ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The New Builder brings founders together to rethink how companies get built, with AI as the foundation, not just a tool.
Hosted by Brian Hecht, a 20-year founder and 10-year investor who never wrote a line of code until AI changed everything. Conversations with founders kept circling back to the same thing: how do you actually build something valuable when the ground is shifting under your feet? Nobody has the answer yet. But the people who figure it out are going to do it together.
Each week, Brian sits down with founders, operators, and builders who are navigating the AI era in real time. Honest conversations about what's working, what's not, and what comes next.
New episodes every Thursday.
Update frequency:
every 18 days
Average audio length:
31 minutes
English
United States
9 episodes
since April 14, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Mohannad Arbaji founded ChalkTalk, an ed-tech company now serving school districts in 19 states, built on a simple belief: talent is universal, but access to opportunity isn’t. He caught the AI bug in February, the same month as host Brian Hecht, and within months made a move most founders won’t: h…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Jesse Allouf is the chief marketing officer of Tire Agent, one of the largest tire e-commerce sites in the country. He’s also one of the most advanced AI users Brian knows personally.What they cover: what Tire Agent actually does and why tire selection online is harder than it looks. Where AI touch…
Mark Fershteyn spent seven years building Recapped the traditional way: raise $8M, hire 20-something people, grind. It never became the success he thought it should be. Then ChatGPT came out — and for the first time, a non-technical founder could take an idea straight out of his brain and build it …
Shanif Dhanani is a four-time founder and data scientist who was doing AI back when it was just called machine learning. One company acquired by Twitter, another (Apteo) backed by our accelerator, which is where we met. Now he's building Nobi, a semantic search engine for e-commerce that has never …
I sit down with Andrew Ackerman, exited founder, reformed VC, professor...and one of the most thoughtful AI users I know, for an unfiltered conversation about how he actually uses this stuff every day.
No theory. No "AI will change everything" hand-waving. Just how a non-coder runs his work, his c…
Todd Baldwin, CEO of Crafted, breaks down how his lean startup built a data bridge between social media marketing and in-store retail sales — and how AI agents are helping them punch way above their weight.Crafted works with brands selling into Walmart, Target, and regional grocery stores, solving …
Jeff Latz spent 10 years as a professional engineer before walking away to pursue music — and ended up building Friday, an e-commerce platform for independent musicians, almost entirely with AI agents.In this episode, Brian Hecht sits down with Jeff to unpack how he went from professional engineer …
Everyone says "just use AI agents." Nobody explains what that actually means — until now.Davida Ginter is the co-founder of ELOO, an exciting startup that helps companies quickly train and onboard AI agents to perform virtually any task. In this episode, we break down what an agent actually is (vs.…
Scott Werner has spent three years building AI-native products in one of the fastest-moving corners of tech. What he learned: being early isn't the same as being right, and building for where models are going is a trap if you can't sell what exists today.
In this conversation, Scott and Brian get …
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