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The founders you interview first deserve a record. So do you.

Founder-Focused Podcaster

Guests before they are known, sources and quotes, and a page that shows who you saw coming.

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Fig. 852 · Desk microphone

Requests

What you can ask for here

Each is a kind of request other members answer. Pick the one you need and it goes to the people who can act on it.

All requests

What you can answer

Requests where someone in your role is the person they are hoping hears them.

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On Superscout

What Superscout does for you

Scouting recordFree

Every founder you covered first, on the record, with the date.

Coming

Your pageFree

A page with your coverage, your calls and how to reach you, for the founders and investors who want to.

Coming

RequestsFree

Ask for guests, sources and quotes. The people who fit answer, with their name on it.

Coming

Search that narrowsFree

Founders, funds and programs in the sector you cover, with the facts checked.

FollowFree

Follow a sector and get the daily note when something moves in it.

What the role involves

  1. 01

    Create a reliable guest experience through clear scheduling, briefing, technical preparation, and follow-up.

    responsibility

  2. 02

    Research each guest's company, role, decisions, prior interviews, and relevant operating context before recording.

    responsibility

  3. 03

    Record separate participant tracks, review the transcript, remove mistakes or digressions, and produce the final audio or video episode.

    task

  4. 04

    Schedule the recording, send a studio link and expectations, and verify the guest's microphone, camera, internet, and recording environment.

    task

What shapes the decisions

  1. 01

    Podcast performance data is fragmented by platform and metric definition, and download-based listener estimates do not necessarily prove actual playback.

    constraint

  2. 02

    Episode follow-up and future content choices can use completion, conversion, impressions, sharing, retention, comments, and performance relative to recent episodes rather than raw downloads alone.

    decision criterion

Tools and vocabulary

  1. 01

    Representative systems include guest research and notes, calendar scheduling, remote recording, multitrack audio or video editing, transcription, podcast hosting and RSS, video publishing, social clipping, and audience analytics.

    tool

Creators

All creators roles
LinkedIn CreatorA professional content maker focused on stories, education, engagement, and online community, distinct from but potentially overlapping with an influencer.Startup Beat JournalistA Startup Beat Journalist is a journalist whose assigned or self-defined reporting beat covers startups, venture capital, or the business of technology, with reporting rather than promotion as the defining function.Startup Ecosystem PodcasterA Startup Ecosystem Podcaster is a host or producer who regularly turns conversations with founders, investors, operators, and other ecosystem participants into an edited and distributed audio show for a defined startup audience.Startup YouTuberYouTuber covering startups, founders, or venture.Startup/Venture Book AuthorAuthor of a book about startups or venture capital.Startup/Venture Newsletter AuthorRecurring email-centered startup or venture publication, bounded by beat and audience.

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