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Founders in Arms — 104 episodes

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WorkOS's Michael Grinich on Becoming the Enterprise Layer for AI's Biggest Companies

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AI Winners, IPO Hype, and the Future of Engineering Teams With Raj and Immad

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The Future of Investing: Data, Signals, and Retail Power

4

Founding Teams: What Works, What Doesn’t — with Andy Chen

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The Long Game: David Rusenko on Building Weebly, Surviving Acquisitions, and Investing in Climate

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The State of Robotics in 2026: Ryan Gariépy on Hype, Reality, and Long-Term Thinking

7

Thumbtack’s Marco Zappacosta on AI, Trust, and the Future of Marketplaces

8

What AI Will Actually Do to the Economy with Noah Smith

9

How AI Agents Will Reshape the Web with Parag Agrawal

10

Building a Services Business in a Tech World with Honey Homes' Vishwas Prabhakara

11

Instacart's Max Mullen on Building Instacart and the Future of AI: First Live Founders in Arms

12

Inside the 2026 Tech Pullback: SaaS, AI, and Survival Strategies

13

How Matic Built an Intelligent Home Robot (While Others Failed) With Mehul Nariyawala

14

Building a Global Payments Platform with Airwallex's Jack Zhang

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The State of Robotics in 2026: Ryan Gariepy on Hype, Reality, and Long-Term Thinking

16

AGI, Alignment, and the Future of AI Power With Emmett Shear

17

The Year AI Got Practical: 2025 Tech Trends with Immad and Raj

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Embrace the Suck: How Olo Survived 10 Years to Product-Market Fit With Noah Glass

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Building Infrastructure for the Agentic Web with Parag Agrawal

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Sphere's $21M Series A: Nicholas Rudder on Building Cross-Border Compliance

21

Building a LinkedIn for Hourly Workers with Instawork's Sumir Meghani

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David vs. Goliath in the Wearables Industry With Eric Migicovsky

23

From Venmo to Jelly: The Founder Who Changed How the World Pays (and Connects)

24

The Founder’s Pulse: AI, Markets, and Lessons from the Front Lines

25

Engineering vs Lawyerly Societies: The US-China Competition with Dan Wang

26

Three Exits in 10 Years: Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Iñaki Berenguer

27

The AI Superconnector Transforming The Future Of Networking With Andrew D’Souza (Founder & CEO, Boardy)

28

Building an AI Business Beyond the Hype with Jesse Zhang from Decagon

29

Inside David Gu’s $38M Raise: The Pivot That Put Recall.ai on the Map

30

Building and Selling in "Impossible" Markets with WePay's Bill Clerico

31

Frugality, Grit, and Scale: Inside Joris Poort’s Founder Playbook

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Building in Defense Tech and Sovereign AI with Mattermost's Ian Tien

33

Building Enterprise AI That Actually Works with Glean's Arvind Jain

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The Best Hack to Product Market Fit With Hiten Shah (Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, Nira, sold to Dropbox)

35

The Anti-Social Media Strategy: Steve Huffman on Building Reddit Differently

36

Building the Future We Actually Want with Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit

37

Can Copyright Survive the Machine Era? With Trip Adler (Co-Founder & CEO, Created by Humans)

38

Building Space's Future With Ryan Westerdahl (Turion Space)

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Designing for Generosity: Adam Nash on Building Products with Heart

40

How Washington Really Works: Innovation Policy with Alec Stapp

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Pre-Selling Your Way to Space with Topher Haddad (Albedo)

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David vs Goliath in the Wearables Industry with Eric Migicovsky (Core Devices, Pebble, Beeper)

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Startup to State: Sahil Lavingia on Gumroad, Profitability, and His Time at DOGE

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Two Decades of Reddit: Steve Huffman on Building the Front Page of the Internet

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Building the Future of Public Safety Tech with Rahul Sidhu

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From Software to Nuclear: Matt Loszak's Mission to Mass-Manufacture Clean Energy

47

Duolingo’s CTO on Building the World’s Most Addictive Learning App

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Meta's Hardball Acquisitions, Apple's App Store Defeat, and Why Tariffs Will Trigger a Recession

49

From Rice Krispies to $36M Series B: Dan Hobbs on Building Safety AI, Enterprise Sales, and Leading Across Borders

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Building Meaningful Tech for the Next Generation With Jay Shah

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Trade Wars & Supply Chain Disruptions: Ryan Petersen on Navigating the 145% China Tariffs

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Building a Consumer Network First and Monetizing Later with ClassDojo's Sam Chaudhary

53

Special Episode—Unpacking Mercury's $300M Series C with Guest Host, Hiten Shah

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Exploring Abundance From 10x Intelligence With Paul Buchheit

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Startup Wisdom That Goes Against The Grain With SafeGraph's Auren Hoffman

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Winning the Founder Mental Game with Pilot’s Waseem Daher

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Building an AI Business Beyond the Hype with Jesse Zhang from Decagon

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How AI and China Are Reshaping Biotech with Hannu Rajaniemi of Helix Nanotechnologies

59

Raw Wisdom for Modern Founders With Serial Founder Hiten Shah

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Making Startups Financially Savvy With Recruiter.com’s Jesse Tinsley

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DeepSeek and the Future of AI with Academia's Richard Price

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Building the Future of Computer Vision AI with OpenSpace's Jeevan Kalanithi

63

The ‘Tech-Industrial Complex’ and Startup Lessons

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Special New Year Episode & Building in Regulated Industries with Edward Woodford

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Building in Longevity, Biohacking and Space Exploration with Dilan Dane

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Creating Category-Defining Companies with John Bicket, Co-Founder of Samsara & Meraki

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Navigating M&A and Executive Security with Daniel Kivatinos, Founder of JustPaid and DrChrono

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Quiet Quitting, Government Regulation, and the Commercial Value of AI Today with Box CEO Aaron Levie

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Making Creative Deals with Large Enterprises with Clover Co-Founder Leonard Speiser

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Innovation, Y Combinator, and Tech Under Trump with Wayne Crosby

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Picking the Right Co-Founder and Crypto Regulation with Dave Balter

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Longevity and Biotech Fundraising with Celine Halioua

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Finding Product-Market Fit for Consumer Startups and Gaming with Roger Dickey

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Today’s FinTech Market and India’s Tech Takeover with Sheel Mohnot

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High-Skilled Immigration and Higher Education with Martin Basiri

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Next Generation of Consumer Startups with Paul English

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OpenAI’s New Model and Amazon’s In-Person Mandate

78

Future of LLMs and Founder Narratives with Paul Buchheit

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Unlocking Founder Mode and VC Funding with Greg Isenberg

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Pavel Durov’s Arrest, Nvidia, and the Future of AI

81

What Should Tech Founders Do About Regulatory Capture?

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The Evolution of the Film Industry with Writer and Producer Bill Guttentag

83

Future of Politics and How Leaders are Chosen with Gautam Mukunda, Author of “Picking Presidents”

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Distinguishing AI Deepfakes From Reality with Ben Colman, Co-Founder and CEO of Reality Defender

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Future of National Security and American Politics with Miles Taylor

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How Viral Gene Therapy will Revolutionize Cancer Treatment with Nicole Paulk, Founder, Siren Biotech

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Future of Women’s Healthcare and Biowearables with Loewen Cavill, Co-Founder and CEO of Amira

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Future of In-Home Appliances and Power Offsets with Sam D’Amico, Founder and CEO of Impulse Labs

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Revolutionizing Computer Science Education with Austen Allred, Co-Founder and CEO of BloomTech

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Fixing San Francisco’s Broken Local Politics with GrowSF

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Future of Sustainable Fuels with Rob McGinnis, Founder and CEO of Prometheus

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mRNA and the Future of Biotechnology with Hannu Rajaniemi, Founder and CEO of Helix Nanotechnologies

93

Manufacturing in Low Earth Orbit with Delian Asparouhov, Co-Founder of Varda Space Industries

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The Emerging Field of Wildfire Technology with Maxwell Brodie, Co-Founder and CEO of Rain Industries

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The Future of Generative AI Video with Cristóbal Valenzuela, CEO and Co-Founder of Runway

96

Future of Carbon Removal Technology with Peter Reinhardt, CEO and Co-Founder of Charm Industrial

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Psychedelics and therapy with Dr. Jeeshan Chowdhury, Founder / CEO of Journey Colab

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Inflation, China, immigration and rabbits with Macroeconomist Noah Smith

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All things biotech with MIT Professor and Moderna co-founder Bob Langer

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Space and other tech to improve the human condition with George Whitesides, ex-CEO of Virgin Galactic

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The Rapidly Changing Landscape in Media and Content with Chris Best, CEO of Substack

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The Future of Nuclear Tech with Yasir Arafat

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How AI will change creativity with Dave Rogenmoser, CEO of Jasper.AI

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How AI will change programming with Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit