From customer to CEO, Lucanet's Elias Apel on transforming a business through the eyes of the user
What does AI have to prove when the buyer is a CFO? Elias Apel, CEO of Lucanet, answers from both sides of the table: he was a Lucanet custo...
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Orbit - An Hg Podcast
Hg sits at the centre of a universe of tech and software knowledge and expertise. We are constantly surprised by the ideas generated by these satellite minds and we want to share some of it...
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20 of 66 episodesLovable from zero to $400m in 15 months with CRO, Ryan Meadows
Published in a week when Lovable's valuation doubled to $13.3 billion, up from $6.6 billion in December, this episode presents Ryan Meadows...
Predicting AI: Rob Toews' scorecard from the frontier
Every December, Rob Toews publishes ten AI predictions in Forbes, then comes back a year later and grades himself in public. That habit of p...
The rogue agent problem: A conversation with Gil Elbaz at the Hg Digital Summit
In this episode, John Cranmer is joined by Gil Elbaz, Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at Onyx Security, the company building the secure AI c...
Patrick Debois on why context is the new code: A conversation from the Hg Digital Summit
The inventor of DevOps explains why AI needs engineering rigour and human collaboration. The engineer who coined "DevOps" in 2009 thinks he...
Jonathan Sanders, CEO of Light: fear is not a strategy
When Jonathan Sanders pitched Light to investors, the reaction was unanimous: rebuilding ERP would take a decade and a hundred million dolla...
Evan Goldberg of NetSuite: 3 decades and 2 platform shifts
Evan Goldberg co-founded NetSuite in 1998 with a five-minute phone call to Larry Ellison when his "graphics stuff" wasn't going great. He pi...
Marjorie Janiewicz of Mistral AI: flipping the adoption curve - why SaaS with data can win in an AI world
Marjorie Janiewicz has sold enterprise software through every platform shift for three decades: Oracle, MySQL, SAP, MongoDB, HackerOne. Now...
The race for alpha: Varun Anand of Clay on inventing a new role and why GTM needs a new AI strategy
Most B2B software founders don't spend four years working on presidential campaigns. Varun Anand did - on Hillary Clinton's 2016 run - and h...
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once: Hg’s Matthew Brockman on what's really happening in software right now
In this rare internal conversation, Matthew Brockman, Hg's Chief Investment Officer, offers an insider's view on what's actually working ver...
A certain level of chaos is healthy: Franz Faerber on fighting bureaucracy and the importance of deep domain knowledge in AI
Franz Faerber, co-founder and CEO of Everest Systems and former architect of SAP HANA, challenges Sam Altman's vision of throwaway software,...
The corporate immune system: Google Cloud's Daniël Rood on building Europe's first AI team
Daniël Rood, director of AI go-to-market at Google Cloud, offers a masterclass in navigating transformation from inside a tech giant. Buildi...
Skin in the game: Professor Neil Lawrence on vulnerability, accountability and why the next generation will thrive.
From oil rigs to Amazon's machine learning division and now Cambridge's DeepMind chair, Professor Neil Lawrence brings a refreshingly ground...
The 3 speed problem: Jason Richards speaks to Oji Udezue on CPO leadership in the age of unlimited engineering
Hg sits at the centre of a universe of tech and software knowledge and expertise. We are constantly surprised by the ideas generated by thes...
Fevered determination: Building Zalos from zero to enterprise in 5 weeks. Hg's Jonathan Wulkan speaks to founder, William Fairbairn
In this illuminating conversation from the frontier of AI-native startups, William Fairbairn, founder of Zalos.ai and part of Y Combinator's...
Trust, Velocity, and Building the Answer Engine: Dmitry Shevelenko of Perplexity speaks to Farouk Hussein
In this fascinating conversation, Perplexity's Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko reveals how a company barely three years old is moun...
The long road to the last mile : Nic Humphries and Matthew Brockman reflect on 25 years of Hg
In this candid anniversary conversation, Hg's leadership team of Matthew Brockman and Nic Humphries reflects on 25 years of building one of...
AI, Control Points, and the Next Wave of Vertical SaaS with Tidemark Capital founder, Dave Yuan
In this compelling conversation, Tidemark Capital founder Dave Yuan shares his journey from Bain consultant to building one of the most thou...
Refounding in the face of AI with Des Traynor of Intercom
Orbit 48 sees Dr Amr Ellabban sit down with Des Traynor, co-founder and CSO of Intercom, to explore how AI requires revolutionary thinking f...
A golden age of software engineering with Russell Kaplan, Founding President of Cognition
What happens when AI can code? In this illuminating conversation with Cognition's Founding President Russell Kaplan, we explore how AI is fu...