NC Tweener Talks
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A podcast for builders by builders in North Carolina. We explore the startup journey and stories with NC founders, from the idea to the exit and everything in between.
NC Tweener Talks is hosted by Scot Wingo, presented and produced by NC Tweener Fund, with creative assets and design support from Walk West.
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- Robin Cowie, CEO & Founder of Skillmaker: From Haunted Woods to the Repair Bay · 50 min · Episode 120Robin Cowie, CEO and founder of Skillmaker, went from co-creating The Blair Witch Project to building AI and extended reality tools for auto repair technicians, and he did it…
- Josh Miller, CEO & Co-Founder of Gradient Health: 40 People, $40 Million, and the Data Behind Medical AI · 35 min · Episode 119Josh Miller, CEO and co-founder of Gradient Health, joins me to share how a Durham-area startup became the go-to source of medical data for AI developers around the world. Josh…
- [REDACTED] Episode 13: How Do You Trust an Agent You Didn’t Watch? · 48 min · Episode 118Craig Brown, a field engineer at Quantexa and the solo builder behind Blind Oracle, joins us as Redacted's first inbound guest. Blind Oracle is a trust and audit layer for AI…
- Michael Boyarsky, CEO & Co-Founder of Extellis: Building a SpaceTech Company in NC and Meta Materials 101 · 49 min · Episode 117Michael Boyarsky, CEO and co-founder of Extellis, joins me to talk about turning more than a decade of Duke metamaterials research into a satellite imaging company. Michael…
- [REDACTED] Episode 12: Prototype, Survey, Repeat, and Building the Product Loop With AI · 45 min · Episode 116On this episode of Redacted, we skip the guests and get back to the heart of the show: what it really looks like to build and run Offline with AI in 2026. David walks through the…
- [REDACTED] Episode 11: Getting Humans to Stop Doing the Robot Work · 46 min · Episode 115This week on Redacted, we bring on our fourth guest: Ben Eckerson, founder of Agentcy, an AI-enabled consultancy helping small-to-mid-market companies close the gaps between the…
- Will Duckett, Co-Founder & COO of Equity Shift: Opening Up How Private Company Ownership and Markets Operate. · 52 min · Episode 114Will Duckett, co-founder and COO of Equity Shift, joins me to talk about building the infrastructure behind secondary liquidity in private markets. The conversation covers Will's…
- [REDACTED] Episode 10: A Non-Technical Founder Doesn't Need a Technical Co-Founder Anymore · 54 min · Episode 113Parker Mayes, founder of Signify, joins us on Redacted for a guest episode built around a live demo of his actual sales pipeline. Parker built Signify after spending four years…
- Steven King, Founder of Blue Sky Robotics: How a Metaverse Project Pivoted to Hospital Robotics · 36 min · Episode 112Steven King, CEO and co-founder of Blue Sky Robotics, joins me to talk about building a computer vision company that has pivoted twice in three years, from metaverse avatars to…
- Ben Scruggs, CEO of Altis Biosystems: Building the Gut Model That Predicts Which Drugs Actually Work · 43 min · Episode 111Ben Scruggs, CEO of Altis Biosystems, joins me to talk about building human gut models that help pharma, biotech, and nutrition companies predict how a drug or ingredient will…
- [REDACTED] Episode 9: He Gave His AI Assistant 64 Tools and Zero Permission to Delete Anything · 43 min · Episode 110Josh Guter, founder of Elephants, joins us for a live product teardown of the AI operations assistant he built for small teams. The conversation covers the architecture behind…
- Adam Steege, Founder & CEO of Trio Labs: The Startup Failure That Became a Med-Tech Manufacturer · 41 min · Episode 109Adam Steege, founder and CEO of Trio Labs, joins me to talk about building a company that 3D prints tiny, complex metal parts for medical devices out of Morrisville, North…
- Nick Genty, Co-Founder & CEO of AgEye: From a Storefront Full of Robots to a Deal in Qatar · 49 min · Episode 108Nick Genty, co-founder and CEO of AgEye Technologies, joins me to talk about building robotics and AI software for indoor farms right here in North Carolina. The conversation…
- [REDACTED] Episode 8: We Hired an AI Sales Rep and Became Its Manager · 43 min · Episode 107Today, on Episode 8 of Redacted, we use this episode to show exactly what running a company with AI looks like day-to-day. Taylor walks through the agent system now handling…
- Andrew Ashur, Co-Founder & CEO of Lucid Bots: "Hardware Done Right Is Where the Moat Still Exists" · 48 min · Episode 107Andrew Ashur, co-founder and CEO of Lucid Bots, joins Scot Wingo for the third episode in our series on North Carolina startups solving hard physical-world problems. Lucid Bots…
- Plantd Co-founder, Huade Tan: Innovating Carbon Capture With Building Materials · 54 min · Episode 106Huade Tan, co-founder and CTO of Plantd, joins me to explain how two former SpaceX engineers ended up building carbon-capturing structural panels out of a North Carolina tobacco…
- [REDACTED] Episode 7: How a Marketer with One Broken Assembly Class Built a Lead-Gen Tool Solo · 43 min · Episode 105Ben Pope, who leads the new AI Solutions business unit at Levitate, joins Redacted as its very first guest. Ben spent five years on Levitate's marketing team as the company grew…
- Natrx: The Company Growing Coral Reefs Out of Concrete · 43 min · Episode 104Tad Schwendler, COO of Natrx, joins Scot Wingo to talk about manufacturing concrete structures that work with nature instead of against it. Natrx, a North Carolina company and…
- [REDACTED] Episode 6: The 8-Stage "AI-ification Engine" Behind Every Automation Shipped · 50 min · Episode 103David Shaner and Taylor Cotner spend this episode of Redacted screen-sharing everything they've built since the last one, and it centers on a framework David calls the…
- The Unlocked Door: Ryan Eade on What OpenClaw Users Need to Secure Right Now · 21 min · Episode 102Ryan Eade, Chief Product and Technology Officer at PtEverywhere, gave this talk at the June 10th TweenerClaw meetup, and it covers something most practitioners skip: how to…
