Maggie Stamets, Author at TechCrunch

Collibra is bringing data governance into the AI era

Maggie Stamets — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:03:33 +0000

With the rise of AI, having accessible, accurate, and organized data is more critical than ever. When it comes to making informed strategy decisions or training a new LLM, having your information in order is the first step. This week on Found, we’re talking with Collibra CEO Felix Van de Maele, whose company is building […]

Waabi is taking generative AI into the physical world with autonomous long-haul trucks

Maggie Stamets — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:51:57 +0000

This week on Found, we’re diving into the future of trucking with Raquel Urtasun, CEO and co-founder of Waabi, a company pioneering driverless, long-haul trucks powered by generative AI. Hosts Dominic-Madori Davis and Becca Szkutak learn about Waabi’s unique simulation-based training and how this approach is intended to minimize mistakes once the massive trucks hit […]

What the Chainsmokers bring to the cap table for cybersecurity startup Chainguard

Maggie Stamets — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:46:44 +0000

For this week’s episode of Found we’re taking you backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Becca Szkutak had the chance to talk with Dan Lorenc, the CEO and co-founder of cybersecurity startup Chainguard, following their conversation onstage with prominent investors, The Chainsmokers. The pair discuss how the EDM duo’s venture fund MANTIS went from being viewed skeptically by […]

Howie Liu on how smart UX led to Airtable’s success

Maggie Stamets — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:48:12 +0000

This week on Found, Dom and Becca talk with Howie Liu, the CEO and co-founder of Airtable to talk about how the Airtable team used smart UX to make app development accessible to even the least technical users. Liu discusses how human-computer interaction is at the core of Airtable’s mission and behind each new product they […]

United will use SpaceX’s Starlink to bring free Wi-Fi to flights

Maggie Stamets — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000

United Airlines announced last week that it came to an agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring the Starlink internet service to its entire fleet. That’s a huge partnership for both parties, and as this rollout takes place, anyone who flies United will be able to access free Wi-Fi on their flight. Right now, United […]

FLO is improving EV charging infrastructure

Maggie Stamets, Dominic-Madori Davis, Rebecca Szkutak — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:00:46 +0000

Founded by Louis Tremblay, FLO is looking to build robust EV charging infrastructure that will create a reliable web for drivers to get to where they need to go.

AI is going to make Big Tech even bigger, and richer

Alex Wilhelm, Mary Ann Azevedo, Kirsten Korosec, Maggie Stamets — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:43:37 +0000

Welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday show, where we talk about the week’s biggest news.

The AI machines are coming for thought work, and other TC news

Maggie Stamets — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 21:03:02 +0000

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Podcast, where we break down the biggest stories in tech with the people who covered them. The internet is always changing, but something about generative AI feels different. With the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the machines are evolving beyond remix and delivery machines to become the content creators themselves. In […]

Meta’s metaverse isn’t bad, it’s just boring, and other TC news

Maggie Stamets — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 09:30:53 +0000

Welcome to another episode of the TechCrunch Podcast where we break down the week’s top tech stories with the people who wrote them. This week Darrell talks with Taylor Hatmaker about her adventure into the metaverse at the Meta Connect event. And Haje Jan Kamps comes back to take the guest seat and talk about a Dutch court’s […]

Making robots that make robots to take over the world

Maggie Stamets — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:30:01 +0000

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Jordan talk with Scott Gravelle, the CEO and co-founder of Attabotics, a robotics company that specializes in distribution and supply chain. Scott talks about how he was inspired by the Cutter Ants to design a vertical warehouse and create […]

mmhmm co-founders are building the great pyramid of hybrid work

Maggie Stamets — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 23:00:53 +0000

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. When Phil Libin co-founded Evernote he spent tons of money making the perfect working environment with chic offices, a shuttle bus and headphones to block out all of his employees’ distracting co-workers. He’s since seen the work-from-home light and co-founded mmhmm to make working remotely more efficient […]

How Change co-founders brainstormed their way into entrepreneurship

Maggie Stamets — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:33:23 +0000

Welcome back to Found, the podcast where we get the stories behind the startups. After graduating college, co-founders Amar Shah and Sonia Nigam were bored with their first ”real jobs,” so through trial and error they came up with the idea to develop an API that processes donations, called Change. They talk with Darrell and […]

Expanding the boundaries of primary care with Kelsey Mellard from Sitka

Maggie Stamets — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:30:28 +0000

Welcome back to Found, the podcast that brings you the stories behind the startups. We talk to a lot of health tech founders on this show because there are countless ways the healthcare system, particularly in the U.S., needs to be disrupted. This week, we talked to Kelsey Mellard, who founded Sitka with the goal […]

7 conversations with YC founders about their entrepreneurial journeys

Maggie Stamets — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:00:05 +0000

It’s YC Demo Day week, which has us nostalgic for the conversations Found hosts have had with founders who have been through the famed accelerator program. In every episode of Found, hosts Darrell Etherington and Jordan Crook dig into a founder’s background, the peaks and pits of starting and running a company, and relationships and […]

Selling Sunset’s Christine Quinn on Found Live to talk about new venture RealOpen

Maggie Stamets — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:00:49 +0000

Welcome back to Found, the podcast where we hear the stories behind the startups. This week we have a special Found Live edition. This week Darrell is joined by special guest host Anita Ramaswamy from TechCrunch’s Chain Reaction to talk with Christine Quinn (who you probably know from Selling Sunset) and her husband Christian Dumontet […]

Abridge founder talks about fighting ‘pajama time’ burnout in doctors

Maggie Stamets — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:54:10 +0000

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week’s guest Shiv Rao founded Abridge after experiencing how unnerving it can be to go through a medical emergency with a loved one — even for a practicing doctor like himself. So he and the Abridge team created an app that doesn’t […]

Jay Chandrasekhar is using revenge to build a new review app

Maggie Stamets — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 17:00:48 +0000

Welcome back to Found, where we tell you the stories behind the startups. Super Troopers premiered at Sundance to a receptive, giggling crowd, but if you judged it based on its Rotten Tomato score and reviews, you’d think it flopped. Writer, director, comedian and recent founder Jay Chandrasekhar never felt right about the critiques from […]

How this founder is SaaS-ifying air-quality tracking

Maggie Stamets — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:38:06 +0000

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week, Darrell and Jordan talked with Davida Herzl the co-founder and CEO of Aclima. We all have a right to clean air, but chances are you aren’t getting accurate air quality data — Davida and the Aclima team are looking to change […]

How NFTs fit into the comic book creator economy

Maggie Stamets — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:50:32 +0000

Hello and welcome back to Found, the podcast where we share the stories behind the startups. In this episode, we’re talking about the creator economy and one of the most neglected creator categories — the comic book. Comics are the foundation for so many movies, TV shows and video games however creators still struggle to […]

Incredible Health CEO talks maintaining company culture through incredible growth

Maggie Stamets — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:54:54 +0000

Welcome to the first bonus episode of Found! Typically we get the stories behind the startups but things change rapidly in startups so in the bonus episodes we’re catching up with some past guests to see how founder life is going a year or so later. In this mini-sode we’re catching up with the very first […]