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The Room Podcast

by Claudia Laurie and Madison McIlwain

Welcome to the Room. A series interviewing your favorite tech founders and funders. Our guests were in the room where it happened and they’re sharing their stories.

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The Room Podcast hosts Ann Crady Weiss, co-founder and CEO of Hatch, a sleep technology company that has evolved from baby-focused hardware into a broader platform serving children and adults. The episode traces Weiss's path from a Silicon Valley upbringing with family ties to Intel, through early career stops at law…

Worth it if you're interested in hardware entrepreneurship, sleep technology, or how founders balance growth ambition with sustainable unit economics and customer trust.

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The Room Podcast hosts Gavriel Cohen, co-founder and CEO of NanoCo, to discuss NanoClaw, an open-source framework for building safer and more practical AI agents. Cohen explains how his experience running an AI-native marketing agency—specifically connecting an autonomous agent called "Andy" to his sales…

Worth it if you're interested in AI agents, enterprise security frameworks, or founder narratives in the AI space, but less essential if you want cutting-edge technical depth.

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The Room Podcast's season 15 premiere features Russ d'Sa, co-founder and CEO of LiveKit, a platform for building real-time voice, video, and AI agents. The episode traces d'Sa's career arc from his childhood in Canada and Silicon Valley through roles at 23andMe and Twitter, before founding LiveKit. The conversation…

Worth it if you're building voice AI products, interested in infrastructure-layer startups, or want to understand how real-time communication platforms are becoming AI infrastructure.

The Room Podcast hosts Jai Das, President and Co-Founder of Sapphire Ventures, for a deep-dive conversation about building an enterprise-focused venture capital firm. The episode traces Das's career arc from software engineer at Oracle in the 1990s through founding startups during the dot-com era, corporate venture…

Worth it if you're a founder seeking to understand enterprise VC strategy, an aspiring investor curious about firm-building, or someone interested in how AI is reshaping venture investment theses.

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