Episodes - We Built It Because We Had To - Tech Founder Backstories

Jul 23, 2026 45:19 S1E27

Selling "Chaos" to the Fortune 100 Almost Killed His Company (Kolton Andrus)

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth Cybersecurity Infrastructure and DevOps

His pitch — "let us break your systems on purpose" — thrilled engineers and terrified the Fortune 100 executives who signed the checks. So Kolton Andrus did something few founders …

Jun 25, 2026 29:10 S1E22

He Fired His Freelancers and Built a 500-Person Dev Shop to Replace Them — Furqan Aziz, InvoZone

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth Infrastructure and DevOps

Most founders spend year one chasing product-market fit. Furqan Aziz spent his chasing something harder to build than any product: trust.In this episode of We Built It Because We Had …

Jun 16, 2026 24:40 S1E19

2 Million Autonomous Fixes In PayPal Production — Then He Spun It Out (Suresh Mathew)

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth AI and machine learning Infrastructure and DevOps

What happens when cloud deployment outpaces the humans managing it? At PayPal, Suresh Mathew's team built the answer — an autonomous system that ran 2 million production remediations before he …

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Selling "Chaos" to the Fortune 100 Almost Killed His Company (Kolton Andrus)

He Fired His Freelancers and Built a 500-Person Dev Shop to Replace Them — Furqan Aziz, InvoZone

2 Million Autonomous Fixes In PayPal Production — Then He Spun It Out (Suresh Mathew)