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How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)

Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)

The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)

Fal, a generative media platform for developers, successfully transitioned from a data infrastructure startup to a high-growth AI inference engine by capitalizing on the rapid emergence of generative models like Stable Diffusion and Flux. By prioritizing developer experience and building easy-to-use APIs, the company s...

From dorm room to life-saving AI | Prepared’s story | Michael Chime (Co-founder & CEO of Prepared)

Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)

Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)

From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)

How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)

Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI | Parag Agrawal (Co-founder and CEO of Parallel)

Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)

Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis

What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)

Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust and former AI lead at Figma, shares his journey in technology and lessons learned from building multiple AI products. Goyal emphasizes the importance of paranoia about software quality, recalling how a managing director at Goldman Sachs stressed the real-world consequences of ...

How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem

How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)

Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)

How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)

In this interview, Wes Kao, former co-founder of Maven and AltMBA, discusses communication, charisma, and authenticity in company building. She emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, understanding one's baseline style, and leveraging personal strengths rather than trying to imitate others. Kao shares her experien...

From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)

How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (CEO at Reducto)

In this episode of InDepth, Adit Abraham, co-founder and CEO of Reducto, discusses the company's journey from its initial concept as a long-term memory solution for language models to its current focus on transforming document processing. Adit shares how a weekend project unexpectedly led to a pivot, driven by strong c...

1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)

Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)