Podcast · Business
The Studio Model
By Colin McDonnell & Christian Yeghnazar
Episodes
- Jul 3, 2026 · Season 1 · Episode 5
Wins, Wrecks, and What's Next
The season finale. The stories that prove the model: Moderna out of Flagship Pioneering, Hims out of Atomic ('Silicon Valley's Pixar'), Snowflake incubated inside Sutter Hill for…
- Jul 3, 2026 · Season 1 · Episode 4
The Playbook: From Idea to Spinout
The builders' episode. Colin and Christian walk the six stages of the studio playbook: sourcing ideas against an unfair-advantage filter, running 4–12 week validation sprints…
- Jul 3, 2026 · Season 1 · Episode 3
The Economics: Who Owns What
The money episode. Why studios take 20–50% at formation and how to steelman that number, what founders get in return (salary, speed, dramatically better odds), and how studios…
- Jul 3, 2026 · Season 1 · Episode 2
Building With Partners, Not Just For Them
The partnership episode. Colin and Christian dig into corporate venture building and co-creation: why big companies are structurally bad at zero-to-one, how an external studio…
- Jul 3, 2026 · Season 1 · Episode 1
What Even Is a Product Studio?
Colin and Christian kick off the series by mapping the landscape: what a product/venture studio actually is, and how it differs from an agency, a VC fund, and an accelerator…