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Chapter № 014 Apr 14, 2026 •23:29

S12 E14: The "Ship and Pray" AI Trap: Moving Beyond Vibe Checks to Give Product Managers a Code-Free Validation Engine with Catalina Turlea, Co-Founder & CEO of Lovelaice

Catalina Turlea is originally from Romania, growing up in the countryside there. Post getting her bachelors, she moved to Austria for her masters, and landed in Germany for …

Chapter Apr 09, 2026 •29:50

S12 Bonus: Fusing AI-Powered Predictive Malware Inference with Content Disarmament and Reconstruction (CDR) to Neutralize Silent File Attacks with Dr. Aqib Rashid, Applied AI Lead at Glasswall

Dr. Aqib Rashid was born and raised in London. He spent a lot of time around computers and tech growing up, and his parents pushed him towards becoming …

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Chapter № 013 Apr 07, 2026 •23:19

S12 E13: The Death of Legacy VDI: Ditching Costly Virtual Desktops to Secure Enterprise BYOD Laptops Locally with David Matalon, Founder & CEO of Venn

David Matalon grew up in Great Neck, outside of New York City. He's always been interested in tech, way back in the early days of PCs, DOS, Windows …

Chapter Apr 03, 2026 •11:14

Founder Chats - Vadim Dedov

Today, we are dropping another episode in our "chats" series, specifically on the Founder side, - hearing from those scaling the companies themselves.In this episode, we are talking …

Chapter Apr 02, 2026 •25:39

S12 Bonus: Intercepting Risky Prompts and Deploying Local LLMs to Neutralize Data Leakage via Pragatix with Yoav Crombie, Co-Founder & CEO of AGAT Software

Yoav Crombie was born and raised in Israel, serving in the army for 6 years as an engineer. He's been in the tech industry of 35 years, but …

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Chapter № 012 Mar 31, 2026 •22:29

S12 E12: The Rogue Agent Epidemic: Moving Beyond Laptop Prompts to Build a Centralized, Production-Grade AI Control Plane with Robert Brennan, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenHands

Robert Brennan grew up in Boston and loved it so much that he ended up calling it home again. He spent time in New York between his bookend …

Chapter Mar 26, 2026 •37:17

S12 Bonus: The Predictive Model Trap: Moving Beyond Static LTV Forecasting to Unleash Causal AI and Dynamic Multi-Armed Bandits with Tobias "Tobi" Konitzer, PhD, VP of AI at GrowthLoop

Tobi Konitzer was born in Germany, and studied cultural studies as an undergraduate student. Eventually, he went to Duke to get a PhD in political science. And that …

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Chapter № 011 Mar 24, 2026 •33:59

S12 E11: The Security Operations Center "Hellscape": Moving Beyond Broken Threat Feeds to Empower Overworked Cyber Analysts with Human-AI Collaboration with Brian Carbaugh, Co-Founder & CEO of Andesite

Brian Carbaugh has a non-standard path to being a CEO in the startup world. He was in the marine core for 5-6 years in active duty, before attending …

Chapter Mar 19, 2026 •22:23

S12 Bonus: Why Paper-Heavy Back-End Portals Fail Agents and the Rise of Client-Facing, Real-Time Transaction OS with Reannah Wyatt, Founder & CEO of The Real Time

Reannah Wyatt is from Bandera, TX, raised on a 4th generation cattle and horse ranch. Eventually, she went to West Texas for school, rodeoing for Howard University, specifically …

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Chapter № 010 Mar 17, 2026 •31:28

S12 E10: The Childhood Smartphone Epidemic: Re-Engineering Android OS to Stop Social Media Addiction and Teach Kids Digital Wellness with Dane Witbeck, Founder & CEO of Pinwheel

Dane Witbeck grew up in Georgia, and has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. He was the kid selling ripped CD's in school, along with other odds and ends. …

Chapter Mar 12, 2026 •18:36

S12 Bonus: The Social Curation Revolution: Moving Beyond Messy Bookmarks to Build an Intuitive, Shareable "Stacking" Ecosystem with Martina Zrnec, Co-Founder & CTO of Stacklist

Martina Zrnec is located in Croatia and grew up playing basketball, spending every minute she could on the court. And when I say every minute, I mean it …

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Chapter № 009 Mar 10, 2026 •34:39

S12 E9: Breaking the 30-Second Video Processing Barrier to Deliver Sub-Second, Interactive Generative Media with Mitesh Agrawal, Co-Founder of Positron

Mitesh Agrawal has a background in Mechanical Engineering. He was one of the co-founders of Lambda, a company in the supercomputing space, where he spent 8.5 years working …