by Kyriakos Eleftheriou
Kyriakos Eleftheriou, the founder and CEO of Terra API speaks with some of the best founders and CEOs in the space of health and fitness, to learn how the best are building their businesses. At TERRA API, we are on a mission to enable developers to connect and create solutions by using health data.
Language
🇺🇲
Publishing Since
2/8/2022
See how your podcast performs across key metrics
Recommendations available
Unlock the full report to see detailed tips
Recommendations available
Unlock the full report to see detailed tips
Unlock comprehensive insights including:
See how your show performs across every key metric
High authority scores make your podcast more attractive to industry leaders and influencers who want to appear on credible shows.
Sponsors look for podcasts with proven authority and engagement. Your score demonstrates your podcast's value to potential partners.
Understanding your strengths and weaknesses helps you make data-driven decisions to expand your listener base effectively.
Pitch yourself as a guest, propose sponsorships, or reach out directly to the host.
July 3, 2026
<p><a href="linkedin.com/in/ghvarnava/?skipRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">George Hadjivarnava</a> co-founded Foody as CTO with no VC money, made it profitable in under 2 years, and sold it to Delivery Hero in the biggest tech acquisition in Cyprus.</p><p><br></p><p>Scaling through COVID from restaurant menus to full supermarkets, total downtime: 45 minutes.</p><p><br></p><p>Now he leads engineering strategy at Terra and he believes the next infrastructure layer won't be built for developers at all.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why in two years 90% of Terra's customers will be agents instead of developers</li><li>Why MCPs didn't invent anything new, and the missing layer that transfers intent instead of commands</li><li>Why nothing performs well past 100k tokens despite 1M context windows</li><li>The decision log: AI's most underrated asset inside a company</li><li>Bootstrapping Foody from phone orders and cash payments to a national exit</li><li>Compressing hiring from 3 weeks to 1 day with 30,000 applications a year</li><li>The 24/7 AI health system: even a billionaire's team of doctors goes to sleep</li><p><br></p></ul><p>(0:00) Intro</p><p>(1:30) Startup ecosystem in Cyprus: more incubators than startups<br>(7:20) Why ecosystems compound<br>(23:00) Flunking Imperial and building websites to pay rent<br>(29:00) Foody's first version: phone orders, cash only<br>(39:35) The Delivery Hero acquisition and COVID scaling<br>(43:05) 45 minutes of total downtime<br>(44:45) You can one-shot an app. You can't one-shot 100M users<br>(50:25) Joining Terra<br>(56:40) The missing agent layer: intent, not commands<br>(1:02:50) The 24/7 AI health system<br>(1:09:35) The 90% agents prediction<br>(1:11:05) Hiring compressed from 3 weeks to 1 day<br>(1:15:35) The decision log: building a company brain<br>(1:19:10) Why 1M context windows are marketing<br>(1:26:35) Three changes to become a real technology hub</p><p><br></p>
June 1, 2026
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/gralston" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Geoff Ralston</a> built Rocket Mail before Yahoo Mail existed, built Lala before Spotify worked in America, sat in Steve Jobs' living room to get an acquisition approved, and ran Y Combinator as President. Now he says the most important thing he's ever worked on is making sure AI doesn't kill us.</p><p>In this episode with <a href="https://twitter.com/kyriakosel" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kyriakos Eleftheriou</a>, Geoff speaks about YC, SAIF, the Yahoo acquisition, and the top learnings after decades in silicon valley</p><p>00:00 Introduction</p><p>03:45 The $70K bet that built Sand Hill Road</p><p>06:07 Early to every wave</p><p>06:59 "The most important thing I've ever worked on"</p><p>08:18 Timing is luck. Here's how to get lucky anyway</p><p>10:46 Quitting HP the day he saw the Mosaic browser</p><p>15:39 Paul Graham's "packets of cash" acquisition rule</p><p>19:35 The Yahoo revolt that almost killed the deal</p><p>33:45 Zuck killed Facebook Music in one sentence</p><p>39:05 Why Steve Jobs offered him a job — and why he said no</p><p>45:40 Running Y Combinator</p><p>50:37 Steve Jobs' real superpower</p><p>54:06 Why AI is more dangerous than people think</p><p>01:01:15 Peter Thiel is wrong about competition</p><p>01:03:31 Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection</p><p><br /></p>
May 1, 2026
<p>By the age of 25, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/#">David Lee</a> survived stage 4 lymphoma. Not only did he not let it stop him, he worked early in Google, became a partner at SV Angel during the Airbnb / Twitter / Dropbox / Snapchat era, and now leads <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/#">Samsung Next</a>. In the latest discussion with <a href="https://x.com/kyriakosel" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Kyriakos Eleftheriou</a> in Los Angeles, they discussed:</p><p><br></p><p>CHAPTERS</p><p><br></p><p>(00:00) Introduction </p><p>(02:30) Why digital health still hasn't had its "reusable rocket"</p><p>(07:00) "Law school is coding for your mind"</p><p>(08:30) How Elon, Dorsey and Belichick boil any problem down to 3 things</p><p>(11:00) Telling Yo-Yo Ma from a college cellist — how to spot real talent</p><p>(14:00) The NFL gets the #1 pick wrong 50% of the time — so how do you pick founders?</p><p>(16:30) Most pro athletes are scared in big games</p><p>(19:30) Without a killer product, you have no strategy</p><p>(22:00) Vanity beats health — why no one wears the clunky device</p><p>(29:00) Your kids will never do what you tell them — they copy what you do</p><p>(32:30) Jensen Huang, Saturdays, and why the top person sets everything</p><p>(37:30) The "red zone of intelligence" AI will never touch</p><p>(38:30) Why the great fitness instructor gets paid more in the AI era</p><p>(40:30) Why VC is the wrong financing model for the next decade</p><p>(41:30) Mike Ovitz and CAA — the playbook for winning in AI</p><p><br></p>
Guests from recent episodes — sign up to see every guest that has ever appeared on this show.
Marcelo Lebre
Guest
George Robson
Guest
Discover related shows you might enjoy
Have a different question and can't find the answer you're looking for? Reach out to our support team by sending us an email and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
Kyriakos Eleftheriou, the founder and CEO of Terra API speaks with some of the best founders and CEOs in the space of health and fitness, to learn how the best are building their businesses.
At TERRA API, we are on a mission to enable developers to connect and create solutions by using health data.
This podcast updates weekly.
This podcast is available on 10 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.
Pod Engine is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected with any of the podcasts displayed on this platform. We operate independently as a podcast discovery and analytics service.
All podcast artwork, thumbnails, and content displayed on this page are the property of their respective owners and are protected by applicable copyright laws. This includes, but is not limited to, podcast cover art, episode artwork, show descriptions, episode titles, transcripts, audio snippets, and any other content originating from the podcast creators or their licensors.
We display this content under fair use principles and/or implied license for the purpose of podcast discovery, information, and commentary. We make no claim of ownership over any podcast content, artwork, or related materials shown on this platform. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
While we strive to ensure all content usage is properly authorized, if you are a rights holder and believe your content is being used inappropriately or without proper authorization, please contact us immediately at hey@podengine.ai for prompt review and appropriate action, which may include content removal or proper attribution.
By accessing and using this platform, you acknowledge and agree to respect all applicable copyright laws and intellectual property rights of content owners. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or commercial use of the content displayed on this platform is strictly prohibited.
