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Hosted by Michael Raybman & Vidya Raman · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 35 episodes
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The Founder to Fortune Podcast unpacks how great companies—and fortunes—are built. Hosted by Michael Raybman, CTO for early-stage technology companies and VC and former AI product leader Vidya Raman. Each episode unravels real-world insights from founders, execs, and investors shaping the future of startups and enterprises. www.foundertofortune.org
Michael Raybman & Vidya Raman hosts The Founder to Fortune Podcast, a business show with 35 episodes published.
The “traditional” engineering org chart is a relic of a time when code was the primary bottleneck. For technical founders today, the challenge has shifted from managing human velocity to orchestrating agentic systems and
DevTool Founder-mode: Hiring for Grit, Reading Code, and Building Trust Guest: Ajay Tripathy, Former CTO of Stackwatch (exit: IBM) Episode Summary: Is the era of the "coder" coming to an end? Former Kubecost CTO Ajay Tri
Episode: Engineering Capital: Investing in Technical Risk Guest: Ashmeet Sidana (Engineering Capital) Host: Vidya Raman — Founder to Fortune Episode overview In this episode, Ashmeet Sidana breaks down what it means to i
Conflict between co-founders is inevitable. Letting it spiral out of control is optional. In this episode of Founder to Fortune, Vidya Raman sits down with Dr. Matt Jones — licensed psychologist, co-founder coach, and au
Most first-time founders believe startups fail because of bad ideas, weak technology, or poor timing. In this episode, Tarang Vaish argues that the real failure mode is far less obvious—and far more dangerous: people ris
Episode Summary Most AI conversations start with parameter counts. This one doesn’t. In this episode, we go inside the origin story of smallest.ai, a company built on the contrarian belief that true intelligence can be a
What if your biggest partnership was actually holding you back? Pankaj Dugar, who helped scale Databricks and drove strategy at AI21 Labs, joins Vidya Raman to share why partnerships fail right after the Press Release —
What happens when PMs, designers, and AI all start speaking the same language? In this episode, Vidya Raman sits down with Hailey Nevins (Director of UX Foundations at MongoDB) and Wenbo Wang (founding designer and forme
In this engaging conversation, Kady Srinivasan, CMO of You.com shares her journey from software engineering to becoming a marketing leader across various industries. She discusses the importance of defining an Ideal Cust
Ely Kahn’s career spans government, startups, and now leading product at SentinelOne. From shaping U.S. cybersecurity strategy at the White House to building one of AWS’s early security products to launching SentinelOne’
* Veteran GTM leader Jim Fisher shares lessons from scaling Cloudera from $50M to $1B ARR and advising today’s fastest-growing startups. * The three golden KPIs that reveal the health of any go-to-market strategy. * Why
In this episode with Saket Modi, we explore: * How a college dorm-room hacker turned an idea into a global cybersecurity company * The surprising way he landed his first customers (hint: it involved live hacks) * Why he
What happens when a veteran CTO jumps into the world of AI-native tools, no-code platforms, and “vibe coding”? In this episode, Michael Raybman—former Hustle Fund CTO and founder whisperer—joins Vidya to break down how b
What happens when two long-time product and engineering leaders—who once yelled at each other across the office—reunite on a podcast to decode the future of data and AI? In this episode, Vidya Raman hosts Anjan Kundavara
What happens when one of the world’s largest asset managers decides to think like a tech company? In this episode, Diwakar Goel, Global Head of Data at BlackRock, pulls back the curtain on how his team is orchestrating o
In this episode, we go inside the minds of two powerhouse CISOs—Rinki Sethi (Upwind, ex-Twitter, Rubrik, Bill.com) and Lucas Moody (Alteryx, ex-Palo Alto Networks)—as they unpack what it really takes to secure an enterpr
In this must-listen episode of The Enterprise GTM Podcast, Pavi Ramamurthy, Global CIO and CSO of Blackhawk Network, shares a candid and deeply insightful look into the world of enterprise security, tech innovation, and
In this episode, Diamond Bishop shares his fascinating journey through AI, machine learning, and enterprise software, from working at Microsoft (Cortana), Amazon (Alexa), AWS, and Meta (PyTorch) to founding Augmend, an A
Imagine walking into a digital store where the AI knows exactly what you want before you do. No more endless scrolling. No more generic recommendations. Just hyper-personalized shopping at lightning speed. In this electr
In this must-listen episode of the Enterprise GTM Podcast, I dive deep with two powerhouse AI experts: 🎙 Manasi Vartak (Chief AI Architect at Cloudera) 🎙 Shreya Shankar (PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley) We discuss the curre
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