Open Source Startup Podcast
1) E181: Why Multimodal Is the Future of AI Data Workloads
Chang She is Co-Founder & CEO of LanceDB, the multimodal lakehouse platform. Their open source data format lance has over 5K stars on GitHub and is a modern columnar data format for ML and LLMs implem...Show More
2) E180: Why Kubernetes Still Needs Simplifying: The Nadrama Story
Ryan Djurovich is the Founder & CEO of Nadrama, the open source infrastructure automation platform that deploys containers instantly. In this episode, we dig into:Kubernetes challenges that still exis...Show More
3) E179: LLMs for Software Maintenance (the Grit Story)
Morgante Pell is the Founder of Grit, the developer tool that puts software maintenance on autopilot and was acquired by Honeycomb in April 2025. In this episode, we dig into:The Grit product and how ...Show More
4) E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI
Emma Burrows is Co-Founder & CTO of Portia AI, the platform to build AI agents in regulated environments. Their open source Python SDK provides a developer framework for predictable and stateful agent...Show More
5) E177: RunReveal's Anti SIEM SIEM Platform (With AI That Actually Works!)
Alan Braithwaite is Co-Founder & CTO of RunReveal, the security data platform with real-time monitoring, built-in detections, and AI-powered investigations. Today, they manage and analyze security log...Show More
6) E176: Why All AI Agents Will Need Cloud Sandboxes
Vasek Mlejnsky is Co-Founder & CEO of E2B, the open-source runtime for executing AI-generated code in secure cloud sandboxes. Essentially, they give AI agents cloud computers. Their open source repos,...Show More
7) E175: How Dragonfly Is Taking on Redis With a New Data Store
Roman Gershman is Co-Founder & CTO of Dragonfly, the drop-in Redis replacement for heavy data workloads that has significant performance, cost, and scale benefits. Their open source dragonflydb has 28...Show More
8) E174: The SDF / DBT Acquisition (1 + 1 = 3)
Lukas Schulte is Co-Founder & CEO of SDF Labs, the developer platform that scales SQL understanding across organizations, which was recently acquired by data transformation unicorn dbt Labs. In this e...Show More
9) E173: Feature Flagging with OpenFeature
Andrew Norris is Co-Founder & CEO of DevCycle, the leading feature flagging platform based on the OpenFeature project. OpenFeature provides a standard for feature flagging unifying tools behind a comm...Show More
10) E172: How MetalBear Makes Cloud Development 100x Faster
Aviram Hassan is Co-Founder & CEO of MetalBear, the cloud development platform that lets developers run local code as if it were part of their remote environment. Their project, mirrord, has 4K stars ...Show More