The Trust Moat Podcast

In this episode of The Trust Moat, I sit down with Yash Terkiwal, the founding GTM Engineer at Clay, to explore why AI and automation won't replace humans, but rather amplify our creative and strategic potential. If you're a founder or builder trying to navigate the 'AI vs. Human' question, Yash’s insights on creativity and critical thinking are essential. --- The Trust Moat Podcast explores why t...

Get this straight in your inbox -- 📩 Subscribe to the Trust Moat newsletter: https://majapbaines.substack.com/ In this episode of The Trust Moat, I sit down with Tomislav Car, founder of Productive, an all-in-one agency management platform and business software, to explore the shifting landscape of the software industry. As AI democratizes coding and "moats" built purely on software begin to evap...

Get this straight in your inbox -- 📩 Subscribe to the Trust Moat newsletter: https://majapbaines.substack.com/   The fashion industry is one of the world's most opaque industries, built on broken data and the assumption that no one would ever look too closely at where our clothes actually come from. In this episode, Maja sits down with Dóra Lality, co-founder and CLO of Material Exchange, to pull...

Alan Knott-Craig Jr. has published 10 books, built Africa's first mass-market social network, and invested in over 20 companies. But his most important venture might be his current one — bringing fast, affordable fiber internet to South Africa's townships for 25 cents a day. In this episode, Alan talks about what it actually takes to build in places the rest of the world has written off. Negotiati...

Gartner predicts that 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027—not because the models aren't smart enough, but because the underlying memory layer isn't ready. In this episode, we sit down with Nemanja Bibic, Head of Growth at Cognee, a startup building the knowledge layer for our agentic future, to discuss the urgent need for a "hippocampus" for artificial intelligence. We dive deep in...

Get this straight in your inbox --> 📩 Subscribe to the Trust Moat newsletter: https://majapbaines.substack.com/   AI agent security is the silent threat behind every startup using Claude, ChatGPT, Cloud Code, or autonomous agents in 2026 — and most founders don't know what the "lethal trifecta" is or why it increases their risks of leaking their entire customer database.   In this episode, hea...

Talking about community as a moat, capital, and the long game - with the investor who spent 20 years earning the right to write checks. Tihomir Bajic has seen what makes companies last. Most founders are solving the wrong problem. In this episode, we get into why community isn't a marketing tactic — it's a moat. Why trust compounds slower than revenue but outlasts it. And what it actually looks li...