11 Million Followers, a Burnout, and What He Learned with Swish Goswami

Founder Unfiltered - What Founders Think But Never Say · Oct 15, 2026 · 32m

He built a basketball media brand to 11 million followers, sold a company, and still ended up burnt out at 23. My guest today, Swish Goswami, has lived that whole arc, and this conversation is about what he tore down and rebuilt afterward.

Swish has been building companies since he was a kid running an imaginary investment bank out of notebooks for his grandparents. He dropped out of university, co-built Dunk into an 11 million follower basketball media brand, grew a personal brand as a LinkedIn top voice, co-founded and sold a data company called Surf, and is now building his newest company…