A San Francisco interview podcast
The Bay Signal
Candid conversations with founders, builders, and interesting people shaping San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
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What we ask
No rehearsed pitches. No recycled decks.
Every conversation looks for the person behind the company.
What they're building — the product, the company, the idea.
Why they chose to build it, out of everything they could be doing.
How they ended up in San Francisco, and why they stayed.
The decisions, mistakes, and luck that actually shaped the path.
What life inside the startup ecosystem really looks like.
From the studio
Scenes from the conversations
Recorded across San Francisco — studios, offices, living rooms.
On the calendar
Who's coming up
Names drop when episodes are announced. Here's what's already in motion.
- Recording soonA founder bringing software into a stubbornly physical industry
- ScheduledAn early-stage investor on what actually gets funded in 2026
- In conversationAn engineer who left a comfortable job at a big lab to start over
The host
Behind the microphone
Francisk Hanchar
Host, The Bay Signal
Francisk Hanchar lives in San Francisco and spends his time around the people this city attracts: founders between funding rounds, engineers leaving comfortable jobs for uncertain ideas, investors, artists, operators. The Bay Signal is his way of recording the conversations that usually happen off the record — about ambition, doubt, risk, and what it actually takes to build something here.
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Founders, builders, investors, operators — or someone quietly doing something remarkable in the Bay. Self-nominations welcome.
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