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Meet the people building the future.
Hosted by investors James Pringle and Hector Mason, Riding Unicorns goes inside the companies, ideas and decisions shaping the future of technology. Each episode features candid conversations with leading founders, operators and investors about what it really takes to build and back category-defining companies. From finding product-market fit and raising capital to hiring exceptional teams, scaling globally and navigating the moments that can make or break a company, we explore the lessons you rarely find in the playbooks. Whether you're building, investing or simply interested in how great technology companies are created, Riding Unicorns gives you a front-row seat to the people doing it.
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AI is creating extraordinary new demand for electricity. But what happens when the grid can't keep up? In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James and Hector sit down with Karl Bach, Co-Founder & CEO of Axle Energy, the energy technology company building a virtual power plant from hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles, batteries and heat pumps. Rather than relying solely on large power stations to balance electricity supply and demand, Axle connects distributed devices across homes and...
What happens when companies deploy AI agents before fixing the data those agents rely on? In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James and Hector sit down with Toby Mather, Co-Founder of Rig, the AI-native data infrastructure company building the data layer that allows humans and AI agents to work from the same trusted context. Rig started as a "data brain" sitting on top of platforms like Snowflake and BigQuery, making sense of fragmented company data so teams could use tools like Claude and Cu...
What happens when AI moves beyond the digital world and starts transforming the companies that manufacture the things around us? In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James and Hector sit down with Robin Van Aeken, Co-Founder & CEO of Magentic, the AI company building digital workers for some of the world's largest manufacturers. Magentic's AI agents, or "mages", work alongside procurement and supply chain teams at companies including Siemens and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. They connect...
What happens to software engineering when almost every line of code is written by AI? In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James sits down with Mirko Novakovic, Founder & CEO of Dash0, the AI-native observability company helping engineering teams understand, monitor and fix problems in increasingly complex software systems. Dash0 has grown at remarkable speed, 4x-ing ARR in six months and recently raising a $110m Series B. For Mirko, now on his third company, that growth hasn't come from a...
How do you build a global AI company without burning hundreds of millions of dollars? In this episode of Riding Unicorns, James sits down with Krish Ramineni, Co-Founder & CEO of Fireflies.ai, the AI meeting assistant used by millions of people around the world. Fireflies started building with AI long before the current boom. After struggling to raise capital, Krish and his co-founder became obsessed with reaching "ramen profitability", keeping costs low and controlling their own destiny....
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