Vishnu Mohandas, Founder & CEO, Ente interviews leaders from the privacy ecosystem, who are building products and businesses to move the industry forward.
Vishnu's Podcast ft. Mo Bitar - Founder of Standard Notes [Part 2]
Mo Bitar, Founder of Standard Notes, returns for Part 2 of his conversation with Vishnu Mohandas, CEO of Ente — diving deeper into building privacy-first products, his burnout from privacy, life after Proton, and the lessons learned along the way.
Listen as they talk about startup struggles, the mental toll of building in public, and why Mo believes the future of privacy needs a different path.
Mo Bitar – https://mough.xyz (https://mough.xyz) | https://x.com/atmoio (https://x.com/moughxyz)
Conquer – https://conquer.dev/ (https://conquer.dev/)
Ente – https://ente.com/ (https://ente.io/)
1 May 2026
Vishnu's Podcast ft. Mo Bitar - Founder of Standard Notes [Part 1]
Mo Bitar, Founder, Standard Notes talks to Vishnu Mohandas, CEO of Ente on building Standard Notes, selling to Proton, and why he left Proton.
Part 2 coming soon.
Mo Bitar - https://x.com/moughxyz (https://x.com/moughxyz)
Conquer - https://conquer.dev/ (https://conquer.dev/)
Ente - https://ente.com (https://ente.io/)
30 Apr 2026
Free Search is a Trap | Kagi's CEO Vlad on Building a New Internet
Vladimir Prelovac, founder of Kagi, joins Vishnu Mohandas, CEO of Ente, to unpack the story behind a search engine built on trust, not ads.
Vlad explains why “free” search is a trap, how Big Tech’s incentives distort information, and what pushed him to build Kagi — a paid, privacy-first alternative.
They dig into the origin of Kagi, the browser built by one engineer, the vision for an independent ecosystem, and why incentives matter more than features.
If you care about privacy, the future of the web, or the mindset behind mission-driven products, this one’s worth your time.
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Chapters
00:00 Start
00:25 Intro
01:00 Why build Kagi?
03:50 Early days of Kagi
06:08 Public Benefit Corporation
10:17 Paying for Search
15:00 Orion Browser
20:52 Vlad’s origin story
24:46 Childhood memories
28:52 Kagi’s dependency on Yandex
32:05 The future of Kagi
35:37 Kagi Mail
39:00 Doing “too many” things
48:25 What makes Vlad optimistic
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Kagi: https://kagi.com/ (https://kagi.com/)
Vlad: https://x.com/vladquant (https://x.com/vladquant)
Discount for Kagi: https://ente.com/friends (https://ente.com/friends)
Discount for Ente: https://kagi.com/specials (https://kagi.com/specials)
24 Apr 2026
Techlore on Privacy, Surveillance and Optimism | Vishnu’s Podcast
Henry Fisher of Techlore talks to Vishnu about privacy, surveillance, and the future of the internet.
They discuss why it’s never too late to leave Big Tech, how age verification and online surveillance are reshaping our lives, and why this is the best moment to take control. Henry also shares how he has personally grown up along with Techlore over a decade and his plans for the future.
This is a pragmatic, optimistic conversation about fighting for a better internet without losing your sanity.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:57 Why privacy matters to Henry
02:42 How late is too late?
07:34 Techlore's origin story
11:33 Using YouTube to spread privacy
15:21 Threat modelling
18:58 Henry's threat model
22:19 Team behind Techlore
23:24 Techlore forum shut down
25:01 Techlore's business
31:30 Content consumption
34:45 Content creation
36:36 Facing the worst on the Internet
43:26 Influences on world view
45:48 Gratitude
46:50 Artificial Intelligence
57:03 Dystopia
1:03:16 Parenting
1:10:26 Improving privacy
1:14:43 Helping privacy tools
1:17:09 Compromising privacy
1:20:00 Rapid fire
1:24:18 Techlore's future
1:26:12 Henry's hope
Links:
Website: https://techlore.tech (https://techlore.tech)
Twitter: https://x.com/techloreinc (https://x.com/techloreinc)
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/techlore.tech (https://bsky.app/profile/techlore.tech)
YouTube: / @techlore
PeerTube: https://techlore.tv (https://techlore.tv)
Henry's talk @ Ad Filtering Dev Summit: • We Lose 73% of Revenue to Ad Blocking (AFD...
Privacy Dad: https://theprivacydad.com (https://theprivacydad.com)
They See Your Photos: https://theyseeyourphotos.com (https://theyseeyourphotos.com)
23 Apr 2026
Kailash Nadh on building Zerodha | Vishnu's Podcast
How do you build internet-scale financial systems without venture capital, ads, or growth-hacking?
In this episode, Vishnu speaks with Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha - one of the world’s largest trading platforms. They cover how Zerodha stays fully bootstrapped, remains highly profitable (USD 500 million+ in profit), and grows with zero ad spend.
They dig into Zerodha’s engineering philosophy, self-hosting, open source, privacy, and why the internet feels increasingly broken. This is a grounded conversation on scale, incentives, pessimism, and building companies that last.
Kailash: https://nadh.in/ (https://nadh.in/)
Zerodha: https://zerodha.com/ (https://zerodha.com/)
FLOSS/Fund: https://floss.fund/ (https://floss.fund/)
Ente: https://ente.com/ (https://ente.io/)
Chapters:
00:00 Start
00:16 FLOSS/fund
03:30 $500 million in profits
07:19 Company culture
13:04 Engineering problems
17:50 Childhood
26:36 Artificial Intelligence
28:36 Artificial General Intelligence
32:09 Venture Capital
41:21 Privacy
45:36 Climate Change
45:59 Next FOSS project
52:40 Inner peace
55:30 Learnings
1:01:20 Rapid fire
1:07:48 Social media
1:10:00 Optimism
10 Mar 2026
Mozilla's Leadership Responds to Critics
Mozilla announced Firefox would become an "AI browser" - and the internet lost it. Users called it tone-deaf. Reddit threads exploded. Mozilla promised a kill switch.
So I sat down with Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Mozilla) and John Dickerson (CEO, Mozilla.ai (http://Mozilla.ai)) to get answers. We talked about the AI backlash, Firefox's future, open source AI, Mozilla.ai (http://Mozilla.ai)'s developer tools, small language models, on-device AI, Mozilla's $1.3 billion war chest, raising venture capital, and what their "rebel alliance" for open source actually means.
00:00 Intro
00:57 Raffi's story
03:27 John's story
06:27 Mozilla's structure
13:25 AI @ Mozilla
25:10 Firefox
28:56 Thunderbird & Mozilla VPN
30:28 Revenue models
33:55 Mozilla raising venture capital for AI
36:32 Rebel alliance
38:56 Criticism against Mozilla
41:30 "Rapid" fire
48:26 Optimism
52:08 Advice for founders
53:40 The End
11 Dec 2025
Vishnu's Podcast ft. Carl Dong - CEO @ ObscuraVPN | VPN, Bitcoin, Privacy & more
Carl Dong, CEO of Obscura talks to Vishnu Mohandas, CEO of Ente on all things VPNs, Bitcoin, Privacy Tech, User Experience and a lot more.
Carl Dong - https://x.com/carl_dong (https://x.com/carl_dong)
Obscura VPN - https://obscura.net/ (https://obscura.net/)
Vishnu Mohandas - https://x.com/VishnuKVMD (https://x.com/VishnuKVMD)
Ente - https://ente.io/ (https://ente.io/)
Links mentioned in the video -
https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/ (https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/)
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf)
https://reproducible-builds.org/ (https://reproducible-builds.org/)
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