Due Diligence

Ankur Nagpal is the founder of Teachable, the online education platform acquired in 2020, and the founder behind several companies focused on expanding access to entrepreneurship, financial education, and private market investing. In this episode, Ankur explains how building Facebook apps in college led him into entrepreneurship, why he created Teachable to help creators own their audiences, and w...

Thomas Wolf is the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, one of the most important companies in open-source AI. Hugging Face has become the central platform for AI builders, researchers, and companies working with machine learning models, datasets, and open-source tools. In this episode, Thomas explains how Hugging Face started as a game company, why the team pivoted into open-sour...

Flo Crivello is the founder and CEO of Lindy, an AI executive assistant company building agents that can manage email, scheduling, research, workflows, and other work that busy professionals do every day. In this episode, Flo explains how Lindy works, why every AI agent gets its own cloud computer, and why AI assistants may soon handle huge parts of the modern knowledge worker’s day. He also share...

Sam Hogan is the founder and CEO of Inference, an AI infrastructure company building a private, cheaper alternative to frontier models from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Instead of forcing companies to send sensitive data to third-party model providers, Inference helps businesses train and host large language models with more control, privacy, and flexibility. In this episode, Sam...

Hubert Thieblot has spent decades building and investing at the edge of gaming, startups, AI, and Silicon Valley. He is best known as the founder of Curse, the modding platform behind some of the largest communities in games like World of Warcraft and Minecraft. In this episode, Hubert explains why he left Europe for San Francisco, why Silicon Valley rewards speed in a way Europe often does not, a...

Zoltan Szalas has spent years building at the intersection of product, growth, AI, workspace, and distributed teams. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Croissant, a company building the system of record for variable workspace - replacing traditional office leases and workspace stipends with controlled, usage-based spend. In this episode, Zoltan explains why the way we work has permanently changed, wh...

Henrick Johansson sits down with product design leader Simon Corry in New York City for a wide-ranging conversation about creativity, compliance, velocity, and what it really takes to build products people trust. Simon traces his unlikely path from British art school and Royal Mail to Amsterdam’s creative scene, where the early ideas behind WeTransfer grew out of a very real problem: agencies need...

What happens when you sit down for a simple game of chess… and end up in a deep conversation about prison, rules, and human nature?

Henrick Johansson asks the questions nobody else will. Due Diligence is a new podcast featuring sharp, satirical conversations with founders, operators, and investors in tech. One guest a week. All on the record. Subscribe for new episodes and follow the launch of Due Diligence.