Most podcasts are an hour or more. This is 18 Minutes or Less.
Short-form interviews with startup CEOs and tech leaders, hosted by Ali Rohde.
Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel
Guillermo Rauch has been building Vercel for more than 10 years. But talk to him and you'd never know it. In 8 minutes, he shares why he's anti-1:1s, how he stays "terminally online," and whether he wants to take Vercel public.
Feross Aboukhadijeh, Founder & CEO of Socket
Feross runs Socket, the company watching the open-source supply chain that powers basically everything. In 16 minutes, we get into the recent Axios attack — where a maintainer was socially engineered into shipping a backdoor — and what AI agents are doing to trust in dependencies.
Dakotah Rice, CEO of Harper
Dakotah just closed a $47M Series A for Harper — the largest ever raised by a Black founder. His first startup failed before this one took off. In 14 minutes, he walks through the AI-native brokerage playbook and what running a service business at this scale actually looks like.