Knuckle Up with Nakul
episodes

Every conversation

David Paffenholz. Juicebox.
How Juicebox is building for the AI talent war
Sep 22→
Arvind Jain. Glean.
$7B AI founder: "AI is not capable of replacing you right now"
Sep 9→
Guillermo Rauch. Vercel.
Inside Vercel's AI-era playbook: "Recursive Founder Mode"
Aug 25→
Will Bryk. Exa.
How a first-time CEO is taking on Google: No process, no NPC hires, and extreme shipping velocity
Aug 4→
Garrett Lord. Handshake.
Handshake's remarkable refounding: a lesson in how the next AI fortunes get made
Jul 21→
James Cadwallader. Profound.
How everyone will do marketing by 2027: ”Marketing engineers” and agents as the audience
Jul 7→
Immad Akhund. Mercury.
Building a $5b company without 996
Jun 23→
Cameron McCord. Nominal.
Startup lessons Silicon Valley won’t teach you
Jun 9→
Akshay Kothari. Notion.
Business used to be go karting. Now it's Formula 1.
May 27→
Ashwin Sreenivas. Decagon.
Behind the curtain of a $4.5b AI-native powerhouse
May 19→
Michael Grinich. WorkOS.
$50M ARR With 3 sales reps, no CRO, and one PM
May 7→
Bipul Sinha. Rubrik.
Nobody knows anything, product market fit is dead, and there's only one moat
Apr 30→
Qasar Younis. Applied Intuition.
Battle-tested playbooks for recuriting, reading the market, and adapting to AI
Apr 21→
Frank Slootman. Snowflake.
Frank Slootman on what most CEOs get wrong
Apr 14→