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No Fixed Route

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by Girum Tihtina

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No Fixed Route is a podcast about the nuanced route founders take to get to Series B...for founders tired of generic advice. We talk about the stuff nobody has time to write blog posts about yet incredibly important: hiring, GTM, scaling your team, surviving the messy middle. No Fixed Route is also the very first podcast to record inside a moving Zoox Autonomous Vehicle. It is hosted by Girum Tihtina, CEO of Doctours, ex-meta engineer, 2x founder, professional startup enthusiast. Girum has lived the Series A/B grind and knows where generic advice falls flat.

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June 11, 2026

Luke Mercado on Foam AI, Debugging Agents and the B2B Sale Nobody Talks About

Luke Mercado built Daybreak Health from zero to Series B, got angry and bitter about the US healthcare system, and walked away eleven months after the raise. Then he co-founded Foam AI, a debugging agent that figures out why your software broke, who is actually responsible, and sends a fix directly to the engineer who can action it. Not the get blamed engineer. The right one. In this episode we get into why his co-founder Perla sat through three Black Fridays on call at a buy now pay later company fixing broken systems for 48 hours straight, why GitHub going from five nines to three nines of uptime is a sign of something much bigger happening across the entire software industry, how 40% of all B2B deals are lost to the status quo of building in house and why that rate is going up, why a CEO at a conference pulled Luke aside away from his own team to talk about system stability, the difference between making a problem go away versus making it smaller and why only one of those gets people to pay, and why if you are angry and bitter you will kill your company and the only honest move is to leave. If you are an engineering leader, a B2B founder, or anyone who has ever been paged at 2am for something that was not your bug this one is for you.Host: X: https://x.com/og_doctourist LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daag/About No Fixed Route No Fixed Route is a podcast about the nuanced paths founders take to reach Series B, for founders tired of generic advice. We talk about the things nobody has time to write blogs about: hiring, GTM, scaling your team, and surviving the messy middle. Hosted by Girum Tihtina, CEO of Doctours, ex-Meta engineer, and two-time founder. Girum has lived the Series A/B grind, knows where generic advice falls flat, and is mostly here to learn for himself.Sponsored by Doctours: the most trusted medical tourism marketplace. Check them out here https://doctours.comNo Fixed Route is the first-ever podcast filmed inside a Zoox autonomous vehicle. Each episode features world-class guests exploring the intersection of technology, innovation, and the future of mobility. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/194HVqbXPYrWFKlrVAOcmn?si=q5N-afFSSsmNMCR9nDDv3Q | Watch on YouTube:.youtube.com/@NoFixedRoutePod | Instagram: @nofixedroute | X: @nofixedroute

May 25, 2026

Priyanka: Why She Chose to Give Up Her Startup and Has Zero Regrets

Priyanka co-founded Galen AI, a personal health intelligence platform that connected your lab results, wearables, genetic testing and EHR data into one reasoning layer that gave you proactive personalized health guidance. They were growing every single day through word of mouth and Reddit. And then ChatGPT for Health dropped. In this episode Priyanka walks through exactly what happened the morning her co-founder messaged her saying oh my god did you see the Twitter announcement, why their first reaction was we are screwed, how three months of weekly calls with Oura turned into an acquisition she was initially hesitant to take, what she would do completely differently if she started a consumer company again including opening a TikTok on day negative ten before writing a single line of code, why she thinks 75% of early consumer founder time should go to community before product, where she thinks the consumer health market is heading over the next five to ten years, and why nobody has meaningfully won the AI doctor race yet. If you are a consumer founder, building in healthtech, or just want to hear what it actually feels like when a lab with unlimited resources ships your product, this one is essential.Host: X: https://x.com/og_doctourist LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daag/About No Fixed Route No Fixed Route is a podcast about the nuanced paths founders take to reach Series B, for founders tired of generic advice. We talk about the things nobody has time to write blogs about: hiring, GTM, scaling your team, and surviving the messy middle. Hosted by Girum Tihtina, CEO of Doctours, ex-Meta engineer, and two-time founder. Girum has lived the Series A/B grind, knows where generic advice falls flat, and is mostly here to learn for himself.Sponsored by Doctours: the most trusted medical tourism marketplace. Check them out here https://doctours.comNo Fixed Route is the first-ever podcast filmed inside a Zoox autonomous vehicle. Each episode features world-class guests exploring the intersection of technology, innovation, and the future of mobility. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/194HVqbXPYrWFKlrVAOcmn?si=q5N-afFSSsmNMCR9nDDv3Q | Watch on YouTube:.youtube.com/@NoFixedRoutePod | Instagram: @nofixedroute | X: @nofixedroute

May 16, 2026

She Made a Daily Game. Someone Broke Up Over It. Then a VC Called About His Wife.

Helen Huang, founder of Trove and former PM at Microsoft, GitHub, and Zynga, sat down with us in a Zoox autonomous vehicle in San Francisco. Someone emailed her to say they broke up with their girlfriend over her app. Then one of her investors sent it to his wife and it led to a "heated discussion."That app is Trove — a daily choose-your-own-adventure game that reveals your personality through the decisions you make. Think Wordle meets Myers-Briggs, but what you build becomes portable identity data you can plug into any system. "Log in with Trove" — the way you log in with Google.In this episode:→ The daily game that's accidentally breaking up couples (and what that means)→ Why AI is making people desperate to understand who they actually are→ She went to university to win back her ex-boyfriend (and it worked)→ 800 job applications, every cover letter by hand — zero offers→ Her co-founder promised $200K. They didn't pay themselves for 18 months.→ She left Microsoft 6 weeks before a life-changing stock vest→ Her investor Jason Calacanis told her to burn all her money in 12 months→ The loneliness of being a solo founder that AI can't fix→ Betaworks: the accelerator backed Giphy, Bitly, Hugging Face — and now TroveFilmed inside a Zoox autonomous robotaxi in San Francisco. 🎙️ No Fixed Route — the first ever tech podcast filmed in a Zoox robotaxi.Host: X: https://x.com/og_doctourist LinkedIn: / daag Sponsored by Doctours: the most trusted medical tourism marketplace. Check them out here https://doctours.comListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/194HVqb... | Watch on YouTube:. / @nofixedroutepod | Instagram: @nofixedroute | X: @nofixedroute#PersonalityAI #AIStartup #FounderStory #NoFixedRoute #Trove

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What is No Fixed Route?: No Fixed Route is a podcast about the nuanced route founders take to get to Series B...for founders tired of generic advice. We talk about the stuff nobody has time to write blog posts about yet incredibly important: hiring, GTM, scaling your team, surviving the messy middle.

No Fixed Route is also the very first podcast to record inside a moving Zoox Autonomous Vehicle.

It is hosted by Girum Tihtina, CEO of Doctours, ex-meta engineer, 2x founder, professional startup enthusiast. Girum has lived the Series A/B grind and knows where generic advice falls flat.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

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