The Building Blocks Podcast

About The Building Blocks Podcast

This podcast is focused on finding out what the next generation of products is going to look like! We plan to dive into all the spaces you may have already heard of: Web3, Blockchain, Crypto, AI, Machine Learning, the list goes on! Tuesdays at 5am PST/8am EST! Connect with Daivik: https://daivikgoel.com

Publisher

Daivik Goel

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Sept 2022

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

38 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Creating Agentic Storefronts | Dana Nedamaldeen | Neocom

   In this episode of Building Blocks, we're joined by Dana Nedamaldeen, CEO and co-founder of Neocom.ai, an AI-powered guided selling platform helping online shoppers find the right product through conversational, usage-based recommendations instead of endless scrolling and filtering. Dana brings over a decade of software and entrepreneurship experience, having built and led teams across travel tech, healthcare tech, and service industries before founding Neocom.ai in Munich in 2022. He discusses how Neocom.ai has already helped more than 5 million consumers find products online, the company's recent €4.5M raise led by Carbide Ventures and Sangha Capital, and the strategic push to expand from Europe into the U.S. market. Guest: Dana Nedamaldeen LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dana-nedamaldeen Connect with Daivik: https://bento.me/daivik Follow the Podcast: https://bento.me/thebbpod Topics: 0:00 Introduction 1:05 Dana's path into entrepreneurship, from a London startup to founder 6:02 Meeting Sebastian and founding Neocom 9:34 What Neocom is, and choosing B2B over a consumer brand 11:15 How LLMs collapse the shopping journey into one agentic layer 13:46 Data silos, early results, and why multi-agent beats single-agent products 22:54 Beyond filters: qualitative context and the data-pipeline challenge 24:44 Emotional vs. non-emotional purchases, and agents serving agents 28:42 The ASEQUAL study on conversational shopping quality 34:01 Big players entering the space, and Neocom's contrarian bet 41:47 Vision for the agentic layer and U.S. expansion 43:13 Book Recommendation: Traction / EOS 44:25 Wrap-up #AI #Ecommerce #AgenticCommerce #shopping #Startups #GuidedSelling #BuildingBlocksPodcast #podcast

2. 

   3 Sept 2026

   Getting Discovered in the Age of AI | Michelle Marcelline | The Prompting Company

   In this episode of Building Blocks, we're joined by Michelle Marcelline, co-founder of The Prompting Company (YC S25), on her 3rd startup with the same founding team she met in a college CS101 class. Michelle traces her path to entrepreneurship back to watching The Social Network in middle school in Indonesia, a moment that led her to convince her parents to send her to school in San Francisco with one explicit goal: become a founder.She and her co-founders built their first real win in 2017, arbitraging a 20% Bitcoin price gap between the U.S. and Indonesia, before going through Y Combinator's W20 batch, pivoting away from a stock-investing idea, building a passwordless auth company called Cotter (acquired by Stych), and then Type Dream, an AI website builder eventually acquired by Beehiiv.Michelle now leads The Prompting Company, helping products get discovered and used by AI agents through what the industry calls Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), being the answer language models give, not just the top Google result. Michelle and Daivik dig into the mechanical difference between SEO and GEO, her first-ever agentic purchase at Stripe's Tempo event, working with NVIDIA's under-the-radar developer tools, and the lessons that only really sink in once you've been through the hard parts yourself.Guest: Michelle MarcellineLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michelle-marcellineConnect with Daivik: https://bento.me/daivikFollow the Podcast: https://bento.me/thebbpodTopics:00:01 — Guest background: how The Social Network sparked a founder obsession01:32 — Meeting her co-founders: shared immigrant ambition and lasting team chemistry03:12 — Early ventures before YC: 10+ failed experiments including Bitcoin arbitrage08:05 — Getting into YC and pivoting away from US stocks for Indonesia09:23 — Building Cotter: passwordless auth pivots to US market, sold to Stitch15:16 — Building Type Dream: Notion-like website builder gains traction, sold to Beehiiv20:43 — Why start a third company: builders at heart, the SF effect23:22 — What The Prompting Company does: Generative Engine Optimization explained25:26 — SEO vs GEO, agentic commerce, NVIDIA collaboration, seed round & customers40:32 — Closing: book reco and what's next for the Prompting Company#AI #GenerativeEngineOptimization #Startups #YCombinator #Entrepreneurship #Founders #BuildingBlocksPodcast #podcast#thepromptingcompany

3. 

   4 Mar 2025

   A $152M Bet on Human Connection | Kris Rudeegraap | Sendoso

   In this episode of Building Blocks, we dive deep with Kris Rudeegraap, Co-founder and CEO of Sendoso, an AI-enhanced gifting platform that's revolutionizing how companies build authentic connections with customers and prospects. From selling mistletoe as a kid to building a company that's raised $152M in venture funding, Kris shares his entrepreneurial journey and insights on scaling both software and physical operations globally.Guest: Kris RudeegraapLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudeegraap/Connect with Daivik: https://bento.me/daivikFollow the Podcast: https://bento.me/thebbpodTopics:0:00: Introduction2:40: Early entrepreneurial experiences and Silicon Valley influence8:15: Building Sendoso and validating the initial concept14:30: Scaling marketplace operations and warehouse logistics21:45: The Alyce acquisition and consolidation in the gifting space27:30: Relocating HQ from San Francisco to Phoenix33:15: Balancing AI automation with human connection39:40: Managing global operations and quality control45:20: Integration strategy and partnerships51:35: Book Recommendations53:00: Future of Sendoso and AI innovation#B2BSales #Entrepreneurship #StartupLife #PhysicalOperations #AIInnovation #BuildingBlocksPodcast #podcast

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YouTube views

35,824

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

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Quality

73

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

60

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