Podcast + content network for founder media (May 2026)
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H2 2026 podcast landscape (AI-ITSM-relevant shows)
| Show | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomberg Tech Disruptors | Anurag Rana | Stauch (Serval) appeared Feb/Apr 2026. Rana covers the ITSM-disruption thesis for public-equity analysts. |
| No Priors | Sarah Guo + Elad Gil | Capital-side audience |
| Latent Space | swyx | Technical / engineering audience |
| Business of Tech | Dave Sobel | MSP-side daily reach; bookable via PodMatch |
| The Cognitive Revolution | Nathan Labenz | Turpentine 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).
Related
- community-sentiment-snapshot-2026 — practitioner side
- twitter-x-intelligence-2026 — X-side voices to cross-reference
- msp-universe-2026 — Business of Tech audience
- Init Intelligence