by Firas Sozan | May 26, 2026 | Podcast
Coding used to be the bottleneck for startups. In the age of agentic AI, that’s no longer true. MVPs that once took teams months can now be built in hours, which means the real advantage for early-stage founders has shifted from raw coding output to judgment,...
by Firas Sozan | Apr 14, 2026 | Podcast
Mike Kropp has built products at Microsoft and AWS that scaled to millions of users. Now he’s building AI for highly regulated industries at Iridius – and he says most AI startups won’t survive the coming extinction event. What you’ll learn:-...
by Firas Sozan | Mar 24, 2026 | Podcast
Most people think venture capital and private equity are just different stages of investing. They’re not – they operate on completely different principles of value creation. Why this matters: Understanding how capital actually works is critical if...
by Firas Sozan | Nov 11, 2025 | Podcast
In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Zakir Durumeric, Co-founder and CEO of Censys, shares how he went from academic research at the University of Michigan to building one of the world’s leading internet security companies. He recounts the creation of ZMAP, a...
by Firas Sozan | Nov 4, 2025 | Podcast
In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Rick Caccia, CEO and Co-Founder of Witness AI, unpacks the fast-emerging world of AI security – and why traditional defense models no longer work. Drawing on decades at Palo Alto Networks, Google, and Symantec, Rick...
