Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
S10 Bonus: Wes Tatters, Rapyd Cloud
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Tatters has had a crazy, diverse career history. He is been in IT for around 40 years, and start...
S10 Bonus: Thomas Hansen, Amplitude
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Thomas Hansen was born and raised in Denmark. He's also lived in South Africa, Thailand, Turkey ...
S10 Bonus: Anand Kulkarni, Crowdbotics
15 Jan 2025
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Anand Kulkarni started his career in the dark ages of AI, as a Computer Science researcher at UC Ber...
S10 E15: Hannes Lenke, Checkly
14 Jan 2025
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Hannes Lenke was born in East Germany. He started tinkering with computers at an early age, and beca...
S10 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Egil Østhus is based out of Norway - which obviously means he loves skiing. But outside of this, he...
S10 Bonus: Matt Pierce, Immediate (Replay)
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Matt Pierce has been a tech guy for his entire 17 year career. Coming out of grad school, he started...
S10 Bonus: Reed McGinley-Stempel, Stytch (Replay)
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reed McGinley-Stempel grew up in Las Vegas, but went to school on the East Coast. Frankly, he didn&#...
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jonathan Stark is based in Providence, Rhode Island. He attended the Berkeley College or Music, with...
S10 E14: Eric Müller, Presence
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Eric Müller lives in San Francisco, and explored many different paths before landing in tech. He lo...
S10 Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Andrey Kudievskiy has always been fascinated by technology, and when asked about himself, he identif...
Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Sonia Gokhale, VentureSouq
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we are kicking off a new series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsor...
S10 E13: Josh Levine, Chess.com
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Levine lives in Brooklyn, NY. He started programming when he was 6 years old, when his Dad brou...
S10 Bonus: Daniel Loreto, Jetify
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Loreto grew up in Venezuela, but moved around a lot and lived in 6 different countries. He is...
Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Raakin Iqbal, Nucleus AI
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we are kicking off a new series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsor...
S10 E12: Nick Mistry, Lineaje
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Mistry lives in the suburbs of Maryland, outside of Washington, DC. He has always been fascinat...
S10 Bonus: Shaunak Roy, Yellowdig (Replay)
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shaunak Roy spent 10 years in the tech industry before deciding to be a tech entrepreneur. In underg...
S10 Bonus: Jon Perl, QA Wolf
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Perl is originally from Virgina, growing up on a computer. Mom is an architect and Dad is an ele...
S10 E11: Nigel Smart, Zama
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nigel Smart is from Britain, but currently lives in Belgium. He has a PhD in mathematics, but headed...
S10 Bonus: Michael Louis, Cerebrium
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Louis grew up in South Africa, spending the first 25 years of his life there. From a young a...
S10 Bonus: Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, Penpot
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz has a background in physics and computer science. At some point, he decided to d...
S10 E10: William Neill, Basket
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
William Neill had an interesting childhood in New Zealand, rooted in being an entrepreneur. As a kid...
S10 Bonus: Rohith Varanasi, Block Party
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rohith Varanasi grew up in Jersey and had a chill childhood, playing videos games and sports from a ...
S10 E8: Jason Harbert, Flowspace
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Harbert grew up in the middle of nowhere, Ohio. He got into video games, which led him into pr...
The Haunted House of APIs - A Portal to the Beyond with Allison Averill
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Haunted House of API'sToday, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness mo...
The Haunted House of APIs - Phantom Threats with Adam Arellano
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Haunted House of API'sToday, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness mo...
S10 E8: Shashwat Sehgal, P0 Security
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Shashwat Sehgal has been in the tech industry broadly for 15 years. He started out as an engineer, b...
The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Haunted House of API'sToday, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness mo...
The Haunted House of APIs - The Dark Corners of APIs with Katie Paxton-Fear
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Haunted House of API'sToday, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness mo...
The Haunted House of APIs - The Witch’s Brew with Jayesh Ahire
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Haunted House of API'sThe Witch’s Brew: Stirring Up OWASP Vulnerabilities and API TestingT...
S10 Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Elkhan Shabanov was born in the Soviet Union, and started out in the tech world. He eventually left ...
S10 E7: Vishal Agarwal, Checkmate
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Vishal Agarwal was born in India, and did his schooling in Darjeeling. He noted that this city expor...
S10 Bonus: Heiki Riesenkampf, Commonbase
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Heiki Riesenkampf is from a tiny country called Estonia, later studying computer science in London a...
S10 E6: Guy Guzner, Savvy Security
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Guy Guzner first computer when he was 5, which was a Commodore 64, where he learned to program in BA...
S10 Bonus: Rob Grazioli, Bread
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rob Grazioli started his life in Brooklyn NY, but moved to Italy for his Dad's job, and lived th...
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sebastian Raffaele grew up in a small, working class family in Australia. He had a crazy life, growi...
S10 Bonus: Adam Pisk, Bruntwork
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Adam Pisk lives in Sydney, Australia, and just turned 45. He has 5 year old twins, and at the time o...
S10 E4: Brendan Wood, SnapTrade
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In August of 2021, we interviewed Brendan Wood on the podcast to tell the creation story of Passiv. ...
S10 Whats New with SWOB - Alex Florio
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Hello listeners.Today, I have an awesome follow episode from our friends at Swob. You may remember o...
S10 E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to ...
S10 Turso Update with Pekka Enberg
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Hello listeners.Today, I have an incredible follow episode from our friends at Turso. You may rememb...
S10 E2: Matt Van Itallie, Sema
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Matt Van Itallie is the son of a math teacher and a coder - so this explains why he now uses code as...
S10 Bonus: Anurag Goel, Render
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Anurag Goel grew up in New Delhi, but moved to Boston after college for his first job. He worked at ...
S10 E1: Sagar Batchu, Speakeasy
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sagar Batchu was born in Sacramento, but moved to Bangalore after a decade. He has always been inter...
Trailer
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans wha...
S9 Bonus: Mark Porter, MongoDB (Replay)
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Mark Porter has always been fascinated with puzzles, so tech just fit for him and a great journey fo...
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Egil Østhus is based out of Norway - which obviously means he loves skiing. But outside of this, he...
S9 Bonus: Matt Cowell, Quanthub (Replay)
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Matt Cowell didn't start out in tech. In fact, he studied the chemical world heavily in school, ...
S9 E35: Prince Ghosh, Factored Quailty
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Prince Ghosh was born in Bangalore, India, and moved around a lot during his life - to the US, then ...
S9 E34: Anish Dhar, Cortex
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Anish Dhar grew up in the Bay Area, but now is located in New York. He felt lucky to be surrounded b...
S9 E33: Rick Caccia, WitnessAI
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rick Caccia was born and raised in Silicon Valley - and just stayed. He is married with 2 teenage da...
S9 E32: Shalin Madan, Formidium
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Shalin Madan immigrated to the US when he was 6 years old. He spent 20 years in the financial market...
S9 E31: Konrad Niemiec, Lekko
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Konrad Niemiec lives in San Francisco. He is very close to his family, of which his parents are poli...
S9 Bonus: Jason Hill, Owwlll App
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jason Hill was born and raised in New York, and post college, went back to New York and joined the f...
S9 E30: Adam Jacob, System Initiative
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Adam Jacob grew up in Vancouver, but now lives North of San Francisco. He's married with a teena...
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Berkay Atatop is originally from Turkey, but now lives in Germany. He loves to travel, and living in...
S9 E29: Umaimah Khan , Opal Security
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Umaimah Khan grew up in San Diego, but now lives in the Bay Area. A fun fact about her - she was hom...
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
David Cauthron grew up in Dallas, TX and attended UTD for undergrad. Post that, he spent 22 years at...
S9 Bonus: Omry Hay, env0
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Omry Hay is 41 years old, married, with 3 young kids. He has lived his whole life in Israel. Unlike ...
S9 E27: Neil Patel, Axiom
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Neil Patel has always been a hacker - electronics boards, radios, etc. - being interested in how thi...
S9 E26: Sanjay Nagaraj, Traceable AI
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sanjay Nagaraj started his journey in India, where he was born and raised. He earliest influences st...
S9 Bonus: Nic Beique, Helcim
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nic Beique was born in Odessa, Texas, but moved when he was very young to Montreal. Later in his tee...
S9 E25: JJ Tang, Rootly
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
JJ Tang grew up in mainland China, though eventually he came to the US for University and stayed. He...
S9 E24: Alex Gallego, Redpanda Data
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Gallego was born and raised in Colombia. He has always identified as a builder, and as a kid, h...
S9 Bonus: Adam Sandman, Inflectra
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Sandman grew up in Wales, in the United Kingdom. He went to university to study physics, becaus...
S9 E23: Vlad Sadovskiy, Netevia
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vlad Sadovskiy is a first generation immigrant from the Ukraine in the early 1990's. He has been...
S9 Bonus: Sasha Mitchell, BeL2
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Mitchell living in Bangkok, Thailand, but grew up in London. He stared in the creative industr...
S9 E22: Roman Sevast, Awesomic
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roman Sevast was born in a small city in Ukraine. When he met his girlfriend, he wanted to take her ...
S7 Bonus: Björn Kolbeck, Quobyte
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When asked about his life outside of tech, Björn Kolbeck stated "Is there anything outside of t...
S9 E21: Matt Hocking, WellSaid Labs
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Hocking has a background in design, and started off as a graphic designer in Australia. He move...
S9 Bonus: Tech Update - Rene Morkos, Alice Technologies
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners.Today we have a return guest on the podcast, Rene Morkos, the Founder & C...
S9 E20: Michael Hummel, Establish
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Hummel has a different perspective on tech and startups than most people in this realm. His ...
S9 Bonus: Alon Arvatz, Pointfive & Author of Battle for Your Computer
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alon Arvatz has been in tech for a long time. Fun fact, he loved technology but hated computer scien...
S9 E19: Linus Hakansson, Gravitee
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Hakansson finds that he has been in the tech industry so long, that it is difficult to separat...
S9 Bonus: Erin & Jesus, MSquared
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Marie has been in tech for 20 years. Prior to tech, she was a history major but became more pas...
S9 E18: Jai Ranganathan, Motive
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jai Ranganathan is a typically middle aged man, living in Austin, TX with a couple of kids and a Tes...
S9 Bonus: Amy & Whitney, Disruption Advisors
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whitney Johnson graduated college with a degree in Music, minoring in English. Of course, she needed...
S9 E17: Jake Ward, Data Protocol
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Ward originally from a small town in Maine, and claims to be running away from the snow by livi...
S9 Bonus: Luka Yancopolis, Grapevine
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Luka Yancopoulos lives in New York City, and believes whole heartedly in doing well by doing good. H...
S9 E16: James Perkins, Unkey
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Perkins did not have a traditional journey to technology, but has been in the space for 16 yea...
S9 Bonus: Zach Goldberg, Gruntwork & The Startup CTO's Handbook
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Goldberg was sent to computer camp when he was 12 years old. An interesting part of the story i...
S9 E15: Saravana Kumar, Document360
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saravana Kumar is from India, near Chennai, but moved to London 23 years ago. He loves to play badmi...
S9 Bonus: Craig Sellars, Self
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Sellars grew up near Atlanta, Georgia, and was interested in technology at an early age. He we...
S9 E14: Mike Bifulco, Craftwork
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Bifulco studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in college. He was always good with...
S9 E13: David Boskovic, Flatfile
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Boskovic grew up on a farm, in a small town in Canada. He grew up milking cows, not building t...
S9 Bonus: Debbie Levitt, Delta CX
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Debbie Levitt is an American living in Italy, with her Italian husband, and their 5 dogs. Many years...
S9 E12: Yoav Abrahami, Velo by Wix
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yoav Abrahami was born and raised in Israel, never living in another country. Currently he lives in ...
S9 Bonus: Shauli Rozen, ARMO Security
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shauli Rozen grew up in Israel, and besides a 5 year stint stateside, he has spent his whole life th...
S9 E11: Srikar Sam Yeruva, Pycube
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Srikar Sam Yeruva comes from an immigrant family from India. He had a humble background, which shape...
S9 Bonus: David Hartmann, Helio Additive
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Hartmann is a German born New Zealander, where he still lives today. His first job was to spen...
S9 E10: Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Pilarinos was tinkerer at an early age. He always found himself wanting to understand how thi...
S9 Bonus: Ruslan Zaripov, RiskHunter by KRIT
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ruslan Zaripov has been interested in computers since the early days. He started his career as a dat...
S9 Bonus: Erik Gross, The Tech Academy
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Gross had an odd journey into tech. He grew up in the redwoods of California, off the grid with...
S9 E9: Ryo Koyama, Remote.it
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryo Koyama never thought he would be in technology. In the past, and in current days, he is very muc...
S9 E8: Roger Light, Cedalo
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Light lives in the midlands of the UK. He has his PhD in Electrical Engineering, and post grad...
S9 Bonus: Nate Henderson, BILT
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Henderson grew up in Saudi Arabia, where he actually met his now co-founder, back when he was...
S9 Bonus: Craig McLuckie, Stacklok
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Craig McLuckie is a self proclaimed boring guy - monochromatic, as he put it. At one point, he tried...
S9 E7: Naomi Chopra, Hatica
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Naomi Chopra grew up in Delhi, India, but attended Grad school in the US, specifically in Atlanta. H...
S9 E6: Melissa Pancoast, The Beans
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Pancoast is originally from Miami, but now lives in California. She still loves Florida, bei...
S9 Bonus: Jonathan Norris, DevCycle & Taplytics
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Norris lives in Toronto, and has a passion for tech that started early in his life. He has ...
S9 E5: Gilad Shriki, Descope
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gilad Shriki was born and raised in Israel. He loves the outdoors, and loves to travel. Skiing in a ...