HeyJaredalphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders
This podcast features interviews of CTOs and other technical leadership figures and topics range from technology (AI, blockchain, cyber, DevOps, Web Architecture, etc.) to management (e.g. scaling, structuring teams, mentoring, technical recruiting, product etc.).
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#146 AI Found What Nine Years of Security Research Missed with Charles Guillemet // CTO @ Ledger (opens the original)
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Charles Guillemet has spent nine years building Ledger's security organization from scratch — first as the founder of The Donjon, Ledger's in-house offensive security research team, then as CTO overseeing security for a company safeguarding roughly 20% of the world's crypto (per Tobi's intro framing). The conversation centers on one uncomfortable observation: with the latest generation of frontier AI models, Ledger's researchers started finding product vulnerabilities that fifteen dedicated expe
#145 "Harness Writing Is Not Hard": Build to Learn, Not to Run with David Soria Parra // Member of Technical Staff @ Anthropic (opens the original)
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Sponsored by Blocks: Save at least 20% on your AWS costs with AI-powered optimization and enterprise discounts. Get your free Cloud Check at https://blocks.cloud/alphalist?utm_source=alphalist&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=blocks-podcast-2026 David Soria Parra co-created the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the standard that now underpins most AI agent integrations, and, before that, spent years as a core contributor to Mercurial and on Meta's internal source control team. He got into programming
#144 Writing Code Is No Longer the Job: Dana Lawson on Trusting AI Agents Like Self-Driving Cars // CTO @ Netlify (opens the original)
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Sponsored by Blocks: Save at least 20% on your AWS costs with AI-powered optimization and enterprise discounts. Get your free Cloud Check at https://blocks.cloud/alphalist?utm_source=alphalist&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=blocks-podcast-2026 Dana Lawson's path into tech started with backup tapes, not a keyboard-in-the-womb origin story. She joined the US Army in the late '90s, automated her way out of manual password resets, and went on to become VP of Product Engineering at GitHub before tak
#143 The Company Brain: How Kombo Runs on a Git Repo and a Cursor Agent — with Aike Hillbrands, Co-Founder & CTO @ Kombo (opens the original)
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Sponsored by Blocks: Save at least 20% on your AWS costs with AI-powered optimization and enterprise discounts. Get your free Cloud Check at https://blocks.cloud/alphalist?utm_source=alphalist&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=blocks-podcast-2026 Aike Hillbrands co-founded and killed two companies before Kombo, now a Y Combinator-backed HR integration platform with $10M+ ARR and a $25M Series A. Along the way, his team built something almost by accident: a company-wide AI brain made of a GitHub re
#142 Why LLMs Need Their Own Programming Language: From Assembly to AI with Vaibhav Gupta // Co-founder @ BAML (opens the original)
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Sponsored by Blocks: Save at least 20% on your AWS costs with AI-powered optimization and enterprise discounts. Get your free Cloud Check at blocks.cloud/alphalist → https://blocks.cloud/alphalist?utm_source=alphalist&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=blocks-podcast-2026 Vaibhav Gupta built computer vision for the original Microsoft HoloLens, optimized AR at Google, and wrote high-performance assembly at D.E. Shaw, then left it all to start from scratch. After a YC pivot away from a Slack competit
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