This week’s guest is Dean Leitersdorf, CEO of Decart. Decart is a vertically integrated AI research lab building some of the world’s most advanced audio and video models, including Mirage, a real-time generative video system where users can transform themselves or their environments instantly. We dive into Dean’s path from finishing his PhD in computer science at 21 to founding Decart with the ambition of creating a true “before-and-after” company in AI. We cover how Decart evolved from GPU ...

This week’s guests are Samir and Kunal from Farsight. Farsight is transforming how financial firms operate by automating the most time-consuming parts of dealmaking, from drafting pitch decks to generating investment insights, in seconds instead of weeks. We dive into Samir’s journey from Wall Street to building Farsight, and why AI is reshaping the workflows at the heart of finance. We cover how power users are creating entire pitchbooks in minutes, how firms leveraging Farsight are win...

This week’s guest is Jordan Dearsley, CEO of Vapi. Vapi enables enterprises to deploy humanlike voice agents in minutes. Whether you are building a new voice product or managing millions of calls, Vapi’s infrastructure and flexible APIs make it simple and reliable. We explore why Waterloo continues to produce world-class engineers and founders, Jordan’s journey from building calendar apps and AI therapy tools to leading Vapi, and why enterprises are turning to voice AI to save engineering tim...

This week’s guest is Brooke Hopkins, Founder of Coval, a company building automated testing infrastructure for AI agents starting with voice and chat assistants. We unpack her journey from studying in Abu Dhabi to leading simulation infrastructure at Waymo, where she helped ensure autonomous vehicles could operate safely at scale. Brooke shares how that experience shaped Coval’s approach to agent evaluation, why voice is the hardest modality to test, and what it means to simulate human-...

This week’s guest is Christopher Chedeau, better known as Vjeux, Front-End Engineer at Meta and the mind behind React Native, Prettier, Excalidraw, and more. We unpack his journey from modding Warcraft at 13 to shaping some of the most widely used developer tools in the world. Christopher shares his thoughts on why React took off, how side projects become developer staples, and what AI means for the future of software creation. 1:55 - Christopher aka Vjeux2:55 - Learning to code6:30 - Program...

This week’s guest is Karan Vaidya, Co-Founder and CTO of Composio, a platform enabling AI agents to connect with hundreds of tools and take autonomous actions to streamline workflows. We dive into his journey building “Devin” for integrations, why the rise of AI is creating demand for thousands of application connectors, how 90% of Composio’s use cases today are agent-driven, and the role early product virality played in their traction. Episode Chapters: 2:00 – Founding with...

This week’s guest is Taranjeet Singh, Founder and CEO of Mem0, a company building the self-improving memory layer for AI agents and LLMs. The conversation covers his path to founding Mem0, from applying to YC 7x and learning to "think bigger," to identifying a core pain point after launching a viral app in India. Taranjeet breaks down why memory is essential for agents, how Mem0 works across any LLM, and why solving one core problem deeply is a competitive advantage. He also discusses how to ...

This week, we’re chatting with Jonathan Baer, Co-Founder and CEO of Overlap. Overlap is building an AI-native video editing platform that helps podcasters and media teams turn long-form content into clips for social media. The product is designed to scale distribution with minimal manual input, making agents feel more like collaborators than tools. Jonathan shares how Overlap is harnessing video understanding models and advanced reasoning to drive autonomy in editing. We explore what makes vi...

This week, we are chatting with Daniel Mason, Co-Founder and CEO of Anon. Anon is an integration platform that aims to become the go-to infrastructure layer for the AI-powered internet. Daniel shares his journey from joining a startup straight out of college to building Anon, highlighting why distribution is often the biggest unlock when building a company. We dive into the evolving and often contradictory landscape of digital identity, how authentication is now split between defensive and of...

This week we sat down with James Flynn, an investor at Sequoia. James focuses on growth-stage investments for Sequoia and was previously an investor at General Atlantic. During the episode, we cover James's journey to Sequoia, highlighting intellectual curiosity and his competitive spirit as key attributes in his path to the firm. The conversation features a number of fascinating perspectives across investing in "daring" companies, including James's take on the relative importance of b...

This week, we have Rahul Sonwalkar, Founder and CEO of Julius, on the show. Julius is your AI Data Scientist, where users can quickly analyze, visualize, and transform data. Rahul covers his journey from traveling across the country to hackathons in college, the importance of not being afraid of failing as a founder, how Rahul seeks out mentors, the four key ways Julius delivers value, and how Julius continues to add AI to data analysis. We also cover the decision to start selling bottoms up,...

This week, we have Trey Holterman, Co-Founder and CEO of Tennr, on the show. Tennr automates manual tasks in healthcare operations using a proprietary LLM and has raised over $61 million in VC funding from Lightspeed, a16z, Y Combinator, and others. Trey covers his journey from captaining the Stanford rowing team to navigating improv comedy and building Tennr. We dive into how Tennr defines success through improved patient experience and why hard problems attract great engineers. Trey a...

This week, we are chatting with Matan Lamdan, a cloud infra investor at CRV. Matan started his career as an officer in Unit 8200, the security unit of the IDF, before transitioning to investigative journalism. Now, Matan is a Principal on the infra team at CRV, where he primarily focuses on early-stage security investments. During the episode, we discuss the screening process for the IDF and how Matan ended up in the cyber intelligence unit (which is very well known in the valley). We ...

This week, we are chatting with Bihan Jiang, a product lead at Decagon. Decagon is reimagining customer service with AI agents. The company recently raised a $65M Series B and is trusted by companies such as Eventbrite, Substack, ClassPass, Rippling, Notion, and more. We dive into her journey starting at Scale AI after Stanford, moving to the application side of AI, LLM capabilities powering Decagon, and how customers are using Decagon to elevate their customer experience. We also dive...

This week, we sat down with Vasek Mlejnsky, CEO and Co-Founder of E2B. E2B is a platform for developers to run AI agents in the cloud securely. We dive into the journey of starting a company with your best friend in the Czech Republic, building for AI agents before the hype, and why secure code execution is critical for scaling. Vasek also shares how E2B is becoming the go-to runtime for AI applications, the role of evals in agent development, and the challenges of pricing infrastructure wh...

This week, we sat down with Everett Cook, CEO and Co-Founder of Rho. Rho is a financial operating platform for fast-growing businesses. We dive into ideating as a first time founder, discovering the cracks of business banking, building a product first organization, the trajectory of brick and mortar banks, how to structure customer service, and expanding past a BaaS solution. Episode Chapters: Global Macro Investing - 1:56Working with Mike Bloomberg - 5:15Finding the "why" - 7:38Worki...

This week, we sat down with Finn Murphy, General Partner at Nebular. Nebular is an early-stage VC fund based in NYC that invests in the US and Europe. We dive into building and selling his first company, how angel investing can sharpen your investing skills, whether Seed investing is a 15-year career, winning investments in Europe, and aligning LPs with your fund strategy. Episode Chapters: Growing up in Ireland - 1:50Joining VC - 8:20Founding Nebular - 11:25Pitching LPs - 15:52 ...

This week, we sat down with Robert Chandler, CTO and Co-Founder at Wordware. Wordware is a collaborative platform to build, iterate, and deploy AI agents. We explore his initial interest in self-driving cars, finding PMF (knowing when to pivot), turning weak AGI into a narrow AI expert, and why prompting is the new programming with first principles in mind. Episode Chapters: Entrepreneurship curiosity- 1:54Building HeyDaily - 4:38Pivot to agents - 9:42End to end agent orchestration -...

This week, we sat down with Jonathan Baer, CEO and Co-Founder at Overlap. Overlap is an AI assistant that creates daily, personalized playlists of clips about anything you’re interested in We explore navigating public opinion at Meta, why business school is good for founders, and the team of AI agents focused on making curated Overlap content. Jonathan also offers helpful advice for applying to YC (hint: new wave of consumer AI) and the value add from the accelerator. Episode Chapters: Pub...

This week, we sat down with Nicholas Marwell, a member of the technical staff at Anthropic. Anthropic is one of the most fascinating companies of the decade, building foundation models focused on safe AI. We explore joining the post-training team at Anthropic, why folks started to be concerned about safety, understanding a model's neurons, using Claude at work, two areas Nick is most excited for AI to disrupt, and where value will accrue. Episode Chapters: Joining Anthropic- 1:55Secure AI -...