Startup Founder

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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 19, 2025 •18:12

S11 Bonus: The Forgotten Password Paradox: Why Service Accounts, NTLM Flaws, and Over-Privileged AI Agents Are the Real Ground Zero for Nation-State Breaches with Tim Eades, Co-Founder & CEO of Anetac

Startup Founder Security & Compliance

Tim Eades grew up poor, but forced himself into college. He is a 4 time CEO, an investor, and on the boards of several different companies - but …

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Chapter № 004 Jun 17, 2025 •28:46

S11 E4: Transforming Dormant Media Libraries into Rights-Aware, Fact-Checked AI Intelligence with Brooke Hartley Moy, Co-Founder & CEO of Infactory AI

Startup Founder AI & Machine Learning

Brooke Hartley May lives in Oakland, California, on the East Bay, claiming to get more sunshine than her neighbors in San Francisco. She was a history major in …

Chapter Jun 12, 2025 •32:45

S11 Bonus P2: The Radical Transparency Framework: Eliminating Middle Management and Running an 18-Year Product Studio as a Pure Meritocracy with Yaroslav Lazor & Sergiy Korolyov, Co-Founders of Railsware

Startup Founder Engineering Leadership

Yaroslav Lazor started writing code when he was 10 years old. It took him a while to understand that making a difference in the world wasn't just about …

Chapter Jun 11, 2025 •26:33

S11 Bonus P1: The Radical Transparency Framework: Eliminating Middle Management and Running an 18-Year Product Studio as a Pure Meritocracy with Yaroslav Lazor & Sergiy Korolyov, Co-Founders of Railsware

Startup Founder Engineering Leadership

Yaroslav Lazor started writing code when he was 10 years old. It took him a while to understand that making a difference in the world wasn't just about …

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Chapter № 003 Jun 10, 2025 •23:42

S11 E3: The 4 Rs Framework: Moving AI Demos Into Production to Cure Legacy Healthcare Payer Inefficiencies with Rob Duffy, CTO of HealthEdge

Startup Founder Engineering Leadership AI & Machine Learning

Rob Duffy lives in New York with his family. He moved to the states to go work for a small online bookstore that we know today as Amazon. …

Chapter Jun 06, 2025 •28:01

S11 Bonus: Why "Vibe Coding" Fails at Scale and How No-Code Ecosystems Unlocked $1B in User Revenue with Emmanuel Straschnov, Co-Founder & CEO of Bubble

Startup Founder Product Development Developer Tools

Emmanuel Straschnov grew up in rural France, which is interestingly enough where he started doing computer stuff (he mentioned there wasn't much else to do in the 90's). …

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 …

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Chapter № 002 Jun 03, 2025 •16:53

S11 E2: The 4x Faster Indexer: Scaling Rust-Based Search to Millions of Documents Without Infrastructure Bloat with Clément "Kero" Renault, Co-Founder & CTO of Meilisearch

Startup Founder Developer Tools Software Architecture

Clément "Kero" Renault wanted to be an architect when he was younger. During that time, he also learned about computers and built his first website - and he …

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Chapter № 001 May 27, 2025 •21:20

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

Startup Founder Data Engineering Scaling Systems

Rob Woollen lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up with a Father in IT and management, and his Mother as an English teacher. He has …

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 …

Chapter May 06, 2025 •22:34

S10 Favorite: From Employee #8 at Stripe to Challenging the Triopoly of AWS, Azure, and GCP: Fixing the Broken Cloud-Native Developer Experience with Anurag Goel, Founder & CEO of Render

Startup Founder Infrastructure Software Architecture

Anurag Goel grew up in New Delhi, but moved to Boston after college for his first job. He worked at Stripe, as the 8th employee, before eventually moving …