Founder to Fortune

DevTool Founder-mode: Hiring for Grit, Reading Code, and Building Trust

with Ajay Tripathy, Co-founder & CTO of Stackwatch (exit IBM)

Mar 26 • Vidya Raman

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55:43

Engineering Capital: Investing in Technical Risk

Featuring Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital

Mar 4 • Vidya Raman

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35:21

February 2026

Your Co-Founder Relationship Is Your Startup’s Biggest Risk

Conflict between co-founders is inevitable.

Feb 14 • Vidya Raman

30:14

January 2026

The #1 Risk First-Time Founders Always Underestimate (It's Not Technology)

Most first-time founders believe startups fail because of bad ideas, weak technology, or poor timing.

Jan 26 • Vidya Raman

2

29:36

Announcing "Fundraising for First-time Founders"

Since I became an investor, I’ve spent countless hours working formally as well as informally with more than a 100 founders on the topic of fundraising.

Jan 4 • Vidya Raman

2

December 2025

The Future of AI in 2026: Insights from the Most Important Research of 2025

An integrated briefing across AI Agents, Data Engineering, AI Security, and Software Engineering

Dec 30, 2025 • Vidya Raman

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1

AI Security Is Becoming a Systems Problem

*A briefing on four of the best and recent AI Security research papers from 2025*

Dec 26, 2025 • Vidya Raman

The Future of AI Agents: What The Best Research In 2025 Tells Us About Where Things Are Heading

A briefing on the five best research papers of 2025 on AI Agents

Dec 23, 2025 • Vidya Raman

AI Is Rewiring Software Engineering — But Not in the Way Most Leaders Expect

A briefing on five of the best AI research papers in 2025 in Software Engineering.

Dec 20, 2025

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AI-Native Data Infrastructure: What Recent Research Tells Us About Where This Is Heading

A briefing on Top 3 Data Engineering research papers from 2025

Dec 19, 2025

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Small Models, Big Impact: Why the Future of AI Isn't Trillion-Parameter

Episode Summary

Dec 2, 2025 • Vidya Raman

2

31:05

November 2025

Why 99% of Partnerships Go Nowhere (and How to Build the 1% That Win)

What if your biggest partnership was actually holding you back?

Nov 11, 2025 • We Edit Podcasts

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37:43