Zero Prime Podcast

About Zero Prime Podcast

The Zero Prime Podcast with Pete Soderling explores the early stories of top startups as seen through the eyes of their engineer-founders. In each episode we uncover insights on what it takes to start a company as an engineer in the words of the founders themselves. From the most cutting edge infrastructure companies to the newest trends in developer tooling, we introduce you to the engineer-founder personalities behind the up and coming software startups that you can’t afford to ignore.

Publisher

Data Council

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Sept 2022

Latest episode

8 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 39 episodes have a transcript.

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   8 Jul 2026

   Ep 39: TextQL’s Ethan Ding: Every question has a price. Make sure the answer is worth more.

   Ethan Ding, co-founder and CEO of TextQL, joins ZeroPrime and AI Council Co-founder, Pete Soderling, to make an argument that most data leaders have been waiting years to hear: you don't have to clean everything, migrate everything, or centralize everything before AI can work on your data. Ethan's path from Bessemer to a hypergrowth stint at Tackle, let him see how much time teams spent moving the same business logic from one database to another, over and over. TextQL was born from a differen...

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   30 Jun 2026

   Ep 38: Snowflake’s Bala Kasiviswanathan: Your data doesn’t need a new home. It needs new context.

   What's actually stopping enterprises from putting their AI to work? Bala Kasiviswanathan, who oversees Snowflake CoCo, Snowflake's AI coding agent, as VP of Developer and AI Experiences, says the real answer isn't access. It's fragmented context. Pete Soderling sits down with Bala to make the case that democratizing access to data was last decade's challenge. The next one is democratizing who gets to build — without creating enterprise chaos in the process. They unpack why governance and spee...

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   8 May 2026

   Ep 37: Everyone wants bigger context windows. Linus Lee thinks that's the wrong instinct

   Linus Lee, Head of AI at Thrive Capital, sits down with Pete Soderling to talk context engineering, monolithic agents, and the failure mode most teams aren't measuring yet. Most teams building AI agents right now are reaching for bigger context windows. Linus thinks that's the wrong instinct. He runs AI at Thrive and ships an internal research agent called Puck that's processed billions of tokens in production — which means he's seen the failure modes most of us are still pretending don't ex...

Inside a recent episode

E32: Lightning Strikes Twice: How Eldad Farkash Built Two Data Unicorns Back-to-Back

Published 16 Sept 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So what is it exactly that fireball, like what kinds of applications does Firebolt really shine with? And give us an example of the complexity that's involved in supporting one of these applications. That's ideal for your platform. So Firebolts claim for fame workloads are workloads that are usually done and eventually serve the end user, meaning there's a very clear focus on building a product and app or a solution that eventually gets translated to business. What does it mean? It usually means that the workload consists up of at least two, three data sources. You'll have your Kafka stream, which holds all of the observability data that you go and collect like crazy. […]

Who has been a guest on Zero Prime Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Eldad Farkash
• Dwarak Rajagopal
• Jake Moshenko
• Sudarshan Lakshminarasimhan
• Charity Majors

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

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Quality

61

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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