Tech is the biggest story in the world and its media is somehow the least fun to watch
Adil Mania moved from Paris to SF to change that
Now he's building a full media company around one idea: tech doesn't need to be packaged like homework
A live night show. A print magazine. A weekly newsletter. An animated recap
Every major industry learned how to entertain
Now it's tech's turn
ποΈ Adil Mania, Founder, Silicon Mania, on Fondo START pod
01:48 β Moved from Paris to San Francisco two months before the recording
02:47 β Built a startup media company in France, then stopped when it became "boring"
04:00 β Silicon Mania began as a new, "bigger, better, bolder" media idea
05:23 β His philosophy: treat life like an experiment; iterate instead of chasing final wins
11:00 β The recap format started as an iteration on old YouTube-style yearly recaps
11:38 β First recap went from ~2K views to 50K overnight, then kept climbing
12:40 β Weekly recaps validated the format with roughly 250K+ impressions
13:40 β His thesis on media: people don't need automated slop; people need trust
16:14 β Expanding the format into a newsletter with frame-by-frame context
17:00 β Bringing back the monthly format in print through Silicon Mania magazine
18:16 β The night show is his favorite product: live, interactive, and built around the human side of founders
19:54 β His ambition: make tech media mainstream enough that "my mom" can enjoy it
23:03 β The long-term vision: build the "NBC for tech"