6 episodes
Entrepreneurship
Building companies under pressure. The psychology of making things that matter.
EP 12Makarove Hong
Losing Money Is Normal in SaaS: Makarove Hong on 40+ Products, Two-Week MVPs, and Why Decomposition Beats Execution
Makarove Hong is the founder and CEO of FlyiDEA, a Taiwanese company that ships an MVP in two weeks with no-code and AI, acts as an outsourced CTO for small and mid-sized businesses, and takes a share of the product instead of a maintenance fee. He has built more than forty products. Over half of them lost money, and he calls that the normal ecology of SaaS. A Still Human conversation about running AI inside a working day, why the bottleneck in the AI era is decomposition rather than execution, and the two weeks of night shifts at Taipei 101 that ended with him falling down the stairs.
EP 09Neil Gawande
Building AI for Human Connection: Neil Gawande on Belonging, Perception, and Five Companies by 20
Neil Gawande started five companies by 20 — from a GPS tracker for seniors to The Block, a personal AI assistant he calls 'ClaudeBot for regular people.' A Still Human conversation about building AI for human connection, belonging as a computational problem, being a third culture kid who belongs nowhere, and what we quietly lose by building too fast.
EP 07Toby Corey
Toby Corey: Zentrepreneurship, Tesla’s Fake Solar Roof, and Building Trust in AI
Toby Corey has been at the center of three tech waves — the dot-com boom (USWeb, $3B valuation), the clean energy transition (SolarCity, Tesla Energy), and now AI. He testified under oath that Tesla’s Solar Roof tiles were never connected to the grid, laid off 4,000+ people, and created Zentrepreneurship — a 21-principle framework for building companies with consciousness, taught at Stanford for 11 years. Now he’s building BrandCapsule: verifying identity in an AI world where hallucinations are the default.
EP 05Andrey Marey
Build Before You’re Ready: Andrey Marey on High-Agency, Discipline, and Refusing to Use AI With Friends
A 20-year-old serial founder on high-agency, why discipline beats motivation, and the one thing he refuses to ever let AI touch — covering NVIDIA, Vivora, FR8 Finland, and the framework that runs his career.
EP 03Krish Jajoo
We Are the Product: Krish Jajoo on Social Media, Silicon Valley Pressure, and Why Human Connection Still Wins
A Santa Clara sophomore on growing up in Silicon Valley, why social media made us the product, and where being human still beats every algorithm.
EP 01Sean Wu
Execution Culture: How a Student Founder Raised $2M and Built Robotics for the Real World
Sean Wu raised over $2M for Synphony — a robotics startup tackling the sim-to-real gap — while finishing his junior year at Santa Clara. On execution culture, the wrestling lesson behind founder loneliness, and why most students never ship.