Entrepreneurship
Building companies under pressure. The psychology of making things that matter.
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.