Guests

Adam Spector

Founder & CEO, Chore

A four-time founder, former Twitter product manager and angel investor in 200+ startups — including more than a dozen unicorns. After co-founding AbstractOps, he built Chore, the fractional chief-of-staff company now running HR, finance, compliance and equity for startups across eight countries. His thesis: AI will rewrite the workforce far faster than anyone is ready for, and speed is the only real moat.

2 episodes

William Morgan

Co-founder & CEO, Buoyant

The engineer who helped kill Twitter's fail whale and then invented an entire category. As a Twitter infrastructure engineer he lived through the monolith-to-microservices migration, then co-founded Buoyant and created Linkerd — the first production service mesh, now a CNCF graduated project. A veteran of Powerset, Microsoft and MITRE, he's a fixture on the KubeCon stage and is now building the plumbing the AI era will run on.

1 episode

Cory Blumenfeld

Serial founder — CSMoso, Caribou, CoHealth

A five-time founder with two exits before most people finish their first startup. He co-founded and ran operations at CoHealth, co-founded and served as president of Caribou, and worked on strategy at LearnLux — building across healthtech, fintech and consumer along the way. Today he runs CSMoso from Miami, plugging lean teams into offshore talent and arguing that speed and distribution beat polish every time.

1 episode

Amanda Sima

Founder & inventor — Brain on Loan, JoJo Cups

An Ohio State grad who built a collegiate apparel business with 150+ NCAA licenses and thousands of Amazon listings — then exited it. She went on to invent and patent JoJo Cups, a spill-proof toddler lid, and found herself in a bruising fight to defend the IP, a story that turned into a lesson in protecting your big idea. Now based in Colorado, she runs Working Girl Productions and her new media venture Brain on Loan.

1 episode

Vasyl “Vince” Soloshchuk

Founder & CEO, INSART

Twenty-five years in engineering and fintech, and he climbed every rung — team lead, CTO, then founder. He built INSART from Ukraine into a Florida-based B2B tech studio that has helped 20+ fintech companies find product-market fit, modernise legacy systems and raise money. He's blunt about what kills startups: not the idea, but the distribution, the data infrastructure and the founder who can't execute.

1 episode

Todd Persen

CTO, Hydrolix

Few people have shaped modern data infrastructure this quietly. He co-founded Errplane, the company that created and open-sourced InfluxDB, then co-founded Era Software and sold it to ServiceNow, where he led log management product. Now CTO at Hydrolix and a Forbes Technology Council member, he's building the streaming data lake behind petabyte-scale observability — and making the case that AI agents will live or die on logs and telemetry.

1 episode

Mike Foster

Founder, The Entrepreneurs Mentor

Author of the Financial Times Guide to Starting a Business and one of the UK's most experienced business mentors. Born and raised in Oxfordshire, he started, scaled and sold several companies before spending the last 13 years coaching founders on profit, pricing and growth. He also co-hosted The Business Brunch radio show and built the Oxford Business Community Network. His message is unsentimental: ideas are cheap, solving a real problem is everything.

1 episode

Kirsten Karchmer

Founder & CEO, Conceivable

An MS diagnosis pushed her out of conventional medicine and into two decades of clinical practice, three of her own clinics and more than 10,000 patients treated. She turned that protocol into Conceivable, an AI-native women's health company built to make fertility care radically more accessible — with reported natural conception rates up 260%. A best-selling author and patented inventor with a half-million-strong audience, she's rebuilding an entire category of care from the ground up.

1 episode

Ohad Shaked

Co-founder & CEO, ThinkUp

A third-generation entrepreneur who helped build 888.com into a billion-dollar public company, then spent roughly 15 years running his family office and investing. He later co-founded Israeli mobility startup Thinkz, and now leads ThinkUp, which he calls the world's first digital accelerator — designed to stress-test a founder's idea before they burn a year and a seed round building the wrong thing.

1 episode

Nikki Barua

Co-founder & CEO, FlipWork

Twenty-five years building companies across four continents, from scrappy startups to Fortune 500 boardrooms — and a comeback from rock bottom that reframed all of it. Named Entrepreneur of the Year and one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, she's a best-selling author, keynote speaker and founder of Beyond Barriers. Today she leads FlipWork, the human operating system for the AI era, and preaches the 48-hour rule: one decision, taken fast, changes everything.

1 episode

Logan Kelly

Founder & CEO, Waxell AI

He founded CallSine, an AI-native B2B sales platform built on retrieval-augmented outreach — and running those agents in production exposed a problem nobody had solved: no one could see or control what the agents were actually doing. So he built Waxell, a governance control plane for production AI agents covering cost, quality and behaviour. Both companies are bootstrapped, and he's staked his claim on one of the most important unsexy problems in AI.

1 episode

Carmen Li

Founder & CEO, Silicon Data

She's building the Bloomberg of GPU pricing. After leading enterprise data alliances at Bloomberg and running global working-capital products at Citi, she founded Silicon Data to create the benchmarks the AI compute market was missing — raising a $4.7M seed co-led by DRW and Jump Trading. Those benchmarks now underpin the first GPU futures market being built by CME Group, and she co-leads Compute Exchange with DRW's Don Wilson. Her thesis: compute is the new oil, and it's still wildly mispriced.

1 episode

Robert LoCascio

Founder, Uare.ai — founder of LivePerson

He invented online customer-care chat in 1997 and spent nearly 30 years turning that idea into LivePerson, a conversational AI giant that peaked at a $4.7B valuation — before stepping away in 2023 and starting over from zero. Today he's building Uare.ai, a platform for personal AI agents and digital legacy, plus KID, an AI device for children. A rare founder who created a category, lost the company, and went straight back to the blank page.

1 episode

Ganesh Krishnan

Founder, AiHello & HalZero.ai

Founder of AiHello, the Toronto-based revenue operating system for ecommerce sellers, and of HalZero.ai, where he's working on infrastructure for artificial superintelligence. He's one of the more grounded sceptics in the AGI debate, arguing that today's large language models may be hitting a hard ceiling — and that the path to real intelligence looks nothing like scaling the current stack.

1 episode

Isabell Halletz

Managing Director, Arbeitgeberverband Pflege

Managing director of the German Employers' Association of Care Providers in Berlin since 2016, with roughly two decades in the care and health sector. An author and conference speaker, she knows the economics of German home and elderly care better than almost anyone — and she's blunt about the staffing, funding and regulatory pressures pushing the system to its limit.

1 episode

Robert Hangu

Founder, Next Jobs

A software engineer turned founder who built Next Jobs, an AI-powered job-matching platform launched on Product Hunt in 2024. Previously co-founder and CTO at CoLogic, founder of Tradespeople Tech, and part of the Antler London cohort. He now works on AI and voice automation, and has strong views on how AI is quietly rewiring the entire job-search market.

1 episode

Felix Koleber

Co-founder & CEO, ONYX Ventures

He quit a comfortable corporate job at 30, ran a Kickstarter, and built LEVIA into one of Germany's best-known weighted-blanket brands — then sold it five years later. Now he co-runs ONYX Ventures in Augsburg, an ecommerce brand studio spinning up the next generation of consumer brands for the European market. A masterclass in building, exiting and doing it again.

1 episode

Victor Torac

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur who jams on business models for a living — from one-person AI consultancies to hot honey and protein-cookie brands. His running theme on the show: pick the people you work with before you pick the idea, because the partnership outlasts the product every time.

1 episode

Motry

DJ & music producer

A DJ and producer who builds his own audience funnel instead of waiting on a label. He breaks down how independent music creators distribute, monetise and own the relationship with their fans in a post-label world.

1 episode