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Seed to Harvest
🎙️ Seed to Harvest | Stories from Technical Storytellers
Welcome to Seed to Harvest, the podcast by Behind Genius Ventures.
We talk to early-stage founders, operators, and investors—people building with code and conviction. Each episode is a chapter in their story: from the messy beginnings to the quiet pivots, from planting ideas to growing companies that matter.
Expect:
🌱 Honest conversations on the earliest chapters of company-building
🧠 Tactical insights from technical minds with narrative soul
✨ Reflections on resilience, rituals, and reinventing what’s possible
This podcast is for the builders who think in frameworks and metaphors. The ones who whiteboard in wild places. The ones writing their own mythologies—one commit, pitch, or poem at a time.
From spark to story.
From seed to harvest. 🌾
Seed to Harvest
Tom McLeod on Startups, Tech, and Creative Financing | Ep 93
Tom McLeod isn’t your typical founder or investor.
He bootstrapped a SaaS to 100k users, built a League of Legends app used by millions, sold it to Tencent, and now backs businesses at the intersection of identity, community, and cashflow. Think: car clubs, not cloud infra.
In this episode of Seed to Harvest, Tom breaks down:
• The 3 founder archetypes he’s seen across cycles
• Why he hires founders (even though they always leave)
• What he learned going from bootstrapped to venture-backed
• How he thinks about underwriting non-venture-scale returns
It’s a fresh take for anyone rethinking capital models or scouting overlooked operator talent.
Connect with Paige 🌱💜
Behind Genius Ventures blog - https://www.behindgeniusventures.com/
Personal Blog - https://paigefinndoherty.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paigefinnn
Connect with Tom 🌱💜
Email- Tom@saltwater.com
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/tmcleod/?hl=en
Twitter- https://x.com/tmcleod3?lang=en