Atom CTO Podcasts

About This Episode What does good leadership look like when everything is falling apart? In this episode of Bits, Bytes and Business, Bhairav talks to Dom Courage, who left a career in engineering and project management for humanitarian response with Save the Children, and now works freelance in leadership development and training. Dom’s route in began with an intense five-day crisis simulation in...

Toby Muse returns to the podcast for the first time since 2020. Back then we talked about his book Kilo and his years reporting from inside the cocaine trade. This time the conversation shifts to what is happening to journalism, books, and our collective ability to pay attention. Toby is a war correspondent, author, and documentary filmmaker who has spent nearly two decades reporting from Colombia...

Toby Muse is back on the podcast for the first time since 2020, and before we get into the main event I put him through the five questions I ask everyone: What is your morning routine? What are you most proud of? What annoys you? What do you do to relax? What advice would you give to someone looking to get into journalism? You will hear why he starts the day with Marcus Aurelius rather than his ph...

Culture is one of those words that gets thrown around in business without anyone pinning down what it actually means. In this episode of Real World Entrepreneurship, Bhairav and Alan dig into why culture is always set from the top, why most businesses have a culture they didn't deliberately choose, and what happens when nobody addresses the one person who doesn't fit. Bhairav shares a story about...

Podcast-platform show notes for SoundCloud, in your functional reference format and under the 4,000-character limit. Fear is the problem, not AI | Mark Bentley returns | Bits, Bytes and Business with Bhairav Patel About This Episode Mark Bentley's first appearance became the most popular episode Bhairav Patel has released in ten years of podcasting, so he is back for part two. This time the self-a...

Mark Bentley is back for part two, and this is the first episode we have filmed. He answers the five questions I ask everyone: What is your morning routine? What are you most proud of? What annoys you? What do you do to relax? What advice would you give to someone struggling with all the AI right now? As ever this is the trailer to the main event, where we pick up the self-awareness thread from Ma...

Sorcha Lorimer built Trace, a boutique data privacy consultancy, from scratch. She bootstrapped it, landed enterprise clients across the UK, Europe and North America, and sold it to a private equity backed business. In this episode, she talks openly about what that journey actually looked like, from leaving a comfortable corporate role to navigating COVID, scaling as a lean team, and going through...

Sorcha Lorimer was the founder of Trace, a data privacy consultancy she bootstrapped, scaled to enterprise clients across the UK, Europe and North America, and sold to a private equity backed business. She's now building Onyxio, which helps health tech and life sciences companies prove their sensitive data is safe to use. She answers the five questions I ask everyone: What is your morning routine?...

Alfie Elliott is the Director of Select Group, a boutique recruitment business covering IT, business operations and consultancy across the UK and US. He started as a 16-year-old apprentice in East Croydon and has spent just under 15 years in the industry, working across financial services and consulting. He answers the five questions I ask everyone: What is your morning routine? What are you most...

Alfie Elliott is the Director of Select Group, a boutique recruitment business covering IT, business operations and consultancy across the UK and US. Starting as a 16-year-old apprentice in East Croydon, Alfie has spent just under 15 years in the recruitment industry, working primarily across financial services and consulting. In this conversation, Bhairav and Alfie dig into what the UK job market...

Culture is one of those words that gets thrown around in business without anyone pinning down what it actually means. In this episode of Real World Entrepreneurship, Bhairav and Alan dig into why culture is always set from the top, why most businesses have a culture they didn't deliberately choose, and what happens when nobody addresses the one person who doesn't fit. Bhairav shares a story about...

Mark Peacock, The Pricemaker, returns to the show, one of only a handful of guests to appear twice, to talk through his new book Pricing for Success. Most small and medium businesses default to whatever pricing method they inherited: hourly rates, project fees, or cost-plus margin. Mark makes the case that these are the weakest options available, and that a bit of structure and discipline around p...

Jan Cavelle returns to the show, this time with her new book Start for Success, the prequel to Scale for Success. Where a lot of startup books are written by people who raised a billion dollars in Silicon Valley, Jan's is built from the honest, often raw stories of real founders, including the smaller and less glamorous ones whose journeys actually resemble most people's. Bhairav and Jan work thro...

In this episode of Real World Entrepreneurship, Bhairav and Alan dig into a question every business owner wrestles with: what’s actually worth worrying about? Between cash flow, co-founders, market reception and the things you genuinely cannot see coming, it’s easy to spend energy in the wrong places. Alan and Bhairav talk through how they’ve each dealt with the unexpected over the years, includin...

**About This Episode** Bhairav sits down with Ramit Mehta, founder of Commfy, a community marketplace app connecting individuals, organisers, venues and brands. Ramit shares his journey from Mumbai to Silicon Valley to London, why he left the US behind, and the thinking behind building a platform to fight rising loneliness and the disappearance of "third places." **What We Cover** - Ramit's windin...

This is the trailer to the main event, this week's guest is Ramit Mehta, the founder of Commfy https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramitmehta

About This Episode Bhairav sits down with Sanjay Rakshit, now at Poppulo, for his third or fourth appearance on the show. The conversation was sparked by a quote Sanjay gave at DSE (the digital signage industry event run by Invidis): "LLMs are the most overrated part of AI." They unpack what that actually means, and dig into agents, agentic systems, context engineering, data fidelity, AGI, robotic...

Sanjay is back! But this time he answers the famous five questions... https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-rakshit/

Guest: Mateo Bervejillo, CEO of Xseed and author of Back to Basics Mateo started his career as an attorney in Uruguay before moving into outsourcing operations, growing into VP-level roles leading teams across the US, Uruguay and India, and eventually becoming CEO of Xseed, a LATAM software talent company he helped grow from five people to a hundred. He has spent two decades in the gap between bei...

This week's guest is Mateo Bervejilo - CEO of Exceed Solutions, who will be answering the famous 5 questions

# Show Notes: Vibe Coding and Real World Problems: Why AI Still Needs a CTO **Guest:** Anuraag Jain, CTO, Executive Coach and Author **Website:** [growthvariable.com](https://www.growthvariable.com) **LinkedIn:** [Anuraag Jain](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuraagjain) --- ## About This Episode Anuraag Jain is a 30-year tech industry veteran who started as an Oracle DBA in India without an engineer...

This week veteran tech CTO Anuraag Jain, author of Prompt Engineering the Subconscious is answering 5 questions: https://book.growthvariable.com/ i

James found me online looking for fractional CTO services. That conversation eventually made me an investor. In this episode I sit down with all three co-founders of Koloso — James, Petra and Sowi — to talk about building a meaningful EdTech product in Zambia with limited capital, no technical background, and a problem that affects millions of children across Sub-Saharan Africa. **The problem:** Z...

This week I'm joined by Sowi, Petra and James, the founders of Koloso, a Zambian EdTech Startup

We're back! A new season of the Atom CTO podcast will be coming to your ears over the coming weeks so stay tuned!