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 format in print through Silicon Mania magazine

18:16 — The night show is his favorite product: live, interactive, and built around the human side of founders

19:54 — His ambition: make tech media mainstream enough that “my mom” can enjoy it

23:03 — The long-term vision: build the “NBC for tech”