2025

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

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...

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Sept. 24, 2025

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 …

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