Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S11 Bonus: Juan DeAngulo, Inselligence

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Juan DeAngulo was born and raised in South America - then eventually, came to the status in 2017 for college to play Tennis. He kept playing throughou...

Developer Chats - Petr Petrenko of Bumble

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are continuing our series, entitled Developer Chats - hearing from the large scale system builders themselves.In this episode, we are talkin...

S11 E29: Sarah Lucena, Mappa

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Lucena lives in San Francisco, and starts here day at 4:30 am to lead her LATAM team. She's originally from Brazil, born and raised on the n...

S11 Bonus: Tucker Callaway, Mezmo

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tucker Calloway grew up in Alamo, California, in the Easy Bay Area. And has returned to that area to raise his family - 25-30 minutes outside of the S...

S11 E28: Hojjat Jafarpour, DeltaStream

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hojjat Jafarpour lives with his family in California. He got his PhD in databases and data streaming, back when the landscape was different and data s...

Developer Chats - Svyatoslav Babinets of Meta

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are kicking off a new series, entitled Developer Chats - hearing from the large scale system builders themselves, sponsored by our friends a...

S11 Bonus: Spriha Baruah Tucker, Buildkite

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Spriha Baruah Tucker has spent time in a number of places - growing up in India, attending boarding school in Singapore, and now living in San Francis...

S11 Bonus: Gajus Kuizinas, Contra

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gajus Kuizinas lives in Mexico City, and travels between there, New York and San Francisco. He had a non-traditional upbringing for an engineer, as al...

The Railsware Way - Mistakes & Lessons in Product Evolution, with Oleksii Ianchuk

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are dropping our final episode in the series "The Railsware Way", sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. Railsware is a leading...

S11 E27: Raj Dosanjh, Paid

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Raj Dosanjh grew up in Coventry, which he calls the Detroit of the UK. He still enjoys following the football team, and hopes they rejuvenate the city...

Season Favorite - Emmanuel Straschnov, Bubble

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emmanuel Straschnov grew up in rural France, which is interestingly enough where he started doing computer stuff (he mentioned there wasn't much e...

Unbreakable: How to Thrive Under Fear-Based Leaders with Kate Lowry

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we have a special guest on the podcast, Kate Lowry, CEO coach, author and comedian. She is a long time startup founder, spent time in VC, is le...

S12 Bonus: Marlena Sarunac, The Company Advice

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marlena Sarunac is a first generation American, her family being from Croatia. She started her career at Mastercard, left to travel around Europe (bef...

The Railsware Way - How an MBA Helps (or doesn't) Product Mgmt, with Julia Starun

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are another episode in our series, sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. Railsware is a leading product studio with two main focuses -...

S11 E27: Marco Rodrigues, Exaforce

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marco Rodrigues was born and raised in Canada, but now lives in the Bay Area. His tech genesis was around the time when the internet came out, when he...

Fraud Awareness Week - How SEON is your Fraud & AML Command Center with Husnain Bajwa

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we have a special episode correlated with Fraud awareness week, and brought to you by our friends at SEON - the command center for fraud preven...

S11 Bonus: Praveen Ghanta, Fraction & DevHawk

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Praveen Ghanta recently turned 47 and started to look at the things he wanted to do - but potentially couldn't do in the future. He's married ...

The Railsware Way – Conversational Analytics & Data Focused Products, with Nika Tamayo Flores

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are another episode in our series, sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. Railsware is a leading product studio with two main focuses -...

S11 E25: Chris Wallis, Intruder

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Wallis lives in London, and grew up on a farm in the UK. He was the kid running around the countryside climbing trees - until his parents bought...

S11 Bonus: Erez Druk, Freed

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Erez Druk grew up in Israel, but has been in the Bay Area for many years. He has a common theme in his life of obsessing over his current thing. In th...

The Railsware Way - Delivering Value through BRIDGeS, with Sergiy Korolov

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are another episode in our series, sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. Railsware is a leading product studio with two main focuses -...

S11 E24: Mrinal Wadhwa, Autonomy S11

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mrinal Wadhwa grew up in India with a Dad in the Armed Forces, so he moved around a lot. His mother was a teacher for 40+ years, and greatly influence...

S11 Bonus: Shamba Chowdhury, DeForge

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shamba Chowdhury got his first computer at an early age. He was the kid that explored every button and every setting, trying to figure out how it all ...

The Railsware Way - Vibe Coding vs. Traditional SDLC, with Sergiy Korolov

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are kicking off a new series, sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. Railsware is a leading product studio with two main focuses - serv...

S11 E23: Dr. Zohar Bronfman, Pecan AI

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zohar Bronfman spends most of his time in Tel Aviv, Israel these days. He has a focused academic background, specifically in philosophy and neuroscien...

S11 Bonus: Tanmai Gopal, PromptQL

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tanmai Gopal is a repeat guest on the podcast. Back in Season 7, he came on to tell the creation story of Hasura, which is a universal data access lay...

S11 E22: Ryan Wang, Assembled

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Wang has had a winding set of paths to get to where he is today. He studied economics and statistics, with the intent of going to grad school and...

S11 Bonus: Sam Partee, Arcade.dev

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Partee started out his love for tech/engineering by working on cars. After many y ears of working on cars, and even starting his own car stereo in...

S11 E21: Raja Tabet & Synopsys: The Future of AI & How We Are Building It

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Raja Tabet lives in Austin, TX, but grew up overseas in Lebanon. When he migrated to the states for his education, he did not speak English, and had t...

A Startup Field Guide in the Age of Robots & AI - with Olivier Mitchell

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we are talking with Oliver Mitchell, Partner at ff Venture Capital, the most engaged technology venture capital firm in New York City since 200...

S11 E20: Alex Galkin, Competera AI

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Galkin can't remember a time where he wasn't doing tech. Funny enough, he does remember a time before internet was common place. In 6th o...

S11. Bonus: Harish Chandramowli, Flaire

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Harish Chandramowli grew up in a small town in India. The goal was simple early on - study well, go to university, and get a job. After undergrad, he ...

S11 E19: Madhavan "Maddy" Malonan, Reclaim Protocol

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Madhavan "Maddy" Malonan has always been in - and around - technology, and fell in love with building things early on. He got a video game con...

S11 Bonus: Chris Kline, BitcoinIRA

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Kline grew up in Aurora, Colorado, and went to school in Boulder to study finance and leadership. He has lived through several significant event...

S11 E18: Theodore Bergqvist, Turbotic

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Theo Bergqvist is an entrepreneur who enjoys working a lot. He started his first venture in 1999 in the gaming industry, building Paradox, which is no...

S11 E17: Jens Neuse, Wundergraph

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jens Neuse grew up in Germany, originally planning to be a carpenter. In his 2nd year as an apprentice, he was in a motorcycle wreck that thrust him i...

S11 Bonus: Simon Ritter, Azul

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Ritter has been in the IT industry for 40 years. He went from university to work on Unix in the early days, employed by AT&T and programming...

S11 E16: Adam Cohen, Weave

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Cohen grew up in Toronto, in North York. He showed early signs of entrepreneurship by putting his lemonade stand on a wagon, and taking it door t...

S11 Bonus: Alan Fisher, KinetiX at Wabtec Corporation

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Fisher started his career as a computer programmer. Early on, he was hired by the 1st or 2nd largest freight railroad in the world, Union Pacific...

Building Identity Orchestration for AI Agents with Granville Schmidt of Strata

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are bringing you a special episode, as our friends at Strata return to the podcast. You might remember our interview from Season 8 with Eric Olden,...

S11 E15: Derek Ting, TextNow

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Derek Ting grew up in Canada-land, enjoying all the things of the area but especially hockey. He mentioned he has a bit of ADD, which made it hard for...

S11 Bonus: Dr. Alex Kihm, POMA AI

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Kihm just turned 40, and has been into computers for 36 years. He was given his first hand me down computer at the age of 4 by his parents, and a...

What Founders Need to Know - with Dan Eyman of Meld Valuation

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I'm talking with Dan Eyman, the Managing Director at Meld Valuation, specializing in independent, audit ready valuations for VC backed star...

S11 E14: Avi Perez, Pyramid Analytics

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Avi Perez has been in the data and analytics space for more than 25 years. He began his career in banking and finance in Australia, but quickly grew t...

S11 Bonus: Goutham (Gou) Rao, Neubird

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Goutham Rao grew up in Brooklyn, a nerd all his life. Back in the day, his Dad bought him a Commodore 64, from which he started to learn to write code...

S11 E13: Matt Hamann, Rownd

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Hamann knew he was going to be in tech way back in his younger days. His Dad worked for IBM, so there were always fun things to talk about and pl...

S11 Bonus: Greg Shove, Section

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Shove was born in Canada, raised in Britain, and eventually moved to the United States. Through all of these places he lived, he learned to belie...

S11 E12: Ravi Madabhushi, ScaleKit

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ravi Madabhushi finds that all of the stops along his professional journey were accidental. He grew up in a tiny village in the south of India - so sm...

S11 Bonus: Trevor Stuart, Split & Harness

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trevor Stuart was born in Florida, but raised in Seattle. He was the son of a tech CFO and an Episcopalian minister - so he learned life at many diffe...

S11 E11: Dave Berner, Kinde

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Berner grew up in London, and got into coding through music. He used to be the lead singer in metal and hardcore bands. His bands couldn't af...

S11 Bonus: Tiffany Johnson, NMI

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tiffany Johnson is originally from Texas, but grew up in California. At a young age, she was a bit of an adrenaline junkie, partaking in skydiving, sn...

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection – Navigating the Future of Data Management

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS MethodToday, we are releasing another episode from our series, entitled The Gene Simmons of...

S11 E10: Brennan Pothetes, Infinity Constellation

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brennan Pothetes grew up in Louisiana, but went to High School in Portland, Oregon - two very different places. He started his career in internal audi...

S11 Bonus: Ben Lerner, Espresso AI

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Lerner was a fan of tech growing up, along side being into math and science. Right out of school, he joined a startup called Data Nitro, which att...

The Next Iteration of Gremlin – with Kolton Andrus, CEO

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I'm talking with Kolton Andrus, CEO and Founder of Gremlin. You may remember previously when we spoke with Matt, the prior CTO of the compa...

S11 E9: Buchi Reddy, Levo.ai

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Buchi Reddy lives in North Austin, having recently moved there with his family. He is originally from south India, and grew up in a farming family bef...

S11 Bonus: Evan Henshaw-Plath (aka Rabble), Rabble Labs & Verse

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Henshaw-Plath, also known as Rabble, was born in Berkeley while his Mom was a student. His parents were hippies, and he grew up near Silicon Vall...

S11 E8: Jesse Pollak, Base & Coinbase

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse Pollak grew up in Washington, DC, attending a Quaker school through graduating in high school. He played competitive soccer, which was a huge pa...

S11 Bonus: Gaurav Bhattacharya, Jeeva AI

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gaurav Bhattacharya grew up in New Delhi, in a blue collar family. He lost his Dad early in his life. He took influence from his older brother and his...

S11 E7: Artem Rodichev, Ex-Human

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Artem Rodichev was born and raised in Kazakhstan, surrounded by the mountains. He loves hiking, and pretty much all outdoor activities. He jokes that ...

S11 Bonus: Keren Fanan, MyOp

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Keren Fanan doesn't come from a tech based family, yet has worked in tech for the last 15 years. She's not a developer herself, but has always...

S11 E6: Michael Sacca, Leadpages

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Sacca didn't start out coding - he started out as a musician. In college, he studied music business and wanted to go into that world. Even...

S11 Bonus: Ofir Bibi, Lightricks

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ofir Bibi grew up in Jerusalem, and is where he is today because of his love for photography. He has always been a tinkerer, taking apart of radios an...

S11 E5: Austin Federa, DoubleZero

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Austin Federa has a non-traditional path into the blockchain world. In college, he studied political & environmental science, and economics. Inter...

S11 Bonus: Tim Eades, Anetac

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Eades grew up poor, but forced himself into college. He is a 4 time CEO, an investor, and on the boards of several different companies - but more ...

S11 E4: Brooke Hartley Moy, Infactory AI

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brooke Hartley May lives in Oakland, California, on the East Bay, claiming to get more sunshine than her neighbors in San Francisco. She was a history...

S11 Bonus: Yaroslav & Sergiy, Railsware - Part 2

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Yaroslav Lazor started writing code when he was 10 years old. It took him a while to understand that making a difference in the world wasn't just ...

S11 Bonus: Yaroslav & Sergiy, Railsware - Part 1

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Yaroslav Lazor started writing code when he was 10 years old. It took him a while to understand that making a difference in the world wasn't just ...

S11 E3: Rob Duffy, Healthedge

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Duffy lives in New York with his family. He moved to the states to go work for a small online bookstore that we know today as Amazon. He's mar...

S11 Bonus: Emmanuel Straschnov, Bubble

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emmanuel Straschnov grew up in rural France, which is interestingly enough where he started doing computer stuff (he mentioned there wasn't much e...

S11 Bonus: Clayton Gentry, Podstock

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Clayton Gentry has been digitally oriented his whole life. When he was younger, he was into photography and making videos with his friends and for sch...

S11 Bonus: David Asamu, Nesla

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Asamu grew up in Nigeria and got into technology early, through serving his community. He attended University, and continued his community effor...

S11 E2: Clément "Kero" Renault, Meilisearch

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Clément "Kero" Renault wanted to be an architect when he was younger. During that time, he also learned about computers and built his first w...

S11 Bonus: Arnab Deka, Metacast

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Arnab Deka lives in Vancouver and loves the Pacific Northwest. He was never formally educated in computer science or software engineering - in fact, w...

S11 E1: Rob Woollen, Sigma Computing

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Woollen lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up with a Father in IT and management, and his Mother as an English teacher. He has been prog...

Season Favorite - Matt Van Itallie, Sema

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Van Itallie is the son of a math teacher and a coder - so this explains why he now uses code as data. He is a proud Boy Scout, making it of cours...

Season Favorite - Kevin Hurley, Lightspark

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to play 2 on 2 with his Dad and siblings at home. He ...

Season Favorite - Anurag Goel, Render

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anurag Goel grew up in New Delhi, but moved to Boston after college for his first job. He worked at Stripe, as the 8th employee, before eventually mov...

S10 Bonus: Erik Braund, Katmai Tech

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Erik Braund was born and raised in Alaska. Growing up, he played competitive hockey and built computers for his Dad's company and eventually other...

S10 E30: Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty, Uniqode

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty lives in Bangalore with his family. Early on, he joined startups where his friends worked, in order to get to know the landsca...

S10 Bonus: Shai Horovitz, Jit.io

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shai Horovitz grew up on a farm in Israel, 1.5 hours north of Tel Aviv. He was drafted into the army, in a unit that focused on technology - and in 20...

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - Are You Ready For the GenAI Data Frontier?

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS MethodToday, we are releasing another episode from our series, entitled The Gene Simmons of...

S10 E29: Lucas Lovell, Paddle

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lucas Lovell grew up in Adelaide, Australia, before eventually landing where resides now, in London. He studied law, but he eventually decided that he...

S10 Bonus: David Young, Federated Computer

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Young spent many years in California, but lives in Colorado Springs now. He mentioned that things outside of work are very important to him, as ...

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection – Are Your Systems Smarter Than a Threat Actor?

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS MethodToday, we are releasing another episode from our series, entitled The Gene Simmons of...

S10 E28: Kavitta Ghai, Nectir

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kavitta Ghai realized at an early age that she thought different than everyone else. She grew up neurodivergent, with autism and ADHD but was a lucky ...

S10 Bonus: Darko Fabijan, Semaphore

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Darko Fabijan is originally from Serbia, and splits his time between their and the US. He got is first computer in 1994, and eventually started tinker...

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - Fortifying Your Data Defenses

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS MethodToday, we are releasing another episode from our series, entitled The Gene Simmons of...

S10 E27: Gino Ferrand, Tecla.io

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gino Ferrand is originally from Peru, and moved to the United States when he was 12 years old. Now, he lives in Seattle, and is enjoying all that the ...

S10 E23: Ivan & Nick, Archetype AI (Part 2)

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ivan Poupyrev grew up in the Soviet Union, studying rocket science. He moved to the US in 2013 to pursue the early days of VR. He has worked at Disney...

The Gene Simmons of Data Protection – KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid): A Data Security Dilemma

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Gene Simmons of Data P rotection: Protegrity's KISS MethodToday, we are kicking off a new series on the podcast, entitled The Gene Simmons of ...

S10 E23: Ivan & Nick, Archetype AI (Part 1)

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ivan Poupyrev grew up in the Soviet Union, studying rocket science. He moved to the US in 2013 to pursue the early days of VR. He has worked at Disney...

S10 Bonus: Quinn Li O’Shea, Braid

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Quinn Li started into tech well before college. In High School, she was into fashion and would take pictures of herself and her friends. She wanted to...

S10 E25: Alberto Simon, Masterworks

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alberto Simon is an immigrant from Mexico, moving to Florida with his small family when he was very young. At a young age, he got interested in comput...

S10 Bonus: Don Gossen, Nevermined

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Don Gossen is Canadian, but at this point, in name only. He lives in Portugal with his wife and 2 daughters. He grew up all over the world, and his ca...

S10 E25: Shmuel Kliger, Causely

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shmuel Kliger is a self proclaimed old man. He was born in Israel, and served in the army for 6 years. It was in the army where he obtained his passio...

Podcasthon & the American Cancer Society

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello Listeners.Today is going to be a special episode, a bit out of the ordinary to our normal programming. I'm participating in Podcasthon, whic...

S10 Bonus: Tyler Wells, Braingrid

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tyler Wells lives outside of Austin, TX. He moved there 4 years ago, but spent most of this time in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Outside of tech, ...

S10 E23: Anthony Eden, DNSimple

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Eden is a gray beard in terms of internet time, being around when Netscape was released. He was studying music at the University of Miami, and...

S10 Bonus: Andrew Lau, Jellyfish

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Lau is located in Boston now, but is a California native. He grew up in Oakland, and calls himself the odd duck who went west instead of east, ...