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Hosted by Niklas · business · EN · 35 episodes
Welcome to Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade - the intersection of deep tech and high-stakes business. I’m Dr. Niklas, an engineer, founder, and researcher. I look at business and technology through the lens of a builder: how do you architect a company that is robust, scalable, and "Venture Grade"? On this channel, I move beyond surface-level startup advice. I sit down with world-class founders, investors, and technical leaders to debug their strategies and examine the source code of their success. What is "Venture Grade"? It’s a standard. Just like military-grade hardware or enterprise-grade software, a Venture Grade business is built to survive, scale, and secure investment. New episodes ship every Tuesday. Subscribe for weekly deep dives with people building the future 🚀☘️
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade - the intersection of deep tech and high-stakes business. I’m Dr. Niklas, an engineer, founder, and researcher. I look at business and technology through the lens of a builder: how do you architect a company that is robust, scalable, and "Venture Grade"? On this channel, I move beyond surface-level startup advice.
Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade is hosted by Niklas. The show has published 35 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "DN #35: Taiwan to SF, Hackathons Everywhere & Getting Caught by Anthropic (w/ Sean Chiu)" (20 October 2026, 35 minutes), "DN #34: A Digital Brain, Privacy-First Memory & 1,000 Reddit Downloads (w/ Ahmet & Ömer Delibaş)" (6 October 2026, 28 minutes), and "DN #33: Make the Internet Weird Again, The Flash Era & Change the Lovable Look (w/ Chus Margallo)" (22 September 2026, 39 minutes).
Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 35 episodes.
Booking probability for Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade are IT Services & Software Development and Business & Management Consulting. Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade has a business audience.
Niklas hosts Dr. Niklas: Venture Grade, a business show with 35 episodes published.
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Episode #35
"I bought the $200 plan and put it on OpenClaw, which was not allowed at the time. Anthropic found out. The funny thing is, they actually refunded the money." I talk to Sean Chiu, a builder who moved from Taiwan to the...
Episode #34
"Your data has always been used for ads, for big data, for selling to other companies. And the user benefits the least. It doesn't have to be like that." I talk to Ahmet and Ömer Delibaş, two brothers building Klara, a...
Episode #33
"People will go to a website because they're going to enjoy the experience there, not because the information they need is there." I talk to Chus, a Barcelona-based art director and UX/UI designer with 15+ years across...
Episode #31
"People think TPM is gonna be the job that gets replaced first. In reality, it's gonna be the hardest thing to replace." I talk to Jake Kim, founder of Serro AI, about agentic technical program management and why the...
Episode #30
"A good assistant takes about three days for one blueprint. I'm using AI, and it's 30 seconds." I talk to Vinh, solo founder of HD Parking Lot, about the construction marketplace he's building after a $25,000...
Episode #29
"Kids don't just consume technology, they create with it." I talk to Feifei Qiu, founder of Kindlewood Studios, about the dragon story her four-year-old told at the dinner table that turned into a learning platform, and...
Episode #28
"It's cheaper to upgrade to an expensive model." I talk to Joakim William Hauge, co-founder of Monetize, about "runtime economics" (the new category he's carving out for AI governance) and why CFOs are locked out of the...
Episode #27
"Software will be removed. Agents are gonna be what you sell." I talk to Julian Fitzpatrick, founder of Build with Pixel, about why packages of AI agents will replace B2B software for small businesses, and the...
Episode #26
"Distribution is the new moat. Five years ago it was your product." I talk to Calvin Lim, co-founder of Clarity AI, about building AI-native analytics for the coffee shop owners and family-business founders that every...
Episode #25
"Our AI doesn't replace underwriters. It does the boring work so they can make the decisions." I talk to Danny Tang, founder of Tradata, about why the non-qualified mortgage market is the underserved $239 billion slice...
Episode #24
"Two people reading the same book get completely different action steps." I talk to Shruta Satam, co-founder of Pustak, about the knowing-doing gap — why most of what we read never makes it into our lives — and how...
Episode #23
"I'm a good builder. I'm not a good seller." I talk to Alejandro Zielinsky, founder of Bento, about building an Apple-style personal finance app as a solo iOS developer, why every budgeting app on the market is too...
Episode #22
"You can't delegate strategy to agents. You can't delegate human relationships to agents." I talk to Davida Ginter, founder of Ilu, about building AI workers for the 90% of business owners who don't want to prompt...
Episode #21
"If you're a junior, you should go work in an office." I talk to Adomas, founder of Remotely Talents, about why remote teams are going senior-only in the AI era, and what that does to everyone trying to get their first...
Episode #20
"Don't show me a TAM slide. Show me 200 customer discovery calls and 20 people on a waitlist." I talk to Martin Tobias, founder and managing partner of Incisive Ventures, about why distribution is the only real moat...
Episode #19
<p>"Distribution is a nightmare for everybody. But secretly, it's a product problem."</p><p>I talk to Jacob Counsell, product designer of 15 years in Silicon Valley tech and founder of LaunchChair.io, about why most...
Episode #18
<p>"Why would you give a robot human weaknesses?"</p><p>I talk to Jay Kapoor, co-founder and general partner of VSC Ventures, about the "dirty, dusty, and dangerous" industries that VCs keep skipping over and why he...
Episode #17
<p>"Voice is the last moat."</p><p>I talk to Sadok, growth and AI operator and founder of Bloomberry, about why the next defensible thing for solo founders isn't a feature but their authentic voice. Sadok spent the last...
Episode #16
<p><b>"If you take the year Airbnb did its seed round... if you invested in every single one of the 2,500 deals that year, and everything went to zero except Airbnb, you'd still return a couple thousand X."</b><br />In...
Episode #15
<p><b>"You're not competing against AI, but you're competing against other people with AI."</b><br />In this episode of DN, Niklas sits down with AI and Web3 founder <b>Tim Haldorsson</b>, who runs a 30-person growth...
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