Unstoppable Podcast

The Lower-Risk Bet: How David Pourquery Left Private Equity at 25 to Build a Bootstrapped AI Company Without a Safety Net
The Bigger Risk Was Staying Most people frame the leap into entrepreneurship as a risk calculation. What are the odds this works? What's my runway? What do I do if it fails? David Pourquery inverted that. At 25, he was working at an $8 billion private equity fund in London. Strong comp. Good trajectory. The…
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When No One Has a Box for You: Neen James on the Decision to Become a Category of One
She was sitting in her friend's kitchen when it finally clicked. Not a boardroom. Not a strategy session with her team. A kitchen. A conversation. A friend saying out loud what she'd been circling for years: that the CEOs of luxury and legacy brands had her on speed dial, that she was already living inside…
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Identity Is a Strategic Liability: The Decision Most Leaders Can’t Make
He is staring at a printout that doesn't make sense. For almost twenty years, this company has been the leader in the business that built Silicon Valley. Now the numbers say the core business is bleeding out. Market share collapsing from more than 80% to almost nothing. Prices falling 60% in a single year. Factories…
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Indecision Will Kill You: The Operator’s Discipline Most Leaders Never Build
Most people think the worst decision they can make is the wrong one. It isn’t. The worst decision is the one you keep postponing. The one you turn over in your head for weeks while your runway shortens, your team waits, your competition moves, and your mind builds a story about why you need “just…
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When You Know It’s Time to Leave Corporate
After two decades in corporate compensation, Scott Trumpholt left a global role in Germany to build his own firm. The trigger was a meeting about a project title. Inside the decision framework that has kept him independent for 14 years.
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When a Key Employee Goes Rogue
A senior employee at MVP Playgrounds had set up fake distributorships and rerouted company leads for years. CEO Nicolas Breedlove on the real decision the fraud forced him to make — not who to fire, but who to become.
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