Orbit - An Hg software leadership podcast

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Since Jul 2021

Latest Episode Jun 2026

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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 with you. Join us for conversation with the experts, leaders and founders in our orbit.

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Recent Episodes

The rogue agent problem: A conversation with Gil Elbaz at the Hg Digital Summit

Jun 10, 2026 34m

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 control plane for the agentic era. Gil, formerly in the CTO…

Patrick Debois on why context is the new code: A conversation from the Hg Digital Summit

May 28, 2026 30m

The inventor of DevOps explains why AI needs engineering rigour and human collaboration. The engineer who coined "DevOps" in 2009 thinks he is watching the same pattern play out again, only faster.…

Jonathan Sanders, CEO of Light: fear is not a strategy

May 15, 2026 54m

When Jonathan Sanders pitched Light to investors, the reaction was unanimous: rebuilding ERP would take a decade and a hundred million dollars. He did it in two years, with AI at the core. Today…

Evan Goldberg of NetSuite: 3 decades and 2 platform shifts

Apr 23, 2026 31m

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 pioneered cloud computing before SaaS existed, sold to Oracle…

Marjorie Janiewicz of Mistral AI: flipping the adoption curve - why SaaS with data can win in an AI world

Mar 17, 2026 51m

Marjorie Janiewicz has sold enterprise software through every platform shift for three decades: Oracle, MySQL, SAP, MongoDB, HackerOne. Now as Chief Revenue Officer at Mistral AI, she's taking a…

The race for alpha: Varun Anand of Clay on inventing a new role and why GTM needs a new AI strategy

Mar 03, 2026 22m

Most B2B software founders don't spend four years working on presidential campaigns. Varun Anand did - on Hillary Clinton's 2016 run - and he argues that startups and political campaigns share the…

Everything, everywhere, but not all at once: Hg’s Matthew Brockman on what's really happening in software right now

Feb 20, 2026 38m

In this rare internal conversation, Matthew Brockman, Hg's Chief Investment Officer, offers an insider's view on what's actually working versus what's still hype. Far beyond speculation, this is…

A certain level of chaos is healthy: Franz Faerber on fighting bureaucracy and the importance of deep domain knowledge in AI

Feb 17, 2026 52m

Franz Faerber, co-founder and CEO of Everest Systems and former architect of SAP HANA, challenges Sam Altman's vision of throwaway software, arguing humans crave stability, while making the case for…

The corporate immune system: Google Cloud's Daniël Rood on building Europe's first AI team

Jan 16, 2026 27m

Daniël Rood, director of AI go-to-market at Google Cloud, offers a masterclass in navigating transformation from inside a tech giant. Building Google's first European AI team when gen AI was still "a…

Skin in the game: Professor Neil Lawrence on vulnerability, accountability and why the next generation will thrive.

Dec 18, 2025 50m

From oil rigs to Amazon's machine learning division and now Cambridge's DeepMind chair, Professor Neil Lawrence brings a refreshingly grounded perspective to AI. Lawrence introduces his "atomic…

The 3 speed problem: Jason Richards speaks to Oji Udezue on CPO leadership in the age of unlimited engineering

Dec 09, 2025 29m

Product Mind Principal Oji Udezue - veteran of Microsoft, Twitter, Atlassian, Calendly, and Typeform - offers an energising vision of product leadership in the AI era. Drawing from 25 years building…

Fevered determination: Building Zalos from zero to enterprise in 5 weeks. Hg's Jonathan Wulkan speaks to founder, William Fairbairn

Nov 25, 2025 38m

In this illuminating conversation from the frontier of AI-native startups, William Fairbairn, founder of Zalos.ai and part of Y Combinator's class of 2025, reveals what it takes to build at Silicon…

Trust, Velocity, and Building the Answer Engine: Dmitry Shevelenko of Perplexity speaks to Farouk Hussein

Oct 28, 2025 41m

In this fascinating conversation, Perplexity's Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko reveals how a company barely three years old is mounting the first credible challenge to Google's search…

The long road to the last mile : Nic Humphries and Matthew Brockman reflect on 25 years of Hg

Sep 24, 2025 36m

In this candid anniversary conversation, Hg's leadership team of Matthew Brockman and Nic Humphries reflects on 25 years of building one of Europe's most focused software investors. Humphries shares…

AI, Control Points, and the Next Wave of Vertical SaaS with Tidemark Capital founder, Dave Yuan

Jun 05, 2025 47m

In this compelling conversation, Tidemark Capital founder Dave Yuan shares his journey from Bain consultant to building one of the most thoughtful voices in vertical SaaS investing. Yuan reveals his…

Refounding in the face of AI with Des Traynor of Intercom

May 21, 2025 30m

Orbit 48 sees Dr Amr Ellabban sit down with Des Traynor, co-founder and CSO of Intercom, to explore how AI requires revolutionary thinking from businesses. Des shares the pivotal moment when ChatGPT…

A golden age of software engineering with Russell Kaplan, Founding President of Cognition

Apr 17, 2025 39m

What happens when AI can code? In this illuminating conversation with Cognition's Founding President Russell Kaplan, we explore how AI is fundamentally transforming the landscape of software…

Quick and dirty prototypes with Andrew Ng

Mar 18, 2025 29m

In this episode of Orbit, Matthew Brockman, Managing Partner at Hg, sits down with renowned AI pioneer Andrew Ng to explore the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Andrew, who has led ground-breaking…

A glimpse of the next generation: Zoe Zhao and Annalise Dragic, co-founders of Azlin Software

Jan 21, 2025 29m

As AI beds into the business world, a new breed of company is being born where the latest technology is built-in. Helping them to grow is an equally new breed of investor. In the first Orbit of…

Incubation, experimentation and implementation: the real business case for AI today

Dec 12, 2024 53m

In our latest episode Hg’s Managing Partner, Matthew Brockman, presses two CEOs and an AI insider on how a business leader can usefully integrate generative AI into their business workflows. David…

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