Nerding Out With Viktor is a podcast about tech, startups, and everything in between. Hosted by Viktor, a lifelong nerd and seasoned entrepreneur, the show features real conversations with builders, hackers, and technologists.
Viktor got his start in Silicon Valley with YippieMove, an early email migration tool, and later created Blotter, a top-ranked productivity app for macOS. He now runs Screenly — the first developer-friendly digital signage platform — and built its open-source sibling, Anthias. He's also been leading remote teams for over a decade, long before it became the norm.
Each episode explores topics like AI, software, cybersecurity, hardware, and the messy reality of building and scaling products. With a no-fluff, straight-talking approach, Nerding Out With Viktor is perfect for anyone who enjoys smart, technical conversations without the hype.
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Sovereign AI and the Agentic Cloud with Peter Damm
In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Peter Damm, co-founder of Granite (https://graniteinfra.ai/), a European company building infrastructure for sovereign AI, to unpack why the next phase of AI may be decided by infrastructure as much as by models. The UK pays offshore wind operators around three billion a year to switch their turbines off, while AI companies struggle to find power for the GPUs they have already bought.
Peter explains why agentic workloads need a different kind of cloud, one that balances GPUs, CPUs, memory and storage, and why the hardware ratio is flipping from eight GPUs per CPU toward eight CPUs per GPU. Granite builds modular, container-sized data centers that go where the stranded energy is, deploying in about four months rather than the five to seven years it takes to bring a traditional data center online.
The episode reframes sovereignty as a question of control rather than regulation. Closed models can be switched off or repriced overnight, while open models like Kimi now match frontier quality and can be audited and run on your own hardware. Viktor and Peter also cover unpredictable agent costs, the YOLO era of agent permissions, AI-driven security threats, and whether OpenAI and Anthropic will survive the revolution they helped start. For founders and engineering teams building on AI, it is a practical look at keeping models, data and costs under their own control.
29 Jul 2026
Leadership Coaching for Founders: Burnout, Habits, and Building Clarity with Ed Ley
In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Ed Ley, a leadership coach, author, former gym owner, and two-time TEDx speaker, to unpack why capable leaders get stuck even when they already know what they should be doing. Most leadership advice assumes the problem is information, but the gap between knowing and doing rarely closes by being told the right thing again.
Ed's route into this work started in fitness, where results are hard to hide, and moved through neuroscience, habit change, and years spent around both high-performance sport and business. The conversation traces how he came to treat behavior as a recipe that can be mapped rather than a plan that can be prescribed, and why the brain is better understood as a survival machine reacting to threat and uncertainty than as a rational one waiting for a destination.
The episode reframes burnout as a design problem rather than a workload one. Viktor and Ed cover the bungee cord effect of becoming the source of certainty for everyone around you, the predictions that sit underneath micromanagement, temporal discounting and the cost of inaction, and why bottlenecks in a company are solved by changing the architecture rather than asking the bottleneck to work harder.
27 May 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Trust Crisis Coming for Every System with David Pollak
In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with David Pollak, founder of Spice Labs and creator of the Lift web framework, to unpack post-quantum cryptography and why the migration window is shorter than most teams realize. Google now estimates elliptic curve encryption could be breakable by quantum computers in 2029, putting the trust layer behind every bank transaction, signed document, software update, and Bitcoin wallet on a fixed timeline.
David draws on a career that spans writing software for FEMA at 14, beating Lotus in the NeXT spreadsheet market, diagnosing Twitter's original Fail Whale, and years at Cisco's firewall group. The conversation moves from the mechanics of Shor's algorithm and lattice-based replacements to the harder problem underneath: discovering where cryptography actually lives across millions of microservices, legacy mainframes, and post-build artifacts that no SBOM tool can see.
The episode reframes the post-quantum transition as a discovery and prioritization problem before it is a remediation one. Viktor and David cover crypto agility, the hardware root-of-trust gap in TPMs and HSMs, why the forgery threat is bigger than harvest-now-decrypt-later, and what engineering teams should be doing in the next three years.
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