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From Microscopes to AI: How Nyad AI is Automating Biology to Protect Our Water

Virginia Szepietowski discovered a hidden crisis in wastewater treatment: operators have been using the same microscope-based methods since the 1970s to protect our waterways. Now, she's building Nyad AI to automate this critical process—and her journey from law school to water tech reveals surprising lessons about MVP simplicity, customer obsession, and hiring for grit.

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The App-Aware Illusion: Why "Boring" Infrastructure Might Be Your Secret Weapon

Richard Luna, founder of Protected Harbor, challenges the tech industry's obsession with cutting-edge solutions. His unconventional take? Sometimes the most valuable infrastructure work isn't flashy—it's fundamental, application-aware, and unglamorous.

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The Freelance Marketplace Problem Nobody's Talking About: Why Enterprises Are Ditching Traditional Platforms

Traditional freelance marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr weren't built for enterprise workflows. Danny Gal, CEO of Proteams, is solving this by creating managed engineering teams that actually scale with large global organizations—and he's doing it profitably from day one.

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The Real-Time Scaling Tax: How AnyCable Solved the WebSocket Problem That Kills Monolithic Performance

WebSockets are supposed to power interactive, real-time experiences—but they come with a hidden cost. Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians and co-founder of AnyCable, explains why traditional monolithic architectures break under WebSocket load, and how decoupling the real-time layer became the solution that changed everything.

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The AI Throughput Illusion: Why Expensive Models Won't Ship Your Code

Emilie Schario, Co-Founder and Head of Product & Engineering at Kilo, breaks down why throwing money at expensive AI models doesn't translate to shipping more code. In this episode, she shares how Kilo is changing the game with model freedom, practical engineering decisions, and a brutally honest approach to product prioritization that every technical founder needs to hear.

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Why Generic ERPs Fail Fresh Food Logistics: How AI Agents Are Transforming Supply Chain Intelligence

The perishable supply chain moves roughly one-third of North America's fresh food, but it's still stuck in a world of manual processes, outdated pricing data, and fragmented systems. We sat down with Sid Dixit, CTO of iTradeNetwork, to explore how AI agents are revolutionizing order intake, pricing intelligence, and supply chain automation—one strawberry at a time.

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September 4, 2026

5 Costly Startup Mistakes Founders Made (And What They'd Do Differently)

Real startup founders share their biggest mistakes — from a $45,000 outsourcing disaster to a year spent building a product that sold to just one customer. Here's what they learned.

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