The Index Podcast
by Index Studios
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About this podcast
The Index podcast goes beyond the code to get at the real stories behind some of today's most interesting emerging tech companies, the founders, the strategy, the stuff that actually happens behind the scenes.
Every week, host Alex Kehaya sits down with entrepreneurs, builders, and investors who are shaping where the internet is headed. Alex is CEO of ABK Labs and Corbits, a platform that helps companies put AI agents into production without losing sleep over it. Corbits handles the hard parts: knowing who or what is actually acting, keeping permissions locked down, managing credentials, and keeping a clear record of what happened. Run it on Corbits' cloud or your own, with whatever model you want.
We've got some news: two new co-hosts are joining the show!
First up, Anne Ahola Ward from CircleClick. CNN dubbed her "The Mother of Startups," and it's a title she's earned. Anne is a technical SEO with a reputation for growing startups by any means necessary, and she's become a trusted voice in tech with well over 100 TV appearances. She’s someone who can break down what's actually happening under the hood rather than just talking around it.
Then there's Steve Schoonebeek from Triton One. Steve leads BD there, and he spends most of his time talking to builders about what it really takes to move fast, reliable data at scale- no small feat. He's seen a lot of infrastructure get built (and rebuilt), and he's bringing his sage industry perspective to the table.
So now you've got Alex, Anne, and Steve all bringing different angles to the table. Same goal as always: real conversations with the founders actually building startups that matter.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 218 episodes
- Is This The Easiest Way To Trade Solana Options? - Richard King (Leaps Finance) · 45 min · Season 2026 Episode 63Richard King, co-founder of LEAPS Finance, is building a Solana options protocol that pays you upfront in cash, whether or not your position ever triggers, with none of the…
- Reid Cuming (Ground): Why Banks Keep Your Yield and Give You Scraps · 35 min · Season 2026 Episode 62Your bank keeps most of the yield on your deposits and hands you scraps once a month. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Reid Cuming, CEO and co-founder of Ground, breaks down…
- How Startups Hit $10M Revenue With Under 10 People - Volition Capital · 27 min · Season 2026 Episode 61Larry Cheng, co-founder and managing partner of Volition Capital, has seen companies hit $10 million in revenue with fewer than 10 employees in under 10 months, something that…
- Micah Alcorn: The $3.5 Trillion Market Missing From Crypto · 38 min · Season 2026 Episode 60Options trading does $3.5 trillion a day in traditional finance, and crypto has almost none of it. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Micah Alcorn, founding CEO of Joyride…
- Jeremy Schifeling (The Job Insiders): Why CS Majors Have Higher Unemployment Than Art Majors · 42 min · Season 2026 Episode 59Computer science majors now have a higher unemployment rate than art history majors. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Jeremy Schifeling, founder of The Job Insiders and…
- Greg Lipschitz: The AI That Sees PTSD Where MRIs Can't (Firefly Neuroscience) · 41 min · Season 2026 Episode 58Firefly Neuroscience is building an AI system that can read the human brain, and catch things MRIs and CT scans miss entirely. In this episode of The Index Podcast, CEO Greg…
- Ken Berenger: Why Water Infrastructure Is Moving On-Chain · 32 min · Season 2026 Episode 57Water infrastructure is quietly becoming one of the most interesting new real world asset classes in finance. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Ken Berenger, CEO of Water On…
- He Built an AI That Beats Insurance Companies at Their Own Game | Dean Margolis x Red Sky Health · 25 min · Season 2026 Episode 56Health insurers use AI to deny thousands of claims a minute. Dean Margolis built the AI that fights back, and it doesn't get paid unless the hospital does. Inside this episode: a…
- Eddie Zhang (Arcus) on Tokenizing Wall Street: Zero-Fee Stocks, Robinhood Chain & 3x Leveraged ETFs · 28 min · Season 2025 Episode 55Arcus is bringing Wall Street on-chain. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Eddie Zhang, Founder & CEO of Arcus, the decentralized exchange built by dYdX in partnership with…
- Sebastian Rodriguez (Billions Network) on AI Deepfakes, 2.5M Humans & Agents That Pay for Pizza · 34 min · Season 2026 Episode 54AI deepfakes are already impersonating real people, including the host of this very podcast. In this episode, Sebastian Rodriguez, Chief Product Officer at Billions Network…
- 🎙️ Avi Patel (Kled AI) & Andrea Muttoni (The DATA Foundation): Who Actually OWNS Your Data in the AI Age? · 43 min · Season 2026 Episode 53The AI labs are IPO-ing this year and they're all asking the same question behind closed doors: "Where did this training data actually come from, and can you prove it?" Avi Patel…
- Tim Lee (Titan Exchange) on Solana's Meta-DEX Wars, Zero-Fee Swaps & Beating Binance VIP9 · 34 min · Season 2026 Episode 52Everyone talks about Jupiter, but what happens when the aggregators start competing with each other? In this episode, Tim Lee, CMO of Titan Exchange, breaks down how Titan built…
- How to Earn Yield 24/7 on Solana: Brad "Bradydonut" (HawkFi) on Agentic Liquidity Providing · 30 min · Season 2026 Episode 51Solana just turned every asset into something tradable. Now HawkFi is turning every tradable asset into yield, and it's doing it with AI agents that work while you sleep. In this…
- 🚀 Solana's Hedge Fund Secret: Derek Lee (Neutral Trade) on Bringing Institutional Quant Strategies to Everyday Wallets · 43 min · Season 2026 Episode 50Ever wondered how a $100 deposit on Solana can plug you into the same market neutral strategies that Wall Street quants use to print steady returns? Derek Lee, Co-Founder & CEO…
- Ethan Buchman (Cosmos Co-Founder) on Cycles: The Clearing Protocol Reinventing How the World Settles Debt | The Index Podcast · 35 min · Season 2026 Episode 49What if the biggest unlock in crypto isn't moving money faster — it's not having to move it at all? Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems, and founder of…
- Matt Van Horn (Lyft) on AI Psychosis & Coding Agents That Never Sleep | The Index Podcast · 28 min · Season 2026 Episode 48He almost got scammed by a fake "producer" minutes before this interview even started. Then he told us why he wakes up at 5am hearing phantom AI music. Matt Van Horn, Lyft…
- The Stablecoin Router Everyone Will Use: Ryne Saxe (Eco) on Solana, Visa & the Future of Money · 38 min · Season 2026 Episode 47Stablecoins on Solana just hit $15B, and Eco Co-Founder & CEO Ryne Saxe says that number is going to look laughably small in five years. On this episode of The Index Podcast…
- He Got Into Crypto to Save his Cat. Now He's Building Solana's Biggest Trading Card Game. | Natsuki x Rosentica · 43 min · Season 2026 Episode 46He bought her sick cat's medicine with USDT because no bank or pharmacy would touch it. That same "get it done, on-chain" energy is now powering Rosentica, an original multimedia…
- Bernardo Brites (Trace Finance) on Building the $10B Stablecoin Rails Connecting Brazil to the World · 1 h 1 min · Season 2026 Episode 45Brazil banned crypto players from moving big money, so this founder got a bank license instead. Now Trace Finance processes over $10B in cross-border volume and powers the top 4…
- Bootstrapped to 320K Users, ZERO Funding: Agnese Jaunošāne (COO & Co-Founder, Ajelix) on Open-Source AI's Power Move · 38 min · Season 2026 Episode 44She turned "everyone hates spreadsheets" into a 320,000-user, 150-country AI company, without taking a single dollar of outside funding. Agnese Jaunošāne, COO & Co-Founder of…







