Podcast Episodes

S11 Bonus: Simon Ritter, Azul

Simon Ritter has been in the IT industry for 40 years. He went from university to work on Unix in the early days, employed by AT&T and programming in the C language. In 1996, he switched gears to joi…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

S11 E16: Adam Cohen, Weave

Season 11 Episode 16

Adam Cohen grew up in Toronto, in North York. He showed early signs of entrepreneurship by putting his lemonade stand on a wagon, and taking it door to door - or hustling his friends to buy souvenirs…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

S11 Bonus: Alan Fisher, KinetiX at Wabtec Corporation

Season 11

Alan Fisher started his career as a computer programmer. Early on, he was hired by the 1st or 2nd largest freight railroad in the world, Union Pacific. He describes their technology group as having a…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Building Identity Orchestration for AI Agents with Granville Schmidt of Strata

Season 11

We are bringing you a special episode, as our friends at Strata return to the podcast. You might remember our interview from Season 8 with Eric Olden, Co-founder & CEO of the company. Eric took us th…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

S11 E15: Derek Ting, TextNow

Season 11 Episode 15

Derek Ting grew up in Canada-land, enjoying all the things of the area but especially hockey. He mentioned he has a bit of ADD, which made it hard for him to make it through a chapter in school. Nowa…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

S11 Bonus: Dr. Alex Kihm, POMA AI

Season 11

Alex Kihm just turned 40, and has been into computers for 36 years. He was given his first hand me down computer at the age of 4 by his parents, and also grew up with lego bricks and building things.…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

What Founders Need to Know - with Dan Eyman of Meld Valuation

Season 11

Today, I'm talking with Dan Eyman, the Managing Director at Meld Valuation, specializing in independent, audit ready valuations for VC backed startups and VC firms. He is an expert in the valuation o…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

S11 E14: Avi Perez, Pyramid Analytics

Season 11 Episode 14

Avi Perez has been in the data and analytics space for more than 25 years. He began his career in banking and finance in Australia, but quickly grew tired of crunching numbers for the big wigs, wanti…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

S11 Bonus: Goutham (Gou) Rao, Neubird

Season 11

Goutham Rao grew up in Brooklyn, a nerd all his life. Back in the day, his Dad bought him a Commodore 64, from which he started to learn to write code in BASIC. Eventually, he attended the University…

Published on 2 months ago

S11 E13: Matt Hamann, Rownd

Season 11 Episode 13

Matt Hamann knew he was going to be in tech way back in his younger days. His Dad worked for IBM, so there were always fun things to talk about and play with. He got his first family computer when he…

Published on 2 months ago