From Media Payments to an All-in-One Backend Platform, Interview with Christian Heiduschke
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
05:24 What hooked him on code
09:13 The idea behind tiun
10:22 Funding the early days
11:30 Beyond media payments
13:42 Building a great checkout
15:39 The pivot
18:58 How to choose investors
21:46 Angel round or VC first
24:15 What "Tiun" means
24:42 From two founders to three
27:06 The Product Hunt launch
29:23 Handling launch-day traffic
33:12 Building with AI agents
34:55 Codex vs Claude Code
37:57 Three best moments
39:36 Handling the tough days
42:57 Building from Switzerland
45:23 Choosing where to build
49:29 Advice for young founders
51:10 Books and learning resources
54:02 Open mic
54:58 Conclusion
Show Notes:
tiun: https://tiun.io
Deep Work by Cal Newport: https://calnewport.com
Stripe Press: https://press.stripe.com
YC Startup School: https://www.startupschool.org
ETH Zurich: https://ethz.ch
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com
Chris's LinkedIn: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/christian-heiduschke
6 Jun 2026
Should You Still Become a Software Engineer in 2026
If your kid or your closest friend came to you tomorrow and said, "I want to switch into software engineering as a career", what would you actually tell them? Our guests answer that question.
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https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code/ (https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code/)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html)
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/ (https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro)
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-job-market-2026 (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-job-market-2026)
https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-500k-engineers-250k-ai-tokens-nvidia-compute-2026-3 (https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-500k-engineers-250k-ai-tokens-nvidia-compute-2026-3)
https://x.com/steipete/status/2055346265869721905/photo/1 (https://x.com/steipete/status/2055346265869721905/photo/1)
https://youtu.be/FQpZdCKgc6w (https://youtu.be/FQpZdCKgc6w)
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- https://x.com/el_ateifSara
- https://x.com/saidbouig (https://x.com/saidbouig)
3 Jun 2026
Interview with Tambi Jalouqa, on building, exiting, and investing from the MENA region
In this episode, we talk honestly about what it takes to build a global product from outside Silicon Valley, why he changed his mind about solo founders, the mistake almost every technical founder makes when they bring in a "business" co-founder, and how AI tools have flattened the geography of software.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:50 Starting on an MSX, fixing CRT monitors, and studying math before CS
05:18 Binary Interactive Studio
07:50 Jobland: video-CV app
10:35 POS Rocket
12:45 Raising from local VCs vs. the US
14:18 The secret sauce of POS Rocket
15:55 Switching from builder to investor
22:38 Why he co-founded Xpand Conference
27:30 Leaving Propeller to start Maza VC
31:30 Why pre-seed is both more impactful
33:30 The advantage of building from your home country
38:48 Did he miss coding?
42:00 Solo founders: red flag → green flag
46:25 The countries producing the best founders right now
48:18 The #1 mistake technical founders make
51:35 Mountain biking
55:50 New Section: Paul Graham, vibe code, mountain biking
56:50 Closing
Show Links:
- LinkedIn: https://jo.linkedin.com/in/tambijalouqa
- Maza VC: https://maza.vc
- Maza VC Handbook: https://handbook.maza.vc/about/introduction
- Propeller VC: https://propellervc.com
- Xpand Conference: https://www.xpandconf.com
- Claude Code: https://claude.com/claude-code
- Y Combinator: https://ycombinator.com
- Paul Graham essays: https://paulgraham.co
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