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

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

From START by Fondo

April 16, 2026 · 25 min · Episode 88

About this episode

Adil Mania discusses his vision to make tech media more entertaining and accessible.

Tech is the biggest story in the world and its media is somehow the least fun to watch Adil Mania moved from Paris to SF to change that Now he's building a full media company around one idea: tech doesn't need to be packaged like homework A live night show. A print magazine. A weekly newsletter. An animated recap Every major industry learned how to entertain Now it's tech's turn 🎙️ Adil Mania, Founder, Silicon Mania, on Fondo START pod 01:48 — Moved from Paris to San Francisco two months before the recording 02:47 — 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 idea 05:23 — His philosophy: treat life like an experiment; iterate instead of chasing final wins 11:00 — The recap format started as an iteration on old YouTube-style yearly recaps 11:38 — First recap went from ~2K views to 50K overnight, then kept climbing 12:40 — Weekly recaps validated the format with roughly 250K+ impressions 13:40 — His thesis on media: people don't need automated slop; people need trust 16:14 — Expanding the format into a newsletter with frame-by-frame context 17:00 — Bringing back the monthly…

People in this episode

Host: Fondo

Guest: Adil Mania

Topics covered

  • tech media
  • entrepreneurship
  • innovation
  • media company
  • entertainment

Keywords

  • tech
  • media
  • Silicon Mania
  • entertainment
  • newsletter
  • print magazine
  • live show

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Silicon Mania, NBC

Places: Paris, San Francisco

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