Episodes 37
Avg. Duration 25m
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Since Sep 2022
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The Zero Prime Podcast with Pete Soderling explores the early stories of top startups as seen through the eyes of their engineer-founders. In each episode we uncover insights on what it takes to start a company as an engineer in the words of the founders themselves. From the most cutting edge infrastructure companies to the newest trends in developer tooling, we introduce you to the engineer-founder personalities behind the up and coming software startups that you can’t afford to ignore.

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Ep 37: Everyone wants bigger context windows. Linus Lee thinks that's the wrong instinct

May 08, 2026 16m

Linus Lee, Head of AI at Thrive Capital, sits down with Pete Soderling to talk context engineering, monolithic agents, and the failure mode most teams aren't measuring yet.Most teams building AI…

Ep 36: The end of the pointer era: Chang She on rebuilding data infrastructure for AI

May 07, 2026 20m

For 50 years, the pattern has been the same: store the data in the database, keep the big files somewhere else, link them with a pointer. It's powered most production systems we've ever built. Chang…

Ep 35: Vik Korrapati Is Building Vision AI the Slow Way. It's Working.

Apr 30, 2026 14m

On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, Pete Soderling sits down with Vik Korrapati, Co-founder & CTO of Moondream — an open-source vision language model that lets any developer build vision…

Ep 34: Q&A with Eno Reyes, Factory: AI agents are shipping your code. Who's checking their work?

Apr 28, 2026 19m

On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, Pete Soderling sits down with Eno Reyes, Co-founder & CTO of Factory — a software development agent platform that has run missions lasting 14 days…

S1E33 Ep 33: From Engineer to Fleet Commander: Scott Breitenother on the Future of AI Coding

Apr 24, 2026 11m

On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, tune in to our conversation with Scott Breitenother, Co-founder & CEO of Kilo Code. Scott built Kilo Code — an open source AI coding agent platform —…

E32: Lightning Strikes Twice: How Eldad Farkash Built Two Data Unicorns Back-to-Back

Sep 16, 2025 35m

On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, tune in to our conversation with Eldad Farkash, Co-founder and Chairman of Firebolt. With over two decades in data architecture, Eldad spent 14 years as CTO…

E31: From Hype to ROI: How Dwarak Rajagopal of Snowflake Scales Enterprise AI

Aug 05, 2025 24m Transcript

In this episode we talk to Dwarak Rajagopal – VP of AI Engineering and AI Research at Snowflake. Hear from Dwarak as he traces his journey from optimizing AMD processors to building AI systems at…

E30 - From Flight Sims to Authorization: How AuthZed's Jake Moshenko is Securing the AI Revolution

May 13, 2025 29m

In this episode we talk to Jake Moshenko – Co-Founder and CEO of AuthZed. Hear from Jake as he traces his journey from building flight simulators to creating cutting-edge authorization systems – not…

E29: Sudarshan Lakshminarasimhan Founding Engineer at E6data

Apr 13, 2025 28m

In this episode we talk to Sudarshan Lakshminaraseemhan – a founding engineer at e6data who cut his teeth during the formative years at global technology consultancy ThoughtWorks. Hear from Sudarshan…

E28: Classical Pianist to Observability Pioneer - Charity Majors CTO of Honeycomb

Mar 13, 2025 27m

In this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, we chat with Charity Majors, Co-Founder and CTO of Honeycomb, who traded piano keys for keyboard commands on their journey from classically trained pianist…

E27: From Unix Coder to Enginer-Founder - Rob Woollen's Journey Founding Sigma

Feb 13, 2025 30m

In this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, engineer-turned-founder Rob Woollen gives a refreshingly honest take on the founder journey. Rob shares his path from Unix coder to BEA Systems architect to…

E26: Balancing Open Source and Business with Spencer Kimball (Cockroach Labs)

Dec 05, 2024 37m

In this new episode of the 0P podcast, we welcome back Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, to discuss the evolving landscape of software licensing in the cloud era. Spencer shares…

E25 [DEEP DIVE]: How Metric Trees Are Transforming Businesses with Vijay Subramanian

Aug 05, 2024 27m

In this episode, we introduce a new format for the podcast—a deep dive into a technical topic with an engineer-founder who is an expert on the subject. For our first Deep Dive, I sit down with Vijay…

E24: Self-Taught to Startup Success: The Unconventional Path of InfluxDB's Paul Dix

Jun 07, 2024 33m

In this episode, I sit down with Paul Dix, the founder and CTO of InfluxData to explore his journey from a self-taught programmer to a leader in database systems. We discuss his role in building the…

E23: Inside the Mind of an AI Pioneer: A Conversation with Alex Mashrabov

May 01, 2024 28m

In this episode, I sit down with Alex Mashrabov, the visionary CEO of Higgsfield AI. We journey through Alex's impressive career, beginning with his time at Yandex where he witnessed the early…

E22: From BigQuery to Motherduck: The Journey of Jordan Tigani

Apr 25, 2024 21m

In this episode, I chat with Jordan Tigani, the dynamic engineer-founder of MotherDuck who previously led Google's BigQuery team and headed up product at SingleStore.  Jordan shares the inspiring…

E21: The Power of Pricing with Alvaro Morales of Orb

Apr 04, 2024 24m

In this episode, Pete speaks with Alvaro Morales, the co-founder and CEO of Orb, who shares his journey from being an engineer to becoming the founder of a flexible billing engine for modern software…

E20: Building Sustainable Businesses in the Tech Industry with Craig McLuckie

Feb 06, 2024 26m

In this enlightening episode, I have the privilege of hosting Craig McLuckie, a tech industry veteran who has made significant contributions to the cloud computing industry and is currently the…

E19: Overcoming Self-Doubt to Become a Founder with Erik Bernhardsson

Dec 28, 2023 23m

In this episode, I chat with Erik Bernhardsson, co-founder and CEO of Modal, about his journey from Spotify engineer to startup CTO to startup founder. Erik takes us back to his early days as a…

E18: Data Tool Disruption: Barry McCardel on Building Hex

Nov 27, 2023 24m

In this episode, we chat with Barry McCardel, Co-Founder and CEO of Hex, as he shares how honing his leadership skills in college paved the way for his journey to becoming a founder. Barry discusses…

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