Decelerator with Rob Kenedi
by Rob Kenedi
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Tech is a commodity, the industry is eating itself, and everyone's scrambling for what's next. Decelerator is post-hype media that makes sense of it all, with interviews, analysis, and sharp takes on how tech founders, investors, and ecosystems are building in this new era. Informed, opinionated, occasionally funny.
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Episodes
- Claude Is Watermarking This Sentence · 45 minOpenAI accidentally attacked Hugging Face, Anthropic is watermarking everything Claude writes, and somehow I ended up thinking about a radiation machine that killed people in the…
- Nobody Can Spreadsheet This Anymore · 54 minRyan Henry came back from Y Combinator's demo day and didn't invest in a single company, which for him is abnormal. By the numbers the batch was the strongest in YC history, and…
- The Founder Who Outsmarted $100M Competitors and Created His Own Exit // Donal Greene // Trustmatic · 1 h 18 minDonal Greene didn’t raise $100M. He didn’t even follow the startup playbook.Instead, he bootstrapped a lean team, built a better identity verification product, and forced one of…
- Why Your Startup Ecosystem Is Losing the AI Race // Startup Genome's 2025 Report // JF Gauthier // Web Summit Vancouver 2025 · 48 min📬 Tech entrepreneurship is changing fast. Join the conversation. At the inaugural Web Summit Vancouver 2025, I sit down with JF Gauthier, founder of Startup Genome to unpack why…
- Agentic AI, Vibe Coding, and the Death of the Backlog - Ryan Henry, VC @ Sand Hill North · 54 minSubscribe to my newsletter here to stay up to date on the new startup world! AI startups in 2025 are throwing out the roadmap. In this episode, investor Ryan Henry shares what…
- Connor Gaydos Bought Enron to Fix America's Energy Crisis - Consensus 2025 · 35 minAt the Consensus 2025 conference in Toronto, I discovered something unexpected: Enron - yes that Enron - the infamous energy company that collapsed in 2001 is being revitalized…
- Austria: The Startup Bridge Between East and West with Markus Raunig of AustrianStartups · 56 minMarkus shares insights on how Austria is creating a supportive ecosystem for founders, the advantages of a strong social safety net for risk-taking, and why Europe is working to…
- Startup Boards That Actually Drive Results with Breen Sullivan of The Fourth Effect · 56 minEarly-stage startup advisory and fiduciary boards are often set up… incorrectly.Breen Sullivan, founder of The Fourth Effect, unpacks: • how the right board structure can…
- FreightSimple’s Solution to Shipping's Biggest Headache with Natasha Ross · 1 h 13 minFreight logistics quietly powers our economy - until it breaks. FreightSimple is a B2B logistics company that solves for these shipping problems. To that end, this episode we…
- DeepSeek vs. OpenAI: What This Means for AI Startups with Ryan Henry · 1 h 7 minLet's get ... deeper... into AI startups + AI business models + where Deepseek fits with a product-focused family office VC's perspective. We go beyond the freak out headlines…
- No VC, No Problem: Melissa Kwan’s Path to eWebinar Success · 1 h 9 minToday's guest is Melissa Kwan, founder of eWebinar, a company that turns videos into interactive webinars. She's an outspoken bootstrapper, and her journey and perspectives are…
- Going Solo: Why Lunch Money Chose the Road Less Traveled · 1 h 27 minOur first episode of Decelerator with Rob Kenedi, featuring Jennifer Yip of Lunch Money. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or…
