Hosted by Girum Tihtina · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 13 episodes
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No Fixed Route is a podcast about the nuanced route founders take to get to Series B...for founders tired of generic advice. We talk about the stuff nobody has time to write blog posts about yet incredibly important: hiring, GTM, scaling your team, surviving the messy middle.No Fixed Route is also the very first podcast to record inside a moving Zoox Autonomous Vehicle.It is hosted by Girum Tihtina, CEO of Doctours, ex-meta engineer, 2x founder, professional startup enthusiast. Girum has lived the Series A/B grind and knows where generic advice falls flat.
Girum Tihtina hosts No Fixed Route, a business show with 13 episodes published.
Priyanka co-founded Galen AI, a personal health intelligence platform that connected your lab results, wearables, genetic testing and EHR data into one reasoning layer that gave you proactive personalized health guidance
Show notesHelen Huang, founder of Trove and former PM at Microsoft, GitHub, and Zynga, sat down with us in a Zoox autonomous vehicle in San Francisco. Someone emailed her to say they broke up with their girlfriend over her app. Th
Show notesHelen Huang went from digging through 800 job applications with zero offers, to building Trove — the AI-powered daily personality game backed by Betaworks, the studio that incubated Giphy, Bitly, Hugging Face, and Granol
Show notesSix years ago Oliver Hull was digging clams on the coast of Massachusetts with an anthropology degree. Today he is building Memo, a VC-backed hardware company backed by NVIDIA giving 2.7 billion frontline workers access
Show notesIt takes nine years on average to be diagnosed with a chronic illness. During those nine years most people are seeing dozens of doctors, waiting months for appointments, and largely not being heard. Marshall Gould is bui
Show notesMark Pothen cancelled his lease, moved everything to his parents house, and went to work unpaid at a primary care practice for six months. No salary. No product. No investors. Just him and his co-founder figuring out how
Show notesMost businesses send out an invoice and assume the money is coming. It is not. The gap between billing and actually collecting is where millions of dollars quietly disappear every single month and Jerry Shu built Daylit
Show notesA founder who arrived in San Francisco knowing two people, pivoted her company mid accelerator when OpenAI changed everything, and has sat through ten days of silent meditation twice sits down inside a moving driverless
Show notesA former founder who was publishing AI research in high school sits down inside a moving driverless Zoox to unpack one of the most honest startup stories you will hear this year. Abrar Rahman built Dorsal FYI to fight me
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Discover the surprising story of Ryan Benmalek, an AI entrepreneur who skipped high school and entered college at 14. What will you learn from his journey in building robot companions and designing innovative hardware? R
Show notesIn this episode, we sit down with Andrea, founder of Donna, a revolutionary document editor designed to replace the outdated "single page" interface of Google Docs and Microsoft Word. If you are a writer, lawyer, markete
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Sid Sinha is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Avant Health, an AI-native third-party benefits administrator reinventing employer-sponsored healthcare. Founded in January 2024, Avant has partnered with 3 of the top 10 brokerages in
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Ben Warren is the CTO & Co-Founder @ Mesa, an AI-native code forge built for AI agents and autonomous coding systems. Mesa runs agents in sandboxes mounted to your repo, so reviews happen with full codebase context. Ben
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Ayush Garg is the CEO & Co-founder @ AnswerThis, a YC-backed AI research platform that helps over 250,000 researchers accelerate scientific discovery. Built by a two-person team, AnswerThis went from $800 MRR to $600K AR
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