Chainguard founder and CEO Dan Lorenc is building the security layer the entire software industry should run on. After nearly a decade at Google working on open source infrastructure, Dan co-founded Chainguard in 2021 to solve a problem hiding in plain sight. 90 to 95 percent of the code powering the world's software is open source, free, and largely unsecur ... Show More
Jun 2026
Boris Sofman Went from Leading Autonomous Trucking at Waymo to Building Bedrock Robotics
Boris Sofman has spent his entire career at the forefront of physical AI. He co-founded Anki, shipping more than 3.7 million consumer robots globally, before leading autonomous trucking at Waymo, where he helped pioneer the world's most advanced driverless vehicle program. Now he ... Show More
44m 48s
May 2026
Max Shaw and Brian Distelburger on Reinventing People Management with Windmill
Windmill co-founders Max Shaw and Brian Distelburger are building the AI-powered people platform for how companies develop and manage their talent. Founded alongside Mark Tanner, Windmill replaces the broken, once-a-year performance review with something faster, smarter, and that ... Show More
52m 34s
May 2026
Cristóbal Valenzuela on How Runway's World Models Are Changing Storytelling
Runway founder and CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela grew up in Chile before moving to New York to study at NYU's ITP program, where the seeds of Runway were planted. Since co-founding the company in 2018, he has built it into one of the leading generative video AI companies in the world, ... Show More
52m 19s
Dec 2023
Wade Foster, Co-Founder and CEO of Zapier, on Process, Productivity and Getting the Job Done
Wade Foster is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zapier, an automation platform that connects over 6,000 different apps to streamline workflows. Founded in 2012, Zapier currently supports over 2.2 million businesses automate their workflows, from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Only r ... Show More
35 m
Jan 2025
Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder
<p>Two-time founder Rujul Zaparde knows a thing or two about resilience and learning from failure. </p><p>After dropping out of college to build FlightCar, he worked as a PM at Airbnb, and later as a visiting partner at YC. </p><p>In 2020, he co-founded Zip, a procurement softwar ... Show More
24m 31s
Apr 2022
The art of starting a startup — Gagan Biyani’s advice for generating, validating, and executing on ideas
Today’s episode is with Gagan Biyani, co-founder and CEO of Maven, a company that empowers the world’s experts to offer cohort-based courses directly to their audience.
After being early at 3 startups that achieved over $1 million in run-rate in their first six months of going l ... Show More
1h 2m