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Chapter № 023 Jun 16, 2026 •25:15

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

Startup Founder Infrastructure DevOps

Gregory M. Kurtzer is a veteran open-source pioneer, technologist, and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in high-performance computing (HPC) and large-scale enterprise infrastructure. He first gained …

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Chapter № 016 Apr 28, 2026 •32:36

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

Startup Founder AI & Machine Learning Infrastructure

Nikunj Bajaj was born in India, and completed his undergraduate studies there. The intrigue of Silcon Valley in 2013 brought him to the Bay Area, where he got …

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Chapter № 009 Mar 10, 2026 •34:39

S12 E9: Breaking the 30-Second Video Processing Barrier to Deliver Sub-Second, Interactive Generative Media with Mitesh Agrawal, Co-Founder of Positron

Startup Founder AI & Machine Learning Infrastructure

Mitesh Agrawal has a background in Mechanical Engineering. He was one of the co-founders of Lambda, a company in the supercomputing space, where he spent 8.5 years working …

Chapter Jan 22, 2026 •36:46

S12 Bonus: Overcoming Broken Right-Sizing Models to Automate Real-Time, Non-Disruptive Cloud Cost Optimization with Sharad Kumar & Harshit Omar, Co-Founders of FluidCloud

Startup Founder Infrastructure DevOps

Sharad Kumar lives in Pleasanton, California with his wife and 2 kids. He enjoys playing all musical instruments, and spending time with his family. He has a 2 …

Chapter Jan 21, 2026 •29:33

S12 Bonus: Decoupling Compute and Storage to Solve the Petabyte-Scale Log Cost Crisis and Power Real-Time AI SRE Engines with David Sztykman, Chief Architect & VP of Product at Hydrolix

Startup Founder Infrastructure Data Engineering

David Sztykman lives in Paris, but used to live in New York for a time. He has always been into video, streaming and photography. For the latter, as …

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Chapter № 001 Jan 13, 2026 •32:55

S12 E1: The Blast Radius Nightmare: Shifting from Blind Static Terraform Plans to Real-Time Predictive Change Intelligence with Dylan Ratcliffe, Founder & CEO of Overmind

Startup Founder Infrastructure DevOps

Dylan Ratcliffe lives in San Francisco (for less than a year), but grew up on a farm in the bush in Australia, riding motorbikes and playing video games. …

Chapter Dec 11, 2025 •23:34

S11 Bonus: Headless Observability: Why Dashboards Are Disappearing and How "Context Engineering" Achieves a 90% Drop in AI SRE Costs with Tucker Callaway, CEO of Mezmo

AI & Machine Learning Infrastructure DevOps

Tucker Calloway grew up in Alamo, California, in the Easy Bay Area. And has returned to that area to raise his family - 25-30 minutes outside of the …

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Chapter № 015 Sep 02, 2025 •23:07

S11 E15: Passing Telco Infrastructure Costs to Advertisers and Scaling an All-IP Wireless Carrier to 300M+ Downloads with Derek Ting, Co-Founder & CEO of TextNow

Startup Founder Infrastructure

Derek Ting grew up in Canada-land, enjoying all the things of the area but especially hockey. He mentioned he has a bit of ADD, which made it hard …

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Chapter № 008 Jul 15, 2025 •34:09

S11 E8: The $10B L2 Juggernaut: Re-Architecting Coinbase Wallet, Embracing Token Decentralization, and Scaling Ethereum for One Billion Users with Jesse Pollak, Creator of Base & Head of Protocols at Coinbase

Startup Founder Infrastructure Scaling Systems

Jesse Pollak grew up in Washington, DC, attending a Quaker school through graduating in high school. He played competitive soccer, which was a huge part of his life. …

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Chapter № 005 Jun 24, 2025 •28:33

S11 E5: The Public Internet Bottleneck: Rebuilding the Physical Routing Layer for High-Performance Blockchains with Austin Federa, Co-Founder of DoubleZero

Startup Founder Infrastructure

Austin Federa has a non-traditional path into the blockchain world. In college, he studied political & environmental science, and economics. Interestingly enough, those studies map a lot to …

Chapter Jun 04, 2025 •18:33

S11 Bonus: The Weekend Prototype Pivot: Transitioning from FinTech DevOps to Advancing AI Research Infrastructure with David Asamu, Co-Founder of Nesla

Startup Founder AI & Machine Learning Infrastructure

David Asamu grew up in Nigeria and got into technology early, through serving his community. He attended University, and continued his community efforts there, and was introduced to …

Chapter May 13, 2025 •23:34

S10 Favorite: The Trillion-User Scalability Crisis: Re-Architecting Bitcoin’s Layer 2 for Instant, Enterprise-Grade Global Liquidity with Kevin Hurley, Co-Founder & CTO of Lightspark

Startup Founder Infrastructure Security & Compliance

Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to play 2 on 2 with his Dad and siblings …