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S1E42 How HashiCorp Went from Open Source to IPO and Beyond
In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace HashiCorp's journey from its open-source roots with Vagrant and Terraform to its 2021 IPO and the strategic pivot toward a multi-product cloud platform. They…
S1E41 How Linear Applies Engineering Principles to Issue Tracking
Episode 41 dives into Linear, the issue-tracking startup that has won over elite engineering teams by applying software design thinking to project management. Lucas and Luna explore how Linear's…
S1E40 How Vanta Automated SOC 2 Compliance for Thousands of Startups
Episode 40 of Tech Startups with Fexingo examines how Vanta turned the painful SOC 2 audit process into a software product. Lucas and Luna trace Vanta's founding story: CTO Christina Cacioppo built…
S1E39 How Datadog Monitors the Modern Cloud Stack
Lucas and Luna dive into how Datadog became the de facto monitoring platform for cloud-native infrastructure, tracking everything from server logs to application performance. This episode focuses on…
S1E38 How Vercel Made the Frontend Cloud Native
Vercel started as a Jamstack deployment tool and evolved into a $3.25 billion platform that's reshaping how frontend developers build and ship software. This episode unpacks Vercel's core innovation:…
S1E37 How Retool Built an Internal Tools Unicorn
Episode 37 of Tech Startups with Fexingo: Founders, Funding, and Software Companies Explained. Lucas and Luna dive into Retool, the company that turned a developer pain point—building internal…
S1E36 How Zapier Built an Integration Empire Without Writing Code
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how Zapier turned a simple no-code automation idea into a $5 billion business powering over 6,000 integrations. They break down Wade Foster's founding story,…
S1E35 How GitLab Built a Remote-Only Public Company
Episode 35 of Tech Startups with Fexingo explores how GitLab became the first fully remote company to go public. Lucas and Luna unpack the unique handbook-first culture, the reasons Sid Sijbrandij…
S1E34 How Amplitude Took Product Analytics Beyond Pageviews
Episode 34 of Tech Startups with Fexingo dives into Amplitude, the product analytics platform that helped companies move from counting clicks to understanding user behavior. Lucas and Luna unpack how…
S1E33 How HashiCorp Terraform Made Infrastructure Code
This episode dives into how HashiCorp's Terraform turned infrastructure provisioning into declarative code, creating a category-defining tool that went from open-source hobby project to critical…
S1E32 How Palantir Makes Its Money Beyond Government Contracts
Episode 32 of Tech Startups with Fexingo digs into Palantir's business model. Lucas and Luna explore how the data analytics company transitioned from a secretive government contractor to a publicly…
S1E31 How Canva Disrupted Design With a Freemium Flywheel and No Desktop App
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into Canva's improbable rise from a Sydney startup to a $40 billion design platform — without ever building a native desktop app. They explore the freemium…
S1E30 How Sourcegraph Built a Developer Search Engine
Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Sourcegraph, a startup that built a universal code search engine for developers. They explore how CEO Quinn Slack convinced venture capitalists that code search…
S1E29 How Supabase Built an Open Source Firebase Alternative
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Supabase, the open source backend-as-a-service startup that has become the go-to Firebase alternative for developers. They explore how founders…
S1E28 How Ray Dalio Rebuilt Bridgewater With Radical Transparency
Lucas and Luna dive into Ray Dalio's radical transparency system at Bridgewater Associates — the culture of recording every meeting, the 'dot collector' app for real-time feedback, and how Dalio…
S1E27 How Supabase Built an Open Source Firebase Alternative
Lucas and Luna break down the rise of Supabase, the open source backend-as-a-service platform that took on Firebase and won a passionate developer following. They explore how co-founders Paul…
S1E26 How Plaid Became the Middleware for Modern Fintech
Episode 26 of Tech Startups with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna unpack Plaid's journey from a failed Y Combinator pivot to the invisible infrastructure powering Venmo, Robinhood, and thousands of fintech…
S1E25 How 37signals Brought Software Development Back to Basics
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how 37signals—the company behind Basecamp and HEY—deliberately rejected Silicon Valley scale culture and built a profitable software business with fewer than…
S1E24 How Figma Won Design Collaboration Without a Desktop App
Episode 24 of Tech Startups with Fexingo explores how Figma disrupted Adobe's decades-long dominance in design software by building a browser-based collaboration tool. Lucas and Luna break down the…
S1E23 How Notion Displaced Confluence With a Flexitarian Database
In this episode of Tech Startups with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna examine how Notion went from a niche note-taking app to a $10 billion productivity platform by positioning itself as a 'flexitarian…
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