Ep 272- 645 Ventures Managing Partner Nnamdi Okike
In this episode, Nnamdi Okike, co‑founder and managing partner of 645 Ventures, discusses the current AI hype cycle and its implications for fintech startups, emphasizing the need to differentiate genuine innovation from hype. He offers practical advice for fintech founders on fundraising strategies, highlighting the importance of clear unit economics, traction, and aligning with investors who understand the sector. Okike also shares his perspective on emerging trends in fintech, such as embedded finance and regulatory technology, and how venture firms can spot and back the next wave of impactful companies.
SANS Stormcast Thursday, January 8th, 2026: HTML QR Code Phishing; N8n Vulnerability; Powerbank Feature Creep
The episode highlights three emerging security concerns: attackers are embedding QR codes as HTML tables to bypass email filters and lure victims to mobile phishing sites; multiple critical vulnerabilities in the automation platform n8n, including an unauthenticated remote code execution...
Ep. 202: How Performance-First B2B Marketing Drives Better Results
In this episode, Keith Turco, CEO of Madison Logic, explains how a performance‑first, data‑driven approach helps B2B marketers thrive amid budget cuts and rapid AI adoption. He stresses the importance of full‑funnel strategies that combine AI‑powered personalization, multi‑format channels like...
Congress Rejects Proposals for Cutting NASA’s Budget for the Fiscal Year.
The episode reviews Congress's decision to reject the Trump administration's proposed deep cuts to NASA, instead approving a $24.4 billion budget for FY2026, and highlights recent industry milestones such as NASA awarding ARES Technical Services the Wallops Flight Facility launch‑range contract...
#485 - Amazon PPC Extreme Makeover Workshop
Bradley and Amazon PPC specialist Vincenzo Toscano audit Helium 10's Project X ad account, revealing that its testing‑focused setup leaves many modern levers untapped. They walk through rule‑based bid adjustments, minimum click thresholds, and disciplined keyword harvesting, emphasizing tight campaigns...
An Effort to Detect and Treat Alzheimer’s at Its Earliest Stages
In this episode, Daniel Levine interviews Valerie Daggett, founder and CEO of AltPep, about the company's strategy to detect and treat Alzheimer's disease at its earliest stage by targeting toxic α‑sheet oligomers with synthetic peptide therapeutics and companion diagnostics. Daggett...
222 - GNSS Resilience, Interoperability and Trust
In this episode, Lisa Dyer, Executive Director of the GPS Alliance, explains how growing geopolitical tensions and reliance on precise timing are driving the need for GNSS resilience, interoperability, and innovation across multiple satellite constellations. She highlights that robust, cross‑compatible...
How He Scaled a Niche SaaS to $14M/Year With No Funding
Scott Davis, President and Co‑Founder of Volie, explains how his bootstrapped BDC communication SaaS grew from four dealership clients in 2017 to $14 million in annual revenue, serving 2,000 rooftops across 300 store groups while keeping a 16% profit margin and...
SaaStr 836: The Step-By-Step Playbook for Building AI-Powered GTM Teams with Personio's CRO
In this episode, Personio CRO Philip Lacor outlines a step‑by‑step playbook for embedding AI into go‑to‑market teams, highlighting five core lessons such as top‑down and bottom‑up adoption, cross‑functional collaboration, prioritization frameworks, fostering an AI culture, and pairing the right tech...
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, January 7th, 2026: Tailsnitch Review; D-Link DSL EoL Vuln; TOTOLINK Unpatched Vuln
The episode reviews TailSnitch, an open‑source Go tool that audits TailScale VPN configurations, highlighting its ease of use, sensible severity ratings, and optional auto‑fix feature. It then warns about a actively‑exploited command‑injection flaw in legacy D‑Link DSL modems via an...
NASA Launches an Infrastructure Modernization Effort.
The episode discusses NASA’s sweeping infrastructure modernization, including the demolition of the T‑Tower test facility at Marshall and the closure of the Goddard library, both reflecting broader shifts in agency priorities. It highlights NASA’s selection of industry proposals to advance...
How the World Got Owned Episode 1: The 1980s
In Episode 1, hosts Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack explore the formative era of 1980s hacking, recounting life on ARPANET, the rise of the 414s, the infamous Morris Worm, and the parallel hunt for German hackers alongside Clifford Stoll’s Cuckoo’s...
Episode 131: Unraveling the Mysteries of Entanglement
In this episode, Patrick and Ciprian unpack quantum entanglement, covering its fundamental role in quantum computing and communication and the persistent challenges of measuring and interpreting entangled states. They discuss recent research that reshapes our understanding of measurement in the...
How ETFs Inform the Next Phase of Tokenized Finance with Janus Henderson
In this episode, Nick Cherney, Head of Innovation at Janus Henderson, discusses how ETFs serve as a blueprint for the next wave of tokenized finance, highlighting the practical benefits of on-chain infrastructure for both DeFi-native demand and traditional investment products....
IQT The Quantum Dragon Podcast Episode 78 – “Open a Secure Channel.”
In this episode, Ryan Lafler of Quantum Corridor and Terry Cronin of Toshiba discuss their landmark demonstration of cross‑state Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) over a live commercial metro fiber network, highlighting its significance for scaling secure communications across state lines....
Inside the $41B AI Cloud Challenging Big Tech | CoreWeave SVP
In this episode, CoreWeave SVP discusses how the company has built a $41 billion AI cloud infrastructure that rivals the big tech giants, focusing on its strategy of offering flexible, high‑performance GPU compute and specialized AI services for enterprises. He explains...
How to Show up in AI Results in 2026 with Elizaveta Shutova (NEWBIE)
Elizaveta Shutova explains that in 2026 SEO must target both traditional rankings and AI-generated search snippets, as AI overviews now appear in over 23% of queries and pull data from a wide range of sources like Reddit, Wikipedia, and YouTube....
High-Tech, Low-Touch Failure: How Banks Can Fix the Experience Gap
The episode examines why banks are falling short in delivering seamless, human‑centric experiences despite heavy tech investment, highlighting the "experience gap" between high‑tech tools and low‑touch service. It underscores the need for banks to adopt a customer‑first mindset, leverage generative...
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Poisoned at the Source. [OMITB]
In this episode, Selena Larson, Keith Mularski, and Dave Bittner examine supply‑chain attacks, focusing on a large‑scale Android malware campaign that embeds malicious code in firmware and reseller‑installed system images before devices reach consumers. They compare this threat to other...
Data Solutions for Tailoring Agronomic Support to Meet Regional Needs - with Tami Craig Schilling of Bayer Crop Science
In this episode, Matthew DeMello interviews Tami Craig Schilling, Bayer Crop Science’s VP of Agronomic Digital Innovation, about how generative AI is used to deliver hyper‑local agronomic recommendations throughout the planting cycle. They discuss tools like the zip‑code‑based ELI platform...
The Strangest AI Announced at CES 2026
The episode spotlights the most outlandish tech revealed at CES 2026, dissecting quirky AI-driven gadgets and sci‑fi‑like innovations that captured global attention. The host explains why each invention is unusual, highlighting their novel functionalities, market hype, and potential impact on...
Indoor Air
The episode explores how winter’s closed windows lead to stale indoor air and introduces a NASA spinoff technology that identifies houseplants capable of improving air quality. Listeners learn which specific plants are most effective at filtering pollutants and how to...
Stop Competing on Features: Reimagine Your Entire Product Category Instead
In this episode, Dr. Julie Chung explains how T3 transformed hair tools from mere appliances into luxury beauty products by redefining their category. She details the strategic shifts in product placement, design aesthetics, messaging, and retail approach that created a...
Groq Leadership, Tech to Nvidia for $20 Billion
The episode explains Nvidia's $20 billion acquisition of Groq, focusing on how Groq's inference leadership and its LPU chiplet architecture dramatically boost memory bandwidth and lower latency for large language model serving. It highlights the strategic value of Groq's technology and...
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, January 6th, 2026: IPKVM Risks; Tailsnitch; Net-SNMP Vuln;
The episode highlights three emerging security concerns: the growing use of inexpensive IP KVM devices that often expose out‑of‑band access to the internet, the release of TailSnitch—a tool that audits TailScale configurations for misconfigurations, and a critical buffer‑overflow vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in...
ESA Ended 2025 with a Data Breach.
The episode covers three major space industry developments: the European Space Agency’s confirmed data breach involving roughly 200 GB of stolen information, L3Harris’s sale of a majority stake in its Space Propulsion and Power Systems unit to AE Industrial Partners, and...
EP257 Beyond the 'Kaboom': What Actually Breaks When OT Meets the Cloud?
In this episode, Chris Sistrunk explains that the biggest OT risks now stem from routine IT‑style attacks—often “living‑off‑the‑land” exploits on engineering workstations—rather than dramatic malware like Stuxnet, as organizations connect industrial systems to the cloud for telemetry and AI. He...
Jonathan Reiner, Director of Product Solutions, Quantum Machines
In this episode, Jonathan Reiner traces his journey from condensed‑matter physics to leading Product Solutions at Quantum Machines, where he explains how quantum‑control complexity is driving demand for higher fidelity, low‑latency compute, and automated calibration. He details QM’s key offerings—QUA...
SANS Stormcast Monday, January 5th, 2026: MongoBleed/React2Shell Recap; Crypto Scams; DNS Stats; Old Fortinet Vulns
The episode recaps recent security news, highlighting ongoing activity of the React2Shell exploit and the need to patch and isolate MongoDB servers against the MongoBleed vulnerability. It warns about classic advance‑fee cryptocurrency scams promising large payouts, and shares a practical...
Work in the Age of Infinite Agents
The episode examines how AI agents, rather than just speeding up tasks, expand the scale of knowledge work, enabling organizations to operate beyond human rhythms, meetings, and bottlenecks. Drawing on essays by Ivan Zhao and Aaron Levie, the hosts argue...
Claude Launches Agent Plugin for Chrome—Risk Warning
The episode examines Anthropic's new Claude Agent plugin for Chrome, highlighting its broad tab manipulation and storage access capabilities that enable powerful agentic browsing but also introduce significant security risks. The host explains how the plugin's design allows stealthy data...
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[NeurIPS Best Paper] 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL — Kevin Wang Et Al, Princeton
The episode explores the NeurIPS Best Paper on RL1000, where Kevin Wang and his Princeton team demonstrated that scaling reinforcement learning networks to 1,000 layers using a self‑supervised, contrastive objective unlocks dramatic performance gains. They explain why traditional value‑based RL...
7MS #708: Tales of Pentest Fail – Part 6
In this episode, the host recounts a recent web application penetration test that went disastrously wrong, highlighting the missteps and unexpected challenges that can arise during a pentest. The story underscores the importance of thorough planning, clear communication with clients,...
Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
The episode outlines the team’s 2026 tech resolutions while fielding listener questions, covering practical AI usage tips, the limits of AI in scientific breakthroughs, and major industry updates such as Google’s Gemini 3 launch, OpenAI’s platform ambitions, and Roblox’s new AI‑driven...
Protein Bar Founder Thrives in a Crowded Field (Encore)
Will Nitze, founder and CEO of IQBAR, explains how his plant‑based, low‑sugar protein bar succeeded by targeting uncompetitive niches and clear labeling, launching via a $75,000 Kickstarter seven years ago. He expands on scaling the business, adding complementary products like...
Flight and the Future with Astronaut Wendy Lawrence.
In this episode, retired Navy captain and former NASA astronaut Wendy Lawrence recounts her journey from watching Apollo 11 as a child to flying four Space Shuttle missions, including the historic STS‑114 return‑to‑flight after Columbia. She highlights the rigorous training...
499: The Event ROI Reality Check
The episode explores how B2B marketers can make events a strategic, ROI‑driven investment by selecting the right mix, designing memorable experiences, and aligning sales and marketing. Charles Groome explains a three‑bucket framework and the value of smaller listening events, Jamie...
How Is GovSat Supporting Secure Connectivity for European Governments?
In this episode, Tamara Bond‑Williams interviews Josef Nemec, Technical Director of GovSat, about the GovSat‑1 satellite’s role in delivering secure, non‑preemptible X‑band and military Ka‑band communications for European governments and NATO allies across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Nemec...
Why BofA Is Betting on Branches
In this episode, Jim Marous explores why Bank of America is reinvesting in its physical branch network, arguing that branches remain vital for building trust, delivering complex services, and gathering real‑time customer insights in an increasingly digital world. He highlights...
Hot Sauce and Hot Takes: An Only Malware in the Building Special.
In this special in‑studio episode, hosts Selena Larson, Dave Bittner, and former FBI cybercrime investigator Keith Mularski tackle a hot‑wings challenge while fielding personal and career‑focused questions, offering listeners a candid look at their backgrounds and the moments that shaped...
Inside Ergatta’s Game-Driven Model and Two-Year Profit Streak
In this episode, Tom Aulet discusses how he transformed Ergatta into a profitable, game‑driven fitness brand, leveraging $35 million in funding to develop immersive, gamified workouts while maintaining lean operations. He explains the company’s cost‑effective growth strategies, the role of data‑backed...
What Makes a Great Crypto Wallet? - Jamie Elkaleh | ATC #592
In this episode, Stephen Sargeant interviews Jamie Elkaleh, CMO of Bitget Wallet, to explore what defines a great crypto wallet, covering technical metrics like TVL, investor protection, and compliance across jurisdictions. Jamie shares his transition from sports analytics to Web3...
AI New Year’s: The 10-Week AI Resolution
The episode presents a hands‑on 10‑week AI fluency program, with each weekend dedicated to a bite‑sized project such as model mapping, data analysis, visual reasoning, automation, context engineering, and building a functional AI‑powered app. It emphasizes practical habit formation and...
#483 - TikTok Shop Advertising & Promotion Guide
In this episode, host Bradley Sutton and TikTok Shop specialist Tamara Žeravljev break down how to build a sustainable TikTok Shop presence in 2026, emphasizing brand‑building over quick virality. They cover the essential first steps—optimizing your profile, testing content hooks,...
VC's AI Predictions for 2026
The episode examines why venture capitalists are forecasting 2026 as the breakthrough year for enterprise AI adoption, contrasting these hype cycles with current data that shows many firms still struggle to achieve ROI from AI projects. It highlights key barriers...
Celebrating Midnight
Astronauts on the International Space Station will pass midnight sixteen times on New Year’s Eve.
From $500K to $1.5M ARR: Bootstrapping VR SaaS for Trade Skills
In this episode Sabari Nair, CEO of Skillveri, details how his VR‑based vocational training platform grew from $500K to $1.5M ARR by bundling a $4K‑per‑year SaaS subscription with optional hardware add‑ons and leveraging a reseller‑led go‑to‑market strategy. He explains the...
The IACR Can't Decrypt with Matt Bernhard
The episode examines the IACR's botched Helios election, where a key management failure forced the organization to discard the vote and schedule a new election. Guest Matt Bernhard, an expert in secure voting systems, explains how Helios' homomorphic encryption works,...
E198: Podcast with Cures & Capital Part 1
Dr. Andre Bates, founder and CEO of Eularis, explains how AI has progressed from early digitisation to the generative AI era and why ChatGPT marked a turning point for pharma executives. She identifies common pitfalls that keep organisations stuck in...
[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI O3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
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