This Much I Know - The Seedcamp Podcast

Jeff Stewart, founder of GPO Fund and author of Global IPO, joins Carlos to unpack why the best founders plan their exit before they incorporate, and why the best founders shouldn't wait to go public.

Metaview started in 2018 on a simple bet: hiring decisions are some of the most consequential calls a company makes, yet no one captures the data behind them. Cofounder Shahriar joins Carlos to talk through how Metaview's early bet was supercharged by the arrival of LLMs, their "Public Unless Private" culture borrowed from Palantir and Uber, and Fillmore, Metaview's new autonomous hiring coworker.

Your AI agent just deleted a database. Who gets fired? There's no good answer yet - and that's a huge problem. Companies are handing AI agents sweeping access to their systems, often more than they'd give a new hire, without knowing who's accountable when something goes wrong. In our latest podcast episode, Carlos Eduardo Espinal MBE sits down with Johannes Keienburg, Cofounder of Cakewalk, and David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet: two founders building solutions to this exact problem. They explore why AI agents don't need to "go rogue" to cause serious damage, the "zombie identity" problem of agents that outlive the employees who created them, and why the security tools built to stop hackers simply don't work when it comes to agents.

Eric Ries's The Lean Startup method is undeniably one of the most influential writings published on entrepreneurship in the last decade. It gave a whole generation of founders a new way to build - and made 'pivot' a household word. Now he's tackling an even harder subject: why do so many great companies eventually betray everything they stood for? And what can founders do to stop it? In his new book Incorruptible, Ries argues that governance is the most powerful and most underappreciated force in business. In this conversation with Carlos, they get into why shareholder primacy destroys brands, why the tools to resist that pressure already exist, and why most founders give away the thing that matters most.

We knew Pari Singh was special when he walked into Seedcamp at 21 and told us that he could design rockets faster than anyone in the world. Fast forward nine years, and Flow Engineering is now the operating system for the next generation of physical engineering, relied on by the likes of EV giant Rivian. We sat down with Pari to break down why the industry is at an inflection point, why the biggest threat to legacy manufacturers isn't technology but culture, and why he believes the vast majority of physical engineering work will be automated by AI within the year. We also get into what separates elite engineering teams from average ones, and the single most important characteristic he hires for.