Full Stack Founders

Most founders are running 9-figure output on broken human hardware. They are overworking 60+ hours a week to manage teams, when the reality is that 90% of execution can now be automated. In this episode, Mike Bledsoe and Ted Phaeton deconstruct the shift from "Fragmented Operator" to "Sovereign Business DJ." If you are a founder stuck in the "Theory Trap" of AI, this architectural deep dive shows you how to ship in 3 weeks what used to cost $50,000 and 3 months.

Key Points:

☑️ The Dot-Com Wave 2.0: Why we are in a historical window of individual leverage.

☑️ Agentic SEO & AEO: How to structure your business for the era of AI search.

☑️ The Parallel Build: Mike's framework for rebuilding a business from scratch while it's still running.

☑️ Prompt Engineering for Sovereignty: Why the quality of your results is limited by the quality of your questions.

☑️ The Business DJ Framework: Moving from managing people to orchestrating agents.

Chapters:

00:00 – The Sovereign Shift (Intro Sequence)

00:44 – Why Politics is a Software Bug for Founders

05:15 – Replacing a $50,000 Team with Agentic AI

09:20 – Riding the Wave: Why Now is 1999 All Over Again

14:30 – Why 99% of Businesses Experimenting with AI are Failing

21:10 – The "Business DJ" Identity: Orchestrating Leverage

28:45 – The Parallel Build Strategy: Deleting Your Old Workflow

36:12 – Masterclass: Deep Research using Gemini and NotebookLM

42:30 – The Full Stack Stack: Claude Opus, Grok, and Manus

48:50 – Homework: Installing your Human Operating System

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What is Full Stack Founders?

For operator-founders building for the AI era.

Mike Bledsoe and Ted Phaeton host. Mike's been an entrepreneur for 19 years: Navy veteran, built CrossFit gyms, Barbell Shrugged, a SaaS product for operators, and now consults operators rebuilding their businesses around AI. Ted's earlier on the path. Part of the show is Mike mentoring him through the conversation in public. The rest is keeping the audience up to speed on what AI is actually doing to the game in real time.

When there are guests, they're operators worth having in the room. When there aren't, Ted drives the questions. Usually the ones most operators won't ask out loud. They walk through the work together.

Most business podcasts are entertainment for operators pretending to build something. This one is for the ones actually building.

No guru energy. No performance. Two operators thinking out loud about what ownership actually requires now.

New episodes every Monday.