Technology moves fast. Everyone says that. What they don’t say is how weird it gets along the way. The founders in this section are building the tools, platforms, and systems that shape how we live and work. Some of them are solving problems you didn’t know you had. Others are solving problems you’re painfully aware of.
From artificial intelligence to SaaS platforms to hardware that actually works, the range here is broad. And that’s the point. Technology isn’t one thing. It’s a thousand different people in a thousand different rooms trying to make something better than what exists today.
These interviews get past the jargon. No whitepapers. No buzzword bingo. Just founders explaining what they’re building, why they’re building it, and what they’ve learned along the way. The honest version, not the pitch deck version.
You’ll find conversations about product development, scaling challenges, hiring mistakes, and the particular brand of optimism required to ship software into a world that already has plenty of it. Whether you’re building in tech, investing in tech, or just trying to understand why your phone now has opinions, there’s something here for you.
[quote style=”boxed”]I think that looking for happiness as a goal is an utopia. You need it as a perfect state that you aspire to, but it is almost impossible to…
Meet Raul Verano and Ariel Di Stefano – Co-Founders of Agile Route
Joe Hyrkin currently serves as the President and CEO of Wordnik. He has more than 20 years of experience in senior leadership and general management, both domestically and internationally. He…
[quote style=”boxed”]I would recommend talking as often as possible with other entrepreneurs to share impressions, tips, fears and ideas. It has helped challenge my ideas, find solutions to my problems…
[quote style=”boxed”]I’m in the business of building movements. I think about how to do that every day. One of my favorite “research activities” is to go to nightclubs, concerts, parties,…
Meet Jameson Detweiler – Co-Founder and Chief Hair Officer of LaunchRock
[quote style=”boxed”]Being open source means that our customers are co-collaborators with us because they can know exactly how everything works, can improve their MakerBots and share back.[/quote] Bre Pettis…
[quote style=”boxed”]Ideas bring themselves to life. I find that the best ideas cannot be repressed; they want out until they completely consume your sleep and waking day. So never try…
[quote]From my parents: it’s not about how smart you are, it’s about how hard you work.[/quote] Aaron Harris was born and raised in New Jersey, went to Harvard for a…
[quote style=”boxed”]One of my co-founders, Cashman Andrus, said “you tell lies until they come true.” I think of it more as “imagining steps to realize a dream.” But I couldn’t…
[quote style=”boxed”]To give up your day job and keep going at it until you succeed—there’s really no other way to get your ideas off the ground.[/quote] Paul Cameron is the…
[quote style=”boxed”]It’s not nice to kiss and tell, but let’s just say I worked at a print design studio for a year building websites and web applications designed by print…
[quote style=”boxed”]Personal Pans. A Chipotle style pizza restaurant that only does small gourmet pizzas, made to order. High end toppings could cost extra.[/quote] Tom McLeod is President and Co-Founder of…
Meet Tom McLeod – President and Co-Founder of Imaginary Feet
Richard (Dick) Westergard founded Shade Tree Meteorology, LLC, located in Niskayuna, New York after retiring from government service in 2004. In 2006, Dick earned the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) highest…
Meet Richard J. Westergard – Founder of Shade Tree Meteorology