Code Story is a startup podcast for technical founders building and scaling software products. Each episode features SaaS founders, engineers, and product leaders sharing how they built their product, found product market fit, and navigated early-stage growth.We explore:<ul><li>Early engineering decisions and MVP development</li><li>Landing the first customers</li><li>Pricing and go-to-market experiments</li><li>Scaling challenges and infrastructure bottlenecks</li><li>Hiring the first team</li><li>Lessons learned from growing a startup</li></ul> From first commit to first scale, Code Story focuses on the critical transition from building software to building a scalable business. If you’re a founder, engineer, or product leader interested in SaaS, startups, and scaling technology companies, this podcast breaks down how great products are built — and how they grow.

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Brian McKeown is 24 years old, and was born and raised in Dallas, TX. He attended Texas A&amp;M University in College Station, and was heavily involved in rec athletics. Post college, he worked a year or so before getting invited on the rocket ship he has been apart of in manufacturing, and moving to Chattanooga. Outside of tech, he loves being outdoors and in the mountains. He finds the Tennessee area great for hiking and community, which is a bit different than what he grew up with in Texas. In his prior role, which was more of an old school company, Brian was referred to an opportunity by one of his mentors in college. The founders of his current venture had proven market fit for their product, but needed talented engineers to create a repeatable platform, built on top of a playbook for what works, to deploy in manufacturing plants across the US. This is the creation story of <a href="https://www.tryharmony.ai/" rel="nofollow">Harmony AI</a>. Links<a href="https://www.tryharmony.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tryharmony.ai/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-mckeown-49b225229" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-mckeown-49b225229</a> 
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The Smart Factory Shift: Digitizing Factory Floors with AI Automation

Brian McKeown is 24 years old, and was born and raised in Dallas, TX. He attended Texas A&amp;M University in College Station, and was heavily involved in rec athletics. Post college, he worked a year or so before getting invited on the rocket ship he has been apart of in manufacturing, and moving to Chattanooga. Outside of tech, he loves being outdoors and in the mountains. He finds the Tennessee area great for hiking and community, which is a bit different than what he grew up with in Texas. 

In his prior role, which was more of an old school company, Brian was referred to an opportunity by one of his mentors in college. The founders of his current venture had proven market fit for their product, but needed talented engineers to create a repeatable platform, built on top of a playbook for what works, to deploy in manufacturing plants across the US. 

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S13 Bonus: Eliminating Paperwork & Manual Data Entry in Manufacturing with Brian McKeown, Founding Engineer at Harmony AI

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Jeff Emalaba has a background that has morphed into risk mitigation over the years. He has a professional background in options trading, risk management and auditing, along with over two decades of real estate investment. Jeff is also a licensed agent in North Carolina. Outside of tech and professional life, he enjoys reading and spending time with his family, taking vacations when time allows. Years ago, Jeff invested $11k of his own money into a property. As it turned out, the investment opportunity had hidden foundation and structural defects. It was this experience that led him to look for a solution that analyzed hidden risks, appraisals, and property data - to be the Carfax for real estate. This is the creation story of <a href="https://story.investfusion.co/" rel="nofollow">InvestFusion</a>. Links<a href="https://story.investfusion.co/" rel="nofollow">https://www.investfusion.co/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-emalaba/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-emalaba/</a> 
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Eliminating Real Estate Risk: AI-Powered Property Intelligence

Jeff Emalaba has a background that has morphed into risk mitigation over the years. He has a professional background in options trading, risk management and auditing, along with over two decades of real estate investment. Jeff is also a licensed agent in North Carolina. Outside of tech and professional life, he enjoys reading and spending time with his family, taking vacations when time allows. 

Years ago, Jeff invested $11k of his own money into a property. As it turned out, the investment opportunity had hidden foundation and structural defects. It was this experience that led him to look for a solution that analyzed hidden risks, appraisals, and property data - to be the Carfax for real estate. 

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S13 Bonus: Spotting Property Red Flags using the "CARFAX" of Real Estate with Jeff Emalaba, Founder & CEO of InvestFusion

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<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mogul-secures-oversubscribed-15-5m-series-a-led-by-draper-associates-to-scale-its-ai-driven-real-estate-investing-platform-302906633.html" rel="nofollow">NEWS: </a><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mogul-secures-oversubscribed-15-5m-series-a-led-by-draper-associates-to-scale-its-ai-driven-real-estate-investing-platform-302906633.html" rel="nofollow">Mogul Secures Oversubscribed $15.5M Series A Led by Draper Associates to Scale Its AI-Driven Real Estate Investing Platform</a>Alex Blackwood grew up in different areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. He had a transformational experience at boarding school in South Jersey, and eventually went to Georgetown on a rowing scholarship. Post college, he went to Goldman Sachs doing conventional investment banking, and eventually private equity. Outside of tech, he is married and loves to play and watch golf. He enjoys reading business books and science fiction. He notes that he can&#39;t do e-readers - he has to have the physical book in his hand, which helps his attention and retention. In 2021, Alex bought his first single family rental after getting his real estate license. He notes that the process of buying this was pretty terrible, with 10+ different people scraping fees from the process. During his &#34;garden time&#34; - IE month off from investment banking - he put together a thesis and pitched his now co-founder, on a fractional ownership platform for real estate. This is the creation story of <a href="https://www.mogul.club/" rel="nofollow">Mogul</a>. Links<a href="https://www.mogul.club/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mogul.club/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-blackwood-a3996a135/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-blackwood-a3996a135/</a> 
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Architecting Decentralized Liquidity Pools for Real Estate Assets

Alex Blackwood grew up in different areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. He had a transformational experience at boarding school in South Jersey, and eventually went to Georgetown on a rowing scholarship. Post college, he went to Goldman Sachs doing conventional investment banking, and eventually private equity. Outside of tech, he is married and loves to play and watch golf. He enjoys reading business books and science fiction. He notes that he can&#39;t do e-readers - he has to have the physical book in his hand, which helps his attention and retention. 

In 2021, Alex bought his first single family rental after getting his real estate license. He notes that the process of buying this was pretty terrible, with 10+ different people scraping fees from the process. During his &#34;garden time&#34; - IE month off from investment banking - he put together a thesis and pitched his now co-founder, on a fractional ownership platform for real estate. 

This is the creation story of Mogul.


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S13 E8: Democratizing Real Estate: Fractional Wealth Building for Modern Investors with Alex Blackwood, CEO of Mogul

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Today, we have a special episode of the Code Story podcast. Joining us today is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-mcminn/" rel="nofollow">Caitlinn McMinn</a>, Executive Director at <a href="https://www.techfortworth.org/" rel="nofollow">TechFW</a>. <a href="https://www.techfortworth.org/" rel="nofollow">TechFW</a> is a nonprofit startup incubator in Fort Worth, TX. The group is here to prove that the next generation of world-changing companies begins right in the heart of Cowtown. In our conversation today, Caitlinn is going to elaborate on the incubators story and model, illuminating how the team supports local entrepreneurs through opportunity and community. Questions: <ul><li>TechFW operates on a 100% equity-free model for founders. In an incubator landscape where equity stakes are standard, why is retaining equity so vital for early-stage tech founders, and how does that alter the relationship between TechFW and its entrepreneurs?</li><li>TechFW has been fostering innovation in North Texas since 1998. Looking back over more than two decades, how has the Fort Worth startup landscape evolved, and what core principles have allowed TechFW to remain a constant anchor for local founders?</li><li>People talk about &#39;entrepreneurial ecosystems&#39; all the time, but what does a thriving ecosystem actually look like on the ground in a city like Fort Worth, and what is its most fragile component?</li><li>TechFW recently partnered with Texas Woman’s University to launch ThinkLab OnDemand, alongside close ties with local institutions like UNT Health Science Center and Texas A&amp;M Fort Worth. How do university partnerships feed the innovation pipeline, and what advice do you have for regions trying to bridge academia and entrepreneurship?</li><li>Through Cowtown Angels, TechFW bridges early-stage founders with local angel investors. How do you cultivate an angel investor community that is willing to back early-stage, high-risk tech ventures right here in North Texas?</li><li>Through ThinkLab, you help founders test viability early. What is the single biggest misconception first-time founders have when transitioning an idea into a validated business model?</li><li>Startups often move fast and break things, but scaling on top of weak processes can be fatal. In the FastForward program, how do you help founders balance aggressive growth with operational rigor?</li><li>Founder isolation is real. How does TechFW build peer-to-peer community so founders don&#39;t feel like they&#39;re navigating the journey entirely alone?</li><li>Your career spans finance, sales enablement, HR systems, and operations consulting before stepping into the Executive Director role at TechFW. How does having that 360-degree operational background shape how you diagnose what a startup actually needs versus what they think they need?</li><li>Running an innovation hub requires balancing the needs of founders, community donors, corporate sponsors, and board members. How do you keep &#39;founder-first&#39; as the North Star while managing those stakeholder dynamics?</li><li>Fort Worth and the broader DFW metroplex are seeing massive economic growth. What unique advantages does Fort Worth offer tech startups compared to traditional hubs like Silicon Valley or Austin?</li><li>As technology evolves rapidly—from AI to biotech and manufacturing—how is TechFW expanding access so underrepresented founders and non-traditional entrepreneurs can participate in the tech economy?</li><li>If an ecosystem builder or civic leader in another mid-sized city was listening today and wanted to spark a tech community from scratch, what is the very first step they should take?</li></ul> Links<a href="https://www.techfortworth.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.techfortworth.org/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-mcminn/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-mcminn/</a> 
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Architecting Sustainable Founder Mentorship & Accelerator Frameworks in Fort Worth, TX

Today, we have a special episode of the Code Story podcast. Joining us today is Caitlinn McMinn, Executive Director at TechFW. TechFW is a nonprofit startup incubator in Fort Worth, TX. The group is here to prove that the next generation of world-changing companies begins right in the heart of Cowtown. In our conversation today, Caitlinn is going to elaborate on the incubators story and model, illuminating how the team supports local entrepreneurs through opportunity and community.


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S13 Bonus: From Lab to Market: Scaling High-Growth Tech Startups with Caitlinn McMinn, Programs Director at TechFW

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David Moore started day trading when he was 16, along with his brother. By the age of 19, he had a 7 figure portfolio, indicating some solid success. He did some angel investing, and then moved into entrepreneurship, starting a few companies. But eventually, got into a sales role that led to his current venture. Outside of tech, he loves music, and in particular, is really enjoying 15th century classical music. He has a lazy French bulldog, enjoys Italian food, and finds himself either reading Octavian literature, or - his bible. David got into a sales job for a friend of his, and in doing so, build some tools using AI to help in the business. When he shared these ideas, and eventually was replaced by an offshore resource, he and his brother took off to build their own thing - a solution to help your business score leads. This is the creation story of <a href="https://stalex.ai/" rel="nofollow">Stalex</a>. Links<a href="https://stalex.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://stalex.ai/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stalexai/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/stalexai/</a> 
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Architecting Autonomous Growth & Lead Ingestion Engines

David Moore started day trading when he was 16, along with his brother. By the age of 19, he had a 7 figure portfolio, indicating some solid success. He did some angel investing, and then moved into entrepreneurship, starting a few companies. But eventually, got into a sales role that led to his current venture. Outside of tech, he loves music, and in particular, is really enjoying 15th century classical music. He has a lazy French bulldog, enjoys Italian food, and finds himself either reading Octavian literature, or - his bible. 

David got into a sales job for a friend of his, and in doing so, build some tools using AI to help in the business. When he shared these ideas, and eventually was replaced by an offshore resource, he and his brother took off to build their own thing - a solution to help your business score leads. 

This is the creation story of Stalex.


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S13 Bonus: Automating Local Lead Growth: High-Intent Prospecting & AI Verification with David Moore, Founder & CEO of Stalex.ai

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Back in August of 2025, Dave Berner joined the podcast previously in Season 11, episode 11, as the co-founder and CTO of Kinde. A past musician, he took up web development to make his bands websites and his friend&#39;s myspace profiles. Fast forward, he has started multiple startups, been the host of several podcasts, and is married with 3 kids. Dave&#39;s co-founder Ryan experienced firsthand that legal AI tools were built for massive law forms. SMB&#39;s or boutiques were forced to retrofit expensive, enterprise heavy software to their workflows (and of course, budgets). Alongside their third co-founder, Vivienne, they set out to build an AI-powered legal OS designed for firms with 1 to 200 lawyers. This is the creation story of <a href="https://goparachute.ai/" rel="nofollow">Parachute</a>. Links<a href="https://goparachute.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://goparachute.ai/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveberner" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveberner</a> 
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Architecting Secure, Context-Aware Legal AI Copilots

Back in August of 2025, Dave Berner joined the podcast previously in Season 11, episode 11, as the co-founder and CTO of Kinde. A past musician, he took up web development to make his bands websites and his friend&#39;s myspace profiles. Fast forward, he has started multiple startups, been the host of several podcasts, and is married with 3 kids. 

Dave&#39;s co-founder Ryan experienced firsthand that legal AI tools were built for massive law forms. SMB&#39;s or boutiques were forced to retrofit expensive, enterprise heavy software to their workflows (and of course, budgets). Alongside their third co-founder, Vivienne, they set out to build an AI-powered legal OS designed for firms with 1 to 200 lawyers. 

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S13 E7: The AI Legal Shift: Giving SME Law Firms BigLaw Leverage with Dave Berner, Co-Founder & CEO of Parachute

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Christian Monberg is originally from a small town in central Maine. His mother was a mathematician, which meant he got into engineering fairly young. This lead him to attend school for engineering, and pursue a career in tech and become a true technologist. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids and lives in San Francisco with his family. He likes to re-build old engines, and loves to fly. In fact, some of his favorite flights were through the Grand Canyon at sunset, or seeing Vegas from a plane. In addition, he likes to sail, and is always attempting to tinker with his boat, and sail with his friends and family. Chris prior company was focused on AI and marketing, and eventually, they were acquired by their now parent company. A lot of the hard earned lessons that he and his team learned through their journey still applied in this age of AI, so much so that it became the backbone of how Zeta built and deployed their products. This is Chris&#39; creation story at <a href="https://www.zetaglobal.com/" rel="nofollow">Zeta Global</a>. Links<a href="https://www.zetaglobal.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.zetaglobal.com/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismonberg/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismonberg/</a> 
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Architecting Identity Graphs & Predictive AI Engines for Marketers

Christian Monberg is originally from a small town in central Maine. His mother was a mathematician, which meant he got into engineering fairly young. This lead him to attend school for engineering, and pursue a career in tech and become a true technologist. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids and lives in San Francisco with his family. He likes to re-build old engines, and loves to fly. In fact, some of his favorite flights were through the Grand Canyon at sunset, or seeing Vegas from a plane. In addition, he likes to sail, and is always attempting to tinker with his boat, and sail with his friends and family. 

Chris prior company was focused on AI and marketing, and eventually, they were acquired by their now parent company. A lot of the hard earned lessons that he and his team learned through their journey still applied in this age of AI, so much so that it became the backbone of how Zeta built and deployed their products. 

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S13 Bonus: The AI Marketing Cloud: Harnessing Predictive Intent to Scale Growth with Christian Monberg, CTO of Zeta Global

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Alaa Abdulridha is from souther Iraq, but now lives in Austin, TX. Post wars in Iraq, the country had poor infrastructure, which got him interested in building and creating things to better and secure his life. He left the country to study, and ended up in Germany as a security engineer. Outside of tech, he enjoys playing RPG video games. In particular, he likes to play World of Warcraft, and enjoys the open world, and character development from scratch. Alaa&#39;s current company was built to scrape google search engines, in order to get around a blocker for a prior project. In the past, he used to participate in bug bounty hunting during University, and wrote about his exploits. His now founder&#39;s came across his articles, and invited him to joint the company. This is Alaa&#39;s creation story at <a href="https://serpapi.com/" rel="nofollow">SerpApi</a>. Links<a href="https://serpapi.com/" rel="nofollow">https://serpapi.com/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alaa0x2/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alaa0x2/</a> 
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Architecting High-Availability Search Scrapers & Secure API Gateways

Alaa Abdulridha is from souther Iraq, but now lives in Austin, TX. Post wars in Iraq, the country had poor infrastructure, which got him interested in building and creating things to better and secure his life. He left the country to study, and ended up in Germany as a security engineer. Outside of tech, he enjoys playing RPG video games. In particular, he likes to play World of Warcraft, and enjoys the open world, and character development from scratch. 

Alaa&#39;s current company was built to scrape google search engines, in order to get around a blocker for a prior project. In the past, he used to participate in bug bounty hunting during University, and wrote about his exploits. His now founder&#39;s came across his articles, and invited him to joint the company. 

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S13 Bonus: Scaling Real-Time Search Data: Secure APIs for AI Infrastructure with Alaa Abdulridha, Engineering Director at SerpApi

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Santiago Castineira has quite the background in international living. He was born in Argentina, but grew up in Spain, then moved to Sweden, San Francisco, and now llives in Germany. He did his grade school and university in Spain, but his masters program across Sweden, San Francisco, and Germany. He&#39;s worked in startups, bigger companies, and eventually founding and is leading his own. Outside of tech, he is a Dad of 3 kids, so he stays quite busy when he isn&#39;t working. He loves endurance sports, running half marathons and long distance biking.Santiago and his team were well aware of the fact that tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are published every year. While security teams were drowning, the rise of automated coding agents were starting to ship code faster and faster. He and his team realized that there needed to be an agent driven platform, designed to evaluate and secure your system like a senior security engineer. This is the creation story of <a href="https://mazehq.com/" rel="nofollow">Maze</a>. Links<a href="https://mazehq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mazehq.com/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/santiagocastineira/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/santiagocastineira/</a> 
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Architecting Agentic AI Security Engineers for Code Analysis

Santiago Castineira has quite the background in international living. He was born in Argentina, but grew up in Spain, then moved to Sweden, San Francisco, and now llives in Germany. He did his grade school and university in Spain, but his masters program across Sweden, San Francisco, and Germany. He&#39;s worked in startups, bigger companies, and eventually founding and is leading his own. Outside of tech, he is a Dad of 3 kids, so he stays quite busy when he isn&#39;t working. He loves endurance sports, running half marathons and long distance biking.

Santiago and his team were well aware of the fact that tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are published every year. While security teams were drowning, the rise of automated coding agents were starting to ship code faster and faster. He and his team realized that there needed to be an agent driven platform, designed to evaluate and secure your system like a senior security engineer. 

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E13 Bonus: The AI SAST Shift: Eliminating Vulnerability Backlogs with Santiago Castiñeira, Co-Founder & CTO of Maze

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Yaniv Tal grew up in the Bay Area in the 90&#39;s with parents who were engineers. They were both in electrical engineering, specifically digital/signal processing. He really saw the internet sport up into a massive thing. He studied the hard sciences (electrical engineering, math and physics), and his first job out of college was at HP, doing board b ring up for printers. Outside of tech, he is recently married, having a lovely wedding on a beach in Mexico. When asked &#34;what do you do for fun?&#34;, he can&#39;t answer it, cause he is a bit of a workaholic and loves what he does. But, he does make sure he spends quality time with his new bride. In 2017, Yaniv founded a protocol called The Graph, one of the core web3 protocols. After many years on this journey, he started to have a vision around the world&#39;s broader knowledge in a decentralized, verifiable way. Eventually, he and his team set out to launch a a solution around this vision, designed to solve fragmentation of knowledge, vulnerable to centralization, silos and misinformation. This is the creation story of <a href="https://geobrowser.io" rel="nofollow">Geo</a>. Links<a href="https://geobrowser.io" rel="nofollow">https://geobrowser.io</a><a href="https://thegraph.com/" rel="nofollow">https://thegraph.com/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanivtal9/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanivtal9/</a> 
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Architecting Decentralized Browser Infrastructure & AI Context Engines

Yaniv Tal grew up in the Bay Area in the 90&#39;s with parents who were engineers. They were both in electrical engineering, specifically digital/signal processing. He really saw the internet sport up into a massive thing. He studied the hard sciences (electrical engineering, math and physics), and his first job out of college was at HP, doing board b ring up for printers. Outside of tech, he is recently married, having a lovely wedding on a beach in Mexico. When asked &#34;what do you do for fun?&#34;, he can&#39;t answer it, cause he is a bit of a workaholic and loves what he does. But, he does make sure he spends quality time with his new bride. 

In 2017, Yaniv founded a protocol called The Graph, one of the core web3 protocols. After many years on this journey, he started to have a vision around the world&#39;s broader knowledge in a decentralized, verifiable way. Eventually, he and his team set out to launch a a solution around this vision, designed to solve fragmentation of knowledge, vulnerable to centralization, silos and misinformation. 

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E13 E6: The Spatial Web Shift: Building Decentralized AI Knowledge Graphs with Yaniv Tal, Co-Founder & CEO of Geo

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Today, we welcome a special guest to the podcast, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/v-mohan/" rel="nofollow">Vasanth Mohan</a>, Head of Developer Relations and Product Marking at <a href="https://sambanova.ai/" rel="nofollow">SambaNova</a>.SambaNova is transforming AI with efficiency, security and sovereignty, driven by their relentless pursuit of intelligence, and running the largest models by maximizing dataflow efficiency. Vasanth and I dig into some fun - and heavy - topics at the backbone of where the industry is going with AI Inference, specifically at the hardware layer. Questions:<ul><li>Tell me and the audience a bit about you and SambaNova.</li><li>The Shift to Autonomy: &#34;When we shift from a user generating a single chat response to an autonomous coding agent executing dozens of background tool calls, loop checks, and file rewrites, how does the underlying inference profile change, and what metric breaks first?</li><li>Latency Budgets: &#34;Token-per-second throughput used to be a nice-to-have metric for human readability, but for multi-agent workflows running in parallel, low latency is critical to prevent system timeouts. How are developers designing prompt structures and context windows to prevent compounding latencies during multi-agent orchestration?</li><li>Hardware Heterogeneity: &#34;Hyperscalers historically standardized on monolithic hardware, but neoclouds are increasingly mixing high-memory GPUs, specialized inference ASICs, and custom interconnects. How do you decide the optimal hardware mix inside a rack when your customer demand fluctuates between massive long-context reasoning models and rapid edge-like decoding?</li><li>Power and Rack Density: &#34;With high-end inference accelerators drawing massive power per node, how are neocloud data centers re-engineering liquid cooling, rack layouts, and power distribution specifically to maximize inference density rather than training throughput?</li><li>Decoupling Prefill and Decode: &#34;Disaggregated inference splits compute-heavy prefill operations from memory-bandwidth-heavy decode operations onto distinct hardware pools. What are the biggest real-world friction points when deploying this in production—especially around KV-cache transfer overhead and inter-node networking?</li><li>Dynamic Orchestration: &#34;In a disaggregated setup, workload spikes in long-context coding prompts can saturate the prefill pool while leaving decode nodes underutilized. How are leading engineering teams building smart routing layers and dynamic auto-scaling engines to balance compute across compute-bound and memory-bound hardware?</li><li>The Economic Tipping Point: &#34;Enterprise adoption is oscillating between proprietary API-driven models and self-hosted open-weights models. At what scale—measured in inference volume, latency SLAs, or data privacy constraints—does it become economically imperative for a company to transition off closed APIs onto self-hosted open infrastructure?</li></ul>Links<a href="https://sambanova.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://sambanova.ai/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/v-mohan/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/v-mohan/</a> 
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Architecting Reconfigurable Dataflow Systems for Enterprise LLMs

Today, we welcome a special guest to the podcast, Vasanth Mohan, Head of Developer Relations and Product Marking at SambaNova. 

SambaNova is transforming AI with efficiency, security and sovereignty, driven by their relentless pursuit of intelligence, and running the largest models by maximizing dataflow efficiency. Vasanth and I dig into some fun - and heavy - topics at the backbone of where the industry is going with AI Inference, specifically at the hardware layer.


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S13 Bonus: The Enterprise AI Chip War: Rethinking LLM Silicon & Inference with Vasanth Mohan, Director of Product at SambaNova

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Peter Morelli was born and raised in San Francisco, one of the few natives of the area. He was front and center, watching the tech scene explode in front of him (and also blow up). He&#39;s lived all over - like New York, San Diego, Texas, London - but always ends up returning to the Bay Area. Outside of tech, he is married with 3 kids - one in college, and the other 2 in high school. He is a foodie, and loves cooking, enjoying the communal, connective aspect of having a meal with his family and friends. Peter spent many years at Lyft, where he and his team became frustrated by traditional observability tools and how they waste money storing unused data. They started to building a solution based on dynamic, real time control paired with local, on-device telemetry storage. Once they realized their breakthrough, they spun off the solution into its own company. This is the creation story of <a href="https://bitdrift.io/" rel="nofollow">Bitdrift</a>. Links<a href="https://bitdrift.io/" rel="nofollow">https://bitdrift.io/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterfmorelli/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterfmorelli/</a> 
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Architecting Real-Time Dynamic Telemetry Orchestration

Peter Morelli was born and raised in San Francisco, one of the few natives of the area. He was front and center, watching the tech scene explode in front of him (and also blow up). He&#39;s lived all over - like New York, San Diego, Texas, London - but always ends up returning to the Bay Area. Outside of tech, he is married with 3 kids - one in college, and the other 2 in high school. He is a foodie, and loves cooking, enjoying the communal, connective aspect of having a meal with his family and friends. 

Peter spent many years at Lyft, where he and his team became frustrated by traditional observability tools and how they waste money storing unused data. They started to building a solution based on dynamic, real time control paired with local, on-device telemetry storage. Once they realized their breakthrough, they spun off the solution into its own company. 

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S13 Bonus: Dynamic Observability: Eliminating Telemetry Waste at Scale with Peter Morelli, Co-Founder & CEO of Bitdrift

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Julien Verlaguet is a self proclaimed &#34;French guy&#34;, growing up in south of France. He studied in Paris, and moved to the US when he was 27, spending 10 years in the Bay Are and 5 years in New York. He&#39;s spent many years developing software, in particular, developing programming languages. Outside of tech, he is married to a Columbian woman, and admits his Spanish isn&#39;t as good as it should be. He loves to play Pétanque, merely needing a flat surface to play on. Julien was a lead programming language designer at Facebook, and lead the open source release of a new programming language. Over time, he noticed that frontend dev was in a resolution with reactive paradigms, while backend architectures remained bogged down by manual steps. In 2022, he stepped out to create Meta-grade creativity usable in everyday software. This is the creation story of <a href="https://skiplabs.io/" rel="nofollow">Skiplabs</a>. Links<a href="https://skiplabs.io/" rel="nofollow">https://skiplabs.io/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-verlaguet-b5710a20/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-verlaguet-b5710a20/</a> 
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Architecting Reactive, Self-Updating Software Engines Using Skip

Julien Verlaguet is a self proclaimed &#34;French guy&#34;, growing up in south of France. He studied in Paris, and moved to the US when he was 27, spending 10 years in the Bay Are and 5 years in New York. He&#39;s spent many years developing software, in particular, developing programming languages. Outside of tech, he is married to a Columbian woman, and admits his Spanish isn&#39;t as good as it should be. He loves to play Pétanque, merely needing a flat surface to play on. 

Julien was a lead programming language designer at Facebook, and lead the open source release of a new programming language. Over time, he noticed that frontend dev was in a resolution with reactive paradigms, while backend architectures remained bogged down by manual steps. In 2022, he stepped out to create Meta-grade creativity usable in everyday software. 

This is the creation story of Skiplabs.


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S13 E5: The Dynamic Compute Revolution: Eliminating Cache Invalidation with Julien Verlaguet, Founder & CEO of SkipLabs

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Nick Holzherr is originally from the Switzerland, but moved to UK when he was 7 years old, to the countryside. He had no real touch to computers until he was 18, when he attended university and everything picked up for him, tech wise. Eventually, he got into building businesses, and of those, he founded a coffee company, HR software company, and whisk.com, which was sold to Samsung in 2019. Outside of tech, he is the father to two young children. He enjoys skiing and snowboarding, and jokingly, he admits that running around ensuring his agents are prompted gets in the way of his family and hobby life. Through his entrepreneurial adventures, Nick spent large sums of money on legal contracts, ensuring that the i&#39;s were dotted and the t&#39;s were crossed. While he still feels that lawyers are very important and needed for certain scenarios, Nick wanted to create a way to level the playing field for small businesses, in the legal arena. This is the creation story of <a href="https://git.law/" rel="nofollow">GitLaw</a>. Links<a href="https://git.law/" rel="nofollow">https://git.law/</a><a href="https://nickholzherr.com/" rel="nofollow">https://nickholzherr.com/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickholzherr/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickholzherr/</a> 
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Architecting Multi-Model Legal Reasoning & AI Contract Agents

Nick Holzherr is originally from the Switzerland, but moved to UK when he was 7 years old, to the countryside. He had no real touch to computers until he was 18, when he attended university and everything picked up for him, tech wise. Eventually, he got into building businesses, and of those, he founded a coffee company, HR software company, and whisk.com, which was sold to Samsung in 2019. Outside of tech, he is the father to two young children. He enjoys skiing and snowboarding, and jokingly, he admits that running around ensuring his agents are prompted gets in the way of his family and hobby life. 

Through his entrepreneurial adventures, Nick spent large sums of money on legal contracts, ensuring that the i&#39;s were dotted and the t&#39;s were crossed. While he still feels that lawyers are very important and needed for certain scenarios, Nick wanted to create a way to level the playing field for small businesses, in the legal arena. 

This is the creation story of GitLaw.


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S13 Bonus: The Legal AI Shift: Automating Contract Workflows with AI Agents with Nick Holzherr, Founder & CEO of GitLaw

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Today, we have a special return episode from our friends at Backbox, who we heard the creation story of the company back in Season 8. In this episode, we talk with Rekha Shenoy, CEO of <a href="https://backbox.com/" rel="nofollow">Backbox</a>. Since Rekha took the helm as CEO in May 2024, the company has expanded beyond traditional security automation to launch its major BackBox 8.0 platform, unifying cloud and on-prem infrastructure visibility. They’ve also integrated human-in-the-loop, advisor-focused AI capabilities - and are back to let us know some even more &#34;big things&#34; happening with platform, around agentic . Questions: <ul><li>Tell me about yourself—your path into tech and what shapes how you lead (background, influences, hobbies, family).</li><li>Tell me about BackBox. What does the company do, and what drew you in to take the CEO seat in 2024?</li><li>How has the product matured? How do you build your roadmap?</li><li>Zoom out — what are you most proud of in shaping BackBox?</li><li>What does the future look like for your product and team?</li><li>BackBox describes AI as a &#34;trusted advisor, not an autonomous agent&#34; — four principles: protecting infrastructure, repeatable/verifiable results, supporting (not replacing) engineers, and transparency about how AI reaches conclusions. Where did that philosophy come from, and why hold that line while competitors race toward full autonomy?</li><li>What does &#34;responsible AI&#34; actually look like in the product — not as a value statement, but as a design constraint that shaped the engineering decision?</li><li>Tell us about your recent launch and what it enables a network team to do that they couldn&#39;t before?</li><li>How does the launch extend or test that responsible-AI philosophy?</li><li>At what point does &#34;AI as advisor&#34; start to feel like a limitation rather than a safeguard?</li></ul>Links<a href="https://backbox.com/" rel="nofollow">https://backbox.com/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekha-shenoy-950b23/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekha-shenoy-950b23/</a><a href="https://www.codestory.co/episodes/s8-bonus-bypassing-brittle-custom-scripts-implementing-automated-multi-tenant-configuration-backups-and-vulnerability-patching-at-scale-with-andrew-kahl-of-backbox/" rel="nofollow">https://www.codestory.co/episodes/s8-bonus-bypassing-brittle-custom-scripts-implementing-automated-multi-tenant-configuration-backups-and-vulnerability-patching-at-scale-with-andrew-kahl-of-backbox/</a> 
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BackBox and AI as a Trusted Advisor

Today, we have a special return episode from our friends at Backbox, who we heard the creation story of the company back in Season 8. In this episode, we talk with Rekha Shenoy, CEO of Backbox. Since Rekha took the helm as CEO in May 2024, the company has expanded beyond traditional security automation to launch its major BackBox 8.0 platform, unifying cloud and on-prem infrastructure visibility. They’ve also integrated human-in-the-loop, advisor-focused AI capabilities - and are back to let us know some even more &#34;big things&#34; happening with platform, around agentic .


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E13 Bonus: The Return of Backbox, and AI as a Trusted Advisor, with Rekha Shenoy, CEO of Backbox

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Connor Heggie grew up in Southern California, digging into technical things early on his life. He played with legos, was influence by Iron Man, and painted pictures on the back of schematics his Dad brought him from Boeing. He went to school at Rice in Texas, feeling a sense of agency and confidence from the program he was in. Eventually, he went to work for startups across computer vision, self driving cars, and AI. Outside of tech, he has a large black Labrador named Captain. He enjoys hiking, being outside, and playing fetch with Captain until he drops in exhaustion. Post ChatGPT, Connor was working on a side project, creating listicles around products. As he built it, he fell in love with the space of mining information from unstructured data. Once he met up with his co-founder, they started to recognize they could build multi-agent systems that could re-think how Go-To-Market teams operate. This is the creation story of <a href="https://www.unifygtm.com/" rel="nofollow">Unify</a>. Links<a href="https://www.unifygtm.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.unifygtm.com/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-heggie/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-heggie/</a> 
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Architecting Dynamic GTM Data Graphs & Autonomous AI Agents

Connor Heggie grew up in Southern California, digging into technical things early on his life. He played with legos, was influence by Iron Man, and painted pictures on the back of schematics his Dad brought him from Boeing. He went to school at Rice in Texas, feeling a sense of agency and confidence from the program he was in. Eventually, he went to work for startups across computer vision, self driving cars, and AI. Outside of tech, he has a large black Labrador named Captain. He enjoys hiking, being outside, and playing fetch with Captain until he drops in exhaustion. 

Post ChatGPT, Connor was working on a side project, creating listicles around products. As he built it, he fell in love with the space of mining information from unstructured data. Once he met up with his co-founder, they started to recognize they could build multi-agent systems that could re-think how Go-To-Market teams operate. 

This is the creation story of Unify.


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S13 E4: The AI GTM Engine: Turning Intent Signals into Warm Outbound Pipeline with Connor Heggie, Co-Founder & CTO of Unify

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Christian Ondaatje is originally from Los Angelas, CA. He got into GPUs as an underclassmen in college, of course through gaming and VR. He ended up starting an eGPU company in his CS program @ Harvard, though it was shut down through some cease and desist from Apple. Though he learned some hard startup lessons, his love for GPUs was only fueled more. Outside of tech, he does a lot of SIM racing. In fact, he has built his own Linus VR racing simulator rig over a couple of years He finds that the formal, online competition is very fun to participate in. As I mentioned, Christian was way into GPUs throughout many different experiences in his life. He and his team recognized that while demand door AI inference and compute was at an all-time high, setting up bare-metal GPU infra was still complex and slow... so they set out to change it. This is the creation story of <a href="https://aranya.tech/" rel="nofollow">Aranya</a>.Links<a href="https://aranya.tech/" rel="nofollow">https://aranya.tech/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianondaatje/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianondaatje/</a> 
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Bare Metal to Production GPU in 48 hours

Christian Ondaatje is originally from Los Angelas, CA. He got into GPUs as an underclassmen in college, of course through gaming and VR. He ended up starting an eGPU company in his CS program @ Harvard, though it was shut down through some cease and desist from Apple. Though he learned some hard startup lessons, his love for GPUs was only fueled more. Outside of tech, he does a lot of SIM racing. In fact, he has built his own Linus VR racing simulator rig over a couple of years He finds that the formal, online competition is very fun to participate in. 

As I mentioned, Christian was way into GPUs throughout many different experiences in his life. He and his team recognized that while demand door AI inference and compute was at an all-time high, setting up bare-metal GPU infra was still complex and slow... so they set out to change it. 

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S13 Bonus: The GPU Bottleneck: Democratizing AI Compute Pipelines with Christian Ondaatje, Founder & CEO of Aranya.tech

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Dumi Mabhena is originally from Zimbabwe, and has lived in 5 different countries. He now lives in Washington, DC, as he came to the states to attend Georgetown. Prior to that, he has been a podcast host and producer for several years, as well as starting businesses and taking part in the startup world in multiple different places. Outside of tech, he married to his wife, who he met while in South Africa. They love to travel, especially Europe in the summer, and are big into fitness and running. Previously, Dumi started a podcast, to tell about positive experiences in Zimbabwe. As he went through the process of recording, editing, and publishing a podcast - he realized that the tools and platforms were incredibly fragmented... so much so, that it created friction in the process of telling stories. Dumi wanted to figure out a way to remove this friction from the entire process. This is the creation story of <a href="https://www.hellohilite.com/" rel="nofollow">Hilite</a>.Links<a href="https://www.hellohilite.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellohilite.com/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dumi-mabhena" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dumi-mabhena</a> 
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Architecting Frictionless Creator Infrastructure & Social Commerce with Dumi Mabhena

Dumi Mabhena is originally from Zimbabwe, and has lived in 5 different countries. He now lives in Washington, DC, as he came to the states to attend Georgetown. Prior to that, he has been a podcast host and producer for several years, as well as starting businesses and taking part in the startup world in multiple different places. Outside of tech, he married to his wife, who he met while in South Africa. They love to travel, especially Europe in the summer, and are big into fitness and running. 

Previously, Dumi started a podcast, to tell about positive experiences in Zimbabwe. As he went through the process of recording, editing, and publishing a podcast - he realized that the tools and platforms were incredibly fragmented... so much so, that it created friction in the process of telling stories. Dumi wanted to figure out a way to remove this friction from the entire process. 

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S13 E3: Architecting Frictionless Creator Infrastructure & Social Commerce with Dumi Mabhena, CEO of Hilite

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Varant Zanoyan was born in Washington DC, and grew up there and in Switzerland as well. He now lives in the Bay Area, specifically San Mateo. He&#39;s spent time at Palantir Technologies, as well as a stint building ML tech at AirBnB. But outside of tech, he loves the outdoors, tending to his garden of plants and vegetables. After taking a good hike, he&#39;s been digging a good uni pizza for dinner. Prior to his current venture, Varant was working at AirBnB, developing Chronon - an open source data management engine, used to power AI/ML infrastructure. It was then that he and his team realized that building and managing data pipelines was a bottleneck for AI dev, and decided to spin into a standalone platform. This is the creation story of <a href="https://zipline.ai/" rel="nofollow">Zipline AI</a>. Links<a href="https://zipline.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://zipline.ai/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vzanoyan" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/vzanoyan</a> 
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Rethinking Feature Stores for Production ML & Real-Time AI

Varant Zanoyan was born in Washington DC, and grew up there and in Switzerland as well. He now lives in the Bay Area, specifically San Mateo. He&#39;s spent time at Palantir Technologies, as well as a stint building ML tech at AirBnB. But outside of tech, he loves the outdoors, tending to his garden of plants and vegetables. After taking a good hike, he&#39;s been digging a good uni pizza for dinner. 

Prior to his current venture, Varant was working at AirBnB, developing Chronon - an open source data management engine, used to power AI/ML infrastructure. It was then that he and his team realized that building and managing data pipelines was a bottleneck for AI dev, and decided to spin into a standalone platform. 

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E13 Bonus: From Airbnb's Chronon Engine to Enterprise Real-Time Feature Compute with Varant Zanoyan, Co-Founder & CEO of Zipline AI

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Itamar Syn-Hershko has been a tech guy since he was a wee lad - IE he was teaching his kindergarten teachers how to use their computers. He learned how to &#34;do stuff&#34; tech wise through playing games back in the day. Back in the day he was one of the original developers on a document based database, as well as building a consulting company. Outside of tech, he is the father of 5 kids, all of them 7 and under... so his hands are quite full. That said, he does enjoy learning new things and traveling, when he has the time. Itamar founded a boutique consulting agency, helping businesses succeed in data related projects. Like most smart agencies, they built tools to help them to do their jobs better. One of these tools became highly popular, and after 1.5 years of selling this tool to customers, they hit a $1m in annual recurring revenue. This is the creation story of <a href="https://neverblink.ai/" rel="nofollow">NeverBlink AI</a>. Links<a href="https://neverblink.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://neverblink.ai/</a><a href="https://bigdataboutique.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bigdataboutique.com/</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/itamar-syn-hershko" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/itamar-syn-hershko</a> 
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Architecting Proactive Database Observability & Tuning

Itamar Syn-Hershko has been a tech guy since he was a wee lad - IE he was teaching his kindergarten teachers how to use their computers. He learned how to &#34;do stuff&#34; tech wise through playing games back in the day. Back in the day he was one of the original developers on a document based database, as well as building a consulting company. Outside of tech, he is the father of 5 kids, all of them 7 and under... so his hands are quite full. That said, he does enjoy learning new things and traveling, when he has the time. 

Itamar founded a boutique consulting agency, helping businesses succeed in data related projects. Like most smart agencies, they built tools to help them to do their jobs better. One of these tools became highly popular, and after 1.5 years of selling this tool to customers, they hit a $1m in annual recurring revenue. 

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S13 Bonus: The AI DBA Shift: Automating Database Reliability & Performance with Itamar Syn-Hershko, Founder & CEO of NeverBlink

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