INDIE AUDIO

Mar 07 2025 32 ep. 64 mins 1
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Skipping from Pre-Seed to Series A with Dreadnode

Mar 07 2025 69 mins  
"Would you be mad at us if we raised more money?"That was the text I got late one night from Will Pearce, co-founder and CEO of Dreadnode, a company we'd funded about nine months prior. I'd gotten to know Will through a cold DM he sent me. The DM had nothing to do with tech or investing, just starting a conversation. At the time, Will was working at NVIDIA as an AI red team lead pu

Where Are They Now with Scott Heiferman, Founder of Meetup

Feb 21 2025 57 mins  
It is incredibly rare to have your startup become a verb. Google and Uber immediately come to mind. But what about when a group of strangers or friends with shared interests decide they want to get together? They, Meetup. Scott Heifferman didn’t set out with becoming a verb in mind but he certainly started Meetup with the intent of building something big and impactful. And on tho

Getting off the VC Treadmill with Brandon Arvanaghi, CEO of Meow

Feb 14 2025 67 mins  
This is a spicy one! 🌶️ This week we sat down with Brandon Arvanaghi from Meow.com to discuss his journey from money burning crypto company to profitable fintech. His tweet last year about hitting the profitability milestone had some obvious, and some less intuitive, take aways from their experience. Everything from opting out of the VC treadmill to applying the Costco model t

How to Fix the Founder Mental Health Crisis with Eric Ries of the Lean Startup

Feb 07 2025 88 mins  
Late last year, we sat down with Eric Ries, who fundamentally changed how we think about building startups through The Lean Startup. Only Eric can make corporate governance sound poetic. The conversation took an unexpected turn as we delved into what Ries calls "vampire founders" - leaders who feel immortal yet isolated, watching employees come and go while they remain eternally at

Stargate, Deep Seek and the Futility of Making Predictions about AI in 2025 with @jacsrice, CEO @tribe.ai

Jan 30 2025 75 mins  
Making any kind of time bounded predictions about where AI will be in the year of our lord 2025 is a fools errand. But, we’re suckers for this stuff, so we asked Jackie from Tribe to revise the State of AI download we did last year and orient it to what she sees coming for AI in the enterprise in the new year.No sooner did we record the conversation than OpenAI announced Stargate

Terminal NYC with Reggie James

Jan 23 2025 63 mins  
On my flight to NYC last week, I casually asked if there were any events happening in the city while I was there. Reggie, who you may remember from his New Hardware video, and as the person who coined the term “indie-pilled”, replied that we should do one of our own. So we did. Thankfully we had our cameras in tow and were able to record the conversation. It turned into a nearl

Drones, Defense Tech, and The Consumer Hardware Trap with Chris Anderson

Jan 17 2025 74 mins  
Chris Anderson can’t talk a lot about what he is up to these days. At least on camera. His LinkedIn profile says he’s currently an Engineer at “Stealth". Prior to this current professional opacity, he was at Kitty Hawk, the electric aircraft maker founded by Sebastian Thrun (legendary Stanford Professor and former lead of Google’s self-driving car team that led to Waymo) an

Cults & Culture with Soleio

Jan 10 2025 85 mins  
Soleio Cuervo is more than a chin on the internet. He’s more than an early design leader at Facebook and Dropbox. And he's more than an epic angel investor. He’s a truth seeker and truth teller. Or at least the truth as he sees it. Soleio was one of Facebook’s earliest designers, joining in 2005 when the company was still finding its identity. During his six-year tenure, he h

Closing The Chapter

Dec 27 2024 30 mins  
Throughout the first year of indie’s return, I’ve felt a real sense of tension.That tension sat at the intersection of what indie was and what indie wants to be.In its earliest days, indie was often framed as an anti-VC, profit maxi path. Rigid in its philosophy and dogmatic in its practices. This positioning served as a counterbalance to the investor-focused narratives at the

Where Are They Now with Joshua Schachter from Del.icio.us

Dec 20 2024 67 mins  
Once upon a time, when MTV played music videos, their more mature sister channel, VH1, had a show called “Where Are They Now”. The idea behind the show was to track down notable artists of previous generations to see where life had taken them once they’d stepped out of the spotlight. OK boomer, what does this have to do with the indieverse specifically, and the culture of tec