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Grit is hosted by Joubin covering Venture Capital, Go-to-Market Strategy, SaaS, and Company Culture. Notable guests include Aman Narang (Co-founder and CEO, Toast), Trae Stephens (Co-founder & Chairman, Anduril; Partner, Founders Fund), Peter Zaffino (Chairman and CEO, AIG), and Karri Saarinen (Co-founder and CEO, Linear). Episodes span from Mar 2025 to Jun 2026.

55episodes
1,263total claims
12topics covered
55 episodes
What It Takes to Build Software for 171,000+ Restaurants
Jun 1, 2026 · WITH Aman Narang

Toast's journey began with a failed consumer mobile payment app, pivoting to a full, cloud-based restaurant platform after discovering the core problem was outdated, on-premise POS systems. The com...

Vertical SaaSRestaurant TechFinTechPayments+11 more
What It Takes to Build a Generational Company
May 18, 2026 · WITH Trae Stephens

Founders Fund's core investment thesis, particularly at the early stage, is to invest with high conviction in exceptional founders, prioritizing the person over the market. The geopolitical landsca...

Venture CapitalFounders FundAndurilPalantir+11 more
How AIG Is Reinventing Insurance With AI
May 4, 2026 · WITH Peter Zaffino

Peter Zaffino discusses leading one of the insurance industry's most significant corporate turnarounds at AIG, reversing a decade of underwriting losses in its core general insurance business that ...

AIGPeter ZaffinoCorporate TurnaroundInsurance+13 more
From Airbnb to Linear: How Karri Saarinen Redefined Product Design
Apr 20, 2026
How Kevin Mandia Built the Most Trusted Name in Cybersecurity
Apr 6, 2026
AI Policy Clash: Anthropic and the U.S. Government
Mar 23, 2026
How Sierra Is Pulling Ahead in the AI Race
Mar 9, 2026
The AI Era of Cybercrime: How Malwarebytes Is Evolving Its Security Stack
Feb 23, 2026
The Truth Behind Automation Claims in Customer Support
Feb 9, 2026
The Safest Dollar on the Internet
Jan 26, 2026
Why We’re Only Using 1% of AI
Jan 12, 2026
The Grittiest Conversations of 2025: AI, Business & Beyond
Dec 29, 2025
How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides
Dec 22, 2025
How Snap Plans to Win the AR Race
Dec 15, 2025
The Pull to Build: Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit and Starting Roadrunner
Dec 8, 2025
Building Cloudflare for the Next 50 Years
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
Nov 17, 2025
From Yext to Roam: Howard Lerman’s Second Act
Nov 10, 2025
Rebuilding Front for the AI Era
Nov 3, 2025
ElevenLabs’ Vision for Voice Interfaces
Oct 27, 2025
95% Faster Video Production with Synthesia
Oct 20, 2025
From Idea To Impact: How Gamma Is Redefining Presentations
Oct 13, 2025
Snowflake's Sales + Marketing Secret
Oct 6, 2025
The Man Who Builds for the Decade Ahead
Sep 29, 2025
How WordPress Became a Web Giant
Sep 22, 2025
The Central Nervous System for Modern Business
Sep 15, 2025
Airtable’s AI Reboot with CEO Howie Liu
Sep 8, 2025
The ‘Rockstar CEO’ Who Won’t Quit
Sep 1, 2025
How Dropbox Beat Big Tech in the Cloud Wars
Aug 25, 2025
Building High-Impact Sales Teams
Aug 18, 2025
Grammarly x Superhuman: The Future of Workflows
Aug 11, 2025
How Notion Reimagined Productivity Tools
Aug 4, 2025
The Travel Giant Built on Billions of Reviews
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
Jul 14, 2025
Episode 250: AI Special Featuring Sierra, Harvey, Windsurf & More
Jul 7, 2025
This Startup Is Replacing Banks for Brand Credit Cards
Jun 30, 2025
GitLab’s CEO on Why the Next Great Developer Might Not Write Code
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
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
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
Mar 10, 2025
Reviving NetApp: How I Scaled It To $20B
Mar 3, 2025

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