High Bit

For the first-ever live recording of High Bit, Brett Gibson sits down with two founders building at the center of the AI engineering shift: Daksh Gupta , co-founder and CEO of Greptile , and Matt Matheson , co-founder and CTO of Trunk.io . AI can write code. That part is no longer interesting. What matters now is what happens when engineering teams suddenly ship much faster, when review and testin...

Integration is a dirty word in defense. The consultancy model that solved it for decades no longer works when you're dealing with hundreds of systems from dozens of vendors across land, sea, and airspace, all needing to work together within milliseconds. In this episode of High Bit, Brett Gibson talks with Zane Mountcastle, cofounder and CEO of Picogrid, about how they built the hardware and s...

The internet was built without identity at the protocol level. Now AI makes it nearly impossible to know who or what you're interacting with online. Alien is a decentralized unique identity platform built on the principle of one human, one account — no government required, no central authority, just a cryptographically verifiable way to prove you're human and link that identity to the AI a...

Azura built a unified application for trading across multiple blockchains from one interface. You can trade tokens across Solana, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Blast, and more without jumping between wallets, bridges, and apps. Try it: app.azura.xyz In this episode of High Bit, Initialized managing partner Brett Gibson talks with Jackson Denka, founder and CEO of Azura, about building an onchain tradi...

Code can be generated faster than ever. But getting that code to actually look good is a different problem entirely. In this episode of High Bit, Initialized managing partner Brett Gibson sits down with Daniel Bulhosa Solórzano, cofounder and CTO of Variant, about what it takes to build AI that gets design right, not just code that runs. Daniel started thinking about this problem in 2017 at Weebly...

Code can be written faster than ever. But getting that code safely into production is where many engineering teams lose time. As organizations grow, CI failures, flaky tests, and conflicting pull requests start to compound. In this episode of High Bit, Initialized managing partner Brett Gibson sits down with Eli Schleifer, founder and CEO of Trunk, to talk about the systems that keep CI green and...

AI models keep getting better, but most AI systems still fail in production. Why? In this episode of High Bit, Brett Gibson sits down with Ghita Houir Alami, cofounder and CEO of ZeroEntropy, to break down the real bottleneck holding AI agents back: retrieval. Ghita explains why embeddings alone can’t reliably surface the right information, why tools like Slack search feel so frustrating, and how...

Electrification isn’t easy—and most people don’t see the chaos beneath the solar panels, batteries, EV chargers, and heat pumps going onto the grid. Coperniq cofounder and CTO Max Kazakov breaks down the hidden workflows behind distributed energy: legacy tools installers still rely on, hardware that doesn’t want to integrate, and why the next generation of “utilities” will look nothing like the la...

Robots built like humans. On High Bit , Dhanush Radhakrishnan, cofounder & CEO of Clone, explains how they’re letting biology set the blueprint for musculoskeletal, super-intelligent androids — synthetic humans straight out of sci-fi. Powered by artificial muscles instead of motors and attached to anatomically accurate skeletons, Clone is building robots designed for human-level motion, durabi...

In this episode, Brett Gibson talks with Lucas Young, cofounder and CEO of Deepnight about how they’re building AI-powered night vision that helps the military, law enforcement, and first responders see in near-total darkness. Deepnight combines AI with commodity digital sensors — the same kind used in smartphones — to replace expensive analog night-vision hardware that costs over $30,000 per unit...

Brett Gibson sits down with cofounders Max Prilutskiy (CEO) and Veronica Prilutskaya (CPO) of Lingo.dev to talk about making every product multilingual—so teams “just keep shipping” and don’t have to worry about localization and translations at scale. Lingo.dev helps product teams develop multilingual user interfaces, uses LLMs to produce perfect translations, and automates localization end to end...

Orbital Operations is building high-thrust, cryogenic spacecraft designed to move freely in orbit—reshaping how we think about mobility, defense, and logistics in space. Cofounder & CEO Benjamin Schleuniger joins Initialized Managing Partner Brett Gibson on High Bit to talk about the next generation of spacecraft that will move, refuel, and think for themselves: Why satellites need to move — t...

“Robots are the only way my business survives, but it’s not viable for me.” Formic founder and CEO Saman Farid joins Brett Gibson, managing partner at Initialized to unpack why that mindset keeps factories from adopting automation and how Formic closes the gap. They cover: de-risking with financing, productizing complete robot work cells, and running fleets with teleoperation, intelligent error re...

Daksh Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Greptile, joins Brett Gibson on High Bit and explains why human code review is essentially "security theater" and how Greptile uses AI to catch bugs by understanding entire codebases. He dives into why code generation and code review must stay separate, the surprising challenge of teaching AI what's a nitpick versus a severe issue, and how intellige...

AyJay Lasater, cofounder and CTO of Albedo, joins Brett Gibson on High Bit to talk about the challenge of building satellites for one of the toughest places to operate in space: very low Earth orbit (VLEO). He shares how the idea took shape, the importance of avoiding fear-based calls, why they decided to bring key systems in-house, and the physics-driven design choices that shaped their approach....

Amir Elaguizy, cofounder and CEO of Poker Skill, joins Brett Gibson on High Bit for a look inside the mind of someone who’s been all in on AI long before it was everywhere. He explains what’s possible when you’re not just using AI tools, but constantly learning, testing, and pushing them to their limits, and he shares how he’s used AI to build his startups. Follow Amir and Poker Skill for more: @a...

Brett Gibson hosts Sol’s Ben Chelf and John Boiles on the "High Bit" podcast to discuss their groundbreaking work on the Sol Reader, the world’s first wearable e-reader. They dive into the unique engineering challenges of integrating e-ink technology into a head-mounted format, the intricate development process of creating their own e-ink driver, and the importance of optimizing for user...

Vince Chu, cofounder of HomeVision, joins the "High Bit" podcast to discuss how his team is automating real estate valuations at scale. From overcoming technical challenges to scaling AI-powered underwriting, Vince explains how HomeVision is changing the game for both lenders and appraisers.

Our managing partner, Brett Gibson, spoke with Playground AI founder Suhail Doshi about advancements in AI-driven image generation and their new Playground v3 image foundation model. Suhail shared Playground’s mission to make graphic design more accessible, enabling users to create items such as T-shirts, logos, social media posts, and even memes. They discussed the gap between language and image...

On the latest episode of our podcast “High Bit,” Brett Gibson spoke with Pratap Ranade, CEO of Arena, about the intricacies of using AI to convert data into real-time simulations for optimizing sales, pricing, and marketing strategies. Pratap explained how Arena navigates the complexities of large-scale enterprises, including those in the consumer goods and advanced manufacturing industries. He al...

In this episode of "High Bit," Initialized partner and Rent the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss discusses how she developed a proprietary logistics system for a consumer brand. Jenny opens up about the early challenges faced in starting Rent the Runway, the strategic decisions made in scaling a complex operation, and how she built an in-house logistics team. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 1:...

In this episode of "High Bit," Automat founder and CTO Gautam Bose talked about the challenges of working with LLMs in robotic process automation, and the importance of rigorous testing procedures. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 01:30 What Automat Does and How They Started 03:06 Challenges in Building RPA 08:46 What the Future of RPA Looks Like 12:52 How Automat Ensures Reliability in Its L...

In this episode of "High Bit," Peter Kieltyka discusses the dual challenge of maintaining decentralization and accessibility in blockchain technology, and the growing significance of APIs in building connected systems. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 01:38 What Horizon Does and the Challenges in Delivering the Crypto Gaming Platform 04:53 How Peter Came to the Decision of Working on Blockcha...

In this episode of "High Bit," Brett Gibson chats with Kurt Mackey, CEO of  Fly.io , to break down how they challenge big cloud providers, overcome global logistical nightmares, and continuously evolve their software stack. From hardware setup challenges to growth-driven solutions, Kurt explains the highs and lows of managing a developer-focused public cloud. 00:00 Introduction 1:21 Star...

In this episode of "High Bit," host Brett Gibson interviews Rahul Raina, cofounder and CTO of TRM Labs. Rahul shares insights into TRM's mission of creating a safer financial system and discusses the launch of their innovative features. The conversation delves into Rahul's background, TRM's approach to tackling financial crimes, and the challenges of processing massive amount...