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Chapter № 023 Mar 11, 2025 •23:30

S10 E23: From the Netscape Era to the Multicloud Era: Building a 15-Year Infrastructure Moat and Designing Remote-First Culture with Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple

Infrastructure Founder Story Cloud Architecture

Anthony Eden is a gray beard in terms of internet time, being around when Netscape was released. He was studying music at the University of Miami, and decided …

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Chapter № 024 May 15, 2024 •28:48

S9 E24: The Data Streaming Renaissance: Bypassing JVM Bloat and Squeezing 10x Performance From Modern Hardware Engines with Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO of Redpanda Data

Data Engineering Scaling Systems Founder Story

Alex Gallego was born and raised in Colombia. He has always identified as a builder, and as a kid, he would help his Uncle re-build dirt bike engines, …

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Chapter № 023 May 07, 2024 •18:59

S9 E23: The $120M War Chest Shift: Overthrowing Legacy Payment Bottlenecks and Accelerating the Path to Fintech Unicorn Status with Vlad Sadovskiy, Founder & CEO of Netevia

Fintech Founder Story Payments & Billing

Vlad Sadovskiy is a first generation immigrant from the Ukraine in the early 1990's. He has been in the payments space for 30+ years, so he knows a …

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Chapter № 022 Apr 30, 2024 •23:59

S9 E22: From Meeting His Co-Founder on Tinder to Leading a YC Startup in a War Zone: Scaling an On-Demand Creative Marketplace Under Fire with Roman Sevast, Co-founder & President of Awesomic

Marketplace Founder Story Growth Strategy

Roman Sevast was born in a small city in Ukraine. When he met his girlfriend, he wanted to take her out to dinner - but he didn't have …

Chapter Apr 18, 2024 •19:12

S9 Bonus: Whats New with Alice Technologies - Rene Morkos, Founder & CEO

Automation Founder Story

Welcome back listeners.Today we have a return guest on the podcast, Rene Morkos, the Founder & CEO of Alice Technologies. If you recall our conversation with Rene from …

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Chapter № 020 Apr 16, 2024 •24:14

S9 E20: Investor Attraction Blueprint: Overthrowing Legacy Outreach and Engineering Founder-First Public Relations Engine with Michael Hummel, Co-Founder & CEO of Establish

Founder Story Growth Strategy

Michael Hummel has a different perspective on tech and startups than most people in this realm. His background dis in marketing, and prior to his current venture, he …

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Chapter № 015 Mar 12, 2024 •22:56

S9 E15: Scaling From an Internal Hackathon Project to a Multi-Million Dollar Global Knowledge Layer with Saravana Kumar, Founder & CEO of Kovai.co & Document360

Founder Story Growth Strategy

Saravana Kumar is from India, near Chennai, but moved to London 23 years ago. He loves to play badminton, and is very into high quality cars. One of …

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Chapter № 001 Nov 28, 2023 •31:41

S9 E1: From Turning Down a Competitor to Powering Roblox and GameStop: Scaling a Global Edge Network Without Wall Street Capital with Matt Levine of CacheFly

Infrastructure Scaling Systems Founder Story

Matt Levine grew up in Toronto, and played sports as a baseball catcher. During his teens, he got injured and had to sit out during the season. And …

Chapter Sep 28, 2023 •31:29

S8 Bonus: The Code Dependency Revolution: Solving Open-Source Burnout and Engineering the teaRank Protocol with Max Howell, Creator of Homebrew & Founder of Tea

Open Source Founder Story

Max Howell did well in school, and was presented with the problem that - he didn't know what to do with himself. At that time, software wasn't cool, …

Chapter Sep 20, 2023 •21:56

S8 Bonus: The Multi-Vendor Telemetry Playbook: Scaling Collaboration Intelligence and the Road to an HP Acquisition with Alfredo Ramirez, Co-Founder & CEO of Vyopta

Founder Story Observability & Monitoring

Alfredo Ramirez is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants, which instilled in him positive beliefs around faith, family, community and hard work. Way back, his father bought him an …

Chapter Aug 24, 2023 •30:38

S8 Bonus: The $45M 'GitHub for Docs' Experiment: Engineering Git-Style Version Control for Asynchronous Business Teams with Adam Nathan, Co-Founder & CEO of Almanac

Product Development Founder Story

Adam Nathan was born and raised in New York. His parents were small business owners, his brother is entrepreneur, so starting a business was just in his blood. …

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Chapter № 008 Jun 06, 2023 •23:08

S8 E8: The Anatomy of a High-Stakes Pivot: Engineering a 'Zapier for Money' with Gilad Uziely, Co-Founder & CEO of Sequence

Fintech Founder Story

Gilad Uziely is married with 2 daughters. He told me he met his wife on a taxi in Thailand, but that the story there was for a different …