Episodes 7
Avg. Duration 1h 16m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (2)
Since Apr 2026
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
Consistency
69%
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About This Podcast

Knuckle Up is about the HOW of building iconic companies. Recruiting, culture, intensity, the inner game of being a founder CEO. The stuff that actually separates great companies from good ones. Hosted by Nakul Mandan (GP, Audacious Ventures), each episode goes deep with founders who’ve done it at the highest level. Not highlight reels. Operating playbooks, straight from the best of the best.

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Startup lessons Silicon Valley won’t teach you | Cameron McCord (Co-founder of Nominal)

Jun 09, 2026 1h 26m

Cameron McCord spent 484 days underwater. As a submarine officer in the US Navy, he learned to run a reactor in a space where the crew sees you 24/7, even brushing your teeth, and where there is no…

Business used to be go karting. Now it's Formula 1.

May 27, 2026 1h 22m

Akshay Kothari has spent most of his time at Notion trying to put himself out of a job. His move, repeated for years, is to run at whatever the company's biggest unsolved problem is, build the system…

Behind the curtain of a $4.5b AI-native powerhouse

May 19, 2026 1h 13m

Ashwin Sreenivas spent his childhood in India waking up at 5am and studying until 8:30 at night. History, geography, physics, chemistry, math. Every day, from 4th grade through 12th grade, through…

$50M ARR With 3 sales reps, no CRO, and one PM | Michael Grinich (CEO, WorkOS)

May 07, 2026 1h 12m

Michael Grinich is a design-obsessed engineer who once spent days in a recording studio with an electronic musician crafting the perfect email notification sound. He now runs WorkOS, the $50M…

Nobody knows anything, product market fit is dead, and there's only one moat | Bipul Sinha

Apr 30, 2026 48m

Bipul Sinha grew up in dire circumstances in India, made his way to IIT, and immigrated to the US in search of the American dream. By 40 he had become a successful VC at Lightspeed; he then founded…

Battle-tested playbooks for recuriting, reading the market, and adapting to AI

Apr 23, 2026 1h 13m

Qasar Younis grew up on a farm in Pakistan, moved to Detroit as a kid, and worked at General Motors before landing at Google and becoming COO of Y Combinator. He then founded Applied Intuition, today…

Frank Slootman on what most CEOs get wrong

Apr 14, 2026 1h 10m

Frank Slootman is the only CEO in history to take three enterprise companies public: Data Domain, ServiceNow, and Snowflake. At their peak, the companies he led were worth over $200 billion combined.…

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How many episodes does Knuckle Up with Nakul have?

Knuckle Up with Nakul has published 7 episodes since April 2026, covering topics in Business, Entrepreneurship.

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Knuckle Up with Nakul is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 16m.

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