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The Tech Trek is a podcast for founders, builders, and operators who want a clearer view into how modern startups actually get built.
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Early Stage AI Investing: Moats, Expertise, and Founder Anti Patterns (opens the original)
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Building an AI product is getting easier. Building an AI company that lasts is not. Itamar Novick, Founder and General Partner at Recursive Ventures, joins The Tech Trek to explain what he looks for when investing at the earliest stages of AI companies. The conversation covers how lower development costs could change venture funding, why subject matter expertise matters more as software becomes easier to build, and what actually creates defensibility when competitors can move quickly. Itamar als
AI Agents, Engineering Workflows, and the Cost of Being Wrong (opens the original)
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AI coding agents can produce software faster, but they do not replace the judgment needed to understand the system. Shaun Patterson, CTO at Titan, joins The Tech Trek to discuss how agentic coding is changing problem solving, development workflows, project management, and technical hiring. Shaun explains why engineers still need a strong mental model of the systems they are building. AI can generate code, reproduce bugs, research implementation options, and automate repeated debugging work. But
AI Agents, Identity, and the Security Gap (opens the original)
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AI agents create a different security problem from traditional software. They can operate at software speed and scale while behaving in ways that are much less predictable. Ev Kontsevoy, CEO and cofounder of Teleport, joins The Tech Trek to discuss what happens when companies deploy agents into security systems designed around humans, applications, and relatively static organizational structures. The conversation gets into authentication, impersonation, infrastructure identity, access control, a
Can AI Agents Help One Founder Run a Company? (opens the original)
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AI agents are moving beyond helping with individual tasks. The bigger question is how much of a company they can actually run. Ben Cera, founder of Polsia, joins The Tech Trek to discuss what happens when AI handles engineering, support, marketing, research, and other parts of company execution. Ben explains how Polsia uses specialized agents that can take direction from a founder or decide what to work on autonomously. He also shares how he uses similar systems inside his own company, which he
How AI Is Changing Engineering Workflows and Software Teams (opens the original)
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AI coding agents can help engineering teams ship more code. But the bigger change may be what engineers spend their time doing. Viren Baraiya, Co-Founder and CTO of Orkes, joins The Tech Trek to discuss how AI is changing workflow orchestration, engineering productivity, project delivery, and hiring. As agents take on more implementation work, engineers are spending more time on design, architecture, review, and verification. Viren shares how his team measures the return on AI through product ve
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