All Episodes

Adam Steege, Founder & CEO of Trio Labs: The Startup Failure That Became a Med-Tech Manufacturer

Nick Genty, Co-Founder & CEO of AgEye: From a Storefront Full of Robots to a Deal in Qatar

[REDACTED] Episode 8: We Hired an AI Sales Rep and Became Its Manager

Andrew Ashur, Co-Founder & CEO of Lucid Bots: "Hardware Done Right Is Where the Moat Still Exists"

Plantd Co-founder, Huade Tan: Innovating Carbon Capture With Building Materials

[REDACTED] Episode 7: How a Marketer with One Broken Assembly Class Built a Lead-Gen Tool Solo

Natrx: The Company Growing Coral Reefs Out of Concrete

[REDACTED] Episode 6: The 8-Stage "AI-ification Engine" Behind Every Automation Shipped

The Unlocked Door: Ryan Eade on What OpenClaw Users Need to Secure Right Now

Robbie Allen @ Tweener Claw: "3 to 5 of My Agents Fail Every Day: Here's What I've Learned"

[REDACTED] Episode 5: The Rage Log: AI-Powered Lead Gen, a Living Landing Page, and the Trick That Stops Claude From Making the Same Mistake Twice

The Open Claw Wave 2: 300K Stars, 1,400 Malicious Skills, and a Fork from Every Tech Giant

Jesse Lipson, CEO & Founder of Levitate: Building AI Features Won't Save You but Here's What Will

FLASH: Validic (NC Tweener!) acquired by ChartSpan - Live Interview with Drew Schiller, CEO, Validic

Rob Walter, Founder & CEO of RevBo: "Nobody Has It Right; The GTM Playbook Is Still Being Written"

[REDACTED] Episode 4: We Stopped Using Claude Code Mid-Build. Here's What We Built Instead

Mark Rosenberg, CEO & Founder of Hip eCommerce: "It's Like Sims, But With Real Money"

Moneyball for Main Street: The Fund That Bets on Singles, Not Home Runs

[REDACTED]: Episode 3: A Sentient HubSpot for $2 a Brand

Akash Ganapathi and Austin Kelleher, co-founders of Opine: Pivot the Plan, Not the Mission

[Redacted] an NC Tweener Times Podcast: The AI Workflow Graveyard: CRMs, Agents, and... Tamagotchis?

Marc Minor, Higharc: Built an AI Company for Homebuilding BEFORE the AI Boom

🦞 OpenClaw Talk Round 3: The 22-Agent Army: How Robbie Allen Runs a Company Like a System 🦞

Michael Tavani, CEO of Switchyards, Atlanta, GA, With a Big Announcement For the Triangle 🚨PLUS🚨 a Tweener Times Subscriber Exclusive Offer!

[Redacted] an NC Tweener Times Podcast: What Happens When You Rebuild a Business With AI

🦞 OpenClaw Talk Round 2: Ryan Eade Shares The Missing Pieces that will make your Using OpenClaw Easier

The 12 Moats That Matter Now: Scot Wingo (NC Tweener Fund, ReFiBuy) Breaks Down Defensibility in the AI Era

Building Autonomous Startups: Can AI Agents Launch Profitable Businesses?

🏆 Tweener Madness Championship: HAM vs Druid AgTech: AITech vs. AgTech for the Ultimate $25K Prize...Who Will Win!?

Tweener Madness: The Fabulous 4 Round 2 is here! Druid Agriculture VS Marla Amplification

Tweener Madness: The Fabulous 4 Begins with Utilyst VS HAM. Two Different Paths to Scale

Tweener Madness: The Exceptional 8 Round 4 is here! Marla Amplification VS Build-A-Bookie

Tweener Madness: The Exceptional 8 Round 3 is here! Druid Agriculture VS HuVia Technologies

Tweener Madness: The Exceptional 8 Round 2 is here! Iguana Cyber VS HAM

Tweener Madness: The Exceptional 8 Begins! Round 1: Utilyst VS BeneDoc

Tweener Madness 2026: Meet the Exceptional 8

How Pendo’s Evan Inscoe Is Building the Future of Go-To-Market Engineering

A New Chapter for North Carolina Startups: Scot Wingo and Robbie Allen on NC IDEA's #Ecosysteming Podcast

From Duke Football to 3D-Printed Medical Devices: How PROTECT3D Scaled Mass Customization with Kevin Gehsmann

Will AI Kill SaaS? Triangle Founders Want to Know! We Deep Dive Into the SaaSageddon with Joe Mancini, GP at Front Porch Ventures

Announcing: NC IDEA and Tweener Fund Partnership

Dr. Helen Gu on Building InsightFinder, AIOps, and the “Last Mile” of Enterprise AI

From Founder to Chief of Staff: How Offline Runs on AI with David Shaner

Three Companies, One Brand: Building Offline Over 13 Years with David Shaner

Tony Atti: Phononic Founder: Scaling Phononic from 2008-2026 and Beyond | PART 2 of 2

Tony Atti and How Phononic Was Founded During the 2008 Financial Crisis| PART 1 of 2

Brice Englert on How TradePending Scaled: Pricing, Sales, and Growing the TAM | PART 2 of 2

Brice Englert on Building TradePending: From “No”s to Product-Market Fit in Auto Tech | PART 1 of 2

Triangle Startup Venture Funding, Valuations & Deal Terms

Mike Doernberg: From ReverbNation to PlayMetrics, Spinoffs, PE, and a Lifetime of Building in the Triangle

Mike Doernberg on Tweener Talks: The Early Chapters of a Multi-Exit Triangle Founder

Mark Flickinger, BIP Ventures, on the State of Startups 2025: How the Southeast Became a Venture Powerhouse

Navigating the AI Tsunami: A Founder's Guide with Greg Boone

Dr. Doug Kaufman: The TransLoc Story, His Pivot to AI, and Why Every CEO Needs a Coach (part 2)

Startup Life, Crisis, and Chaos: Psychologist Turned Serial Entrepreneur Dr. Doug Kaufman (part 1)

Written Word Media's Ricci Wolman on Immigrating to the US, Entrepreneurial Freedom, and the Paradox of Choice

From Mebane to Ndustrial, Jason Massey is Building Sustainable Tech for the World’s Factories

Eric Boduch: Revcast, 24 and Up, and Building the Next Generation of Triangle Startups (Part 2)

Eric Boduch: Pendo's Origin Story, Building a Brand, and Product in the Age of AI (Part 1)

Jason Widen: From Raleigh Founded to Blue Co., Building Community and Creative Coworking

Chris Heivly: MapQuest Co-Founder ($1.2B Exit), Triangle Startup Factory, Build the Fort, and More

Allstacks' Hersh Tapadia: Raising $20M+ and Redefining Productivity

Engineering Entrepreneurs: NC State Eship and Triangle Legend Dr. Tom Miller

Tweener Madness Championship! ZW vs InviteJet: Who Takes Home the $25K Tweener Fund Investment?

CivicReach or InviteJet? What Startup Advances to the Tweener Madness Championship?

Unlocking Leadership Potential: Katherine Krupka on Raleigh Durham Startup Week

Moxie or ZW? What Startup Advances to the Tweener Madness Championship?

Tweener Madness! Logistics Innovation (Deliveri) vs Bulk Marketing Invitations (InviteJet)

Why Brain Science is Critical for Entrepreneurs, with Phil Dixon (Raleigh Durham Startup Week Keynote)

Valuable App vs CivicReach: The Battle of AI, Government, and Hidden Treasures

Exclusive Interview: $45m financing for Inn-Flow with CEO John Erhart

Moxie (Jessica Parker) vs TutorSmith (Austin Ketola): Tweener Madness Battle of the EdTechs!

MyMatR (John Starke) vs ZW LLC (Robert Fu): Let the Tweener Madness Begin!

8 Startups Competing for $25K Prize: This is Tweener Madness!

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Michael Jones

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Anthony Rotoli

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Anil Chawla

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Dave Neal

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Jason Caplain

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Tobi Walter

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Randy Myer

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Kevin Mosley

Breaking News: Earfluence Walk West - Acquisition Chat with Jason Gillikin and Greg Boone

$6m Seed, Exclusive Deep Dive: Isaac Park @ Keebler Health.

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Jenn Summe

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Lister Delgado

Tweener Madness Selection Show (Recorded Feb 20, 2025 1pm ET)

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Robbie Hardy

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: David Jones

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Mahati Sridhar

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Evan Shear

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Nikin Shah

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Zakiya Alta Lee

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: David Gardner

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Mitch Mumma

Tweener Madness! Meet the Selection Committee: Jan Davis

Igor Jablokov: From a cave to IBM to Amazon/Alexa, then $160m+ at Pryon

Jud Bowman: Founder at 18, Went From .COM bust to Unicorn and Much, Much More!

Chris Evans: 80s Founder, 40yrs of Davinci (1st Windows Email) and Accipiter Unicorn Exit

Richard Holcomb: Using "Hillbilly Negotiating" to Create an Excel-lent Microsoft Deal

Todd Olson, CEO of Pendo: Pendo Founding story and What Makes Him Tick?

Peter Zaitsev: Open-Source Entrepreneurship and the Percona Story

Tina Tang: Finding Product-Market Fit, Raising Pre-Seed, and the Bristles.AI Story

Robbie Allen: Automated Insights and Infinia ML (Exits) -> Bionic Health and Triangle Tweener Fund

Dr. Joy Bhosai: Raising Millions and Revolutionizing Healthcare with Pluto Health

Dr. Alison Fragale: Author of Likeable Badass and UNC Professor and Assistant Dean

Dusan Babich: South Africa -> Device Magic (Double Exit!) -> New Startup

Robbie Hardy: Her CI Technologies Exit, Women Investing in Women, and Upsetting the Table

Jesse Lipson: ShareFile (Exit to Citrix) -> Raleigh Founded and Levitate

Jan Davis: Generation 1 Triangle Founder -> RTP Angel Fund + Carolina Angel Fund

Alex Lassiter: Gather (Exit) -> GreenPlaces

Scot Wingo: Stingray -> AuctionRover -> ChannelAdvisor -> Spiffy -> Triangle Tweener Fund