Podcast + content network for founder media (May 2026)

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H2 2026 podcast landscape (AI-ITSM-relevant shows)

ShowHostNotes
Bloomberg Tech DisruptorsAnurag RanaStauch (Serval) appeared Feb/Apr 2026. Rana covers the ITSM-disruption thesis for public-equity analysts.
No PriorsSarah Guo + Elad GilCapital-side audience
Latent SpaceswyxTechnical / engineering audience
Business of TechDave SobelMSP-side daily reach; bookable via PodMatch
The Cognitive RevolutionNathan LabenzTurpentine network

Shows with structural constraints (facts)

  • Lenny’s Podcast — published guest policy explicitly de-prioritizes founders/CEOs except “legendary” or “builder” categories.
  • Acquired — declines 95% of inbound; guest format is single-company deep-dive only.
  • Logan Bartlett (Redpoint) — Redpoint led Serval’s Series A (conflict: a Redpoint partner’s show is exposed to a competitor’s narrative).
  • Hard Fork — consumer-culture/policy-skewed; not enterprise B2B.
  • All-In — panel-only (no single-guest format); All-In Summit has a separate speaker track.

Coverage map (13 + 6 + 4 + 12 + 4)

  • 13 podcasts (VC/AI side): No Priors, Logan Bartlett, 20VC, Invest Like the Best, Acquired, First Round In Depth, The Peel, Latent Space, Eye on AI, Cognitive Revolution, Hard Fork, All-In, Lenny’s
  • 6 podcasts (CIO/IT side): IT Visionaries, Heavy Networking, CIO In The Know (AVOA), Bloomberg Tech Disruptors, CIO Talk Network, Cloud Wars Live
  • 4 podcasts (MSP side): Business of Tech, MSP Geek Cast, ChannelE2E, The Marketopia Podcast
  • 12 newsletters: Stratechery, Not Boring, The Diff, Latent Space, Import AI, The Information, CIO Dive, ITPro Today, InformationWeek, Constellation, Channelholic, Channel Futures, plus Sacra + The Generalist + CRN
  • 4 video/YouTube shows: Tech Field Day, AI Engineer Summit, Sequoia AI Ascent, a16z Podcast YouTube

Verified audience anchors (from publication’s own posts)

  • Lenny’s Podcast: 1M subscribers
  • Not Boring: 264K subscribers
  • Import AI: 100K subscribers
  • The Diff: 50K subscribers

(Most other podcasts’ audience sizes are gated behind Rephonic/Podscan paid tiers — uncited rather than guessed.)

Notes

  • Business of Tech (Dave Sobel) reaches the MSP-channel audience — see msp-universe-2026.
  • Sequoia AI Ascent + AI Engineer Summit are founder-speaker venues (2027 CFP windows).