Speed: Moving Fast Towards What Matters
Some leaders think speed is simply about working harder or moving faster. It isn’t. The speed that matters is Mission Speed: the rate at which your mission advances in the direction you’ve chosen. As teams scale, that speed can quietly erode. Decisions pile up, energy becomes diffused, and everyone stays busy, yet less gets done than it should. In this limited-series podcast, Keith Lucas—former Roblox CPO/CTO, author, and startup advisor—unpacks how the best operators move fast. Guests include the founders of Roblox, Instrumental, Vera, Divi, Splendid Games, and Blue Rose Research.
Episodes
In this episode of Speed, host Keith Lucas talks with Yaniv Bernstein about what's actually changed for founders building with AI, why taking on technical debt aggressively is often the right call, how Vera balances speed with the trust required to help families navigate care for aging parents, and his go-to method for turning around a team that's gotten stuck.
Speed: Moving Fast Towards What Matters is a six-episode limited series ...
In this episode of Speed, Matt Curtis joins host Keith Lucas to redefine what speed actually means: not raw execution velocity, but the time between a decision and the evidence that validates it. He shares the three habits behind it — clean data, cheap mistakes, and experience as a compression algorithm — and explains why small teams die of distraction while big ones die of dependencies.
Speed: Moving Fast Towards What M...
Harold Hughes has built companies at two very different speeds: hand-drawing wireframes on paper a decade ago, and shipping AI-generated MVPs in an afternoon today. In this episode of Speed, host Keith Lucas talks with Harold — founder of NFNTE Capital and Divi, and a 30+ company angel investor — about what it actually takes to move fast without breaking trust. They cover building critical mass in the early days, how AI...
Speed: Moving Fast Towards What Matters is Keith Lucas's follow-up to his book Impact, a six-episode limited series exploring how inspiring founders think about speed: what it is, why it matters, and how they cultivate it.
The series splits into two halves. The first three founders are early-stage and building with AI from the ground up: Harold Hughes (Divi) on speed as a signal of intent, Matt Curtis (Splendid Games) on how vision ...
"I can buy this thing and have results next week, versus I wait four months and maybe something happens. It's like, I have a problem now."
A first look at Anna Shedletsky's conversation with Keith Lucas, on how speed became Instrumental's biggest competitive advantage.
She also talks with Keith about protecting dissent, trading "leading from the front" for empowering ownership, and the pivot from consumer electronics to AI data cente...
"Speed is a critical part of the intention demonstration."
That's how Harold Hughes — founder of Divi and NFNTE Capital, and an angel investor in 30+ startups — thinks about building fast without losing anyone's trust.
Coming September 15, 2026, Keith Lucas sits down with Harold Hughes, to talk about building momentum, creating with AI, and why speed can be a founder’s greatest advantage and biggest risk.
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