Founders in Motion
with Thea Ngo
Honest, tactical conversations with early-stage founders — the real decisions, trade-offs and mechanics behind building a company.
APAC-leaning founder stories, hosted by Thea Ngo. A new episode ships every Thursday — on YouTube, Spotify and Apple.
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the real work of building — in motion.
Honest, tactical conversations with early-stage founders. Every episode goes after three things.
The real decisions
The calls founders actually agonise over — not the tidy after-the-fact version.
Honest trade-offs
What it cost, what got dropped, and why. The parts most shows skip.
The mechanics
How it was really built — the moving parts under the story.
every episode
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Thea Ngo
Thea Ngo is a senior investment associate at Archangel Ventures, a Sydney early-stage venture fund, where she sources and evaluates investments across the APAC startup ecosystem. She previously worked as a strategy consultant with PwC's Strategy& in New York and Southeast Asia, and has additional experience in venture building and operating roles at Do Ventures, Kidas and Phynergetix. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Ngo also created and hosts Founders in Motion, a Day One podcast that sits down with early-stage APAC founders for the honest, tactical version of the story: the real decisions, trade-offs and mechanics of building a company.
a new founder story, every week.
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Founders in Motion is produced with Day One — the podcast network for founders, investors and operators, and the team that helped build Blackbird Ventures' Wild Hearts. Want a show like this for your fund or company?