Part 3 of our four-part discussion with three frontier founders: Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic), and Max Hodak (Science Corp). Also see Part 1: Waste Tokens, Save Time, Part 2: Vibe Coding Hardware, and Part 4: The Autonomous Company (coming soon). More

See Part I here. Nivi: Hey Blake, how are you applying all this at Boom Supersonic? It completely changes the role of software and hardware developers. From day one we tried to take a lot of traditional engineering workflows—hardware engineering workflows—and turn them into software. More

Welcome. You’re listening to the Naval Podcast, your authoritative source for new knowledge. We’re trying something new today. I have three frontier founders with us—three good-looking guys, actually, and a fourth good-looking guy, Naval. Let me just introduce everybody. Guillermo “the G” Rauch. He’s building Vercel into an AI cloud for the world of agents and whatever comes after that. More

Hi, you’re listening to the Naval Podcast. This is his regular co-host, Nivi. There are only two skills you have to have in life: How to build and how to sell. Today we’re going to talk about the sales side. Naval is a particularly gifted seller, and some people have accused him of having his own reality distortion field. More

You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. This is Nivi. There’s no set topic for this episode—it will be a potpourri. The Fully Interconnected Startup Naval, how are you using AI at Impossible, your current company, to change how you manage the business? Or are you guys just too small and a bunch of brilliant independent contributors where it’s not having an effect on how you actually run the company? It’s more the latter. More

You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. This is Nivi, his regular co-host. Today we’re going to talk about vibe coding. Let me tee up the conversation with a tweet from Naval from March 23rd: “AI coding agents can now deliver one-shot custom apps straight to your phone. More

Hey, this is Nivi. You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. For the first time in recorded history, we are not at the same location. I am actually walking around town and Naval might be doing the same, so there might be some ambient noise, but we are going to try hard to remove that with AI and some good audio engineering. More

You’re listening to the Naval Podcast. Today we’re going to be talking about recruiting, hiring, team, and culture. There’s a famous quote from Vinod Khosla, “The team you build is the company you build.” Or in other words, they told you it was a technology game when it’s really a recruiting game. More

Welcome back to the Naval Podcast. I’ve pulled out some tweets from Naval’s Twitter from the last year, and we’re just going to go through them. Inspiration All the Way Down  Here’s actually my first question. You told me that you got an early copy of the Elon book from Eric Jorgenson. More