San Diego has a story. We just find the people telling it. Into the Den is a weekly conversation with the founders, creatives, and operators who are building something worth knowing about in America's finest city. Pull up a chair and step into the den.
Every event worth going to in San Diego, every week → TheCoyote.co ( https://TheCoyote.co )Ohad Tzur turned down San Diego before he ever really saw it. He was at Google with an offer from a company in Carlsbad, and his whole hangup was the location. S...
2 Sept 2026
Constantine Yaremtso - Self Inspection
Constantine runs Self Inspection, which uses AI to figure out the condition of a vehicle from a few photos taken on a phone. The funny thing is they started out building software to make human inspectors better, and pretty quickly learned how biased hu...
25 Aug 2026
Rylie Jennings - Outspoken Management Group
Rylie plans some of the coolest events in San Diego, and the funny thing is she never wanted to be in the events business. But growing up in a huge Polynesian family with 27 cousins kind of forces you to organize large groups of people, and she got rea...
12 Aug 2026
Hussein Yahfoufi - Eventship
Hussein Yahfoufi sold his company to a Bay Area firm in 2022.He was fully remote and a bit lonely in his home office in Encinitas. All the interesting events required a drive through the infamous 52 freeway. So he hosted his own. Twelve people showed u...
22 Jul 2026
Sam Hodgson - Uptown 11 Studios
Sam Hodgson moved to San Diego when he was three and a half years old. He flew in from New Zealand. He has lived here ever since, except for four years in New York covering the country for the Times. He came back when his first kid was born. He founded...
3 Jul 2026
Kris Lichter - TL Foundation
Kris Lichter grew up in Bird Rock. His dad had a small boat at a slip in Mission Bay, and on Saturdays he'd drag Kris down (sometimes willingly, sometimes not) while he tinkered. Kris would fish off the docks for halibut, or whatever he could catch. He...
28 May 2026
James Zanewicz - Connect
James Zanewicz didn't plan on San Diego. He'd lived in Louisville, LA, New Orleans, DC, Illinois, and New Orleans again. He changed his phone number to a 504 area code. He was not leaving. Then his friends started blowing up a group chat with a job pos...
19 May 2026
Alex Waters - The Program Labs
Alex Waters got connected in San Diego by getting sandwiches. Not metaphorically. He was volunteering at Startup Week when nobody could figure out who was going to feed the volunteers. He raised his hand. Walked down the street. Problem solved. That's ...
23 Apr 2026
Ross Young - Clinically AI
Ross Young built Clinically AI from his living room. Literally. When Jonah showed up to plan a bootstrappers event at Ross's house, it was also the office. This conversation starts there, and goes deep on what it actually takes to build something from ...
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