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A curated podcast playlist by m banerjeepalmer.
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Bonus Episode 2: Technology
2/5/2026
Podcast: A Sense of Rebellion (LS 33 · TOP 5% )
Episode: Bonus Episode 2: Technology
Pub date: 2024-07-19
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In this penultimate bonus episode, Evgeny delivers a mini-lecture on what made Brodey and Johnson's approach to technology so unique. Their original perspective is still surprisingly relevant.
Duration:00:26:31
How OpenClaw's Creator Uses AI to Run His Life in 40 Minutes | Peter Steinberger
2/5/2026
Podcast: Behind the Craft (LS 26 · TOP 10% )
Episode: How OpenClaw's Creator Uses AI to Run His Life in 40 Minutes | Peter Steinberger
Pub date: 2026-02-01
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Peter is the creator of OpenClaw (formerly Molt - the name keeps changing 😅), the hottest AI right now with 2M visitors in a week. In our interview, Peter shared is personal favorite use cases including using Claw to check in to flights, control his home, and more. We also talked about his hot takes such as no plan mode or MCPs.
Peter and I talked about:
(00:00) “It’s like having a new weird friend that lives on your computer”
(03:43) “It sent me a voice message but I never set that up”
(09:04) How to install OpenClaw in one line
(14:53) “It watched my security camera all night and found this”
(16:07) Using OpenClaw to check in flights, change lights, and adjust his bed
(19:42) Why 80% of your phone apps will disappear
(22:20) Peter’s AI coding hot takes: No plan mode, MCPs suck, and more
(36:56) The way to learn AI is to play
Thanks to our sponsors:
Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams https://linear.app/behind-the-craft
Granola: The AI meeting notes app that saves you hours. granola.ai/peter
Replit: From 0 to full stack app in 2 min https://replit.com/?utm_source=creator&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=creator_program&utm_content=peteryang
📌 Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/how-openclaws-creator-uses-ai-peter-steinbergerWhere to find Peter:
X: https://x.com/steipete
Website: https://openclaw.ai/
Subscribe to this channel - more tutorials coming soon!
Duration:00:37:43
The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"
1/31/2026
Podcast: The Pragmatic Engineer (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% )
Episode: The creator of Clawd: "I ship code I don't read"
Pub date: 2026-01-28
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• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.
• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review
• WorkOS – Everything you need to make your app enterprise ready.
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Peter Steinberger ships more code than I’ve seen a single person do: in January, he was at more than 6,600 commits alone. As he puts it: “From the commits, it might appear like it's a company. But it’s not. This is one dude sitting at home having fun."
How does he do it?
Peter Steinberger is the creator of Clawdbot (as of yesterday: renamed to Moltbot) and founder of PSPDFKit. Moltbot – a work-in-progress AI agent that shows what the future of Siri could be like – is currently the hottest AI project in the tech industry, with more searches on Google than Claude Code or Codex. I sat down with Peter in London to talk about what building software looks like when you go all-in with AI tools like Claude and Codex.
Peter’s background is fascinating. He built and scaled PSPDFKit into a global developer tools business. Then, after a three-year break, he returned to building. This time, LLMs and AI agents sit at the center of his workflow. We discuss what changes when one person can operate like a team and why closing the loop between code, tests, and feedback becomes a prerequisite for working effectively with AI.
We also go into how engineering judgment shifts with AI, how testing and planning evolve when agents are involved, and which skills and habits are needed to work effectively. This is a grounded conversation about real workflows and real tradeoffs, and about designing systems that can test and improve themselves.
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Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(01:07) How Peter got into tech
(08:27) PSPDFKit
(19:14) PSPDFKit’s tech stack and culture
(22:33) Enterprise pricing
(29:42) Burnout
(34:54) Peter finding his spark again
(43:02) Peter’s workflow
(49:10) Managing agents
(54:08) Agentic engineering
(59:01) Testing and debugging
(1:03:49) Why devs struggle with LLM coding
(1:07:20) How PSPDFkit would look if built today
(1:11:10) How planning has changed with AI
(1:21:14) Building Clawdbot (now: Moltbot)
(1:34:22) AI’s impact on large companies
(1:38:38) “I don’t care about CI”
(1:40:01) Peter’s process for new features
(1:44:48) Advice for new grads
(1:50:18) Rapid fire round
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The Pragmatic Engineer deepdives relevant for this episode:
• Inside a five-year-old startup’s rapid AI makeover
• When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?
• Why it’s so dramatic that “writing code by hand is dead”
• AI Engineering in the real world
• The AI Engineering stack
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Get full access to The Pragmatic Engineer at newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/subscribe
Duration:01:54:04
What should we expect from journalism in 2026?
1/22/2026
Podcast: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (LS 30 · TOP 5% )
Episode: What should we expect from journalism in 2026?
Pub date: 2026-01-16
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How media leaders around the world plan to address the challenges of 2026. In this episode we’re diving into a major report gauging the perspectives of media leaders around the world on the challenges they’re facing in 2026 and how they plan to respond. We’ll look at the impact of AI on how news is accessed and produced, the role of social media, video platforms and news creators, how companies are adapting their business models, and much more. Speakers: Nic Newman
Duration:00:28:55
Kaldellis on Byzantium - part 2
1/16/2026
Podcast: Subject to Change (LS 39 · TOP 2% )
Episode: Kaldellis on Byzantium - part 2
Pub date: 2024-05-02
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We cover the miserable tale of the 4th crusade, the Latin Empire and Anthony gives advice on how to write a Byzantium based historical novel. We had fun with this one and I hope you enjoy it.
If you click here you can text me with feedback. Or email russellhogg@proton.me if you want a response
Duration:00:38:24
Anthony Kaldellis on Byzantium (Part 1)
1/16/2026
Podcast: Subject to Change (LS 39 · TOP 2% )
Episode: Anthony Kaldellis on Byzantium (Part 1)
Pub date: 2024-04-30
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If you have any interest at all in Byzantium or in the Roman Empire generally I think you should really enjoy this episode. Professor Kaldellis is one of the leading scholars on Byzantium (East Rome?) and his book The New Roman Empire - A History of Byzantium takes you all the way from the founding of Constantinople to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century, more than a thousand years later. The book is a tour de force and despite the scale of the story it is extremely readable and I enjoyed the dry wit throughout. And he made an absolutely fascinating guest. So if you love stories of the Roman Empire do give it a listen. We couldn't cover everything but we covered a lot!
We recorded it in one go but we reached a natural break point so I have split it into two parts.
If you click here you can text me with feedback. Or email russellhogg@proton.me if you want a response
Duration:01:05:21
Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and more
1/7/2026
Podcast: Close Readings (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% )
Episode: Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and more
Pub date: 2025-05-12
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Philip Larkin was terrified of death from an early age; Thomas Hardy contemplated what the neighbours would say after he had gone; and Sylvia Plath imagined her own death in vivid and controversial ways. The genre of self-elegy, in which poets have reflected on their own passing, is a small but eloquent one in the history of English poetry. In this episode, Seamus and Mark consider some of its most striking examples, including Chidiock Tichborne’s laconic lament on the night of his execution in 1586, Jonathan Swift’s breezy anticipation of his posthumous reception, and the more comfortless efforts of 20th-century poets confronting godless extinction.
Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and to all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrld
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsld
Read more in the LRB:
Jacqueline Rose on Plath:
https://lrb.me/ldself1
David Runciman on Larkin and his father:
https://lrb.me/ldself2
John Bayley on Larkin
https://lrb.me/ldself3
Matthew Bevis on Hardy:
https://lrb.me/ldself4
LRB Audiobooks
Discover audiobooks from the LRB: https://lrb.me/audiobooksld
Duration:00:14:50
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Thing' by Martin Heidegger
1/7/2026
Podcast: Close Readings (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% )
Episode: Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Thing' by Martin Heidegger
Pub date: 2025-07-21
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What does it mean for a jug to be a jug? Or for any thing to be called a ‘thing’? In his 1950 lecture ‘Das Ding’, Heidegger attempts to cajole his audience away from their everyday way of seeing the world as consisting of objects that can be represented objectively, and into the kind of thinking that ‘responds and recalls’. For Heidegger, the world we experience is one of dynamic movement between revelation and concealment, where the essential nature of a thing lies in its ‘thinging’, and the ‘jug’s jug character consists in the poured gift of the jug’s pouring out’. In this episode Jonathan and James work through Heidegger’s ideas about both ‘things’ and time, and consider the purpose of his poetic style.
Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrcip
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingscip
Further reading in the LRB:
Richard Rorty: Heidegger's Worlds
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v12/n03/richard-rorty/diary
J.P. Stern: Heil Heidegger
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v11/n08/j.p.-stern/heil-heidegger
James Miller: Arendt and Heidegger
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v17/n20/james-miller/thinking-without-a-banister
LRB AUDIOBOOKS
Discover audiobooks from the LRB, including Jonathan Rée's Becoming a Philosopher: Spinoza to Sartre:
https://lrb.me/audiobookscip
Duration:00:16:16
Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
1/7/2026
Podcast: Close Readings (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% )
Episode: Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Pub date: 2025-08-24
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Jorge Luis Borges was a librarian with rock star status, a stimulus for magical realism who was not a magical realist, and a wholly original writer who catalogued and defined his own precursors. It’s fitting that he was fascinated by paradoxes, and his most famous stories are fantasias on themes at the heart of this series: dreams, mirrors, recursion, labyrinths, language and creation.
Marina and Chloe explore Borges’s fiction with particular focus on two stories: ‘The Circular Ruins’ and ‘The Aleph’. They discuss the many contradictions and puzzles in his life and work, and the ways in which he transformed the writing of his contemporaries, successors and distant ancestors.
Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrff
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsff
Further reading in the LRB:
Michael Wood on Borges’s collected fiction:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/n03/michael-wood/productive-mischief
Colm Toíbìn on Borges’s life:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n09/colm-toibin/don-t-abandon-me
Marina Warner on enigmas and riddles:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n03/marina-warner/doubly-damned
Daniel Wassbeim on Sur and Borges’s circle:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v10/n05/daniel-waissbein/dying-for-madame-ocampo
Next episode: Marina and Chloe discuss The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington.
Duration:00:13:55
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de Beauvoir
1/7/2026
Podcast: Close Readings (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% )
Episode: Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de Beauvoir
Pub date: 2025-09-15
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At the heart of human existence is a tragic ambiguity: the fact that we experience ourselves both as subject and object, internal and external, at the same time, and can never fully inhabit either state. In her 1947 book, Simone de Beauvoir addresses the ethical implications of this uncertainty and the ‘agonising evidence of freedom’ it presents, along with the opportunity it creates for continual self-definition. In this episode Jonathan and James discuss these arguments and Beauvoir’s warnings against trying to evade the responsibilities imposed upon us by this ambiguity. They also look at the ways in which Beauvoir developed these ideas in The Second Sex and her novels, and her remarkable readings of George Eliot, Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster.
Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and to all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrcip
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingscip
Read more in the LRB:
Joanna Biggs: https://lrb.me/cipbeauvoir1
Toril Moi: https://lrb.me/cipbeauvoir2
Elaine Showalter: https://lrb.me/cipbeauvoir3
Audiobooks from the LRB
Including Jonathan Rée's 'Becoming a Philosopher: Spinoza to Sartre': https://lrb.me/audiobookscip
Duration:00:15:44
Conversations in Philosophy: 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf
1/7/2026
Podcast: Close Readings (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% )
Episode: Conversations in Philosophy: 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf
Pub date: 2025-12-08
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In 1908, Virginia Woolf wrote that she hoped to revolutionise the novel and ‘capture multitudes of things at present fugitive’. ‘To the Lighthouse’ (1927) marks perhaps her fullest realisation of the novel as philosophical enterprise, and not simply because one of its central characters is engaged with the problem of ‘subject and object and the nature of reality’. In the final episode of their series, Jonathan and James consider different ways of reading Woolf’s great novel: as a satirical portrait of her father through Mr Ramsay, as a study of creative expression through Lily Briscoe, or as a mystical, Platonic quest in which form and style respond to philosophical propositions, and the truth of human experience is to be found in movement, conversation and laughter.
Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and to all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecrcip
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingscip
Read more in the LRB:
Jacqueline Rose: Where's Woolf? https://lrb.me/cipep13woolf1
Virgina Woolf: The Symbol https://lrb.me/cipep13woolf2
John Bayley: Superchild https://lrb.me/cipep13woolf3
Duration:00:18:58
ET in the Valley: ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
12/19/2025
Podcast: The Morning Brief (LS 47 · TOP 1% )
Episode: ET in the Valley: ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
Pub date: 2025-11-05
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What began as a simple idea—to change how we hear and interact with voices—has turned into a global tech movement. In this brand-new limited podcast series of The Morning Brief- ET in the Valley, host Surabhi Agarwal speaks with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski about the company’s mission to revolutionize voice technology. From its Polish roots and multilingual vision to expanding across India with support for Hindi and Tamil, ElevenLabs is reimagining how language, AI, and creativity converge. The discussion dives into the company’s collaboration with Indian enterprises, Mati’s meeting with Prime Minister Modi, and the challenges of navigating a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.
As voice models grow more sophisticated and creators monetize their own voices, the episode explores whether ElevenLabs’ blend of innovation, ethics, and global ambition could redefine how the world listens—and speaks—in the AI era.
Tune in
You can follow Surabhi Agarwal on her Linkedin, Twitter profiles and read her Newspaper Articles.
Check out other interesting episodes from the host like
Corner Office Conversation with Sridhar Vembu, CEO, of Zoho Corporation
Rebel Foods’ chief on Building Brands, Tech, and an IPO on the Horizon
Booking’s APAC Chief on Travel Trends, AI, and Loyalty
Reliance’s AI Playbook
Text-to-Theater? How AI is Rewriting Cinema Part 1
How AI is Rewriting Cinema Part 2
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Duration:00:17:48
ElevenLabs just hit $6.6B, but its CEO says the real money isn't in voice anymore
12/19/2025
Podcast: Equity (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% )
Episode: ElevenLabs just hit $6.6B, but its CEO says the real money isn't in voice anymore
Pub date: 2025-12-10
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ElevenLabs has made a name for itself building realistic AI voices.
What started as two Polish engineers annoyed by terrible movie dubbing has grown into a profitable company now valued at $6.6 billion, doubling its valuation from just nine months ago. The company recently announced a $100 million tender offer led by Sequoia and ICONIQ, with participation from a16z and others, as its tech powers everything from Fortnite characters to customer service bots and goes toe-to-toe with OpenAI to become the default voice of AI.
Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, we’re bringing you a conversation with CEO Mati Staniszewski from this year's Disrupt, where he made a surprising admission: he thinks voice models will be commoditized in just a couple of years. So what's ElevenLabs' plan when everyone else catches up?
Listen to the full episode to hear about:
Why ElevenLabs is pivoting from just voice models to building a conversational AI agent platform
How the company is tackling deepfakes with watermarking, AI detection, and device authentication
Why Staniszewski believes there will soon be more AI-generated content than human content
ElevenLabs' push into music generation and partnerships to fuse audio with video models
Subscribe to Equity on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.
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Duration:00:23:53
The Future of Voice AI: Agents, Dubbing, and Real-Time Translation with ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
12/19/2025
Podcast: No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups (LS 45 · TOP 1% )
Episode: The Future of Voice AI: Agents, Dubbing, and Real-Time Translation with ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
Pub date: 2025-12-11
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Imagine learning chess from a grand master, or negotiating tactics from an expert FBI hostage negotiator. ElevenLabs’ voice AI technology is making that unlock possible. Sarah Guo sits down with Mati Staniszewski, co-founder of ElevenLabs, to explore how the three-year old company is transforming how humans interact with technology through voice. Mati talks about the technical challenges of building foundational audio models, the strategic thinking between conducting research and deploying products in tandem, and why voice is the ultimate interface for everything from computers to robots to immersive media. They also discuss how the coming revolution of AI personal tutors will shift agentic AI from reactive to proactive support, break down language barriers globally, and even provide the framework for agentic government services.
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Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @elevenlabsio |@matiii
Chapters:
00:00 – Mati Staniszewski Introduction
00:46 – 11 Labs: Growth and Scale
02:46 – Voice Technology and Applications
06:52 – Research and Product Development
12:36 – Voice Quality and Customer Preferences
17:54 – Agent Platform and Use Cases
23:21 – Choosing the Right Technology Partner
26:43 – The Role of Foundation Models
29:58 – Open Source Models and Future Trends
32:37 – Research and Development Focus
36:53 – Future of AI Companions and Education
41:37 – Conclusion
Duration:00:41:37
20VC: ElevenLabs Hits $200M ARR: The Untold Story of Europe's Fastest Growing AI Startup | The Real Cost of AI from Talent to Data Centres | How US VCs are in a Different League to Europeans | The Future of Foundation Models with Mati Staniszewski
12/18/2025
Podcast: The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% )
Episode: 20VC: ElevenLabs Hits $200M ARR: The Untold Story of Europe's Fastest Growing AI Startup | The Real Cost of AI from Talent to Data Centres | How US VCs are in a Different League to Europeans | The Future of Foundation Models with Mati Staniszewski
Pub date: 2025-09-08
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Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the world’s leading AI voice platform. Since launching in 2022, ElevenLabs has raised over $350M, most recently at a $3.3BN valuation, making it one of Europe’s fastest AI unicorns. The company counts Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Sequoia Capital among its backers. Today, Mati announces that the company has hit a staggering $200M ARR. ElevenLabs took 20 months to hit $100M ARR. 10 months to hit $200M ARR. Can they do $300M in 5 months…
AGENDA:
[00:00] $100M in 20 Months?! ElevenLabs Untold Growth Story
[12:20] Are AI Models Already Plateauing—or Just Getting Started?
[14:00] Why OpenAI Can’t Beat ElevenLabs
[17:30] The Talent Wars: How Do You Retain World-Class AI Researchers?
[23:10] PR vs Product: Why Most Startups Botch Their Launch
[36:00] Are U.S. VCs Playing a Different Game Than Europe?
[44:00] The Real Cost of AI: Why ElevenLabs Built Its Own Data Centers
[59:00] Voice Agents = Multi-Billion Dollar Business of the Future?
[01:05:00] Buy OpenAI or Anthropic? Which Foundation Model Wins?
[01:09:30] Europe: Strengths, Weaknesses and What Needs to be Done
Duration:01:14:06
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
12/12/2025
Podcast: In Depth (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% )
Episode: How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
Pub date: 2025-11-06
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Zack Kanter is the founder and CEO of Stedi, an API-first healthcare clearinghouse. After bootstrapping a wildly profitable auto-parts business, he sold it to tackle "the most complicated problem" he'd ever encountered: business-to-business transaction exchange. He spent years building EDI infrastructure, threw away the entire codebase eight times, and found extraordinary traction in healthcare. Stedi recently raised a $70M Series B co-led by Stripe and Addition. In this conversation, Brett and Zack discuss why venture capital means "going pro," why execution is never actually a moat, and how "eating glass" became Stedi's competitive advantage.
In today’s episode, we discuss:
Where to find Zack:
Where to find Brett:
Where to find First Round Capital:
References:
Timestamps:
(01:24) Zack’s first business
(08:54) Why the first customer is tricky
(10:12) The downside of bootstrapping
(11:42) Why venture capital is like “going pro”
(14:20) The confusion between ownership vs. control
(16:08) Building a company you don’t want to leave
(20:46) Do things better than other people
(24:49) Stedi’s early years
(31:43) Physical vs. digital product-market fit
(34:41) How Stedi scaled decision-making
(40:08) Stedi’s journey to product-market fit
(45:22) Finding founder-approach fit
(50:42) “All software is a cascade of miracles”
(52:52) The surprising lessons from discount retail
(57:50) How the Toyota production system influences software
(1:01:31) What it means to be a high-agency person
(1:03:09) The core trait Zack looks for when hiring
(1:02:57) Maintaining conviction in unconventional practice
(1:14:19) When should you start to hire managers?
(1:17:42) “Reality has a surprising amount of detail”
Duration:01:24:09
Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
12/12/2025
Podcast: In Depth (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% )
Episode: Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
Pub date: 2025-12-10
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Anil Varanasi is the co-founder and CEO of Meter, which provides full-stack networking infrastructure as a service for businesses. Since founding Meter with his brother Sunil in 2015, Anil has been playing a distinctly long game in one of the most entrenched markets in technology, betting on vertical integration, business model innovation, and a multi-decade time horizon. In this conversation, he unpacks Meter’s origin story, from four-plus years of heads-down R&D, and shares how his unconventional approach to planning, management, and pace keeps him excited to run the company for decades.
In today’s episode, we discuss:
Where to find Anil:
https://x.com/acv
Where to find Brett:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-berson-9986094/https://twitter.com/brettberson
Where to find First Round Capital:
https://firstround.com/https://review.firstround.com/https://twitter.com/firstroundhttps://www.youtube.com/@FirstRoundCapitalhttps://review.firstround.com/podcast
References:
https://www.adt.comhttps://www.alexhonnold.comhttps://x.com/ATabarrokalarm.comhttps://www.alarm.comhttps://a16z.comhttps://www.apple.comhttps://www.bloomberg.comhttp://www.bcaplan.com/https://www.cisco.comhttps://www.coca-colacompany.comhttps://www.gmu.eduhttps://www.intel.comhttps://x.com/juliagalefhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/martincasado/https://meraki.cisco.comhttps://www.meter.comhttps://x.com/M_Giorcellihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-bloom-stanford/https://www.linkedin.com/in/raffaella-sadun-3a182225/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjitbiswas/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-varanasi-662a01253/https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-cowen-166718/https://www.twitch.tv
Timestamps:
(01:27) Meter’s unusual timeframes
(04:06) “We don’t do OKRs”
(06:32) How to plan without planning
(08:31) Track your unhappy customers
(11:43) How Meter’s journey began
(15:02) Dissecting the 2010s SaaS boom
(17:06) The networking industry trap
(21:44) Meter’s first roadblock
(22:07) Why Shenzhen accelerated Meter’s progress
(26:29) The process to get a sales-ready product
(31:02) Why you should own the full stack
(32:45) The surprising thing you should innovate
(35:03) Avoiding the one-trick pony trap
(37:39) The secret to finding an excellent market
(43:48) How COVID’s constraints propelled growth
(48:25) Why founders need to know their customers
(49:34) Why Meter didn’t sell via traditional channels
(51:44) You need “seller-market fit”
(54:51) The danger of meta-work
(56:25) Decoupling management from authority
(1:02:17) When the person is the problem
(1:05:05) The inherent value of going slowly
(1:09:41) Running a company for as long as possible
Duration:01:14:53
Cualquier tiempo pasado fue anterior | Poder y poderío de la radio
12/8/2025
Podcast: Cualquier tiempo pasado fue anterior (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% )
Episode: Cualquier tiempo pasado fue anterior | Poder y poderío de la radio
Pub date: 2024-12-29
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El genial Orson Welles es la cara, y el nazi Joseph Goebbels es la cruz. De ellos dos va este nuevo “Cualquier Tiempo pasado fue anterior”, de cómo Welles y Goebbels supieron ver el potencial de la radiodifusión antes que nadie, uno para bien y otro para mal. Lo cuenta Nieves Concostrina y su equipo: con Pepe Rubio, el arte con Ana Valtierra, la música de Emma Vallespinós, la entrevista de Jesús Pozo. Y en la técnica María Jesús Rodríguez
Duration:00:55:37
Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science
11/19/2025
Podcast: Behind the Bastards (LS 77 · TOP 0.01% )
Episode: Part Two: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science
Pub date: 2025-05-08
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Robert Maxwell makes a full heel turn in this episode, going from badass killer of the SS to not so badass corporate ghoul who murdered science and also spied for Israel and the UK.
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Duration:01:29:45
Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science
11/19/2025
Podcast: Behind the Bastards (LS 77 · TOP 0.01% )
Episode: Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science
Pub date: 2025-05-06
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You know his daughter as Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman. Robert tells guest Adam Conover about Ghislaine Maxwell's dad, Robert Maxwell. He started his life on a Nazi murder quest and ended it by killing science as a field of endeavor and raiding millions from his company pension plan.
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Duration:00:58:57