In this episode, Bragadeesh Suresh Babu, Founder and CEO of Tattvam AI, tells Daniel Dippold why he walked away from a role at Google to build his own startup. He decided the cost of not trying was higher than anything he was giving up, even risking his UK residency to do it.
Getting there took a year of thinking, running simulations, and hiring interns on his own money before the company existed. Now, Bragadeesh is building the intelligence layer for chip design to enable a Cambrian explosion of chips. He also shares why startup success is never luck, and why convincing yourself is harder than convincing any investor or customer.
In this episode, Wiktor Stanislawek, Co-founder and CEO of Reactive AI, tells Daniel Dippold why European VCs called his pitch deck a red flag for naming OpenAI as a competitor, and why the angels he met in San Francisco called it ambition.
Wiktor's team are young founders from Poland who had never worked at an AI lab. YC passed on them twice. EWOR said yes after a one-minute demo: Reactive AI's token count stayed flat as other LLMs kept climbing. When Wiktor approached an OpenAI researcher to join the team, the researcher asked to invest, and the deal closed within 24 hours. The founder of Snowflake and a 5x unicorn founder followed. Now, Wiktor is challenging Silicon Valley's frontier labs from Poland with Reactive AI’s Large Awareness Models.
In this episode, Chris Fox, serial entrepreneur and Co-founder and CEO of Nimbus, talks with Daniel Dippold about treating profitability from day one as a repeatable strategy rather than a milestone.
Chris does not start a company until he knows the one channel that will get him to profitability. For Nimbus, that was referrals, and it carried the business to millions in ARR. He explains why the old playbook of raising big and chasing product-market fit for years is gone, why that window has collapsed from 18 months to 30 days, and why he deliberately raised almost nothing when he could have raised far more.
In this episode, Fryderyk Sitnik, Co-founder and CEO of Margin, talks with Daniel Dippold about the radical frugality that kept his company alive long enough to find the idea that worked.
Fryderyk and his co-founders spent a year iterating and living on €300/month each in the Polish suburbs. Living on low burn meant that turning down money got easier, not harder. The team later said no to a €2M preempt offer over a single term, and to an acquisition offer, because neither fit the scale of what he wants Margin to become.
