Terra API Podcast - Stay Fit, Stay Connected

George Hadjivarnava co-founded Foody as CTO with no VC money, made it profitable in under 2 years, and sold it to Delivery Hero in the biggest tech acquisition in Cyprus. Scaling through COVID from restaurant menus to full supermarkets, total downtime: 45 minutes. Now he leads engineering strategy at Terra and he believes the next infrastructure layer won't be built for developers at all. Why...

⁠Geoff Ralston⁠⁠ built Rocket Mail before Yahoo Mail existed, built Lala before Spotify worked in America, sat in Steve Jobs' living room to get an acquisition approved, and ran Y Combinator as President. Now he says the most important thing he's ever worked on is making sure AI doesn't kill us. In this episode with ⁠⁠Kyriakos Eleftheriou⁠⁠ , Geoff speaks about YC, SAIF, the Yahoo acqu...

By the age of 25, David Lee survived stage 4 lymphoma. Not only did he not let it stop him, he worked early in Google, became a partner at SV Angel during the Airbnb / Twitter / Dropbox / Snapchat era, and now leads Samsung Next . In the latest discussion with Kyriakos Eleftheriou in Los Angeles, they discussed: CHAPTERS (00:00) Introduction (02:30) Why digital health still hasn't had its &quo...

42,000 tickets for one New York event. 15,000 gym affiliates. $0 spent on influencers. HYROX CGO Douglas Gremmen joins Kyriakos , CEO of Terra API , at the Connected Health Summit in Stanford to talk through what actually drove that — and what didn't work. The US was their first market outside Germany and their hardest. Three years of losses. A single Lance Armstrong weekend changed the moment...

In the latest episode, Kyriakos Eleftheriou sat down with Roman Bugaev , CTO of Flo and Vlad Nedosekin Director of AI Platform, at the Terra API HQ in London, to discuss how they built the top health AI platform globally for women's health. CHAPTERS (0:00) Intro — Flo Health: From 20 People to 80 Million Users (1:02) How Flo became the fastest-growing health company in the world (1:48) Roman&#...

In this episode, Kyriakos Eleftheriou , Terra API CEO sits down with Sacha Michaud , co-founder of Glovo , one of the biggest tech successes in the European tech ecosystem,and Yellow. VC , an early-stage fund Sacha shares the journey of building the on-demand delivery service from its inception in Barcelona to its expansion across 25 countries and a $2.3 billion acquisition. He discusses the initi...

In this conversation, Kyriakos Eleftheriou is joined by Tom Livesey, CTO and co-founder of Thriva, who discusses the journey of his health tech company, which has transformed the way individuals monitor their health through innovative blood testing solutions. He shares insights on the challenges faced during the startup phase, the impact of COVID-19 on their operations, and the importance of consu...

The first Iranian entrepreneur to build a company worth over $1B in Europe, Dan Vahdat , founder of Huma , is joining Kyriakos Eleftheriou , founder of Terra API They discuss: 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - Communicating with @EmmanuelMacron and @kmitsotakis 08:55 - Why are Greece and Persia not empires today 13:40 - How the best people look like 18:30 - Short-term vs long-term thinking 24:27 - Dropping ou...

David Turner is the Group CTO of Virgin Active, a global health brand with more than 230 fitness clubs across 8 countries. He previously led NHS tech during Covid. The host: Kyriakos More about Virgin Active 00:00 - Intro01:26 - UK Tech05:33 - F1 telemetry vs fitness data07:33 - Betting + health data09:30 - Getting into software engineering13:51 - Inside NHS tech: joining mid-Covid chaos14:00 - Le...

The founder of Nucleus, Kian Sadeghi , joined Kyriakos Eleftheriou , in the second health day in San Francisco, and shared his learnings in front of a 300-person audience before the Y Combinator AI event. 00:00 Intro 02:01 The Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight sponsorship story. 05:01 "Fundraising is an art." 08:01 Competing with Mr. Beast and the importance of storytelling. 11:01 The evolution and i...

After the Y Combinator AI event, Kyriakos Eleftheriou sat down with Mark Gainey co-founder of Strava, who shared his entrepreneurial journey, discussing the evolution of Strava from a startup to a $2.2 billion fitness platform.  Chapters 00:00 Intro 04:15 How technology changed  11:35 Should you be niche with AI 13:20 Building a Community 17:00 Dealing with big companies early on 20:53 User Feedba...

How do you build a $3B company from Portugal? In this episode, Marcelo Lebre (Co-founder of Remote), in a discussion with Kyriakos ,  shares how he went to building one of Europe’s top startups and why health, culture, and ruthless focus were key to scaling Remote globally. We talk fitness, healthcare, European bureaucracy, and the mindset behind building a generational company. Follow Marcelo → h...

In the latest conversation at Imperial College London, Kyriakos is joined by George Robson, Partner at Sequoia. George went from leading global products at Revolut to joining Sequoia Capital - one of the most selective VC firms in the world. At Revolut, he helped scale the team from a few hundred to thousands and launched products used by millions. Now at Sequoia, he backs Europe’s most ambitious...

In the latest episode, Kyriakos is joined by Dmitry Gurski , the CEO of Flo Health , the fastest growing health startup in the world, for 2024, in their conversation at Imperial College London Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - Early Failures & $60M Mistake  05:45 - Smart Founders Fail  08:20 - Launching Flo 11:10 - What Great Products Have in Common  13:30 - Beating Max Levchin & a16z 16:0...

Kyriakos is joined by Ethan Kurzweil , a founding partner at Chemistry and former managing partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He’s led early investments in Twitch, Twilio, Intercom, and PagerDuty — and in this conversation, he shares what separates good founders from iconic ones. In this episode, we discuss: - Why the best founders are like cult leaders - What makes a startup idea truly contrar...

Ivan Selin is the Chief Product Officer of Alltrails. In this conversation with  Kyriakos Eleftheriou , he discussed his previous experience building world-class products with Apple, Airbnb, and Uber and how he is currently shaping the future of the outdoors with Alltrails. Chapters00:00 Intro02:52 Career06:01 Lessons from Leading the Best Product Companies12:04 Joining AllTrails17:54 User Experie...

Kyriakos is joined by Kian Sadeghi , the CEO of Nucleus Genomics, the leading company in the world, in genome testing. As of today, Nucleus has raised $32m, from some of the best investors in the world, such as Founders Fund, Seven Seven Six, and many more.  00:00 Introduction 02:00 Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson: How the deal happened 05:40 Make America Healthy Again in Fox News 08:00 How to generate at...

In the latest podcast, Vanessa , who leads design engineering at Terra, in a discussion on how to speak to users and create products

In the latest podcast, Kyriakos Eleftheriou is joined by George Hadjigeorgiou , who's the cofounder of ZOE, efood, GoldenGroup and others, in their discussion at Imperial College London. 00:00 Intro 4:10 Founding ZOE 10:10 Launching the biggest study in the world in nutrition 13:45 How to convince a scientist to join 19:55 Using clinical studies as an early version of the product 23:20 COVID and g...

In the latest podcast, Kyriakos is joined by Matt Robinson who's a partner at Accel, and the cofounder of GoCardless and Nested, in their discussion at Imperial College London. 00:00 Intro 2:12 Launching GoCardless 7:10 Leaning into real relationships 8:48 'If you take everything you need to do in a successful business, we did the opposite.' 12:08 There's no idea that two smart people can't tear a...

In this conversation, Kyriakos discusses with Vadim - CEO of Bioniq on his journey from being a professional athlete to leading the personalised health supplement company. Vadim shares insights on fundraising challenges, the significance of early adopters, and the impact of celebrity endorsements, particularly https://twitter.com/Cristiano Ronaldo's involvement with Bionic. He also explores the fu...

On the first Terra Health day, ⁠ Kyriakos⁠ - CEO of ⁠Terra⁠, is joined by ⁠Lance Armstrong⁠, who shares his story with 300 Y Combinator founders, live from San Francisco. Lance shares his remarkable journey from a young athlete to a world-renowned cyclist, detailing his early struggles, his battle with cancer, and his eventual rise to fame. He discusses the challenges of competing in the Tour de F...

“Don’t Die is the only practically relevant framework that is equal to this moment in time considering the birth of superintelligence.” For the first Terra Health Day, Bryan Johnson educated 300 Y-Combinator founders about longevity. Here’s the full discussion: 03:20 The thought experiment from the 25th century 04:00 Transitioning from Die to Don’t Die 06:15 Sleep is the most important thing in ou...

"The best companies are bought, not sold." In the latest podcast, Kyriakos is joined by @RealAnttoni , CEO of @veristable , the company that helps users discover better metabolic health, who just completed an acquisition with @ouraring . 03:55 How Veri Started 11:00 The first Growth Hack 12:10 The First Launch 15:45 Evolution of the Product 22:07 Meal Scores Using LLMs 26:30 From the First Users t...

'If you find cancer too early, we as doctors might not know what to do with it.' In the latest podcast, we discuss with @andrewlacy , founder and CEO of @prenuvo , the company that helps find conditions before they become crises. 01:30 Midlife crisis 06:40 the ‘Secret Society’ 08:30 Quote from a doctor: ’ If you find lung cancer too early, I don’t know what to do with it.’ 09:28 Bootstrapping the...