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The Code Story episode archive
Code Story is a periodic window into the startup world. In their own words, founders and technical leaders share what it feels like to disrupt an industry, how they recovered from critical mistakes, and what it takes to build — and lead — a team that has your back. All 826 episodes are listed here, newest first.
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Rickard's Deterministic Return: Converting Scattered Data into Autonomous, Production-Grade Apps with Rickard Hansson, Founder & CEO of Gainable
Using data and moving AI to the most optimal spot in the SDLC
Aug 6, 2026 · 24 min
Season 12 · Episode 30
S12 E30: Wastewater Guardians: Automating Biology to Protect Clean Water with Virginia Szepietowski, Co-Founder of Nyad AI
Building delightful AI for the Guardians of our Water System
Aug 4, 2026 · 28 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The App-Aware Illusion: Why Infinite Compute Fails Without Underlying Infrastructure Accountability and the Case for "Boring" IT with Richard Luna, President & Founder of Protected Harbor
Infrastructure that is optimized for your specific SaaS application
Jul 30, 2026 · 32 min
Season 12 · Episode 29
S12 E29: Fractional Talent: Traditional Freelance Marketplaces Fail Enterprise Workflows and the Shift Toward Managed Engineering Teams with Danny Gal, Co-Founder & CEO of Proteams
A marketplace to fuel your creative and incremental needs
Jul 28, 2026 · 21 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Perishable Supply Chain Crisis: Why Generic ERPs Fail Fresh Food Logistics and How AI Agents Are Transforming Error-Free Order Intake with Sid Dixit, Chief Technology Officer at iTradeNetwork
The supply chain software behind the breakfast you ate today.
Jul 23, 2026 · 32 min
Season 12 · Episode 28
S12 E28: The AI Throughput Illusion: Why Splurging on Expensive Models Fails to Ship Code and How to Measure Real Engineering Output with Emilie Schario, Co-Founder & Head of Product & Engineering at Kilo Code
The Future of AI is multi-model via the best coding harness
Jul 21, 2026 · 24 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Dashboard Mirage: Why Aggregate Metrics Hide Revenue Leaks and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara, Founder & CEO of Bicycle AI
Building the 24x7 Revenue Analyst
Jul 16, 2026 · 30 min
Season 12
The AI Control Loop: The Enterprise AI Accountability Moment – with Shayne Higdon of Wallarm
The AI Control Loop: The Enterprise AI Accountability Moment – with Shayne Higdon of Wallarm
Jul 15, 2026 · 27 min
Season 12 · Episode 27
S12 E27: The Real-Time Scaling Tax: Why High-Volume WebSockets Kill Monolithic Performance and How AnyCable Decoupled the Real-Time Layer with Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians
Building the better websockets for guarantees
Jul 14, 2026 · 38 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Global Talent Mirage: Why Rigid Immigration Frameworks Fail Elite Tech Teams and the Rise of the Global Mobility OS with Ramiro Roballos, Co-Founder & CEO of Tukki
Making immigration policy the way it should be
Jul 9, 2026 · 22 min
Season 12
The AI Control Loop: What's Missing in AI Security Today - with Craig Thomas of Wallarm
The AI Control Loop: What's Missing in AI Security Today - with Craig Thomas of Wallarm
Jul 8, 2026 · 20 min
Season 12 · Episode 26
S12 E26: Your Automated CRM Texts are Ending up in the Spam Folder (And How to Fix It) with John Wright, Co-Founder & CEO of TrueDialog
Building an Enterprise SMS & RCS platform
Jul 7, 2026 · 27 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The App Is Dead, Long Live the Outcome: Why Autonomous AI Agents Are Rewriting Data Infrastructure and Transforming PostgreSQL Into a Dynamic Scratch Pad with Ajay Kulkarni, Founder & CEO of Tiger Data
Building the Best DB out of Necessity
Jul 2, 2026 · 25 min
Season 12
The AI Control Loop: Detection is not Enough - with Tim Ebbers of Wallarm
The AI Control Loop: Detection is not Enough - with Tim Ebbers of Wallarm
Jul 1, 2026 · 13 min
Season 12 · Episode 25
S12 E25: From Processing $500B at Intuit to Building the Fraud-Proof Ledger: Eradicating Financial Misstatement with Ahikam Kaufman, Co-Founder & CEO of Safebooks AI
Automating manual finance processes with AI Agents
Jun 30, 2026 · 27 min
Season 12 · Episode 24
S12 E24 P2: Why Off-the-Shelf APIs Fail Complex Web Workflows and the Blueprint for High-Velocity Product Engineering with Volodymyr & Vitalii Sydorenko, Co-Founders of Gearheart
The Creation Story (and Expansion) of Gearhart
Jun 25, 2026 · 15 min
Season 12
The AI Control Loop: When AI Goes Rogue - with Craig Thomas of Wallarm
The AI Control Loop: When AI Goes Rogue - with Craig Thomas of Wallarm
Jun 24, 2026 · 23 min
Season 12 · Episode 24
S12 E24 P1: Why Off-the-Shelf APIs Fail Complex Web Workflows and the Blueprint for High-Velocity Product Engineering with Volodymyr & Vitalii Sydorenko, Co-Founders of Gearheart
The Creation Story (and Expansion) of Gearheart
Jun 23, 2026 · 23 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Microsoft File Trap: Moving Beyond Manual PowerPoint and Excel Workflows to Build an AI-Native "Consulting" Layer with Tim Lidman, Co-Founder & CEO of Clyde AI
Democratizing consulting using AI
Jun 18, 2026 · 28 min
Season 12
The AI Control Loop: AI Discovery isn't just AI - with Tim Ebbers of Wallarm
The AI Control Loop: How Enterprises Govern the AI they've Already Deployed
Jun 17, 2026 · 16 min
Season 12 · Episode 23
S12 E23: Why Traditional Enterprise Linux Starves Your Multi-Million Dollar AI Hardware and How to Reclaim Lost GPU ROI with Gregory M. Kurtzer, Founder & CEO of CIQ
Modernizing AI Infrastructure Stacks for the enterprise
Jun 16, 2026 · 25 min
Season 12
Developer Chats – Pavel Shchekotov
Developer Chats – Pavel Shchekotov
Jun 15, 2026 · 16 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Skillset Mismatch: Fusing Labor Market Signals with Program Catalogs to Build a Real-Time Economic Intelligence Layer with Sushma Vadlamannati, Founder & CEO of zScale
The Intelligence Layer of the Job Economy
Jun 11, 2026 · 22 min
Season 12
The AI Control Loop: AI Security is API Security - with Tim Erlin of Wallarm
The AI Control Loop: How Enterprises Govern the AI they've Already Deployed
Jun 10, 2026 · 17 min
Season 12 · Episode 22
S12 E22: The Million-Token Context Mirage: Why RAG is Far From Dead in High-Stakes, Zero-Error Global Tax Compliance with Alex Bowcut, Head of Engineering at Sphere
Building the best assessment model for tax internationally
Jun 9, 2026 · 29 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Context Window Mirage: Why Generic Prompt Engineering Fails Enterprise Workflows and the Rise of Dynamic, Task-Specific RAG Orchestration with Ankit Dheendsa, Co-Founder & CEO of Morphos AI
Reducing vector storage by 99.5%
Jun 4, 2026 · 31 min
Season 12 · Episode 21
S12 E21: Why Your Health App is Drowning in Wearable Noise (And Missing Real Insights) with Marco Benitez, Co-Founder & CEO of ROOK
The end all, be all API for wearable health data
Jun 2, 2026 · 25 min
Season 12
Founder Chats - Daulet Amirkhanov
Founder Chats - Daulet Amirkhanov
May 29, 2026 · 23 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Human In the Loop Bottleneck: Moving Beyond Static Models to Unleash Autonomous, Recursive Self-Improving AI with Kunal Bhatia, Co-Founder & CEO of Hexo Labs
Building the AI platform to build all other platforms
May 28, 2026 · 22 min
Season 12 · Episode 20
S12 E20: The Agentic Privileged Access Crisis: Why Making AI Agents "Well-Behaved" Fails and How to Structuralize Their Blast Radius with Ofir Stein, Co-Founder & CTO of Apono
Access control for your current... and future systems.
May 26, 2026 · 25 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Bearer Token Trap: Why API Secrets are Leaking and the Rise of Dynamic, Zero-Trust Machine Identity Providers with Anusha Iyer, Founder & CEO of Corsha
Giving your machines an identity, so you can connect
May 21, 2026 · 20 min
Season 12 · Episode 19
S12 E19: The Real Estate Draw Nightmare: Automating Underwriting and Risk Mitigation Across $3T in Real Estate Finance Data with Thomas Schlegel, Principal Software Engineer at Built
The Money Flow Platform for Building Stakeholders
May 19, 2026 · 38 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Rewriting the Rules of End-User Computing and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic AI IT Operations with Yoni Avital, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist of ControlUp
Centralizing task management for Virtual Desktops
May 14, 2026 · 29 min
Season 12 · Episode 18
S12 E18: Legacy Planning Gaps: Why Static Legal Paperwork Fails Modern Families and the Rise of the Continuous, Compassionate Estate OS with Brooke Hipps, Founder of Weekend Will
Creating the Easy Estate Planning Solution for Texans
May 12, 2026 · 24 min
Season 12
Making AI Deterministic for Developers and their Agents, with Patrick Vuong of Moderne
Making AI Deterministic for Developers and their Agents, with Patrick Vuong of Moderne
May 7, 2026 · 25 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The AI Tribunal: Turning the Gawker Playbook into an Automated, Crowd-Sourced Jury for Media Accountability with Aron D’Souza, Founder & CEO of Objection AI
The AI Tribunal of Truth
Apr 30, 2026 · 20 min
Season 12 · Episode 16
S12 E16: The LLM Wild West: Moving Beyond Fragile Notebook Prompts to Build a Multi-Model Enterprise AI Control Plane with Nikunj Bajaj, Co-Founder & CEO of TrueFoundry
Building the AI gateway for enterprises
Apr 28, 2026 · 33 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Why Your Enterprise AI Pilots Are Stalling and the Unsexy Data Pipeline Fix for 10x Engineering Velocity with Tyler Hochman, Founder & CEO of FORE Enterprise
Helping your company build the data pipeline to enable AI
Apr 23, 2026 · 21 min
Season 12 · Episode 15
S12 E15: The Copilot Fallacy: Why Pure Automation Fails the Real World and the Rise of the Hybrid AI-Human Lifestyle OS with Meghan Joyce, Co-Founder & CEO of Duckbill
Combining AI with actually getting stuff done
Apr 21, 2026 · 36 min
Season 12
The AI Ultimatum: Preparing for a World of Intelligent Machines and Radical Transformation with Steve Brown
The AI Ultimatum: Preparing for a World of Intelligent Machines and Radical Transformation
Apr 16, 2026 · 27 min
Season 12 · Episode 14
S12 E14: The "Ship and Pray" AI Trap: Moving Beyond Vibe Checks to Give Product Managers a Code-Free Validation Engine with Catalina Turlea, Co-Founder & CEO of Lovelaice
Supporting product teams build valuable AI features
Apr 14, 2026 · 23 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Fusing AI-Powered Predictive Malware Inference with Content Disarmament and Reconstruction (CDR) to Neutralize Silent File Attacks with Dr. Aqib Rashid, Applied AI Lead at Glasswall
Using AI to predict file corruption with malware
Apr 9, 2026 · 30 min
Season 12 · Episode 13
S12 E13: The Death of Legacy VDI: Ditching Costly Virtual Desktops to Secure Enterprise BYOD Laptops Locally with David Matalon, Founder & CEO of Venn
Replacing VDI with the Blue Border
Apr 7, 2026 · 23 min
Season 12
Founder Chats - Vadim Dedov
Founder Chats - Vadim Dedov
Apr 3, 2026 · 11 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Intercepting Risky Prompts and Deploying Local LLMs to Neutralize Data Leakage via Pragatix with Yoav Crombie, Co-Founder & CEO of AGAT Software
Using AI to secure your data and give you workflow control
Apr 2, 2026 · 26 min
Season 12 · Episode 12
S12 E12: The Rogue Agent Epidemic: Moving Beyond Laptop Prompts to Build a Centralized, Production-Grade AI Control Plane with Robert Brennan, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenHands
Open source software development automation
Mar 31, 2026 · 22 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Predictive Model Trap: Moving Beyond Static LTV Forecasting to Unleash Causal AI and Dynamic Multi-Armed Bandits with Tobias "Tobi" Konitzer, PhD, VP of AI at GrowthLoop
Using AI to go from Tooling to "Closing the Loop"
Mar 26, 2026 · 37 min
Season 12 · Episode 11
S12 E11: The Security Operations Center "Hellscape": Moving Beyond Broken Threat Feeds to Empower Overworked Cyber Analysts with Human-AI Collaboration with Brian Carbaugh, Co-Founder & CEO of Andesite
10X your SOC with Andesite
Mar 24, 2026 · 34 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Why Paper-Heavy Back-End Portals Fail Agents and the Rise of Client-Facing, Real-Time Transaction OS with Reannah Wyatt, Founder & CEO of The Real Time
Making the real estate process visible in real time
Mar 19, 2026 · 22 min
Season 12 · Episode 10
S12 E10: The Childhood Smartphone Epidemic: Re-Engineering Android OS to Stop Social Media Addiction and Teach Kids Digital Wellness with Dane Witbeck, Founder & CEO of Pinwheel
Giving your kids the tech they want, with the protection they need
Mar 17, 2026 · 31 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: The Social Curation Revolution: Moving Beyond Messy Bookmarks to Build an Intuitive, Shareable "Stacking" Ecosystem with Martina Zrnec, Co-Founder & CTO of Stacklist
Building the best way to stack your links and info
Mar 12, 2026 · 19 min
Season 12 · Episode 9
S12 E9: Breaking the 30-Second Video Processing Barrier to Deliver Sub-Second, Interactive Generative Media with Mitesh Agrawal, Co-Founder of Positron
Building the right type of memory capacity in chips for AI
Mar 10, 2026 · 35 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Why Spray-and-Pray Job Applications Are Quietly Destroying Your Tech Career Momentum with Ashwin Agrawal, Founder & CEO of MobiusEngine
Soup to nuts interview process, to get you back to work
Mar 5, 2026 · 25 min
Season 12
Developer Chats - Oleksandr Piekhota
Developer Chats - Oleksandr Piekhota
Mar 4, 2026 · 28 min
Season 8
S12 E8: H1B Paperwork Nightmare: Why HR Teams Stumble on Visas and How Digital-First Frameworks Shift Ownership Back with Satya Mishra, Co-Founder & CTO of WayLit
Adding speed and reliability to the immigration process
Mar 3, 2026 · 17 min
Season 12
Founder Chats - Max Denevich
Founder Chats - Max Denevich
Mar 2, 2026 · 36 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Pioneering Female-Led Logistics: How to Build and Fund a High-Density Micromobility Platform in Rapidly Growing Markets with Nouran Farouk, Founder & CEO of Dosy
Equitable Scooter rides for Egyption Women
Feb 26, 2026 · 16 min
Season 12 · Episode 7
S12 E7: Fusing Bring-Your-Own-AI Logic with Governed Orchestration to Bridge Enterprise System Gaps Without the Migration Risk with James Davies, CEO of Kinetic Data
The toolkit & framework to connect ALL your business processes
Feb 24, 2026 · 22 min
Season 12
S12 Bonus: Deliverability Death Trap: Why Your Cold Outreach is Hitting the Spam Folder and the AI Engine Keeping Domains Out of Gmail Jail with Daniel Shnaider, Co-Founder & CEO of Warmy.io
Making your email channel awesome
Feb 19, 2026 · 19 min
Season 12 · Episode 6
S12 E6: Moving Beyond Simple Chatbots to Run end-to-end B2C Support and Operations via Agentic AI Layers with Michael Fester, Co-Founder of 14.ai
The Customer Support OS
Feb 17, 2026 · 22 min