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Tweener Madness 2026: Meet the Exceptional 8
Episode 75
This episode kicks off Season 2 of Tweener Madness and sets the stage for what’s ahead. You’ll get:
The evolution of Tweener (from list → fund → state…1 month, 1 week ago
How Pendo’s Evan Inscoe Is Building the Future of Go-To-Market Engineering
Episode 74
What does a go-to-market engineer actually do, and why is this role suddenly showing up everywhere?
In this episode, we unpack one of the fastest-evol…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
A New Chapter for North Carolina Startups: Scot Wingo and Robbie Allen on NC IDEA's #Ecosysteming Podcast
Episode 73
This episode is a special one. We’re replaying NC IDEA’s Ecosysteming Podcast episode featuring Scot and Robbie following the announcement of the new…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
From Duke Football to 3D-Printed Medical Devices: How PROTECT3D Scaled Mass Customization with Kevin Gehsmann
Episode 72
In this episode, we unpack how a college capstone project turned into a scalable system for custom-fit 3D-printed bracing, moving from “hours in CAD”…
2 months ago
Will AI Kill SaaS? Triangle Founders Want to Know! We Deep Dive Into the SaaSageddon with Joe Mancini, GP at Front Porch Ventures
Episode 71
This episode is a big one. There’s a lot of noise right now around AI, venture, and whether SaaS is fundamentally broken. Public markets are re-ratin…
2 months, 1 week ago
Announcing: NC IDEA and Tweener Fund Partnership
Episode 70
We started the Tweener List in 2015 with the idea of local founders paying it forward to help amplify and support our local startup ecosystem. Based …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Dr. Helen Gu on Building InsightFinder, AIOps, and the “Last Mile” of Enterprise AI
Episode 69
In this episode of Triangle Tweener Talks, we unpack what it really takes to go from professor to CEO, how InsightFinder built trust in a skeptical e…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
From Founder to Chief of Staff: How Offline Runs on AI with David Shaner
Episode 68
In Part 1 of this conversation on Triangle Tweener Talks, we walked through how David built Offline over 13 years, three companies, multiple pivots, …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Three Companies, One Brand: Building Offline Over 13 Years with David Shaner
Episode 67
This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. In this episode, we focus on Offline’s origin story and business evolution, not AI (yet).
Highlights from P…
3 months ago
Tony Atti: Phononic Founder: Scaling Phononic from 2008-2026 and Beyond | PART 2 of 2
Episode 66
Part 2 picks up where the origin story ends, and where the real work begins.
Tony breaks down the three phases of Phononic: proving the science, survi…
3 months ago