Zero Prime Podcast
Episodes
37 episodes
Ep 37: Everyone wants bigger context windows. Linus Lee thinks that's the wrong instinct
Linus Lee, Head of AI at Thrive Capital, sits down with Pete Soderling to talk context engineering, monolithic agents, and the failure mode most teams aren't measuring yet.Most teams building AI agents right now are reaching for bigger ...
Ep 36: The end of the pointer era: Chang She on rebuilding data infrastructure for AI
For 50 years, the pattern has been the same: store the data in the database, keep the big files somewhere else, link them with a pointer. It's powered most production systems we've ever built. Chang She thinks AI is about to break it.In ...
Ep 35: Vik Korrapati Is Building Vision AI the Slow Way. It's Working.
On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, Pete Soderling sits down with Vik Korrapati, Co-founder & CTO of Moondream — an open-source vision language model that lets any developer build vision AI apps through prompting, no PhD required.
Ep 34: Q&A with Eno Reyes, Factory: AI agents are shipping your code. Who's checking their work?
On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, Pete Soderling sits down with Eno Reyes, Co-founder & CTO of Factory — a software development agent platform that has run missions lasting 14 days straight, with hundreds of agents executing contin...
Ep 33: From Engineer to Fleet Commander: Scott Breitenother on the Future of AI Coding
On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, tune in to our conversation with Scott Breitenother, Co-founder & CEO of Kilo Code. Scott built Kilo Code — an open source AI coding agent platform — after watching the engineering job description ...
E32: Lightning Strikes Twice: How Eldad Farkash Built Two Data Unicorns Back-to-Back
On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, tune in to our conversation with Eldad Farkash, Co-founder and Chairman of Firebolt. With over two decades in data architecture, Eldad spent 14 years as CTO of Sisense before building Firebolt into a n...
E31: From Hype to ROI: How Dwarak Rajagopal of Snowflake Scales Enterprise AI
In this episode we talk to Dwarak Rajagopal – VP of AI Engineering and AI Research at Snowflake. Hear from Dwarak as he traces his journey from optimizing AMD processors to building AI systems at Google and now revolutionizing enterprise AI at ...
E30 - From Flight Sims to Authorization: How AuthZed's Jake Moshenko is Securing the AI Revolution
In this episode we talk to Jake Moshenko – Co-Founder and CEO of AuthZed. Hear from Jake as he traces his journey from building flight simulators to creating cutting-edge authorization systems – not mincing words when discussing the security ch...
E29: Sudarshan Lakshminarasimhan Founding Engineer at E6data
In this episode we talk to Sudarshan Lakshminaraseemhan – a founding engineer at e6data who cut his teeth during the formative years at global technology consultancy ThoughtWorks. Hear from Sudarshan as he dissects the evolution of software dev...
E28: Classical Pianist to Observability Pioneer - Charity Majors CTO of Honeycomb
In this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, we chat with Charity Majors, Co-Founder and CTO of Honeycomb, who traded piano keys for keyboard commands on their journey from classically trained pianist to a systems firefighter.Tune in to ge...
E27: From Unix Coder to Enginer-Founder - Rob Woollen's Journey Founding Sigma
In this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, engineer-turned-founder Rob Woollen gives a refreshingly honest take on the founder journey. Rob shares his path from Unix coder to BEA Systems architect to Salesforce CTO, and finally to pioneering da...
E26: Balancing Open Source and Business with Spencer Kimball (Cockroach Labs)
In this new episode of the 0P podcast, we welcome back Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, to discuss the evolving landscape of software licensing in the cloud era. Spencer shares insights on how companies are innovating with...
E25 [DEEP DIVE]: How Metric Trees Are Transforming Businesses with Vijay Subramanian
In this episode, we introduce a new format for the podcast—a deep dive into a technical topic with an engineer-founder who is an expert on the subject. For our first Deep Dive, I sit down with Vijay Subramanian, the visionary behind
E24: Self-Taught to Startup Success: The Unconventional Path of InfluxDB's Paul Dix
In this episode, I sit down with Paul Dix, the founder and CTO of InfluxData to explore his journey from a self-taught programmer to a leader in database systems. We discuss his role in building the NYC...
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E23: Inside the Mind of an AI Pioneer: A Conversation with Alex Mashrabov
In this episode, I sit down with Alex Mashrabov, the visionary CEO of Higgsfield AI. We journey through Alex's impressive career, beginning with his time at Yandex where he witnessed the early implementations of neural networks. We explore what...
E22: From BigQuery to Motherduck: The Journey of Jordan Tigani
In this episode, I chat with Jordan Tigani, the dynamic engineer-founder of MotherDuck who previously led Google's BigQuery team and headed up product at SingleStore. Jordan shares the inspiring origin story of MotherDuck, which emerged f...
E21: The Power of Pricing with Alvaro Morales of Orb
In this episode, Pete speaks with Alvaro Morales, the co-founder and CEO of Orb, who shares his journey from being an engineer to becoming the founder of a f...
E20: Building Sustainable Businesses in the Tech Industry with Craig McLuckie
In this enlightening episode, I have the privilege of hosting Craig McLuckie, a tech industry veteran who has made significant contributions to the cloud computing industry and is currently the ...
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E19: Overcoming Self-Doubt to Become a Founder with Erik Bernhardsson
In this episode, I chat with Erik Bernhardsson, co-founder and CEO of Modal, about his journey from Spotify e...
E18: Data Tool Disruption: Barry McCardel on Building Hex
In this episode, we chat with Barry McCardel, Co-Founder and CEO of Hex, as he shares how honing his leadership skills in college paved the way for his journey to becoming a founder. Barry discusses building his t...
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E17: The Visionary Behind Vercel with Guillermo Rauch
In this episode, we explore Guillermo Rauch's path from a teen hacker in Argentina to the founder of Vercel. We touch on his engineering roots, the role of open-source in his success and Vercel's creation to simplify deployments with Next.js. W...
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E16: The Future of AI in the Workplace -- A Conversation with Aaron Lee of Smith.ai
In this episode, Aaron Lee, Founder & CEO of Smith.ai joins me to discuss a variety of topics. First, we delve into the innovative strategies of tech giants like Google, and explore the future of AI in busine...
E15: Developer Productivity and the Future of Software Development -- A Conversation with Graham Thompson and Debo Ray
In this episode, we debut a new format where engineer-founders discuss key tech topics. Joined by Graham Thompson of Privacy Dynamics and...
