Deeptech Decoded: Frontier Builders | AI | Product Taste

Deeptech Decoded: Frontier Builders | AI | Product Taste

Nihal Kurth

Episodes 11
Avg. Duration 1h 15m
Activity Highly Active
Since Oct 2025
Latest Episode May 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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45%
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About This Podcast

Kitchen-table conversations with builders at the deep-tech AI frontier. No script. No filters. The reasoning behind the moves: what's working, what's not and why conviction beats consensus. For those building what doesn’t have a manual. Deep-dives → https://deeptechdecoded.substack.com/

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S1E11 Inside Deep Tech Investing: A Masterclass From Both Sides of the Table | Graeme Harrison

May 21, 2026 1h 17m

What if AI's binding constraint isn't smarter models or faster chips - but the megawatts sitting unused inside regulated utilities in every major city?Graeme Harrison, General Partner at Augur VC and…

S1E10 Football Field Size Solar Arrays That Fold Into a Rocket | Pele Collins, Beyond Reach Labs (YC W26)

May 07, 2026 1h 10m

What if the biggest structures humans ever build aren't on Earth - but folded into a backpack and unfolded 50x larger in orbit?Pele Collins, co-founder & CTO of Beyond Reach Labs (YC W26), is on…

S1E9 How Two Brothers Outperformed Big Tech for $10K in 1 Month | (Thesis – YC F25)

Apr 30, 2026 1h 18m

What happens when you give $10,000 and 1 month to two brothers from the Caribbean? They outperform the combined research teams of Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Baidu.Sergio and Luigi Charles, founders…

S1E8 Off-Grid AI Data Centers Powered By Second-Life Tesla Batteries. Built in 200 Days. | Casey Spencer

Mar 26, 2026 1h 36m

The grid queue for a 10MW data center is 5 years. At this pace, AI can't wait 5 years for power. Casey Spencer and his co-founders Max Pfeiffer and Evan Schmidt decided the best grid connection is no…

S1E7 Moon Hotel Trojan Horse: 1st Bricks of a Type III Kardashev Civilization | Skyler Chan, GRU Space

Mar 17, 2026 49m

The space industry is currently addicted to the "tourism" narrative, but if we’re being honest, tourism is just the flywheel. The real game isn’t about who puts the first billionaire in a lunar suite…

S1E6 Is NVIDIA’s Moat a Psyop? 28x More Efficient AI Chips | Elias Almqvist, Zetta (YC S24)

Mar 10, 2026 1h 10m

The entire AI industry runs on hardware that the people using it don't actually like. Why? Elias Almqvist believes the answer is Inertia and the window to displace it is opening faster than most…

S1E5 Building the Space Superhighway: Service Stations in Orbit | Ashi Dissanayake, Spaceium

Feb 05, 2026 59m

Ashi Dissanayake is building Spaceium — in-space refueling stations that will enable satellites to travel further, carry more payload, and extend their missions. From building hardware in a laundry…

S1E4 Harvard & YC Insider: Backing the Builders in AI, Quantum & Defense — Matthew Sutton

Jan 15, 2026 1h 36m

Even if Y Combinator never existed, Matthew Sutton would still be backing the top builders. Most investors wait for traction. Matthew Sutton backs builders before there’s proof, sometimes before…

S1E3 The AI Software Preventing Million-Dollar Failures | Shapol M., Entangl (YC S24)

Nov 13, 2025 1h 28m

65% of data-center outages are caused by human error, sometimes as simple as flipping the wrong switch.Shapol M., founder & CEO of Entangl (YC S24), went from building reusable rockets in the UK…

S1E2 AI × Quantum: YC’s Bet to Turn 27 Years of Work into 2 Minutes | Brandon Severin, Conductor Quantum

Nov 04, 2025 1h 27m

Quantum computing is about to leave the lab and land on your laptop.In this episode of Deeptech Decoded, Nihal Kurth sits down with Brandon Severin, CEO & Co-Founder of Conductor Quantum (Y…

S1E1 Data Centers in Space: The Future of AI Compute | Philip Johnston, Starcloud

Oct 03, 2025 51m

Join us for an in-depth AMA and podcast conversation with Philip Johnston, Co-founder & CEO of Starcloud, the world’s first orbital data center company. 🚀We cover:1. Why orbital infrastructure is…

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