Born In Silicon Valley
Born In Silicon Valley is a podcast that features founders’ stories. Each episode highlights the journey of success, pivots, and what entrepreneurs have learned when building from the ground up. Host Jake Aaron Villarreal interviews founders, discussing their struggles, triumphs, and their progress along the way. Listeners will gain insight into leadership and the operations of a startup. This podcast is supported by Match Relevant, a company that helps startups find top talent to grow their businesses.
Episodes
Will AI replace your job, or will someone using AI replace you? Discover how artificial intelligence is shifting from a simple productivity tool to a massive business multiplier that completely redefines the modern workforce. In this episode, Peter Guagenti reveals how AI agents are solving the biggest hiring crisis of our generation and transforming mid-market operations.
Peter Guagenti is the CEO of Everworker and a lifelong ent...
In an era where AI accelerates cyber threats, legacy security systems simply cannot keep up with modern adversaries. Discover how autonomous cyber defense is rewriting the rules of the game and giving organizations the ultimate advantage.
Join Host Jake Aaron Villarreal as he sits down with Curt Aubley, co-founder and CEO of Sevii, to explore the future of enterprise cybersecurity. Curt shares his incredible journey from military ...
Discover how Blue Moon is completely revolutionizing seed-stage venture capital by screening 20,000 startups a year using advanced AI. Join Jake Aaron Villarreal as he sits down with Ben Orthlieb to reveal the data-driven secrets behind finding the next billion-dollar unicorn.
We dive deep into the philosophy of investing in the founders behind the technology, comparing startup success to Olympic endurance. Learn why a founders re...
Discover how billion-dollar enterprises and sovereign governments use AI-driven decision intelligence to predict global economic impacts before committing capital. Yacoub Nuseibeh, CEO of NOORAI, reveals the unconventional blend of machine learning and economic theory that helps top leaders navigate uncertain markets with pinpoint accuracy.
In this episode, we dive deep into the origins of NOORAI and explore how a forecasting plat...
Imagine having the power of an entire engineering team right from your browser without writing a single line of complex code. In this episode, we dive into how everyday consumers are building autonomous systems and personal cloud servers to automate their lives.
Jake Aaron Villarreal sits down with Ben Guo, the visionary founder and president of Zo Computer, to explore the platform being called the AWS for everyday people. After s...
AI is fundamentally changing e-commerce, but most companies are deploying agents completely blind to the consumer experience. Keith Zubchevich, CEO of Conviva, reveals how tracking stateful behavior patterns is the definitive moat for surviving the agentic revolution.
In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, we dive deep into the transition from measuring streaming media giants like Disney to evaluating AI agent performance. The...
Did you know that two trillion dollars of public spending is managed through broken, outdated processes? Discover how August Chen is revolutionizing government procurement with Hazel, an AI-powered platform designed to cut through bureaucratic red tape.
In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, host Jake Aaron Villarreal sits down with the Co-founder and CEO of Hazel to explore the hidden complexities of B2G software. August shar...
Adam Nash grew LinkedIn and Wealthfront into massive tech giants, and now he is disrupting the charitable giving industry with his new app, Daffy. Discover the insider product strategies and talent branding secrets that build billion-dollar startups right here.
In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Jake Aaron Villarreal sits down with Adam Nash, the founder and CEO of Daffy. Adam shares his incredible journey from being born ...
Discover how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing material science and global supply chains in this latest episode of Born in Silicon Valley. Join us as Malur Narayan reveals the journey behind Xtrium AI and how his team is building the Bloomberg for materials to help companies make faster, smarter manufacturing decisions.
Malur shares his fascinating evolution from early machine learning research in the 1990s to becoming a ...
AI is shifting from the cloud to on-premise, and the companies that adapt will win the enterprise market. Join Jake Aaron Villarreal as he explores how Understand Tech is solving AI security and distribution challenges with an innovative hardware solution.
Naama Bak, Co-founder and CEO of Understand Tech, shares his journey from Morocco to the South of France and how he is revolutionizing the semiconductor industry. We dive deep i...
Did you know the $100 trillion B2B payments industry is still stuck in the Stone Age, relying on manual human negotiation to get invoices paid? In this episode, Duncan Barrigan, Founder and CEO of Lunos, reveals how his startup is building AI agents to completely automate the chaotic Wild West of business-to-business transactions.
Duncan shares his journey from scaling GoCardless to hundreds of millions in ARR to discovering a mas...
What if a difficult life event could inspire a technology that revolutionizes an entire industry? Join us as we explore how a frustrating legal process led to the creation of a cutting-edge platform that is saving attorneys thousands of hours.
In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Jake Aaron Villarreal sits down with Hans Guntren, co-founder and CEO of Deliberately AI. Hans shares his fascinating journey from a product design...
Discover how a first-year medical student revolutionized healthcare by inventing a non-invasive, RNA-based screening test for colorectal cancer. Join us as Dr. Erica Barnell shares the incredible journey of building Geneoscopy, raising over $112 million, and navigating the complex path to FDA approval.
In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Erica dives into the challenges and triumphs of being a first-time founder in the highl...
Want to know how top brands like NASCAR and the PGA Tour are turning massive data sets into instant marketing revenue? Join us as Chris Sell, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Growthloop, reveals how Generative AI is eliminating the need for SQL and empowering marketers to launch highly targeted campaigns in minutes.
In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, we dive deep into the evolution of customer data platforms and the rise of the Co...
Field service industries are facing a staggering shortage of 75,000 technicians over the next few years. Discover how one founder is using cutting-edge AI agents to solve this massive labor crisis and revolutionize the repair business.
Join host Jake Aaron Villarreal on Born in Silicon Valley as he sits down with Justin Tannenbaum, the mastermind behind iVantiq AI. Justin shares his incredible journey from dealing with a broken HV...
Are you still relying on gut feelings and subjective opinions to drive your content and marketing strategy? In this episode, David Henriquez, co-founder and CEO of Copley, reveals how the fastest-growing companies use AI and data-driven multivariate testing to turn content creation into a predictable science.
Join us on Born in Silicon Valley as we explore the future of marketing with an AI agent that lives directly inside Slack. ...
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way we protect our most valuable data, and autonomous agents are now outperforming human analysts in detecting critical vulnerabilities. Discover how virtual security teams are solving the global cybersecurity talent gap and stopping advanced cyber attacks before they can cripple an enterprise.
In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, we sit down with Ambuj Kumar, the Co-Founder and...
AI is not here to replace human expertise; it is here to supercharge it. Discover how merging human thinking with machine logic is solving billion-dollar enterprise problems and eliminating the AI black box forever.
In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Jake Aaron Villarreal sits down with Kim Mayyasi, the visionary founder and CEO of HMX.AI. With over 30 years of experience surviving six technology startups and two public co...
Discover how Liran Belenzon went from having just $2,000 in his bank account to raising $170 million for an AI startup that is revolutionizing drug discovery. In this episode, we dive deep into the journey of building BenchSci and how generative AI is actively solving the massive 90 percent failure rate in clinical trials.
Liran shares his incredible story of immigrating to Canada, teaming up with PhD scientists, and risking it al...
Want to know exactly what it takes to secure seed funding for your AI startup in today’s hyper-competitive market? Susan Liu, Partner at Uncork Capital, reveals the insider secrets to capturing a VC’s attention and securing the capital you need to scale.
In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, we take you behind the scenes of venture capital with one of the industry’s most insightful seed investors. Susan shar...
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