🎧 START pod: Adil Mania, Founder & Host, Silicon Mania: “Make Tech Fun Again”

Tech is the biggest story in the world and its media is somehow the least fun to watchAdil Mania moved from Paris to SF to change thatNow he's building a full media company around one idea: tech doesn't need to be packaged like homeworkA live night show. A print magazine. A weekly newsletter. An animated recapEvery major industry learned how to entertainNow it's tech's turn🎙️ Adil Mania, Founder, Silicon Mania, on Fondo START pod01:48 — Moved from Paris to San Francisco two months before the recording02:47 — Built a startup media company in France, then stopped when it became "boring"04:00 — Silicon Mania began as a new, "bigger, better, bolder" media idea05:23 — His philosophy: treat life like an experiment; iterate instead of chasing final wins11:00 — The recap format started as an iteration on old YouTube-style yearly recaps11:38 — First recap went from ~2K views to 50K overnight, then kept climbing12:40 — Weekly recaps validated the format with roughly 250K+ impressions13:40 — His thesis on media: people don't need automated slop; people need trust16:14 — Expanding the format into a newsletter with frame-by-frame context17:00 — Bringing back the monthly format in print through Silicon Mania magazine18:16 — The night show is his favorite product: live, interactive, and built around the human side of founders19:54 — His ambition: make tech media mainstream enough that "my mom" can enjoy it23:03 — The long-term vision: build the "NBC for tech"