Reinventing Company Culture, in Code: Meet Mate

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Built This Week

Jordan Metzner, Samuel Nadler

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5 days ago

Built This Week is a weekly podcast where real builders share what they're shipping, the AI tools they're trying, and the tech news that actually matters. Hosted by Sam and Jordan from Ryz Labs, the show offers a raw, inside look at building products in the AI era—no fluff, no performative hype, just honest takes and practical insights from the front lines.

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Reinventing Company Culture, in Code: Meet Mate

Built This Week

14 minutes

3 months ago

Reinventing Company Culture, in Code: Meet Mate

Episode 5: Reinventing Company Culture, in Code

Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Mate: a custom-built social platform designed to bring remote teams closer through clubs, shared interests, and personality-rich profiles. Then they spotlight Clay, a sleek relationship management tool that helps founders and teams stay in touch with the people who matter, minus the CRM bloat. Finally, in the news: OpenAI signs a $30B cloud deal with Oracle, Trump issues an executive order banning “woke AI,” and Google reports its AI Overviews now reach 2 billion users monthly, with 100 million using AI Mode in the U.S. and India.

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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro

(0:51) Why we built “Mate”: a social app for our team

(2:10) What Mate is and how it works

(4:13) Why remote teams need tools like this

(5:04) Demo: profiles, badges, clubs, and interests

(7:21) How our team uses it today

(8:56) Tech stack: built with Bolt, Cursor & Supabase

(10:30) Google’s AI user numbers are wild

(13:32) Wrap-up & final thoughts

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Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
• Mate (internal tool)

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