PHX Founders Podcast

PHX Founders Podcast

We sit down with remarkable founders who are making Phoenix a top software city. In these interviews, we dig in to the highs and lows of company building, and get a little vulnerable to find out what makes these founders keep going.

The PHX Founders Podcast is a production of PHX FWD, on a mission to prove Phoenix a top city for sustainable, high growth software companies to start, scale, and succeed.

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PHX Founders Interview with Chris and Jonathan Ronzio
Jan. 4, 2024

PHX Founders Interview with Chris and Jonathan Ronzio

In our final episode from S1 of the PHX Founders Podcast, we continue our conversation with Chris Ronzio, founder and CEO of Trainual, and we're also joined by his co-founder, CMO, and brother, Johnathan Ronzio. This epi…
PHX Founders Interview with Chris Ronzio, Part 2
Dec. 20, 2023

PHX Founders Interview with Chris Ronzio, Part 2

Our conversation with Chris veered into some interesting places. From starting any business he could imagine as a kid, to learning to live with Type 1 Diabetes, to distance running in Antarctica. In Part 2 of our conversatio…
PHX Founders Interview with Chris Ronzio, Part 1
Dec. 13, 2023

PHX Founders Interview with Chris Ronzio, Part 1

It’s hard to be around Chris Ronzio, founder and CEO of Trainual, and not feel energized. He brings that excited, passionate energy everywhere he goes, and it’s infections. He’s also a workhorse, who never stops trying and l…
PHX Founders Interview with Scarlett Spring, Part 2
Dec. 5, 2023

PHX Founders Interview with Scarlett Spring, Part 2

Scarlett Spring is building a software company in a sector of healthcare that is notoriously underfunded and difficult to navigate. Or is it? Scarlett might know something about the future of personalized care and doesn’t mi…
PHX Founders Interview with Scarlett Spring, Part 1
Nov. 28, 2023

PHX Founders Interview with Scarlett Spring, Part 1

When you’re a seasoned healthcare executive, biotech founder, and prominent board member, starting a software company should feel easy, right? When you’re Scarlett Spring, founder and CEO of Taproot, it feels like any other …
PHX Founders Interview with Nirit Rubenstein, Part 2
Nov. 21, 2023

PHX Founders Interview with Nirit Rubenstein, Part 2

In the first part of our conversation, we learned that Nirit faces the same challenges as every other software founder. Raising capital is hard, building a customer base is hard, building a team and culture is hard. But Niri…
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