We help founders make something people want. The Y Combinator Podcast is where builders talk about building. From the earliest days of an idea to scaling a company that changes the world, YC partners and founders share real stories, lessons, and tactics from the frontlines.
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Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
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Equity
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The intersection of technology, startups, and venture capital touches everything now. That’s why Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast, digs into the business of startups for entrepreneurs and enthusiasts alike. Every Wednesday and Friday, TechCrunch reporters keep you up-to-date on the world of business, technology, and venture capital. Equity is ranked the No.2 podcast in the Top 100 Venture Capital All time leaderboard on Goodpods—As well as No.17 for the Top 100 Finance All time chart an ...
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Get to know the brightest and boldest names in European tech with Sifted’s weekly podcast, hosted by Amy Lewin. She interviews the founders, operators and investors building Europe’s most exciting startups and, in conversation with Sifted’s expert journalists, pulls back the curtain on the most intriguing companies they’ve been reporting on.
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Nate Padgett and Chris Rill go hands-on exploring the world of hardware startups. Each month they interview founders, early team members, and industry leaders to uncover the secrets behind building successful products. From the best practices of product design, to the ins and outs of manufacturing, they leave no stone unturned in their mission to help budding entrepreneurs succeed. Join them on their journey and get the inside scoop on all the exciting and innovative developments in the hard ...
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Professor-turned-entrepreneur, and founder of nine companies, Jothy Rosenberg talks with business leaders and personal achievers. A companion to his book Tech Startup Toolkit, the “Designing Successful Startups” podcast tells the stories of Jothy's guests as they took on the challenges of building a new startup. The lessons conveyed come from both things done right and things done wrong that can help listeners learn the best way to design their own startups to be successful. Along the way th ...
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Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more). The focus is on productive implementations and real-world scenarios that are accessible to everyone. If you want to keep up with the lates ...
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From bootstrapped chaos to VC-backed scale, Built 2 Scale is your backstage pass to building high-growth startups at the edge of business, tech, AI, and robotics. Hosted by founders Matt Perrott and Scott Wilcox, this podcast dives into the raw, unfiltered reality of turning big ideas into scalable companies. Each week, we unpack the messy middle—fundraising, hiring, product-market fit, and the growing role of automation and AI in modern business. No hype. No jargon. Just real stories, hard ...
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Coredump Sessions is a podcast for embedded engineers and product teams building connected devices. Hosted by the team at Memfault, each episode features real-world stories and technical deep dives with experts across the embedded systems space. From Bluetooth pioneers and OTA infrastructure veterans to the engineers who built Pebble, we explore the tools, techniques, and tradeoffs that power reliable, scalable devices. If you're building or debugging hardware, this is your go-to for embedde ...
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The World of Hardware Startups Podcast provides unique insights into hardware startups seeking to change our lives. We want to know what they're doing, how they're doing it, and what we can learn from their experiences. Listeners will enjoy tips and recommendations from founders, investors, prototypers, accelerators, and experts. The show is featured by the ANSYS Hardware Startup Program providing Hardware and IOT startups access to the World's leading software simulation tools at http://ans ...
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Follow along the crazy journey of trying to start a tech company from scratch while also having a full time job and family. Whether I succeed or fail you'll get to experience the ups and downs right along with me.
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Computerlaw Group LLP (www.computerlaw.com) provides strategic, knowledgeable, and effective business and intellectual property protection, licensing and litigation services to Internet, e-commerce, computer software, hardware and other high-tech businesses, teams and industry professionals throughout California, nationally and around the world. CLG produces THE VALLEY CURRENT as a way to keep its worldwide clients, co-counsels, colleagues, and friends aware of developments in Silicon Valley ...
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Get the inside story on the biggest tech developments from founders, former executives, and industry veterans who built companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta Reality Labs, Apple Vision Pro, Microsoft HoloLens, and Unity. Join Charlie Fink (Forbes), Ted Schilowitz, (Red Camera, Fox, Paramount Futurist) & Rony Abovitz, (founder Magic Leap).as they interview startup CEOs, ex-Google/Meta/Apple insiders, Hollywood directors, and AI researchers reshaping spatial computing. Every week we bre ...
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GeekWire brings you the week's latest technology news, trends and insights, covering the world of technology from our home base in Seattle. Our regular news podcast features commentary and analysis from our editors and reporters, plus interviews with special guests.
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The podcast for hardware startups and entrepreneurs planning to bring a new electronic hardware product to market. We discuss all things related to developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling successful new hardware products.
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The bi-weekly Update from the Startup Ecosystem aka Venture Habitat in the Kansai area of Japan - in English.
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Hosted by Mark and Shashank, software engineers and organizers in Silicon Valley. Get their grounded perspective each week as they explore the generative AI landscape through news analysis, tech discussions, hands-on experiments, and clear explanations. Dive into the latest language models, AI agent capabilities, and RAG techniques. Understand the hardware race, key research, startup trends, benchmarks, and the real-world impact of AI across industries like healthcare, robotics, and creative ...
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The Tech Startup Collective is the podcast from The Accountancy Cloud, Europe’s leading accounting partner.Tune into hear the insider tips and conversations from startup founders and investors. This is for you, the founder who might be at an early-stage, have scaled globally, has failed and learnt along the way. It's our vision to create value through immediate access to expertise, and lifelong community support for tech startups across the globe.
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Join the conversation as we break down the latest tech head lines, trends, as well as interview real people in the field.
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The future of manufacturing is digital. We explore the technologies that are transforming fabrication, from advanced 3D printing to AI-assisted design, and get to know the leaders who are bringing them to the factory floor. The Digital Factory is hosted by Jon Bruner and presented by Formlabs.
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eCommerce Fastlane: Shopify Growth Strategies—Where AI Efficiency Meets Human Connection
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Running a Shopify store? You already know success isn't about finding the right app—it's about knowing which strategies actually work at your specific stage of growth. I'm Steve Hutt, and I've lived every level of the ecommerce journey. From eBay Power Seller shipping products from my garage, to co-founding and scaling VisionPros.com (an optical DTC startup) through to a successful exit, then spending 6+ years as a Shopify Merchant Success Manager helping 100+ brands from startup to enterpri ...
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Every Thursday, our guest shares the technology that beat them and how learned to master it. We discuss the past, present and future of technology in business. Technology Thursday is part of the Hello Tech Pros network.
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This podcast features conversations featuring world-class innovators, investors and policy experts that took place at the annual SOSV Climate Tech Summit. The event is hosted by SOSV, a deep tech VC writing its first checks via its startup programs HAX (hard tech) and IndieBio (life sciences). SOSV has over 1,000 startups in portfolio and manages over $1.5 billion. Podcast Producer: Ben Joffe Podcast Summary: Written by gpt-4-turbo, edited by Ben Joffe Intro Voice: Cloned voice of Ben Joffe ...
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Learn from angel and seed investors bold enough to write the first check. How do they decide which startups to invest in? How do they gain conviction in founders and ideas? How do they add value to their companies? Shaherose Charania and Aamir Virani are operators turned investors. They chat with their friends investing in early-stage technology startups and learn about their strategies to fund the best founders and startup companies. If you are an angel investor or seed investor, you'll hea ...
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The Product Startup Podcast is the hardware product development industry's #1 podcast. From invention idea to getting onto store shelves, and everything in between. Hear how inventors, product startups, & small manufacturers created their inventions and launched their physical product businesses. Learn from the industry's top industrial designers, mechanical engineers, PCB designers, consumer product managers, manufacturers, patent attorneys, hardware investors, product sellers, wholesalers, ...
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A monthly podcast made up of short-form interview segments and stories to highlight product updates, share profiles of creators across the industry, and provide a behind-the-scenes look at our development and organization. Visit our website at https://nomono.co to learn more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Whether you're a founder of an open source startup, an open source maintainer or just an open source enthusiast, join host Emily Omier as she talks to the people who work at the intersection of open source and business, from startup founders to leaders of open source giants and all the people who help open source startups grow.
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The Hardware Entrepreneur
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“Software eats the world”, as one famous investor once said it. However, our Earth runs on resources and is based on atoms rather than bits. Our true progress therefore depends mainly on our producing, selling innovative physical products, that is hardware. Hardware is...different. Challenges abound in designing, manufacturing, getting funding, hiring, innovating, delivering to the customers. Resources are scattered around and only a few exist. Where do you get real, practical knowledge? Thi ...
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The Being An Engineer podcast is a central repository in which we collect and share industry knowledge & best practices associated with the discipline of engineering. We hope that engineers throughout the world will benefit from this content as they connect with the companies, technologies, people, resources, and opportunities that are relevant to their engineering or engineering-adjacent roles. Contact us at [email protected]. Intro and Outro music by John Martell
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Are you sick of needing to go to multiple sources to stay up to date about Israeli technology? The current landscape is outdated and does not highlight the unique personalities, culture, and chutzpah that make our ecosystem unique. We are here to change that! 😎 IsraelTech is democratizing and decentralizing access to Israeli technology, by removing the gatekeepers, and letting you hear directly from the innovators, in your favorite feed. --- Thank you to our incredible partners for making th ...
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COO at Amazatic and The C-Suite Perspective podcast host Chris Gylseth has 20 years of experience with startups and established companies alike in the software development, consulting, and entrepreneurial space! Companies want more sales and better technology. So I help provide them with better processes. Chris now helps companies increase their net profit through a systematic approach that yields phenomenal results.
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Join Financial Post technology reporters Matt Hartley and Jameson Berkow every week as they break down the latest tech news from across Canada and around the world.
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The Sustainable Tech Podcast explores the intersection of technology, sustainability, and impact. Hear stories from tech startups, software companies, non-profits, and small businesses using technology to drive environmental and social change. Each episode features entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and tech experts who share practical advice, success stories, and insights on building a sustainable future. Perfect for founders, tech enthusiasts, and sustainability advocates looking to stay ah ...
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Anthony’s Desk Podcast: Extraordinary Results in Business & Life | Leadership | Entrepreneurship
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Anthony Gold from Anthony’s Desk shares his lessons learned from entrepreneurship, building social impact businesses, startup investing, running successful for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and his own personal growth. He’s had the great fortune of being an investor, entrepreneur, CEO, software developer, hardware engineer, and intern - and is still amazed that one of the supercomputers he architected is in the Guinness Book of World Records. Anthony has had his work, including his mos ...
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The BOM (or “bill of materials”) is a weekly Supplyframe DesignLab Podcast hosted by Head of Design & Partnerships Majenta Strongheart. Each week, through digestible conversations with the world’s leading innovators, hackers, and entrepreneurs, Majenta and her guests explore the future of how hardware projects are built and brought to market, investigate technological solutions to the world's toughest challenges, help bridge the gap between makers, startups, and investors, and celebrate the ...
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Tough Tech Vets is a podcast series focused on veteran entrepreneurs solving hard problems at the intersection of hardware and software. Hosted by Chris Ricks, a former Naval Submarine Officer and Founder of Starcube, a small modular reactor company that’s focused on building microreactors for critical infrastructure. While there’s a lot of education around traditional startups for veterans, the Touch Tech landscape is a lot less clear. Whether you’re currently building a tough tech product ...
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A show that brings you closer to the cutting edge in computer architecture and the remarkable people behind it. Hosted by Dr. Suvinay Subramanian, who is a computer architect at Google in the Systems Infrastructure group, working on designing Google’s machine learning accelerators (TPU), and Dr. Lisa Hsu who is semi-retired and works part-time in Reality Labs Research at Meta on optics and display technologies for AR.
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A podcast network exploring startups, technology, and entrepreneurship in Kentucky and beyond.
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Tim Reid (AKA Timbo) interviews the most innovative founders in the world of small business. In this award winning podcast business owners share where their original business idea came from, how they got it to market and the strategies they used that led to their business’s unprecedented growth. Tim Reid's curiosity for what makes business owners tick and his passion for small business success means that every episode is chock full of marketing gold that will help you build that beautiful bu ...
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The Village Global podcast takes you inside the world of venture capital and technology, featuring enlightening interviews with entrepreneurs, investors and tech industry leaders. Learn more at www.villageglobal.vc.
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End Hype coaches brilliant misfits, innovators, and outsiders to transform product ideas into business realities from real experience without the fluff. We deliver business knowledge gained from developing and manufacturing 100s of products. The information comes from hard fought experience working with high-growth startups and major corporations. This show is for entrepreneurs who want better lives, more impact, and greater results. We are for the outsiders who understand action is only pat ...
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[Highlight] Airtable's Howie Liu on What Founders Get Wrong About Building Product
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This is a short excerpt from our full conversation with Airtable founder and CEO Howie Liu. Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCR-zFXiXKA&t=2s Howie spent 2.5 years building Airtable before launching – and only talked to about a dozen customers in that time. In this clip, he explains why that approach made sense for a pla…
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In this episode of TradeOffs, Nate and Chris ring in the new year with a look back at some headlines from 2025 and a preview of CES 2026. They discuss the "hardware renaissance" gaining momentum—from the Re-Industrialize conference to renewed national focus on domestic manufacturing—and Chris shares his most memorable hardware story of the year: Sa…
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A silver lining for Seattle in the DJI ban, and the verdict on the 2007 Camry tech retrofit
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The FCC delivered a massive shakeup to the drone industry right before the holidays, adding foreign-made drones (most notably from industry giant DJI) to its "Covered List" of national security threats. While the move effectively bans the sale of future DJI models in the U.S., GeekWire’s Todd Bishop and John Cook explore why this might be a golden …
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Special From CES 2026: AI Strategy, Tariffs, and the Future of Consumer Tech - Gary Shapiro, CEO
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Gary Shapiro has spent decades at the center of the global consumer technology industry, leading the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and building CES into one of the most important stages for innovation, policy, and deal-making on the planet. In this first episode of 2026, Gary joins Charlie, Rony, and Ted to preview CES, unpack the explosion…
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How AI is reshaping work and who gets to do it, according to Mercor's CEO
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy TechCrunch, Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Max Zeff, Theresa Loconsolo
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S7E1 A Joyful Approach to Product Development | Lisa Ho & Andrew Muyanja (Menlo Innovations)
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Send us a text This episode is a rerun. Andrew and Lisa are Menlonians (team members at Menlo Innovations). They do things different there. And even though they develop software products, the processes they use are supremely applicable to developing hard goods products, as well. Join us as we discuss “the Menlo way” and paired work, kindergarten sk…
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T-25-010 : Ioannis Papamanoglou and Narayan Powderly - Engineers transforming how we design, test, and build hardware with atopile
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In this episode of TradeOffs, Nate and Chris sit down with Narayan Powderly and Ioannis Papamanoglou, co-CEO’s of atopile, a circuit design tool bringing software development practices to hardware. Narayan shares how his frustration with slow board development cycles led him to question why schematics remained an "impenetrable box" immune to automa…
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Fizz CEO on why anonymous social is winning with Gen Z
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Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn't make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued t…
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Why Conversion Rate Is a Vanity Metric (And the 4 Numbers That Actually Matter)
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Most CRO agencies chase test velocity while your conversion problems go undiagnosed—here's the research framework that changes everything. In this episode, discover: Why 80% of optimization work should happen before you launch a single test, using research to understand customer psychology instead of copying competitors The Intrasite Funnel diagnos…
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The Year AI Became Militarized: Shelly Palmer on Government, Defense, and $3 Trillion Stacked
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Shelly Palmer has spent 45 years watching technology reshape every industry—from writing news themes for CBS to consulting with every major media company on AI strategy. On this year-end recap, he cuts through the noise with one devastating observation: 2025 was the year everyone talked about AI while almost nobody actually used it. Executives shoo…
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The stories that defined 2025: AI dreams, brutal realities, and Seattle tech at a turning point
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Todd Bishop and John Cook reflect on the top tech stories of 2025, a pivotal year defined by the AI boom's dual nature: massive infrastructure spending alongside widespread layoffs. We discuss Bill Gates' framing of AI as "intelligence becoming free," the tension between tech workers and corporate mandates to adopt AI, and the "best of times, worst…
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Equity's 2026 Predictions: AI Agents, Blockbuster IPOs, and the Future of VC
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TechCrunch's Equity crew is bringing 2025 to a close and getting ahead on the year to come with our annual predictions episode! Hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Rebecca Bellan were joined by Build Mode host Isabelle Johansson to dissect the year's biggest tech developments, from mega AI funding rounds that defied expectations to the rise of "…
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S6E52 Rob Donley | Kaizen, Communication, & the Design Squiggle
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Send us a text This episode is a rerun. Rob Donley has a deep understanding of how engineering works. Kicking off his engineering career from a young age building RC cars and model rockets, he has provided design and leadership capabilities for many companies over the years, and brings to the table not just the ability to design something, but to u…
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Why the operating room is ripe for AI, according to Akara
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There's plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that's actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every single day, not because of the surgeries themselves, but because of everything in between from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guesswork a…
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Why 56% of Searches Now Skip Your Store—And How to Show Up in AI Answers
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AI is reshaping customer discovery, and if you're not showing up in ChatGPT or Perplexity recommendations, you're invisible. In this episode, discover: Why Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) matters now—AI recommendations convert 5x better than Google clicks while 56% of searches result in zero clicks The revenue optimization framework that helped br…
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Digital Wellbeing Is The Path To Reclaim Agency In An AI Post-Capitalist World - Caitlin Krause
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Caitlin Krause, author of Digital Wellbeing, argues that intentional design unlocks genuine connection within virtual spaces. Drawing on her teaching at Stanford and the University of Oregon, she's explored how XR environments can foster asynchronous connection and ambient awareness for people who crave belonging without hyper-social performance. H…
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2025 was the year AI stopped feeling chaotic and started feeling buildable. In this Lightcone episode, the YC partners break down the surprises of the year, from shifting model dominance to why the real opportunity is moving back to the application layer, and why the next wave of AI startups may be just getting started.…
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Receipts or Regrets | End of Year Special
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BUILT 2 SCALE | RECEIPTS OR REGRETS | End of Year Special Welcome to our brand new segment: Receipts or Regrets. A receipt is something you keep because you're proud of the call. A regret? Well, that's obvious. Matty and Scotty look back at 32 episodes of bold predictions, hot takes, and occasionally terrible life choices. With help from ChatGPT o1…
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2025 Finale: Yann LeCun Raises $3B, Domain Addiction Confessions & Built 2 Scale Year Wrap
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In the final episode of 2025, Scotty and Matt celebrate 33 episodes of Built 2 Scale by diving into Yann LeCun's ultimate entrepreneurial pivot, raising $3 billion in euros after getting ousted from Meta by Alexander Wang to work on spatial intelligence. They dissect why this is terrible news for Elysium (autonomous homes now have a 10 year delay),…
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Bryan and Adam reflect on Oxide and Friends in 2025--favorite moments, episodes, and images. Happy new year and see you in 2026! Your hosts are Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal. Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: RFD 576: Using LLMs at Oxide (hacker news comments) OxF: Oxide and Friends 6/2/2025 -- AI Discourse with Steve…
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Landline phones in 2025? How this tech vet is helping kids connect
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If you're looking for an uncommon thinker, how about a tech industry veteran developing and selling landline phones in 2025 — and selling out of them in the process. Chet Kittleson is the co-founder and CEO of Tin Can, a Seattle startup making Wi-Fi enabled landline phones designed to let kids talk to friends and family with just their voices. No s…
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Hardware's brutal week: iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power go bankrupt
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The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy. Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a larger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and cheap overseas compe…
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S6E51 Eric Richins | What It's Like Being A Packaging Engineer
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Send us a text Join us on-site at Stryker as we explore the world of packaging engineering with Eric Richins, a packaging engineer with 10 years of experience in the industry. In this insightful interview, Eric discusses the various aspects of packaging from primary to tertiary, highlighting the importance of packaging in maintaining product steril…
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Power, Narrative, and Influence: Van Jones and Promise CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
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Van Jones is a political commentator, author, and former Obama White House advisor. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is founder and CEO of Promise, a software company transforming how governments deliver services to people in need. They joined the Village Global team to discuss what founders building in complex sectors need to know about power, narrative, and…
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NATO Innovation Fund chair Fiona Murray: ‘The threat from Russia is extremely real’
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When NATO announced plans to launch a €1bn innovation fund back in 2022, heads turned. €1bn? To invest in defence and security? Backed by 24 countries? At the time, most European VCs were still incredibly wary of backing defence companies — and nothing like this had ever been attempted before. Three years on, host Amy Lewin is joined on the Sifted …
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Beyond chatbots: Agents that tackle your SOPs
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As AI reshapes the workplace, employees and leaders face questions about meaningful work, automation, and human impact. In this episode, Jason Beutler, CEO of RoboSource, shares how companies can rethink workflows, integrate AI in accessible ways, and empower employees without fear. The discussion covers leveraging AI to handle routine tasks (SOPs …
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Eclipse's Jiten Behl thinks the next unicorns won't be built in software
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Jiten Behl, partner at Eclipse Ventures and former chief growth officer at Rivian, thinks we're entering an era of major re-industrialization in the US — one where factories run on AI-powered robots, not cheap overseas labor. Behl, who helped scale Rivian from a conference room idea in 2015 to a publicly traded EV maker, is now investing in the nex…
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ARC-AGI is redefining how to measure progress on the path to AGI - focusing on reasoning, generalization, and adaptability instead of memorization or scale. During this month's NeurIPS 2025 conference, YC's Diana Hu sat down with ARC Prize Foundation President Greg Kamradt to find out why most AI benchmarks fail, how ARC-AGI reveals the limits of t…
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From the Principal's Office to 100 Episodes: Luis Derechin on Grit, Talent, and Going Global
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Luis Derechin Bio Luis Derechin is a serial entrepreneur, global talent strategist, and author of "The Nearshore Edge: How Smart Companies Scale With Latin American Talent." As the founder and CEO of Nir-Yu, Luis created the REMOTE Intelligence framework, helping ambitious startups and mid-market enterprises access top talent while cutting costs by…
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The Moment Investors Realize You Don’t Actually Have a Business ft. Eran Savir of Savyon Ventures
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What if the hardest startup to build is actually a VC fund? Most founders think raising money is brutal. According to Eran Savir, Founder and Managing Partner of Savyon Ventures, building the fund itself is a tougher climb than any startup he built. And after three exits and one painful failure, he has the scars to explain why. In this episode, Era…
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BUILT 2 SCALE | TOOL OF THE WEEK | Episode 32 Every week, Matty and Scotty break down the strategies, frameworks, and tools that separate the world's best builders from everyone else. This week: Alloy, the prototyping tool that just created a 10x moment for non-technical people in software companies. Alloy: The "Aha" Moment for Product Managers All…
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Inside BFCM 2025: What ShipBob Saw Across Millions Of Orders (And What Brands Need to Know for 2026)
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Shopify merchants generated $14 billion over BFCM weekend—but the real test starts now with fulfillment execution and operational strategy. In this episode, discover: Why apparel, beauty, and toys grew 20-40% YoY while you're strategically timing inventory to avoid cash pressure (the inbound spike happened one week later than last year) How interna…
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Can We Trust AI? Intention, Ethics & Future of Intelligence – Live From SynthBee
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In this special live episode recorded at SynthBee headquarters in South Florida, hosts Charlie Fink, Ted Schilowitz, and Rony Abovitz bring listeners inside a special gathering of neuroscientists, philosophers, and technologists debating the future of AI. Moving beyond hype, the conversation focuses on "Collaborative Intelligence" vs. Artificial Ge…
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BUILT 2 SCALE | ROBOT RUNDOWN | Episode 32 Every week, Matty and Scotty break down the latest in robotics: from humanoids to specialized automation, and everything reshaping how we work, eat, and live. This week: Travis Kalanick (Uber founder) is quietly revolutionizing food production, and the debate between humanoids vs. point solution robots is …
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BUILT 2 SCALE | AI NEWS | Episode 32 Welcome back to Built 2 Scale. Every week, Matty and Scotty cut through the noise to bring you the AI developments that actually matter: the moves reshaping markets, the strategies redefining competition, and the shifts you need to understand to stay ahead. This week: OpenAI's code red moment, Meta's aggressive …
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