10 Best Podcasts For Business Owners In Taxi And Ride-hailing
Good news! No need to wade through the wilds of audio content for the top podcasts. Onde has picked the top 20 best podcasts for business owners for you, with extra attention to the ride-hailing industry. So plug in!
Podcasts for business owners per region
Running a successful taxi business is a matter of knowing the investment climate, and other ins and outs of your region. That’s why we open with the top podcasts per region!
Africa
TechPoint Africa
The weekly TechPoint Africa podcast zooms in on the latest developments in technology and innovation on the African continent. The themes range from prospective investment opportunities to tax peculiarities in specific countries and industries to the newest trends in technology.
The TechTrends Podcast
The TechTrends Podcast is hosted by Nixon Kanali and focuses on exclusive interviews with industry leaders all across Africa. As the continent’s technological development skyrockets, it’s essential for business owners to stay in the know about the latest data and trends. The TechTrends podcast can provide you with exactly that.
Afrobility: Africa Tech & Business
The Afrobility podcast offers a monthly deep-dive into the most interesting business models, monetization strategies, policies, and regulations relevant to the African continent.
MashStartup
Even though its name suggests a strong affinity with the startup world, The MashStartup podcast is a great podcast for any business owner who’d like to learn more about making an impact in the local community and get valuable insights on how to build and scale a company of your dreams.
Middle East and North Africa
Wamda
Previously hosted by Wamda, this podcast collected a wide range of inspiring stories from innovative business owners in the region. Not actively updated anymore, this platform still provides many valuable insights on running a business in the Middle East.
Business Extra
The Business Extra podcast by The National News situates the news in the Middle East and North Africa region in the larger context of societal and economic analytics. Get your informed updates for better business decisions.
SavvyTalk
This podcast is hosted by Maha Abouelenein and allows you to dive into the most successful communication strategies and business trends. With her experience in communicating for governments and top corporate players, Maha will talk you through effective approaches to PR, marketing, and communication.
reframe with Mona and Farrukh
The reframe podcast serves an amazing array of inspirational stories from the most promising entrepreneurs in the Mena region. The podcast’s hosts, Mona and Farrukh, provide actionable advice and step-by-step case studies from the tech and tech-related industries. Not actively updated anymore, this podcast is still a great knowledge base about successful business models.
Latin America
Empréndete podcast
The Empréndete podcast provides you with unique insights and learnings from the practice of established business owners in various industries. Leadership, management, innovation, and many other topics are covered in this long-form podcast.
LatamList Espresso
The LatamList Espresso weekly podcast covers the success stories of Latin American entrepreneurs. As the region’s startup ecosystem develops, the makers of the podcast focus on how local entrepreneurs solve the most pressing societal and economic problems. The podcast features valuable insights from investors, business owners, tech innovators, and other key players in the region.
Latitud
The Latitud podcast offers you a sneak peek into the life and thinking of the biggest innovators and tech business owners in Latin America. Raising capital, scaling a business, and staying resilient in a fast-paced environment are the focus points of this show.
Tracción
The Tracción podcast with Victor Cortés offers a great knowledge base full of inspiring examples from various industries. This show is, unfortunately, discontinued, but it still offers valuable insights into how to grow and scale a business, attract investments, and more.
Best business podcasts for business owners
Small businesses can profit the most by learning from more established entrepreneurs’ experience. Entrepreneurs who’ve just launched a taxi service often have too little time to attend conferences and events. A good small business podcast can compensate for it and teach you about scaling, branding, marketing, and more.
My First Million
My First Million by Sam Parr and Shaan Puri focuses on various aspects of running a successful business, from latest market trends to getting your first million of loyal customers. Highly entertaining thanks to how Parr and Puri engage in a conversation, this is more of an inspirational podcast that will give you fresh ideas than a strict how-to guide.
The Business Accelerator
The Business Accelerator podcast is hosted by Michael Hyatt, the New York Times bestselling author, and his daughter Megan Hyatt Miller, Chief Executive Officer at Full Focus. This weekly show features a range of themes helpful for new enterprises, like planning, setting your goals, mastering leadership, and business growth. You’ll even get some much-needed marketing knowledge (gentle reminder: with Onde, you can let experts market your app for you). The two hosts come from different generations, providing listeners with a unique and varied view on business and leadership.
The Tim Ferriss Show
The Tim Ferriss Show is rightly at the top of the list of the best podcasts for business owners. Tim Ferris loves a real and somewhat raw presentation, and expects the same of his guests. He talks through helpful routines and habits, tips and tricks, inspirational content — anything that would make you a better entrepreneur. No wonder this show is chosen as “Best of” Apple Podcasts for three years in a row!
She Did It Her Way
She Did It Her Way is a women-run entrepreneur podcast that spotlights the business lives of successful female entrepreneurs. The show’s host, Amanda Boleyn, has a coaching background — and thus this podcast is primarily there for women to get inspired and start a business. The guest speakers discuss tools they use to make their work successful, reflect on typical failures, and of course, share the experiences of reaching this perfect work/life balance.
Product Hunt Radio
Just as Product Hunt itself, the Product Hunt Radio podcast spotlights the best products in technology, from mobile applications to hardware inventions. This weekly show is hosted by Ryan Hoover, Product Hunt’s founder, and is a must for those who want to run an innovative business and work with technology.
Top podcasts for advanced business owners
An inspiring and informative business podcast is not necessarily a taxi podcast, right? Here are some shows useful for any business owner, not ride-hailing entrepreneurs solely.
How I Built This
How I Built This by Guy Raz is one of the best podcasts for business owners. Raz dives into the stories behind the world’s largest companies like Dropbox, Yelp, and Lyft. The host is a great storyteller, and his guests are extremely inspiring and insightful when it comes to disruption, creating a better future, and fostering idealism.
How Success Happens
The How Success Happens podcast, hosted by Robert Tuchman. This show features a wide range of entrepreneurial minds, with focus on productively overcoming the challenges every entrepreneur faces. Our personal favorite at Onde is the episode with Amos Tamam, the CEO of Curb Mobility.
Talking about inspiration: have you already checked Onde’s own base of inspiring cases across the world?
The $100 MBA Show
The $100 MBA Show hosted by Omar Zenhom is a classic. Each episode is a no-nonsense interview with established entrepreneurs packed with actionable advice. Just some of the topics covered by Zenhom are: common patterns in a company’s development, tackling growth pains, dealing with entrepreneurial risks, keeping your business model flexible.
The bonus feature of The $100 MBA Show is that you can submit your own question and get an answer on air.
This Week in Startups
This Week in Startups is not necessarily focused on giving business owners advice. However, this show hosted by Jason Calacanis spotlights every tiny trend in the tech industry. Fun to listen to, this podcast will keep you in the know about all the things that matter in tech, give you inspiration and actionable tips on running a technological company.
The Growth Show
The Growth Show podcast deals with a complicated issue of business growth. While starting a company seems more feasible than ever, growing a sustainable business is a different story. Surprisingly, there is a lot for us entrepreneurs to learn from social movements, philosophers, and small local business owners.
Wrapping up…
There’s much more audio content of high quality about entrepreneurship, small and bigger business, and running a successful company. Just have a look at what your community has to offer. No one there yet? Well, we’re not telling you what to do, but it might be just about time to launch your own taxi podcast and inspire others!
