Engineering Founders Podcast
1) Why founders should invest in coaching, communication & leadership mechanisms before you scale w/ James Birchler
Founders often delay leadership coaching until a major crisis hits, leading to significant costs in productivity, team churn, and poor decisions. In this episode, James Birchler (Technical Advisor & E...Show More
2) Balancing shifting priorities, leveraging your founder network, and navigating cost vs. value w/ Sumeet Vaidya @ Crafting
In this episode, we cover some of the most important founder challenges, including engineering management, prioritization / time management principles, analyzing the market, and making the decision to...Show More
3) Early team building and pivoting to competitive advantage as a solo founder w/ Tony Dong @ Propel
Tony Dong (Founder & CEO @ Propel) shares how he navigated the early days of solo founding, hired eight engineers in a month, and rapidly built early momentum. We explore how he leveraged existing rel...Show More
4) Building insight engines, emotionally intelligent AI products & blending PLG / enterprise GTM w/ Aiswarya Sankar @ Entelligence.AI
How do you build an AI product that engineers actually enjoy? Aiswarya Sankar, co-founder of Entelligence.AI, reveals how her team is creating an AI-powered “insight engine” that supports (and celebra...Show More
5) The Startup Epoch: Rethinking Company Building & Defensibility in an AI World w/ Craig McLuckie @ Stacklok
AI is reshaping the fundamental economics of startups—lowering product development costs, compressing GTM cycles, and rewriting the rules of competition. In this episode, Craig McLuckie (Co-Founder & ...Show More
6) Building platforms, ecosystems & open-source communities: Lessons from Viam & MongoDB w/ Eliot Horowitz @ Viam
How do you build a platform that accelerates innovation by 10x-100x? Eliot Horowitz (CEO & Founder @ Viam) shares how insights from building MongoDB are shaping Viam’s approach to platform ecosystem d...Show More
7) From early days to IPO: Scaling leadership, enterprise growth, product ownership, & outgrowing your failure modes w/ Jon Hyman @ Braze
Jon Hyman (CTO @ Braze) shares the pivotal moments that shaped the company - from being the only person on call in the early years to identifying (and pivoting) product-market fit. Jon discusses how t...Show More
8) Shifting from founder-led sales to repeatable GTM, differentiating on responsiveness/customer support & the art vs. science of product building w/ Stephen Whitworth @ incident.io
Stephen Whitworth (Co-Founder & CEO @ incident.io) joins us to discuss strategically differentiating your product based on responsiveness / customer support and the shift from founder-led sales to rep...Show More
9) Pricing is the API Between Your Business Model and Customers & Great Product Experiences are Made in the Margins w/ Michael Grinich @ WorkOS
What sets a great product experience apart? How do you design a business model and pricing strategy that truly works? Michael Grinich (Founder & CEO of WorkOS) shares his journey from founding Nylas t...Show More
10) GTM Insights from Top DevTool companies w/ David Mytton @ Arcjet & Console
David Mytton (CEO @ Arcjet & Co-founder @ Console) shares insights on “what makes a great DevTool company!” We unpack lessons on bootstrapping vs. seeking VC funding & why it’s important to stick with...Show More