EntreHouse Podcast

Thomas Geib

Unfiltered conversations with founders building $2M to $100M+ companies from Medellín and Mexico City.The questions founders can't Google and won't ask out loud: the real numbers, the identity reset of moving abroad, the loneliness of leadership, and what it takes to build a serious company from a city everyone underestimates. Hosted by Thomas Geib, founder of Entrepreneurs House, the vetted founder community of Latin America. Every guest passed the same bar our members did: revenue verified, background checked, no pitching, ever.These are the conversations that happen at our dinner tables, recorded. New episodes twice a month. If you're a founder building in Latin America, apply for a seat at our next dinner at entrehouse.com.

Episodes

  1. Sep 9

    I Lost My Best Friend's $100k: Then I Built A 500,000-User App | William Jourdain

    He lost his best friend's $100,000, got told to quit by everyone around him — and didn't. Today his platform has 500,000 monthly users. And he still can't write a single line of code. William Jourdain is the founder and CEO of Fan Stories, a platform helping creators monetize their audience — 10,000 creators, 500,000 monthly active users, 50 million visits. But the road there was brutal: selling air conditioning door-to-door at -20°, building a "prototype" out of cardboard, losing $20K to the wrong developer, then nearly burning through a friend's $100K before a co-founder saved the company. In this episode he breaks down the full founder journey — the failures, the comeback, and the grind nobody posts about — plus the exact playbook he used to build a community from 80 cold interviews, and the growth tactics he's using to reach million-follower creators. If you've ever wanted to quit, watch this one. 🔗 Apply: https://entrehouse.com 🔗 Membership: https://entrehouse.com/membership 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theentrehouse/ CHAPTERS 00:00:00 The story in 90 seconds 00:01:04 Meet William Jourdain: the founder of Fanstories 00:03:16 How the idea started and the -20° grind 00:05:29 The cardboard "app" that lost $20K 00:07:52 The $100K from a friend and losing it all 00:10:32 The co-founder who saved the company 00:14:08 Why he says he still hasn't "made it" 00:15:57 How he ended up in Medellín (and fell in love) 00:20:38 His scary first night, and dating culture shock 00:29:54 The host's real estate hustle (flipping at 21) 00:33:50 How the community got its first 50 members 00:43:11 The chaos behind a black-tie event 00:50:38 Why he joined after one retreat 00:56:21 The million-follower problem he's solving 00:59:51 The podcast funnel that books anyone 01:07:15 The "sold out" and tier-zero event hacks 01:12:19 His one rule

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Unfiltered conversations with founders building $2M to $100M+ companies from Medellín and Mexico City.The questions founders can't Google and won't ask out loud: the real numbers, the identity reset of moving abroad, the loneliness of leadership, and what it takes to build a serious company from a city everyone underestimates. Hosted by Thomas Geib, founder of Entrepreneurs House, the vetted founder community of Latin America. Every guest passed the same bar our members did: revenue verified, background checked, no pitching, ever.These are the conversations that happen at our dinner tables, recorded. New episodes twice a month. If you're a founder building in Latin America, apply for a seat at our next dinner at entrehouse.com.