Nerding Out With Viktor
by Viktor Petersson
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About this podcast
Nerding Out With Viktor is a podcast about tech, startups, and everything in between. Hosted by Viktor, a lifelong nerd and seasoned entrepreneur, the show features real conversations with builders, hackers, and technologists.
Viktor got his start in Silicon Valley with YippieMove, an early email migration tool, and later created Blotter, a top-ranked productivity app for macOS. He now runs Screenly — the first developer-friendly digital signage platform — and built its open-source sibling, Anthias. He's also been leading remote teams for over a decade, long before it became the norm.
Each episode explores topics like AI, software, cybersecurity, hardware, and the messy reality of building and scaling products. With a no-fluff, straight-talking approach, Nerding Out With Viktor is perfect for anyone who enjoys smart, technical conversations without the hype.
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Episodes
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- Sovereign AI and the Agentic Cloud with Peter Damm · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 6In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Peter Damm, co-founder of Granite, a European company building infrastructure for sovereign AI…
- Leadership Coaching for Founders: Burnout, Habits, and Building Clarity with Ed Ley · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 5In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Ed Ley, a leadership coach, author, former gym owner, and two-time TEDx speaker, to unpack why…
- Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Trust Crisis Coming for Every System with David Pollak · 1 h 24 min · Season 3 Episode 4In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with David Pollak, founder of Spice Labs and creator of the Lift web framework, to unpack post-quantum…
- Rethinking Container Security: Why Isolation Was Never Built In (with Alex Zenla) · 1 h 18 min · Season 3 Episode 3In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Alex Zenla, Founder and CTO of Edera, to unpack why container security has been built on a flawed…
- SBOMs & CRA Compliance with Olle Johansson and Anthony Harrison · 1 h 21 min · Season 3 Episode 2In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Olle Johansson and Anthony Harrison to explore the intersection of Software Bills of Materials…
- Biohacking Resilience: Engineering the Human System with Marcelo Garcia · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 1In this episode of "Nerding Out with Viktor," host Viktor Petersson sits down with Marcelo Garcia, a telecom infrastructure veteran turned extreme biohacker, to explore what…
- CRA Explained: What the Cyber Resilience Act Means for Device Manufacturers · 1 h 5 min · Season 2 Episode 21In this episode of "Nerding Out with Viktor," host Viktor Petersson sits down with Sarah Fluchs, CTO and OT cybersecurity expert, to unpack the EU's Cyber Resilience Act and what…
- UK Online Safety Act: Digital ID and the Risks of a Database State · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 20In this episode of "Nerding Out with Viktor," host Viktor Petersson sits down with James Baker, Policy and Campaigns Manager at Open Rights Group, to explore the real-world…
- Rethinking Software Security Compliance in the Age of AI with Nick Selby · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 19In this episode of "Nerding Out with Viktor," host Viktor Petersson sits down with Nick Selby, a security leader and advocate for practical security culture, to explore the…
- The Quiet Power of Digital Minimalism with Patrick Walker · 1 h 12 min · Season 2 Episode 18In this episode of "Nerding Out with Viktor," host Viktor Petersson sits down with Patrick Walker, former YouTube and Facebook executive and now founder of the conscious tech…
- Coreboot and Linux Hardware: Inside Star Labs with Sean Rhodes · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 17In this episode of "Nerding Out with Viktor," Viktor Petersson is joined by Sean Rhodes from Star Labs for a deep dive into coreboot and Linux hardware. The discussion explores…
- Lessons in Building Niche Hardware and Networks with Planet Computers' Marcus Taylor · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 16In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Marcus Taylor, co-founder at Planet Computers and veteran of IBM, Logica, and the GSM…
- Nerding Out on Software Supply Chain Security with ITSPmagazine's Sean Martin · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 15In this crossover episode, Viktor Petersson sits down with Sean Martin, co-founder of ITSPmagazine, to unpack how software supply chain security is evolving under regulatory…
- Navigating SBOMs at Scale: Inside DependencyTrack with Niklas Düster · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 14In this episode, Viktor Petersson sits down with Niklas Düster, co-lead of OWASP DependencyTrack and contributor to CycloneDX, to explore the realities of managing software bill…
- Rethinking Startups: Inside the Venture Studio Model with Thorbjørn Rønje · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 13In this episode, Viktor Petersson sits down with Thorbjørn Rønje, founder of Bifrost Studios, to unpack the venture studio model and why he believes it’s a smarter, faster way to…
- Inside System76: Building Open Hardware and a Linux-First Future · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 12In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, Viktor Petersson sits down with Carl Richell, founder and CEO of System76, to unpack how a small Linux-focused hardware company grew…
- The Systems Behind Managing High-Performing Remote Teams with Jon Seager · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 11In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson welcomes back Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical, for a candid conversation about managing remote teams…
- Why Web3, Crypto, and Blockchain Still Struggle in the Real World · 1 h 18 min · Season 2 Episode 10In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Vlad Trifa, founder of Zimt and co-founder of EVRYTHNG, to explore why Web3, crypto, and…
- Inside the Yocto Project's Evolving Tooling: SBOMs, SPDX 3.0, and Secure Embedded Systems · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 9In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson speaks with Joshua Watt of Garmin and Ross Burton of ARM to explore how the Yocto Project is evolving to meet…
- Startup Founder Lessons on Scaling Teams, Systems, and Culture with Kevin Henrikson · 1 h 16 min · Season 2 Episode 8In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson is joined by Kevin Henrikson, an experienced engineering leader who's worked with Zimbra, Microsoft, and…
