The Twin Project
by Marc Leisner, Lucas Leisner
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Most AI Is Hype. Here’s What Actually Makes Money | Eric Bidinger
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About this podcast
Identical Twins that love building Startups and nerd out on everything related to AI and business!
When you go to a restaurant and immediately start counting the tables to see how much money they might make, you came to the right place.
Join us on our journey from 0s to Startup heroes! 🦸
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 159 episodes
- Most AI Is Hype. Here’s What Actually Makes Money | Eric Bidinger · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 159Episode #159: After 17 years in private equity, Eric Bidinger switched sides of the table and became a founder. And building companies turned out to be very different from…
- Melker Pasternak Ivarsson: When Software Becomes Free, What Businesses Survive? · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 158Episode #158: If anyone can build an app, what happens to SaaS? Melker Pasternak Ivarsson joins us to discuss what happens when AI makes software dramatically cheaper and easier…
- Why You Keep Self-Sabotaging (Even When You Know Better) | Jenifer Merifield · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 157Episode #157: Why do we self-sabotage even when we know exactly what we should be doing? Jenifer Merifield joins us to unpack the psychology behind self-sabotage…
- Adam Spector: The AI Race, Future of Work & Why We’re Not Ready · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 156Episode #156: Adam Spector is back six months after our first conversation, so we decided to check which of his AI predictions actually came true. We talk about why AI may make…
- He Helped Fix Twitter. Now He’s Building AI Infrastructure (William Morgan) · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 155In this episode, we sit down with William Morgan, founder and CEO of Buoyant, to talk about how he turned Linkerd into a successful open source business and what it takes to…
- Cory Blumenfeld On Why AI Alone Won’t Build Your Business · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 154Episode #154: Cory Blumenfeld has built five companies across industries he did not know going in, from driveway repair to healthtech, fintech, outsourcing, customer success, and…
- Her Invention Was Stolen by a Billion $ Company | Amanda Sima · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 153In this episode (153), the twins talk to Amanda Sima. Amanda Saima is a serial founder, inventor, and entrepreneur who has built businesses in collegiate apparel, consumer…
- Why Most FinTech Startups Fail: Rejection, AI & Distribution | Vince Solo · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 152Most founders love building. Fewer love selling. And according to Vasyl “Vince” Soloshchuk, that’s exactly where many startups go wrong. In this episode, we talk about why…
- Why AI Needs Observability And What’s Coming Next | Todd Persen · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 151In this episode, we talk with Todd Persen, CTO of Hydrolix, about the invisible infrastructure behind modern software, AI systems, and the internet. We break down what…
- Why Most Entrepreneurs Fail And How To Win | Mike Foster · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 150Why do most entrepreneurs fail? In this episode, we talk with Mike Foster about what actually drives success in business. We break down why execution matters more than ideas, why…
- Why Fertility Is Collapsing And Nobody Talks About It | Kirsten Karchmer · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 149Are we becoming less fertile as a species? In this episode, we talk with Kirsten Karchmer about the growing fertility crisis and what may be driving it. We cover sperm quality…
- How To Validate A Startup Idea Before You Build It | Ohad Shaked · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 148Most founders build first and think later. That is why many startups fail. In this episode the twins talk with Ohad Shaked. He is a founder investor and has been building…
- AI Will Replace Most Jobs (And No One Is Ready) | Adam Spector · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 147In this episode (#147) we are joined by Adam Spector. He is the CEO & Founder of CHORE, has invested in over 200 startups, including 14 unicorns. In this episode, he breaks down…
- She Lost Everything… Then Built an Extraordinary Life (48 Hour Rule) | Nikki Barua · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 146What if one decision could completely change your life? In this episode, we sit down with Nikki Barua, serial entrepreneur, CEO of FlipWork, and transformation expert to break…
- LLMs Won’t Create Superintelligence… Here’s Why · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 145In this episode (#145), the twins talk with Ganesh Krishnan founder of AIhello and Halzero.ai on whether LLMs actually are the path to AGI… or are we hitting a ceiling? We break…
- AI Agents Will Run Companies… But Who Controls Them? | Logan Kelly · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 144In this episode of the NF-Twins Podcast (#144), we sit down with Logan Kelly, founder of Waxell AI, to explore the rapidly evolving world of AI agents, governance, and the future…
- The Death of Expertise? How AI Is Rewriting Status, Startups & Success · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 143Has expertise died? For decades, status came from experience. 20 years in the industry. VP title. Degrees on the wall. But now? A 22-year-old with AI might outperform a 20-year…
- The AI Compute Market Nobody Understands | Carmen Li · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 142In this episode (#142), we sat down with Carmen Li, founder & CEO of Silicon Data and Compute Exchange, to break down the layer of AI nobody really talks about: compute. Carmen…
- Startups Are Harder Than Ever – Even with AI · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 141AI gave us the best tools to build fast—so why do startups feel harder than ever? In this episode (#141), the twins break down: • The startup paradox: tech got better, but…
- AI Startups Are Firing People – But Scaling Faster Than Ever · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 137In today’s episode (#140), the twins break down why AI is pushing startups to run leaner, faster, and smarter. We dive into: • The rise of elite micro-teams scaling to unicorn…
