
Practical Nerds
Hosted by Patric Hellermann and Shub Bhattacharya and Patric and Shub · Patric Hellermann
- 90
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 2023
- First episode
- 18K
- YouTube views
About Practical Nerds
The latest in venture and technology in the real world, from construction-tech to design-tech. Two early-stage investors shooting the breeze about startups, founders and venture funding. We talk about design, construction, renovation, blue-collar, robotics and supply chains. Hosted by Patric Hellermann and Shub Bhattacharya, General Partners at Foundamental (www.foundamental.com).
- Publisher
- Patric Hellermann
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 May 2023
- Latest episode
- 21 May 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 90 episodes have a transcript.

21 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
090 | AI Insourcing Is Here And Someone Is Accidentally Betting Against It

30 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
089⎟Bet-Taking Factories and Commercial AI Engineers: The New Shape of Engineering?

17 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
088 | A New Venture Asset Class Is In The Making - Hidden In Plain Sight
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090 | AI Insourcing Is Here And Someone Is Accidentally Betting Against It
Published 21 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I'm not aware of a dedicated service which does that. I would usually put that down to, I guess, human instinct or a professional hunch and stuff like that. Maybe at some point AI will capture those things as well. I can imagine if you visualize it as a layer, a service layer which does verification, authentication, and instinct check, I think that will become a more important capability to have. Although I'm not aware of that being an outsourced service as of now. So I can think of four characteristics that... If you have these, your service business will continue to thrive through AI and you will not be insourced. […]
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Patric Hellermann and Shub Bhattacharya and Patric and Shub host the show. Published by Patric Hellermann.
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