The Web Talk Show

Getting into companies like SpaceX or OpenAI before they go public has usually taken at least $100,000, accredited investor status and months of paperwork. Chan Ahn spent almost 20 years in investment banking before...

Robert Siciliano got hacked over AOL dial-up in 1995 and has spent the 30 years since teaching people how criminals pick their targets. His point is simple: people don't get scammed because they weren't paying...

Plenty of plumbers, roofers and landscapers do excellent work and still lose jobs to competitors who simply show up first on Google. Jonah Bautista of Atlanta Pro Network explains the free settings that change that...

Vishwadeep Khatri ran more than 400 third-party audits before he decided he'd rather coach companies than grade them. That choice became Benchmark Six Sigma, now Benchmark X360, which has trained thousands of people and...

Almost half the clicks in a marketing email come from the hero image at the top, and most brands spend that space on a logo. R. J. Talyor, founder of Backstroke, has spent 24 years in email, including leading the email...

Travel sites sell you a flight and a hotel and then you're on your own. Vipul Doshi spent 20 years building customer experience for the travel industry as the founding CEO of IGT Solutions. Now he's building Zenvoya, an...

Many entrepreneurs pour everything back into the business, skip the planning, and get hit with a surprise bill at the end of the year. Rebecca Irey says that pattern is the norm, and she has 30 years in finance behind...

Most companies test their staff by sending them fake phishing emails and seeing who clicks. Craig Taylor thinks that approach backfires, and he has 30 years in cybersecurity behind the argument. Armando J. Perez-Carreno...

Most founders think launching a financial product means building the full platform first: payment rails, automation, dashboards, compliance. Alberto Padilla started Briq.mx with a static website, a bank account, and a...

Melanie Nabar, Principal at Volition Capital, breaks down what actually happens when a company takes outside money. She walks through the difference between seed capital, growth equity, and a full buyout, and explains...

A company brought on 25 QA testers and still landed at 56% test coverage. On this episode of The Web Talk Show, host Armando Perez-Carreno sits down with Pramin Pradeep, founder of BotGauge, to unpack why throwing...

Richard Decker has started businesses since 1982, from health clubs to restaurants to construction companies, and he's never worked for anyone. His newest venture, Authenti, throws out everything you think you know...

Most businesses treat referrals as a "nice to have," then watch a simple program pick up special cases, custom rates, and payout headaches within six months. Siren was built to handle all of that from one place. Alex...

Daniel Fallmann founded Mindbreeze back in 2005, long before anyone was talking about LLMs, and he's spent 21 years helping the world's largest companies turn scattered data into usable knowledge. In this episode, he...

Most people have no idea that the truck delivering their morning coffee or that fresh donut at 7-Eleven isn't owned by the company whose logo is on the side. Dean Vicha, President of NationaLease, pulls back the curtain...