Knuckle Up with Nakul

The HOW of building iconic companies.

Founders who’ve done it at the highest level on recruiting, culture, intensity, and the inner game of the job. With Nakul Mandan.

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Immad Akhund. Mercury.

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Cameron McCord. Nominal.
Startup lessons Silicon Valley won’t teach you
Jun 9
Akshay Kothari. Notion.
Business used to be go karting. Now it's Formula 1.
May 27
Ashwin Sreenivas. Decagon.
Behind the curtain of a $4.5b AI-native powerhouse
May 19
Michael Grinich. WorkOS.
$50M ARR With 3 sales reps, no CRO, and one PM
May 7
Bipul Sinha. Rubrik.
Nobody knows anything, product market fit is dead, and there's only one moat
Apr 30
Qasar Younis. Applied Intuition.
Battle-tested playbooks for recuriting, reading the market, and adapting to AI
Apr 21
Frank Slootman. Snowflake.
Frank Slootman on what most CEOs get wrong
Apr 14