Startup Riders

Startup Riders

How top founders build, grow, and raise. www.startupriders.com

Episodes

June 19, 2025 • 29 mins

“Tools don’t matter if you don’t ship fast”

This week, I sat down with Alex Vaughtton, founder of NocodeHackers, to break down how he prototypes AI products, ships workflows, and teaches no-code like a product dev stack.

We riffed on early no-code days, tool overkill, agent automation, and built a YC admissions calculator live: scraping data, training a custom assistant, and deploying it in minutes.

Alex has been ahead of the curve fo...

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“Speed is non-negotiable — it’s the ultimate advantage.”

This week I sat down with Guillem Oliva, co-founder of Konvo AI — a vertical agent platform that’s quietly rewriting how e-commerce brands convert.

Konvo isn’t just another support bot. It’s a 24/7 agent that sells: combining brand context, product data, and live buyer signals to trigger real conversations and drive conversion. From live chat to proactive follow-ups, it turns i...

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We’re trying something new on Startup Riders: short, tactical interviews with founders and investors building and investing in the next wave startups.

This week, I sat down with Clint Burgess, co-founder of CharacterQuilt and former PMM leader at Bloomreach (where we met!).

After running 500+ buyer interviews a year and watching insights die in decks, Clint built a GTM engine powered by AI agents trained on raw voice-of-customer dat...

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