The Pull to Build: Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit and Starting Roadrunner
What does it take to go from advising founders to becoming one?On this week’s special Reverse Grit episode, we flip the script and put our Grit podcast host Joubin Mirzadegan in the guest seat.Joubin ...
8 Dec 20251h 14min
Building Cloudflare for the Next 50 Years | Co-founder Cloudfare Michelle Zatlyn
Fifteen years in, it can still feel like “we’re just getting started.”Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder of Cloudflare, returns to Grit with Joubin Mirzadegan to share how Cloudflare secures the internet for...
1 Dec 202558min
She Sold Her Startup for $500 Million, Here’s Her Next Idea
Screens have pulled families apart. Brynn Putnam set out to bring them back together with Board, the world’s ‘first face-to-face game console.’On Grit, she tells Joubin Mirzadegan how every venture sh...
24 Nov 20251h 12min
Synthetic Data and the Future of AI | Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
How do companies like Salesforce and Dell scale intelligence across every cloud?Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere, explains how they’re building AI that works across all enterprise systems and...
17 Nov 20251h 11min
From Yext to Roam: Howard Lerman’s Second Act
The hardest company to build is the one you start after you’ve already succeeded.After scaling Yext into a platform powering millions of businesses, Howard Lerman chose to start over with Roam, the “O...
10 Nov 20251h 25min
Rebuilding Front for the AI Era | CEO Dan O’Connell
The hardest part of transformation is knowing what to let go of.Dan O’Connell, now leading Front as CEO and formerly on the board at Dialpad, joins Joubin Mirzadegan to explore the delicate balance be...
3 Nov 202559min
ElevenLabs’ Vision for Voice Interfaces | CEO Mati Staniszewski
Before AI became a buzzword, a few true believers were already building.Since early 2022, Mati Staniszewski and his team at ElevenLabs have been among them, working to create voices that “actually rep...
27 Okt 20251h 4min
95% Faster Video Production with Synthesia | Victor Riparbelli
What’s product-market fit like when you give people the power to do what they never thought was possible?On this rerun of Grit from April 2024, Victor Riparbelli, co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, shar...
20 Okt 20251h 8min
