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Edtech founders on teaching, training and upskilling at scale.
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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
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
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 11
The Railsware Way - How an MBA Helps (or doesn't) Product Mgmt, with Julia Starun
The Railsware Way - How an MBA Helps (or doesn't) Product Mgmt, with Julia Starun
Nov 19, 2025 · 20 min
Season 11 · Episode 24
S11 E24: The Agent Swarm Architecture: Moving Beyond Single-Prompt Bots to Orchestrate 5,000 Parallel AI Agents Safely in Production with Mrinal Wadhwa, Founder & CTO of Autonomy
Autonomous agent spinup at scale
Nov 4, 2025 · 31 min
Season 11 · Episode 21
S11 E21: Synopsys, The Future of AI & How We Are Building It with Raja Tabet, SVP at Synopsys
Building AI for EDA and the like
Oct 14, 2025 · 28 min
Season 11 · Episode 11
S11 E11: The Auth-to-Growth Pipeline: Eliminating Legacy CIAM Friction and Building Customer-Facing Infrastructure for the Product-Led Growth Era with Dave Berner, VP of Product at Kinde
Building foundational elements for the indie hackers of the world
Aug 5, 2025 · 19 min
Season 11 · Episode 1
S11 E1: The 7-Year Revenue Drought: Surviving Near-Zero Growth to Build a $1.5B Cloud Analytics Juggernaut with Rob Woollen, Co-Founder & CTO of Sigma Computing
UI for Excel with the power of a data warehouse
May 27, 2025 · 21 min
Season 10
S10 Favorite: Securing Intellectual Property, Minimizing Exit Risks, and Navigating Regulatory Scrutiny in the SDLC with Matt Van Itallie, Founder & CEO of Sema
Assessing the state and opportunity of your code
May 20, 2025 · 26 min
Season 10 · Episode 28
S10 E28: Replacing Legacy LMS Silos and Driving Student Engagement with Institutional Communication Networks with Kavitta Ghai, Co-Founder & CEO of Nectir
The classroom of the future
Apr 15, 2025 · 39 min
Season 10
S10 Bonus: Optimizing Software Delivery Intelligence: Integrating Signals Across Git and Jira to Audit AI Token Efficiency and DORA Metrics with Andrew Lau, Co-Founder & CEO of Jellyfish
Helping Engineering Leaders do better
Mar 6, 2025 · 27 min
Season 10
S10 Bonus: The Education-First Fintech Shift: Using AI Decision Engines to Simplify Investing for Everyday Earners with Jason Schappert, Co-Founder & CEO of Moola
Helping you shape your finances for success
Feb 20, 2025 · 31 min
Season 10
S10 Favorite: Scaling EdTech Infrastructure: De-Siloing the Digital Classroom with Shaunak Roy, CEO of Yellowdig
Replay - Shaunak Roy, Yellowdig
Nov 26, 2024 · 31 min
Season 10 · Episode 2
S10 E2: Securing Intellectual Property, Minimizing Exit Risks, and Navigating Regulatory Scrutiny in the SDLC with Matt Van Itallie, Founder & CEO of Sema
Assessing the state and opportunity of your code
Sep 10, 2024 · 26 min
Season 9
S9 Favorite: From Oracle & AWS Aurora to CTO of MongoDB: Scaling Document Databases with Mark Porter
Speeding up software development with MongoDB
Aug 27, 2024 · 29 min
Season 9 · Episode 16
S9 E16: Bypassing Kong and Azure APM: Implementing Global Edge Rate Limiting and Decentralized API Key Governance with James Perkins, Co-founder & CEO of Unkey
Seriously Fast API Authentication
Mar 19, 2024 · 25 min
Season 9 · Episode 11
S9 E11: The Digital Nervous System of Healthcare: Eliminating Critical Medical Waste and Automating Real-Time Asset Tracking with Srikar "Sam" Yeruva, Founder & CEO of Pycube
Tech for managing and serving medical facilities
Feb 13, 2024 · 25 min
Season 9
S9 Bonus: The Developer Retraining Blueprint: Bypassing Rigid CS Degrees and Overthrowing Static Tech Education with Erik Gross, Co-Founder of The Tech Academy
Creating well rounded tech professionals
Jan 31, 2024 · 31 min
Season 9 · Episode 6
S9 E6: Engineering Proactive Cash Flow Frameworks and Overthrowing Reactive Budgeting Anxiety with Melissa Pancoast, Founder & CEO of The Beans
Financial help for caring professionals
Jan 10, 2024 · 31 min
Season 9
S9 Favorite: The Pop-Culture Video Engine: Bootstrapping & Scaling ClassHook to Acquisition with Alexander Deeb
Replay: Alexander Deeb, Classhook
Dec 28, 2023 · 21 min
Season 8
S8 Bonus: Democratizing Human Capital Analytics and Engineering Multi-Tenant Transcript Ingestion with Kaj Pedersen, Co-Founder & CTO of AstrumU
Skills based data aggregation for candidates and teams
Oct 4, 2023 · 35 min
Season 8
S8 Bonus: EdTech Scale Engine: Bypassing Video Bootcamps with Live Code Execution and AI-Guided Mentorship Rails with Barak Glanz, Co-Founder of Coddy.tech
Learn to code through practice and projects
Sep 7, 2023 · 20 min
Season 8
From Tools and Weapons: Putting AI in the Hands of People Everywhere
Tools & Weapons: AI for Everyone
Aug 28, 2023 · 34 min
Season 8
S8 Bonus: Cutting Through the ChatGPT Hype: Deploying Practical, Profit-Driven AI Strategy with Andrew Louder, Founder & CEO of Louder Co.
Improve your operations and profits with AI
May 17, 2023 · 30 min
Season 7
S7 Bonus: The Metadata-Driven Warehouse: Engineering 10x Faster Data Transformations with Satish Jayanthi, Co-Founder & CTO of Coalesce
Data transformations, made easy.
Nov 30, 2022 · 20 min
Season 6
S6 Favorite: The Pop-Culture Video Engine: Bootstrapping & Scaling ClassHook to Acquisition with Alexander Deeb
Increasing student engagement through popular media
Aug 18, 2022 · 21 min
Season 6
S6 Favorite: Solving the Data Blindspot: How Hustle Fund-Backed Pyrl Cryptographs Commerce with Adam Newman
Win-win for consumer's data and enterprises
Aug 16, 2022 · 36 min
Season 6
S6 Bonus: Bypassing the Gatekeepers: Building a 60-Second Video Pitch Marketplace with Mike Cruz of Protégé
Record your artform, and be discovered
Jul 21, 2022 · 29 min
Season 6
S6 Bonus: From Oracle & AWS Aurora to CTO of MongoDB: Scaling Document Databases with Mark Porter
Speeding up software development with MongoDB
Jul 1, 2022 · 29 min
Season 6
S6 Bonus: Scaling EdTech Infrastructure: De-Siloing the Digital Classroom with Shaunak Roy, CEO of Yellowdig
Learning platform, based on community and social aspects
Jun 16, 2022 · 31 min
Season 6
S6 Bonus: Unifying Broken Architecture: Building the InsurTech API Data Layer and Raising $30M+ with Dan Langevin of Vericred
Seamless flow of insurance info
Apr 14, 2022 · 19 min
Season 6
S6 Bonus: The API-First Playbook: From Twilio COO to Building a $42M FinTech Engine and Exiting to FIS with Roy Ng of Bond
Banking as a service, for the Enterprise
Apr 13, 2022 · 39 min
Season 6 · Episode 9
S6 E9: Bootstrapping the Knowledge Economy: Scaling LearnWorlds to a $32M Growth Engine with Panos Siozos
Learning platform, focused on the creator
Mar 15, 2022 · 37 min
Season 6
S6 Bonus: Solving the Data Blindspot: How Hustle Fund-Backed Pyrl Cryptographs Commerce with Adam Newman
Win-win for consumer's data and enterprises
Jan 28, 2022 · 36 min
Season 6
S6 Bonus: The Pop-Culture Video Engine: Bootstrapping & Scaling ClassHook to Acquisition with Alexander Deeb
Increasing student engagement through popular media
Jan 20, 2022 · 21 min
Season 5 · Episode 29
S5 E29: Coding the Designer’s Brain: Reengineering Fashion with AI Alongside Nick Clayton of Savitude
Data driven, inclusive fashion design
Dec 28, 2021 · 28 min
Season 5
S5 E25: When Production Burns: Bobby Ross of Fire Hydrant on Automating Incident Response and Eliminating Downtime
Reliability platform for EVERY developer
Nov 30, 2021 · 42 min
Season 5 · Episode 19
S5 E19: From an Epic Games Exit to Mindstone: Scaling AI Learning with Joshua Wohle
Online content, Learning paths for optimal learning
Oct 19, 2021 · 40 min
Season 5 · Episode 17
S5 E17: Automating Wall Street: The Technical Creation Story of AlgoPear with LaKeisha Turner
Algorithmic Stock Trading
Oct 5, 2021 · 18 min
Season 5 · Episode 7
S5 E7: Fixing the Broken Developer Onboarding Process with Kristen Buchanan, Founder of Edify
Becoming the Central Operating System for Engineering
Jul 27, 2021 · 37 min
Season 3 · Episode 4
S4 E4: Scaling FinTech Capital Engines: How Yieldstreet Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Investment Platform with CTO Hrishi Dixit
The best way for alternative investments
Jan 26, 2021 · 44 min
Season 4 · Episode 3
S4 E3: The Tech Behind LLM Data Pipelines: Optimizing AI Infrastructure with Activeloop’s Davit Buniatyan
Making machine learning more efficient
Jan 19, 2021 · 30 min
Season 3
S3 Favorite: The Tailwind Revolution: How Adam Wathan Built an Open-Source CSS Empire with Tailwind CSS
Tailwind Labs & Tailwind CSS
Dec 29, 2020 · 38 min
Season 3 · Episode 11
S3 E11: Engineering Dynamic Ad Insertion: How RedCircle Scaled Podcast Monetization with Mike Kadin
Marketplace for Podcasters & Marketers
Sep 29, 2020 · 36 min
Season 3 · Episode 9
S3 E9: The Tailwind Revolution: How Adam Wathan Built an Open-Source CSS Empire via Tailwind CSS
Tailwind Labs & Tailwind CSS
Sep 15, 2020 · 38 min
Season 3 · Episode 7
S3 E7: Disrupting Higher Ed: The Tech Stack and Growth Playbook of Unibuddy with Kimeshan Naidoo
Helping Students Make Their First Career Decision
Sep 1, 2020 · 25 min
Season 3 · Episode 4
S3 E4: Building Stripe for Investing: Scaling Alpaca’s Trading APIs Globally with Yoshi Yokokawa
The Stripe for Financial Trading
Aug 11, 2020 · 19 min
Season 3
S3 Bonus: Disrupting Logistics: How Outrider Built an Autonomous Yard Management Empire with Andrew Smith
CEO & Founder of Outrider.ai
Jul 23, 2020 · 29 min