Founders in Arms
autor: Immad Akhund and Rajat Suri
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He Built a $1M Business...Then Killed It to Compete with OpenAI
He Built a $1M Business...Then Killed It to Compete with OpenAI
O tomto podcastu
In this weekly series, fellow startup founders Immad Akhund (Mercury) and Rajat Suri (Presto, Lima, and Lyft) explore current events in the world of tech, startup, and policy, offering insights from their distinguished careers and an array of expert guests.
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Epizody
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- He Built a $1M Business...Then Killed It to Compete with OpenAI · 1 h 21 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 92Jean-Denis Greze (CEO @ Town), joins Immad and Raj live to break down the pivot from AI tax prep to a work assistant, why horizontal AI beats vertical AI, and how to hire in the…
- What Acquirers Really Buy: Lessons from Superhuman's Rahul Vohra · 49 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 91Rahul Vohra is the founder of Superhuman, the email client that was acquired by Grammarly. Grammarly has since taken on the Superhuman name, and Rahul now leads Superhuman Mail…
- Stephen Balaban on 14 Years of Lambda and the Future of AI · 1 h 2 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 90Stephen Balaban is co-founder and, as of a recent leadership change, CTO of Lambda, the AI cloud infrastructure company he and his twin brother started in 2012. It took five…
- Why AI's Next Problem is Data | Garrett Lord on Training Real-World Models · 53 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 89What if the company students use to find their first internship became one of the most important players in training AI? Garrett Lord, co-founder and CEO of Handshake, joins…
- Founders in Arms #101: Cursor, OpenRouter, and What's Next in AI · 41 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 88This week, Immad and Raj sat down for a wide-ranging catch-up on the biggest stories in tech right now — from record-breaking acquisitions to what they're each giving AI access…
- Building Brokerage 2.0: Direct Indexing and Tax Alpha with Mo Al Adham · 55 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 87Mo Al Adham is the founder and CEO of Frec, a brokerage platform he describes as "brokerage 2.0" — building on core trading primitives to offer more sophisticated strategies like…
- Ethics, Pivots, and the Future of Work: A Live Q&A with Vercel's Guillermo Rauch · 28 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 86Guillermo Rauch is the co-founder and CEO of Vercel, the company behind Next.js, and previously created the widely-used Socket.io library. In this special episode, recorded live…
- The New Rules of Startup Scale: Survival, TAM Illusions, and Opting into Excellence With Dan Teran · 49 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 85Dan Teran is the co-founder and managing partner of Gutter Capital, an early-stage venture firm investing in vertical AI and marketplace businesses. He previously founded Managed…
- Before Robots Were Cool: The 33-Year Journey of iRobot's Founder, Colin Angle · 52 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 84Colin Angle spent 33 years building iRobot — bootstrapping for eight years without venture capital, surviving 15 failed business models, and ultimately launching Roomba in year…
- Guillermo Rauch at Founders in Arms Live: Simplicity, Focus, and the Bet That Built Vercel · 52 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 83Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, joins Immad Akhund and Raj Suri at a live Founders in Arms event to break down the full arc of building one of the most widely used developer…
- Building for Quality in a World of AI Slop with Linear's Karri Saarinen · 54 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 82Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, the product and issue tracking platform built for high-performing software teams. A designer by training — with stints at…
- WorkOS's Michael Grinich on Becoming the Enterprise Layer for AI's Biggest Companies · 55 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 81Michael Grinich is the co-founder and CEO of WorkOS, the enterprise authentication and identity infrastructure used by Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, xAI, and hundreds of…
- AI Winners, IPO Hype, and the Future of Engineering Teams With Raj and Immad · 25 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 80In this candid one-on-one episode, Immad and Raj catch up on what's actually happening in tech right now — the AI narratives shifting under everyone's feet, which companies…
- The Future of Investing: Data, Signals, and Retail Power · 52 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 79George Kailas is the CEO of Prospero AI, a platform helping retail investors make smarter decisions using simplified market signals and data-driven insights. In this episode…
- Founding Teams: What Works, What Doesn’t — with Andy Chen · 39 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 78Andy Chen is the co-founder of Outcast Ventures, an early-stage fund focused on rethinking how founding teams come together. Prior to Outcast, he worked across recruiting and…
- The Long Game: David Rusenko on Building Weebly, Surviving Acquisitions, and Investing in Climate · 52 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 77David Rusenko is the founder and CEO of Leap Forward Ventures, a pre-seed and seed climate tech fund investing in energy, deep tech, and the reinvention of industrial processes…
- The State of Robotics in 2026: Ryan Gariépy on Hype, Reality, and Long-Term Thinking · 56 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 76This week, we're bringing back one of our most loved episodes on Founders in Arms. Ryan Gariépy is the co-founder and former CTO of Clearpath Robotics and Otto Motors, acquired…
- Thumbtack’s Marco Zappacosta on AI, Trust, and the Future of Marketplaces · 51 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 75Marco Zapacosta is the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, the home services marketplace connecting homeowners with local pros for everything from plumbing to renovation. Started…
- What AI Will Actually Do to the Economy with Noah Smith · 42 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 74Noah Smith is a writer and Substack blogger behind Noahpinion, known for his contrarian, data-grounded takes on economics, technology, and geopolitics. What you'll learn: • Why…
- How AI Agents Will Reshape the Web with Parag Agrawal · 56 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 73We're bringing back one of our most loved episode on Founders in Arms. Parag Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Parallel, building infrastructure for the agentic web…
