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Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. Get your books closed, taxes filed, and cash back from the IRS.
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- START: Nora Xiao & J Yim, Co-Founders, Rollup: "Years of user context, in minutes." · 17 min · Episode 181Your phone has years of context about you. Yet most new apps still start from zero. Where you go. What you eat. What you wear. How your interests change over time. J Yim and…
- START: Alex Kolchinski, Founder & CEO, ThunderPhone "Voice AI that nails the calls others fumble" · 13 min · Episode 155AI coding agents learned how to build voice AI from the internet. That might be the problem. The standard approach is simple. Transcribe the caller. Send the text to a model…
- START: George Rose, CEO & Co-Founder, Rise Reforming "Unlocking resilience for the chemical industry" · 11 min · Episode 157The US produces enough biogas to make over $20 billion worth of chemicals a year 60% of it is wasted or flared in low-margin applications It comes off wastewater plants, farms…
- START: Melissa Bime, CEO & Founder, Infiuss Health: "AI-Powered clinical rehearsal. Run the trial before you run the trial." · 13 min · Episode 164A clinical trial at Stanford enrolled a patient living in Africa. He was never physically there. He had been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, and Stanford was running a…
- START: Ludovic Granger, CEO & Co-Founder, Leadbay: "Qualified leads for agentic workflows" · 9 min · Episode 185Most sales teams are competing for the same companies. Not necessarily because they're the best customers, but because they're the easiest to find. They have LinkedIn profiles…
- START: Faiz Vadakkumpadath & Niyaz Puzhikkunnath, Co-Founders, Papaya "Continuous optimization for AI agents" · 12 min · Episode 183When everyone has access to the same AI models, what actually makes one AI product better than another? It's no longer just about the intelligence. It's about how reliably you…
- START: Simon Shu & Justin Sato, Co-Founders, Restart: "The AI company builder" · 12 min · Episode 188How many companies die as an idea because the founder can't build the first version? That's who Simon Shu and Justin Sato have in mind with Restart, which they call the AI…
- START: Rodney Fong, President & CEO, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce · 10 min · Episode 197What does it take to build a world-class startup ecosystem? Rodney Fong's answer starts with connection. As President & CEO of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, he brings…
- START: Thomas Chan & Justin Tang, Co-Founders, Lantern AI "End-to-end AI hiring manager" · 12 min · Episode 170Most hiring software finds the candidates you ask for. But what if you're asking for the wrong person? Lantern AI, founded by Thomas Chan and Justin Tang, is building an AI…
- START: Anand Pajaniradjane, CEO & Founder, Scope: "The Agent Experience Platform" · 12 min · Episode 153Scope already had a live product with revenue when its customers started pulling founder Anand Pajaniradjane somewhere else. It started in GEO and AI search optimization. In…
- START: Sam Mathew, CTO & Co-Founder, twentyfour26: "On Demand CNC Prototyping" · 10 min · Episode 173Wait two weeks to find out a part doesn’t work. Then wait two more weeks to try again. Sam Mathew knows what that does to a builder. He started in hardware. During COVID, he…
- START: Dekai Li, CTO & Co-Founder, Trident "Autonomous offensive security agents." · 12 min · Episode 156Shipping code got faster. Security has to keep up. Before starting Trident, Dekai Li’s co-founder saw a workflow that concerned him: A product manager supplied a project…
- START: Ryan Nowicki Stewart, CEO & Co-Founder, Pennant: "The Corporate Governance OS for Public Markets" · 11 min · Episode 176The earnings call gets the headlines. The shareholder vote can change the company. CEO compensation. Board control. Major corporate transactions. Some of the biggest decisions at…
- START: Sky Yang, CEO & Co-Founder, Imagine AI "Reverse engineer B2B growth, starting with LinkedIn. · 15 min · Episode 168Most companies ask what they should post on LinkedIn. Sky Yang is focused on a more valuable question: How does all that activity actually translate into growth? At Imagine AI…
- START: Silen Naihin, CTO & Co-Founder, Experiential Labs: "Open source AI gateway that turns your traffic into a model you own" · 14 min · Episode 175Every AI model. One key. Zero markup. That’s the starting point. The bigger ambition: help companies turn their AI traffic into better models they own Silen Naihin helped grow…
- START: Benjamin Swerdlow, CEO & Co-Founder, Freestyle: "Full Linux VMs for AI Agents. Built for complex tasks that run for hours, days, or weeks." · 17 min · Episode 150“I don't believe Claude Code will exist in its current form in six months” Ben Swerdlow, founder of Freestyle, thinks coding agents are moving from local machines to the cloud…
- START: Putri Karunia, CEO & Founder, Lunagraph "Design with code, on your familiar design canvas" · 12 min · Episode 167For years designers made pictures of a product and engineers turned them into code AI changed that. Designers can now build with code themselves But their work is scattered. One…
- START: Andrey Gizdov, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenVector: "Vision Language Action Systems for the Physical World" · 13 min · Episode 162There are over a billion cameras in the world. They can all see. Almost none of them can tell you what they saw. Andrey Gizdov has been in computer vision since 2016, when CNNs…
- START: Jonathan Li, Founder & CEO, Quippy "Helps build social skills through daily practice" · 13 min · Episode 158Quippy lets you rehearse the conversation before you have it. Pushing back on a boss. A first date. Short practice scenarios, line-by-line feedback on what landed and what…
- START: Eric Chernoff, CEO & Founder, Fancysauce.ai "AI Cost Management, extra Fancy: Track usage, monitor ROI, and optimize spend across every AI workflow" · 16 min · Episode 149A CFO at a publicly traded company on variable AI pricing: "This is introducing my worst nightmare, which is a blank check" Claude, Codex, Cursor, Devin, Gemini... Every workflow…
