THE UNFILTERED STORIES OF WHAT BUILDING ACTUALLY TAKES

Long-form, candid conversations with founders building AI-first companies. Every episode reconstructs a real company-building decision — the bets made, what broke, what it cost, and what they'd never do again.

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What this is

Real talk for founders building AI-first companies

There is no shortage of people narrating the startup world from the outside. Founders Uncensored is hosted from inside the decisions — by a General Partner forming companies right now, with founders willing to say the part they cut everywhere else.

Built for founders and founding teams at AI companies, senior operators weighing whether to start, and engineers tracking where adaptive software actually works in production versus where it is still theory.

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Meet Peter Day

Peter Day, host of Founders Uncensored
Peter Day
General Partner, super{set}

Peter is a General Partner at super{set}, the venture studio that forms, funds and builds data and AI companies. Before that he was CTO and Chief Product Officer at Quantcast, where he ran engineering and product through the company's scaling years.

He is a builder among builders forming companies today — not a retired commentator on the industry — and he hosts every conversation from inside the decisions being discussed.

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super{set} is a venture studio that forms, funds and builds data and AI companies from concept to scale — not a fund that waits for a pitch. We start with a thesis, assemble the team, and build the company alongside founders from day one.

Studio, not a fundCompanies are formed in-house — thesis first, team second, capital alongside.
Data and AI from the ground upEvery company is built around data infrastructure and applied AI as the core, not a feature.
Operators in the roomPartners who have built and scaled companies stay involved through the hardest stretches.
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