What does it take to build a successful app company? How do you come up with great ideas? How do you build a market where customers want more? Chris Folayan interviews Jessica Etting the founder and CEO of Jam Family Calendar. An app company doing great things to help people schedule their hectic lives using smarts and AI.

Welcome to Founderholic, the podcast for high-performing founders building enduring companies. In today’s episode, we’re tackling one of the most critical and complex challenges early-stage founders face: how to navigate the fundraising landscape in 2026. The venture capital climate has changed, expectations have shifted, and the bar for raising pre-seed and seed capital has never been higher. Whether you're based in Africa, Europe, or the U.S., this episode will equip you with actionable insights, timing strategies, and investor mindset shifts that will help you raise smarter and scale stronger.

Most people introduce themselves by saying what they do. That is exactly why they are forgotten.

In this episode of Founderholic, we break down what actually makes an introduction stick within the first sixty seconds. This conversation is not about elevator pitches, job titles, or polished scripts. It is about the human signals that cause people to recognize you, remember you, and want to continue the conversation.

You will learn why memorability matters more than explanation, how the best founders and business owners use human context to stand out, and the simple archetype behind introductions that travel from room to room even when you are not present. We also walk through a live on-air exercise you can use immediately to redesign your own introduction and test whether it survives memory.

If you own a software or service business, attend conferences, pitch ideas, or meet new people regularly, this episode will change how you show up in every first conversation.