The Flywheel by M13
The Flywheel is a podcast for founders, operators and investors building through structural change. M13 partners sit down with the founders reshaping AI, enterprise software, healthcare, commerce, and consumer technology to unpack the hard calls and inflection points as they build category-defining companies. Each conversation is designed to help listeners better understand where the world is changing, what great founders see before others do, and how enduring companies are built.
Episodes
9 episodes
The Future of Security is Data Security | Lizzy Nammour, founder & CEO, Teleskope
What if the future of security is no alerts at all?Lizzy Nammour started on a three-person data security team at Airbnb, trying to track 10 years of data that engineers kept collecting faster than anyone could map—and she built Teleskope...
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Who Verifies the Agents? | Jonathan Awad, co-founder and CEO, Baselayer
What happens when the software spending your money doesn't have an ID?Jonathan Awad built Baselayer into the identity network one in five US financial institutions uses to verify businesses—more than $1 billion in fraud losses prevented—...
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Tariffs Gave This Shipping Company Its Best Year | Alex Yancher, Founder and CEO, Passport
What if the worst year for global trade in a decade turned out to be your best year ever?Alex Yancher built Passport into the cross-border commerce engine shipping to 150 countries for brands going international, and a year after Liberat...
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How AI Is Rebuilding Payroll and Global Work | Nami Baral, Founder and CEO, Niural
What if "what's the fastest path to $100 million in ARR" is the wrong question entirely? Nami Baral, founder and CEO of Niural, spent two and a half years building an AI-native global payroll stack before going to market because she isn't build...
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The MIT Founder Who Bet on the Market Nobody Wanted | Parth Shah, Polimorphic
What if the most overlooked market in tech is the one every investor told you to run from? Polimorphic founder Parth Shah and M13 Managing Partner Latif Peracha explore how local governments are leapfrogging a decade of technology straight into...
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Dropping Out to Build 911 AI | Mike Chime, Prepared
Why does calling 911 still mean a dispatcher typing your emergency by hand, word for word? Prepared co-founders Mike Chime, Neal Soni and Dylan Gleicher dropped out of Yale to rebuild the emergency call—using AI to transcribe, summarize, and tr...
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The Future of Cross-Border Payments | OpenFX CEO Prabhakar Reddy
What if moving $100 million across borders took 60 minutes instead of five days? OpenFX founder Prabhakar Reddy is rebuilding the world's cross-border payment rails to make real-time the default.On this episode of The Flywheel, recorded ...
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Voice AI's Rising Bar: Rime CEO Lily Clifford on Conversation Quality
What makes an AI voice worth talking to? Rime founder Lily Clifford thinks the next breakthrough in voice AI isn't a more natural-sounding voice—it's a conversation you actually want to keep having.On this episode of The Flywheel, M13 Pa...
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What Comes After LLMs? Sam Pasupalak, Skyfall AI
What comes after large language models? Skyfall AI founder Sam Pasupalak thinks the next breakthrough is AI that can run a business autonomously. On this episode of The Flywheel, M13 Partner Morgan Blumberg sits down with Sam Pasupa...
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