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Grit is hosted by Jubin covering Venture Capital, Go-to-Market Strategy, SaaS, and Company Culture. Notable guests include Karri Saarinen (Co-founder and CEO, Linear), Kevin Mandia (Founder, Mandiant and CEO, Armadon), and Pedro Franceschi (CEO and Co-founder, Brex). Episodes span from Mar 2025 to Apr 2026.

52 episodes1174 total claims12 topics covered

52 episodes

From Airbnb to Linear: How Karri Saarinen Redefined Product Design
Apr 20, 2026
Linear's CEO, Karri Saarinen, details a counter-intuitive company-building philosophy focused on capital efficiency, achieving 'default alive' status within two years and not spending its ~$80M in ...
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Company BuildingCapital EfficiencyFundraising StrategyVenture Capital+11 more
How Kevin Mandia Built the Most Trusted Name in Cybersecurity
Apr 6, 2026
Kevin Mandia predicts that within two years, all cyber attacks will be AI-driven, rendering human-in-the-loop security models obsolete due to the sheer speed and scale of threats. This shift necess...
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CybersecurityAI in CybersecurityAutonomous DefenseOffensive Security+11 more
AI Policy Clash: Anthropic and the U.S. Government | DoW Emil Michael
Mar 23, 2026
A senior government official, formerly of Uber, outlines the strategic imperative of integrating AI into the US military (referred to as the 'Department of War') to counter China's historic militar...
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AI GovernanceNational SecurityGeopoliticsUS-China Relations+13 more
How Sierra Is Pulling Ahead in the AI Race | Co-founder Bret Taylor
Mar 9, 2026
The AI Era of Cybercrime: How Malwarebytes Is Evolving Its Security Stack | Marcin Kleczynski
Feb 23, 2026
The Truth Behind Automation Claims in Customer Support | Cresta CEO Ping Wu
Feb 9, 2026
The Safest Dollar on the Internet | Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire
Jan 26, 2026
Why We’re Only Using 1% of AI | Glean CEO Arvind Jain
Jan 12, 2026
The Grittiest Conversations of 2025: AI, Business & Beyond
Dec 29, 2025
How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader
Dec 22, 2025
How Snap Plans to Win the AR Race | Evan Spiegel on Spectacles
Dec 15, 2025
The Pull to Build: Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit and Starting Roadrunner
Dec 8, 2025
Building Cloudflare for the Next 50 Years | Co-founder Cloudflare Michelle Zatlyn
Dec 1, 2025
She Sold Her Startup for $500 Million, Here’s Her Next Idea
Nov 24, 2025
Synthetic Data and the Future of AI | Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Nov 17, 2025
From Yext to Roam: Howard Lerman’s Second Act
Nov 10, 2025
Rebuilding Front for the AI Era | CEO Dan O’Connell
Nov 3, 2025
ElevenLabs’ Vision for Voice Interfaces | CEO Mati Staniszewski
Oct 27, 2025
95% Faster Video Production with Synthesia | Victor Riparbelli
Oct 20, 2025
From Idea To Impact: How Gamma Is Redefining Presentations | Grant Lee
Oct 13, 2025
Snowflake's Sales + Marketing Secret | Chris Degnan and Denise Persson
Oct 6, 2025
The Man Who Builds for the Decade Ahead | Founder of Google X, Waymo, and Udacity
Sep 29, 2025
How WordPress Became a Web Giant | Automattic Founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg
Sep 22, 2025
The Central Nervous System for Modern Business | Confluent CEO Jay Kreps
Sep 15, 2025
Airtable’s AI Reboot with CEO Howie Liu
Sep 8, 2025
The ‘Rockstar CEO’ Who Won’t Quit | ServiceNow Chairman & CEO Bill McDermott
Sep 1, 2025
How Dropbox Beat Big Tech in the Cloud Wars | Drew Houston, Dropbox CEO
Aug 25, 2025
Building High-Impact Sales Teams | Dan Lee and Nooks
Aug 18, 2025
Grammarly x Superhuman: The Future of Workflows | Shishir Mehrotra
Aug 11, 2025
How Notion Reimagined Productivity Tools | Ivan Zhao
Aug 4, 2025
The Travel Giant Built on Billions of Reviews | Steve Kaufer on TripAdvisor
Jul 28, 2025
The Expert Network Behind Handshake AI’s Model Training w/ Garrett Lord & Mamoon Hamid
Jul 21, 2025
How Plaid Survived on $60K Before Becoming Fintech Infrastructure | Zach Perret (Plaid)
Jul 14, 2025
Episode 250: AI Special Featuring Sierra, Harvey, Windsurf & More
Jul 7, 2025
This Startup Is Replacing Banks for Brand Credit Cards | Daragh Murphy (Imprint)
Jun 30, 2025
GitLab’s CEO on Why the Next Great Developer Might Not Write Code | Bill Staples
Jun 23, 2025
How Stord Is Redefining Speed, Cost & Trust in E-Commerce
Jun 16, 2025
Family, Focus, and 350M Users: Inside Zoom with Eric Yuan
Jun 9, 2025
Bret Taylor’s Journey Leading Salesforce, Sierra & OpenAI
Jun 2, 2025
The Road to Autonomy: Chris Urmson on Building Aurora
May 26, 2025
The M&A Playbook Behind Cisco’s Rise To $50B | John T. Chambers
May 19, 2025
How Matt Murphy Made Marvell Essential to AI and Cloud
May 12, 2025
HubSpot CEO on the Future of SaaS, AI, & Leading Through Change
May 5, 2025
From White House to Wall Street: David Rubenstein
Apr 28, 2025
No Reset Button: Reinventing Amplitude in a Post-AI World (Spenser Skates)
Apr 21, 2025
Flexport’s Third Act: Winning in a Broken Global Trade System
Apr 14, 2025
Brex 3.0: Inside the Radical Turnaround with Pedro Franceschi
Apr 6, 2025
From India to Silicon Valley: The Jay Chaudhry & Zscaler Story
Mar 31, 2025
The Unlikely Path to Building a Billion-Dollar Gov Tech Company | Zac Bookman
Mar 24, 2025
Bootstrapped to $12B: Mailchimp’s Ben Chestnut on Life After the Exit
Mar 17, 2025
Meet the Man Who’s Making Supersonic Flight Possible Again | Blake Scholl
Mar 10, 2025
Reviving NetApp: How I Scaled It To $20B | George Kurian
Mar 3, 2025

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