10 Minutes or Less, with Ali Rohde

CEO Hassaan Raza doesn't want you to call Tavus an avatar company. He co-founded it in 2020 and just raised a $40M Series B led by CRV — with Salesforce, Amazon, and Alibaba already building on it — to chase something bigger than talking heads: "human computing," AI humans that can see you, hear you, remember you, and read your expressions in real time.In about 10 minutes, Hassaan explains why putting a face on "some shitty LLM audio pipeline" is worse than useless, why Tavus builds four classes of its own models and films its own training data, the moment he fired his first customers to return to the original vision, why he'd still pick Claude Code over Codex, and the use case he never saw coming — elderly care companions.Most podcasts are an hour or more. This is 10 Minutes or Less.Hassaan is the Co-Founder/CEO of Tavus.• X: https://x.com/hassaanrza• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hassaanraza• Website: https://www.hassaanraza.com• Tavus: https://www.tavus.ioAli is the cofounder/GP at Outset Capital.• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-rohde-90719970/• X: https://x.com/RohdeAli• Website: https://alirohde.com• Outset Capital: https://outsetcapital.com

Ivan Burazin is the co-founder and CEO of Daytona, which builds sandboxes — composable computers that AI agents can spin up on demand.  Daytona raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark and hit $1M ARR about 50 days after launch, then $3M ARR 45 days later. To get there, Ivan killed a product that already had customers and revenue — and sent those customers to his competitors.In under 10 minutes, Ivan walks through the hard pivot from enterprise dev environments to infrastructure for agents, the bank call that convinced him to cut, who's actually using Daytona now, and the personal cost of building through an AI supercycle — five hours of sleep, weekly IVs, and a tweet that went viral for all the wrong reasons.Most podcasts are an hour or more. This is 10 Minutes or Less by.Ivan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Daytona.• X: https://x.com/ivanburazin• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanburazin/• Daytona: https://www.daytona.ioAli is the cofounder/GP at Outset Capital.• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-rohde-90719970/• X: https://x.com/RohdeAli• Website: https://alirohde.com• Outset Capital: https://outsetcapital.com

Failed once, funded twice. Dakotah Rice on Harper's $47M Series A, the brokers who said no, and why the next great startup won't be SaaS.Harper is an AI-native commercial brokerage that's served 5,000+ businesses across 35 states in just 13 months. Earlier this year, Dakotah raised $47M led by Emergence Capital: the largest publicly disclosed Series A ever by a Black founder.In just 14 minutes, Dakotah covers: why selling AI software to brokers failed (and why that was the unlock). The cofounder bond forged in a failed first company. His enormous ambition and the path to IPO.Most podcasts run an hour or more. This is 18 Minutes or Less.

Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of Socket, a software supply chain defense company whose customers include Anthropic, Figma, and Vercel. Last month his team flagged the Axios backdoor six minutes after it hit npm. He was also personally targeted by the same North Korean group behind the attack. In just 15 minutes, Feross walks through the Axios backdoor and the social engineering that made it work, how Socket now reads every line of code across 19 open source ecosystems using AI, why open source has become critical infrastructure without the institutional support to match, and why trusting external code just got a lot more expensive.Most podcasts are an hour or more. This is 10 Minutes or Less by. Feross is the Founder/CEO of Socket. • X: https://x.com/feross • LinkedIn:   / feross   • Website: https://feross.org • Socket: https://socket.dev Ali is the cofounder/GP at Outset Capital. • LinkedIn:   / ali-rohde-90719970   • X: https://x.com/RohdeAli • Website: https://alirohde.com • Outset Capital: https://outsetcapital.com

Guillermo Rauch has been building @VercelHQ for more than 10 years. But talk to him and you'd never know it. He seems to have the energy of a 19-year-old Stanford dropout who just went through YC.In just 8 minutes, Guillermo shares his frameworks for leading Vercel, why he's anti 1-on-1s, the need to be "terminally online," and how he creates unstructured blocks in his day to be on Twitter, using the product, and doing customer support. We also touch on the future of Vercel, including whether he one day wants to take Vercel public.Most podcasts are an hour or more. This is 10 Minutes or Less by.00:00 10 Minutes or Less00:22 How many times do you check Twitter per day?01:21 How has growing up in Argentina shaped how you lead?02:12 One thing you're still personally doing that others might have delegated03:11 One hire that changed Vercel’s trajectory03:56 Ever wish you could go back to being an IC?04:59 As an angel investor, what do you look for in founders? 05:55 Do teams need to work 80 hours a week to stay competitive? 06:32 Do you want to take Vercel public?Guillermo is the Co-Founder/CEO of Vercel. • X: https://x.com/rauchg• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rauchg• Website: https://rauchg.com/about• Vercel: https://vercel.com/ Ali is the cofounder/GP at Outset Capital. • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-rohde-9071...• X: https://x.com/RohdeAli• Website: https://alirohde.com• Outset Capital: https://outsetcapital.com