Archive - Knuckle Up with Nakul

Business used to be go karting. Now it's Formula 1.

Listen now | How to drive to survive, according to Notion co-founder Akshay Kothari

May 27 • Nakul Mandan

1:22:10

Behind the curtain of a $4.5b AI-native powerhouse

Listen now | Ashwin Sreenivas (Co-Founder at Decagon) on how AI is reshaping roles, how Decagon prioritizes speed, and more

May 19 • Nakul Mandan

1:13:32

$50M ARR With 3 sales reps, no CRO, and one PM | Michael Grinich (CEO, WorkOS)

Behind the “boring” product that OpenAI, Anthropic and Cursor all quietly use | Michael Grinich (WorkOS)

May 7 • Nakul Mandan

1:12:20

April 2026

Nobody knows anything, product market fit is dead, and there's only one moat | Bipul Sinha

Listen now | Bipul Sinha (CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder at Rubrik)

Apr 30 • Nakul Mandan

48:59

Battle-tested playbooks for recuriting, reading the market, and adapting to AI

Listen now | Qasar Younis (Co-founder of Applied Intuition)

Apr 21 • Nakul Mandan

1:13:20

Frank Slootman on what most CEOs get wrong

We talked about confrontation as a leadership tool, why culture isn't about making people feel good, the drivers vs. passengers framework, why Frank…

Apr 14 • Nakul Mandan

1:10:53

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