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We The BuildersE14: Packy McCormick on Writing, Investing, Media and Creative ProcessIf you’ve spent any time in tech over the past few years, you’ve probably read Not Boring or at least seen a screenshot of it on X/Twitter. Packy built it from a Substack assignment during David Perell’s Write of Passage course into one of the most-read newsletters in technology, now at over 250,000 subscribers. Encouragement goes a long way. David in that course told him his first assignment was the best piece of writing he had seen in the class which gave Packy the confidence to keep going. He talks about his fear of being...
2026-01-231h 41
Summation (formerly World of DaaS)We the Builders Podcast l From LiveRamp ($RAMP) to NQB8: Auren Hoffman’s Founder JourneyThis episode is a rebroadcast of Auren's appearance on the We the Builders podcast. We The Builders: https://twitter.com/WeThe_BuildersHost Suffiyan Malik: https://twitter.com/suffiyanmalikkSubstack: https://wethebuilders.us---------------------------------------------------This week I sat down with Auren Hoffman founder, builder, prolific investor, and one of the most connected people in Silicon Valley.Today’s episode features Auren Hoffman founder of LiveRamp ($RAMP), Flex Capital, Dialog, Safegraph and NQB8. This is one of the most interesting conversations I have had on the show so far an...
2025-12-301h 44
We The BuildersE5: Karan Talati: SpaceX engineer to raising $30 million for First ResonanceThis is another one from the Reindustrialize conference in Detroit. I got to sit down with Karan Talati, CEO and co-founder of First Resonance, the factory operating system used by companies like Astranis, Radiant and now nearly 60 companies across mission-critical industries—think aerospace, defense tech, energy (including nuclear), heavy machinery, and robotics. With $30M raised and a rapidly growing 50-person team in Los Angeles, First Resonance is streamlining the orchestration of chaotic, high-stakes factory environments so that "good designs get into the process, good products get built, and we can manage all the chaos that inherently happens in the ph...
2025-08-231h 41
We The BuildersE1: Shahin Farshchi: Investing at Lux Capital and Accelerating a Sci-Fi FutureThis is it—the very first episode of We The Builders. Earlier this year, I sat down with Shahin Farshchi in LA. He is a General Partner at Lux Capital, a venture fund with $5B AUM. To kick us off, who better than the man who was investing in hard tech 18 years before it was cool:Shahin has invested in companies manufacturing in space (Varda), building autonomous transportation systems (Zoox), providing robots as a service (Formic), automating industries (Covariant), using space to revolutionize the Earth observation industry (Planet), 3D printing rockets (Relativity Space) and many more. ...
2025-07-271h 21
Lumos House TalksTalent, Tools, and Space Tech with Suffiyan MalikEpisode Notes
We’re Blindspot, and we created a platform that so far has helped 20,000 advertisers step out into the spotlight and advertise on any digital billboard in the world. To take this even one step further, we created Lumos House, a series of events where people meet and discuss openly to learn from each other and share authentic experiences.
In this episode, we sit down with Suffiyan Malik to discuss his recent trip to El Segundo, the thriving aerospace hub in California, and the exciting developments in space exploration and hardware manufacturing.
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2024-12-1658 minLumos House TalksWhy Academia Fails Entrepreneurs with Suffiyan MalikEpisode Notes
We’re Blindspot and, to put it humbly, we’re the best digital out-of-home advertising company in the world. We started out as just a couple of scrappy immigrants looking to shake up a bloated industry and now we’ve helped 20,000 advertisers get their message out there. We love meeting other scrappy people who are also trying to turn shine a flashlight in the dark. That’s why we started and sponsored Lumos House - a series of in-person events where we get to meet those fellow light-shiners. One of those luminaries is Suffiyan Malik, Cofounder...
2024-12-1324 min