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Author: Siddhartha Ahluwalia

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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journey from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. 

Hence was born the Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes. 

We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings. 


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What Does Ali Ghodsi Know And How Databricks is Winning The AI Game | Rajkumar Sen, Arcion Labs

What Does Ali Ghodsi Know And How Databricks is Winning The AI Game | Rajkumar Sen, Arcion Labs

2026-11-0601:06:29

If data is gold then what are Databases? Rajkumar Sen built Arcion Labs on an H-1B, nearly shut multiple times and then sold to Databricks. In this conversation Raj shares behind the scenes details of his 8 years journey from idea to starting up to fundraising to exiting and every challenge faced in between. We explore what makes Ali Ghodsi a very unique CEO in enterprise tech, why AI agents are about to break today’s database architectures, why specialized AI inference could outgrow the $5...
Why Super Intelligent Models Write Super Dangerous Code | Varun Badhwar, Endor Labs

Why Super Intelligent Models Write Super Dangerous Code | Varun Badhwar, Endor Labs

2026-10-2901:17:02

Open source is under attack, AI code is more hackable and the things a founder can control now are very very few. Varun Badhwar is a 3x security founder, his last startup was acquired by Palo Alto networks where he grew the business from $5M ARR to $100M ARR. Now he is building Endor Labs to add controlled chaos to world of AI written code. Varun explains how nation-state actors are exploiting defenseless open-source repositories, how AI agents invent open-source libraries, why super intell...
Ex-Meta VP: ChatGPT Is Just the Trailer for What’s Coming Next

Ex-Meta VP: ChatGPT Is Just the Trailer for What’s Coming Next

2026-10-2301:25:23

Why would a top AI leader leave Meta at the peak of the AI boom? Manohar Paluri is the co-founder and CTO of Warp Sciences. Before that, he spent years at Meta, where he worked closely with Yann LeCun. He started his career as an intern, and his alma mater includes IIIT Hyderabad, SRI and Georgia Tech. In this episode Manohar explains why the magical personal assistants are just the trailer for AI, why physical intelligence is the hardest bottleneck in tech, the truth behind open-weights vs...
Burning $8M on Open Source, Hitting $100M ARR and the $250 Billion Market | Harjot, CodeRabbit

Burning $8M on Open Source, Hitting $100M ARR and the $250 Billion Market | Harjot, CodeRabbit

2026-10-1501:01:48

We live in strange times where AI is turning every problem into a coding problem but no one is reading the code solving those problems. On this episode of the Neon show, we have Harjot, Co-Founder & CEO CodeRabbit. Harjot explains why they didn’t go after code generation, the infinite demand for software that is coming, why Jira and Linear are being bypassed, and why he calls today's fundraising market the weirdest he has seen. We also explore CodeRabbit’s $8M open-source investment, th...
How AWS, AngleList and Now AI Killed The Old VC Playbook | Nakul, Audacious

How AWS, AngleList and Now AI Killed The Old VC Playbook | Nakul, Audacious

2026-10-0901:25:49

From a boutique industry of ~20 firms to today where there are specialised funds for every stage, geography and category, Venture Capital has changed radically. On this episode we have Nakul Mandan from Audacious Ventures. Nakul came to Silicon Valley at 28 expecting to be fired. He left Lightspeed in 2020, spent 14 months raising a $90M first fund in the middle of a pandemic, then watched ChatGPT changing the game entirely during his first two years of investing. In this episode, Nakul sha...
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