Startup Jazz #2: From Burnout to Breakthrough — The Founder's Survival Kit
In this 88-minute deep dive, George and Michelle tackle the question every founder struggles with but rarely admits: How do you level up as a leader when you're drowning in execution?
We break down six game-changing frameworks from First Round Review's leadership playbook—from Chris Holmberg's "I…
Buffalo’s Vacant Lot Problem—Or Opportunity? | Buffalo in Transition
What if Buffalo’s vacant lots could become thriving spaces for housing, gardens, and community power?
This week on The Public Good, we’re joined by Tim Chen from Grassroots Gardens of WNY, and Tendaji Ya’Ukuu and Star from Eastside Stewards for a conversation rooted in transformation. Inspired by …
NerdWallet CEO Tim Chen
In this episode Seth Stevenson talks to Tim Chen, found and CEO of NerdWallet. During their conversation Chen talks about what inspired him to found the company, how millennials think about money choices, and what he thinks the U.S. government should be doing when it comes to consumer financial pr…
Building a bug-free vibe coding world (Chat with Akshay from Antithesis)
In this episode of the Infra Pod, hosts Ian Livingston (Keycard) and Tim Chen (Essence VC) interviewed the Field CTO Akshay Shah of Antithesis, diving deep into the world of distributed systems, reliability, and the future of software testing. The conversation covers the challenges of building bug…
From 30 Seconds to 20ms: Solving Browser Speed for AI Agents (Chat with Catherine from Kernel)
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (Keycard) sat down with Catherine Jue, co-founder and CEO of Kernel, to explore the cutting-edge world of browser infrastructure for AI agents.
Catherine shares her journey from Cash App to founding Kernel, explain…
Multifamily Is Breaking: Where Smart Operators Are Actually Winning Now
Tim Chen brings a ground-level view of what’s actually happening in multifamily today—from rapid expansion during peak markets to navigating one of the toughest cycles in recent memory. After scaling from brokerage into ownership and development, Tim shares how shifting strategies, controlling cos…
Betting on Open Source Models to be the future (Chat with Benny, Cofounder of Fireworks AI)
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (Keycard) sit down with Benny Chen, co-founder of Fireworks AI, to explore the evolving world of AI inference infrastructure.
Benny shares his journey from Meta — where capacity planning meetings made it clear GPUs …
From 50 million developers to a billion builders (with Tyler Wells, CTO of BrainGrid)
What happens when the tools for building software stop requiring you to know how to code?
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (GP at Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (CEO of Keycard) sit down with Tyler Wells, co-founder and CTO of BrainGrid (ex-Senior Director of Engineering at Twili…
What happens to your service mesh when the workloads running on it aren't written by humans? (Chat with William at Buoyant)
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (GP at Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (CEO of Keycard) sit down with William Morgan, co-founder and CEO of Buoyant and creator of Linkerd, to explore how AI agents are reshaping the infrastructure layer — from service security to inference routing.…
1,000 tokens per second: the case against predicting one word at a time (Kumar, VP of Engineering at Inception)
What if the entire LLM industry has been solving language generation the slow way — one token at a time?
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (GP at Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (CEO of Keycard) sit down with Kumar, VP of Engineering at Inception, to unpack Mercury 2, the company's…
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