Founders in Arms
Immad Akhund and Rajat Suri
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S2E84 Before Robots Were Cool: The 33-Year Journey of iRobot's Founder, Colin Angle
Colin Angle spent 33 years building iRobot — bootstrapping for eight years without venture capital, surviving 15 failed business models, and ultimately launching Roomba in year 12. What followed was…
S2E83 Guillermo Rauch at Founders in Arms Live: Simplicity, Focus, and the Bet That Built Vercel
Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, joins Immad Akhund and Raj Suri at a live Founders in Arms event to break down the full arc of building one of the most widely used developer platforms in the…
S2E82 Building for Quality in a World of AI Slop with Linear's Karri Saarinen
Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, the product and issue tracking platform built for high-performing software teams. A designer by training — with stints at Airbnb and Coinbase —…
S2E81 WorkOS's Michael Grinich on Becoming the Enterprise Layer for AI's Biggest Companies
Michael Grinich is the co-founder and CEO of WorkOS, the enterprise authentication and identity infrastructure used by Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, xAI, and hundreds of fast-growing companies. Before…
S2E80 AI Winners, IPO Hype, and the Future of Engineering Teams With Raj and Immad
In this candid one-on-one episode, Immad and Raj catch up on what's actually happening in tech right now — the AI narratives shifting under everyone's feet, which companies they'd bet on, and how…
S2E79 The Future of Investing: Data, Signals, and Retail Power
George Kailas is the CEO of Prospero AI, a platform helping retail investors make smarter decisions using simplified market signals and data-driven insights.In this episode, George joins Immad and…
S2E78 Founding Teams: What Works, What Doesn’t — with Andy Chen
Andy Chen is the co-founder of Outcast Ventures, an early-stage fund focused on rethinking how founding teams come together. Prior to Outcast, he worked across recruiting and venture capital,…
S2E77 The Long Game: David Rusenko on Building Weebly, Surviving Acquisitions, and Investing in Climate
David Rusenko is the founder and CEO of Leap Forward Ventures, a pre-seed and seed climate tech fund investing in energy, deep tech, and the reinvention of industrial processes. Before that, he spent…
S2E76 The State of Robotics in 2026: Ryan Gariépy on Hype, Reality, and Long-Term Thinking
This week, we're bringing back one of our most loved episodes on Founders in Arms. Ryan Gariépy is the co-founder and former CTO of Clearpath Robotics and Otto Motors, acquired by Rockwell Automation…
S2E75 Thumbtack’s Marco Zappacosta on AI, Trust, and the Future of Marketplaces
Marco Zapacosta is the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, the home services marketplace connecting homeowners with local pros for everything from plumbing to renovation. Started three weeks before…
S2E74 What AI Will Actually Do to the Economy with Noah Smith
Noah Smith is a writer and Substack blogger behind Noahpinion, known for his contrarian, data-grounded takes on economics, technology, and geopolitics.What you'll learn:Why the viral Citrini "2028…
S2E73 How AI Agents Will Reshape the Web with Parag Agrawal
We're bringing back one of our most loved episode on Founders in Arms. Parag Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Parallel, building infrastructure for the agentic web. Previously CEO of Twitter,…
S2E72 Building a Services Business in a Tech World with Honey Homes' Vishwas Prabhakara
Vishwas Prabhakara is the co-founder and CEO of Honey Homes, a subscription home maintenance service that's reimagining how Americans care for their homes. After spending four years at Yelp running…
S2E71 Instacart's Max Mullen on Building Instacart and the Future of AI: First Live Founders in Arms
What does it take to build a company in a category where everyone says the idea is dead? In this special live recording from Mercury's San Francisco office, Immad Akhund and Raj Suri sit down with…
S2E70 Inside the 2026 Tech Pullback: SaaS, AI, and Survival Strategies
SaaS companies are down dramatically—Figma is 77% off its peak. In this candid conversation, Immad Akhund (CEO of Mercury) and Raj Suri (co-founder of Lima and Tribe) unpack what's really happening…
S2E69 How Matic Built an Intelligent Home Robot (While Others Failed) With Mehul Nariyawala
Mehul Nariyawala is the co-founder and President of Matic Robotics, a home robotics company building what he calls “robotics 2.0” — intelligent, vision-first robots designed to actually work in real…
S2E68 Building a Global Payments Platform with Airwallex's Jack Zhang
Jack Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform valued at $5.5 billion. Founded in Melbourne, Airwallex processes billions in cross-border transactions and…
S2E67 The State of Robotics in 2026: Ryan Gariepy on Hype, Reality, and Long-Term Thinking
Ryan Gariepy is the co-founder and former CTO of Clearpath Robotics and Otto Motors, acquired by Rockwell Automation for $600M+ in 2023. He bootstrapped the company for five years with only $300K in…
S2E66 AGI, Alignment, and the Future of AI Power With Emmett Shear
Emmett Shear is the founder and CEO of Softmax, an alignment research company, and previously co-founded and led Twitch as CEO. He was also a Y Combinator partner and briefly served as interim CEO of…
S2E65 The Year AI Got Practical: 2025 Tech Trends with Immad and Raj
Immad Akhund and Raj Suri reunite for a one-on-one conversation covering the biggest tech shifts of 2025, from Mercury's public launch of Personal Banking to the quieting of AGI doom discussions.…
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