Startups, AI, and Nectir with Jordan Long
Ardan Labs Podcast16 Huhti 2025

Startups, AI, and Nectir with Jordan Long

In this episode, Bill Kennedy interviews Jordan Long, co-founder and CTO of Nectir. They discuss Jordan's journey from high school in Hawaii to college at UCSB, his early interests in music and technology, and the challenges he faced in finding his path. Jordan shares his experiences with entrepreneurship, including his initial idea for a rideshare platform and the eventual creation of Nectir, a platform designed to connect students in the same classes. The conversation highlights the importa...

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From Idea to Execution with Mat Ryer

From Idea to Execution with Mat Ryer

Mat Ryer is a serial entrepreneur and a panelist on the Go Time podcast! He is currently the co-founder at Pace.dev & Firesearch.dev. In this episode, we hear about Mat’s very early experiences with p...

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Do What You Love and Figure the Rest Out Later with Kris Brandow

Do What You Love and Figure the Rest Out Later with Kris Brandow

Kris Brandow is a Senior Software Engineer at Wunderkind and a panelist on the GoTime podcast! We learn about Kris’s experience growing up in a technical household and how he had no desire to follow i...

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Piano Mastery to Cloud Computing with Guinevere Saenger

Piano Mastery to Cloud Computing with Guinevere Saenger

Guinevere Saenger is a Software Engineer on the Development Lifecycle Team at Github. We hear about the challenges of pursuing a career in music and how, through an unbelievable turn of events, she ha...

17 Helmi 202157min

Always Be Working Towards Your Goals with  Bryan Liles

Always Be Working Towards Your Goals with Bryan Liles

Bryan Liles is a Principal Engineer at VMware where he is working on the Telco & Edge Cloud BU team building telecom software that runs on Kubernetes. We examine Bryan’s unique path to success, which...

3 Helmi 20211h

A Champion of Chaos and Inclusion with Ana Margarita Medina

A Champion of Chaos and Inclusion with Ana Margarita Medina

Ana Margarita Medina is a Senior Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. You may know her from one of her many conference talks or maybe just from Twitter! In this episode, Ana shares her journey into tech and why...

20 Tammi 202159min

Assembly Code, Semiconductors, & the Blockchain with Dave Appleton

Assembly Code, Semiconductors, & the Blockchain with Dave Appleton

Dave Appleton is a man of many talents (Seriously, he has too many to mention!). We kick off our conversation hearing about Dave’s first experiences with programming in the late '60s using hand punc...

6 Tammi 202143min

If You Know the Spell You Can Have Whatever You Want with John Arundel

If You Know the Spell You Can Have Whatever You Want with John Arundel

John Arundel is software consultant, mentor, and author of the book “For the Love of Go”. We talk about his early fascination with computers, the role his mother played in planting these seeds, and th...

23 Joulu 202047min

From Automating Solitaire to Automated Machine Images with Wilken Rivera

From Automating Solitaire to Automated Machine Images with Wilken Rivera

Wilken Rivera is a senior software engineer with the Packer team at HashiCorp. In this interview, listeners will get a sense of Wilken’s journey from a dance background to software engineering, his ca...

9 Joulu 202049min