Startup Ignition Podcast

Bubba Page borrowed $5,000 from his parents to join a six-founder BYU startup, sold his stake two years later for a 10x return, and got paid half of it in office chairs (everyone in his family got one for Christmas). From there he bootstrapped...

Arian Lewis grew up in Provo watching his single mom turn a 12-kid daycare into a 320-kid childcare center with 50 employees. Today he's the co-founder and CEO of Kiln, the hospitality-driven coworking and flex-office company with 24 locations (37 by...

Sterling Jones was a BYU sophomore with no major when his mom, Jody "JoJo" Jones, started making protein-packed dark chocolate bark on a cookie sheet while fighting cancer. Twelve years later, JoJo's Chocolate has done over $100 million in revenue in...

Adam Sidwell spent nine years inside Hollywood visual effects — ILM, Weta Digital, Digital Domain, Sony Pictures Imageworks — working on King Kong, Pirates of the Caribbean, iRobot, and Transformers, starting at $13.64 an hour writing code for...

No guest this week — John and Tyler take on the question every founder is asking in 2026: how do you know if your startup idea is actually good, now that AI can build almost anything in a weekend? They start with Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad 2026...