All Episodes

S13 E9: Forward-Deployed AI: Moving Enterprise Pilots into Real Production with Pooja Brown, CTO at Tribe AI

S13 Bonus: Eliminating Paperwork & Manual Data Entry in Manufacturing with Brian McKeown, Founding Engineer at Harmony AI

S13 Bonus: Spotting Property Red Flags using the "CARFAX" of Real Estate with Jeff Emalaba, Founder & CEO of InvestFusion

S13 E8: Democratizing Real Estate: Fractional Wealth Building for Modern Investors with Alex Blackwood, CEO of Mogul

S13 Bonus: From Lab to Market: Scaling High-Growth Tech Startups with Caitlinn McMinn, Programs Director at TechFW

S13 Bonus: Automating Local Lead Growth: High-Intent Prospecting & AI Verification with David Moore, Founder & CEO of Stalex.ai

S13 E7: The AI Legal Shift: Giving SME Law Firms BigLaw Leverage with Dave Berner, Co-Founder & CEO of Parachute

S13 Bonus: The AI Marketing Cloud: Harnessing Predictive Intent to Scale Growth with Christian Monberg, CTO of Zeta Global

S13 Bonus: Scaling Real-Time Search Data: Secure APIs for AI Infrastructure with Alaa Abdulridha, Engineering Director at SerpApi

E13 Bonus: The AI SAST Shift: Eliminating Vulnerability Backlogs with Santiago Castiñeira, Co-Founder & CTO of Maze

E13 E6: The Spatial Web Shift: Building Decentralized AI Knowledge Graphs with Yaniv Tal, Co-Founder & CEO of Geo

S13 Bonus: The Enterprise AI Chip War: Rethinking LLM Silicon & Inference with Vasanth Mohan, Director of Product at SambaNova

S13 Bonus: Dynamic Observability: Eliminating Telemetry Waste at Scale with Peter Morelli, Co-Founder & CEO of Bitdrift

S13 E5: The Dynamic Compute Revolution: Eliminating Cache Invalidation with Julien Verlaguet, Founder & CEO of SkipLabs

S13 Bonus: The Legal AI Shift: Automating Contract Workflows with AI Agents with Nick Holzherr, Founder & CEO of GitLaw

E13 Bonus: The Return of Backbox, and AI as a Trusted Advisor, with Rekha Shenoy, CEO of Backbox

S13 E4: The AI GTM Engine: Turning Intent Signals into Warm Outbound Pipeline with Connor Heggie, Co-Founder & CTO of Unify

S13 Bonus: The GPU Bottleneck: Democratizing AI Compute Pipelines with Christian Ondaatje, Founder & CEO of Aranya.tech

S13 E3: Architecting Frictionless Creator Infrastructure & Social Commerce with Dumi Mabhena, CEO of Hilite

E13 Bonus: From Airbnb's Chronon Engine to Enterprise Real-Time Feature Compute with Varant Zanoyan, Co-Founder & CEO of Zipline AI

S13 Bonus: The AI DBA Shift: Automating Database Reliability & Performance with Itamar Syn-Hershko, Founder & CEO of NeverBlink

S13 E2: Securing Enterprise GenAI: Data Privacy & Security Guardrails with Steven Walchek, Founder & CEO of Liminal

S13 Bonus: The Intention Layer: Why Coding Agents Need Product Judgment with Drew Dillon, Founder & CEO of Brief

S13 Bonus: Why Local On-Device AI Compute is the Future of Privacy with Behnam Bastani, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenInfer

S13 E1: The Token Winter Is Coming: Why Code Inflation Fails to Ship Real Business Value with Dave Garcia, Founder & Co-CEO of Pensero

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

S12 Favorite - Rewriting the Rules of End-User Computing and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic AI IT Operations with Yoni Avital, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist of ControlUp

S12 Favorite - Making AI Deterministic for Developers and their Agents, with Patrick Vuong of Moderne

S12 Bonus: Rickard's Deterministic Return: Converting Scattered Data into Autonomous, Production-Grade Apps with Rickard Hansson, Founder & CEO of Gainable

S12 E30: Wastewater Guardians: Automating Biology to Protect Clean Water with Virginia Szepietowski, Co-Founder of Nyad AI

S12 Bonus: The App-Aware Illusion: Why Infinite Compute Fails Without Underlying Infrastructure Accountability and the Case for "Boring" IT with Richard Luna, President & Founder of Protected Harbor

S12 E29: Fractional Talent: Traditional Freelance Marketplaces Fail Enterprise Workflows and the Shift Toward Managed Engineering Teams with Danny Gal, Co-Founder & CEO of Proteams

S12 Bonus: The Perishable Supply Chain Crisis: Why Generic ERPs Fail Fresh Food Logistics and How AI Agents Are Transforming Error-Free Order Intake with Sid Dixit, Chief Technology Officer at iTradeNetwork

S12 E28: The AI Throughput Illusion: Why Splurging on Expensive Models Fails to Ship Code and How to Measure Real Engineering Output with Emilie Schario, Co-Founder & Head of Product & Engineering at Kilo Code

S12 Bonus: The Dashboard Mirage: Why Aggregate Metrics Hide Revenue Leaks and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara, Founder & CEO of Bicycle AI

The AI Control Loop: The Enterprise AI Accountability Moment – with Shayne Higdon of Wallarm

S12 E27: The Real-Time Scaling Tax: Why High-Volume WebSockets Kill Monolithic Performance and How AnyCable Decoupled the Real-Time Layer with Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians

S12 Bonus: The Global Talent Mirage: Why Rigid Immigration Frameworks Fail Elite Tech Teams and the Rise of the Global Mobility OS with Ramiro Roballos, Co-Founder & CEO of Tukki

The AI Control Loop: What's Missing in AI Security Today - with Craig Thomas of Wallarm

S12 E26: Your Automated CRM Texts are Ending up in the Spam Folder (And How to Fix It) with John Wright, Co-Founder & CEO of TrueDialog

S12 Bonus: The App Is Dead, Long Live the Outcome: Why Autonomous AI Agents Are Rewriting Data Infrastructure and Transforming PostgreSQL Into a Dynamic Scratch Pad with Ajay Kulkarni, Founder & CEO of Tiger Data

The AI Control Loop: Detection is not Enough - with Tim Ebbers of Wallarm

S12 E25: From Processing $500B at Intuit to Building the Fraud-Proof Ledger: Eradicating Financial Misstatement with Ahikam Kaufman, Co-Founder & CEO of Safebooks AI

S12 E24 P2: Why Off-the-Shelf APIs Fail Complex Web Workflows and the Blueprint for High-Velocity Product Engineering with Volodymyr & Vitalii Sydorenko, Co-Founders of Gearheart

The AI Control Loop: When AI Goes Rogue - with Craig Thomas of Wallarm

S12 E24 P1: Why Off-the-Shelf APIs Fail Complex Web Workflows and the Blueprint for High-Velocity Product Engineering with Volodymyr & Vitalii Sydorenko, Co-Founders of Gearheart

S12 Bonus: The Microsoft File Trap: Moving Beyond Manual PowerPoint and Excel Workflows to Build an AI-Native "Consulting" Layer with Tim Lidman, Co-Founder & CEO of Clyde AI

The AI Control Loop: AI Discovery isn't just AI - with Tim Ebbers of Wallarm

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

Developer Chats – Pavel Shchekotov

S12 Bonus: Skillset Mismatch: Fusing Labor Market Signals with Program Catalogs to Build a Real-Time Economic Intelligence Layer with Sushma Vadlamannati, Founder & CEO of zScale

The AI Control Loop: AI Security is API Security - with Tim Erlin of Wallarm

S12 E22: The Million-Token Context Mirage: Why RAG is Far From Dead in High-Stakes, Zero-Error Global Tax Compliance with Alex Bowcut, Head of Engineering at Sphere

S12 Bonus: The Context Window Mirage: Why Generic Prompt Engineering Fails Enterprise Workflows and the Rise of Dynamic, Task-Specific RAG Orchestration with Ankit Dheendsa, Co-Founder & CEO of Morphos AI

S12 E21: Why Your Health App is Drowning in Wearable Noise (And Missing Real Insights) with Marco Benitez, Co-Founder & CEO of ROOK

Founder Chats - Daulet Amirkhanov

S12 Bonus: The Human In the Loop Bottleneck: Moving Beyond Static Models to Unleash Autonomous, Recursive Self-Improving AI with Kunal Bhatia, Co-Founder & CEO of Hexo Labs

S12 E20: The Agentic Privileged Access Crisis: Why Making AI Agents "Well-Behaved" Fails and How to Structuralize Their Blast Radius with Ofir Stein, Co-Founder & CTO of Apono

S12 Bonus: The Bearer Token Trap: Why API Secrets are Leaking and the Rise of Dynamic, Zero-Trust Machine Identity Providers with Anusha Iyer, Founder & CEO of Corsha

S12 E19: The Real Estate Draw Nightmare: Automating Underwriting and Risk Mitigation Across $3T in Real Estate Finance Data with Thomas Schlegel, Principal Software Engineer at Built

S12 Bonus: Rewriting the Rules of End-User Computing and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic AI IT Operations with Yoni Avital, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist of ControlUp

S12 E18: Legacy Planning Gaps: Why Static Legal Paperwork Fails Modern Families and the Rise of the Continuous, Compassionate Estate OS with Brooke Hipps, Founder of Weekend Will

Making AI Deterministic for Developers and their Agents, with Patrick Vuong of Moderne

S12 Bonus: The AI Tribunal: Turning the Gawker Playbook into an Automated, Crowd-Sourced Jury for Media Accountability with Aron D’Souza, Founder & CEO of Objection AI

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

S12 Bonus: Why Your Enterprise AI Pilots Are Stalling and the Unsexy Data Pipeline Fix for 10x Engineering Velocity with Tyler Hochman, Founder & CEO of FORE Enterprise

S12 E15: The Copilot Fallacy: Why Pure Automation Fails the Real World and the Rise of the Hybrid AI-Human Lifestyle OS with Meghan Joyce, Co-Founder & CEO of Duckbill

The AI Ultimatum: Preparing for a World of Intelligent Machines and Radical Transformation with Steve Brown

S12 E14: The "Ship and Pray" AI Trap: Moving Beyond Vibe Checks to Give Product Managers a Code-Free Validation Engine with Catalina Turlea, Co-Founder & CEO of Lovelaice

S12 Bonus: Fusing AI-Powered Predictive Malware Inference with Content Disarmament and Reconstruction (CDR) to Neutralize Silent File Attacks with Dr. Aqib Rashid, Applied AI Lead at Glasswall

S12 E13: The Death of Legacy VDI: Ditching Costly Virtual Desktops to Secure Enterprise BYOD Laptops Locally with David Matalon, Founder & CEO of Venn

Founder Chats - Vadim Dedov

S12 Bonus: Intercepting Risky Prompts and Deploying Local LLMs to Neutralize Data Leakage via Pragatix with Yoav Crombie, Co-Founder & CEO of AGAT Software

S12 E12: The Rogue Agent Epidemic: Moving Beyond Laptop Prompts to Build a Centralized, Production-Grade AI Control Plane with Robert Brennan, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenHands

S12 Bonus: The Predictive Model Trap: Moving Beyond Static LTV Forecasting to Unleash Causal AI and Dynamic Multi-Armed Bandits with Tobias "Tobi" Konitzer, PhD, VP of AI at GrowthLoop

S12 E11: The Security Operations Center "Hellscape": Moving Beyond Broken Threat Feeds to Empower Overworked Cyber Analysts with Human-AI Collaboration with Brian Carbaugh, Co-Founder & CEO of Andesite

S12 Bonus: Why Paper-Heavy Back-End Portals Fail Agents and the Rise of Client-Facing, Real-Time Transaction OS with Reannah Wyatt, Founder & CEO of The Real Time

S12 E10: The Childhood Smartphone Epidemic: Re-Engineering Android OS to Stop Social Media Addiction and Teach Kids Digital Wellness with Dane Witbeck, Founder & CEO of Pinwheel

S12 Bonus: The Social Curation Revolution: Moving Beyond Messy Bookmarks to Build an Intuitive, Shareable "Stacking" Ecosystem with Martina Zrnec, Co-Founder & CTO of Stacklist

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

S12 Bonus: Why Spray-and-Pray Job Applications Are Quietly Destroying Your Tech Career Momentum with Ashwin Agrawal, Founder & CEO of MobiusEngine

Developer Chats - Oleksandr Piekhota

S12 E8: H1B Paperwork Nightmare: Why HR Teams Stumble on Visas and How Digital-First Frameworks Shift Ownership Back with Satya Mishra, Co-Founder & CTO of WayLit

Founder Chats - Max Denevich

S12 Bonus: Pioneering Female-Led Logistics: How to Build and Fund a High-Density Micromobility Platform in Rapidly Growing Markets with Nouran Farouk, Founder & CEO of Dosy

S12 E7: Fusing Bring-Your-Own-AI Logic with Governed Orchestration to Bridge Enterprise System Gaps Without the Migration Risk with James Davies, CEO of Kinetic Data

S12 Bonus: Deliverability Death Trap: Why Your Cold Outreach is Hitting the Spam Folder and the AI Engine Keeping Domains Out of Gmail Jail with Daniel Shnaider, Co-Founder & CEO of Warmy.io

S12 E6: Moving Beyond Simple Chatbots to Run end-to-end B2C Support and Operations via Agentic AI Layers with Michael Fester, Co-Founder of 14.ai

S12 Bonus: The Accountability Economy: Why "Buying Developer Capacity" is a Scam and the Blueprint for 400% Faster Engineering Velocity with Prashanth Tondapu, Founder & CEO of Innostax

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - AI Inference-time Guardrails

S12 E5: The Flying Drone Fallacy: Why Forklift Computer Vision Beats Full Automation and the Rise of the Autonomous Warehouse AI Agent with Marc Gyöngyösi, Founder & CEO of OneTrack

S12 Bonus: Why Traditional Nearshore IT Outsourcing is Broken (And How "Own It, Prove It" Dev Stacks Fix It) with Johnny Halife, Partner & CTO of SOUTHWORKS

Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

S12 Bonus: Stripping Away Platitudes, Defining Clear Categories, and Storytelling for AI-Search Discovery with Marlena Sarunac, Co-Founder & Fractional CMO at The Company Advice

S12 E4: The Accent-Biased Workplace: Shifting from Extractive Transcripts to Local, On-Device "Listener-Side" Phoneme Translation with Arto Minasyan, Co-Founder & President of Krisp.ai

S12 Bonus: Why Staff Augmentation is Quietly Starving Your Product Innovation: Dmytro Ovcharenko, Founder & CEO of Alcor

S12 Bonus: Dismantling Legacy HR Silos to Automate Onboarding, Scheduling, and Compliance for the Deskless Economy with Arjun Vora & Tito Goldstein, Co-Founders of Teambridge

S12 E3: Overhauling Enterprise Deal-Making via Real-Time Dynamic Deal Rooms and Autonomous Investor Analytics with Arsham Ghahramani, Founder & CEO of Ribbon

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

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