Zero Prime Podcast
The Zero Prime Podcast with Pete Soderling explores the early stories of top startups as seen through the eyes of their engineer-founders. In each episode we uncover insights on what it takes to start a company as an engineer in the words of the founders themselves. From the most cutting edge infrastructure companies to the newest trends in developer tooling, we introduce you to the engineer-founder personalities behind the up and coming software startups that you can’t afford to ignore.
Episodes
29 episodes
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...
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28:45
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...
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27:16
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...
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30:26
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...
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Episode 26
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37:26
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
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Episode 25
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27:14
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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Episode 24
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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...
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Episode 23
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28:23
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...
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Episode 22
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21:07
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...
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Episode 21
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24:07
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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Episode 20
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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...
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Episode 19
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23:48
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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Episode 18
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24:19
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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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Episode 17
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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...
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Episode 16
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30:30
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...
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Episode 15
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23:33
E14: From Google Engineer to Cockroach Labs Co-Founder -- a Conversation with Spencer Kimball
In this episode, I have the pleasure of hosting Spencer Kimball, a former Google engineer turned tech entrepreneur, and now the Co-Founder & CEO of
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Episode 14
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29:23
E13: The Evolution of Data Science with DJ Patil
Today on the podcast, I interview DJ Patil, an entrepreneur, investor, scientist and leader in public policy. The former (and first) U.S. Chief Data Scientist, DJ wrote the book on being Data Dri...
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Episode 13
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30:24
E12: From Vertica to Starburst - Data Processing for Analytics with Matt Fuller
Today on the podcast, I interview Matt Fuller, the co-founder of Starburst. Matt has worked in data for years ....Highlights[1:00] - H...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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E11: Streaming Data w/ Eric Sammer
In this episode, I interview Eric Sammer, the founder & CEO of Decodable. Eric was previously an engineering manager at Cloudera, and before that the founder of R...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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24:52
E10: Josh Benamram and Data Observability
Josh Benamram is the the co-founder & CEO of Databand, a data observability company acquired by IBM. We’ll discuss Josh’s segue from an early career in venture capital, into becoming a product manager for ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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24:22
E09: The Origin Story of Datadog w/ Alexis Le-Quoc
Alexis is the co-founder and CTO of Datadog, which was founded in NYC in 2010. He shares with the Pete the origin story of the company, how & why raising capital was very different in that period, an...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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25:38
E08: Path to Becoming a Founder w/ Brad Buda
Brad is a repeat founder and is currently the co-founder of Census, an SF company that syncs customer data to go-to-market tools. Brad shares his path from i...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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26:23
E07: Monetizing Open Source w/ Wes McKinney
Pete chats with Wes McKinney, the inspiration behind many popular OSS data & data science tools like pandas, Apache Arrow, Ibis and others. We learn from Wes' experience in starting businesses aro...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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19:22