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White Box Rodeo

Robert Valentine, Kayvan Nikjou

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Whitebox means you crack it open and look at the actual code, the internals, how the thing really runs. That's the podcast. We do whitebox testing on entrepreneurs, startups and VCs. Get past the pitch deck and into the real workings, the messy parts, the stuff nobody puts on LinkedIn. And the rodeo? Because building a company is a wild ride.

Recent Episodes

OCT 23, 2026
Lars Rasmussen, Co-Creator of Google Maps | No VC Called Us Back
Lars Rasmussen co-created Google Maps with his brother Jens. He talks with Robert Valentine and Kayvan Nikjou about the mapping startup no investor wanted, the question from Larry Page that changed the product and the three weeks in which the brothers reb
67 MIN
OCT 19, 2026
Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Co-Founder & CEO of Verneek | Silicon Valley Hates Retail
Nasrin Mostafazadeh, co-founder and CEO of Verneek, talks with Robert Valentine and Kayvan Nikjou at HumanX in Amsterdam. She grew up in Tehran, went to a school for exceptionally talented students from the age of 11 and started working in AI at 14. She h
49 MIN
OCT 16, 2026
Parag Parekh, Chief Digital Officer of Ingka Group (IKEA) | We Were Very Late to Digital
Parag Parekh, Chief Digital Officer of Ingka Group, the largest IKEA franchisee, talks with Robert Valentine and Kayvan Nikjou at HumanX in Amsterdam. An engineer from Mumbai, he wrote software at Honeywell, joined GE's IT leadership program and worked at
46 MIN
OCT 12, 2026
Robin Wauters, Co-Founder of Tech.eu | Obsessed With Solving a Problem
Robin Wauters, co-founder of Tech.eu, talks with Robert Valentine and Kayvan Nikjou at HumanX in Amsterdam. Robin wrote for TechCrunch and was European editor of The Next Web before he started Tech.eu in 2013 to cover the European tech scene. He sold the
57 MIN
OCT 9, 2026
Fabian Hedin, Co-Founder & CTO of Lovable | Billionaire on a Bike
“I'm still riding my bike to the office every day,” says Fabian Hedin. He co-founded Lovable in Stockholm, a tool that in his words lets anyone create software and create companies. Forbes estimates his net worth at 3.1 billion dollars. He is 27.
54 MIN