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The Room Podcast

by Claudia Laurie and Madison McIlwain
150 EPISODES
Nov 2025
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S15E6: Building an AI-Native HR System with Sergi Bastardas, Co-Founder and CEO of Orbio AI
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S15E5: Finding Product Market Fit with Fazeshift Co-Founder & CEO Caitlin Leksana
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S15E4: From Starlink to AI Marketing Agents with Doug Tallmadge, Co-Founder and CEO of Gradial
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S15E3: Building the Future of Sleep with Hatch Co-Founder & CEO Ann Crady Weiss
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S15E2: Secure AI Agents for the Future of Work with NanoCo Co-Founder & CEO, Gavriel Cohen
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S15E1: Building the Infrastructure for Voice AI with Russ d'Sa, Co-Founder and CEO of LiveKit
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Building an Enterprise VC Firm with Jai Das, President and Co-Founder of Sapphire Ventures | Founding the Fund 4
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Turning Content into Competitive Advantage with Packy McCormick | Founding the Fund 3
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Backing Technical Founders with Amplify Partners Founder Sunil Dhaliwal | Founding the Fund 2
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Investing in Trillion-Dollar Outcomes with Ben Ling of Bling Capital | Founding the Fund 1
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S14E8: From a Shark Tank No to Billion-Dollar Exit with Ring Inventor, Jamie Siminoff
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S14E7: Building the AI Layer for Legal Work with Scott Stevenson, Co-Founder and CEO of Spellbook
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S14E6: The End of Waiting for Payday with EarnIn Founder, Ram Palaniappan
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S14E5: Building the Red Bull for Relaxation with Ben Witte, Founder and CEO of Recess
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S14E4: Why Usage-Based Billing Is Inevitable with Metronome Co-Founder Scott Woody
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S14E3: Ryan Daniels, Founder & CEO of Crosby, on Legal Services in the Age of AI
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S14E2: Alex Halliday, Founder of AirOps, on Content Engineering and the AI Marketing Stack
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S14E1: Nirav Tolia, Nextdoor CEO, on Building Community Platforms, Product-Market Fit, and the Future of AI in Local Networks
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From Stitch Fix to AI Search with Daydream Founder Julie Bornstein | Inside Summit 2025 [LIVE]
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Ethical AI, Iteration Velocity, and the Future of Software with Grant Lee (Gamma), Noah MacCallum (Open AI), Malte Ubl (Vercel), Chris Messina (Product Leader), Ash Kumrah (The AI Collective) | Inside Summit 2025 [LIVE]
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Navigating the New M&A Landscape with Indy Guha (VMG), Jared Roesch (OctoAI), Dan Kang (Mercury), Michelle Edwards (Perkins Coi) | Inside Summit 2025 [LIVE]
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Solving Data Fragmentation at Scale with Michel Tricot, Co-Founder & CEO of Airbyte | Inside Summit 2025 [LIVE]
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S13E8: Designing Payroll for Small Businesses with Gusto’s Co-Founder, Tomer London
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S13E7: Reimagining Content, Provenance, and AI with Cloudflare’s VP of Product, William Allen
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S13E6: How Almost Friday Media is Shaping the Next Era of Entertainment with Jack Barrett
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S13E5: From Palantir to Hex — How Barry McCardel and Caitlin Colgrove Built the Modern Data Workspace
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S13E4: From Sleeping at AOL to Building Bolt with Eric Simons, Founder and CEO of Bolt.new
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S13E3: Creating Longevity Drugs for Dogs with Celine Halioua, Founder of Loyal
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S13E2: Scaling Warp and Supercharging Developers with AI with Founder Zach Lloyd
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S13E1: Reinventing Work Through AI-Native Communication with Craig Walker, Founder & CEO of Dialpad
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New York Tech Week Special: Live Recording with Partiful Co-Founder and CEO, Shreya Murthy
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S12E8: Direct-to-Consumer Pioneer to AI Psychology with Neil Parikh, Co-Founder of Casper and Slingshot
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S12E7: From Tech Reporter to Media Founder with Alex Konrad, Founder of Upstarts Media
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S12E6: Data Ownership in the AI Era with Anna Kazlauskas, Founder of Vana
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S12E5: Bootstrapping to Billions in Corporate Travel with Elia Wallen, Founder and CEO of Engine
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S12E4: The New Developer Experience with Factory Co-Founders, Matan Grinberg & Eno Reyes
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S12E3: The Road to Driverless Vehicles with Tiancheng Lou, Co-Founder of Pony AI
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S12E2: Supercharging Sales Teams Using AI with Alexa Grabell, Co-Founder of Pocus
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S12E1: Building Global Trade Infrastructure with Ryan Petersen, Founder and CEO of Flexport
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S11E9: A Law Firm for Founders with Agatha Kluk and Sonia Farber, Co-Founders of Kluk Farber Law, Now Part of Perkins Coie (Bonus Holiday Episode)
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S11E8: From Bootstrapping to SaaS Industry Leader with Wade Foster, Co-Founder of Zapier
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S11E7: The Future of Fintech for Founders with Mercury Co-Founder and CEO, Immad Akhund [LIVE]
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S11E6: Building the Unified API with Merge Co-Founder, Shensi Ding
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S11E5: Innovating Financial Inclusion and Pay Flexibility with Jason Lee, Founder of Salt Labs and DailyPay
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S11E4: Transforming Sweet Treats using Clean Ingredients with Kevin McCarthy, CEO of Unreal
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S11E3: Reversing Type 2 Diabetes using Tech and Nutrition with Sami Inkinen, Founder of Virta Health
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S11E2: Branding, Bedding, and Wellness Innovation with Ariel Kaye, Founder of Parachute
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S11E1: Empowering The Future of Generative AI Search with Johnny Ho, Co-Founder of Perplexity
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Special Season: Inside Summit 2024 Fireside Chat with Kashish Gupta Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Hightouch
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Special Season: Inside Summit 2024 The Future of DTC ft. Nik Sharma, Coterie, De Soi, and TYB
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